Chapter 7: This project is getting cold
It didn't take long for a big, unkempt young man who looked to be twenty-seven or eighteen years old to Liu Yuxin's office.
"Director Liu, you are looking for me." The young man nodded and said.
Liu Yuxin nodded: "Yes." Let me introduce you, this is an intern who just came to our project, Zhong Ming. This is the world architect of our project, Kai Xiong. β
"Hello." Zhong Ming stretched out his hand.
Xiong Kai shook his hand very perfunctorily: "You are the newcomer who is very good at drawing?" Welcome. β
Liu Yuxin said: "Xiong Kai, you take Zhong Ming to the project to go around and get to know other people." As for the work...... You look at it and give him points, he has no experience, you take him more. β
Xiong Kai nodded: "Okay, Director Liu, don't worry." β
Xiong Kai walked out with Zhong Ming and introduced the whole project to Zhong Ming.
"There's the program team over there, and they're all uncles, so we have to beg them to fulfill our needs. Look at the ...... in the plaid shirt Forget it, they're all wearing plaid shirts, I mean the one who's drinking water right now, that's the main program. Don't call them technicians, or don't blame me for not warning you when they beat you up. β
"There's the art team over there.,It's all uncles.,But they're a little easier to bully than the program.,My main job is to deal with them.,You should be the same in the future.γ However, the art team of our project is a bit understaffed, and several people have been transferred to other groups. I heard that you are good at drawing, just right. β
"This is the design team, you can first take this vacant seat next to me, you can get to know the others slowly, and do the work I gave you first......
"As for other departments, such as finance, human resources, and other project teams, many of them are on other floors, so please ask if you need them."
Xiong Kai took Zhong Ming around and gave a general introduction to the personnel of the project.
Although everything that should be introduced has been introduced, Zhong Ming can clearly feel that Xiong Kai's attitude is very perfunctory, without any enthusiasm.
This is a bit of a pain, Zhong Ming is only an intern now, and there will not be too many opportunities to receive tasks directly from the chief designer, let alone the supervisor Liu Yuxin. Maybe for most of the future, Zhong Ming mainly dealt with Xiong Kai, but he still had a stinky face.
However, after turning around this circle, Zhong Ming confirmed one thing, that is, the situation of this project is indeed not very good.
He had heard of the project "Mecha Era" before, this is a game on a bracelet, it can also be seen as a mobile game in this world, it has been online for half a year, and the data at the beginning is not very good, the monthly turnover is only more than 7 million, and now it is estimated to be even lower, and it is doubtful whether it can reach one million.
A look at the situation of the project team is even more confirmatory, there are several programs that are fishing, and the design team is also playing with bracelets, secretly reading novels, and watching videos, and the chief designer has no intention of caring at all.
The most exaggerated thing is that on the art side, there are only four artists left in the entire project, two original artists and two modelers, and the others have been transferred to other projects.
It's no wonder that there aren't enough people.
Zhong Ming sat down at his desk and turned on the computer. Xiong Kai impatiently instructed him to log in to his employee account, go to the intranet to download some relevant design documents and game resources to the computer, and then download "Mecha Era" on the bracelet to familiarize himself with the game first.
These design documents and game resources are encrypted, and they cannot be copied or taken away, so they must be read and modified on their own work computers, and each step of the operation is recorded in detail.
After all, Zhong Ming is only an intern now, and his authority is very low.
It's only the first day of work, and Zhong Ming hasn't even played the game "Mecha Era" carefully, so he definitely can't start working right away.
There was nothing to do all morning, Zhong Ming just flipped through the design documents, and then played the game "Mecha Era".
In fact, Zhong Ming only played for two hours, and he thoroughly understood this game.
The gameplay of the game is actually quite simple, that is, to collect mechas, mecha battles, it is a turn-based war chess game, and the payment point is to draw mecha parts and match a new mecha lineup.
In all respects, there is not much difference from the mobile games that Zhong Ming played in his previous life, and the biggest difference should be the form of expression. The game is represented by the hologram of the bracelet, and all the mechs are three-dimensional images, and the effect of the fight is also very gorgeous.
But I can clearly feel that this game is quite deserted. Zhong Ming also deliberately chose a new area, but after entering, the chat channels were all advertised, and there were few living people.
It seems that this game is not far from the dog leash.,There's no publicity funding.,There's no fresh blood flowing in.,With the collective de-pit of old players.,Optimistic estimates,The game will soon stop updating the version.,It's estimated that there will be three or five months to close.γThe end of life.γ
At noon, Xiong Kai took Zhong Ming to the staff canteen of the Guangyi Mutual Entertainment Building to eat. Some of the others sneaked out at noon, some brought their own food, and some ate in the cafeteria with Xiong Kai and Zhong Ming, but no one talked about the project at all during the meal.
Apparently everyone has lost interest in the project.
Zhong Ming and the rest of the design team also got to know him, but everyone's attitude towards him was relatively average, and they were not particularly enthusiastic.
After all, everyone is in a state of eating and waiting for death, no one knows that the project will still be there after three months, if the project is really cut, these people will either be transferred to other groups or dismissed, and in this state, everyone is too lazy to make new friends.
And Zhong Ming doesn't know if it's his own delusion, as if other people don't have a good face for this Xiong Kai? I feel that he is very annoying.
In the afternoon, Zhong Ming continued to review the design documents.
The design document of this world is still very different from the previous life, it is a special format file. After the design document is written according to certain rules, the editor can automatically implement a large part of it, which can greatly reduce the workload of programmers.
Therefore, the progress of game production in this world is very fast, and a mobile game like "Mecha Era" can release a new version in two weeks.
Therefore, if Zhong Ming wants to write documents by himself, he must first learn this special format, otherwise programmers will definitely not do it for him.
Zhong Ming was looking at the document, and Xiong Kai, who was sitting next to him, suddenly said, "You are good at drawing, right?" β
Zhong Ming looked at him: "It's okay, what's wrong?" β
Zhong Ming felt a little wrong, since he met Xiong Kai, Xiong Kai has been intentionally or unintentionally mentioning the topic of "you are good at drawing", at least three times.
Zhong Ming is indeed good at drawing, but that has nothing to do with his current work, right?
Xiong Kai said in a natural tone: "I sent you a concept map, you can complete the concept map into the original painting." β
Zhong Ming looked at the computer screen, Xiong Kai had already sent a drawing file, which was a concept map of a new mecha.