Chapter 55: The Beginning of the Collapse
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In the eyes of gaming professionals, it's more about the concept than the details, so even if all the scenes in the game are the same, and all the NPCs look exactly the same, it's not a big deal, because that's not where their focus is. In the eyes of ordinary gamers, the detailed performance of the game will have a more intuitive impact on them, and the feedback of these players will affect the confidence of investors in this game.
On the other hand, the art department is a relatively detached group in the game development team, and I don't know if it's because of the nature of the work, with a little artist's romance and ease, the art department usually doesn't work overtime. That's right, planning and programming overtime should be the order of the day in the game development industry, but it's rare to make it mandatory for the art department to work overtime, and the art department is more of an administrative department than a R&D department in this regard, at least in the Holy Grail studio.
Regarding this point, Liu Kewei and Cao System and others once told a joke that is widely circulated in the industry to the fat man, saying that when a planner finds a girlfriend, the artist has two more ex-girlfriends, and at the moment the programmer is still working overtime in the company to type code.
In addition to the ridicule of the hard-working programmers and the self-deprecation of the planning, isn't the rest all a deep envy, jealousy and hatred for the leisurely life of the art department?
Although the fat man privately does not agree with the professional standards of the art department of the Holy Grail Studio, sadly his evaluation is meaningless, no matter what his position, he must be based on reality, solve all kinds of doubts about his needs table in the art department, and propose changes to the original art submitted by the art department, until every line of text description on the requirements table is transformed into an art resource that can be used in the game program.
This process, according to Liu Kewei's words, is called "execution", including the process of making the program realize the planning document. As a game planner, Guanhui's "fantasy" is worthless, and only when the "fantasy" is implemented into the game program to be realized, is the value of qualified game planning.
More than two weeks have passed since the first time I went to play football until today. The fat man gradually adapted to the increased amount of exercise, his body shape has obviously improved, and his belly still exists, but it is no longer much of an eyesore.
In Liu Kewei's words, "You can finally see your toes when you stand upright!"
And Wakasakura's way of encouragement was, "Uncle Duan, I found that you are getting handsome day by day!"
In the past two weeks, most of the time and energy spent on the art department, in addition to expanding the mission content in the game to level 60 planned in the alpha version.
On this day, when he returned to the planning department from the art department, he instinctively felt that the atmosphere was a little abnormal, Xu Zhuce sat in his position with a blushing face, and the other colleagues deliberately made a look of focusing on their work.
The fat man tiptoed back to his computer desk and threw a questioning look at Liu Kewei beside him.
Liu Kewei looked at him, quietly picked up the cigarette case and lighter on his desktop, and the two slipped away to the reception room one after the other.
"What's the situation? The atmosphere in the planning department seems to be very solemn?" the fat man lit a cigarette and asked curiously, "I communicated with the original art team in the art department for almost an hour, what happened during this period?"
Liu Kewei looked a little thoughtful, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Just now, Lao Cao and Sophie were talking about planning documents in the conference room, and they may have been delayed for a long time. ”
In fact, the actual situation is not as frivolous as Liu Kewei said, at that time, Xu Zhuce reprimanded Cao System with a strong voice, saying that he did not focus on his work, was too distracted, and often occupied the conference room to bring bad influence to other departments, and asked him to only talk about work with other colleagues in the planning department without a special reason in the future.
Liu Kewei didn't say anything explicitly, and the fat man could guess that Xu Zhuce had ideas about Sophie, which was no secret in the planning department, but he didn't expect the relationship between Cao System and Sophie to be exposed so quickly.
"Xu Zhuce can see it?" asked the fat man concisely.
Liu Kewei nodded, on one side is the top boss, on the other side is a long-time colleague, his position is really not good to say much, so he can only try to be silent.
Normally, Cao Zheng has never been particularly intimate with Sophie in front of Xu Zhuce, after all, he is not a fool, and there is no need to show affection in front of his boss and rival. It's just that when Xu Zhuce is not in the planning department, they occasionally don't know how to restrain themselves......
The fat man thought for a while, and asked tentatively, "Is it that any of the new executive planners came to Xu Zhuce's side to talk more?"
"Who knows, if no one knows, unless he does. Liu Kewei replied upsetly, the consequences of this kind of jealousy can be big or small, it all depends on the measurement of Xu Zhuce. Judging from Xu Zhuce's performance just now, if you want to say that he will ignore it with great grace, it will definitely not be, I don't know what step he will take.
Fortunately, it was Lao Cao and not the dead fat man in front of him, otherwise...... Liu Kewei suddenly had such a strange thought, he rubbed his eyes, and forced himself to put his cranky thoughts behind. Xu's attitude has been very clear, and now it depends on how Cao System and Sophie will face it.
"Can't you do our project with peace of mind, one or two like to do so much!" Liu Kewei twisted the cigarette butt in the ashtray and complained angrily.
As for whether he is talking about Cao Zheng or Sophie, or the guy who may exist to make small reports, or even Xu Zhuce himself, this is unknown.
It's just that at this time, neither the fat man nor Liu Kewei thought that the response chosen by Cao System and Sophie would be so fierce and tough......
After returning to the planning department, the atmosphere remained unchanged, and in a solemn and sparse environment, it was almost time to get off work, and Cao System suddenly sent a message to everyone in RTX's planning group. There is no doubt that the recipients also include Xu Zhuce.
"I'm going to invite you to dinner in the evening, and I'm going to talk to you about something, and I'm going to ask you to be there. ”
Staring at this simple news, Xu Zhuce was very puzzled, according to the deferential attitude that Cao System had shown at work before, it was said that after the beating he had just made, he should know how to stop, silently keep his distance from Sophie, and let this matter pass. He suddenly offered to invite everyone to dinner, was this to put things on the table, he wanted to compete openly?
To what extent the relationship between Cao System and Sophie has developed, in fact, no one knows except the two of them. Xu Zhuce just heard that Cao System and Sophie usually get along closely, and he didn't even believe that he was more outstanding than Cao System everywhere would lose to each other in the competition, and always thought that it was nothing more than Cao System taking advantage of the advantage of being close to the water and running away while he was busy with work.
At the end of the day, Mr. Xu is well aware of how good he is, so it's not surprising that he has a tendency to be overconfident. So even if the Cao system unexpectedly did not stop and automatically withdrew, and wanted to have a fair competition, Xu Zhuce firmly believed that he would not fail.
With such emotions, Xu Zhuce quietly left the company building with everyone.
Sophie drove first, and Cao Zheng led everyone to walk to the hotel on the second floor of Zhongxing Food Court, at this time Sophie had already booked a large table for him, and Cao Zheng sat down next to Sophie seemingly casually, took the menu handed by the waiter and began to order. Xu Zhuce's face obviously became much more ugly, he took a deep breath, and pressed his temper, wanting to see what kind of medicine was sold in Cao Shi's gourd.
Because all the eight men and two women in the planning department were dispatched, the large table that could have been able to do twelve people was also crowded, Cao System ordered more than a dozen dishes, and after returning the menu to the waiter, it didn't take long for the same dishes to be delivered one after another.
Cao Zheng smiled and persuaded him diligently, as if nothing had happened, calmly, urging everyone to eat more and eat faster, and if it was not enough, he could order more.
The only one he left out and didn't pay attention to was Sophie, but she kept smiling and fiddling with her phone as if she didn't care at all.
Xu Zhuce sat directly opposite them with a gloomy face, remaining silent most of the time, and even if Cao Zheng took the initiative to talk to him, he would answer in the briefest words.
The atmosphere on the table was so eerie that everyone could feel it, and everyone didn't know what to say, so they all ate vigorously. The fat man looked at the three protagonists today, and then looked at Liu Kewei with a worried face beside him, and sighed quietly, always feeling that something unpredictable would happen soon.
When the meal was hurried to the end, Cao Zheng smiled and asked everyone if they needed to add something, and received a unanimous negative reply. So he drank two spoonfuls of soup, picked up a napkin and wiped the grease stains from his mouth, and then he stood up and spoke with a spring breeze on his face.
"Actually, I'm here today to tell you a good news, Sophie and I have been in a relationship for more than half a month, I like her very much, and she is willing to be my girlfriend. I was embarrassed not to tell you before, so I apologize to everyone by the way. ”
Cao Zheng took Sophie's hand and led her to stand up, Sophie smiled sweetly, with a happy and joyful expression on her face. Then Cao System stretched out his hands to wrap around Sophie's slender waist, and Sophie wrapped his hands around Cao System's neck, and the two actually had a lingering and hot French wet kiss in front of everyone!
Xu Zhuce narrowed his eyes as if he couldn't believe it, his pupils contracted rapidly, and he stared at the two people in the kiss. No one could see it, and his clenched fists under the table trembled slightly with anger.