The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

  Chapter 185 183. What? ! A team of 400 people! ?

  At 2 o'clock in the morning, Li Lanyun couldn't sleep and was extremely excited.

  He thought about it, and finally called Liu Guangran.

  Liu Guangran slept soundly and was awakened by the phone. He picked up the alarm clock and took a look. He was not half angry--

It’s only 2:24.

   answered the phone, Liu Guangran's violent voice came over there, "Brother, do you know what time it is?"

  There was a hint of helplessness in the anger.

  Li Lanyun said a little apologetically, "Sorry brother, I have very important things to consult you..."

  Gan!

  Liu Guangran looked sad, but unfortunately there was no sister-in-law to accompany him, otherwise he could use Mr. Cao’s reason——

  My girlfriend disagrees.

  ……

   Early the next morning, Li Lanyun went to Cao Yang’s office.

  In other words, when Cao Yang arrived at the company at 9 o'clock, the little secretary told him that Li Lanyun had been waiting for him in the office for a long time.

  I don’t know how long Zhuang Yurou took, because Li Lanyun was here when she came.

  It can be seen that Li Lanyun’s affairs are urgent.

   Cao Yang smiled and walked into the office.

  Li Lanyun stood up immediately, "Mr. Cao, I thought about it all night yesterday. I came to ask you for someone today."

   "Hahahaha... Don't worry, Brother Yun, sit down first."

  Cao Yang only glanced at it, and he could tell from Li Lanyun's face that this guy must have not slept all night, and he was still in a state of extreme excitement after all night.

  As for why I am so excited, it is obviously because I told him yesterday that I would set up a project team called "Shan Hai Jing".

  Yes, after going back last night, Li Lanyun thought all night.

  Calling Liu Guangran and Ma Hao at 2 o'clock in the morning, they are driving people crazy.

  Zhuang Yurou pursed her lips and smiled, and poured tea for the two of them.

   Cao Yang calmly moved his butt, and sat in a chair to put himself in a comfortable and relaxed state.

   "So, what do you mean by magnate?"

   "It's like this," Li Lanyun said, "I went back yesterday and worked out an account. I found that this project wanted to achieve an effect and could live up to Mr. Cao's expectations, so the requirements for personnel are very high."

  Cao Yang’s expectation is to be able to launch the product before March next year.

  He didn't tell Li Lanyun the specific reason, because he couldn't tell.

  I can’t say that Lao Tzu is a copy of Monster Hunter, and Capcom will release the original Monster Hunter in March next year, right?

   Go online before this, called sniper monster hunting, after going online, then you may be charged with plagiarism, even if it is not, then word of mouth will be affected to a certain extent.

  This is the so-called similar product, who is embarrassed to follow.

  Cao Yang can only give Li Lanyun a death order through the authority of the boss. Now that there is a game engine, the development process should be faster, so Cao Yang assessed that we are completely able to do it.

  And today Li Lanyun came to him, and it was in Cao Yang's expectation. Now, in order to complete such a difficult task, in addition to the technical level, the most important thing is people.

  If you don’t have enough time, you have to have enough people.

  There is no problem at the technical level. The production schedule is definitely not enough with the existing manpower, so a large number of personnel must be expanded.

  If Li Lanyun did not come to him today, Cao Yang would have doubts about his business ability and judgment ability.

   "Well," Cao Yang asked with a smile, "Tell me."

"That's the case. I did some statistics after I went back." Li Lanyun took out his small notebook, then walked to the whiteboard next to him, picked up a marker and wrote on it, "First of all, we need to create a large enough world of Shanhaijing. I will plan it into 4 large maps of 1000x1000 for now, and then divide it...

  In each big map module, there need to be 20 to 30 different kinds of plants...

  10 to 20 different monsters...

  The minimum number of monsters in an ecosystem...

  Then we need to classify these monsters, in order from low to high as DCBAS, according to the food chain relationship, we will arrange it again...

  The large BOSS-level monsters needed are..."

  Li Lanyun listed many dense numbers on the whiteboard.

  It can be seen from the pyramid structure drawn. The animals and plants, topography and landforms that this game needs to make are actually quite a lot.

   Cao Yang felt more relieved the more he watched.

  This is what a producer should look like.

  The so-called plan and then move, first make the plan clear, deploy personnel, deploy resources...

  Sufficient preparatory work is required to sharpen the knife and not cut wood by mistake.

Of course, the most important part of this preliminary work is the overall arrangement. A producer must be able to clearly know what he is going to do and what the project is going to be done. Even if this thing has not been done yet, the producer has already done everything. All the details are considered, and then things can be done very smoothly, without too much entanglement and delays in time and progress.

  Cao Yang took the lead, and then Li Lanyun perfected it by himself. He would definitely find problems in the process of combing.

  This is a qualified producer.

  All Cao Yang became more excited as he watched, and the more he listened, the more he felt that this project would be successful.

  With the perfect execution of such generals and the people below, if it can be done, then this must be a game that astounds the world.

   "In order to adapt to the characteristics of the monsters, we have to specially build a very unique living and activity environment for them..." Li Lanyun explained, "So the number of personnel available from Guofeng Studio is definitely not enough."

   "Hmm." Cao Yang nodded, expressing full agreement, "So how many people do you think you need?"

"Hmm... I have calculated it," Li Lanyun said, "The planning team must have at least 20 to 30 people, and then the program team must have at least 1 to 1 number of planning. The most important thing is that the number of art teams is very high. Every monster needs to be modeled, so a lot of art needs to be recruited. I called Guangran and Ma Hao yesterday. They assessed that at least 100 people are needed to eat art.

  And this is the minimum configuration requirement. "

  Li Lanyun frowned, "Mainly, Mr. Cao, your request is too rushed. If you relax the time, let us develop a period of two or three years, and the number of people can be cut in half."

   "Hmm." Cao Yang nodded, without speaking.

  He was thinking quietly.

  Li Lanyun talked about very real problems.

  This thing is not something small workshops can do, so 3A games will have such a high threshold.

  But this is nothing for Bomi.

  On the contrary, Cao Yang is very happy.

  It is precisely because of the high development cost that small factories generally dare not try, this can highlight the value of their own existence.

  From now on, Bomi will push the cost of game production to a new level, which is the barrier effect.

  It will isolate most of the competitors for itself.

   "No problem," Cao Yang said with a smile, "I will double how many people do you need."

   "Huh?!" Li Lanyun's pupils suddenly enlarged.

  ……

   "What? 400 people?!"

   "Are you crazy? Is the boss crazy?"

  In the afternoon, Cao Yang held the largest company-wide mobilization meeting in history. At the meeting, he announced the news of the "Shan Hai Jing" project.

   and gives the estimated number of personnel.

  Everyone was so shocked that they couldn’t believe that this was actually what Bomi could do.

  A 400-person development team is almost better than other teams.

  For a team like Honor of Kings, it may only need less than 40 people with the addition of operations. If the operations are removed, it is estimated that about 30 people will be enough.

  Now the boss actually wants to pull a team of 400 people out to make a stand-alone game.

  Where is the game here?

  This is a war, okay?

  Nima... In the Warring States period of the island country, a group fight would not require so many people.

Cao Yang said very calmly, "This number is the result of a discussion between me and Li Lanyunyun. It sounds like a large number of people, but in fact it is not really saturated when it is done. During the process of project production, we There will definitely be many obstacles, and many waste products may be produced, such as 3D models. If they don’t fit in the end, they have to be thrown away.

  To make this estimate of the number of people, we have arrived at it after calculation and careful research. "

Cao Yang looked at the employees below and smiled calmly, "Our country started late in stand-alone games, and the investment is not very high. We have always wanted to go to the world, but there is no high-quality world-class products. .

  And now, we, yes, we, Bomi’s me and you, we have such confidence, whether in terms of technology, experience, or capital, we are fully capable of developing such a product.

  So this can be regarded as the dream and persistence of Bomi people. We need and should make such a product.

  I hope that at this time next year, the "Shan Hai Jing" we made will make the whole world see light. "

  Fuck!

  "Does the boss want to be so sensational?"

   "What should I do, I really want to cry."

   "I don't know why, I suddenly feel that the term Bomi is really good... I am really proud of being born as a Bomi."

"In this meeting, I actually didn't just talk about why the project was established. Failure is to have a dream, and success is to realize the dream." Cao Yang smiled and said, "What I want to tell you is, this is After a mobilization meeting, President Li will give everyone a list of all the positions needed, and the person in charge of each project will not move.

Colleagues who want to join the "Shan Hai Jing" project team can first apply to their department boss. Under the condition that the original project progress remains unchanged and there is more energy, the department boss will consider giving the list of personnel who can be transferred to Li Lanyun as appropriate. President Li is here.

  Okay, the meeting is over. "

  ……

   "Wow, what should I do, I really want to go to "Shan Hai Jing""

   "I think too, but I don't know if Ai always releases people."

  "Apply first and see the situation."

After Boss Cao’s mobilization order came down, most of his colleagues in several other projects applied to the department boss.

  Cao Yang’s consideration is also very simple. If he has spare capacity, he must give priority to the company’s employees.

  Because so far, although Bomi started late, it has already been in the forefront of domestic companies. The employees of Bomi are basically better than those outside.

  Many people are neither incapable nor talented. The main reason is that they have not encountered an environment like Bomi where employees can hone and accumulate experience.

  Just like playing a game, there is a big boss who takes it with him, and his experience points are soaring. When he meets a boss who is not very good, the growth space for employees is limited, and the ceiling is invisibly lowered.

  So Bomi’s employees are not necessarily the best in the industry, but they have a good boss who is constantly feeding them experience, so they grow very fast.

  The boss is Cao Yang.

  It is Cao Yang's idea to transfer people from within the company to make the project run as quickly as possible.

  After all, everyone is a colleague, and they are familiar with each other, which can reduce the running-in process. If you recruit new people directly from the outside and re-organize a brand-new "Shan Hai Jing" team, you may cause many unexpected situations due to the running-in period.

  The company selects core personnel within the company, rents out the prototype of the team, and then recruits new employees, and they can be driven by this core group.

  Of course, the premise of all this is to [guarantee the original project progress] will not be affected, otherwise you will directly take away the core of the king or audition, and the Three Kingdoms online. Do you still want to play these games?

  This is why Cao Yang wants the department boss to approve first.

  ……

  Another point is to emphasize the [voluntariness] of employees

Some people may be accustomed to the original team, such as Three Kingdoms online, now it is running well, and there are still a lot of bonuses to get every month, although the boss Cao will not treat them badly when transferred to the "Shan Hai Jing", but the challenge is even greater , There will be more things, and it may not be comfortable in a successful project with stable operation.

In the previous life, among the newcomers from NetEase, many people would choose to go to the veteran successful project team such as Dream and Tianxia. Some also choose to go to new projects to open up wasteland. It is possible to look back a few years later. Those who are in Dream will live. Better, get more money, these are not good to say.

  So not everyone will sign up, it depends on personal wishes.

  Two days later, the list submitted by various departments showed that the total number of qualified people was about 40.

  In addition to the 20-person team originally formed by Li Lanyun for Shan Hai Jing, there are now a total of 60 people.

  This is the core member of Shan Hai Jing.

  "What to do with President Cao, there is still a lot less." Li Lanyun felt a little tired.

   "It's okay," Cao Yang comforted him, "Although it is a lot less than originally planned, at least work can start."

  Li Lanyun frowned. It is possible to start work, but time is running out, so I don’t know if it can be done in time.

  "And because the members themselves are from different teams, it still needs a running-in process." Cao Yang smiled, "You can do what you see first. I promised your 400-person team, and I will definitely help you get it.

  And also capable. "

  ……

   "What?! Bomi actually wants to form a 400-person team project?"

On the side of Xishanju, Qiu Xin, Qiu Xia, and Sun Hongyin, the producer of Jianwang 1, were all shocked.

  The first reaction of people in all industries when they heard about this incident was -

  This person is crazy, right?

  Is Boss Cao crazy?

  You must know that in any domestic project, even large-scale mmo does not need so many people. Xishanju may be a team of 40 people, even planning, programming, art, and sound effects are almost 40 people.

   "What is Boss Cao doing? Is he going to heaven?!"

  The cost of a 400-person team is naturally much higher than that of other small teams, and the labor cost alone is about ten times the original.

  Obviously, for a development team, the estimated cost of the project may be several million.

  Now a team of 400 people, wouldn’t it be tens of millions?

   "Bomi, is there no place to use more money?"

   "Yes, it feels completely unnecessary." An employee said, "Such a large-scale team, the cost itself is very high, but also to do stand-alone games, stand-alone games are actually quite thin in China.

  It is almost impossible to develop and make money. "

  "What is almost? The formation of this team means that the project has already lost money. It is nothing more than a loss of more or less."

"Yes, think about it, a 400-person team costs millions of dollars a month, and a project consumes tens of millions a year. Now domestic single-player games can no longer sell more than a few thousand. Wan's results."

  What they said is also a fact. Now major game companies are busy making money in the online game market. The number of well-made stand-alone games is small. The last one that can make tens of millions is Bomi’s King of Glory 2.

  However, the sales performance of King 2 is not as good as before. So far, it has made more than 10 million in total.

  According to this result, Bomi loses first before selling, and it is still the kind of loss.

   "Not necessarily," someone made a questioning voice, "What if Bomi is not in the country, can't it be published in an island country or in Europe and the United States? The same was done in the previous King of Glory 2."

"That's because Bomi can do better than others, otherwise why should people buy your CD? It was Bomi’s marketing strategy in the island country before. Didn’t you see it before using viral marketing? King of Glory 2 can be said to be no one cares about in the island country."

   "Um... indeed, if you want to hit the foreign market, you have to come up with very high-quality products. Otherwise, if you form such a large-scale team, then you can't lose money?"

"Yeah yeah……"

  "Don’t think about it, this is not something rich people can do. Whether you admit it or not, our country’s game level is still far behind the world’s top games.

  This gap is not only technical, but also design concepts. "

   "Yes, Bomi is good at plots at best. The King of Glory series relies on excellent plots, but whether this set will be bought by others in the world or not."

   "Without a greater degree of innovation and impressive settings, it's difficult!"

  ……

   Just when everyone was ridiculing Bomi.

   Jinshan’s boss asks Bojun to think about a problem——

  Bomi's employees now have 5,600 people, but it is impossible to support this 400-person team of "Shan Hai Jing" in all projects.

  Where will Bomi face such a large employee gap?

  ……

  (End of this chapter)