PS: The first draft, I haven't corrected any typos yet, you can read it later!

"The head of the plane, you are getting more and more picky now, and you are reluctant to book a box when you talk to me!" A white and chubby man with small eyes sat at the table next to Li Xuan.

Another person who sat down with the fat man had a neat airplane hairstyle, and his hair was shiny, and it was estimated that flies would fall down and die when they stood up, no wonder they were called airplane heads. I saw him squeeze out a bitter smile: "I'm poor and almost bankrupt now, how can you be as chic as Brother Chao." Remember that I only ask for soda, and you have to pay for the rest!"

"Do you think that if you call me Brother Chao now, I will forget the black history of insulting my figure and calling me 'Fat Chao' in the past! If you beg me to do something, you are embarrassed to ask me to drink five yuan of soda, can you pick a little more, just ask me to drink free ice water!" The fat man known as Brother Chao said angrily.

"This is your own words!" The man with the flower name of the airplane head immediately hit the snake and said with a smile, his real name is actually Gu Jinhong.

The waiter, who was waiting to order for the guests, quietly rolled his eyes as he listened to the conversation between the two. In the end, it was the fatter one who waved his hand and ordered two lattes from the waiter.

"You are really bold enough, you dare to invest your wife in it and start a company without making a sound! But your way of playing is not quite right, others are going to pull venture capital, how can anyone pay for it yourself!" The fat man's name is Wen Zichao, and he opened his mouth to complain to his friend.

"Do you think I don't want to spend other people's money? The problem is that no one wants to invest money in me! Programming outsourcing, there is no venture capital institution in Hong Kong that takes a fancy to my idea!" Gu Jinhong shook his head with a wry smile.

The conversation between the two did not deliberately keep their voices down. So Li Xuan, who was sitting not far away, could also vaguely hear the conversation between the two. At first, Li Xuan didn't care, but when he heard the words "programming outsourcing". His eyes lit up, and he began to be a little curious.

"You're a bit ahead of your time. Most of the game projects in Hong Kong can be written in a week or two by only two or three programmers, and there is no need to ask for help! And inviting outsiders is also easy to increase the risk of game content leakage, you must know that creativity is more expensive than anything else!" Wen Zichao seriously helped his friend analyze.

"That's why I have to ask Brother Chao for your help! In the whole of Hong Kong, only our Oriental Group may be willing to use outsourcing. It is said that Mr. Du has agreed to develop an epic new game, and the entire project team has as many as 100 people!

However, the internal treatment of your Oriental Games Company is too good, especially programmers like you, whose income is worth twice that of their counterparts in other companies! In a large game, many programming tasks are actually simple and boring repetitive labor. The ordinary programmers outside are completely competent, and there is no need to use you expensive programming elites to kill chickens!" Gu Jinhong said eloquently.

Li Xuan listened to it very interestingly. It seems that both men are employees of the Eastern Bloc. As the arcade business has reached the peak of glory and has begun to decline, Oriental Game Company has gradually shifted the focus of its next research and development to other hardware platforms, and the most promising is undoubtedly personal computers.

In the second half of last year, the Oriental Games Company launched a turn-based large-scale computer game with Western swords and sorcery as the background, and as a result, it has sold a total of 500,000 copies worldwide in the past year since its launch! You must know that the new game requires a high computer configuration, and only the latest ABC-5 can run.

In fact, the sales curve of game copies ported to computers from other arcade and FC home consoles of Oriental Games Company is also very good. Normally, the speed at which the game is sold. It will gradually slow down over time.

However, because the global computer ownership is in a period of rapid growth, the potential computer game user base is also growing. Films like Hong Kong Cubes, Tank Battles, Mario Bros., and The King of Fighters have been around for a long time, but they still sell a lot of copies of computer games every month.

Nowadays, the quality of original computer games is generally rough, but they are classic games that have been changed from other platforms such as arcades and home consoles. It occupies a large market share. But as computers get better and better, so does the amount of room they can play with their games.

It's like Oriental Games' previous test of the waters on the ABC-5 platform, a game with a Western magical background. In fact, it does not fully play the excellent performance of ABC-5, but the level of refinement of the graphics is not inferior to that of arcade games.

And this time, Oriental Games is ready to invest more resources. Develop a game that will set the bar for the highest level of PC gaming in the next three to five years. Let all computer gamers keep in mind the brand of Oriental Games.

Du Wenqiang, president of Oriental Game Company, also reported this new game project to Li Xuan. In order to expand its influence as much as possible, Oriental Games did not build a new game background this time, but bought the game adaptation rights of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit".

The Lord of the Rings trilogy has been hailed as one of the greatest magical epics of the 20th century in the West, and has countless fans in its own right. Therefore, Oriental Game Company deliberately selected "The Lord of the Rings" for the game adaptation this time, striving to create the greatest impact.

Of course, once the adaptation of such an epic work with wide influence fails, the blow to the Oriental Game Company will definitely be huge. Therefore, Oriental Game Company has mobilized a large number of elite soldiers and formed a luxury development team of more than 100 people.

This time, Oriental Games Company strives to display the Middle-earth continent that can only exist in the reader's fantasy as perfectly and shockingly as possible in the computer screen, so the programming project of the game must be extremely huge.

Li Xuan couldn't help but squint at the young man at the next table, his vision was obviously good. Because only such a large project will have the premise basis of project outsourcing. If it's just a small game that can be developed by a few people, why bother complicating things in one fell swoop.

If it is in the Hereafter. Project outsourcing is a common occurrence in the IT industry. For example, India was the world's largest supplier of software outsourcing. Lots of software development work in Silicon Valley. They were all subcontracted to programmers in India.

In China, IT outsourcing is also a big industry. Many of the countless small companies in various software industrial parks across the country survive by taking over jobs from large companies. Many game companies are even only responsible for the planning of game copy, and the entire game software development process is outsourced to other companies.

However, this outsourcing model in the IT industry has only begun to emerge slowly since the 90s, and then gradually developed into a large-scale industry with a perfect division of labor. Because in the early days of the computer age, most of the software was relatively simple. And only when the software becomes more and more complex, and the labor cost becomes higher and higher in the total development cost, IT migrant workers in major human resources countries such as India and China. will gradually show their cheap advantage.

"Do you think Mr. Du will take the risk of leaking secrets and let outsiders join this key project?"

"The only thing I can do is to help you connect with my boss, who is one of the chief architects responsible for the development of new game technology. If you can convince him, he will be qualified to help you get to the top of the company!"

"Brother Chao, thank you, I remember your affection!" Gu Jinhong said with some emotion. He also knew that things were difficult.

"Among the first batch of people from our IT college, your temper is the most in line with my taste, don't be so hypocritical! Speaking of which, we have a good opportunity, but there was a serious shortage of people in the group at the beginning. Hire now with our gaming company. The minimum requirement is also a master's degree, and only one or two graduates of the IT School have been recruited in the last few years!" Wen Zichao said with some embarrassment.

Neither he nor Gu Jinhong majored in computer programming. And they are all halfway monks. Wen Zichao is a graduate of Zhongzhong University majoring in high school, while Gu Jinhong is even better. Originally, he was a top student in the Department of Literature of the University of Hong Kong, and he had nothing to do with computer science at all.

Both were students of the first intensive course of the Oriental Institute of IT. At that time, Dongfang Company was faced with a serious shortage of professional talents. In cooperation with CUHK, HKU and Polytechnic, the Oriental Institute of IT was established, a private professional software programming training institution. Because of their excellent grades, they were admitted to Oriental Group after graduating from Oriental IT students.

Wen Zichao joined Dongfang Game Company at that time, while Gu Jinhong joined Dongfang Software Company. Later, after Dongfang Software Company was split, Gu Jinhong was divided into Dongfang System Software Company. Although the two work in different companies, the friendship they formed in the IT School has not faded.

"I told you a long time ago that office politics is prevalent in large corporations, and you have to be careful to live long. You just didn't believe me, and it turned out that someone was really tricked and designed!" Wen Zichao began to count his friends again.

"You also know that I have a super sense of justice, who knew that Zhu Renlin's villain was so ruthless, and before I could report it to the company's supervision department about his eating and drinking, he played tricks and fired me!" Gu Jinhong said with some indignation.

"The company's confidentiality regulations strictly prohibit employees from copying code programs and other materials and taking them out of the company, and your quarterly confidential study meeting is in vain?

Wen Zichao continued solemnly, "And with this stain, in fact, it will have a very bad impact on your current plan! Our Oriental Game Company's requirements for the confidentiality system are as perverted as your company, if I let my boss know that you were fired for violating the confidentiality regulations, he will probably sentence you to death directly!"

Gu Jinhong's face changed, and he finally showed a very depressed expression. He had a very bad habit when he used to work at Dongfang System Software, that is, he often liked to take the work home to complete. However, this situation has always been discouraged within the Eastern Bloc, especially if it involves bringing home important confidential technical information, and if it is discovered, it will be directly dismissed.

Gu Jinhong is the engineer responsible for the development of the East-DOS operating system in Dongfang System Software Company, which is one of the most classified software projects in the company. So when someone reported him for violating the company's secrecy rules, he was quickly found and fired.

"Fortunately, I didn't let Zhu Renlin's scumbag get better, the company seems to be ready to file a lawsuit against him for leaking trade secrets!" Gu Jinhong mentioned this person who framed him, and finally arrived a little more comfortable.

The Zhu Renlin in Gu Jinhong's mouth was his former boss, and Gu Jinhong accidentally discovered the technical information that the other party seemed to be suspected of betraying. So he began to quietly pay attention to the other party's every move, but before he could report it to the Supervision Department within the Eastern Group, the vigilant Zhu Renlin noticed Gu Jinhong's abnormality, so he preemptively cleared him out of the company.

But Zhu Renlin still couldn't get a bargain, and under Gu Jinhong's counter-report, his fate was obviously even more miserable. Although Gu Jinhong made meritorious contributions to the report of Zhu Renlin, he did violate the relevant confidentiality regulations within the Oriental Group. So the company only compensated him with a bonus and did not reinstate his job position.

"Forget it, if it really doesn't work, I can only find another way! There was a small company before, and I wanted me to develop an inventory management software for them! But this is only a small company with only twenty or thirty people, I used to look down on this kind of small list, and now it seems that I can only support myself first!" Gu Jinhong patted his head and said a little frustratedly.

After he was forced to resign from Dongfang Apps, he thought of starting his own business. The great glory of the Eastern Group has made everyone in the group a little more arrogant. Unless he is poached by other companies at a high price, it is a shame to work in other companies after working in Oriental Group like Gu Jinhong.

Because of the same position, the treatment given by the Oriental Group is almost twice that of other companies in Hong Kong, so the Oriental Group has gathered almost the top industry talents in Hong Kong. Those who have been lost from the Eastern Group generally either go to other companies to work in middle and senior positions, or choose to start their own businesses. And Gu Jinhong decisively chose the second option, and set up a small software company by himself! (To be continued......