Chapter 199: Competition and Contradictions
Three days after the 1941 mission was released, two contenders claimed it at the end of the deadline. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Both of them are high-ranking department bosses in the company.
Originally, these tasks randomly released on the intranet were to encourage the creativity of some young people in the company, but they didn't make the bigwigs think about making extra money.
This made Lin Qi a little crying and laughing: "Lao Liu, Lao Zhao, you two are the heads of the department, why are you applying for such a small project?
Liu Zhendong is the person in charge of the company's handheld entertainment studio, and the entire company's handheld projects are under his control. The company's handheld terminals and game sales exceed 300 million US dollars every month, and he is lying in the credit book, and he can also rely on a series of project dividends to distribute 100 million yuan every year.
Zhao Ruofei is not simple, the general manager of the arcade business group, the company's arcade sales exceeded 1 million units last year, and in the field of arcade market, it has become the absolute hegemon. At the same time, last year, the overall profit of arcade machines ranked first among all departments, and even if the most handheld machines were sold, the net profit was not as good as that of the arcade business.
"Boss, originally I wouldn't have received the task, but, arcade research and development is the business of our arcade business group, what's the matter with his old Liu!" Zhao Ruofei didn't respect Liu Zhendong at all and said, "Due to the company's mechanism, our arcade project team, at present, many little brothers are not qualified to receive tasks for the time being, as the leader, of course I want to help them win the task, I only put up a name, and do not interfere with their internal dividends!"
"Fart!" Liu Zhendong pointed at Zhao Ruofei's nose and said, "What are you arcade machine, I am in charge! Since I joined the company, I only know that the capable are always on the top and the mediocre are down." If you are able to make money for the company and manage your department, you can break the boundaries of the rules and receive tasks. Are you trying to rebel against such a small gang?"
"The capable are up and the mediocre are down, right? Our arcade machine earns more than you and you, who is capable and who is mediocre, it is clear at a glance!" Zhao Ruofei said sarcastically.
Lin Qi felt very surprised, he usually didn't pay attention to the friction within the company, and now he felt that Liu Zhendong and Zhao Ruofei seemed to have a deep contradiction.
Of course, Lin Qi doesn't care about the contradictions between the company's internal team and employees, in fact, a group of harmony, no sense of competition, but not easy to stimulate internal morale.
"What's the noise?" Lin Qi frowned and said, "You guys are noisy, you have the ability to come up with a better game sample than the other party!
"That's right! Speak with technology!" Zhao Ruofei said proudly, "Those people in the handheld business department, those small programs developed." It's not necessarily suitable for developing a large game program like an arcade machine......"
Liu Zhendong sneered: "I'll see if you have that ability!"
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A week later.
The two department heads as representatives, each took out the game samples made by the younger brother below.
Zhao Ruofei took out a program sample of 10MB, which is already a large 10MB program in this era. In other words, a few years ago, it could be directly taken out and listed.
However, the arcade project of the new venture electronics company has always been stingy with stacking hardware to produce higher performance and larger programs. Therefore, there are very few new games released by the company that are less than 100MB.
For example, last year's launch of "Breaking the Sky", "God List" and other large-scale role-playing arcade games, the price is sky-high, the program is also up to more than 200MB, the internal is stored by mechanical hard disk. Of course, the program has led to higher performance in the game, and to date, Breaking the Sky has sold more than 300,000 units, breaking the all-time sales record in the arcade industry.
In terms of handheld shipments, hundreds of millions of units are sold a year, but after all, it is a route of small profits and quick turnover, so the total profit is even worse than that of the arcade. At the same time, the hardware of handheld computers is also far inferior to platforms such as consoles and arcades. The game capacity is calculated in KB, and 1MB is already a very large game program.
It is precisely because of this that there is a chain of technological discrimination within the company, and the arcade game department looks down on consoles and handhelds, and the console department looks down on handhelds and handhelds...... I'm sorry, but I can't find anyone to despise.
However, the size of the program for arcade, console, and handheld is not related to the level of the developer. There are certainly top-notch technicians in the handheld department, and at the same time, there are certainly quite a few low-level technicians in the console and arcade departments.
A sample taken out by Zhao Ruofei was running on the testing machine platform, Lin Qi held the joystick and buttons, moving up and down, left and right, and the feel was okay. The button corresponds to shooting.
Although it was only a few days to make, it was a huge improvement over Tank Wars, which took a few months to develop. At the same time, it looks much taller than the impression of "Space Invaders".
Of course, it still feels a little worse than those products of Caijing Company in the 90s. But it's not easy anymore, after all, it's only the 80s, isn't it?
Caijing Company dominated the barrage shooter market in the 90s, and the genre was invincible all over the world, and it was not until later that the arcade market was eliminated by the times, and Caijing Company declined because of the shrinking market. However, before the arcade completely lost the market, Caijing made a lot of money.
"It's not easy to make a sample program so quickly. Lin Qi nodded and praised Zhao Ruofei's products. If there was no better alternative, Lin Qi decided to hand over the task to Zhao Ruofei to claim it.
Zhao Ruofei couldn't help but feel a little proud, and squinted at Liu Zhendong.
Liu Zhendong was not in a hurry, took out a game program, and said: "This program was made by an intern employee of our team, originally, mine would not interfere in the arcade business, but I couldn't bear to let this little brother be buried, so I decided to be a good person and help him submit the game." ”
Lin Qi couldn't help but be surprised, after Zhao Ruofei had already taken out a good sample, and with a little polishing, it should be able to surpass "1942", Liu Zhendong actually did not waver in the slightest, could it be said that his sample is better.
Soon, the staff present installed the game provided by Liu Zhendong on the experimental platform.
After powering it on.
Lin Qi casually pressed and shot.
Zhao Ruofei's eyes couldn't help shrinking......
The animation effect of the shooting is more gorgeous than the regular effect of Zhao Ruofei's team.
Next, the demonstration will be reinforced, different bullets will be replaced, a barrage effect will be fired, and the effect of blowing up enemy planes will be even more gorgeous!
"Impossible...... You guys don't have experience in this area, how can you do so well?" Zhao Ruofei muttered to himself.
"The boss's creativity is good, and the most important thing is imagination, daring to make more gorgeous effects. Of course, don't underestimate the technology of the young people in our department. You guys have good hardware, and you're wasting performance. In our handheld department, every byte must not be wasted, and it must be constantly streamlined to make the cassette fit. Liu Zhendong began to be proud.
Lin Qi interrupted his bragging and asked, "You didn't do it, did you?"
"Uh......" Liu Zhendong looked smug and frozen, and only confessed after a while, he was a newcomer in his department who had just passed the probationary period, and after reading this idea, he was very interested, so he begged Liu Zhendong to help apply.
Lin Qi nodded and asked, "Did it happen single-handedly?"
"Yes!" Liu Zhendong said, "That kid didn't even understand Chinese when he first came, and now after a few months, his Cantonese and Chinese skills are good." The knowledge of software and hardware is ...... very quickly."
Soon Lin Qi knew that this person's name was Mark Serney, the god of the future game industry, with a good talent for language, both software and hardware, management, investment and mining talents, and several brushes, which can be called an all-round talent.
It's no wonder......
Marc Serney is now less than twenty years old, and although he is certainly not as good in knowledge and experience as he was later, he is the period of learning and imagination. can make an effect comparable to "1945", and it did not surprise Lin Qi.
"This project, Lao Liu gave it to you. Lin Qi said, "However, you can just put on a name......
"Of course, I'm just trying to help talented young people get opportunities!" Liu Zhendong said, "The project dividends are shared internally by the young people." ”
Such old-fashioned words made Lin Qi laugh when he heard it. However, compared with Liu Zhendong, who is in his 30s, a young man under the age of 20 like Mark Cerney is indeed a young man.
Like other high-tech industries, the gaming industry needs to be competitive for the long term. It is not about getting older and more popular, but about constantly tapping the potential of young people and creating opportunities for them.
At present, new startups are good in terms of mechanism. For example, Lin Qi constantly throws out some tasks within the company, and in addition to using these ideas to make money, the key is to see if there are any talents buried in the company.