Wow——
You are really good at bragging.
Shen Miaomiao laughed secretly in her heart, laughing at Gu Sheng's wild imagination.
Our game.
First, they give players a beautifully packaged, underweight, unscrupulous merchandise, and then give them a free DLC with in-app purchases.
Just this one operation.
Don't even mention the players, I want to scold you.
This is simply using the reputation accumulated from one's previous works as a consumption voucher and squandering it at will.
By then, not only will this work collapse, but even future works will be implicated, with constant criticism and poor sales.
And me!
Shen Miaomiao!
You will grab huge wealth from it and become the super rich woman who hides behind the bad supernova and counts money crazily!
A better life is just around the corner!
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao's mood became even better, and she clapped her hands:
"Okay, now that the problem has been solved, can we play the game properly?"
"certainly!"
Having solved the problem that had been bothering him for a long time, Gu Sheng regained his confidence and picked up the controller:
"Start the fire and cook!"
Toot--
The food truck started moving again.
Soon, the sound of birdsong and flowers could be heard in the conference room:
"No lettuce! I've told you over 3,000 times that this burger doesn't come with lettuce, but you're just forcing it on me, right?"
"You son of a bitch! You definitely didn't say that! Besides, if you don't add lettuce, you'll throw the lettuce at my feet?"
"Next time I play games with you, I must bring a surveillance camera!"
"Hey, no need for that! I'll install surveillance cameras in the conference room tomorrow! They'll just record all your stubborn and cunning excuses!"
"You are being unreasonable, Shen Miaomiao!"
"You are being unreasonable, Gu Sheng!"
"Don't copy me!"
"Don't copy me!"
"You're learning again?"
"You're learning again?"
"Shen Miaomiao is a pig!"
"I'll kill you--you bastard!!!"
“…”
…
A few days later.
Binjiang Technology Building.
Golden Wind Conference Room.
Click.
As the door of the conference room was pushed open, the five core project managers who were already in the conference room looked back.
Gu Sheng and Shen Miaomiao walked in one after the other.
Later, Chief Secretary Chu Qingzhou also followed in with the meeting minutes book, and the three of them sat down.
Sitting in the first seat, Shen Miaomiao looked around the conference room and nodded: "We are all here, let's get started, Director Gu will introduce the situation first."
As she spoke , Shen Miaomiao looked towards Gu Sheng.
The two looked at each other, Gu Sheng nodded and said:
"Yesterday, Mr. Shen and I went to Zhongjing to attend the project mobilization meeting of Yiyou. I believe everyone knows about it."
"Now I will give you a brief introduction to the meeting."
"Yesterday's meeting was attended by three companies, namely us, Nuyan and Kol, the developers of three escort masterpieces,"
"The purpose of the meeting is to allow the three manufacturers to communicate with each other, understand each other, and take care of each other in the future,"
“Secondly, Yiyou also took this opportunity to show the delegates the development progress of Yiyou x2 and the full sensory assistance technology that has been basically completed and has passed the neural safety test.”
“It is no exaggeration to say that this is a technological explosion in the somatosensory cabin.”
Gu Sheng's tone was firm, without any intention of boasting.
He experienced this assistive technology firsthand yesterday.
Two words——
fear.
With the support of auxiliary technology, Yiyoux2 processes the details of the in-game environment rendering, making it truly indistinguishable from the real thing.
Let me give you a simple example.
The game is set up with one player sitting at a table writing.
Under the basic omni-sensory system, players can feel the temperature of paper, the touch of objects, and hear the swish of pencil writing.
However, after being enhanced with assistive technology, players can, in addition to the above, also feel the dust on the table, feel the friction between the pen tip and the paper, and the subtle feedback of the words printed on the paper.
This kind of microscopic level detail optimization gave Gu Sheng a great shock, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was creepy.
Because at that moment, he seemed to see the vague barrier between virtuality and reality being completely broken.
The door to the virtual world is completely opened.
A real second world is ready and waiting for pioneers to explore, expand territory and establish immortal achievements.
Gu Sheng regretted it immediately after the experience!
Damn it!
We shouldn't do Titanfall!
I should have mirrored it out!
Shooting, innovation, and experience are all reflected!
Careless!
Immediately, Gu Sheng secretly vowed that when the time was right, he would make a mirror with the protection of the game rating system.
Um……
However, it is definitely too late to change projects now, as Titanfall with millions of emotional points has already been exchanged.
Besides, it seems a bit too outrageous to serve people a butter while escorting a masterpiece.
Let’s put the mirror a little further back.
Thinking about it, Gu Sheng said:
"That was the basic situation of yesterday's meeting,"
"So I'm sure you all know why I called everyone here today."
"I have distributed the TTF project proposal to everyone yesterday. What do you think?"
good.
Just yesterday, after several edits and revisions, and adding more, Gu Sheng finally produced the project plan for "Titanfall".
The theme of today's meeting is the "Titanfall" project meeting.
After Gu Sheng finished speaking, several people looked at each other.
Finally, everyone turned their eyes back to Gu Sheng, and their expressions seemed a little hesitant.
Without a doubt!
Today, Gu Sheng’s position in the company is at its peak.
Whether it was defeating Guangyao with a tenfold cost gap in The Walking Dead, or fighting your way through PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in the Asian Mayhem to leave the Golden Crown and Scepter in China.
His brilliant achievements all demonstrate his core position.
Now, the entire project department follows Gu Sheng’s lead.
But it is obvious that people do have some objections to the TTF project.
However, because the big boss Shen Miaomiao was present, they were also afraid that what they said would have a bad impact on the director, so they were a little hesitant.
They all looked at Gu Sheng inquiringly, their meaning was clear: Can you tell me? Or should we talk about it in private?
Seeing everyone looking at him, Gu Sheng was shocked!
What the hell?
Why do I suddenly have a yellow robe on me?
I thought that this was just because little Nezha was willing to be a hands-off boss and didn't care about these things at all.
Otherwise, just this one look would be enough to make me very upset.
He waved his hands helplessly: "Talk, talk... just say whatever you want to say... aren't we here to report to Mr. Shen today..."
Oh - yes, yes, yes -
Everyone then woke up from their dream, and like sunflowers, they all turned their heads towards Shen Miaomiao.
After a moment's silence, Jiang Yun spoke first:
"Mr. Shen, I believe you have already read this project plan."
Jiang Yun's first sentence choked Shen Miaomiao.
Thinking back to the dozens of pages of business plan, Shen Miaomiao couldn't help but shudder and gave Jiang Yun an ambiguous and awkward smile.
I mean, I haven't watched it, but I feel like watching that stuff will cause hair loss.
Besides, I had already discussed this project with Lao Gu a long time ago.
The content of the game is not important, I just know that it will lose money.
"Uh...hmm."
Shen Miaomiao forced a twitch of her lips as a response, motioning Jiang Yun to continue.
"To be honest, I didn't expect our script this time to be so complicated,"
Jiang Yun nodded and continued:
"Of course, there is no doubt that a script of this magnitude will be of great benefit to the shaping of our game story,"
"After all, we are limited by cost, and our size is limited by cost,"
"If you want to win by surprise, you have to tell a good story within a limited time."
"but……"
Speaking of this.
Jiang Yun paused.
After weighing the pros and cons in his mind and looking at Gu Sheng again, he finally spoke:
"But the theme of mecha... to be honest, I'm not particularly optimistic about it."
Yo?!
Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao raised her eyebrows slightly.
There is an unexpected surprise?
Although she had discussed the escort project with Gu Sheng before, she knew that the project was very difficult and it would be hard to make a profit.
However, I did not learn about the specific game content of the project in detail, nor did I carefully read the plan that seemed to make my head buzz.
This time, Jiang Yun suddenly raised objections to the content of the game, which made Shen Miaomiao suddenly feel bright.
He became interested: "Manager Jiang, tell me in detail."
Jiang Yun tells the story——
He was not cowardly before the battle, nor was he exaggerating to disrupt the morale of the troops.
Because as far as the entire game market is concerned nowadays, the mecha game theme, both at home and abroad, is considered a niche among niches.
Moreover, its unpopularity is different from previous horror games.
Players don’t like horror games because they hate the homogenized Jumpscare routine, so Ghostphobia has a chance to make a comeback.
But players don’t buy into mecha games because this type of game is fundamentally bad and no one can do it well!
Although in theory, the act of driving a mecha just sounds exciting.
But in fact, after the manufacturers actually incorporated mecha into the game, they found that the actual gaming experience was quite different.
Because once you make a mecha, its destructive power must be very strong.
Otherwise, why would I drive a mecha?
Therefore, early mecha games basically made mechas into auxiliary props.
He is omnipotent, and whenever he goes on the field, he brings a storm of blood and gore, making him invincible.
But soon, problems arose - because the mecha was too powerful, it always crushed the enemy when facing it.
Ordinary people have no ability to fight back in front of mechas and can only be slaughtered.
The stimulation brought by the mecha will be like a stimulant. After taking effect for a short time, it will quickly disappear and the player's interest will be quickly lost.
If this continues, players will fall into invincible loneliness.
After all, crushing ants to death can only maintain a momentary sense of novelty and cannot bring lasting sense of accomplishment.
Without the challenge, there is no motivation, and driving a mecha becomes a routine and becomes increasingly boring.
Therefore, manufacturers who learned of this problem began to change their thinking.
Manufacturers began to create units that were equally powerful as mechas in single-player games, and even directly put mechas into battle in multiplayer battles.
But it didn't take long for the problem to reappear - everyone had skills to practice, everyone had a mecha to drive, and the mecha didn't seem so special anymore.
Just like you are a rapper, he is also a rapper, and everyone is a rapper, then skr would be boring.
In fact, mecha wars require frequent and continuous large-scale bombings to create visual impact.
Over time, this kind of battle experience brings players the same feeling as watching a Michael Bay director's edit collection that lasts for several hours.
My brain is buzzing with excitement, and the experience is even worse than traditional gun combat games.
"so,"
Jiang Yun spread his hands:
"Mecha games were just a flash in the pan concept at the beginning, but in terms of actual products and popularity, they have always been very embarrassing, and now, they are almost extinct."
Jiang Yun's words seemed to be the beginning of the curtain.
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Shan continued:
"Of course, what Brother Yun said about the lack of balance in mechas is only one aspect. In terms of game style and expression, mecha games have long since changed,"
"As for games, especially the art style of domestic games, everyone is very shy about the cold steel industrial texture and other cold styles,"
"Even after some manufacturers seized the players' XP and turned mechas into mechanics, the cold steel industrial style has become even more declining."
“Although I personally prefer this niche realistic mecha style…but the market is indeed not very optimistic.”
After Jiang Shan finished speaking, the usually taciturn Kai Yang also talked about the difficulty of making mecha games from a technical perspective, and said that although he was looking forward to this challenge, the market was not.
Everyone spoke at once, analyzing the current decline of mecha games and the unfriendly market from different angles.
In a word, it can be summed up in one sentence -
It is not a wise decision to make a mecha game a flagship masterpiece.
Even to say something unpleasant.
In today's gaming industry, making mecha games is like spending a lot of money to do a small thing, which is a thankless task.
The more Shen Miaomiao listened, the happier and more excited she became!
OK!
Very good!
The original project was already facing many difficulties due to three major challenges, but Lao Gu actually chose an embarrassing track.
If her system wasn't still there, Shen Miaomiao would even suspect that Lao Gu had already noticed that she had a system!
This operation!
It's like making a U-turn from the highway of making money and plunging into the road of losing money!
He nodded with satisfaction and looked around: "What else? Any other questions?"
This time, everyone did not hesitate and shook their heads in unison.
Yes.
There is no problem with the TTF project except that the subject matter is not suitable for today's game market.
However, it is precisely this single problem that is the most fatal!
No matter how good a game is, if there is no soil suitable for its survival, it will be useless and nothing can be said.
unless--
" Then use us as a starting point to create a market!"
Shen Miaomiao waved her little hand and spoke in a loud voice!
ah?!
As soon as these words came out!
There was an uproar in the conference room!
Everyone looked at Shen Miaomiao in astonishment, as if they couldn't believe their ears.
Seeing this, Shen Miaomiao smiled in her heart!
She finally understood.
Everyone’s comments just now were all of the “although, but” type!
Although Jiang Yun likes the plot structure of this game, he thinks it has no market.
Although Jiang Shan likes the art style of this game, she thinks it has no market.
Kailang liked the technical challenge of the game, but thought it had no market.
all in all!
People like this game, but as game developers, their likes are useless.
The market doesn't like it and doesn't support it.
Therefore, this is just a self-entertainment project to satisfy my own creative desire, and sales are bound to fail!
Shen Miaomiao almost wanted to stand up and salute Gu Sheng!
Respect! Director Gu!
King of ideas!
If you had come up with this idea earlier, our company would have become bigger and stronger long ago!
How could Shen Miaomiao miss such a good project!
“If there are no conditions, we will create them! If there is no market, we will create a market!”
Seeing everyone looking at her with shock, Shen Miaomiao knew that it was time to get excited!
"The fighting spirit that never retreats, the passion that is always sincere, and the pioneering spirit that never gives up!"
"Have you forgotten our golden spirit?"
"Now,"
"I ask you!"
“Do you want to make this game?”
Hearing Shen Miaomiao's question, several people turned their heads and exchanged glances with each other.
Jiang Yun wanted to do it.
Because he was impressed by the game's grand and tortuous story.
Jiang Shan wanted to do it.
Because she was fascinated by the cold steel and heavy machinery style depicted in the game.
Being cheerful is what you want to do.
Because the emergence of full-sensory assistance technology allows him to realize his long-cherished dream of driving a mecha!
As for Lu Bian and Dajiang, there is no doubt that they will always stand on the same front with Gu Sheng.
Everyone has high expectations for the artistic quality of this game.
They just felt that the game wouldn't be profitable for the company.
Seeing what everyone was thinking, Shen Miaomiao waved her hand with great enthusiasm:
“Do it if you like!”
"The world is always developing, and games are always improving,"
"If every game company is timid and stands still, how will this industry develop?"
"We are a cutting-edge game company. We have the most dazzling supernova designers and the most creative project department!"
"If there are no conditions, we can create them!"
“If there is no market, we are the market!”
"Now!"
"You are the elite who are expanding the territory, and what you represent is no longer the golden wind."
"It's the enterprising spirit of the entire Chinese and even the global game industry for game innovation."
"This is not a small step for us,"
“It’s a big step forward for the world’s gaming industry!”
"I declare—"
"Yiyoux2 Escort Masterpiece - Titanfall Project"
"From now on, the project is officially launched!!!"
That’s it!
The meeting room froze for a brief moment!
Following right on!
boom--!!!
Thunderous applause filled the conference room!
Everyone stand up!
Everyone was filled with excitement, even the younger members Kailang and Jiang Shan couldn't help but burst into tears!
Look!
This is our company, this is our team, and this is our president!
Young, enterprising, pioneering and innovative!
She never indulges in profits, nor does she dwell on past glory!
It seems that in her eyes, money is just an insignificant number, and only the journey forward courageously is the most exciting!
How lucky we are to be able to step into such a company!
How fortunate we are to be able to work under such a responsible and charismatic leader!
Mr. Shen is right!
If there are no conditions, we can create them. If there is no market, we will be the pioneers of the market.
No one can make a good mecha game?
We are here! Innovation is here!
Titanfall is coming! The market is here!
Project launched!
Let’s get started!