In online game development, stress testing typically refers to a large-scale login to a single server to confirm the maximum number of people that can be accommodated on the server. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is obviously not what Che Guanglong means by stress testing here, but by extension, "collecting as much test data as possible" to determine whether the occasional bug has been completely resolved.

With Threesome Studios' existing planning and programming staff (artists don't usually take part in similar tests), it's a far cry from that goal.

So Liu Kewei asked Che Guanglong to call Director Zhao and give a general introduction to the situation.

"How many people do you need for the test, and how long will it last?" asked Director Zhao.

"In order to guarantee the validity of the test results, we need at least twenty people to conduct the test for more than three days. Che Guanglong and Liu Kewei muttered a few words in a low voice, and gave a specific plan after discussion, "Because this is an occasional bug, there is no enough scale of test data, and there is no guarantee that the bug has been completely solved." ”

"Got it, I'll let Attorney Quan handle this matter. Director Zhao replied simply.

Half an hour later, Attorney Kwon took two people to the threesome's office.

One of them was the head of the network management department of Naxon, a department responsible for managing the company's LAN and server room, and he provided Che Guanglong with the company's server upload account and password, so that Che Guanglong could call the latest version of the game.

The other is the head of the company's QA department, and Naxon's head office has an independent QA department, and there are as many as 70 or 80 QA personnel in the department who specialize in testing games. Special Manager Quan pulled the QA director and asked Liu Kewei and Che Guanglong to apply to him for QA to help with the test.

Hearing that it would take twenty QAs three days, the room chief's expression was a little embarrassed, and after secretly glancing at the special manager of Quan, he still gritted his teeth and agreed to allocate as many people as possible to participate in this test.

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A small office separated by a blue translucent glass wall with two sheets of A3 paper printed in bold Korean with the motto in bold.

"Let's create the greatest MMO+Acttion game on the planet!"

"It's our mission to make players who play Hellcat work proud and proud!"

The last time I was in the Chinese restaurant, I played a group of cannons at the threesome studio, and the brother who claimed to be a third-degree black belt in taekwondo knocked twice on the glass door, and after getting a "come in" response, he pushed the door open and walked in.

"Production Li, the QA department said that the testing of the new version may be delayed for two days. ”

After hearing this, Lee Eun-seok, the producer of Hellcat Studios, raised his head and asked with a little dissatisfaction, "It's going to be postponed again?" What excuse are they going to use to push us this time, and did the QA department explain the reason for the postponement?"

The reporter obviously had been waiting for his question for a long time, and immediately replied with a look of righteous indignation: "They said that the company's newly established studio suddenly put forward a test request, and then asked the QA department to arrange the test ...... as soon as possible."

Without waiting for him to finish, Lee Eun-seok snorted in displeasure and interrupted the other party's words.

"You go out first. Waving his hand gently, Lee Eun-seok said.

On several occasions before, the reporter had spoken in private about the company's newly established studio. In his rhetoric, he was quite dissatisfied with the establishment of such a R&D team with Celestial Empire people as the core members, and repeatedly belittled or questioned the professional quality of Celestial Empire game people, and also expressed bitter regret that the "wrong" position of the right specialist "favored" that studio.

On the other hand, the guy also touted the importance of Hellcat Studios, the creative innovation of Rocky Heroes, and Lee Eun-seok's own professionalism and leadership.

Don't you just want me to come forward to deal with the new studio that you don't like, and even expect me to go directly to the special manager of Quan?

Lee himself had little interest in the new studio, and as a "new generation of national game producers" who were touted by the Korean game media, he thought highly of himself and never felt that his opponents were other competitors within the company.

In the Republic of Korea, his current imaginary enemy is only Bae Jae-hyun (producer of "Sword and Soul") of NCSOFT, and the others are not qualified to challenge him for the time being.

Is it necessary to waste your precious attention on a newly established studio in the company, which does not even have a masterpiece?

As for the right to specialist...... Although theoretically he is second only to the current head of R&D in terms of importance in the R&D department, he is only the head of a studio in the R&D department. But Hellcat Studio is only a sign in the R&D department in name, in fact, all the work of "The Legend of Rocky Heroes" is followed up by President Kim Jung-joo himself, and the R&D department is basically out of control. So even the head of R&D can't point fingers at Lee Eun-seok, let alone a special director who has been gradually marginalized.

However, even if Lee Eun-seok is not afraid of the pressure from the special manager, there is no need to collide head-on with the special manager, right? It is really not a wise thing to confront such a senior without a sufficiently necessary reason.

Especially now, when Lee Eun-seok's "The Legend of Rocky Heroes", which has poured all his heart and hope into, is about to attack the top prize of the game awards, it is too late to unite every force in the company that can become an arm, so why should you offend a senior with a potentially powerful potential for no reason?

Besides, or for an outsider who hasn't been a Hellcat for a long time?

Do I, Lee Eun-seok, look like a fool who will be used as a gun casually?

Looking at the back of the other party's departure, Lee Eun-seok couldn't help but scold fiercely in his heart: "Self-proclaimed smart guy." ”

However, being disturbed by him like this, Lee Eun-seok really couldn't calm down and deal with the work at hand for a while. After a moment's hesitation, he stood up and left his office.

Walked into the elevator, pressed the target floor, and after more than ten seconds, he came to the corridor of the QA department.

The QA department occupies a total of four offices. Lee Eun-seok walked quietly in the hallway, looking around at the offices on the left and right, until he saw a familiar figure appear in the field of vision, and then stopped in surprise.

has messy short hair, looks like he has just woken up and got out of the bed, a pair of slitted eyes, his beard is not shaven, and his smile looks very honest......

Li Eun-seok couldn't help but laugh, walked into the office and greeted the other party: "Zheng Production, why are you here?"

This man who looks a little sloppy is none other than Lee Eun-seok in Naxon's company, another gold-medal game producer, Jung Young-seok of Lodumani Studios.

Speaking of which, this Jung Young-seok is also Lee Eun-seok's predecessor, and he is also the banner and leader of the so-called "veteran school" of Naxon's insistence on the casual game route, and his representative works include Bubble Hall, Go-Kart, Bubble Warrior and so on.

Casual games have always been regarded as sketches in the game industry (sketches in the broad sense, referring to small works of art, rather than cross talk sketches in the narrow sense), and are regarded by the industry as objects with low technical content, lack of representative value, and difficult to get into the elegant hall, and their influence is relatively low.

On the contrary, Rocky (the predecessor of "Rocky Heroes") and "Rocky Heroes" of Hellcat Studios won the Prime Minister's Award (second only to the Presidential Award) and a special award (Planning Technology Creation Award) at the 2004 Korea Game Awards. And "The Legend of Rocky Heroes" has won the top award of this year's Game Awards, as well as the call to sweep the special award.

In terms of industry evaluation, it can be said that Hellcat Studio is much higher than Lodumani Studio.

However, there are two sides to everything, and although casual games are not highly technological, they also have the advantages of low investment costs, low experience thresholds, and ease and no pressure, and occupy a large part of the market in the low-end player group dominated by professional white-collar workers.

How to put it, money-making games are not necessarily highly-rated games in the industry, and vice versa.

Just as the spring and white snow are high and low, it is a truth that the lower riba people should gather. When it comes to product profits and ROI, Hellcat Studios is far inferior to Lodumani Studios.

Therefore, the two gold medal producers of Naxon, Jung Young-seok and Lee Eun-seok, can really be said to have their own strengths, and it is difficult to distinguish between them. Although the game development concepts of the two are very different, neither of them can convince anyone, and they can't compare to each other.

Jung Young-seok turned his head and grinned a little: "Eun-seok, you also heard that the project of the new studio is being tested, so you came to take a look?"

"No, senior, you misunderstood. I just came over to ask the QA department why the new version of our project was delayed. Lee Eun-seok shook his head and stood slightly behind Jung Young-seok, "Senior, you came here to evaluate the project of the new studio?"

"Ha, the new version of the test is delayed, do you need you, the national producer, to go to the QA department in person to ask for the guilt?" Jung Young-seok smiled evilly, "You can't fool me", reached out to hold Lee Eun-seok's shoulder, and stood side by side with him, "Is this too trivial, do you think I will believe this kind of excuse?"

Lee Eun-seok replied lightly: "Whether you believe it or not, the truth is just like this. ”