On this morning, the young technical director of Beichen released an inexplicable task for the game test team.

He told everyone in the beta team to stop testing the game's new expansion and start playing a single-player game out of nowhere.

This stand-alone game called "Three Kingdoms Ideals" itself has recently been spread on the Internet, and half of the test team has heard of the name of the game, but only three or two people have played the game.

People who have played it heard Yang Ziqi's request, but they began to speculate with their colleagues, thinking that Yang Ziqi had taken a fancy to the game's maker and wanted to recruit - according to everyone's speculation, "Three Kingdoms Ideal" has at least a good level of art, a good level of copywriting, and a very outstanding number of planning and programs...... Considering that this group may not be large, these identities may overlap.

For a game that is expected to be profitable, the most important thing is undoubtedly creativity, digital planning and a grasp of market psychology, art and copywriting are not important. In this regard, the creators of "Three Kingdoms Ideal" can be said to have done an excellent job. For a large-scale game, there are not too many talents who have an accurate grasp of the planning and market, and the game "Three Kingdoms Ideal" itself is just a small and medium-sized original game released online, and it doesn't look like there is any powerful background and financial resources behind it, but it is a suitable object.

Although there are some people in the test team who have doubts about Yang Ziqi's order, since it is an assigned job, they can do it, but they do not need to understand the cause and effect - they are not decision-makers.

After playing a new game all morning, to be honest, everyone's love is still quite pleasant. The first is that the genre of this game is very novel, and the development direction of most of the popular stand-alone or online games at this time is different, so that the employees who are repeatedly testing their own online game functions every day have a sense of pleasure to rest and play. The second is that the whole game is really well done, both the difficulty design and the content setting are very appropriate, the difficulty can keep people entertaining and easy to play, and it contains many challenging items that make people addicted.

After playing the game in the morning, many people found it incredible.

It's been many years since a game of this caliber has been produced in China. Although the technical difficulty of the game itself is not very high, and the graphics cannot be said to be particularly exquisite, it can only be said that the style is pleasing to the eye and distinctive, but what is rare is the creativity and smoothness of this system.

In the afternoon, Yang Ziqi gathered several departments for this game to hold a special meeting. The staff of the planning team and the technical team were all called by him, and then asked everyone who had tested "Three Kingdoms Ideal" to express their thoughts on this game one by one.

"The planning and plot fluency are very well set, whether it is a strategic plot or a dramatic content, it can be said that it is just right, neither making people feel impatient nor too pale."

"I think the number of planning must be a veteran, or at least there is an experienced veteran who has a good grasp of the market to do the overall guidance."

Another female tester stood up and said, "I really like the story. The character settings are very charming, there are explosive points, there are cute points, but at the same time, the personality change is very natural, and the main writer's writing skills are very good, but the age is not too big. That kind of brisk and wanton style is difficult for people who are too old to write. ”

Yang Ziqi nodded and said: "So now I can basically guess that there should be at least two people in this production team, one of whom has at least ten years of game design experience, knows all the elements in this area very well, and has a very good grasp of the market." The other is younger, but his writing skills are very deep, and he may be in the position of plot chief writer or text planner. ”

"But there's one thing that's weird. Normally, the inclusion of just one of several selling points in such a game is enough to attract attention. As an original free-to-play game, it's really ...... to be too elaborate It's a bit of a waste. If you're a beginner, you're likely to put all the settings you think are interesting, but just looking at the structure of the game, it really doesn't feel like a novice's handwriting. ”

In this regard, Yang Ziqi also realized it.

If you just use a game to make the first shot, to accumulate capital or to sell at a price, in fact, you don't need to do this kind of Cheng dù at all - this kind of Cheng dù game can be directly put on the market, so that it can be uploaded to the Internet for people to use for free...... It always gives people a sense of unreality.

It's like walking down the road and someone handing out an egg tart for you to taste, which is a normal thing for most people to think. But if someone gives you a Nokia vertu to try, you generally have to feel that something is wrong, except for those who are specifically counting on pie in the sky.

The activation code for an expansion film of twenty yuan, in Yang Ziqi's opinion, is not a good match compared to the quality of "Three Kingdoms Ideal" itself. He didn't know that Lin Shu didn't think the setting of "Three Kingdoms Ideal" was very novel, but he just thought it was a more classic setting, so he used it casually. However, even if it is such a classic setting, he only took the corresponding concept, and did not directly use the setting he had seen before, but designed and improved it himself. On the one hand, the setting was simplified to make it more in line with the hardware conditions at this time, and on the other hand, the original design was improved, making it more perfect and smooth in Lin Shu's thoughts.

Creation is also the same as academics, like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. Lin Shu doesn't want to purely use the technology or settings he has seen before, firstly, because this kind of plagiarism lacks innovation, which makes people feel bored and lack of passion; The second reason is that if you don't use your brain, you will degrade your ability and lose your original sensitivity to the market and popularity. And Lin Shu's behavior of thinking that he was not an excessive use of "black technology" made Yang Ziqi and others have a very strict misunderstanding because of the error in their mutual understanding.

Yang Ziqi made two different judgments on this: the first judgment is that the creator himself may be a more idealistic game fanatic, and the production of such games may be to satisfy his hobby, just like most novices who make original games, without considering the issue of rate of return. The only difference is that this enthusiast has excellent skills, and his own preferences are more attractive to mainstream players; The second judgment is that the other party may have some other intentions, or encountered any accidents or difficulties, and has to release the game for free and sell the activation code at a low price. It may be that there is something wrong with the company that developed the game or that the developer himself has encountered some problem, and the director has to sell the game at a low price.

But either way, there are some irrationalities.

At the end of the meeting, Yang Ziqi explained that the other two departments should also understand this stand-alone game in their spare time, learn from it, and dissolve the meeting.

He felt that if he wanted to understand the specific situation, he still had to add the designer himself to be able to judge more accurately.

However, Yang Ziqi tried to send an email to the game's official mailbox, but never received a reply.

He didn't know that as soon as Lin Shu saw this email, he remembered the experience of his previous life, so he almost swept his eyes and ignored Yang Ziqi's email - when Lin Shu was about to graduate, it was a critical period for the transformation of keyboard games into virtual online games. At that time, Beichen was still the largest keyboard online game producer and operating company in the industry, and a sci-fi "Road to the Stars" and an oriental fantasy "Nine Heavens" swept the whole world.

Lin Shu still liked Beichen very much at that time. Although Beichen's virtual technology research and development was not smooth at that time, and the progress in this area was more than one step behind several other companies in the same sequence, Lin Shu felt that in the game industry, technology sometimes did not represent something, and culture and spirit were the core.

And he really likes Beichen's attitude of making games with his heart and creating a world with his heart, so during the internship period, Lin Shu's preferred company to apply for is Beichen Games.

In Lin Shu's opinion at that time, his grades were second to none in Binda University, and he was the student president, and he had very representative works in hand, and his resume could be said to be bright, and there was no reason why Beichen would not admit him.

However, in order to expand the odds of victory, he also deliberately handed in a special report, which he deleted and changed for three or four days, and wrote in detail about the analysis of the future game industry, the strengths and weaknesses of Beichen, and the direction of reform he thought Beichen could choose.

But it's this report that's broken.

If you look at it in the next ten years, Lin Shu's report is simply prescient to the point of shock. However, in the eyes of Yang Ziqi at that time, Lin Shu's report prediction completely deviated from his own cognition and expectations. He was very unimpressed with Lin Shu at the time, thinking that he wanted to come to Beichen to guide the country and promote the words before he graduated, so he decisively let Lin Shu lose the election.

About four years later, when Lin Shu's Xingze Group was rising like a star in the world, Beichen began to decline. At that time, Yang Ziqi could be said to have a bad face when he saw Lin Shu, but Lin Shu didn't feel relieved - now that he thinks about it, Lin Shu actually likes Beichen very much - the games under its name have accompanied Lin Shu for at least half of his youth.

Therefore, he was particularly angry about Yang Ziqi's stubbornness.

Now this anger has actually faded, but the subtle disdain for the other party still exists, so seeing the suspected solicitation letter from Yang Ziqi in the mailbox, Lin Shu ignored the past very unceremoniously.

After Yang Ziqi sent out the email, he didn't even make a splash, and he was a little depressed. But he didn't give up, so after a simple search, he quickly found an IP address.

Lin Shu has never done such a career as a hacker in his previous life or in this life, so he is not keen on hiding traces of online activities. His own computer has done a good job of security measures due to commercial secrecy habits, but he is not so attentive when uploading games and publishing posts from Du Sitong, and he also feels that Du Sitong does not have anything on his computer that particularly needs commercial confidentiality.

So Yang Ziqi quickly found Du Sitong's IP address, and searched for many of her browsing traces and personal information through Du Sitong's IP address, and then found her actual location.

"A small city center in Huxi, Du Sitong ...... Is it? ”