Reporter: Have you ever encountered problems with employees?

Lin Yan: Of course, there are all kinds of friction and resistance within the company. There is a different culture among the employees in Beijing.

Employees are different from each other, everyone has different preferences, the second company culture is tempered, Chiba Games' company culture, is to hope that everyone can do things well. However, there will be many people who feel uncomfortable. Therefore, although it is said that there is no dismissal of Chiba Games every year, there is also a certain percentage of elimination. For example, those employees who can't adapt are sent to the third-line department, and to be honest, most of the employees there are abolished.

Actually, everyone has their own shortcomings, but in general, no one is a bad person. Senpai has said from the first day of Chiba Games that we must recruit the best people and recruit those who are smart. Although this thing sounds very reasonable, everyone knows what to do. But in fact, many people can't do it. Many people will be afraid of people who are smarter than themselves. Therefore, the corporate culture of some companies is to try their best to find people who are not smarter than themselves, and under the influence of that culture, the ideas of employees will be very different.

The bigger the thing and the more Vietnam it does, the more arguments there will be among employees, and people will start complaining about each other. Feel that the other party has not done their essential work. There are also those who feel that others are asking too much, too unrealistic, and so on. I think basically everybody blamed or complained about it. In the end, a very difficult decision often has to be made.

Because of the differences in culture, some people think, "I'll work until I pass out to make the best game." Others think, "I'm going to work until the afternoon to make the best game possible." ”

So, you can imagine that when some employees are working very hard, they will feel that the other employees are doing nothing, and they will be resentful, and this kind of thing happens a lot.

Reporter: Did they ever ride into a big clashes?

Lin Yan: This. Anyway, from the perspective of Chiba Yuki, this is a matter of our cultural differences. However, from the outside. Some things are still very troublesome. The whole process of making a game is like a complex machine, many parts can go wrong, and no one can control them all.

Sometimes we try to make a game on the eve of the release. Something really bad happened to this genre.

Finally, after the game was released, the results of sales were not very satisfactory. We know it's not that the game is not doing well, in fact, the Chiba games that can be released are already the best games.

However, there are definitely fewer people in this world who talk than those who are willing to tell the truth. Honesty is a rare quality that not everyone can get.

So, when we sometimes have a problem, it's hard to determine what is wrong with that mitigation. Because others won't tell you the truth.

Like, we didn't know about some stores until now. How many games can we sell.

They all like to play wholesale games in excess and return them when they can't sell them, making a mess of our production matching.

Reporter: If you could do it again, what would you do to avoid these problems?

Lin Yan: Let me think about it. I was 20 years old, and the younger you are, the smarter you feel, right? When you mature a little bit, you will find that there are many things that you don't understand. When you reach a certain age, you suddenly realize, "Oh, I really don't know much." ”

I feel like what I'm going through right now is a bit of a process that makes it a little difficult for me to re-analyze it now. But. I think the most important time, when it's time to recruit people, be cautious, but don't be afraid. Strive to put the best talent. Find our company.

If you want to hire someone to do something inconsequential, let's say your lawn needs to be watered. Well, it's okay, you can find anyone. However, if you want to recruit professionals with specialized skills. For example, a highly skilled engineer, a professional marketer, a business planner or a game designer. You can't just take it personally.

You have to recruit the best people.,In fact,In the matter of recruiting people,Chiba games have suffered a lot of losses.。 For example, some time ago, the group of students who graduated from the game university. Chiba Games almost terminated their contracts with them during the internship period.

Reporter: Do you have times when your expectations are too high?

Lin Yan: Yes, in fact, there is often a strict deviation between expectations and reality. It's like this in people's love lives. There are often unrealistic fantasies at times. I think I can do what I am today, not because my expectations are too high, but because I want to do it.

Sometimes, I think if I didn't make that arcade machine, I just thought in my head that I could make such an arcade machine. When the arcade actually appears, I can anesthetize myself. I can do that if it's as simple as that.

In fact, most ordinary people have two emotions: cowardice and fantasy. In fact, I have it too. Sometimes, when I am cowardly, I think that if I do that or that, I will succeed.

Actually, what is the difference between this and an ostrich burying its head in the sand. Fantasizing about succeeding on their own. But if you don't really do it, it's really not a good thing.

I always say that saying it doesn't mean doing it, and it can't be done. In fact, there are many people in our company who don't think like this, they always think that they can easily succeed, but how can it be that easy.

Reporter: Have you ever made a wrong decision?

Lin Yan: That's a good question. Let's take the famous Hollywood director James Cameron as an example. If you ask anyone who's worked with him, whoever they are going to tell you they can't stand Cameron, they can't stand it. They'll think this is the kind of sick, whipped director - a super-perfectionist who is detached from reality, someone who has complete contempt for your time and energy.

But, this man makes great movies, right? However, he can also make wrong judgments. His mistakes came from fear, and he would never allow himself to fail, so many people thought he was crazy.

In fact, my ability in human resources has never been very high. If I had to go backwards, I don't think I could improve much. Still, my persecutive attitude. and the resistance to refuse to fail, on the contrary, it is a great help for Chiba games.

Perhaps, this is Xiao He who succeeds, and Xiao He who fails.

No matter how good an actor is, he can have problems back. No matter how good a musician is, there are times when he goes out of tune. So, I don't think the mistakes matter.

As an artist, allow me to say this about game curators. You have to get used to one thing, and that's that you're going to feel like you're not perfect.

And this dissatisfaction will make them sad and they will not be able to sleep. It has to be constantly improving, improving, improving. If you don't have that much experience, you're more likely to settle for the status quo.

You are content with the status quo, while the rest of the hungry continue to be lost. They will find more food than you can find.

If you are lazy, relaxed, and just want to eat your own old Ben Guo Shuo, then the paranoid and desperate and aggressive young man next to you is likely to steal your job.

Born in sorrow, died in peace, that's the truth.

Reporter: Do you still have the power to create a zào? One day will you stop thinking about making zuò games? And angry about the game?

Lin Yan: No. At least not yet. What makes me angry is that sometimes games are released and don't get the marketing and exposure they deserve.

There are also times when you keep burying your head in your work, only to find that your efforts have been in vain. Moreover, the factors that lead to the vain of efforts are random, changeable, and difficult to control.

You can't change these things, so it's going to be tiring.

One of my favorite sayings is, "Trap to know if the jar is filled with honey, you don't have to eat the whole jar." "Take a spoonful or two, and still know. If, sometimes, something is found to be a mess. Someone is rubbish. It only takes a few things to be able to tell the difference, and there is no need to find anyone else to do it.

If you are provoked once or twice, it is acceptable. But if you are provoked a third time. That's an idiot.

What are you thinking about right now? What do you want now? Sometimes our patience is pretty good. If we really want to do something. Then we will do it in a down-to-earth manner and endure the middle high. However, we are not fools either. If you've been fighting wars and you've never been able to win, then you should step back and ask, "What has the world been like now?" ”

Yes. It's time to take a fresh look at everything.

The world is changing, so I think it's best to take a step back and look at the sky and what we're doing. Then you can move on and determine your own path.

Perhaps,Many people have seen the difference between Chiba Games and other game companies.,The most prominent thing about Chiba Games now is that you know what you're doing and how you should do it.。

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The interview ended, and Lin Yan was interviewed for a total of one afternoon, plus the morning of the next day. By the end, he didn't know what he was talking about.

In fact, there are more truths in the first half of the story, and there are more false elements in the back.

It's the kind of chicken soup for the soul that doesn't give a spoon.

If anyone really believed it, Lin Yan believed that he would definitely be fooled and lame.

What Lin Yan is doing now is to establish some systems. For example, arrange a few planners, a few programmers, and a few artists to form an assembly line to make props in the "Stone Age" and "Magic Baby" paid malls.

Among them, there are some small props that may have taken a total of an hour but sold a million copies, but some have been made for several weeks and may only sell one copy.

It is difficult to find the pattern. And now Lin Yan, what he wants is to find the law.

However, even online games have a long life cycle. "Stone Age" and "Magic Baby", which have been in operation for several years, have also begun to show a kind of fatigue.

Lin Yan wanted to make a brush-brush game similar to Diablo. However, there is no desire to continue the name "Torchlight".

In fact, most online versions of single-player games will not end well. On the other hand, there are single-player players who are dissatisfied with the online version, and on the other hand, they are online players who don't know what a single-player game is.

So, the best thing is to start anew and make a brush game that suits the characteristics of online games.

Leave professional things to professional villains, and buy over Vulture Studios, not for them to play art.

For the new game, Lin Yan gave a very vulgar name, called "Legend".

Actually, the name is not very vulgar. After all, the Korean "Legend" in this world has not yet been born.

Lin Yan put forward a lot of requirements in all aspects of the game. For example, to have that dark gothic style, such as the fog of war, the vision setting should be preserved.

In addition to these, there are also requirements for the configuration of the machine. The configuration is as low as possible, and the lower the configuration is optimized to ensure a certain picture quality, the better.

Lin Yan also sent an optimization team to assist Vulture Studios in producing "Legend".

The progress of the entire game is probably determined in a year's time. I don't know what kind of game Vulture Studios can make in a year's time.

After Chiba Yuki got the reported magazine, he came to Lin Yan's office, threw the magazine on the table and said, "You said it yourself, she didn't add fuel and vinegar, right?" ”

Lin Yan flipped through it, looked at it and said, "Basically, no, what's wrong?" ”

Chiba Yuki rolled his eyes and said, "Not much, not much, I see that you are about to blow the Chiba game into the sky." ”

"What? Aren't we in heaven now? Lin Yan was surprised.

In fact, the current Chiba game is indeed in the sky, and it is precisely because it is in the sky that there are many people who are jealous of the achievements of Yuki Chiba.

As a game company, Chiba Games has now reached such a scale. In fact, most people don't expect it.

Even if I expected it, I was not satisfied.

Among them, the biggest resentment is probably the video game league. It is the first company in Japan to officially produce video games.

If as a video game company, they are alive and well, but when compared to Chiba games, it is much worse.

Even, many of them want to jump ship to Chiba Games.

After all, there are also many young people with dreams in the video game league. (To be continued.) )