Chapter 79: The situation is grim
Zhong Ming got up from the sofa and shook hands with Zhu Yang.
"Fortunately, I was also driven to the shelves, and we will work together in the future." Zhu Yang's attitude is very modest, or too modest, and it seems a bit hypocritical.
Director Xie said happily: "Okay, then Zhu Yang, you take Xiao Zhong to his workstation, first familiarize yourself with the work, and get to know everyone else." Xiao Zhong is the person who Mr. Lu specially gave to our project, Mr. Lu praised him for being very talented and a good seedling, don't bury it for others. ”
Zhu Yang nodded: "Hey, thank you, Director, don't worry." ”
Zhu Yang led Zhong Ming out of Director Xie's office and walked towards his own workstation.
Walking on the road, the bell rang and looked around, this project team can be mini.
There are several projects on this floor, and Zhong Ming's current 52 project team is just one of them, and there are only a dozen people in everyone, four designers, two artists, five programs, plus some people who are responsible for other trivial work, which is all the people.
Among these four designs, Zhu Yang is the chief designer, Zhang Xiaowen is an intern, and there is a value, plus Zhong Ming, which is all the manpower of the design team.
Two artists, one is responsible for interface UI design, and the other is the main artist, responsible for other art resources.
When he came to the project team, Zhu Yang briefly introduced several core members of the project to Zhong Ming, that is, those who need to deal with each other often in the future.
"This is the main artist of our project, Lao Li."
"This is the main program, Brother Dahui."
"This is the numerical ...... of our design team"
"I'm glad I will."
After introducing them one by one, Zhong Ming came to his workstation and sat down, and Zhu Yang began to arrange work.
"Our project is an educational game, the original design was with the educational institutions, and I listened to a lot of their opinions, but you should know what happened later, so the game itself has also made a lot of modifications. Anyway, I've got a bracelet for you, you can experience the game first, then flip through the design documents, and I'll tell you about the work tomorrow. ”
Zhu Yang handed Zhong Ming a bracelet for testing, and then continued to busy his own business.
Now Zhong Ming probably has an understanding of this project.
To put it simply, this is basically a project with no future, it was supposed to be a tailor-made game for customers with a lot of stupid money, and it turned out that the educational institution went bankrupt, which is equivalent to doing it for nothing.
But it's impossible to say that a good project is just pulled down, right? Therefore, the senior management of Guangyi Interactive Entertainment still decided to let this game be put on the game market, but if it can make a little money, then don't cut it first.
However, the goal of "making a little money" is difficult enough in Zhong Ming's opinion......
He opened the test bracelet and ran around the game a little.
Five minutes later.
Zhong Ming was sure that if he could make money in this game, he would rather die on tofu.
This is a teaching software for young children!
In the skin of a game, it's actually all the hell inside!
Feed the animal: Feed the critter the food it likes to eat.
Packing blocks: Place the appropriately shaped blocks in a specific location.
Comparison: Find the largest/thickest/slowest in a pile of objects...... of the one.
Find a location: On a road surface, put all kinds of vehicles where they should be driving.
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There are many games like this, in addition to math training, right brain training, literacy, stick figures, etc., and the most shocking thing is that there are nursery rhymes, and there are some very simple games, such as fruit lianlian, to help children quickly remember all kinds of fruits......
It's quite a lot of tricks, but the question is, who would play with this kind of thing......
After flipping through the previous design documents, Zhong Ming probably understood that many of these contents were required by that educational institution, that is to say, this is the product of a layman guiding an insider, and it is not easy to insist on achieving this level now.
It's no wonder that the previous chief designer wants to run, even if this project is made and launched, it won't help the resume......
And judging from the situation of this project, it is estimated that the previous main designer was also tired of being a dog before running. Looking at Director Xie's appearance, he is completely a hands-off shopkeeper, a Buddhist leader, and it is estimated that he basically can't give any constructive advice at ordinary times; Zhu Yang, it can't be said that he is not serious about his work, but this is obviously a person who can only do it, there is no problem in sharing the work, and don't expect to share the pressure; The other two people are in charge of the numbers, and the other is just a miscellaneous intern, so they can't help.
And what kind of value does this game want?,The position is a value.,In fact, it's used by a system designer or a functional designer.。
It is conceivable that the previous chief designer was also tortured by this project, and he couldn't bear it before leaving......
Zhong Ming silently took a sip of water, this situation was much more serious than he imagined.
This project feels that there is no need to save it, so it is recommended to bury it on the spot, right?
It's not that Zhong Ming discriminates against a certain type of game, but the only way to make money from this so-called educational game is to cooperate with some educational institutions.
Right now, this game.,Even if it's all tested.,There's not a single bug.,It's a hit on the game market.。
Elementary school students don't like to play!
Zhong Ming felt a lot of pressure, and if the project didn't make money, it meant that there was no bonus.
No bonuses...... What a terrible day it must have been!
How can this work!
He has raised his salary now, and he was promoted after becoming a regular, according to the internal standards of Guangyi Mutual Entertainment, the salary has been raised to 7000/month, which can be said to be very good. Of course, the comparison with Xiong Kai is still slightly lower, after all, the project he is in is sluggish, and the working years are not enough.
Part of the salary in Guangyi Mutual Entertainment is paid according to the number of years, Zhong Ming has only worked for more than a month, and the salary can only be based on the minimum standard of each position.
If you follow the normal script process, Zhong Ming's next job is to pat his head and think of a few new ways to play that are more mentally retarded, enrich the content library of this game, and then change the packaging of other gameplay, and then make some suggestions for modification, fix bugs, and finally wait for the game to be launched and hang it on the application market, and then resign it to fate.
But Zhong Ming definitely doesn't want to act according to this script, knowing that going forward is a dead end and still moving forward, isn't that a head iron? It's a waste of life.
Zhong Ming pondered how to pull out this project that was about to enter the ground and rescue it again......
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The day passed quickly.
At noon, Zhu Yang warmly greeted Zhong Ming and Zhang Xiaowen to go to the company canteen to eat together, and it could be seen that the atmosphere inside the whole project was relatively harmonious, and there was no special sadness and despair.
As for why...... Maybe it's because the people who can stay until now are relatively unhearted......
Obviously, the people who realized that the project was destined to be cold have already run away, such as the previous chief designer, and now those who remain are a group of people who have never thought much about the future of the project, just waiting for the project to be launched and resigned to fate, in other words, they are all relatively big-hearted.
But that's fine, at least these people aren't as intriguing and distracting as the Mecha Era project, and it's a little more comfortable to work in this environment.