entertainment threesome

On the side of the conference room facing the window, seven laptops were lined up.

The one at the head was an old man with a rosy face, who seemed to be at least old enough to know his destiny, and to his right were six subordinates who were about twenty-five to forty years old. The six subordinates were operating with serious faces.

The keyboard and mouse were used to control the game characters on the screen, and they were tested one by one according to the pre-listed points in their respective notebooks. The old man smiled casually, while operating the game characters, while talking to several people opposite him.

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Opposite them, with their backs to the window, sat six people from Holy Grail Studio: Manager Wang, Manager Bing, Xu Zhuce, Li Zhucheng, Gong Zhucheng, and Min Zhumei. Everyone had respectful and polite expressions on their faces.

He carefully chatted with the old man.

This day is the day when Mingzhou Company, the investor of Holy Grail Studio, comes to review the demo version of "Legend of Six Paths Online". The team is led by Deputy Director Shao, who is over fifty years old. He leads the marketing department, operations department and R&D department.

A joint review team composed of other departments flew from the Imperial Capital to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the game, and conducted face-to-face communication with the Holy Grail side based on the evaluation results.

"Mr. Shao, it's almost lunch time. How about we find a place to eat first?" Manager Wang looked at his watch. This review meeting has been going on all morning, and it seems that there is no sign of stopping. As the person being reviewed

On the other side, he did not take the initiative to put forward his position so far. He could only suggest that there should be an intermission, and by the way, these people who came down from the top could be refreshed. If he could win over people, he would not ask for their good words.

A few words can at least ensure that you won't find fault with the eggs.

"Mr. Wang, you're welcome. Let's order takeout. We'll eat whatever you usually eat for work lunch." Vice Chairman Shao seemed to reject Manager Wang's suggestion boldly, and instead proposed an alternative that seemed very approachable.

As a top-ranked online game company in China, Shuizhou has many investment projects similar to the Holy Grail in various places, so there is no need to care about the thoughts of the Holy Grail. We have already spent the money for the first phase of investment. If you can't hear

If there is a sound, then don’t talk about additional investment in the second and third phases, just slap your butt and leave. Anyway, the country is so big, and we have invested in so many projects, and you, the Holy Grail Studio, are not the only ones who can do game research and development.

In Vice-Director Shao's view, there is really no need to have dinner, socialize, or bond with each other, at least until it is determined that the cooperative relationship will be maintained in the next step.

When Manager Wang heard this, an embarrassed bitter smile suddenly appeared on his face. As the vice chairman of Shuizhou Company, you are also considered a great god in the domestic online game industry. When I call you "Mr. Shao", it is worthy of your name. But I call you "Mr. Shao".

The project manager of a small studio with only thirty or forty people under the company asked you to call me "Mr. Wang". Isn't this a shabby person?

However, no matter how much he resisted in his heart, the other party was still complimenting him, and besides, he still held the power of review. Manager Wang could only pretend to be nonchalant and continue to persuade him a few words. Seeing that Vice Director Shao refused to comply, he turned around helplessly.

Let Manager Bing arrange the takeout order.

Manager Bing went out to ask Ruoying to give some instructions. Ruoying's eyes were full of confusion. Each of the six bosses in the room had eaten takeout at the company several times. What happened today? They all wanted to accompany him.

Hiding in the conference room while the audit team from the head office eats food that they usually disdain?

More than half an hour later, a dozen steaming takeaways were delivered. Manager Bing personally moved the foam cartons containing the lunch boxes into the conference room and asked everyone to start.

After dinner, we finally rested for half an hour. The audit team and the bosses of the Holy Grail did not leave the conference room. They just stood up and moved their limbs, exchanged opinions in twos and threes, or chatted a few words, and then continued Invest in the review process of the demo version.

It was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the review work was finally completed. The six evaluation reports were summarized in Vice Director Shao's notebook. Vice Director Shao looked through the six evaluation reports one by one under his nose with a serious expression. After the review and appraisal was completed, the six Holy Grail bosses on the other side looked at Vice Director Shen's expression with complicated emotions, but no one could really guess what his attitude and thoughts were.

"You have a first-class planning team, second-class technical support, and third-class artistic performance." After reading the six reports, Vice Chairman Shao raised his head and closed his eyes to think for a while, and finally said this.

Xu Zhuce showed a smile, Li Zhucheng and Gong Zhucheng had no expression on their faces, and Min Zhumei's expression changed slightly.

"Your production outline is very rigorous, professional, and convincing. Although the gameplay system is not very outstanding, it is more solid and solid. The design of the scene levels is very imaginative, and the game rhythm is also well grasped. Very good. Judging from the game information, the background of the story is very epic and solemn. Although the plot of the current demo version has not been fully developed, judging from the tasks and dialogues completed so far, it can at least be said to be 'unconventional' 'Four words of evaluation. So overall, I am quite satisfied with the performance of your planning team." Vice Director Shao paused, shook his head and sighed, then said, "But your overall functional completion is too low. According to the production outline Less than 70% of the listed functional plans for the demo version have actually been completed, which makes us question whether subsequent versions can be implemented one by one as planned. Finally, let’s talk about the art performance. Except for the two protagonists, this part is barely watchable. , the scenes and NPCs can only be said to be simple and rough, barely a makeshift substitute. Not to mention the official version, even if such a thing is released in the closed beta test, the players will laugh out loud!"

Min Zhumei's face was so red that she wanted to bleed, and the expressions of the two masters were not much better than his.

"Mr. Shao, first of all, I want to admit that the evaluation opinions given by your review team are very pertinent." Manager Wang forced a smile, "As for the program and art parts, the problems you mentioned do exist. But to be honest, because The initial investment in the project was too large, with renting office space and purchasing hardware equipment accounting for the majority, resulting in insufficient salary space, so manpower in these two departments was very tight. If the second phase of investment can be put in place as soon as possible, these problems will soon be improved. "

Vice Chairman Shao hummed, without comment.

After seeing Manager Wang wink at him, Li Zhucheng also explained: "As Lao Wang said, there are currently only two programmers on the server side, including me, who can independently implement functions. It’s almost the same over there. Although we have recruited some fresh graduates, they are of little use for the time being.”

"The art department is even more lacking in people than the programming department." Min Zhumei also added, "I handled the two protagonists from 2D to 3D by myself, and then I also had to draw the interface, and the scenes and NPCs could only be left to a group of new people.

I'm just messing around, I really can't take care of it."

"Under the same working environment, why can the planning side perform well?" Deputy Director Shao asked doubtfully.

Director Xu raised his head and glanced at Manager Wang, who laughed and remained silent.

"The planning department is an exception. We have three planners who were on the same team as Manager Wang before. Two of them have completely participated in the project research and development of "Sui and Tang Fengyun Lu Online", and they all have the ability to take charge of their own affairs." Xu Zhuce explained simply.

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""Sui and Tang Dynasties"? I remembered, we are the agent here in mainland China, with a monthly revenue of over 40 million, and the Taiwanese version seems to be selling well, right?" Vice Director Shao seemed to be a little interested.

"Well, it's not bad. When I left Xiamen, my monthly revenue was almost 40 million." Manager Wang smiled self-deprecatingly, "But that is in the past and has nothing to do with me."

Speaking of which, the "Sui and Tang Dynasty" project really made a lot of money. Not only did the company boss buy a house and land in Xiamen, a treasure island where every inch of land is precious, but most of the core members of the R&D team also directly owned houses and cars.

A family, and Manager Wang, the number one contributor to the R&D team, even bought two apartments in Shanghai in one go.

It is precisely because of the excellence of "Sui and Tang" that Manager Wang, as the main planner, was appreciated by the mainland agent Shuizhou Company. Seeing his former boss's sudden outburst overnight, Manager Wang couldn't hold back his ambition to start a company.

Successfully obtained the first funding support from Shuizhou Company, and thus had the opportunity to take Liu Kewei and others to jump out and establish Holy Grail Studio.

"You did a good job on "Sui and Tang", but the current demo does not give us the confidence to allocate the second phase of investment!" Vice Director Shao's expression was very complicated.

Manager Wang straightened his body and said seriously: "After the follow-up investment is in place, I am confident that "Six Paths" will surpass "Sui and Tang"."

Vice Chairman Shao pondered for a long time and nodded slowly: "I will support you again, but in the next alpha version, you must ensure that there will be no more problems, otherwise..."

Manager Wang smiled and stopped Vice Director Shao's words in time: "Don't worry, there will be no problem."

After sending Vice Director Shao and his entourage away, Manager Wang let out a long breath. Although the completion of the demo version was not satisfactory, it had at least passed this life-and-death review.

Next, it’s time to show off your talents, right?

Back in the conference room, as Manager Wang expected, no one like Xu Zhuce and others left. However, everyone had an expression of relief on their faces.

"Xiao Bing, prepare to recruit people on a large scale. This time, in addition to the planning department, we will mainly recruit experienced people. They all require more than three years of experience and a complete project experience. As for the specific positions to recruit, Lao Li and Lao Gong

Lao Min, you each go to Xiao Bing's place to report." Manager Wang slumped down on the nearest chair and sighed quietly, "It's not easy, but we have come this far."

Looking at Xu Zhuce, Li Zhucheng, Gong Zhucheng and Min Zhumei in turn, Manager Wang quoted a famous saying made by Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon.

"The dice have been thrown..."