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First day at work.

Zhong Ming deliberately waited at the door of the studio, holding a large stack of red envelopes in his hand.

The first one to come was Jiang Wanna, who basically followed Zhong Ming. She was surprised to see Zhong Ming: "Hey, you came so early today."

"What does it mean to come so early today? Don't I always come early. New Year's red envelopes, draw one yourself." Zhong Ming handed over a stack of red envelopes in his hand.

Jiang Wanna was pleasantly surprised: "Hey, are there any red envelopes? Yes, yes, good work. Does everyone have it?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes."

"Then it's not appropriate for your boss to give out red envelopes here, why don't you give them to me." Jiang Wanna wanted to take all the red envelopes from Zhong Ming's hand.

"What's wrong with the red envelopes given by the boss? It's only appropriate for the boss to give out red envelopes. Or, you take the red envelopes and I'll pass them to other people." Zhong Ming said.

Jiang Wanna thought for a while: "That's fine, it looks more formal."

She took the red envelope from Zhong Ming and stood aside.

Not long after, someone came again. It's the new original painting, Xiao Mu.

Seeing someone at the door, Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment.

Zhong Ming took the red envelope from Jiang Wanna and handed it over: "New Year's red envelope, good luck for work."

Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment, and quickly took it over: "Okay, thank you!"

He pinched the red envelope, there was estimated to be three to five hundred yuan inside, not a lot of money, but he got a red envelope on the first day of work, which still made Xiao Mu feel warm in his heart.

Xiao Mu received the red envelope, ready to go inside.

As a result, I happened to see the couplet at the door.

"Provide a contract to write code, employees work overtime and are willing to be public servants and make selfless contributions; recharge krypton gold to draw boxes, players sell blood and kidneys to donate money and love is boundless."

"Puchi!"

Xiao Mu almost laughed out loud at that time, it's too much!

It is also very in line with the nature of the game company.

Moreover, this word is really beautiful, flamboyant, and I don't know who it was written by, which master's handwriting.

Soon, within a few minutes, other people also arrived one after another. The red envelopes prepared by Zhong Ming were quickly distributed one by one. Everyone was very happy, introducing and getting to know each other.

Zhong Ming had already allocated the workstations, and put signs on each workstation, so you can just sit in the seat according to the number.

Of course, the place is quite big, so the existing people only occupy a part of it, and there is room for further expansion of personnel in the future.

Xiao Mu sat down on his seat and was busy installing software for the computer, upgrading the system and so on.

The computers were also configured according to the needs after Zhong Ming asked everyone before the holiday, but they were bought unopened, and everyone took and dismantled them by themselves, so this morning, everyone was basically busy setting up the work environment.

Next to Xiao Mu is an action artist. The name tag on the station says Lin Dawei, he is tall and looks like he should be easy to get along with.

"Hello, I'm Yuan Hua, Xiao Mu, I just joined this company, please take care of me in the future." Xiao Mu stretched out his hand.

Lin Dawei hurriedly shook hands with him: "Lin Dawei, action art. Hey, I'm new here too, let's help each other."

It is relatively easy for these two people to become friends, because there is no direct cooperative relationship between their work.

Xiao Mu did the original painting, and after the painting was finished, it was handed over to the model, and then the model was handed over to Lin Dawei for the action.

Without a direct cooperative relationship, there will be very little conflict, and naturally it will be easier to become friends...

"Well, who is our boss, do you know..." Xiao Mu asked in a low voice.

Lin Dawei felt very strange: "It's the one who gave out red envelopes, why didn't you even figure out the boss..."

"Him? I thought he was the main artist..."

Xiao Mu was a little confused.

During the previous interview, Zhong Ming directly interviewed him, and also gave him a lot of guidance. Although it was not a particularly detailed guide, but a few words also benefited him a lot.

In the end, the one with such a high level is the boss?

It's not that it's impossible, it's just that bosses with an art background are indeed rare.

Because many art masters do not mean they understand game design. If they come out to be producers, they are changing careers. It is easy for an amateur to guide an expert, and it is easy to screw up the game.

Simply being the boss is not enough, and you can't even participate in game design, so who owns this company? The boss who can't even control the product basically has no sense of existence.

Therefore, many art masters either cooperate with producers who know the basics, or start art outsourcing companies by themselves.

To be an independent game studio, the first prerequisite must be to understand design. Well, such a young boss like Zhong Ming, who is proficient in art and design, is indeed too rare.

Lin Dawei said: "I'm a fan of the boss. I know him on Weibo. It's awesome! I just graduated last year, and then I jumped out and started my own studio. I have made quiz games, made virtual idols, and made three independent games. , it all became..."

Xiao Mu: "...that sounds a bit ridiculous."

"It's true, so when I saw the recruitment information at the time, I came here without asking anything. It's too awesome. With this kind of boss, I feel that I can lie down and win." Lin Dawei said.

Xiao Mu nodded, feeling the same way.

The young boss feels very unreliable, but if it is a young boss who has already had a successful work, he will not feel unreliable, but will feel that the future is limitless!

In the morning, everyone was busy with their own work, registering internal chat accounts, opening intranet permissions, etc. Zhou Sen was busy for a long time, and finally helped everyone get all the permissions.

Zhong Ming didn't intend to engage in those fake things, like holding a meeting to fight chicken blood, team building to break the ice, nothing.

Perhaps because of personal preferences, Zhong Ming doesn't really like these relatively empty ritual things.

Of course, strictly speaking, this kind of ceremonial thing is still useful, whether it is to boost morale or to bring employees closer. So many companies are doing it, of course there is a certain reason.

But Zhong Ming thinks that truly reliable employees can complete tasks conscientiously and communicate with others hard. There is no need for team building to break the ice to narrow the relationship between employees; Projects, everyone can do things according to their duties, and there is no need to rely on blood and squeeze employees to make that meager profit.

So Zhong Ming didn't engage in so many nonsense, but just explained some basic things to the new administrative assistant, such as which person in charge to go to when encountering problems at work, where to go to finance for reimbursement, where to go for usual meals, etc. . If a new employee has any questions, just ask the administrative assistant directly.

As Zhong Ming said, the little girl of the administrative assistant was taking notes seriously, nodding frequently, and her attitude was quite serious.

The little girl of the administrative assistant is called Miaozhu, she is slim, she has two dimples when she smiles, she is very pretty.

Miao Zhu had worked in a large company for a year before, so she had some work experience, and Zhong Ming felt that she was more serious and responsible, so he recruited her.

Of course, Zhou Sen's opinion is also crucial. He strongly urges this girl to be recruited, unless he recruits a better-looking one.

Zhong Ming hated this ugly face of the Appearance Association, severely criticized Zhou Sen, and then sent an acceptance email to Miao Zhu.

On the design team side, the new world architect is under a lot of pressure.

The new world architect is called Fu Xing'an. He used to do plots and has no experience as a world architect. However, Zhong Ming is more optimistic about his literary talents. He graduated from the Department of Literature with a serious history and has written several short stories, and he has read a lot.

For Xing'an, this is of course a good thing. To be a world architect is a solid step forward on the road to the chief designer, but this is Shimmer Studio after all. For Xing'an, it is of course Alexander.

As for the numerical designer, his name is Jia Jia. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and is three years older than Zhong Ming. With the rigor and patience of a science student, he especially prefers card games.

These two will be Zhong Ming's right-hand man from now on, one is cheating the liver and the other is cheating krypton, oh no, one is doing the plot and the other is doing the value.

In addition, there are testing, customer service, human resources, finance, legal affairs, etc., responsible for some other affairs of the company.

However, these people do not belong to the R\u0026D team.

...

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming sent a message in the internal chat group: "At 3 o'clock in a while, all members of the R\u0026D team (design, programming, art) will come to the conference room for a meeting to touch on the design plan of the new game."

The meeting room is our own, so you can use it whenever you want, and of course you don't need to make an appointment. But to the surprise of many people, this rhythm is a bit fast!

If it is in other companies, new employees may not arrange any particularly important tasks in the first week of employment. Basically, they will focus on learning and proceed step by step. After all, everyone has just arrived in a new environment and is not familiar with everything. It will be very smooth.

But in Shimmer Studios, there is obviously no such thing. Normal working hours and no overtime as much as possible, you must have a high work efficiency.

Soon, everyone arrived.

There are a total of 16 people in the R\u0026D team.

Although they don't know each other completely, at least they all know the heads of their respective departments. It was the first time this kind of meeting was held, and everyone was a little curious.

Zhong Ming stood up and looked at everyone present.

Well, there are a lot of talents.

These are all people he personally recruited, and of course they are very satisfied.

"First of all, everyone is welcome to join the Weiguang studio. I won't say much about the polite words, and there is really nothing to say. You will know that I hate those cumbersome ceremonies. I just hope that everyone can To do one thing well is to do your job well, as long as you can do it, just wait and make money.”

"I know that everyone is new to an unfamiliar environment, and it will take some time to get used to it, including new colleagues, new projects, new ways of working, etc. It doesn't matter, everyone can adapt slowly at work."

"The atmosphere in our studio is relatively relaxed. You can play games or watch dramas while completing your own duties. It's okay to be in front of me. Of course, the premise is that the duties of the duties must be done well."

"That's about it. Let me briefly tell you about the game we are going to develop next."

"Taiwu Painting Scroll."

There is a projector in the conference room, and the design draft that Zhong Ming has already written appears on the screen of the projector.

The people below are all at a loss.

Taiwu picture scroll?

This name does not reveal the content of the game at all.

Zhong Ming introduced: "It is still an independent game, and the content is not complicated, but overall, this is a sandbox game that contains elements of mythology and martial arts."

"...Sandbox games, everyone understands, right?"

Zhong Ming was afraid that someone would not understand, so he asked a special question.

The people below looked at each other, Jia Jia, Fu Xing'an and the others all nodded and said, "Understood."

Zhong Ming didn't mean to look down on this group of people too much, the main reason was that everyone's expressions were too stiff, which made him a little puzzled, what happened to everyone's expressions? Don't know about sandbox games?

Many people are complaining in their hearts, they don’t know about sandbox games, but they didn’t expect you to make sandbox games!

The key is still a sandbox game that contains elements of mythology and martial arts.

Look at the name "Taiwu Painted Scroll" again, well, this game feels like it hasn't started yet, so it's half cold...

It's not that it can't be done, but this kind of game is not something that independent game studios can handle in most people's minds.

Sandbox means rich content, but it also means higher development costs. Even many large companies, such as Light Wing Interactive Entertainment, basically dare not touch this type of game.

Lightwing Interactive Entertainment invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop the game "Yijian Tianya" for a year. It is not a sandbox game, but a more traditional mmorpg.

Why?

Because the risk is too great!

When a sandbox game is made, it will either be well-received and well-received, with a lifespan of several years or more than ten years;

However, the former is too little.

Most of the sandbox games paint a very beautiful scene and blueprint for the players, making the players feel that the game is going to blow up, but after going online, they can see the repetitive game content, boring gameplay, and all kinds of promises. The content of the game instantly became a blank check, which caused a huge psychological gap for the players, and then triggered the collapse of word-of-mouth and a cliff-like drop in ratings.

Have any independent game studios in the world ever made classic sandbox games?

Yes, but very few!

Moreover, it is even more difficult to integrate mythology and martial arts elements as Zhong Ming said!

Since there are martial arts, most of them are traditional Chinese-style games. It is not a simple small project to integrate these cultural elements into the gameplay.

Moreover, it may not be pleasing to the eye, it is very likely that you have racked your brains to make a lot of gameplay, and as a result, players will not only not buy it, but will scold you, what the hell are you doing!

Of course, everyone was unhappy in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say it out of their mouths.

He even showed a smile on the surface, with a "boss, you are right" expression.

No way, it's the first day at work, I have to give the boss some face.