Build a game empire from scratch

Two days of the weekend passed in a flash.

The workday of the new week is irresistibly coming on time.

Today is the last day of September, and Yunmeng is also inevitably holding her own monthly summary meeting.

As usual, the heads of various departments come first to report the work progress one by one.

If there is a problem, ask Lin You to help solve it.

No problem, just think of each team as communicating with each other.

First, Qin Songyun introduced the official game arrangement of "League of Assassins".

Briefly described the coordination arrangements with all parties, especially the advance communication with various clubs to determine the schedule.

The competition will be divided into three stages according to the audition, group stage, and final, and the total time is expected to be no less than one month.

The championship bonus is scheduled to be 3 million, the runner-up will be halved, and the third runner-up will be halved again.

This is also the default bonus standard for top events in the industry.

Lin You was not satisfied with the bonus amount, and wanted to double it to make the game more eye-catching.

But when I think about it, I feel like I've been taken advantage of, like a big fool.

Moreover, such a large increase in the amount of the prize pool regardless of consideration may also damage the market and make it impossible for other game companies to hold events. In the long run, it may not be a good thing.

So Lin You asked: "What is the highest prize money in domestic competitions?"

"3.5 million." Qin Songyun knew it well, "It's the prize money for the "Flame 2" National Undiscriminated Competition."

Qin Songyun looked around at the former subordinates of Lie Yan's production team, "At the beginning, everyone participated more or less."

Good guy! Lin You called him a good guy.

I originally planned to be equal to the highest record, but now that the record was born in the hands of Qin Songyun's team, I feel sorry for this fate if I don't do anything!

He looked at Qin Songyun: "How about it? Do you want to break your own record with your own hands?"

Qin Songyun shook his head, "There's no need to waste budget on such a false name."

"How can it be a false name!" Lin You replied seriously, "The record for the highest prize money must not stay in NetDragon! Listen to me, 4 million!"

In Lin You's mind, simply increasing the bonus is equivalent to being taken advantage of.

But if it is to increase the bonus and remove an honor from NetDragon by the way, it will be different, a big profit!

Even if it's just an insignificant title, Lin You thinks it's worth it.

It's such a clear distinction between love and hate!

Qin Songyun glanced helplessly at Lin You, who had a childish temper, sighed and nodded, "Okay."

Anyway, Yunmeng is not short of money, and the increase is not so large that it completely breaks the rules of the industry.

Moreover, increasing the prize money is beneficial to the publicity effect of the game, the influence of the event, and the brand image of Yunmeng.

In this case, if the boss wants to add it, then add it!

Only then did Lin You nodded in satisfaction, motioning for Qin Songyun to continue talking.

However, this is all his opinions on the competition. He will not say a word about the detailed arrangement of the competition later, and he is even a little lost in his mind.

It wasn't until Qin Songyun finished speaking and Fan Rui began to report on the production progress of "John Wick" that he came back to his senses.

When the company moves, the team expands, and the grading review is completed, Fan Rui confidently guarantees——

"The game will be available at the end of October!"

"In this case..." Lin You looked at Qin Songyun, "The Continental Hotel over there in "League of Assassins", the foreshadowing for the protagonist John Wick can begin."

Qin Songyun nodded, "The relevant task lines have been made a long time ago and can be opened at any time."

"Well, as long as you coordinate well." Lin You nodded and continued to listen to reports from other departments.

The casual game team led by Xiaochun has been officially divided into two groups, one group is responsible for the long-term operation of "Light Yu", and the other group officially started the production of "Minecraft".

The personnel team led by Qiao Nanyu ran at high speed for a week, filling the space of the new office quickly and with high quality.

Ye Xiaohe's small team also joined in the fun and reported the situation of the [Yunmeng Office Daily] video account.

Basically everything is going well. After the video of cats, cats and dogs encountered a short-term bottleneck in the growth rate of fans, Ye Xiaohe decisively looked for new opportunities.

When shooting cats and dogs, pretend that the camera "inadvertently" sweeps across the monitor of the Night City development screen, so that the audience can see the "latest" Night City information.

This trick really worked, and the speed of increasing followers, which had slowed down, immediately began to increase rapidly.

And as the number of times she does this increases, the speed of increasing followers is getting faster and faster, and many fans have already given her the title of "Yunmeng's official inner ghost".

Every time there is an image leak in the video, the comments in the comment area worry that she will be fined or even dismissed, and tens of thousands of people like it.

But how is it possible?

Please, Yunmeng works in the virtual world!

Everyone's communication is also done directly in the virtual world. There is no need to connect a monitor in the real world to display the game development screen in the virtual world. Isn't this superfluous?

——It’s not that I’m allergic to the virtual world, so I have to develop it in the real world.

There is not even such a development tool!

In fact, Ye Xiaohe went to the marketing department to shoot all these "screenshots leaked by the insider" after finding the operation team and with their help.

There is no way, Yunmeng is also the marketing department and the human resources department. Many employees still retain their previous office habits, equipped with office computers, and most other departments work in a virtual world.

And the personnel department is busy recruiting new employees, and they are all so busy.

Most of the marketing department is away on business trips, and their workstations are vacant. Ye Xiaohe begged and used it as a shooting location.

...

In general, everyone talked about the affairs of their own departments.

Luo Hengye even talked about the progress of suing the up master "Grandpa talks about games", indicating that he has entered the stage of pre-litigation mediation.

Lin You patiently listened to even the content that was not of much interest to him.

In the end, I briefly encouraged everyone, urged the finance to speed up, and try to pay everyone tomorrow as much as possible.

Amid the cheers of young employees, Yunmeng's monthly summary meeting officially came to an end.

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On the other hand, NetDragon is also holding a monthly summary meeting.

Unlike Yunmeng's virtual meeting, which allows all employees to be present, NetDragon's monthly summary meeting is still held in the familiar conference room, and cadres above the middle level are also present.

Moreover, the atmosphere was completely opposite to Yunmeng's relaxed atmosphere. The air in this meeting room was particularly dignified.

"The sales of 'Three Generations of Flying Dragons' dropped sharply, down 30% month-on-month." Wu Yong reported with a solemn expression.

The "Three Generations of Flying Dragon" has not been on the market for a long time. If you refer to the sales curve of the previous two generations, the monthly sales at this time should still be growing steadily.

But the emergence of virtual reality games has completely broken this trend.

After a 50% plunge in sales last month, it plummeted again by 30% this month. Even though the response has been made in advance and production capacity has been greatly reduced, a large amount of inventory is still piled up in the warehouse.

——The decline has seriously exceeded expectations.

"In addition, with the resignation of many key researchers, the research and development of the 'Flying Dragon Four' has greatly slowed down. It is up to you, the boss, to decide whether to stop completely."

After Wu Yong reported the problems of the marketing department, he then reported the situation of the R\u0026D department.

The reason for this situation is also very simple - the position of the head of the research and development department has been temporarily replaced by him!

Under normal circumstances, letting a person who doesn't know anything about scientific research lead a scientific research team to conduct research and development is a completely messy thing.

NetDragon is able to do this now simply because: internal leaders are really hard to find, capable ones come up one by one, and external talents cannot be recruited for a long time.

——Since Yunmeng has reached the top, it has become more and more difficult for NetDragon to recruit!

This led to the delay in cracking the mirage production line, so that Zhao Yucheng began to regret that he shouldn't have listened to Wu Yong's instigation.

Wu Yong felt Zhao Yucheng's anxiety and wavering, but he didn't turn his head back, especially since the assembly line had been pulled into the R\u0026D center. Wouldn't it be a waste of success to give up at this time?

In desperation, he had no choice but to take the initiative to ask for a job, using "management" technology, to select some researchers, promising to make a profit, and after signing an agreement, he started to crack.

Even now, he still believes that Lin You did not apply for a patent in order to keep the technology absolutely confidential.

After all, the Patent Office did not find this patent.

So as long as after cracking, get the most critical chip instruction set and supporting software code, and then let the technicians refer to the logic to rewrite a copy with a low coincidence degree, and then design a set of software with different UI interfaces, NetDragon can have its own Virtual Reality Hosting!

In Wu Yong's view, there are already ready-made answers, how difficult can it be to write a different answer process?

As long as the confidentiality work is done well, not only is there no risk, but you can even register a patent one step ahead!

Zhao Yucheng naturally knew about these things, but his management education prevented him from easily putting all his hopes on things for which the answer was unknown, so he just said: "Slow down, slow down, but don't stop."

"Understood." Wu Yong nodded and said no more.

Most of his reports are done in private.

After Wu Yong's report, Yu Gu, who had been in charge for two months, started his work report.

"The development of the DLC of "Raging Flames 3" has fully reached the planned progress and is very smooth."

Yu Gu is full of confidence.

"If there is no accident, it will be launched by the end of October!