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Yi Chen explained: "General engines, such as the Unreal 4 engine, are free to use, but after commercial use, and after more than 100 million dollars, you have to pay a 5% share fee. But for our The engine and the games produced are not that large-scale, so there is no need for the standard of 100 million dollars. After 20 dollars, 3% will be shared. And of the cost of this share, Ning Ning, as a developer, will take half of it , and the other half is used as an update of the company's maintenance engine and support for online functions."

Ye Yueshizuku agreed: "This method is possible, but only one Hongsaka Zhuyin is not enough. Yichen, do you think we need to build a website? Our own company's official website, and also package the engine, as our One of the company's businesses, for those independent game developers?"

"Well, this is not bad, I also have ideas in this regard."

Yi Chen smiled and snapped his fingers, "Just do what you said, Miss Ye Yue. Someone in our company can do the building of the website, right?"

"Don't worry, of course there are people."

Hazuki Shizuku nodded, "Swallow can do it, and when recruiting people before, there were several people in the program team who also knew how to make a website. We don't want to sell games on our own website, it's just a company's official website. The introduction of some games is similar to the official website of Capcom, which is not difficult."

After talking about the website, Yi Chen asked Ye Yueshizuku to call over several people from the program team, including Ming Haiyan, and told them about this task.

Looking at the four people in front of him, Yi Chen said: "This is an extra task. There are not many game development tasks recently, so you should focus on building the website for a while. I will also give you bonuses after completion. "

"no problem!"

"Leave it to our boss!"

Completing the boss's task is originally the job content of the employee, not to mention the bonus.

As far as Yi Chen's generosity is concerned, as long as the website is done well, the bonus will definitely not be less, so everyone is very motivated.

After arranging the tasks and letting these people go back to work, Yichen picked up his mobile phone and dialed Hongsaka Zhuyin's number.

"Miss Benizaka, we have discussed the matter of the engine internally, and we can rent it to your company."

"Oh? That would be great."

Benizaka Zhuyin said with a smile on his face, "Then, how about the cost?"

Yi Chen briefly talked about the free trial and the subsequent share. For a mature engine with a dedicated development direction, this share is indeed not expensive, and it can even be said to be very cheap.

"No problem, I agreed to this condition, how to sign the contract?"

"If Ms. Hongsaka is in a hurry, you can come to our company in the next few days and sign the relevant agreement. We will also add a networking function to the engine here, and upload some of the free materials we made."

"Okay, then the day after tomorrow, I will come over the afternoon of the day after tomorrow and bring a few developers from our side."

After agreeing on a time, Benizaka Zhuyin hung up the phone and left the office to call the company members for a meeting.

After the development of the previous game was completed, these developers had a lot of ideas in their free time, but they kept thinking about developing a large game, so they didn't ask.Now that there is a suitable engine, as long as it is really easy to use, it can definitely bloom more.

Now it seems that we have to slow down a little.

.........

The agreed time came soon, and at two o'clock in the afternoon, Benizaka Zhuyin brought several members of the company to YC Productions.

"Long time no see, Miss Benizaka."

Yi Chen, who had been waiting at the company for a long time, shook hands with Hongsaka Zhuyin, and then led a few people to the conference room.

After sitting down for a while, Yuan Shanlun brought drinks to everyone with a tray, and at the same time Shizuku Ye Yue also brought Ying Ningning over.

Seeing Hongsaka Zhuyin, Hazuki Shizuku said with a smile: "Long time no see, Miss Hongsaka, how is the company doing recently? I heard from Yi Chen that you are also developing new projects."

"Long time no see, Miss Ye Yue."

Benizaka Zhuyin said with a smile, "Recently, the company has been relatively smooth, but for new projects, I have already planned to slow down a bit. We are still a certain distance away from a qualified game development company. Yesterday, I and the company's The creative team held a meeting, and they also felt that blindly developing large-scale games is not an option. They planned to try to change the direction of development, and happened to have ideas in this regard. The company's team size is not small, so if it is double-opened, it should be allocated well. It's not too difficult after the personnel."

Hazuki Shizuku nodded, connected the notebook in hand to the projection in the conference room, called Ying Ningning, and began to introduce the development engine to Benizaka Zhuyin.

After hearing that this engine was independently developed by Ying Ningning, and that it was developed by herself during her freshman year, Akane Benizaka looked at this petite girl in surprise.

"Ning Ning, right? Do you want to come to my company? I'll give you the position of the person in charge of the programming team, and I'll give you the top salary in the industry."

"Ugh?"

Ying Ningning was a little dumbfounded, why did she suddenly poach the wall?

However, she was relatively calm, and quickly recovered and said: "Sorry, Miss Hongsaka, I am very happy working here, and I will not choose to leave."

The invitation was rejected, and Hongsaka Zhuyin didn't get angry: "That's really a pity, I'm sorry Mr. Yi Chen, Miss Ye Yue, seeing such a powerful talent, I can't help but want to poach him."

Both of Hongsaka Zhuyin's behavioral style were very clear to them, Yi Chen shook his head to express that it was nothing, and then let Ying Ningning continue to explain.

Chapter 394 Official Website, Engine Launch

The meeting lasted for an hour. After being tested by the development members of Benizaka Zhuyin, the difficulty of getting started with this engine is very low, and the optimization in all aspects is also done very well. It can be used directly for the game they are planning. develop.

After reaching this conclusion, Hongsaka Zhu Yin stood up straight away, and stretched out her hand to Yi Chen: "Then Mr. Yi Chen, we have a happy cooperation."

"Pleasant to work with."

Yi Chen also smiled and shook hands with the other party, and then signed an agreement.

Although the agreement has been signed, the engine is still partially modified, so it is expected to be handed over to the other party within a week.

It just so happened that the initial construction of the official website can be completed in a week, and the download of the engine can also be completed directly on the official website, and the data is also connected to the company's server.

After sending Hongsaka Zhuyin away, Yi Chen looked at Ying Ningning who was at the side, patted her on the head and said: "Although it is only a company now, and the lease has not officially started, but as our engine is publicized, And the game is developed and released with this engine, as long as one or two games become popular, you can become a little rich woman."

Listening to Yi Chen's words, Ying Ningning is inevitably a little proud. After all, the engine developed by herself will be promoted, and Ying Ningning is also confident that this engine can be used by those independent game developers.

Others also joined in at this moment, and Qingye, a childhood sweetheart, said happily: "That's great, Ningning, the engine you developed will be used by more people!"

"Hehehe, it's not that powerful."

Ying Ningning blushed slightly, and said with a smile, "The engine can do what it is now, thanks to the help of Sister Haizi and Mr. Yichen. Make a phone call and talk to her about this matter!"

Yi Chen nodded: "Well, I really need to talk to Sister Haizi to make her happy, so go."

Seeing Ying Ningning happily running away with her mobile phone, Ye Yueshizuku said in a low voice, "That's great."

Yi Chen agreed and said: "Indeed, it's pretty good. Alright, sister Ye Yue, we can't stop, the construction of the website hasn't been completed yet, let's continue to work."

"Hey, hey~~ Continue to work~~ By the way, Yichen, the company is running out of snacks, shall I ask HR to buy some more?"

"Okay, let's arrange it."

Although the number of male members increased a little during the company's enrollment expansion, there are still more female members, and the general appearance is not bad.

And one of the consequences of having more girls is that the small snacks used as company benefits are consumed relatively quickly, and they need to be replenished from time to time.Fortunately, the company's operating conditions are very good, and snacks are only a small part of the expenses.If this little expense can raise everyone's mood at work, Yi Chen is still very happy.

The only pity is that the company's venue does not allow it. If the place is bigger, you can arrange more space for yourself. Yi Chen even thought about building a staff canteen in-house and recruiting a few chefs for Chinese food.

It's a pity that the current venue does not allow this.

Looking around the company's premises, Yi Chen reckoned that within three years, when Dark Souls and Titanfall are on sale and the company's scale grows further, it will be possible to change to another location, such as an independent office building.

An independent office building with about five floors, the first floor is used as the reception desk, and there is a staff canteen, and the upper part is the office area of ​​each department, and then separates an area as a leisure area, and an area as a fitness area .

"Tsk tsk, I always feel a little overthinking, such a big place, I can't use it now."

Yi Chen's soliloquy was heard by Shi Yu who came to her side without knowing why, and she asked curiously: "Mr. Chen, what can't be used."

"Ah, I'm talking about the company's future office building."

Holding Shi Yu's hand, the two walked towards the office, Yi Chen slowly talked about his thoughts.

After returning to the office, Shi Yu looked at Yi Chen who had finished speaking, and said with a smile: "Isn't this a good idea? In the future, the company's office building can be arranged according to this method. In Tokyo, such a scale There are indeed quite a few office buildings here, and you can still find them if you want to find them. Even if there are no ready-made ones, don’t forget that Xue Nai’s family also builds buildings. As long as there is land, we can entrust them to help build them. With our The relationship, the cost will not be very expensive."

"That's right, it's really not difficult to find."

Yi Chen smiled and pinched Shi Yu's face, "However, at least one and a half years later, the two games under development will be released, and the company's capital flow will be greater before proceeding."

Although the income brought by Persona is very high, the development of the two games, the company's daily operations, and the current size of the company's team do not make it necessary to move.

Think about it now, at most it can be implemented quickly in the future.

"Okay, I'm going to continue working, Shiyu, if you're bored here, go play with Sister Guang and the others."

"Well, if I'm bored, I'll go out."

Sitting down, Yi Chen returned to work, while Shi Yu also took out the school textbooks and read them quietly.

........

A week passed quickly, and the official website of YC Productions was successfully built. On the official website, the introduction of all the company's currently released games, promotional videos and links to various platforms were placed, and then the self-developed engine was downloaded.

The name of the engine has also been finalized in the past few days. It is named after Ying Ningning’s surname, that is, sakura. The current version is the official version 1.0, and it may be further improved and expanded in the future.

After the completion of these tasks, the company announced the information of the official website on the external social platform, and launched the company's self-developed engine and commercial sharing standards.

Development engine, although this thing has a high degree of discussion among players, it is a must for some independent game developers.

After a small-scale spread, some independent game developers discovered this engine.After knowing that The Binding of Isaac and Battle Cube Theater were developed using this engine, these independent game developers quickly downloaded the engine and started researching it.

After researching, in the chat groups of some independent game developers, many people started a heated discussion on the available range of this engine.

It is easy to learn, has good adaptability, and requires low computer configuration. Although it is not suitable for 3D games, most independent games are not 3D games.

This game might really work!

Immediately, some independent game studios that are planning new games plan to use this engine for development.

Chapter 395 Selected to TGA

After the official website was officially launched, the number of visits that can be seen in the background is also gradually increasing, but it is not too exaggerated.

After all, their own official website is only a brief introduction to the game and a website for downloading the game engine, and has no other functions.

By the way, you can also hang up the links of your own surrounding stores!

Thinking of this, Yi Chen also made the members of the program team busy, and added links to Amazon and Taobao to the official website.

I won't say whether it has any effect, but at least there must be one.

"Speaking of surroundings..."

After browsing the official website, Ye Yueshizuku looked at Yi Chen and said, "Our Persona figurines seem to be priced very high in the second-hand market."

"No way, high-quality figures are like this, the price is not cheap, and the shipments are small."

In this regard, Yi Chen didn't have much to do.

Figures are not the same as assembled models. Assembled models are produced with molds. After the molds are opened, they can be produced directly by injection molding.

As for the figurines, especially those with high fineness, such as the Persona series, the facial features of various characters and some fine clothing painting all need to be done by hand.

Yi Chen would also like to lower the price of the handicraft so that more people can buy it, but there is really no way for this thing.If you want to ensure the quality of the figure, you can't find a bad OEM. The manual cost and production capacity are here.

After weighing, Yichen still chose to focus on quality, followed by quantity.

Now that the figure price of Persona is being fired up in the second-hand market, Yi Chen doesn’t have much countermeasures. He can only hope that after the next few batches of pre-orders are shipped, the price of scalpers can be suppressed. .

Anyway, as long as the players pre-ordered in their own store, Yi Chen can guarantee that they will get the figure at the original price.And those who go to scalpers to eat at high prices are just like those who play Gunpla and buy high-priced spot goods, they cannot be persuaded.

"Wait, when the follow-up batch comes up, it should be better. We can't control the market."

Shaking his head, Yi Chen stopped being entangled in this issue, and turned to the programming team.

There is a small problem with the system of Dark Soul, and he needs to check it out.

.........

Time came to October, and there were not too many waves in the game industry.

If there is one, there is one, Zelda Breath of the Wild 2.

After the release of Lao Ren's master ip sequel, until now in October, every Monday has been ranked in the top three in the weekly sales list in Japan, and there is no sign of falling.

As for Yichen's Persona, although it was released in May, now it will occasionally appear on the weekly sales list, and then it will appear on the best-selling list on Steam from time to time.

It’s been less than half a year since the release, so it’s naturally impossible to get a discount. In any case, we have to wait until the end of the year to consider whether to offer a discount for the winter promotion.

Dark Souls' launch has been going pretty smoothly, aside from the occasional hiccup.

The foundation of the game was developed according to Dark Souls 3, but compared to the birth of a new cult in the soul 3 update patch, what Yi Chen hopes to see is that a hundred flowers bloom.

Therefore, in terms of weapon balance, Yi Chen did not hand it over to others, but handled it himself.

The early Soul of the Straight Sword, and the later ones such as the Chicken Leg God Sect and the Big Curved Sword each have their own advantages. Even in the later stages of the game, various special gameplays have also been developed.

In fact, Yi Chen doesn't like the overly powerful gameplay of a certain genre, which will cause one gameplay to be too prominent, and then other weapon gameplays will become unpopular.

To give an example that many people know, the monster hunting Taidao, especially the rising Taidao, can basically fight from the beginning to the end with a Nadao and 3 Taidaos. Other weapons are poorly balanced and the gameplay is also very simple, such as Talk about bug sticks and spears.

There are many types of weapons in Dark Souls. What Yi Chen hopes is that each weapon can make the player feel good after strengthening, and can be used to pass the level. Try different weapons in the game instead of a straight sword and an iron shield. Straight from start to finish.

"Balance..."

Looking at the model of a pair of weapons that has already been made, Yi Chen felt his head buzzing. This is a big project.

Fortunately, I have finished The Binding of Isaac, so I don't need to think about updating it in a short time, so I can study this content with peace of mind.

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with the values, action modules and combat skills of the Manyan Great Sword, there was a knock on the office door.