Chapter 159 Finish the game for me within two months!

   Silence, dead silence.

   The huge meeting room of the technical game is quiet and depressing at this moment, which makes people flustered.

  Yang Ying, chief strategist, chief Cheng and others looked at each other nervously, not daring to look at Mr. An.

  They crossed their hands under the conference table and kept swinging to relieve their tension.

  Now, in the entire meeting room, it is estimated that even a needle can be heard on the ground.

  Yang Ying was a little nervous at this moment.

  Half an hour ago, Mr. An suddenly notified the main personnel of the jump team on the company intranet to have a meeting in the conference room.

  The taste of order revealed between the lines made Yang Ying's heart skip a beat.

  Could it be the only new work of the game that made Mr. An unhappy?

  It’s actually not hard to imagine... As a competitor in the industry, Infinity Online Entertainment, with the standard of a small partner factory, produced the palace-level "Control Invalidation", and sold 2.79 million sets that are unmatched so far.

  How can such explosive results make the senior management of the game comfortable?

  Seeing the opponent making money and getting blue veins in his hands, I don’t want to mention the feeling.

  Thus, accompanied by anxiety, Yang Ying took a pen and paper, and rushed to the meeting room with the main planner, Cheng Cheng and others.

   As a result, it took half an hour to sit.

  President An didn't say a word during the period, but just looked at the laptop from the main seat with an ugly face.

  Yang Ying exchanged glances with several colleagues and sighed slightly.

   This is clearly the calm before the storm

  Called over for a meeting and didn’t say anything, I’m still busy...

   Just when he was thinking this way, Mr. An, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

   "Mr. Yang, tell me where the game you are in charge of is now."

  This sentence is not a rhetorical question or inquiry, but a question full of class gaps and cold taste.

  And when speaking, Mr. An was always looking at the laptop, and did not look up at the few people in the table.

  The attitude is self-evident.

  He is dissatisfied!

   But Yang Ying is also very puzzled and helpless, other people's games are going viral, why are you showing us face here?

   Are we not doing our job well?

   "This Mr. An, the progress is normal, and it is still under stable development."

  After Mr. An heard the words, he immediately spoke coldly.

  His head remained unchanged and did not lift up.

   "Really, come and tell me, how long will you be stable?"

  Yang Ying was at a loss for words, and looked at each other with several colleagues, not knowing how to answer.

"Um?"

   Seeing that no one responded, Mr. An questioned loudly, which greatly increased the pressure on Yang Ying and others under the table.

   "Mr. An. It's like this. According to the plan, the game has 12 levels. But now, 9 levels have been made. There are more."

   “Get it done in two months.”

  Before Yang Ying finished speaking, Mr. An's unquestionable tone made several people in the meeting dumbfounded on the spot.

  Especially Yang Ying stood up anxiously.

   "President An An, no, listen to me."

  At this moment, Mr. An raised his head slightly and looked at the few people under the table.

  Although he didn't make a sound, his expression clearly signaled Yang Ying to speak quickly.

  Yang Ying paused, first glanced at several colleagues who looked embarrassed, and then organized his speech in his mind.

   Then, he looked at Mr. An

"Mr. An, it's like this. Our company's games don't mean that the finished level is equal to the finished product. It's just a level. There will be models, art, music and sound effects, as well as testing, adjustments, and optimization of values ​​​​and other post-work work. It takes time to do all of this. Two months is too much.”

  Yang Ying was speaking when he was interrupted by Mr. An raising his hand.

   "Yang Gong, how long ago was the project in your hand? If I remember correctly, before the project was approved, the production team of Infinity Online Entertainment should have not released the new work of the sky or something, right?"

   "Now their sky game is finished, even "Control Invalidation" is released. Your "Blood Scientist", the level is not finished yet?"

"explain?"

  President An's words carried suffocating oppression, making Yang Ying and the others bow their heads with bitter expressions.

  This problem, he explained it before.

  The game is done so quickly, obviously a team of hundreds of people.

   And they jumped group, only 32 people.

  Some time ago, 3 even left, including the level designer, leaving only 29 people in the team.

   Therefore, they are currently developing and recruiting people at the same time. They are very busy and often work overtime to catch up with the progress.

   As a result, Mr. An still thought their progress was slow! ?

  Yang Ying sighed inwardly.

   The game progress problem is actually not slow anymore.

  The reason why Mr. An felt slow was because the frequency of the other party's new works was surprisingly high, which led to a misunderstanding.

  Plus Mr. An is eager for quick success and wants to seize the market first, so his mentality is unstable.

  But game production cannot be done in one step, it is a very time-consuming process.

  If there are enough people, the progress can be improved.

   But right now there are not enough people...

  In order to make up for the loss of "Jungle Forest"

  So "Blood Scientist" has become a key project of the company, which requires high quality.

   But if you want to achieve high quality, you will naturally need a lot of people.

  The 29 people in my group worked overtime day and night, and it was pretty good to be able to do this.

  If you have to estimate a completion date, I'm afraid it will take another half a year...

   And the quality cannot be guaranteed!

  But Yang Ying did not dare to say that it was a manpower problem...

  Because of problems like this, the company has delegated authority to the heads of each production team.

  Whatever you lack, recruit yourself, as long as you think it is suitable, the company doesn't care.

   But if this is the case, if you still dare to tell me that there are insufficient manpower, then it is your problem. Because I have given you power, but you have not used it well.

  As the person in charge of the jump team, Yang Ying is usually too busy with work, so he only looks at the recruiting matter occasionally.

  So it's not easy to talk to Mr. An about the shortage of manpower.

   This is indeed his problem.

  Thinking of this, Yang Ying seemed a little silent for a while.

   Seeing this, Mr. An snorted coldly, and guessed something in his heart.

   "During the previous meeting, I have already told other teams to ask them to assist in the development. Is there any movement?"

  Yang Ying opened his mouth, momentarily at a loss for words.

  Other groups also have projects they are responsible for. How can they put aside their own things to help others complete their work?

   Isn’t this pure?

  Although Mr. An has a strong ability in marketing, he is really an outsider in game development

   "It's like this. Mr. An. Other groups are responsible for the projects. In order not to affect them, we are fully responsible within our own group."

   "No recruits?"

  President An frowned and stared at Yang Ying, making the latter afraid to look directly at him.

  "Recruited. But many of the applicants did not meet the requirements. The resumes after screening were also rejected due to interview questions"

   "So you guys just go on like this? Huh?"

   Mr. An's tone suddenly turned cold, and his expression was extremely impatient.

"If you take some time to come out and recruit a group of people to complete the work, won't this matter be implemented? If you spend some time to do this well in advance, will this also improve the overall work efficiency earlier? Improve the progress ?”

   "As a result, you have to be busy on both sides, so that both sides have not been implemented. Is this your problem?"

   "Do you know what the company is like now? Watching other people's things make money one after another for nothing. We have the strength, but we can only stare blankly, unable to do anything."

   "Now in the entire industry, as far as I know, there are 4 companies developing horror games, and among them is Infinity Online Entertainment's own internal working group."

   "If we don't move quickly, what will we eat when others enter the market with products?"

  Yang Ying was helpless, glanced at Mr. An, pondered for a while and spoke with difficulty.

   "Mr. An, what you said is that I haven't done a good job in recruiting people. I will spare some time to finish this matter. But even so, 2 months is still not enough time."

"At the beginning, you said that "Blood Scientist" is a word-of-mouth game. It does not require good sales, but only quality. So our focus is on quality. But now the time is too fast, I am afraid that the quality will not be enough when the time comes The sales and word-of-mouth collapsed."

   After hearing the words, Mr. An shook his head.

   "So, you must not only guarantee the quality for me, but also complete the game for me within the specified time."

   "Huh?"

  Yang Ying was stunned, and the lead Cheng Zhumei and others beside him were also stunned, as if they heard something incredible.

   "Mr. An An. This, this"

   "What, is there a problem?"

  President An closed the laptop and looked directly at Yang Ying, making the latter open his mouth wide and speechless.

  Even what I wanted to say, I swallowed it.

  Boss An frowned, looked at a few people, and shook his head.

   “I don’t make games, and I don’t play these things. But at the end of the day, a game is a product.”

  “Since it is a product, it can meet the needs of some groups no matter how good or bad it is. Therefore, the target users of our products are also those who have needs, not everyone.”

   "Therefore, it is impossible for our products to be liked by everyone. But we can screen out the 'core users' we need from 'everyone' who can bring us word of mouth and benefits."

   "See what I mean?"

  Yang Ying and the others looked at each other again, dumbfounded.

  Mr. An continued to speak in a deep voice.

   "Although I don't know much about games, I can still give you a suggestion through marketing strategies."

"The game can't be finished, it doesn't matter. Shorten the process, compress the script, and release the finale in advance. Didn't you say that you can reach the 9th level? Then use the 10th level as the ending, and don't want the remaining two levels. "

"You have to understand that the essence of a game is a product for people to use. In this society, everyone is busy with a fast-paced life. Short and refined things are the mainstream in line with the current environment. Long-lasting things, In fragmented time, it will only drain patience and energy."

   "So I have always insisted on suggesting to the company's board of directors to transform mobile and web games, rather than these computer games that burn money and time."

   "You know many big companies, including foreign companies. In order to make the game go public on schedule, do you have to delete resources and shorten the process? Others can do it, why can't you?"

   "You have made the game for so long, what's the use if others can't finish it? Then you will say that the game is not good enough to make others unable to play."

   "It's better to take out your phone and play a simple and easy mobile game, or a web game that can be played automatically when you click on it."

"So, the company wants you to make short but refined high-quality computer games to seize the market. It's not the kind of game that takes care of players' feelings and caters to players' tastes. Shorten the process, end early, and recruit a group of people to polish the current game. Can something be done?"

  Yang Ying and the others were so stupid that they almost vomited three liters of blood.

   It turns out Mr. An is biased against stand-alone games!

  What he hopes is a 'consumable game' such as mobile games, which are fast-revenue and highly effective!

   No wonder... No wonder the company recently purchased the right to adapt the hottest animation in Dongying Kingdom.

   It turned out that it was going to be a hit in the mobile game market!

  "Mr. An An. If the process is shortened, there will be obvious gaps in the game plot, and the player will feel that the end is very abrupt"

  When Mr. An heard this, he waved his hands impatiently.

"Change the ending to an open one, and leave some suspense to let those who play the game know that the story is not over yet, and there will be a follow-up. If the game sells well, then make a sequel to improve the plot. If it doesn't sell well , this IP will be put aside first, to develop new IP, or acquire IP.”

   "Mr. Yang, you have been in the company for so many years, do you still need me to teach you this kind of thing?"

"What the company values ​​is sales and profit means. It's not the comfortable experience of those people playing games! How much money can other people's experience bring you? Games are just products, and it's enough to sell them after they're done. Don't care about those people. Any thoughts on playing games?"

   "Indeed, in order to enter the horror game market, we need word-of-mouth from those who play games. But don't forget, the company itself has the qualifications and funds to seize the market. The reason for word-of-mouth is nothing more than to get a good start."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore. The game will be released in two months. During this period, I will hold a game conference and invite the media and partners from the game industry to come and participate. Then, I will also learn from Unlimited Online Entertainment They are doing a pre-sale preview to attract attention."

   "This game company doesn't care about the sales volume, but the word of mouth. We want to let those who play games know that we also have horror games that we can sell!"

   "I hope you can think more about the company."

   A long time ago, someone questioned Mr. An when he first appeared on the stage. Is there really such a high-level executive? I have to say, there are. In addition, this chapter borrows from KONAMI.

  

  

  (end of this chapter)