I'm The Hard Rice King

Chapter 416 Little things of happiness

Tang Feng: "Do you have time?"

Lu Shuang: "Let's have dinner together tomorrow?"

Gao Yuanling: "What are you busy with recently?"

Li Peifeng has a wide range of contacts in Beihua Normal University. Many people know the news of his early graduation. Therefore, not only his classmates but also many old friends want to find him for a break-up meal. However, all their invitations were rejected by Mr. Li on the grounds of busy work.

On the one hand, he has no intention of flirting with women, but on the other hand, he is indeed very busy.

Putting aside her love life, she also has to write books, manage copyrights, shoot admissions videos, and do chores related to graduation... She has no worries about anything else.

Even the couple Wu Ankang and Gao Xiuhua, who came to the capital for tourism, only saw Li Peifeng and his daughter a few times when they came and left. How could Li Peifeng take care of these old friends?

Besides, graduation is approaching and it’s time for everyone to return to the sea of ​​​​people!

"The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the southern mountains can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed, and they cannot be traced back."

This is the latest post by Li Peifeng in Moments. The accompanying picture is a photo of the sunset on the campus that day. It is intended to tell those old friends to look to the future and live a good life. I don’t want to talk about the details, but I hope they can understand it.

And he himself is also working harder towards the future.

…

Xizhou Technology Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Menglong, was acquired by Li Peifeng, and He Yimeng changed its name to Xizhou.

Even though He Yimeng didn't say anything, Li Peifeng guessed that the origin of the name was taken from the poem "The south wind knows my will and blows my dreams to Xizhou".

Needless to say the deeper meaning, he knew exactly what she meant.

The two of them don't need to communicate on the phone or WeChat now, why dream of looking for him, just take a picture of his head, and Li Peifeng will communicate with each other knowingly.

[The company has expanded its recruitment to 130 people, including a screenwriter, an art director, a chief programmer, and a producer recruited with a high salary... Now that the army is strong, I think "Sword and Law" can already be approved. Come and start I will talk about my ideas. 】

【almost there. 】

After a brief exchange of ideas and quantum entanglement, Li Peifeng drove to Xizhou Technology.

After the company changed its name, although the office address remained the same, it rented an additional 200 square meters for expansion, increased the number of workstations, and the employees were busy shuttling around.

"Wow, Yi Liangfeng is so handsome?"

"I told you before, he's the kind of handsome that shocks you at first sight."

"Speaking of which, our proprietress is also very good-looking."

"Hehe, don't use the word boss lady indiscriminately."

"What, aren't they a couple?"

"It's not a simple couple, it may be a more obscure relationship, understand?"

"Ah...shh~ people are coming."

Li Peifeng walked past the work station with a normal expression, thinking that there are so many smart people these days, but they won't pretend to be confused, and talk about the relationship between the two bosses in private, so it's very difficult to handle...

Walking nonstop, He Yimeng walked into He Yimeng's office. The other party was sitting on the boss's chair and working. When the gatekeeper suddenly opened, Fang raised his eyelids.

"It came pretty quickly."

Li Peifeng hummed, and said casually: "Just now I heard employees gossip during working hours, it seems that the atmosphere in our company is very relaxed."

High emotional intelligence: The atmosphere in our company is very relaxed.

Low emotional intelligence: Are employees too damn idle?

He Yimeng has been in the company longer than Li Peifeng, and has been with these employees for a longer period of time. Naturally, he understands the gossip and gossip of the people below him better than him, but at this moment he just smiled casually: "When the project starts after today, they must be busy. There’s no time for gossip.”

After saying that, He Yimeng picked up the landline on the desktop and called the new game producer to the office.

Li Peifeng and He Yimeng are two good students, not to mention making games. They don’t have much time to play games, and it’s useless to make up lessons later. The two of them can only be the bosses. They really need to find someone who knows how to make games. Come and do it. Check the game planning, R&D, marketing and other aspects, and coordinate and manage the following teams.

This kind of talent is hard to find. Fortunately, the IP of "Sword and Law" is big enough and has unlimited potential. With the generous salary, it is attractive enough for senior talents in the game industry. Even if it can't attract the executives of those big game companies, it is enough to yearn for the talents from small companies.

After He Yimeng released the news, some game producers with very good resumes took the initiative to come to her door. She selected the most suitable one as the producer of "Sword and Law" from among them;

Wang Lianzong, 37 years old this year, worked as a game designer in many large game companies such as Konami and Giant Network. The peak of his career was when he left with his colleague and friend Yang Le and joined the TipsWorks studio founded by the latter. In the year before last, a buyout mobile game called "Pascal's Contract" was produced.

This is an extremely hardcore soul-based action-adventure game, known as the dark soul of the mobile terminal.

Once it was launched, it became the focus of the industry because of the soul label and the buyout system, and the quality of the game was well received by the industry and welcomed by the market. One year after its launch, "Pascal's Contract" reached 150 One hundred thousand copies sold.

What does it mean to sell a million copies of a game?

"Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice" produced by "Father of Dark Souls" Hidetaka Miyazaki sold about 2 million sets in its initial launch, and the well-known soul-like game "Nioh 2" produced by the famous Ninja Dragon Group only sold two months after its launch Reaching one million sets.

Although the soul game is enough to go out of the circle and the topic is full every minute, from a market point of view, this is not a category with strong enough money-absorbing power. After all, there are still a small number of players who dare to spend money to challenge, let alone the buyout system of mobile games. This is an even rarer species.

Under such a market background, a mobile game with no major company escort, no IP blessing, produced by a domestic team and a soul-like theme has actually achieved millions of sales.

Two words, awesome.

However, this honor was given to the game producer and studio owner Yang Le. The benefits brought about by the success of "Pascal's Contract" naturally had nothing to do with Wang Lianzong's deputy.

The increased wages and dividends could not satisfy Wang Lianzong's appetite. He also wanted to develop a game by himself. He wanted more.

He just heard that "Sword and the Law" is in urgent need of a chief producer for mobile games. Wang Lianzong felt that this was a rare opportunity. He chatted with He Yimeng several times to confirm the salary, and decided to quit.

"Teacher Li, nice to meet you."

"Teacher Wang, please sit down. Please sit down."

Li Peifeng attaches great importance to the development of the mobile game "Sword and Law" because it does have the potential to make a lot of money.

As the saying goes, a mirror and a wallet can answer the why and the why in life.

Li Peifeng thinks that if he can earn tens of billions of dollars, even if the parents of the four girls find out about his crimes one day, it will not be completely irreparable...

In order to obtain more profits from the mobile game "Sword and Law" in the longer term, and not to make a one-shot deal, he also paid great attention to the production of the game, and reduced the coding time in the next two weeks. Check in at the company every day.

Either discuss the core gameplay and operating concepts of "Sword and Law" with Wang Lianzong, or brainstorm with the person in charge of the program, art, and levels to determine the narrative angle and presentation style.

It is very difficult to make a role-playing open world adventure game. Fortunately, the structure of the other world is rigorous and clear in the book, and the author himself is adding details, accurate to the economic systems of each camp, and the characters of every important role. images, even flowers and plants from another world and different scenery.

This is the advantage of adapting a game from a mature novel. It takes a lot of time and energy to think of a story from scratch, ranging from months to years.

The existing story avoids this trouble. "Sword and Law" has passed the test of the market, greatly improving the success rate of the project, saving costs, and reducing the difficulty of the development team, so they think more about it. How to authentically restore the world of "Sword and Law" and at the same time create extremely high playability.

What is playability? Beautiful picture?

Of course, it must not only be beautiful, but also fit the temperament of "Sword and Law".

The figure is too slender and cute, and the face is more feminine. The fresh two-dimensional style is obviously not suitable. The game graphics should be more realistic in order to reach a wider audience.

Elegant and ethereal, some maps can be a bit mysterious and weird. It is necessary to integrate the aesthetics of things, emphasize the use of color, and use large color blocks to splash ink, just like impressionist oil paintings...

“Or like my watercolors.”

Li Peifeng narcissistically believes that if the final picture of the mobile game matches the watercolor painting he made, it will be more popular.

Regarding this point, everyone in the team quite agrees, so the art direction of "Sword and Law" was decided without any controversy.

But the playability is not only about the graphics, but also includes all aspects.

For example, levels, puzzle solving, tasks, social interaction, growth, and combat systems, Wang Lianzong is strong in combat design, and there are also a group of programmers who came with him, and they will give a perfect answer when they sign up for a ticket.

In addition to these, there is the most important point in the playability, that is-the sense of substitution, or the plot.

According to the gamification approach of domestic novels, the original work basically exists as a background setting, and at most a few task chains related to the novel's big world view and main plot are designed, but the main gameplay is no different from other online games.

This is called selling dog meat, and Li Peifeng is unwilling to do it. Really want to copy all the story lines in "Sword and Law" into the game, and make the protagonists in the book such as Wang Chi, Qiu Qing, Lin Shang Huayue, Kito Ivy into NPCs, let them Interacting with the players, letting the characters in the book take risks with the players, that seems to ruin the readers' expectations for the characters in the book...

If you get too close, it won’t be fun!

This is actually a shortcoming of the mobile game of the novel, because there is a natural barrier between the narrative methods of the novel and the game, and this barrier will sometimes cause the opposition between the content and the gameplay.

Therefore, in the face of a given novel, if you want to convert it into a game expression, you must make more efforts in plot reconstruction and gameplay design, or a two-way compromise.

To put it simply, if the plot is not changed, people who have read the novel will feel nothing new when playing the game, which is equivalent to reading the novel again.

If the plot is changed, the original party will greet the whole family of the game producer and scold them for ruining the original.

How to balance the scale, even Li Peifeng has a little difficulty.

In the past week, Xizhou Technology has expanded its recruitment from 130 to 150 people, including many foreign employees. Their ideas, after careful consideration, came up with a great idea.

"Then let's make a free and truly dynamic open world."

"cool!"

"Okay, I knew it!"

After Li Peifeng said this, several executives in the audience smiled.

Open world games have three characteristics;

1. Free exploration, there is no clear level to ask for balls, players do not need to be at a certain level to reach a certain map, even a newcomer who has just entered the game, he can "go wherever he wants to go".

2. Non-linear tasks, even if there are, will not force players to do the main story in the game in order to continue playing. There is no need to worry about players not knowing what to do after entering the game, because there are many side missions in open world games, all of which are hidden in the huge map, waiting for players to explore and trigger.

3. High interactivity: Players can freely explore and interact with scenes in the game, and can interact with NPCs to gain favorability, etc. But these interactions are limited, and you can only get tasks or rare props under limited conditions.

This is an open world game, and if a "dynamic" is added in front, then the degree of freedom will be further improved, and the player's sense of substitution will be stronger. In simple terms, the growth or every move of each player character will affect the To surrounding changes, and even affect the direction of the game world.

Looking at the end game or mobile end, few online games on the market can really do this. Although the player is the protagonist, he is also a man with feet. They are not the ones who have the final say. The stories in the game are fixed, no matter how much effort the player makes, the plot will not be changed in the slightest.

And Xizhou intends to use "Sword and Law" to make some innovations, so that players can become the real protagonists...

"Then let the players arrive at the third year of Wang Chi's time travel, that is, Chapter 210 'The Fall of the Xianglu Empire'. If the players and the protagonist work together to repel the invasion, then the Rewrite the plot in the book, save the life of General Geng Wu, avoid the tragedy... and some regrettable events in the story later, will also change with the efforts of the players."

"Of course, if the necessary conditions are not met, the novel will have a happy ending, or it may end in tragedy."

"Yes. But the conditions must be set more stringent!"

"Also, boss, I see that Wan Rong is also to be included in the outline after you. Can that be..."

"It can be saved, everything can be saved, but it depends on the player's ability."

Li Peifeng chatted with everyone about other plots in the novel that can be dynamically changed. After chatting for a long time, Wang Lianzong muttered in a low voice: "If you do this, the cost and production time may increase."

He Yimeng had heard similar words from him many times in the past few days. He was quite calm at this time: "How much cost will be added and how long will it be delayed?"

Wang Lianzong pondered: "The current number of people is actually a little short. According to my expectation, two hundred people should be enough. Now the game is positioned as a large-scale dynamic open world. The company lacks the technical accumulation of this type of game, so we need to continue To recruit more than 20 technically mature programmers from large manufacturers, it is best to have an architect.”

"It also involves changes to the original plot. At least three screenwriting teams, two art teams, a level planning team, a mission planning team... and 20 other relevant assisting members must be recruited."

Facing He Yimeng's sharp eyes, Wang Lianzong gave the answer after calculation: "We have to recruit another 200 people. If it is a team of 400 people, the development time will be about one year...but the development cost will be doubled, 300 million yuan. about."

The development cost of the game is basically staff salary, and the budget of 300 million is also worthy of the grand plan of the "Sword and Law" project...

But Boss Li doesn't seem to have that much money, does he?

[Yes, I agree. 】

He Yimeng looked at Li Peifeng silently, paused for a moment, and nodded slowly: "I understand, you go ahead and do your work first."

"good."

The others left the room in a hurry, and when there were only two people left, He Yimeng said calmly, "You spend 500 million out of 100 million yuan for each person, and spent more than 80 million yuan to buy a villa. Are you going to use the manuscript fee to pay for them in the future? ? But don’t forget, you will get married soon after graduation, and money will be spent on weddings.”

"It doesn't matter." Li Peifeng smiled and said, "The rich woman next to me will take action...right, Mr. He?"

He Yimeng sneered: "Ask me to give you money to help you organize a wedding? You can even think of it!!"

Li Peifeng didn't mean that, he knew that she also knew that he didn't mean that, saying these words was just deliberately humiliating himself, it doesn't matter, he will make a move!

"Let go, I still have work."

Li Peifeng hugged He Yimeng and said, "It's up to you, then do it."

What understanding ability do you have?

He Yimeng was speechless, staggered to the window sill, and closed the blinds...

At five o'clock in the evening, Li Peifeng left the company, returned to the villa, and started preparing dinner.

Under the relaxed working rhythm, the mobile game project of "Sword and Law" is advancing in an orderly manner, and the relationship between the four girls in the family seems to be less tense after living together for more than a month.

Even quarrels have become rare, with only occasional bickering. Most of the time we get along, we can even call them harmonious, just like the way we get along in a dream.

But what Li Peifeng was looking forward to, the scene of four or even five people sharing the same bed again did not happen. Whenever he tactfully proposed this idea to someone, he would be ridiculed.

And a few days ago, when Zhao Qingge saw that Li Peifeng had really bought a new custom-made big bed and moved it to the master bedroom, he was furious and told him to change the bed back immediately.

Even though Li Peifeng replaced the bed with the original one, Lao Zhao didn't talk to him for a day.

Under this situation, Li Peifeng did not dare to push too hard, but felt that the heat was not yet there and needed to wait for the opportunity.

This time should not be too far away, it may be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or it may be the coming summer of June...

"The postgraduate defense will be held next Wednesday. Three of the professors who will be judged are from the School of Liberal Arts of our school. You all know them. The other one is Professor Cao Wenbin from Yanda University. You should have heard of it. Play normally, don't be nervous, let's go through the motions Enough."

Before going to bed that night, Li Peifeng and Zhao Qingge chatted as usual, and the latter gave a few words about the defense. Although it seemed to be telling Li Peifeng not to be nervous, she seemed to be more nervous.

Naturally, I am not worried about whether Li Peifeng will perform abnormally in the defense. As long as he does not slap the review teacher on the stage, even if he talks nonsense about the topic, Li will be able to graduate successfully.

What makes Zhao Qingge uneasy are some of the important issues the two of them will face after he graduates!

Li Peifeng knew this well, pursed his lips, put his arm around Zhao Duoduo's shoulders and whispered softly: "Tomorrow is the weekend. If you are okay, let's go to the major photo studios tomorrow to see where the wedding photos are taken?"

Zhao Qingge was silent for a moment, hummed very softly and briefly, and then asked: "Where are your parents..."

Li Peifeng had a headache, thinking that his father might not have slept at this time, so he simply picked up his cell phone and went to the bathroom to call.

"explain?"

"Dad, I'm about to graduate."

"so?"

Li Peifeng pondered for half a second before testing the question: "Should you take some time to come to the capital again to propose marriage to the Zhao family, or inform you on the phone?"

Li Qiyuan asked, "Are you still living with the four of them?"

"……Um."

"Then I won't go."

"No, you promised before, why don't you come now?"

"I just want to gain some virtue for your unborn sister."

Li Peifeng quickly grasped the key point and said in surprise: "It's a girl? My sister?"

"Yesterday's pregnancy test, the doctor gave a hint... Okay, it's okay."

Li Peifeng didn't care and continued to ask him with a smile if he had given his sister a name.

Li Qiyuan was hesitant, probably because he had not thought about it. At this time, Yu Huizhi's voice came over the phone: "Fengfeng, which one do you think sounds better, Mo Yi or Yue Qi?"

Li Peifeng came up with an idea: "Both are good, but Yue Qi sounds more catchy."

"I took this!"

Yu Huizhi finished speaking a little proudly, then hesitated: "But it doesn't seem to have any distinctive features, and it's easy to have the same name."

The mother and son discussed the name issue for a while, and Li Peifeng brought up business with her mother again, asking her to persuade her father that the parents had a good conversation when they met, but breaking one's trust now would really bring disgrace to the Li family's reputation.

Yu Huizhi was a little at a loss: "I didn't expect, Fengfeng, that you still care about the reputation of Lao Li's family. Husband, look, your son still needs face."

"He wants face, but I don't?"

Li Qiyuan sighed and took the phone: "Hang up. I'll call President Zhao later... I hope he's not asleep yet."

Li Peifeng was heartbroken and praised him repeatedly, then hung up the phone and walked out of the bathroom.

"How about it?"

Zhao Qingge lay on his side on the bed, his eyes twinkling.

Li Peifeng laughed: "Just wait until you hold the microphone and say 'I do'."

The corners of Zhao Qingge's mouth raised slightly, then quickly calmed down. He raised his head slightly away from the pillow and let Li Peifeng's arms come in to hug him. Then he curled up in his arms, closed his eyes peacefully, and murmured in sleep. As if whispering: "Tomorrow, go choose a photo studio."

"good."

Li Peifeng lowered his head and kissed her lips. Looking at the other person's trembling eyelashes and intoxicated expression, he laughed dumbly: "Why are you so cute?"

This description made Zhao Qingge very uncomfortable and even a little disgusted, so he reached out and pushed him to express his dissatisfaction, but found that he couldn't push him away, so he hugged him again and ordered in a slightly tough tone: "Sleep!"

Li Peifeng didn't want to sleep, and wanted to do something more, but the other party's principles would definitely not allow him to finally break through. Today was Zhao Duoduo's menstrual period, so he closed his eyes angrily.

"Fell asleep?"

Twenty minutes later, feeling the breathing of the person next to him become long and steady, Li Peifeng gently pulled out his hands and stood up, tiptoed out of the master bedroom and went to Huang Tianxuan's room downstairs.

I'm in a good mood today, so I'll turn over the cards one by one!

"Still not asleep?"

Huang Tianxuan was wearing light pink pajamas. She was sitting at the computer desk typing on the keyboard as if she was working. She didn't even look at Li Peifeng who entered the room. She stared at the screen intently and said casually: "Write an article. You are relieved after graduation. I am The doctor's hard life has just begun...I'll go to bed soon."

Li Peifeng sat waiting patiently. There was someone watching next to her. Huang Tianxuan had no idea. She simply turned off the computer and got up to wash up: "Is Lao Zhao asleep? Oh, Bai asked, you can't come to my place unless you're asleep." Come."

The resentment in the words is ready to come out~

Li Peifeng coughed dryly: "What do you think would be a better name for our son in the future?"

Huang Tianxuan stopped suddenly and turned to look at Li Peifeng with a teasing look in her eyes: "How about you give birth to a child with me now and then think about longer-term matters?"

…

Half an hour later, it was already twelve o'clock, and Li Peifeng arrived at Wu Xu's door.

There was no light at the crack of the door, so the lights should have been turned off. I turned the door handle again, and there was a click, and the door opened!

"Haha, Yueyue, look at this."

"It's interesting. You can learn from this routine... Well, I'll ask them to shoot a similar one tomorrow."

The two night owls were lying on the bed, each holding their mobile phones, scrolling through Douyin in the dark. When they noticed someone pushing the door open, Wu Wenyue glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. She was not surprised to see Mr. Li's face, so she continued. Watch the video.

"Make room."

"Get out of here, don't press my hair!"

"One room isn't enough for you to sleep in, right? Why do you come to our place every night?"

"What are you talking about? Don't pretend to be confused. Who came up with the condition of eighteen times a week?"

"We want to take a break today, let's go out!"

Regardless of the dissatisfaction of the two girls, Li Peifeng lay down in the middle, hugging one on the left and the other on the right. Wu Wenyue sniffed, smelling the delicious milky fragrance on his body but frowning: "You smell like death... from the sky Is Sister Xuan here here?"

Li Peifeng emphasized: "I took a shower, and this is the smell of her shower gel."

"Here he is doing this again!"

Wu Wenyue cursed angrily and kicked her foot. Xu Manying also quickly stood up, picked up the quilt and covered Li Peifeng's face while saying angrily: "I'll cover you to death, you bastard!"

"Uh huh... If you don't think it's good to take turns, I can ask her to join us next time."

Happiness is not a single event, but a collection of small things.

Although Li Peifeng let the two girls be beaten with quilts at the moment, he was happy at the moment.

"Ah, wives, hurry up!"

The reason for happiness is definitely not simply because he deserves a beating! !

(End of chapter)