Ye Shenxi originally thought that there would be a cross-border merger and acquisition, but it turned out that Doug's studio was just three game hobbies who got together to make games in their spare time, and they didn't register at all, which saved a lot of trouble.

Three young people from the United States are working part-time to develop games, Doug owns a supermarket, and the other two are employees of that supermarket...... They originally wanted to make a game, but after spending a year building the game engine, they realized that the money and time spent on doing it were far more than they expected. The more money is spent, the more time is spent on development every day, even more than work, and if this continues, let alone make games, the supermarket is about to close.

After entering the game development period, a large number of art resources are also needed, especially for such a 3D game, characters, scenes, objects, equipment, skill effects...... None of the three had any artistic talent in this area, and they couldn't find like-minded professionals willing to join for free, and the game development process hit an unprecedented bottleneck.

So the three of them decided to sell the game engine that had been completed, so that the year was not in vain.

At first, Doug approached several local game companies in the United States, but the other party politely refused in the email, and did not give him a chance to meet, so Doug set his sights on the booming Chinese game market.

To describe his mentality simply, there are people there who are stupid and have a lot of money, so go quickly.

After arriving in China in September, Doug traveled north and south to find several large Chinese companies, only to find that it was completely different from what he had imagined.

The success of Warcraft has made the Bigworld engine famous, and many companies developing 3D projects have rushed to it, such as Huang Yi, who bought the engine to develop their masterpiece "The World 2" this year.

Even more popular than Bigworld is Gamebryo, which Tenghua is using to develop its strategic project "Jade Dragon in the Sky", which is also being purchased by leading boss Huangpu Shengda.

Meihu Changyou's self-developed "Tianlong", a phenomenal game that directly allows a company to go public, uses free and open source Ogre, and companies like Jin Chan, E time and space, and Suzhou Gua Niu have completed or are independently developing domestic engines, and the representative works of these engines are "Swordsman 3", "Jiuyang Zhenjing", "Zhu Demon", "Wulin Neichuan", "E World" and many domestic boutique projects.

Doug found that these Chinese game manufacturers either spent a lot of money to buy, or used free and open source, or developed their own products, and no one was interested in his 3D game engine that was not up to par anyway.

The disheartened Doug originally planned to return to the United States, but by chance he saw the news that the first China GDC would open in Yangcheng on the Internet, so with the last courage and determination, he came here to try his luck, and what happened at the dinner just now.

Hearing Ye Shenxi say that he was interested in their team, Doug said in disbelief: "Mr. Ye, are you saying that you want us to go to your company?" "Could it be that if you recruit yourself, you don't have to pay for the group engine?

Ye Shenxi shook his head again: "I want to buy your engine, and then invite you to come to the Qingyu Network." ”

Doug's eyebrows were thick and high, and he looked as if he was curious about everything: "Herring Fish Network? Is that the name of your company? ”

Ye Shenxi nodded and said, "Yes, do you know "Eternity" or "Immortal Dao"? ”

Doug thought for a moment: "Ah, I know the way of immortals!" Is that what your company did? "The month he's been in China, especially in the last few days, I've heard a lot of the name.

Ye Shenxi said: "Mr. Doug, the two products I have made, one has the highest number of simultaneous online users of 1.9 million, and the other has more than $1.9 million in revenue a month, and it is only its first month. Now I'm working on a brand new project and I'd like to invite your team to join us. ”

Ding Yicheng on the side exclaimed: "Are you going to do a new project again?" "The Way of the Immortals" has only been launched for a month. "It turns out that Ye Shenxi is going to buy a 3D engine for a new project, which is too fast.

"yes, I had an idea, so I did it."

Doug was a little frightened by these two figures, in fact, when he first arrived in China, he already felt that China's game companies were too scary, if the entire game market China is still far less than the United States, but in terms of online games alone, he has never seen a country so keen on online games.

"We haven't talked about the price of Athena yet......"

"Is this engine called Athena, that's a good name. But there's no hurry, I'd like to invite you to visit my company, okay? Find a place where it's a little more suitable, we have a lot to talk about. ”

Doug frowned, "Where is it?" ”

"Funan."

Doug hesitated: "Where is Funan?" ”

"He's on the southwest side of China."

Doug was timid: "It's a little too far away......"

"Of course, I'll take care of the plane tickets and room and board for you."

Doug crisply: "OK! No problem! ”

"Mr. Ye, when are we going?"

"Tomorrow."

"That couldn't be better."

……

After sending Doug away, Ye Shenxi and Ding Yicheng chatted a few more words before saying goodbye to each other and returning to the hotel.

Ding Yicheng was very curious to ask Ye Shenxi for information about the new project, and all kinds of side knocks and side knocks, beating around the bush. Ye Shenxi just said that it shouldn't take much time for research and development, and you will be able to see it soon, which made Ding Yicheng itchy and depressed.

Anyway, I helped you work as a translator all night, and in the blink of an eye, I turned my face and didn't recognize anyone......

The next day, Ye Shenxi and Doug took a flight to Funan, and Doug, who sat in business class, sighed and almost burst into tears.

In the month I came to China, because I didn't expect to stay for such a long time and couldn't talk about the results, the funds were not well prepared, and Doug's life was really difficult.

Go south and north do not dare to take a plane, 07 years of China has no high-speed rail, from the capital, Huangpu, Yangcheng between these cities to travel between a ride is more than ten or twenty hours of train, save a little to buy a ticket without air conditioning car, to the station after the back pain is full of oil, want to die.

The hotel does not dare to live better, dozens of dollars a night of sound insulation effect is not good, in the middle of the night three more strange sound very affect sleep, plus three meals of a variety of Shaxian Lanzhou, a month down the cost is also expensive.

Doug, who came all the way from a capitalist country, has had a miserable month this month.

Yesterday there was finally a feeling that the clouds were open and the moon was bright, and although the American did not understand this sentence, he knew that the hard days were over.

There is a young boss who has taken a fancy to his engine, and the intention of recruiting three people from his own studio, whether he wants to leave his hometown to work in China for the time being, and the price of the engine has not yet been discussed, but God finally opened a door for them.