Chapter 168: Twists and Turns (2) Games and Life

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Qi Na and Xiang Yuyao had a confrontation in a dumpling restaurant near the group, Xiang Yuyao wanted Qi Na to go back with him, but Qi Na refused again, although he did want to vent, but he didn't want to be shared, he preferred to be alone.

He said goodbye to Xiang Yuyao, took a taxi, and unbelievably arrived at the small apartment where Lisa used to live in Xiyou City, but he didn't go up after all, he just called downstairs twice, but no one answered, and no one answered again.

Qi Na's heart was empty, thinking that Lisa must have lived with her parents if she fell and was injured, how could she still be nested in a bachelor apartment.

He put away his mobile phone, took a taxi again, got in the car and the driver asked him where he was going, he was stunned for ten seconds, really at a loss, not knowing what he should do and where he was going.

"General Lane, General Office Building." Qi Na said. In that case, why don't you go back to work? Perhaps only work can suppress the restlessness in one's heart.

As soon as he entered the company, he received a text message from Lisa, Qi Na was instantly excited, and then looked at the text message: "Alex, hello, I am Kong Yun's sister-in-law, she went abroad and will not come back for a while, and the mobile phone is with me for the time being." In addition, she is in good health, so you can take care. ”

Obviously, the last sentence of the last sentence was profound, and Qi Na almost burst into tears when he saw it.

There was no one in the company anymore, Wu Jun pulled Doris to talk, and was a little surprised to see him come in, but Qi Na's face was full of frustration, and they didn't know whether to say hello or not for a while.

Qi Na closed the office door, sat on the chair by himself, held his head in his hands, and froze for a minute, then took out his mobile phone and carefully read the text messages he received.

Or even read it out word by word.

Tears flowed down his face and he couldn't get up.

This huge loss almost swallowed him, and he sat in the office like this for half an hour, until Zheng Xiumin came and knocked on the door.

Qi Na hurriedly wiped his face with a tissue, and when he saw Zheng Xiumin, he forced a smile and said, "Why didn't you go back?" ”

Zheng Xiumin naturally saw the clue, and didn't say anything, but said: "Didn't you see Mr. Xiang?" Came back so soon. ”

There was ambiguity in what she said, but neither of them cared at this time, because they each had distracting thoughts in their hearts.

"There will be a review meeting the day after tomorrow, and Mr. Gu will look at my ERP, and I will give him a demonstration by the way." Qi Na said simply.

Zheng Xiumin's eyes lit up and said, "Then ERP software can also be sold for money." She heard Dai Xiaolan introduce MyCity's ERP, and recently Doris has also promoted ERP in Life Online, and she also saw the excellence of this ERP and felt that it would definitely be profitable.

But Qi Na shook his head and said, "This is a gift, but Mr. Gu will definitely give us a bigger reward, and we don't need to worry about it." ”

Qi Na didn't tell his true calculations, not because of Xiang Yuyao, but because he was worried that Zheng Xiumin would have thoughts about Doris.

Zheng Xiumin's face was full of disappointment, and she said to Qi Na: "It's a pity, I can always sell for two or three million, so I lost it." ”

Qi Na put his arms around her, kissed her lightly on the forehead, and said, "We can't always be so poor. Isn't the game project in your hand a gold mine? ”

She leaned on Qi Na, relaxed the whole body, and smiled bitterly, the game project, she has been tossing for more than half a month, working overtime every night, and the interns have been coming and going four or five times, naturally because they can't survive overtime. Regular employees sign contracts, and it is not good to resign because of overtime for so many days, and the passion of the first three or two days is quickly exhausted. had to accompany Zheng Xiumin to endure hardship.

Qi Na couldn't help but say, "In this way, I will also go up and participate, let's figure out a way together." ”

Zheng Xiumin was obviously a little sullen, and said: "Why am I so useless, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would really be unable to move an inch." ”

Qi Na inadvertently hit her self-confidence again.

However, he reacted quickly and said, "How long have you been doing games?" It's not been a month yet, and we're not geniuses, so it's a bit of a joke to make a game like a gold mine in a month. You don't have to be too demanding of yourself. ”

Zheng Xiumin was barely persuaded by this reason.

He didn't go to the game project office immediately, but listened to Zheng Xiumin's work introduction in his office.

In fact, there is no product manager in Life Online, so either Zheng Xiumin will promote it vertically, or set up a project team and assign personnel to follow up.

The game project is the former, all the personnel are recruited temporarily, and a large number of interns are also collected for research.

This is something that everyone understands to make money through games, but what games can be made and how to do them?

Web games seem to have little investment and can be harvested quickly, so Zheng Xiumin's first step is to investigate web games.

But it was soon abandoned, and at the same time, RPG, shooting simulation games, the main reason is that a lot of resources need to be invested in the early stage, whether it is pre-art or post-publicity, which does not match the actual situation of life online websites. You can only give up.

So she began to choose lightweight games, mobile games, that is, mobile games.

This is the hottest field in the last two years. A plethora of game studios have sprung up, and every now and then a compelling, creative game has emerged.

For example, cutting the rope a long time ago, the little crocodile loves to take a bath, and last year's extremely popular crazy guessing picture, as well as the flappybird at the beginning of this year, and the candycrush game of King Games Company, which was launched in the United States at the beginning of the year, as for Plants vs. Zombies, Crazy Birds, which have been popular for many years, there is no need to mention.

It is conceivable that although compared with the traditional PC platform of online games, the investment is less and there are more opportunities, but without a good idea, the mobile game platform will not be easy to get ahead. It's actually a black hole in itself.

And one of the most obvious is the flappybird developed by the Vietnamese,Downloaded only a few dozen times in the Appstore for half a year,It's almost unexpected,This game will also be the same as other games,Devoured by the same kind of Appstore,But the world is unpredictable,Half a year later, suddenly because of the recommendation of otaku on several forums in the name of sadistic games,It quickly became popular。

The fire is inexplicable, and the fire even makes the original author's money collector weak, and he is scared to remove the game from the shelves.

And what Zheng Xiumin has to do now is to find the common ground of these popular games and package them with another good idea.

But not only did the idea not land, but also the common denominator of the popular game was not found.

For example, Plants vs. Zombies, Crazy Birds designed exquisite levels, with pleasant background music, the latecomer little crocodile loves to take a bath is also similar to this, and the rope cutting level is numerous, the ingenuity is impressive, and candycrush goes further, with comfortable music, exquisite levels, clever arrangement of game progress, firmly control the appetite of gamers, crazy guessing pictures in addition to the design of exquisite pictures and ideas, innovative SNS communication for help, Created an amazing viral marketing spectacle, last summer, the entire Weibo actually had a part of the traffic is crazy guessing pictures and help-seeking information, WeChat is naturally inevitable.

But if design matters, art matters, music matters, then what does Flappybird have? It's just a little bird flying and flying, the background is even Super Mario's water pipe, the sound effect is poor, the picture is scum, and even this kind of creativity has been around for a long time, as early as the Palm era, there was a similar game of airplanes drilling caves, so what is its trick?

Zheng Xiumin couldn't answer, and Qi Na couldn't answer.

So Zheng Xiumin slumped in his seat and said to Qi Na: "Aren't we without the life of the game!" ”

Qi Na thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, we will set up a product manager system and promote some product-conscious employees from the existing staff to be product managers, so that you don't have to rush to the front line of creative ideas, just listen to the product manager's report." ”

Zheng Xiumin flatly refused: "How can I be a deserter at this time!" I'm going to be the product manager. ”

Qi Na was dumbfounded, and coaxed Zheng Xiumin again: "Then I'll mix it up and do it with you." ”

Zheng Xiumin nodded, didn't say much, Qi Nazhi said that she had other ideas, but since she didn't say it, she should acquiesce.

He said again: "Then that's all for today, you go back early to rest, and let go of all the overtime work upstairs." You will die of overwork. ”

Zheng Xiumin smiled and nodded.

But Kina didn't leave the office, and he was determined to use his determination to develop SPE to break down the barrier of game development.

What is the most important point of the game?

Picture, idea, music, perfect flow, Qi Na released a page in front of him, with four squares on it. But soon hit an X.

Qi Na covered it with a larger square and wrote two words: fun.

A good game is to be fun, not fun, no matter how fine and beautiful the picture is, no matter how unique the idea, how beautiful the music is, or there is no gap in the process story, it will not be accepted by players.

In other words, no matter what idea or other features you have, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that a certain feature in the game is accepted by players, then the game will have a part of the audience, or if there are multiple features accepted by players, then the game will become a popular game.

For example, flappybird has a lot of people, so it will be popular for a while, and crazy guessing is similar, but it will be popular for a longer time, but soon everyone will be disgusted with them, because the fun will soon disappear.

In particular, crazy guessing requires the accumulation of knowledge from the side, and lacks the fun of the game. If SNS sharing becomes a spam-like harassment, then decline is inevitable.

But what about other games, there are still players, because they are all interesting, so it doesn't matter if it is **** elimination, Lianliankan, parkour or even board games, it doesn't matter, the first thing is to ensure that the picture is beautiful, the music is beautiful, the story is wonderful, and the levels are exquisite, these are the basic qualities of the game, and then find some better ideas, angles, the possibility of the game being popular is greatly enhanced.

This idea is not profound, why wouldn't Zheng Xiumin think from this angle?

Qi Na thinks about her **** attitude towards the product manager and herself to participate in the project today, and she understands that Zheng Xiumin is in the state that after Wu Jun, Doris, and Qi Na entered the company, Emily, Meg, Lina and others may also enter the company, and her mentality has changed.

She grasped the link of the game and resolutely wanted to find her support point in the life online website and not let others look down on her.

But Zheng Xiumin is not such a person in his heart, he still remembers the first time he saw her, a refreshing, neat and neat atmospheric girl, who has changed so much in less than a year, or this is her original face.

Qi Na immediately dispelled this idea and began to introspect, Zheng Xiumin found out several times, and was already very sure that Qi Na herself had many women outside, but she did not go to a showdown with Qi Na, and left with her son, just like Lisa.

But this incident is enough to change her behavior and affect her thinking, she can see it clearly if she finds a support point in the company, she is out of anxiety about Qi Na, rather than pinning the rest of her life on a man with a heart, it is better to have her own career and be the master of her own life.

Qi Na then corrected his own concept.

Zheng Xiumin should be more reluctant to rely on others, but more independent.

Xiaoxue is the same, she chose a sales job, and is unwilling to be attached to her wings, maybe she also has some sense of self-improvement and self-reliance, of course, it may also be distrust of Qi Na - there are too many women, now Zheng Xiumin and Xiaoxue are still very beautiful, they feel that Qi Na can continue to like them, but five or ten years later, people are old and yellow, and Qi Na accepts younger girls, and their advantages are gone.

Qi Na sighed, this is the ingenious calculation of the inevitable petty burghers.