The next day.

Zhong Ming spent a whole day writing out the complete design draft of "Ink and Smoke".

Of course, it's not particularly complete, it's mainly the basic framework, gameplay, etc., let Brother Dahui and Zhou Sen do it first, and some subsequent things have to be slowly improved.

Zhou Sen was still worried about not seeing Tang Ying yesterday, not saying that Zhong Ming did it on purpose.

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming withdrew in advance, and he was going to go to the studio to see the situation.

According to the address sent by Tang Ying, this studio called "Fantasy Time" is in the northeast of Ming'an City, about ten minutes' drive from here.

Zhong Ming took a taxi in the air, and soon arrived.

“…… It's a little better than our studio. ”

Zhong Ming took a look, this studio should be in an office building, unlike the Shimmer Studio, which has not yet left the stage of private housing.

11th floor, 1107.

Zhong Ming took the elevator up and followed the house number to find Fantasy Time Studio.

Looking through the glass door, it turned out to be pretty good.

There were about a dozen people in the room, which was really not a few.

However, there is no front desk, and there is no need for a small studio of this size to recruit a front desk, which is a real waste of money.

Zhong Ming just wanted to knock on the door, but a little brother who was sitting closest to the door stood up and opened the door: "Hello, who are you looking for?" ”

"Oh, I'm looking for Mr. Wu."

Mr. Wu is the owner of this fantasy time studio and the producer of the game, and Tang Ying gave Zhong Ming contact information before.

As soon as the little brother wanted to turn around and call Mr. Wu, he heard a female voice in the studio say in surprise: "Hey, is the rescuer invited by my sister here?" ”

Zhong Ming looked inside, and there was a red-haired girl standing up at a workstation inside, who looked like she was just twenty, and she looked a little similar to Tang Ying, probably Tang Ying's cousin.

But if you look closely, this girl is one size smaller than Tang Ying, a little shorter, a little thinner, and some parts have shrunk a little.

Zhong Ming remembered that Tang Ying told him that this cousin seemed to be called Tian Yuan.

"Boss! This is what I said before, come and greet you. Tian Yuan waved at the workstation in the distance.

A man with medium-long hair and curly hair stood up, with a little mustache and looked like he was in his early thirties, and came to greet him.

"Zhong Ming, right? Hey, don't say a word when you come, I should go downstairs to pick you up. The boss came over and shook Zhong Ming's hand, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Wu Minghao, and I am the producer of this game." Oda went to pour tea. ”

"Hey." Tian Yuan agreed, went to the water dispenser to get paper cups and tea leaves, and poured tea for Zhong Ming.

Wu Minghao welcomed Zhong Ming to the small conference room next to him, and Tian Yuan brought the tea.

When passing by the workstation, Zhong Ming took a casual look and found that the state of the studio was okay.

This state, of course, means the working state.

In fact, the working status of a project is mainly reflected in the expressions and working atmosphere of all employees, some studios or projects, all employees are lifeless, and they dare not communicate too loudly, or employees seem to be staring at the screen with serious expressions, but in fact they are fishing, and there is no progress for half a day; There are also some projects, the programming and design side are tired and full of dark circles, and I feel that I will be tired and collapse at the workstation in the next second......

These are all unhealthy working conditions.

However, in this studio, Zhong Ming did not see it for the time being.

According to Tang Ying, her cousin, that is, Tian Yuan, likes this studio a lot, otherwise she wouldn't be so concerned about the studio's projects, which shows that this studio is not the kind of sweatshop that only knows how to squeeze employees.

In the conference room, Zhong Ming took two sips of tea and began to talk to Wu Minghao about the game.

"I didn't expect you to come in person, I have played both the "Latent Red Path" and "Working Dog Survival Manual" you made, and it is simply a five-body throw of admiration! Especially "Latent Red Road", the plot is simply god! Wu Minghao said with emotion, "If you are willing to help, then the plot must be no problem." ”

Zhong Ming smiled: "That's too polite, we are all doing independent games, we all know each other's difficulties, and we should pull each other." ”

"Okay, then let me give you a brief introduction to our game."

Tang Ying only briefly talked to Zhong Ming about the situation of this studio before, and she didn't know much about the game itself.

Therefore, Wu Minghao briefly introduced the situation of the game.

This is a side-scrolling action game called "Fantasy Domain".

The basic rules, painting style, gameplay, etc., of the game are basically a standard indie game, with no obvious shortcomings, and nothing obvious out of place.

This is actually quite not easy, because the most common mistake that most indie game producers make is to misestimate their own strength.

Indie games themselves belong to the genre of games with relatively low requirements in all aspects.

Picture,It doesn't need to be compared with a 3A masterpiece.,Just be enough to see.。

The gameplay doesn't need to be complicated.

However, it also has to be met.

If you can't even meet this relatively low standard, then the game has an irreparable shortcoming, and it definitely won't work.

Conversely, if you design a part of the content too complex and beyond the limits of what the team can handle, it can greatly prolong the development time, break the funding chain, and drag yourself down.

Therefore, after a little talk with Wu Minghao, Zhong Ming probably knew that the state of this studio is actually good, and Wu Minghao is also a producer with ideas and capabilities.

But the problem now is that the plot is missing a piece!

Speaking of this, Wu Minghao was also very helpless.

"That's right, our previous world architect was originally one of the partners. In our original planning, the plot was originally a major selling point of "Fantasy Domain". ”

"As players travel through various areas and challenge different bosses, each area has a branching story, and there are also some small puzzle parts, which are all motivation for players to keep moving forward. In other words, with a little bit of puzzle solving added, you should be able to understand what I mean, right? ”

Zhong Ming nodded: "Understood." ”

Wu Minghao continued: "It was originally a very huge project, but as a result, our world architect left halfway. ”

"Speaking of which, it's my fault. The progress was in a hurry, and the two of us had some arguments about the gameplay design of the game. I didn't adopt some of his designs, and besides, a sum of money that was originally intended to be used for a phased reward did not arrive on time, resulting in my promise not being fulfilled......"

Wu Minghao didn't hide anything, and roughly explained the reason for the departure of the previous world architect.

It stands to reason that the world architect of this project has such an important role in the project, and is one of the partners of this studio, there is no reason to just leave halfway through it.

Therefore, Wu Minghao also had to explain clearly to Zhong Ming, eliminate Zhong Ming's doubts, and let him not feel that there was any pit in it.

To put it simply, the nature of this world architect leaving, similar to the breakup of a couple, is that after some small contradictions accumulate to the extreme, they explode in a concentrated manner.

Originally, when I came out to start a business, I all came with a salary cut.

The previous monthly salary of this world architect reached about 20,000, and he jumped out to open a studio, and several partners voluntarily reduced their salaries to 6,000.

In Wu Minghao's words, this money is just to ensure basic life, and the majority is the bonus and shares after the game is made.

However, in the later work, some friction has arisen.

Small studios are not as good as large companies and have sufficient resources.

In a large company, if you want something, you can report it directly, and if the leader approves it, you can do it openly, and if the leader does not approve, then secretly scold the leader and change the plan.

Generally speaking, the resources of large companies are concentrated on the leader's side, although it is not easy to get, but as long as the leader can be fooled, many things will be much easier.

Just like when Zhong Ming was doing "The Endless Sea of Learning", he could flicker millions of publicity funds, which is unimaginable if he was in a small studio.

After the world architect came to the studio, he was still doing functions and requirements according to his previous ideas, and many solutions were seriously over budget in Wu Minghao's opinion.

After all, Wu Minghao is in charge of money, and he can't wait to break a dollar in half to spend it, but this world architect can't see the long-term, but he just feels that Wu Minghao compromises everywhere and makes do it everywhere, and he is very aggrieved.

Moreover, it seems that a large company has been in contact with the world architect all the time to poach him.

The fuse for the outbreak of contradictions was a promise made by Wu Minghao.

So far, the part of the plot is opened, the completion rate of "Fantasy Domain" is about 70%, and Wu Minghao has previously taken the unfinished version of "Fantasy Domain" to contact channel providers in advance to pave the way for the game to be launched in the future.

There is a channel provider who has taken a fancy and intends to sign an exclusive agency agreement, and as soon as this agreement is signed, there will be a direct amount of funds in the account.

Wu Minghao naturally shared the news with the project owner as soon as possible, and promised that after the money arrived, he would take out part of it to pay bonuses.

After all, everyone has been in business for so long and has been receiving low wages, and Wu Minghao really wants to compensate everyone materially.

As a result, I didn't expect that this channel dealer changed his mind and the exclusive agency agreement was not signed.

In this way, Wu Minghao was very passive, he promised to pay bonuses before, but the premise was that he had to sign an exclusive generation agreement, and he could only send it when he had money! Now the studio's funds are already stretched, and it is impossible to force the money, right?

All kinds of factors are superimposed, and this world architect will run away.

It is said that the big company offered a monthly salary of more than 30,000 yuan in order to poach him.

Of course, the high salary is one thing, and the world architect jumped ship, not all for money, but more because of the accumulation of contradictions in the entrepreneurial stage, which made him lose confidence in this project.

A lot of gameplay has been cut and castrated, funds are stretched, everything has to be done, and the exclusive generation agreement has not been signed, and the prospect of the game being launched is also very unoptimistic......

These are the reasons why this world architect goes.

Zhong Ming nodded in understanding.

Before starting a business, many people only see a bright prospect, but do not see the risks behind it.

Obviously, these people who followed Wu Minghao to start a business, especially a few backbones, are capable, at least in large companies, they can mix like a fish in water.

However, it is not necessarily suitable for him to go it alone, at least this plot designer has a serious underestimation of the risks.

Wu Minghao sighed and said: "This is the case, in fact, there is nothing to hide, this kind of thing happens, I, the producer, should pay the main responsibility." All in all, it's a mess that's hard to clean up, and if you're willing to help, I'd be grateful. ”

Zhong Ming thought for a while: "You can help, there are two conditions." ”

Wu Minghao nodded: "You say." ”

"First, the plot is all handed over to me, and no one can interfere. If I'm going to make some changes to the basic gameplay, I'll have to listen to that too. ”

"Second, I don't want a basic salary, but in the first three months after the game is launched, I want 10% of the game's net profit."

"Uh......"

Wu Minghao fell into some small entanglements.

The plot is all over, that's for sure, because the rest of the studio doesn't have the ability to change the game's plot.

However, what if the modification of the basic gameplay of the game disagrees with Wu Minghao's own design?

Money is also a problem.

If it is given according to the basic salary, then Wu Minghao may really not be able to afford it.

What level is the bell? It certainly cannot be calculated according to the market price of the average world architect. Because Zhong Ming has two successful games, and he opens his own studio to make games, and it is easy to have a monthly turnover of several million, this kind of person works for you, so how much money do you have to open?

However, 10% of the net profit, that is, 10%, is quite a lot.

If the net income of the project can reach 5 million, then Zhong Ming alone will take 500,000.

Of course, if the project hits the street and can't make a penny, then Zhong Ming won't take a penny.

Wu Minghao thought for a few minutes, and said, "Okay, I agreed!" However, I still hope that the changes to the basic gameplay can be carefully ......"

Zhong Ming smiled: "Don't worry, I'm also a producer myself, can I blindly change your game?" Only the content related to the plot should be changed slightly, and I won't move it anywhere else. Besides, it's expensive to have me redo the gameplay, and you're happy to change your features? ”

Wu Minghao laughed: "Yes, okay, then thank you!" ”

Wu Minghao is not stupid, and he didn't hesitate for long, he can still figure it out clearly when it comes to money.

Moreover, Wu Minghao knew in his heart that Zhong Ming's asking price was very confident in himself, and he felt that he could make up the plot and take this project away! This asking price is not only full of sincerity, but also full of confidence.

Strictly speaking, Wu Minghao has to thank Zhong Ming, which is actually helping and inheriting Zhong Ming's favor.

"Then, I'll send you all the documents related to the plot when I go back, and study it first? Where will you be working in the future? Wu Minghao said.

Zhong Ming said: "Today, I will first bring back the plot file and study it. I'll be here to work with you every Wednesday and Saturday for the next two days. If there are any plot problems, communicate face-to-face. ”

Wu Minghao was very happy: "That dare is good." In this case, let's sign an agreement first, and then I'll turn on your computer, and you can make a copy of all the plot files and take them away. ”

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