Chapter 1009 VR Controller Design
Wednesday morning, April 25th.
Ye Zhizhou came to the office of Chi Xing's studio according to the address given by Lin Wan.
After Lin Wan left Yuyang Games, Ye Zhizhou took over as the new head of Yuyang Games, and the employees of Yuyang Games had already had a casual meal with Lin Wan.
Although there is some reluctance, as the saying goes, there is no banquet in the world, and the work transfer within Tengda Group has always been very frequent, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin also know that they will have to take over sooner or later, so they are not too sad.
What's more, the office location of Chi Xing Studio is also in Jingzhou, which is not far from Yuyang Games, so you can visit the door often, and there will be many opportunities to see it in the future.
Ye Zhizhou came over today to finalize the matter of Chi Xing's studio's new game with Lin Wan.
Previously, Mr. Pei had determined that Chi Xing's studio's first game was a VR game, but the details of how to design this game have not yet been finalized.
Ye Zhizhou is here to help with ideas.
As far as Ye Zhizhou knows, in addition to him and Lin Wan, there is also a product manager in Shenhua's mobile phone department who is responsible for developing VR glasses, and a new chief planner recruited by Chi Xing Studio.
Finalizing the name and details of the game, letting Chi Xing Studio get on the right track as soon as possible, and sometimes entering the development process as soon as possible, is the best way to run in the team.
Ye Zhizhou came to Chi Xing's studio and subconsciously looked at the working environment.
Well, it's really in the same vein as Tengda games and foreign games.
Although Chi Xing Studio has only been established for a short time, there are already employees working at the workstation, and I have to say that the efficiency of this recruitment is still quite high.
Ye Zhizhou came to the conference room and sat down on the vacant seat.
Lin Wan was seriously flipping through the thick stack of resumes, picking out the qualified ones and putting them aside, ready to invite an interview.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lin Wan packed up her resume a little and poked it on the conference table: "It's all here, let's hurry up and start, there are still a few interviews in the afternoon." ”
Ye Zhizhou found that Lin Wan seemed to be getting more and more stylish, and when he first came to the game in Yuyang, he often hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, but now he is becoming more and more like a qualified leader.
"You're very efficient here, it's only been three days, and you've already had new employees?" Ye Zhizhou took a sip of tea and said.
Lin Wan smiled: "Well, as long as you play the brands of Shenhua Group and Tengda Group, and then hang up the successful games of Yuyang Games, the recruitment mailbox will explode immediately." ”
"Many people can't get into the Tengda game department, and they have to take exams, and the welfare treatment here is similar to Tengda, and it is famous, and many game people want to come."
"But...... Stained with Tengda's light, I am also under a lot of pressure, in case the game is not done well, I am really a loss to Mr. Pei. ”
"Let me introduce to you, this is Ye Zhizhou, the current person in charge of Yuyang Games, this is Lao Song, the product manager of Shenhua Group's mobile phone business, and this is Cai Jiadong, the chief designer of Chi Xing Studio......"
Lin Wan quickly introduced everyone present.
Lao Song is the product manager, responsible for borrowing the resources of Shenhua Group to make new VR glasses, and Cai Jiadong is the newly recruited chief designer, whose resume is unknown, but these two seem to be in their thirties and forties, and they should have a lot of experience.
Cai Jiadong shook hands with Ye Zhizhou: "Fortunately, fortunately!" I've played all the games developed by Yuyang Studio, but I didn't expect the main designer to be so young, which really makes me ashamed. ”
Ye Zhizhou hurriedly said: "Everywhere, it is the platform of Tengda Group, if it weren't for Mr. Pei, I guess I would still be an executive planner." ”
After the two sides exchanged business blows, they quickly got to the point.
Lin Wan said while distributing the document: "These are a few points that were decided after the last meeting with Mr. Pei, let's take a look." ”
She looked at Ye Zhizhou: "It's still the same as the workflow of the previous game in Yuyang, first analyze Mr. Pei's intentions, and then determine the specific form of the game." ”
Cai Jiadong took the document with both hands and read it very carefully, with an extremely reverent expression.
Although he is nominally the chief planner of Chi Xing Studio, now his main planner is a fictitious title, just responsible for the execution of the work, and slowly wait until he gets used to the rhythm of work here before he can gradually take over the design work.
Cai Jiadong's resume as a designer is very good-looking, and he has many years of experience as a chief designer in a large domestic game company, and has also brought out successful projects.
There are two reasons why he came to the studio late, one is because the treatment here is better than his original company, and the other is because of the relationship between Tengda Games.
Every game producer actually has a dream in their hearts.
It is true that you can make money by making kryptonite games, but it is only a job, and it will not be very happy. And really being able to make a 3A game of your own, with a bumper harvest of sales and word-of-mouth, is something that designers are really proud of.
Mission & Choice is a game that has reawakened the enthusiasm of many designers like Cai Jiadong who have been dormant for years, so he accepted the job without hesitation.
Although Cai Jiadong has rich experience in game design, the development process of triple-A masterpieces and krypton games is still very different, and it cannot be generalized.
What's more, he had long heard that Tengda Games and Yuyang Games had a very unique game design method that belonged to Mr. Pei, so he took this opportunity to learn it well.
He looked at the documentation and found that there were several hard and fast rules, including the input of the game and VR glasses, the type of game, the general style, and so on.
Cai Jiadong glanced at it twice, and immediately showed a shocked expression on his face.
20 million for glasses and 20 million for games?
Casual game, and in a cartoonish style...... Invest so much money?
Cai Jiadong was puzzled, although there were only a few provisions in this document, but in his experience, these rules were obviously contradictory and simply not workable.
Casual games, cartoon painting venture capital of 20 million is outrageous enough, and it is even necessary to spend another 20 million for a single game to develop a VR glasses?
If it were for other game companies, this proposal would have been rejected immediately, but here...... Seems to have become a habitual thing?
Cai Jiadong was a newcomer, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he could only listen silently.
Lin Wan first looked at the product manager Lao Song: "If the 20 million funds are used to develop VR glasses, what extent can it be achieved?" ”
Lao Song replied truthfully: "It's enough to just develop the glasses body, and it's even a bit wasteful." I suggest that there is no need to invest so much money, after all, the domestic market is not very big, and you can't expect to sell it well. ”
"It's better to make a basic model, fry the concept, and just sell it to recover the cost."
Lin Wan immediately shook her head: "That's not good, the R&D funding can only be more and not less, you can say how much you can do." ”
Lao Song thought for a while: "Then you can only make a fuss about the handle." ”
"But the handle thing...... It seems that it is difficult to make a pattern. ”
"The controller of VR is nothing more than those things, joysticks, buttons and so on."
"There are currently two kinds of controllers, one is relatively simple, one-handed, without a joystick, just a simple touchpad, one or two buttons and a trigger; The other is a bit more complicated, two-handed, with two joysticks, four buttons in the place of the thumb and a trigger in the place of the index finger. ”
"The first one is too simple, and it doesn't cost much if it's purely R&D, and since we have sufficient funds, we must do the second one."
"But the second type is already very functional, and each finger already has buttons, which is also more ergonomic. We don't need to force ourselves to be unconventional and redesign, at most it is just a transformation. ”
"So I think redesign the words...... It doesn't make much sense either. ”
Lin Wan thought for a while: "Then what if we add some more functions?" ”
Lao Song shook his head: "There is nothing to add, the thumbs of both hands have to press the joystick and the four buttons on the front, and the index finger has to press the trigger button, how can you add functions when they are all occupied?" ”
There was a brief silence at the scene, and it was obvious that there was no good way to spend the money.