Director Xie was a little unconvinced: "Is that so?" It won't affect us much? ”

Zhong Ming explained: "There will definitely be an impact, before we were the only ones who did this kind of answering questions to share the prize, it was to eat alone, of course it was very comfortable." But now that many families are following up, it doesn't mean that we are sure that we can't do it. In fact, for most people, two million is money, and one million is also money, and most of them will participate in both, which will affect our popularity, but the impact should not be great. ”

"If a few of them grab the 8 o'clock stall with us, it doesn't matter, let's change the time, 12 noon, 1 o'clock, 7 o'clock in the evening until 11 o'clock, it's okay. Of course, it is not certain whether the specific time should be changed, and I don't think these companies will come up with us as soon as they come up. ”

"What's more, these companies spend so much money, and basically no sponsors will invest money for them in the early stage, and they will pay for it themselves. So we can continue to negotiate with the sponsors, or the previous price, and make money first. In the future, just take one step at a time and see one step at a time. ”

Director Xie scratched his bald head: "This ...... Wouldn't it be too passive? ”

"It's passive, but there's no other way." Zhong Ming said, "The money itself is not a high-tech thing, and there is no copyright protection. I don't think there's any need to join this money war, it's their business to scatter coins, and we can earn as much as we can. ”

Director Xie was a little helpless: "Hearing you say this, it seems that there is really no good way." But the new version still has to be done, right? Daily R&D has to continue. ”

"Director Xie, to be honest, I think it's very okay for the project "Learning the Sea" to achieve this level. You can do the new version, but you don't need to invest the manpower of the whole project, just divide one design and two programmers to do the work. Why don't we take a long-term view and start a new project? ”

Director Xie was stunned for a moment: "Start a new project? ”

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes, "Learning the Sea Without Bounds" and the million-dollar coin scattering activity continue to be profitable, just to ask the high-level for resources and people, let's open a new project." ”

Director Xie thought for a while: "It's not impossible. The key is, what do we do with the new project? Do you still make educational games? ”

Zhong Ming shook his head: "I hope to make regular games, bracelet games, computer games, in short, no longer do educational games." The popularity of "Learning from the Sea" is completely accidental, and of course, it is also a product of the current environment. But if you want to do the second "Endless Learning", it is basically impossible. This idea can only be used once. ”

Director Xie asked, "Then, if we develop a new project, we should have to fill in the personnel, right?" Moreover, most of us have no relevant experience, so I don't know if the above can give us a project. Then let's do it first, I'll tell Mr. Lu about the new project, and then you will also come up with a new version in the next two days to deal with it. ”

Zhong Ming nodded: "Okay." ”

……

The new version is easy to say, it is nothing more than to make some improvements to "Learning the Sea" and improve the gameplay. Zhong Ming still has some ideas, which are directly written into the design document, and the new version of the document of "Learning the Boundless" is completed.

The functions are not complicated, and the program can take the time to do it.

Zhong Ming is more concerned about the new project.

"Learning the Boundless" is no longer interesting, and in the future, it will be nothing more than routine maintenance and improvement, which can be done by everyone. The popularity of this kind of answering game will naturally decline, which is a general rule, and it is basically impossible to reverse it by yourself.

Therefore, Zhong Ming wanted to take advantage of the success of the project "Learning the Boundless" to ask Director Xie to ask the senior management to set up a new project.

In the afternoon, Director Xie called Zhong Ming to the office again.

"The top brass disagrees."

Director Xie obviously took a lot of speech, and the whole person looked a little tired, and drank water vigorously.

Zhong Ming was not too surprised, and asked, "What is the reason?" ”

Director Xie sighed lightly: "I think the personnel composition of our project does not have the ability to develop regular large-scale games. As for small bracelet games, the company has enough of them, and they don't plan to open new projects. In fact, to put it bluntly, the company still believes in the potential of our project in educational games, and hopes that we can continue to promote "Learning the Sea", or develop a new low-cost game similar to "The Endless of the Learning". ”

Zhong Ming nodded: "I understand." ”

Director Xie originally thought that Zhong Ming would be very disappointed, but now it seems that he has not, as if this is also in his expectation.

"Zhong Ming, I know that you are a person with ideas, or it is not too much to say that you are a genius. You can even do projects like "Endless Learning", and other regular game projects will definitely be no problem. Even your ability is stronger than mine, and more than most of the directors of Lightwing Entertainment. If you want to pursue better development, I can tell Mr. Lu that if you are transferred to a better project to exercise, although it is unlikely that you will be directly promoted to the chief designer, it is definitely no problem to continue to be a world architect. Director Xie said.

Zhong Ming shook his head: "No need. ”

As for why he didn't use it, Zhong Ming didn't say anything more, and Director Xie didn't ask again. It's just that Director Xie has a vague feeling that someone like Zhong Ming will leave sooner or later, and maybe Guangyi Entertainment is just a temporary place for him to rest.

"Oh yes, Director Xie, there's one more thing. Can you say hello to Mr. Lu and transfer a program from the "Mecha Era" project? It just so happens that we are also a little short of manpower. Zhong Ming said.

Director Xie was stunned: "From Lao Liu's project to the important person? Who do you want? What about his own will? ”

Zhong Ming said: "He himself really wants to come over, his name is Zhou Sen, I have worked with him, the technology is fine, and his temper is good." ”

Director Xie nodded: "Okay, I'll talk to Mr. Lu when I go back." If a new project doesn't come, it should be okay to ask for a program. ”

……

Zhong Ming returned to his workstation and finished his work and paddled daily.

The rejection of the high-level was expected by him, but Zhong Ming actually had a little bit of luck, and felt that Mr. Lu would agree.

Of course, the reality is harsh.

Guangyi Interactive Entertainment is like many large companies, there is a procedure for the establishment of a project, after all, each project is equivalent to the company providing resources for the project director, and in the end it loses money, which is mainly due to the company's losses, and the supervisor has no bonus at most, and the salary that should be there will not be less than a penny.

Whether the project can be approved or not is nothing more than whether the company's senior management is optimistic about the project, which mainly depends on: the quality of the game design draft or DEMO, the director and the project's R&D experience, investment and risk assessment, and so on.

According to the general project approval process, the chief designer and supervisor do a good job of the design concept draft of the new game, or find a program to make a DEMO (sample) and show it to the leader in charge. At this time, the company's senior management will comprehensively evaluate the prospects, risks, and general investment of the game, and if it is appropriate, it will be done, and if it is not suitable, it will be changed.

Of course, for some celebrity producers, these steps can be omitted, after all, people are famous, there are well-known games, there are a large number of fans among players, as long as he says what he wants to do, the company will immediately give money.

But for most supervisors, especially those like Lao Xie, what projects they want to do is not entirely up to them.