game dynasty

Chapter 42 Cheng Jun’s visit

The completion of the engine gave Liu Xiang hope. [] This once again made Liu Xiang sigh that Xi Xiaoding was indeed a talent. However, Xi Xiaoding's lion's opening once again made him roar like a moth...

Not counting the investment in hardware, just raising the people in the development department makes Liu Xiang heartbroken. Most of those bastards have annual salaries of more than six figures! Of course, Liu Xiang won't really feel heartbroken... As long as they are talented people, Liu Xiang's attitude

It’s very clear, try to poach them as much as possible! If you have the ability, I will get a salary!

Under Liu Xiang's policy, Xi Xiaoding lived up to his expectations and hired two classmates from the United States. Otherwise, the engine would not have been completed so early. Of course, the annual salary of these two Americans is also the highest among everyone.

At this point...Liu Xiang truly understands why it costs tens of millions to develop a game...

With the joy of successful engine development, Youjia welcomed the New Year's Day of 2002.

At this point, the game market has begun to show a state of contention among a hundred schools of thought. Due to market share factors, several major old games are still standing although they are on the edge of collapse, while new games rely on fresh elements to try to get a share of the pie. For example

Phantom Ranger has now entered open beta.

Facts have proved that the cartoon version of the game has a large number of fans at any time. The popular open beta of Phantom Ranger made the operations department, which had been in a relaxed state, suddenly become nervous.

As a result, Fatty Zeng has become the busiest person in recent days. Online and offline activities on New Year's Day have been carried out one after another. At the same time, new servers have been opened. So far, the number of people online has stabilized at around 200,000. The highest number of people online has also exceeded

Three hundred thousand.

Of course, Liu Xiang is not too panicked, because these shares must be lost. No one can force players to make choices. What an excellent game developer can do is to attract players with services and high-quality games.

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Through the expansion of recruitment, the number of GMs has reached an unprecedented 150 people! Even so, these 150 people can only just satisfy the more than 60 servers that have been opened.

Looking back on the history of Legend back then, Liu Xiang knew clearly that the current performance of Legend has far exceeded the performance of operating under Shanda.

Looking at the financial statements, Liu Xiang had a big discussion. Although the game has always advocated saving, when the money is spent reasonably and reasonably, the savings on the book are not much. Fortunately, there are still payments.

South Korea's share of the money. However, once the share of the money is paid, the remaining money will not be enough for Liu Xiang to start his next activity...

According to Liu Xiang's plan, as a grand gift to employees during the Spring Festival this year, the new office building and dormitory building in the High-tech Zone will break ground after the New Year. However, there are only less than two months until the New Year... and what Liu Xiang promised

The 3 engine team will probably be ready to start work at this time.

In the history of games, the most famous and authoritative 3 engines are none other than the Unrel and Quke series. The former has made countless classic R games.

g game, and the latter has made the famous quke and other first-person shooter games. At the same time, in the game industry, the most famous means the best. This is a relatively correct theory.

However, it does not mean that other engines besides these two engines have no highlights. On the contrary, except for players who pursue the ultimate in graphics, as long as the effects rendered by the 3 engines are popular among most players, especially domestic players,

Eyes, if the engine is not as bad as that of BMW and Alto, no matter what engine, players can accept it. What's more, Liu Xiang also knows that domestic players' pursuit of smoothness is far greater than their pursuit of effects. Characters and equipment

The pursuit of beauty is far greater than the pursuit of whether a grass on the roadside is real...

Looking back on the history of game development over the past few years, the moment Liu Xiang made up his mind to develop his own game, he set his sights on meteor, a small working group in North America!

This small workshop-like working group of only 5 people developed a 3-engine for a year. Finally, due to a shortage of funds, they finally announced their dissolution of the semi-finished engine that they worked so hard on and no company was interested in acquiring it. After the dissolution, other companies

Two members entered Blizzard, and the other two entered e

The company is also the manufacturer of the famous Unrel engine... Since then, the engine named Meteor has gradually been forgotten.

The capital market is always bloody and the most speculative. When Liu Xiang appears out of thin air, the meteor will become a star.

According to the progress, at this moment, the Meteor team should be in embarrassment and start looking for venture investors. Of course, this is doomed to fail. No adventurer is willing to make venture capital for an engine that has no future. And Liu Xiang knows this engine

The engine became powerful only after the Meteor team disbanded, published their engine source code on the Internet and announced that it would be fully shared, and other people improved it and made the game.

Just when Liu Xiang was worried about funds, he was troubled again by Cheng Jun.

Without any phone calls in advance, on the first day after the National Day, Cheng Jun took his briefcase and stepped into the door of International Travel alone.

Seeing Liu Xiang's surprise and slight embarrassment, Cheng Jun laughed loudly and then waved his hand, "Brother, you're not welcome?"

"Welcome, welcome... of course you are welcome!" Liu Xiang motioned to Zhang Jiajia to pour tea for Cheng Jun, then walked to the guest sofa and sat down facing Cheng Jun and rubbed his hands, "Why didn't Brother Cheng call me in advance? So that the younger brother could

Make arrangements."

"Didn't I call you a long time ago?" Cheng Jun said with a smile, "Don't talk nonsense, today the eldest brother came to beg for food from the brothers."

Liu Xiang was stunned, begging for food? Cheng Jun never begged for food. At that moment, Liu Xiang laughed and said, "Brother Cheng, you are making fun of me."

"It's not a joke, it's true." After laughing, Cheng Jun took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, "Brother, this is my brother's business situation in the past few months."

With that said, Cheng Jun handed the document to Liu Xiang as expected.