Chapter 42: The Grass Terrace Team
After a hasty run-in, Legendary Entertainment is finally on the right track. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
More than 10 programmers, artists, and testers have been recruited in China, and the Sinicization group of outsourcing has been recruited. Coupled with the five backbones brought by Dongyi, the development team finally ran in. This company, which has only 20 people, is like a small sparrow, but it has all kinds of organs.
The target set by Gu Cheng for everyone is to come up with a stable and stable version of the "legend" that can be sealed and tested within two weeks.
Time is of the essence. ACCORDING TO CHERILEE, WHEN WEMADE SOLD ALL THE CODE OF "LEGEND" TO GU CHENG, THERE WAS AT LEAST ONE OR TWO MONTHS OF PROGRAMMING AND TESTING WORKLOAD. Now that it has been shortened to two weeks, it is inevitable to work overtime day and night.
It is obviously impractical to let Dongyi employees learn Chinese immediately, so Gu Cheng personally presided over every project meeting these days. Now he is the only one in the company who understands both technology and planning, and at the same time can be bilingual in Chinese and Yi, so he can suppress the needs and defenses of all parties.
Fortunately, the programming language used by the programmers is consistent in both Chinese and foreign languages, which makes collaboration a lot less troublesome.
In Qiantang in September, autumn tigers are still raging. The company has not yet had time to install a split air conditioner - that kind of thing requires the renovation team to punch holes in the wall and bury copper pipes to evacuate and build a lot of construction - so for the time being, it can only use two window machines for a while.
The house, which was used as a staff dormitory, was temporarily shelved because the bedroom was too stuffy. Five Dongyi employees finished work every night and slept on the floor in the window-conditioned living room.
Gu Cheng also works overtime every day and shares weal and woe with everyone. He felt that it was a bit unreliable to let the girl and the man work on the floor together, so he went to the furniture market and bought a few screens to cover his shame.
It wasn't until the middle of September, when the weather was a little cooler, and the girls went back to their rooms to sleep until they could survive the summer night with an electric fan.
Although the conditions were very difficult, everyone saw that Gu Cheng, who was the boss, also worked overtime and endured hardships together, and the morale was maintained.
Sometimes, even Pan Jieying ran back to the company after the loan, and when she saw the hot scene, she was a little unbearable, and tried to persuade Gu Cheng to take his time and not worry.
Gu Cheng, who has always listened to his sister's words, is unrelenting on this issue.
"Sister, some things are not forced by me, but after the bursting of the Internet bubble, people with foresight will slowly come back to their senses and find that engaging in online games is the best choice in the cold winter. So soon there will be other Internet companies that will transform and compete with us for business.
For example, I heard that there is a boss of Shengda Network in Hujiang, named Chen Tianqiao, who is now flying to Seoul to find an online game that can be cooperated. If they buy good goods and fill in the empty market for RTS-based MMORPGs first, we will have to spend a lot of time. ”
Of course, the source channel of this information that Gu Cheng said does not exist - it is completely based on his personal speculation about Chen Tianqiao.
Although the legend was bought by him Gu Cheng, Chen Tianqiao's strategic vision is still there. If you can't buy Legend, it's possible to buy other similar products, Gu Cheng can't help but be wary.
The randomness of the Internet world has long been proven that this world really is not bad for smart people. It's just that only one out of ten is lucky enough, so the remaining nine have no chance to be remembered by history.
lifted Chen Tianqiao, has his own descendants. Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate.
Legend Entertainment's welfare work is still very good, and it has hired a special chef to provide three meals a day. Breakfast, supper, fruits, and drinks are paid by the company and ordered to take out. All overtime is also paid high overtime.
In addition, Pan Jieying, the nominal boss of the company, is a beautiful girl, and there are several beautiful planners and beautiful artists to support the field. The code farmers really felt the incentive atmosphere that other Internet companies absolutely did not have, and they fought hard one by one.
As for equity incentives, Gu Cheng is not stupid enough to say it directly: At present, it is better to give overtime pay and project awards than any option.
Because of the bubble that has just burst, everyone thinks that the actual interests of falling into the pocket are the most real, and the options are all deceptive.
This is also the reason why Gu Cheng had to survive until the bubble burst before he newly registered this company in China - in this way, before the company's valuation swelled to hundreds of millions, it could not be coveted by any outsiders, and the sister and brother would always be in control.
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On this day, it was September 20th. It was just two weeks since Gu Cheng returned to China.
The legendary transplant work has finally opened up all the core joints and can run.
When he got off work, Gu Cheng announced in public:
"From tomorrow, the legend will officially enter the closed beta stage! Everyone has worked hard during this time, and all project team members can get a project award with a month's salary! Please also make persistent efforts, enter the deleted internal beta before the 11th National Day, the public beta in November, and the paid operation will be realized on New Year's Day next year. The company will not treat you badly!"
Then he took his companions, who hadn't slept well for half a month, to find a restaurant to have a good meal and open a few bottles of champagne. After the meal, the company invited guests and all went to the Oriental Venice for a bath and massage.
Gu Cheng's style is still very heartwarming.
After all, the bosses of today's Internet companies are still at the stage of accompanying their employees to talk about life and pouring chicken soup with their employees at street food stalls.
And Gu Cheng invited all the developers to take a bath and kill chickens together (excluding big health care), which is obviously a higher grade.
After taking a bath and eating supper, all the Han employees went home to sleep and had a holiday the next day.
Dongyi employees in the dormitory were homeless and took a taxi back to the company.
Cheerilee lives with two other female colleagues from Dongyi. Perhaps because of the wine they drank during supper, the three young girls went back to their rooms and chatted non-stop, even though they were physically exhausted, their spirits were still high.
The screenwriter girl played with the pillow and sighed: "I didn't expect the Huaxia boss to be so approachable, much better than the strict hierarchy of WEMADE." A while ago, I saw that he was forced to work overtime so hard that he almost wanted to flee back to China. ”
The art girl also sighed and agreed: "Yes, but it is indeed strange to invite employees to sauna massage, especially even girls, at first I was afraid that Mr. Gu had a bad heart." ”
The screenwriter's sister rolled her eyes and said disdainfully: "Cut, just with your appearance, it is also your luck that Mr. Gu is willing to dive you." The car manager is so beautiful and loyal, and he didn't get it, and he still got your turn?"
The screenwriter's daily work is how to make the game script more attractive to players, so how to be vulgar, the festival has long been lost, and when she speaks, it's called a pungent one.
Even Cheerilee, who was affected by the pond fish on the side, blushed and took a sip: "Sister Jin, don't say a word!"
"Yo Yo Yo, who was in Seoul at the beginning, who blew Mr. Gu's company to the point that it is rare to find in the sky and on the ground, and dug us up one by one? If you are not impressed by Mr. Gu's 'personality charm', I will not believe it first. ”
Cheerilee was overwhelmed, but luckily a knock on the door interrupted the conversation.
It was Gu Cheng who knocked on the door in the living room and asked politely, "Have you slept?"
The other two girls' ears suddenly pricked up, and they encouraged Cheerilee to answer with their eyes.
Cheerilee, on the other hand, said nervously, "No, but I'm ready to sleep." ”
Gu Cheng was very gentlemanly through the door and whispered in the living room: "It's inconvenient for me to come in, so let's do it, Sister Che, come to my office." ”
With that, he left.
"Wow! It can't be that Mr. Gu has drunk too much and wants to find a car to 'talk'. Go, go, go!"
"You gangsters, don't go crazy!"
With a red face, Cheerilee left the dorm room and went to sit in the office next door for a while, and was back ten minutes later. His face was even redder, and the corners of his eyes were red.
"Little car, you're going to dedicate yourself?"
"No, Mr. Gu can't do it, is it a second man?"
"Get out, you people who have no conscience - take it, this is a gift from Mr. Gu to everyone. Cheerilee's face sank, and she shoved two glasses cases with their names on them to the other two girls, blocking their coaxing.
The girls took the glasses case and looked at it: "...... is this?"
Cheerilee proudly announced: "The day before yesterday, I worked overtime all night, and my contact lenses dried up, and I took off half a bottle of eye drops, and I was seen by Mr. Gu." According to the data of our entry physical examination, he gave all the girls glasses - Mr. Gu said that in the future, he will work overtime obediently and wear glasses, and he is not allowed to wear contact lenses!"
"It turns out that I just talked to you and gave you a small gift...... Seeing that your face is so red, I thought you were ......"
"Sister Jin, don't say a word, Manager Che is grateful for the grace of knowing you, you don't understand~"
A farce, finally cleaned up invisibly.
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Gu Cheng was very satisfied with the effect of his small gift, and after returning to the office, he looked at the documents for a while, and then prepared to unfold the folding recliner to sleep.
He had just finished packing up when he heard the sound of the elevator stopping outside the glass door, and he couldn't help but glance at it curiously.
It is nominally a commercial and residential building, but most people buy houses here to start a company, and few people live in it. So there was almost no activity in the second half of the night.
"It can't be a thief, right?" Gu Cheng thought secretly in his heart, and couldn't help but get up to look.
After a few seconds, he heard the sound of leather shoes in the hallway getting closer, and the visitor didn't seem to be trying to hide his whereabouts.
Then an ugly man with a short body, a monkey-like appearance, and a strange skeleton appeared outside the glass door of the legendary entertainment company, and peeked in and peeked twice.
Gu Cheng couldn't help but show up and drink: "Hey, what are you doing?"
The ugly man was not panicked when he was drunk, and he laughed almost like a joke: "Upstairs company, just passing by and curious-you guys are doing online games?"
"Yes......" Gu Cheng looked the other party up and down, feeling that there was nothing to hide.
"That's half a peer, we are also an Internet company, doing e-commerce. You're new, aren't you? Before you came in, I hadn't seen anyone in this building work later than we did. ”
Gu Cheng confirmed that the other party had no malicious intentions, but was just a businessman who came to close friendship, so he opened the door and let the other party in to sit for a while.
The two guests and hosts sat down, and the ugly man looked around left and right, and handed over a piece of paper with both hands very easy-going and humble: "This is my business card." ”
According to business etiquette, Gu Cheng should of course take the business card with both hands.
However, he was making tea with tea leaves, so he took it casually and put it on the table first.
After two cups of tea were brewed, he noticed the words on the business card.
"Ahri Baba CEO Ma Feng"
Gu Cheng's hand shook, fortunately, the piece of paper was not heavy and did not fall off.
If you read this line 5 seconds earlier, the teacup will break. 5 seconds later, the tea will be sprayed.