Director Xie himself is not a star producer, and he has not done any particularly successful projects, the only thing worth mentioning may be "Learning the Sea" and millions of coins, but it is not a regular game.

The top management obviously didn't trust Director Xie and the project's ability to develop regular games, so they were not willing to invest money at all.

Zhong Ming could have written a detailed design concept draft to fight for it, but if he thought about it, forget it, even if he wrote it, there was not much chance.

If it is a game with a relatively large investment, such as some high-quality bracelet games, computer games, etc., the company will never approve it, even if the design draft is well written, it is estimated that it will be directly taken by the company to some experienced teams to develop, and will not be handed over to Director Xie.

If you invest in a small game, you have to make a feature that is completely different from the games on the market. But in that case, in the eyes of the company's senior management, it may be a moth game, and there is no previous successful experience to refer to, and most of them still do not approve the project.

Therefore, the current situation is unsolvable, and it is not something that Zhong Ming can win at all.

In this case, it is better to calmly earn two months of bonuses and slowly find better opportunities.

Of course, if you want to avoid these idleness, the best way is to open your own company, studio, and do your own projects, but the threshold in this world is very high.

If you want to make a very ordinary bracelet game by yourself, you need at least one office location, you need about 30 employees, and the development time is at least two or three months. Considering some resources in the game, the minimum investment for the promotion of the game after it is launched is two or three million.

Indie games are much cheaper, but they are also much riskier.

Where the money comes from is the question.

Pay it yourself? It is still very difficult for Zhong Ming to earn two or three million by himself now, because he doesn't want to sell the paintings and music in his hands cheaply.

A better approach is to go to venture capital, or to be attached to a large company. Of course, there are other problems with this, that is, you will be controlled by people, and there will always be people who will point fingers at you, which is very unpleasant.

Moreover, venture capital is not something that can be pulled, and other venture capital companies don't just stuff money into the street to catch individuals, and if they want to get money, they still rely on eloquence and qualifications.

Zhong Ming has only graduated for more than two months and has a woolen qualification.

Does competence matter? Of course it's important, in fact, the venture capital side also hopes to see the ability of each producer, but this thing is imaginary, and you can't see it, so you can only look at the eloquence and qualifications.

Therefore, some producers with successful projects, although they are not capable, can also deceive investors out of money by virtue of qualifications and fools. Of course, these are just the tip of the chaos in the gaming world, and it's no surprise.

Or earn the bonus in hand, this is the right thing.

……

Zhong Ming was fishing, and the small chat group of 3 people in the internal chat software sent a message.

Zhou Sen: "Zhong Ming, what's wrong, can I go to your project?" ”

Zhong Ming replied: "I told Director Xie, it shouldn't be a big problem." However, the matter of the new project is estimated to be yellow, and the boss does not agree with us to do regular games, so it will not be approved. ”

Zhou Sen: "Okay, then I'll wait for the move." ”

After two minutes, Jiang Wanna also replied: "Then I'd better stay in "Mecha Era" first." Oh yes, Zhong Ming, have you heard about the virtual idol contest? ”

"Virtual Idol Contest?" Zhong Ming was stunned for a moment, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Jiang Wanna sent a link: "Click in, do you want the three of us to cooperate?" ”

Zhou Sen: "What is cooperation, I'm not interested." What kind of virtual idols, it's all a lie to your group of female fans.,There's no technical content at all.,I'm a serious programmer.,I usually have to work hard to learn programming knowledge.,There's no time for these moths.。 ”

"Oh, that's a bit of a pity. I think the third prize has a prize of 500,000 yuan. Jiang Wanna replied.

"Huh? The third prize is 500,000 yuan?! What about the first prize? Zhou Sen asked.

Zhong Ming looked at it: "The first prize is 2 million yuan, and he is responsible for the follow-up copyright operation of the virtual image, and there will be a share of income depending on the situation." ”

Zhou Sen: "...... Okay, add me one. Which company did such a big deal? ”

Jiang Wanna was speechless: "You click in and take a look yourself, it's all written on the webpage." ”

Zhong Ming was also browsing the page of the virtual idol contest and found that the organizer of this competition actually knew that it was Xinghua Mutual Entertainment.

Although Xinghua Interactive Entertainment is also an interactive entertainment company, it mainly focuses on virtual idols, and is involved in film and television, songs, dances, etc. Games are also done, but not the main business.

In terms of volume, it is much larger than Light Wing Entertainment.

Xinghua Interactive Entertainment is a large company in the world, and many of its virtual idols are oriented to China, such as Su Bai, who is a frequent guest at virtual idol concerts in various big cities. And virtual idols like Dina also have a good influence in other districts.

A similar virtual idol contest is held every year, but this time the battle is bigger.

This time, there are four levels of awards, the first prize is 2 million yuan, the second prize is 1 million yuan, the third prize is 500,000 yuan, and the excellence award is 100,000 yuan.

There are also additional follow-up copyright operations and promotion agreements for each level of awards, in short, if you can get this award, the follow-up income will definitely not be less.

And the most critical point is that there are two options for this competition, one is the copyright buyout, that is, directly sell the copyright of the virtual idol to Xinghua Mutual Entertainment, if you win the award, the prize money will be doubled directly, that is, the first prize of 2 million will become 4 million! And the follow-up income is also a lot, and Xinghua Mutual Entertainment will definitely spare no effort to help promote; The other is to retain the copyright and simply participate in the competition, and you will still get bonuses, but the follow-up promotion, copyright operation, etc., will be talked about again.

In this kind of virtual idol competition, many event organizers directly buy out the copyright of the entries by default, which is more domineering, and Xinghua Mutual Entertainment can be said to be relatively enlightened this time.

After all, with deep pockets, doing so can attract more people to participate and make a name for yourself.

Strictly speaking, Xinghua Mutual Entertainment's behavior this time can be regarded as a thousand dollars to buy horse bones.

Xinghua Mutual Entertainment is so sure, is the work that won the first prize worthy of these bonuses? Not necessarily, how can the virtual idols selected by the people be better than the virtual idols made by professionals in Xinghua Interactive Entertainment Company?

But the key is that this is an attitude, Xinghua Mutual Entertainment uses this event to promote its own company and the company's virtual idols, and at the same time, it can also attract all kinds of talents who want to enter this industry.

Zhou Sen thought about it for a while: "Well, there are three of us, one is responsible for design, one is responsible for modeling, and one is responsible for programming." It's barely possible. But...... It doesn't feel like there's a shortcoming, right? People's awesome virtual idols all use motion capture, and they also have to develop special artificial intelligence programs for different personalities, which we can't seem to do. ”