Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 262 166. It’s an era of competition among heroes! Coming soon

Seeing Lao Xu's constipated look, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but feel a little funny.

To be honest, the main reason is that there is no one in hand. You can't let Ishino Mika write this game script, right?

And wasn’t it good that you and Mikami partnered as a demon hunter before?

Now let me familiarize you with war and firearms. Maybe you will thank me for this in the future.

There is nothing wrong with broadening your knowledge.

And firearms are a man’s romance.

People like Lao Xu should understand the cruelty and significance of war, so that they can write more profound works.

Considering the difficulty of creation under so many restrictions, Qing Zhiyuan reluctantly said to Gen Urobuchi, "Battle is the core function, but we can create a single-player plot mode, which can be used as teaching on the one hand, and On the other hand, it also shows the world view and story, giving players a more immersive experience.”

"Although it requires a real experience, Hota, you can completely fabricate the background."

"Um?"

Xu Yuanxuan was puzzled.

"For example, two fictional countries whose technological level has reached the modern level start a war for certain reasons. Players can play the role of soldiers of a certain country."

"Oh, I understand." Lao Xu nodded.

If you can construct your own worldview, it is obviously much easier, and then there will be room for development.

Wada said that although I can't change the technological level and war background of this world, I can write characters.

Epic chapters don’t have to take place in ancient times, modern wars can actually be exciting too.

And the president has made it clear that there will be a single-player story mode.

Lao Xu suddenly felt confident.

"Oh, that's right." Qing Zhiyuan added emphatically, "Although it is a war game, it has an anti-war core.

This is critical. "

Never reflect reality, and never give players the opportunity to play the role of [executioner].

Otherwise it will be easy to be harmonized.

"Okay, president."

…

After Gen Urobuchi had the idea, he wrote very quickly. In less than two days, he quickly wrote out the world view settings of the new game and handed it to the president.

After some discussion, the name of this shooting game was tentatively decided as——

Frontiers

The scheduled development time is to start after the year, and then it will be handed over to Shinji Mikami as the producer.

It is initially expected to take about 2 years to develop.

In other words, the expected release date of the game "Border" will be after 1997.

This time point is actually quite close to the Half-Life time in history.

But if you think about it carefully, this is probably a historical necessity. It actually takes a lot of time to accumulate technology from scratch and solve a series of problems.

Take Pokémon 3D World, which is being developed by P Entertainment, for example. It has been waiting for a year just for Sony’s PS hardware support.

It took more than a year to develop the corresponding engine tools.

After the initial improvement of the engine, it is estimated that it will take half a year to a year to officially develop the game.

If G Fat and the others hadn't directly obtained the open source Quake 2 engine, they probably wouldn't have been able to make "Half-Life" in 1998.

The basic engine of Half-Life, the Golden Source Engine, is adapted from the Quake Engine of Quake 2, also known as the Q1 engine.

Quake 2 is a game developed by a company called Id.

What about ID company?

It is the game developer of "Wolfenstein" mentioned by Shinji Mikami before.

Later, many famous games were born based on this engine.

For example, Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life, including Counter-Strike, etc.

Call of Duty series, including Modern Warfare sub-series, etc.

So Id Software is really a great company, equivalent to the source of all 3D FPS games.

It also shows how important the game engine is.

Now Qing Zhiyuan has asked the company's programming department to set up a dedicated engine group in order to unswervingly be at the forefront of the world and firmly hold the core technology in his own hands.

With an early start, coupled with Qing Zhiyuan’s own accumulation of years of MiHoYo engine research and development, it is not a problem to be a stable industry leader in the engine for 30 to 40 years.

When your technology leads the world, no matter what kind of game you develop, it will be hit by dimensionality reduction.

Times are developing too slowly, and Qing Zhiyuan is extremely anxious.

It would be nice to push it a little more.

Otherwise, many games in the future will not be produced!

The content that Miyazaki Hidetaka is good at has so far not had room to develop, and everything can only exist in Qing Zhiyuan's mind.

I don’t know how long it will take to smoothly connect back to that era.

…

Once the project on Neon's side was confirmed, future work could be carried out smoothly. Qing Zhiyuan had some time for the time being, so he made a call to the United States.

Mainly I am a little worried about the situation of the newly established Pokeni America subsidiary.

After all, we are separated by the Pacific Ocean and beyond our reach.

It was impossible for Qing Zhiyuan to put down the neon and go over there to keep an eye on it.

Qing Zhiyuan did the same thing when he said that power should be decentralized and only care about milk, regardless of how they did it.

But now I suddenly feel a little regretful.

The mountains are high and the emperor is far away. Do you know what these American guys are doing with our money?

"Hello, this is Qing Zhiyuan. I'm calling to ask how the progress of "Ashes of Eternity" is over there."

This wasn't Qing Zhiyuan's first time calling, Breivik was already used to it.

Since the company was acquired by P, the president will check in almost once a month, and he also needs to ask them to write a report on the progress of game development and send it to him via email.

This highlights the advantages of the current Internet.

A year ago, it would have been difficult to achieve such convenient transmission.

"It's almost finished." Breivik was actually quite competent and responded well to Qing Zhiyuan, "Qing, I will send you the project progress report tomorrow."

This actually reflects the quality of Qing Zhiyuan, a tactical master with Chinese thinking.

When it acquired Condor, although Pokeni became its parent company, it did not buy out 100% of the shares. Instead, it only bought 70% of the shares in order to make major decisions in the future. time to have enough voting rights.

At the same time, 30% was reserved for these veterans.

This company is indeed their hard work, and anyone else would definitely feel distressed if they changed hands of their children.

Since you want this company and want to hand it over to them, you must still give them a sense of ownership.

With the remaining 30% of the equity, Breivik and the others will do their best.

Plus, the more the company does well and the game is successful, the more money they can make.

If they don't have equity, they are just a group of high-level workers. It's hard to say clearly how much they can contribute to the company.

The only thing that is certain is that they have developed the game "Ashes of Eternity" to this point, and it must be completed. At least if you buy a lottery ticket, you have to open the lottery to see if you win, right?

But it’s hard to evaluate how your work attitude will be after this game.

But if you have company equity, it's completely different.

Breivik is in such a mental state now. Whether it is sending emails or talking on the phone, at least he is doing things seriously and has a sense of ownership.

Qing Zhiyuan does this very differently from future capitalists.

They want you to have a sense of ownership, but they don't allow you to have the authority and rewards of an owner.

Qing Zhiyuan directly registers the name of the house for you. You are responsible and have a deep interest in whether the house is good or bad.

This is called real motivation.

The true wolf culture is to let you rush forward and share the meat with you.

The fake wolf culture wants you to rush forward, but it only serves to make the pie bigger.

Breivik has this sense of responsibility, so the reporting work is quite detailed, and he answers all questions. Moreover, he will sort out many details that Qing Zhiyuan did not ask in advance and take the initiative to confess them.

From his description, it seems that the game Ashes of Everlasting is almost complete.

"Yeah. OK." Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

"If the development over there is completed, then you can see if you can take the product to Tokyo."

"OK, no problem, BOSS." Breivik responded.

I can't see the real thing and just listen to your words. It's not that I can't believe you.

No one else would dare to throw money to death like this.

The joy can still be heard in Breivik's voice.

After all, pokeni is a big ship for them. After the game is developed, future publicity and distribution will have to rely on P Agency.

pokeni has also accumulated a lot of player base in the Omi region. Thanks to Sega, P and the channel dealers are doing quite well.

As long as there is no problem with the quality of "Ashes of Eternity" and it can meet Qing Zhiyuan's expectations, then the results of subsequent releases will not be much worse.

Maybe this time is their best chance to become famous.

Qing Zhiyuan hung up the phone and frowned.

The next second, he called the young HR Akane Ayase who was sitting at the door.

"What's the matter, President?" Ayase Akane held a notebook in both hands, and took a pen on it to record it with ease.

I don’t know what the president is up to. The president has so many things to do every day, which is even more annoying than her mother.

"You make arrangements, I'm going to select a group of people to go to the American subsidiary." Qing Zhiyuan said.

"Huh?" Ayase Akane raised her head in surprise, her eyes shining brightly, "Didn't you say you didn't care about that side before?"

"Well, don't worry about it. I'm here to provide support."

Qing Zhiyuan said, "Provide technical support, and then undertake the subsequent operation and sales business. Now it is not enough to just have R\u0026D in the United States."

Of course, there is a hidden line that allows these people to work as supervisors.

You don’t have to worry about the project, but at least you need to know what they are doing and what it looks like?

But it is difficult to parachute a leader, mainly because I am worried that there will be personnel problems.

This relationship between principal and deputy still needs to be clarified.

"Technical support means hiring a few people from the engine team, right? There's also an operations team."

"Yes." Qing Zhiyuan nodded, "Let Ken Akanishi and Kazuma Takahashi decide. There will be 4 to 5 people for programming, two or three people who are familiar with Omi's environment for operations, and the rest can be recruited locally. .

By the way, you should also send a reliable HR person who understands English there. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand English. Bring a translator and recruit HR over there again, and come back after the training. "Qing Zhiyuan said.

Select one?

Now there are only two HR staff in the company, including me.

"Hmm... Well, it's such an important thing... How about I come over?" Akane Ayase asked tentatively.

She had never traveled to Emeleon in her life.

Moreover, Akane Ayase is actually very well-educated, and she is one of the few members in the company who can converse in English.

"Let others go, you have other tasks." Qing Zhiyuan said lightly.

Ah~ Damn it!

Can’t I travel once at public expense? !

What are other tasks?

Aren't your other tasks just to worry about having no one to act as your little secretary after I leave?

And why didn’t you, president, think of taking your secretary with you when you went abroad? !

…

The personnel transfer problem has almost been solved, but this wave of people will only pass after the year.

The selected members were very excited about the business trip to the United States.

Akanishi Ken also wants to go there by himself, but the reason why he wants to go there is different from others.

As long as he stays here at the base camp, the president can give him endless needs.

And it’s almost always a terrible requirement to start from scratch.

Ken Akanishi, who had no hair in the first place, is now tortured so much that even the roots of his hair are a little gray.

He doesn't look like a young man in his thirties, but an old man in his fifties or sixties.

If this continues, Akanishi Ken is worried that one day he will die in the company.

But, thinking about it, Ken Akanishi also knows that it is impossible for him to go to the United States.

He has already become the program director. Now he is not the CEO in the United States, so isn't it equivalent to a demotion?

Once Ken Akanishi leaves, someone will definitely have to fill the position of program director.

But it is probably impossible for him to return to the position of director again.

And it is impossible for Qing Zhiyuan to let him go to the United States.

Program backbones like Ken Akanishi must stay and lead the younger brothers to tackle tough problems.

…

The time came to the second half of December 1994.

The closer it gets to the new year, the busier Qing Zhiyuan’s work becomes.

It’s not an internal matter within the company, because for both the company and its members, everyone has [year-end syndrome], and the closer the New Year is, the less they want to work.

This is not the future era of China's Internet giants. During the Spring Festival, they will still be busy organizing activities for players. Neon's companies have no such thing.

Pokeni's performance this year is very good, and every shot is flawless. Both CL and LL, as well as the previous upside-down Patma, are terrible products with millions of sales.

Moreover, Diablo 2, which is about to be launched by the company, has also set off a storm in the Omi region.

It can be said that the company's turnover this year will reach tens of billions of yen.

Under such circumstances, there is no reason for employees to stay and work overtime, and Qing Zhiyuan himself does not want to work overtime.

Work mainly comes from external entertainment.

Near the end of the year, many bigwigs called and wanted to invite Qing Zhiyuan to dinner.

The most attentive person was Hayao Nakayama, the president of Sega. Not only did he want to invite Qing Zhiyuan to dinner, he also wanted to take a sauna with him and relive the good times in the past.

Then there’s Sony’s Norio Ohga.

SNK

There were still a bunch of people queuing up after that.

In short, the closer the Chinese New Year is, the busier Qing Zhiyuan becomes.

Now everyone is vying to have a meal with Qing Zhiyuan and have a warm relationship with him.

According to Huang Bo, after you become famous, you will find that more people around you will treat you well.

Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet.

Qing Zhiyuan can clearly feel that times are changing!

The era of competition among heroes is about to begin.

but--

Qing Zhiyuan frowned.

Why do I always feel like I am that [deer]?

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