After rebirth, I found out that I have a childhood sweetheart

Chapter 240: Work Overtime

The development progress of "Cloud Journey" throughout July was not ideal.

The original plan for the project was to have six major levels and one hidden true ending level. As of the end of July, only three major levels had been completed. There was still a lack of testing to help detect bugs, and art resources were still a relatively large workload.

In order to deal with this situation, Mei Fang contacted some painters she knew at Station C to help with outsourcing, and Guo Yun was responsible for coordinating the unified art style. This was also a way to train her to learn work handover.

In fact, most of the game functions have been developed now, and the workload on the programming side is actually less, it’s just a matter of fixing bugs and making mistakes.

The biggest problem now is the planning work. Zhang Ming is still taking extra classes in July and can only spare a little time every day to help.

In fact, what planners have to do is much more complicated than many people imagine. In addition to the most basic configuration tables, more advanced ones must also learn to use U3D plug-ins to perform some interface-related configurations in the U3D environment. However, many of the early U3D plug-in functions were not practical, and Mei Fang had to write and do them on the spot to make them barely convenient.

Seeing Mei Fang working day and night on the watch matching, Lin Youxi took the initiative to ask Mei Fang if she could participate in some of the planning and configuration work. Mei Fang refused at first:

"This is my responsibility. I'll handle it quickly. It's okay."

"Even if it takes some time to teach me how to do it, and it takes a little longer, it's better than you doing it alone."

Lin Youxi advised, "If you are responsible for this part of the work every time, and you have to spend time coordinating and scheduling, then the pressure on you will be too great. I am worried that your body will not be able to handle it."

Lin Youxi's caring words reminded him of the cause of his sudden death in his previous life.

On the one hand, he was worried that his subordinates would slack off and waste time, delaying progress; on the other hand, he was worried that they would not do a good job and affect product quality. In the end, it was reduced to the point where Mei Fang had to personally supervise it.

Although it is obviously a worker's mentality, it is also a responsible performance of Mei Fang.

"In addition to being the chief planner, you are also the boss. If you work too hard, there will be no way to move forward. I think it is feasible to reduce your work pressure at the expense of work efficiency."

Lin Youxi continued, "I remember that Zhang Ming shouldn't have to take extra classes in August. If you want to train him, you have to use him well. I remember that he planned to discuss with his parents and teachers about going to a regular class after the summer vacation so that he could free up some energy to make games. This month is also very important for him."

"Indeed, Zhang Ming has been very active recently. But we can't communicate face to face, which is indeed inconvenient at times..."

"Why don't you call him over?"

Lin Youxi pondered, "I see there are a lot of fast hotels near the school. I can ask Sister Yueyue to help open them for a month. The cost is still controllable."

"Speaking of this, Linxi Technology and Ximilu Games will officially start operations at the end of the month. When the office is renovated, we will definitely prepare for the first general staff meeting, so I was thinking--"

"Call everyone over for the summer vacation in August?"

After listening to Mei Fang's idea, Xia Yuan counted on his fingers.

"Let me think about it. Xinyi, Xiaoxue, Xiaoyu, Yunyun, Sister Yueyue, Zhang Ming... there are six of us in total. It's impossible to accommodate them in one hotel."

"We can do this. Zhang Ming and I will stay in a hotel. It will be inconvenient for two grown men like us if the family is full of girls. It will be just right for two people to share one of the three bedrooms."

"What do you mean just right? How can Ah Fang let another girl sleep in her bed? Besides, Aunt Meijuan's room is quite small, and it can only accommodate one person at most."

"Then Guo Yun and Sister Yueyue can sleep in their own home in the future. It's in Jiangcheng anyway. Isn't this just right?"

After the three of them finished the discussion, they talked it over with Sister Yueyue. Although they were reluctant to leave such a good place with free food and accommodation, Sister Yueyue still moved out of the rental house readily and booked a standard double room for Mei Fang in the hotel next to the community.

Then came the more troublesome work of contacting. Mei Fang asked everyone about their wishes in the Ximilu Studio group.

After learning that they could spend their summer vacation in Jiangcheng, Peng Xue and Yue Xinyi, who had nothing to do, naturally signed up directly; Liu Xiaoyu and Zhang Ming hesitated for a while and said they would convince their parents, and finally Xia Yuan and Mei Fang took the initiative to call both sets of parents to confirm before they got permission.

Thus, the final month’s sprint plan for “Journey to the Cloud” officially kicked off.

Considering that Mei Fang, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi had almost no time to be intimate after their friends came over, Mei Fang agreed to let Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi sleep with them for three nights to replenish A Fang's super energy.

Of course, I lay in bed and slept properly, just like I did last time I stayed in the hotel during the winter vacation.

Although Lin Youxi had plans to do something rash, she gave up on the insistence of Xia Yuan and Mei Fang.

Everyone is innocent and really did nothing.

Before the arrival of the studio partner team from Baimei County, a batch of notebooks and office supplies purchased by Mei Fang were also shipped home. These laptops were all paid from company accounts, so Zhang Ming and his colleagues could still use them in the company for office use after the summer vacation, so it was not a waste.

August was the busiest month since the studio opened.

Everyone gets up early and goes to bed late every day, busy advancing the work, and some members have not made much progress in the "Cloud Journey" project.

Peng Xue and Liu Xiaoyu belong to Xia Yuan's music team. Xia Yuan and Liu Xiaoyu have already known this aspect very well. Peng Xue is mainly responsible for inspecting the work results of the two and giving evaluations. At the same time, she also induced Liu Xiaoyu to join the team as a keyboardist, but Liu Xiaoyu politely refused on the grounds of being busy with work.

But she didn't mean that she was unwilling to join the Xia Yuan band. Before that, she still wanted to do a good job in the gaming field first.

Yue Xinyi was working as a guest game tester in the team, testing all the places that felt wrong and had obvious problems. This was not much different from her work in C Station operations, which involved collecting, recording and reporting bugs. Surprisingly, she did a very good job.

Mei Fang, Lin Youxi and Zhang Ming are working at full capacity on the planning and configuration side. Although the workload is huge, with the guidance of Mei Fang's requirements document, basically no major mistakes will be made.

During this period, Mei Fang has been sleeping in the same room with Zhang Ming. The two of them are busy until around 10 o'clock in the evening and have basically no communication after coming back. After Mei Fang comes back, he even has a video call with Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan to say goodnight to each other.

Zhang Ming has never cared about Mei Fang's relationship status, but after a long time, he would occasionally feel curious.

"So...you three are still on such a good terms now?"

"Um...what's wrong?"

"I was just thinking that Xia Yuan and the class monitor are both excellent girls. When the day comes for you to make a decision, it must be very painful, right?"

"Wow... You actually took the initiative to talk to me about things between boys and girls. That's amazing. Our Mingming has really grown up."

"Stop being disgusting here."

Mei Fang followed up on this topic and asked Zhang Ming: "What about you? What about you...are you still in love with that...who is it?"

"Are you talking about Lu Xueqing?"

As soon as Zhang Ming finished speaking, Mei Fang smiled and shook her head, "See, I knew you still like her!"

"What, what do you mean by like? It's because you always gossiped about the same thing before... and you're actually lying to me."

"So you haven't discussed your withdrawal from the science class with your class teacher and parents yet. Do you also not want to be separated from her?"

Zhang Ming didn't answer the question right away, Mei Fang understood immediately: "I feel like you have a lot of things that you can't let go of. I won't force you to keep it in your heart. But as a person, you still have to be more carefree."

Mei Fang lay on the bed with the back of her head supported by her hands, and shared her thoughts with Zhang Ming in a leisurely manner.

"If you like someone, chase them bravely. If you want to be with her, try your best to keep her. Don't wait until you miss her and then regret it. There is no second chance in life."

"Sometimes you worry that you won't even be able to be friends after you confess your feelings, but whether you try or not, everyone will gradually forget each other. If you never felt anything, you can still keep a thought and laugh it off; if both of you were just one step short at the time, it would be something you would regret for the rest of your life. Have you heard this saying? 'Only by giving your heart can you get your heart back, but you may also be hurt the most thoroughly; keeping a distance can protect yourself, but you are also destined to be lonely forever.'"

"You've never had a girlfriend, yet you're still educating me like an emotional mentor? I'm really impressed by you."

Zhang Ming also sighed, "However, with your experience of being childhood sweethearts for more than ten years, it is not completely unconvincing..."

Seeing his friend's reaction, Mei Fang immediately leaned sideways and curiously gossiped about Zhang Ming:

"So you really like Lu Xueqing, right?"

"Go away, I'm going to turn off the lights and go to bed!"

Zhang Ming angrily turned off the lights in the hotel.

Mei Fang was very happy that Zhang Ming didn't treat him as a boss, otherwise it would be boring...

Thanks to everyone's unremitting efforts and the encouragement of Mei Fang's efforts to paint a big picture, "Cloud Journey" finally launched the official version 1.0.0 before the end of summer vacation.

Chapter 241 General Assembly

"Gloudy" tells the story of a girl named Gloudy's journey of redemption in search of self and belonging.

She was expelled because she was born with a different appearance from the residents of the Holy Kingdom. At first, she was alone and full of inferiority and confusion. She would always take the initiative to avoid living beings.

But the ostracized Gloudy still maintained a kind heart. After saving a wounded crow, she became friends with the crow.

Taking the crow as an opportunity, Gloudy met all kinds of people and made all kinds of friends. Through the introduction of one of his friends, Gloudy learned that there was a group of companions who looked similar to himself in the country above the white clouds. Gloudy then embarked on a journey to find the country above the clouds.

During this journey, Gloudy visited various places, solved various mysteries, gained friendships and grew up in the adventure, gradually found his own independent personality, and began to become confident and cheerful. However, when Gloudy arrived at that distant country, he found that only ruins were left of that country.

If Gloudy has not gained the [Friendship] of all her companions in the previous stage (similar to the reward for important side quests), her journey will also reach the end in the ruins, and the friends who have made friends with her will appear in the last scene to accompany her.

And when Gloudy has gained all the [Friendships], everyone will not only accompany Gloudy, but also discover the hidden dream door with Gloudy. In this dream door, Gloudy will see the original appearance of her hometown, the residents of her hometown and her relatives.

In this extra-long hidden chapter, she will learn about the rise and fall of the Cloud Kingdom, and find out that she is the last citizen of the Cloud Kingdom. She will live happily with the wishes of her parents and relatives.

The core story of "Journey of Clouds" is relatively simple and clear, and the theme is actually the growth story of an ugly duckling turning into a white swan.

It does not need to tell any profound philosophy. The essence of the game plot designed by Mei Fang is to make everyone feel a little warm and smile knowingly after reading it. More importantly, it creates the atmosphere of scene narrative through art scene interactive music, giving players a good interactive experience.

Judging from Yue Xinyi’s feedback, Mei Fang’s design is relatively successful.

Because he was beaten by Yue Xinyi, who had loved reading all kinds of novels and comics since childhood and had extremely rich experience.

She doesn't punch you in the chest like Xia Yuan does. She will really hit Mei Fang hard.

"You bastard Mei, you have no heart! I played Gloudy so hard, why couldn't I let Gloudy have a good ending in the end!"

"Gloudy is not pitiful at all...Ro, Yale and Wood were with her in the end, wasn't it? This is a very family-friendly ending, isn't it?"

After complaining about Mei Fang's script design, Yue Xinyi also felt a little emotional. "I originally thought that you guys only made fun games to cheat people out of money, but it seems that you can still make some works of art. This "Cloud Journey" is like opening the door to a new world for me. I didn't expect that making games could be like this."

"Of course. Our Ah Fang has so much experience in gaming..."

Xia Yuan talked enthusiastically about her childhood sweetheart to everyone, while Yue Xinyi, who was standing by, kept pulling Lin Youxi's arm.

"Youxi, you're just watching here?"

"What's wrong with just watching here?" Lin Youxi tilted his head.

Yue Xinyi looked disappointed and said to Lin Youxi in a low voice:

"I think Yuanyuan is just short of saying that she is Mei Gou's girlfriend. Don't wait until the matter is settled before you start to regret and cry."

"This..."

Lin Youxi did not respond directly, but smiled and perfunctorily said a few words to Yue Xinyi, "You are overthinking, this is the relationship between us childhood sweethearts."

“What the heck!”

Yue Xinyi was driven mad by Lin Youxi's "slowness" and "humility", and only Liu Xiaoyu, who knew everything, felt sorry for her.

She had previously claimed that she was Youxi's best friend in junior high school, but she had never even told Yue Xinyi about the kiss between her and Mei Fang.

However, this kind of thing is rather troublesome to explain, and there is really no need to explain it——

Mei Fang is their shared boyfriend or something...

Now the official package has been released, but the work of game distribution is not over yet.

First of all, Mei Fang had to carry out some publicity and operation for the game. Although Steam was still just a Dota 2012 launcher in China in 2, the "Greenlight" mechanism that symbolized the spirit of independent games had already been launched.

While Mei Fang was registering for a developer account to upload "Journey to the Cloud", he was also preparing relevant copy for Station C.