Chapter 135: Graphic MUD Game
Lu Xi didn't care how ugly Li Xiaobo's expression was for the time being, got up and faced Fang Hongtao and said with a smile: "Help you share it." ”
After speaking, he glanced at Li Xiaobo again, and said with a slight smile: "It was my negligence that I didn't tell my identity first." ”
Looking at Li Xiaobo's rather embarrassed expression, Fang Hongtao didn't know what happened to the two, so he listened to Lu Xi and said, "Manager Fang, go get busy, Mr. Li, you come with me." ”
Just now I talked to Sun Mingwei and Li Zhijie about the establishment of the game division and the intention to acquire Lianzhong, and when I turned my head, I met Li Xiaobo, a gamemaker, and Lu Xi wanted to know what kind of game he was making and whether it met his needs.
Seeing that Lu Xi turned around and went out first, Fang Hongtao beckoned five of them to enter the conference room, then glanced at Li Xiaobo, who was stunned, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Go over, Lu Shaoren is very easy-going." ”
When Fang Hongtao walked into the small conference room, Li Xiaobo stood up in a daze, slowly walked out of the venture capital company, and stopped at the door of Luzhu Technology, did not see Lu Xi's shadow, hesitated for a while and walked to the elevator.
Lu Xi sat in the conference room for a while, and before Li Xiaobo came in, he got up and went out again, and when he saw others standing at the elevator entrance, his brows furrowed, and he said, "Are you going to give up this opportunity?" ”
Li Xiaobo didn't expect Lu Xi to come out to find him, and said embarrassedly: "I don't know where Lu Shao went." ”
Lu Xi didn't listen to his excuses, nor did he care about whether he had the ability to control the entire team, he only cared about what game he was doing, and said in a deep voice: "Give you another chance." ”
Li Xiaobo turned sideways and looked stunned for a while, squeezed his fist twice, and then trotted to follow.
The air conditioner is on in the office. Li Xiaobo sat down in the conference room, his forehead covered in sweat. Lu Xi turned around and went out, poured a glass of water and put it in front of him. sat down across from him and said in a deep voice: "Although I don't know what game you are doing, but your performance today is difficult for me to be satisfied, for an entrepreneur any opportunity is fleeting, from the time I saw you standing at the elevator entrance, I thought of a lot of unpleasant adjectives to describe you, you should know that even if a good project, there is no good leader." The future is also equivalent to a pile of garbage ......, but you said that you waited for most of the day, and I don't want you to come in vain. ”
Lu Xi felt that what he said was a bit excessive, but when he saw that Li Xiaobo's hand on the paper cup was not as strong as he thought, he just gently held the paper cup, but he was satisfied with his performance at this moment, and then said: "I will take everything before, because you have been in an irritable mood for most of the day, and your head has short-circuited, and now I will give you a few minutes to clear your thoughts." And then talk about the essence of your project. ”
Li Xiaobo responded and hurriedly took out a thick stack of materials from his leather bag. Look at it.
About ten minutes later, Lu Xi glanced down at his watch, and said with a slight smile: "You can start now, right?" ”
Li Xiaobo nodded heavily, drank all the water in the cup, and said: "My first contact with online games was in the fall of 95, in the computer laboratory of Jiaotong University, the name is a text mud game called "Oriental Story", this game is a group of Chinese students studying abroad Sinicization, and then introduced to Hong Kong and Taiwan, and finally from the two places to the mainland, this is also the first Chinese version of the text mud game. ”
Li Xiaobo paused and said: "After the Oriental story, there were Fengyun series and Journey to the West series from abroad, after which the domestic text mud began to develop, until the emergence of chivalry, the text mud game set off a boom in China, all kinds of literary works have been adapted into games, a large number of text mud sites have appeared in various places, although there are more and more players, but with the development of hardware, the shortcomings of text mud are becoming more and more obvious. In April this year, a studio called Le Doushi in Yanjing launched a simple graphic mud game "Laughing Proud Jianghu: Loyal to the Country", which gathered a lot of popularity within a few months, and in July, the popular foreign "Internet Genesis" entered China, and the era of text MUD games came to an end. ”
What Li Xiaobo said, Lu Xi basically understands, Li Zhijie is a player of the Internet Genesis, a game of more than 600 megabytes, with the current civilian network bandwidth, I don't know how much time it will take, he still went to the micro-communication server room of the telecommunications bureau to finish it quickly.
Lu Xi didn't want to listen to Li Xiaobo talk about the history of domestic online games here, so he took advantage of his pause and said, "Let's talk about your game." ”
Li Xiaobo smiled awkwardly and said: "Then I'll make a long story short, the game we developed is a martial arts style graphic mud game, this name we named "Jianghu", is based on some novels by Jin Yong and Gu Long, eight major schools, different martial arts, and their own different main quests, and the grievances and grievances between the sects ....... ”
After introducing the content of the game, seeing that Lu Xi didn't know what he was thinking, and couldn't see what his attitude was, Li Xiaobo said: "I'm here to say that Lu Shao will definitely not have any intuitive feelings, so I hope Lu Shao can go to our studio and experience this game." ”
Although graphic mud games are more attractive to players than text mud games, Lu Xi is not interested in graphic mud, looking at Li Xiaobo's confident expression, he smiled slightly, and said: "You should know that in the millennium and Stone Age, this kind of large-scale role-playing type 2D online games have entered China, right?" ”
Li Xiaobo nodded in response, he knew that the graphics mud game could not be compared with the millennium and the Stone Age, hearing such a question, he only felt that it was unlikely to get the investment, and the spirit of the moment disappeared in an instant.
Lu Xi looked at his expression and said: "I don't want to deny your efforts and dedication, but with the advancement of technology and the development of hardware, text and graphic mud will eventually become a thing of the past, and large-scale role-playing games similar to the millennium and the Stone Age will become the mainstream in the future, but I can still go and see the games you have developed." ”
The emergence of the millennium and the Stone Age marks that mud games will become a thing of the past, even if there is no interest in graphic mud games, Lu Xi also wants to see what the games developed by Li Xiaobo and others are like, and what is the technical ability of these people.
Li Xiaobo didn't know what Lu Xi meant by denying it first and then proposing to see their game, with a hesitant look on his face, and a hint of surprise, he said politely: "Then trouble Lu Shao." ”
Lu Xi called Li Zhijie, a veteran mud gamer, and the three of them rushed to Li Xiaobo's job together.
There are thirteen people in Li Xiaobo's studio, two of whom look the same age as Li Xiaobo from their faces, and the rest look like they are twenty-five or sixteen, and more than a dozen people are nested in a two-bedroom residential building, the living room has been transformed into a studio, and there are more than a dozen people living in the two bedrooms.
After Li Xiaobo introduced the team members to Lu Xi and Li Zhijie, he pulled a chair for the two to sit down, and moved the electric fan to the two of them, then opened the game on the desktop and said, "The game development has been completed, just wait for the funds to be put into operation." ”
The game has not yet been launched, and is currently only connected to the local area network, and Lu Xi and the others have created a new game character, while listening to Li Xiaobo talking on the side, while operating.
After Li Xiaobo finished speaking, Lu Xi removed his hand from the keyboard, took out a tissue to wipe the sweat beads on his forehead, glanced at Li Zhijie who was devoting himself to the game next to him, and saw Li Xiaobo and others surrounded behind the two, waiting for him to speak expectantly.
Two lives, due to personal reasons and work reasons, Lu Xi has never played an online game at all, he can't give an accurate comment on the good or bad of this game, and can only judge the art skills from the simple graphics screen is very good.
After a slight silence, Lu Xi called Li Zhijie and said, "Zhijie, tell me what you think of this game." ”
Li Zhijie took his eyes off the computer screen, moved the chair over and sat down in front of a few people, and replied: "From a technical point of view, it is better than smiling and serving the country with the essence of the rivers and lakes, especially the art, if this game is launched now, there may be some market, whether it can be profitable, I can't say, but I am sure that once the millennium and Stone Age tests are completed, this game will soon fade out of people's sight." ”
Seeing that Li Xiaobo and the others had unsightly faces, Li Zhijie smiled again: "This is just my personal opinion. ”
Li Zhijie also affirmed their skills, Lu Xi was silent for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "How much did you invest in developing this game?" ”
Lu Xi didn't say anything, and Li Xiaobo didn't know what he thought, so he sighed slightly in his heart and said: "I, Da Zhou and Zhang Yu sold the house in our hometown, and they all took some money out and made up 320,000 yuan, starting from March this year, and now in six months, there are only more than 2,000 yuan left." ”
Can't get start-up capital, the difficulties in the early days of entrepreneurship can be imagined, more than a dozen people nest here for six months, it is not easy to create such a game in the scorching heat, looking at more than a dozen people and more than 20 pairs of eyes staring at themselves, Lu Xi said after thinking: "You used six months here to develop this game, spending 320,000 yuan, if you just want to make the game online, it's actually very simple, if you just hold the purpose of making the game online and not letting your hard work go in vain, you don't have to look for investment, It's okay to buy a server, but to what extent the game can be managed, it's just a matter of fate, and I have a better suggestion now, I wonder if you want to hear it? (To be continued......)
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