Chapter 338: The development of mobile games is blocked
Blair looked at Tori Black, who was blushing and elated, and looked at the boss who had been smiling with a questioning expression, only to see that the boss shook his head, spread his hands, and looked as if it was not me, and looked at Tory Blake again It became a little different. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Yes, it's really good to think of these suggestions, Tori, if you have any good suggestions after playing the game in the future, you can tell me directly, I won't skimp on rewards. Andy smiled and encouraged Tori, who was fanning Pu with long eyelashes.
"Yes, boss, I'll try. The little assistant said excitedly with a smile on his face.
"Hehe,Miss Black is really surprising.,At first I thought it was the boss who showed you the planning documents.,I didn't expect you to be able to think of these points just by playing the game.,Why don't you come to our company as an experience officer.,I think it will help the upgraded version of the game.。。。 ”
"No... No, I can't, I'm just playing around, I feel too stupid to pass the level, so I will think of ways to cheat... The assistant hurriedly shook his hand and explained a little embarrassed.
"Hehe... ”
Andy watched speechlessly as Blake teased the little assistant, for Tori, he felt an unexpected surprise, whether it was because he was lazy or wanted to be tricky, being able to come up with these suggestions showed that she was a person who likes to use her brain, and her imagination was also good, if she could really come up with some ideas for building xing in the future, she could be qualified for the position of experience officer, but that would be for later.
The car soon arrived outside the building of Mockingjao Games, and Andy got out of the car and led the group straight to the company's conference room, where the employees all looked at him with adoring eyes and greeted him. Andy also nodded his head.
"Everyone's in good spirits. Andy said with a smile to Blair beside him.
"Of course, the latest third-party agency evaluation report has come out, and the valuation of our company has doubled, and everyone is very excited, and you admire the boss even more. Blair wasted no time in making a small slap.
Andy couldn't help but shake his head and smile, "It's inseparable from your efforts... ”
Striding into the well-staffed conference room, everyone stood up to greet Andy.
Andy nodded with a smile on his face, walked to the top of the conference table and stood still, stretched out his hand and pressed down, and said lightly, "Everyone sit down." ”
"Seeing that there are some new faces, we are a new company, but also a fast-growing company, we are very hungry for talent, I think you can sit here now, your ability is at least recognized by the human resources department, in the future work, I hope you will not let me down." Welcome all of you to join us and witness the growth of a great company. ”
As soon as Andy's words ended, there was applause in the conference room. Whether it is an old employee or a new employee, the boss said that the great company did not feel the slightest awkwardness, you must know that this time last year, the predecessor of this company was facing bankruptcy, and after the boss bought it, through 8 months of hard work, the company's asset valuation has reached 600 million US dollars, which has been called a miracle by many media.
If there are no accidents along the way, and the follow-up products are still excellent, it is only a matter of time before it becomes great, and its growth rate is really amazing.
"The reason why I'm holding this meeting today is that I now have two game ideas, and I want to make them as soon as possible. As soon as Andy's words fell, he felt the atmosphere in the conference room condense, except for Toby's group, who was still tackling "Under the Legend", everyone else looked at the boss intently.
The success of Andy's previous three game ideas has convinced the company of the boss's talent, and looking at the two development teams of "Zombie" and "Minecraft", even if the share is small, the members of these two development teams have gained a lot, after all, the two games are selling so well.
Who doesn't want to make more money, the boss's new game idea naturally makes everyone excited.
As for developing two new games at the same time, no one thinks about the worry of burning money, and his own boss is the youngest billionaire, not bad for money.
In addition, the sales of the two games "Zombie" and "Minecraft" are getting better and better under the continuous advertising, and they are almost becoming money printing machines. Even the game "Happy Farm" brings more than a million dollars to the company every month, and as the number of Facebook users increases, its revenue will only increase.
To be honest, the location of Mockingbird Games is still some distance from Silicon Valley, but after the deliberate disclosure of the company's earnings this year, it immediately made it a very high-profile company, and the media rushed to report, well, there is also some suspicion of hype.
At least Mockingjay Games' reputation is beginning to be known, though.
"I'll start with the first game plan, some time ago, Blair told me that the company's 3D game department has perfected the game engine, and at that time I was thinking about designing a 3D game, after all, the home console game market in North America is very large, and we can't help but eat this piece of cake, so we have this 3D game plan for "Demon's Souls". ”
Then Andy motioned for the curtains and lights to be closed, and began to show some sketches in his hand to the public with a projector, and the main line of the story was also roughly stated, and the specific content was to discuss and study with the people in the 3D game development department.
The people in the conference room, especially the people in the 3D game development department, looked at the sketches, they were very excited, since being acquired and reorganized, they are improving the game engine at the same time, but also worried about their future, after all, the new company is a company that produces computer games, and the games they mainly developed before are console games, and the uncertainty of the future still makes the 3D game department a little nervous.
Now, looking at the sketches that are not very pretty, but they are so cute in their eyes, the little worry in their hearts has also disappeared.
The supervisors and engineers of the 3D game department, programmers, listening to the boss's game introduction, one by one from excitement to looking at each other, they are all veterans, very clear that if according to the boss's game settings, the players will definitely be abused to death, everyone looks at the boss's handsome face with a smile, under the projector, it seems that the shadow behind him has become a big demon with a cruel smile, and the players are holding the players in their hands and playing with them at will...
"Okay, that's the general content of the console game, and then it's the second game to prepare, so I'll give you a clear idea before that. Andy raised his hand and motioned for the staff to turn on the lights, and he casually turned off the projector, put his arms around his chest on the conference table, and looked around the conference room for a week, then continued.
"Maybe everyone is a little curious about the new colleagues who have joined recently, and the new people will inevitably be a little apprehensive, after all, this is a game company, why are you hiring some mobile programmers?
Now I'm going to tell you why, some time ago in San Francisco, Jobs released the crazy mobile phone, everyone should know, you should also have seen in the newspaper that I am optimistic about the future of smartphones, so, my second game project, is based on the touch screen of Apple's crazy mobile phone and Apple's iOS mobile operating system and designed a mobile game - "Fruit Swordsman". ”
Andy's words made everyone in the conference room frown slightly, after all, the previous mobile games were really not looked at by these people who made computer games and console games, and the most important thing was that it was profitable, which was really not good.
In particular, the group of mobile game programmers is not large, and they have basically changed careers to become programmers of online games, otherwise they would not have let a "Snake" dominate the mobile game market for many years.
In fact, there are still a lot of games in the mobile game market, but because of the resolution, such as racing or something, there are still a lot of ported games like Super Mario, however, the market for mobile games is basically occupied by handhelds, and PSP handhelds are the current trend.
Now that the boss is saying that he wants to make a mobile game, don't you know the popularity of the PSP handheld? Okay, Apple's crazy mobile phone is good, and it will be able to occupy a place in the market when the time comes, but how to promote and sell the mobile game produced? What platform to sell on? These are all things that need to be considered.
Someone else is definitely going to say it, of course, on Apple's app store!
Don't be funny, Apple's app store won't go live until July 2008.
Hey, this has to make Andy complain about one thing, not only Nokia and Microsoft look down on the iPhone, but even Apple itself looks down on the iPhone. The reason why Apple developed the iPhone was simply because of the success of the iPod.
To be honest, Apple's idea is really simple, just to consolidate the territory of the iPod Walkman, and by the way, to share a piece of chicken leg in front of the two big brothers Microsoft and Nokia. Before Apple launched the App Store in July 2008, there was no software or game running on the iPhone.
Andy looked at the conference room in a strange atmosphere, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he knew that his mobile game plan was resisted by everyone, especially some old employees, who came all the way down from the brink of bankruptcy, and they were even more nervous.
"Boss, are you thinking about this matter, after all, we haven't made a mobile game... ”
Andy looked at Blair, the executive officer who kept talking to himself in Balabala, and clearly saw that the people around him nodded in agreement.
Resistance, Andy encountered resistance for the first time, not because his subordinates wanted to rebel, but because their vision was limited, of course, more responsible for the boss's wealth, once it failed, the money invested was basically equivalent to a waste. As a subordinate, you will naturally do your best to prevent your boss from making bad decisions.