Sichuan, Shu City.

Monday, October 21.

In Shudu in mid to late October, the climate should be regarded as the most comfortable time of the year.

There is neither the sweltering heat of the sauna in summer nor the cold and damp of winter......

As for spring?

Hehe, people who have lived in Shudu know that spring is basically not felt in this city.

In a building in Area B of Tianfu Software Park in the south of Shudu City, although it was only half past eight in the morning, everyone from the project manager Li Chao to the most ordinary game tester sat at their workstations one by one.

Although most of them still have dark circles under their eyes and unkempt hair brought about by staying up late and working overtime, everyone's face is full of excitement that cannot be concealed......

…… Of course, in addition to excitement, there is also a little apprehension and uneasiness.

In two hours, at half past ten in the morning, it will be time for the official launch of "Honor of Kings" in this time and space to face all players.

Calculating the time, it has been a full year since Li Mo bought Wolong Studio from Penguin Games last year and renamed it Molong Studio.

In the past year, Molong Studio has been ranked among the top three in the game development circle of the entire Shu City.

Customization of work plans;

The work intensity is self-determined;

As long as it is a reasonable request, Li Mo will meet it......

The most important thing is that this kind of 'sheep-herding' management method has lasted for a whole year, and Molong Studio has not had a single delay in the version node.

This is about to become an unsolved mystery in the game development circle of Shu City.

How did those people know that the biggest reason why Li Mo did not stop this seemingly 'ridiculous' operation method was that he was different from all the bosses in this time and space.

While others are still trying to figure out the tastes of gamers in the vast amount of data and reports, Li Mo only needs to find out the parts that are the same or similar to his own memories in his previous life in the version updates again and again, and then ask the R&D team of Molong Studio to modify them towards the set goal.

This is like a DOTA duel, when others are still trying to distinguish the way forward in the fog on the map, Li Mo has already used the GM tool to directly open the full map display......

How else to play this TM?

……

After checking all the relevant configuration submission records again, Liu Jie, the planning director of "Honor of Kings", let out a long breath, stood up and stretched, and made an 'OK' gesture in the direction of Lu You, the head of the programming department, and then sat quietly at his workstation, closed his eyes and recuperated.

"Puspus, Lao Liu?"

It's a pity that before Liu Jie'an could rest quietly for five minutes, Sui Xing, who was sitting opposite him, finally saw that he was idle and immediately greeted him.

With a long sigh, Liu Jie reluctantly opened his eyes that were red because of staying up late, and responded with a helpless face: "Sister, are you reasonable, everyone in our planning department stayed up all night last night, and I slept for two hours, and now I finally have some time, can't you let me squint for a while?"

As a member of the R&D team, the art module usually does not need to work overtime at such times, so Sui Xing and her friends, although they spontaneously arrived early today, did not experience the pain of staying up late.

"Uh——, sorry, sorry. Sui Xing knew that he was at a loss, so he casually said sorry, and quickly made a long story short, "What do you think of the revenue of this game that we make?

"Big sister, I'm a game planner, not a fortune teller, how can I be 100% accurate about this kind of thing?" Liu Jie rolled his eyes helplessly, then yawned loudly, wiped his tears and continued: "I think at least the company can return to its capital, at least make a ...... money"

"Well, at least you have to be able to make money," after listening to Liu Jie's words, Sui Xing nodded and said in a low voice: "Although Mr. Li is young, he is absolutely benevolent to the company and our team, if this wave fails to meet expectations......

"Big sister, when did you start to learn that crow's mouth?" Liu Jie pursed his lips, "What does it mean to fail to meet expectations? Mr. Li gave us all the support he could, we must meet expectations, and we can only meet expectations!"

"Mmmm, you're right!" Sui Xing realized that he was patronizing and worried, and he actually started talking nonsense, so he quickly changed the topic, "By the way, Lao Liu, do you remember the beautiful woman who joined our team not long ago? I heard that she also came out of the penguin game." ”

"Her name is Wang Yiwen, and she used to be in charge of project operation negotiations at Penguin Games," Liu Jie said mysteriously: "I heard that when Mr. Li poached her, she was almost squeezed out of the negotiation team to the other side of the Pacific Ocean......

"Hehe, Mr. Li's selection criteria are really ...... Is...... It's hard to put into words. ”

After laughing dryly, Sui Xing really couldn't find the adjectives to describe this matter......

…………

To be honest, although Li Mo is a time-traveler who came with memories of his previous life, most of his memories are about filmmaking, and for things like "Dota Legend" and "Glory of Kings", which have little to do with his profession, he is already thankful that he can remember what the finished game looks like.

The reason why he asked someone from the negotiation team to make a cameo appearance in headhunting is actually very simple - according to the news received by the people of Molong Studio, Wang Yiwen is the only one in the Penguin Games negotiation team who suggested that the first signing time of "Honor of Kings" be revised to three years, and the platform share should be increased to 40%.

Thankfully, when Penguin Games rated the future value of Honor of Kings, most of the review team only gave it a B+ rating.

This kind of evaluation in the rating criteria of Penguin Games means that in a certain situation, there is a possibility of being accepted by the market, but relatively speaking, the audience is not too large.

(PS: The rating standard exists in the mobile game industry, but it is not this interpretation, and it has been modified here for the convenience of non-professional readers, so please do not delve into it, thank you.) ）

The argument in favor of this assessment is simple: joysticks and buttons on a landscape phone screen are likely to prevent the player from observing the actions of the characters on the screen, which can affect the player experience.

To be sure, this conclusion isn't problematic at all in an era when smartphone screens aren't significantly enlarged and Apple's classic 4.7-inch screen is all the rage.

But the problem is that since 2014, the amplification of smartphone screens has become a widespread trend among major mobile phone manufacturers, and this trend has even forced Apple to abandon its own 4.7-inch screen and follow the trend to launch large-screen mobile phones of 5.5 inches and above......

Although I don't know how Wang Yiwen made the suggestion of extending the signing time and increasing the platform's share, in line with the principle of preferring to kill mistakes and not letting go, Li Mo still decided to recruit Wang Yiwen as the operation manager of the "Glory of Kings" project.

After Wang Yiwen took office, she did not live up to Li Mo's attention, she not only quickly integrated into the role, made up for the shortcomings of project manager Li Chao in market grasp, but also put forward her own opinions and propositions on the online time.

I don't know if it's deliberate, but also on October 21, another acquaintance of Li Mo, a card game led by Wang Xinwen, the former president of Lilith Technology, also chose to go online on this day.

The difference between the two games is only half an hour......