First day of work.

Zhong Ming deliberately waited at the door of the studio, holding a large stack of red envelopes in his hand.

The first to come was Jiang Wanna, who basically arrived with Zhong Ming, and was surprised to see Zhong Ming: "Hey, you came so early today." ”

"Why do you come so early today, haven't I always come early? New Year's red envelopes, draw one yourself. Zhong Ming handed the stack of red envelopes in his hand forward.

Jiang Wanna was pleasantly surprised: "Hey, what about the red envelopes?" Yes, you can, it's good to go. Does everyone have it? ”

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes." ”

"Then it's not appropriate for your boss to give out red envelopes here, or you give it to me." Jiang Wanna wanted to take all the red envelopes in Zhong Ming's hand.

"What's wrong with the boss giving out red envelopes, it's only appropriate for the boss to send red envelopes. Or, you take the red envelope and I hand it to someone else. Zhong Ming said.

Jiang Wanna thought for a while: "That's okay, it looks a little more formal." ”

She took the red envelope from Zhong Ming's hand and stood aside.

It didn't take long for someone to come again. It's a new original painting, Xiao Mu.

Seeing someone at the door, Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment.

Zhong Ming took the red envelope from Jiang Wanna and handed it over: "New Year's red envelope, start work." ”

Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly took it: "Okay, thank you!" ”

pinched the red envelope, it is estimated that there is three or five hundred yuan in it, which is not much, but on the first day of work, there is a red envelope to take, which still makes Xiao Mu feel warm in his heart.

Xiao Mu received the red envelope and prepared to go inside.

As a result, I happened to see the couplet at the door.

"Write code, employees work overtime and are willing to be public servants and selfless dedication; Recharge krypton gold to draw boxes, players sell blood and kidneys, and love is boundless. ”

"Flutter!"

Xiao Mu almost laughed out loud at that time, it was too funny!

It's also very much in line with the essence of a game company.

Moreover, this word is really beautiful, the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, and I don't know who was invited to write it, which master's handwriting.

Soon, within a few minutes, everyone else also arrived one after another, and the red envelopes prepared by Zhong Ming were quickly distributed one by one, and everyone was very happy, introducing each other and getting to know each other.

Zhong Ming has already divided the workstations, and put signs on each workstation, and you can sit directly on the number.

Of course, the place is quite large, so the existing people only occupy a part, and there is still room for further expansion of personnel in the future.

Xiao Mu sat down in his seat, busy installing software on the computer, upgrading the system, and so on.

Computers, also before the holiday Zhong Ming asked everyone, according to the needs to configure, but bought without unpacking, everyone took it themselves, their own dismantling, so this morning, everyone is basically busy arranging the work environment.

Next to Xiao Mu, there is an action artist, and the name plate on the workstation says Lin Dawei, who is tall and looks like he should be a relatively easy character to get along with.

"Hello, I'm the original painting, Xiao Mu, I just came to this company, and I'll take care of you in the future." Xiao Mu stretched out his hand.

Lin Dawei hurriedly shook his hand: "Lin Dawei, action art." Hey, I'm new here, so let's help each other. ”

These two people are still relatively easy to become friends because there is no direct relationship between their work.

Xiao Mu made the original painting, and after the painting, it was handed over to the model, and then the modeling was handed over to Lin Dawei to do the action.

Without a direct partnership, there will be very few cases of tearing, and it will be easier to become friends......

"Well, who is our boss, do you know ......" Xiao Mu asked in a low voice.

Lin Dawei felt very strange: "It's the one that sends out red envelopes, why don't you even figure out the boss......"

"He? I thought he was the main artist......"

Xiao Mu was a little confused.

When I interviewed before, it was Zhong Ming who interviewed him directly, and he also gave him a lot of guidance. Although it was not a particularly detailed guidance, he benefited a lot from a few words.

As a result, such a high level, is it the boss?

It's not that it's impossible, it's just that it's really rare to see a boss from an art background.

Because many art masters don't mean that they understand game design, if they come out to be a producer, they will change careers, and laymen will guide insiders, and it is easy to mess up the game.

It's not enough to just be the boss, you can't even participate in the game design, so who is this company? The boss, who can't even control the product, basically has no sense of existence.

Therefore, many art masters either cooperate with producers who know the roots, or go to art outsourcing companies on their own.

As an independent game studio, the first premise must be to understand design. Then, it is indeed too rare for a boss like Zhong Ming, who is proficient in art and design, and so young.

Lin Dawei said: "I am a fan of the boss, and I know him on Weibo, it's too awesome!" I only graduated last year, and then I jumped out and started my own studio. I did a quiz game, I made a virtual idol, and then I made three pieces of an independent game, and all of them became ......"

Xiao Mu: "...... Sounds like. ”

"It's true, so when I saw the job posting, I came without asking anything, it's awesome. With this kind of boss, I feel like I can lie down and win. Lin Dawei said.

Xiao Mu nodded, feeling deeply sympathetic.

The young boss feels very unreliable, but if it is a young boss who has already had a successful work, then he will not feel unreliable, but will feel that the future is limitless!

In the morning, everyone was busy with their own work, registering internal chat accounts, opening intranet permissions, etc., Zhou Sen was busy for a long time, and finally helped everyone get all the permissions.

Zhong Ming didn't plan to engage in those virtual things, like holding a meeting to fight chicken blood, team building to break the ice, no.

Maybe because of personal preference, Zhong Ming doesn't like these relatively empty things with a sense of ritual very much.

Of course, strictly speaking, this kind of ritual is still useful, whether it is to boost morale or to bring employees closer, so many companies are engaged in it, of course, there is a certain amount of truth.

However, Zhong Ming feels that truly reliable employees can complete tasks with due diligence and work hard to communicate with others, and there is no need for team building to break the ice to bring employees closer; A truly reliable company and a reliable project, everyone can do their job to get things done, and there is no need to rely on beating chicken blood and squeezing employees to earn that meager profit.

So Zhong Ming didn't do so many virtual things, but just explained some basic things to the new administrative assistant, such as which person in charge to go to when I encounter problems at work, reimbursement to find finance, where to go for dinner, and so on. If a new employee has a question, just ask the administrative assistant.

Zhong Ming said that the little girl who was an administrative assistant was taking notes carefully, nodding frequently, and her attitude was quite serious.

The little girl of the administrative assistant is called Miao Zhu, she is slim and has two small dimples when she laughs, which is very good-looking.

Miao Zhu had worked in a large company for a year before and had some work experience, and Zhong Ming felt that she was still more serious and responsible, so she was recruited.

Of course, Zhou Sen's opinion is also more critical, and he strongly requires that this girl must be recruited, unless she recruits someone who looks better.

Zhong Ming hated this kind of ugly face of the appearance association, criticized Zhou Sen fiercely, and then sent an admission email to Miao Zhu.

On the design team's side, the pressure on the new world architects is huge.

The new world architect is called Fu Xing'an, who used to do plots and has no experience as a world architect. However, Zhong Ming is more optimistic about his literary talents, graduated from the Literature Department of the Eight Classics, and has written several short stories, and he has read a lot of them.

Of course, this is a good thing for Fu Xing'an, to be a world architect, that is a solid step on the road to the main designer, but this is Shimmer Studio after all, there have been brilliant drama works similar to "Latent Red Path", for Fu Xing'an, of course, Alexander.

As for the numerical designer, his name is Jia Jia, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics and is three years older than Zhong Ming. With the rigor and patience of a science student, he especially prefers card games.

These two will be Zhong Ming's right-hand men in the future, one deceives the liver and the other cheats Krypton, oh no, one does the plot and the other does the value.

In addition, there are testing, customer service, human resources, finance, legal affairs, etc., which are responsible for some other affairs of the company.

However, these people do not belong to the R&D group.

……

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming posted a message in the internal chat group: "At 3 o'clock in a while, all the members of the R&D team (design, programming, and art) will come to the conference room for a meeting to meet the design plan of the new game. ”

The meeting room is your own, so you can use it whenever you want, and you don't need to make a reservation. But to the surprise of many people, this rhythm is a bit fast!

If you are in another company, you may not arrange any particularly important work in the first week of your new employee's employment, and you will basically focus on learning and step by step, after all, everyone has just arrived in a new environment, and you are not familiar with anything, and the work may not be particularly smooth.

But in Shimmer Studios, there is obviously no such thing. Normal working hours and no overtime as much as possible must be very productive.

Soon, the people arrived.

On the side of the R&D team, there are a total of 16 people.

Although they don't know each other completely, they at least know the heads of their respective departments. It was the first time this kind of meeting was held, and everyone was a little curious.

Zhong Ming stood up and looked at the people present.

Well, there's a lot of talent.

These are all people he personally recruited, and of course they are all very satisfied.

"First of all, welcome to Shimmer Studios. Polite words, I won't say much, and there really is nothing to say. If you spend more time with me, you will know that I hate those cumbersome rituals, I just hope that you can do one thing well, that is, do your own job, as long as you can do it, then just wait to lie down and make money. ”

"I know you're all new to an unfamiliar environment and it will take a while to get used to new colleagues, new projects, new ways of working, and so on. It doesn't matter, you can get used to it slowly at work. ”

"The atmosphere in our studio is relatively relaxed, and when you complete your own work, you can play games and watch dramas, and it's no problem in front of me. Of course, the premise is that the work is done well. ”

"That's pretty much it, let's give you a brief description of the game we're going to develop next."

"Taigo Picture Scroll."

There was a projector in the conference room, and Zhong Ming's design draft, which had already been written, appeared on the projector screen.

The people down there are all confused.

Taigo picture scroll?

The name is completely indistinguishable from the content of the game.

Zhong Ming introduced: "It's still an indie game, and the content is not too complicated, but overall, it's a sandbox game with mythology and martial arts elements. ”

“…… Sandbox games, everyone understands, right? ”

Zhong Ming was afraid that someone wouldn't understand, so he asked a special question.

The people below looked at each other, Jia Jia, Fu Xing'an, and a few others all nodded and said, "Understood." ”

Zhong Ming didn't say that he looked down on this group of people too much, the main thing was that everyone's expressions were too stiff, which made him wonder a little, what was going on with everyone's expressions? Don't know about sandbox games?

Many people complain in their hearts, they don't know about sandbox games, but they didn't expect you to make sandbox games!

The key is a sandbox game that contains elements of mythology and martial arts.

Look at the name of "Taiwu Picture Scroll" on the street, well, this game feels like it hasn't started yet, and it's half cool......

It's not that you can't do it, it's just that this kind of game is not something that independent game studios can control in most people's minds.

Sandbox means rich content, but it also means higher development costs, and even many large companies, such as Lightwing Entertainment, basically dare not touch this game genre.

Guangyi Interactive Entertainment has invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop the game "Sword World", which has been developed for a year, is not a sandbox game, but a more traditional MMORPG.

Why?

Because the stakes are too great!

When a sandbox game is made, it is either applauded and popular, and the lifespan is as long as several years or more than ten years; Either it's a mess and a scolding of blood, and there is basically no middle option.

However, there are too few of the former.

Most sandbox games depict a very beautiful scene and blueprint for players, making players feel that the game is going to blow up, but after going online, the repeated game content, boring gameplay, and all kinds of promised game content instantly become empty checks, causing a huge psychological gap for players, and then it induces the collapse of word-of-mouth and the cliff-like decline in ratings.

Has any of the world's indie game studios ever made a classic sandbox game?

Yes, but very few!

Moreover, it is even more difficult to integrate mythology and martial arts elements into it as Zhong Ming said!

Since there are martial arts, most of them are traditional Chinese-style games, and it is not a simple small project to integrate these cultural elements into the gameplay.

Moreover, it is not necessarily pleasing to please, it is likely that you have racked your brains to do a lot of gameplay, and as a result, players will not only not buy it, but will scold, what the hell are you doing!

Of course, everyone is unhappy in their hearts, and they dare not say it.

Even on the surface, you have to show a smile, a "boss, you are really right" expression.

No way, on the first day of work, you have to give the boss a face.