Different from the screen-type single-person workstation in the office of ordinary office buildings, the game industry generally uses multi-person desks, which are not blocked by screen partitions, which is convenient for communication, especially for planning, most of the work content is basically completed in discussions and disputes.

This is the case with the Herring Fish Network, where the long desk can be pulled directly through and can accommodate five people on one side, which is almost a row of three departments according to the size of the ProjectW project team.

When the work arrangement meeting ended, Ye Shenxi's work computer had already been installed, and it was in the corner by the window, because the space was small, only a two-person table could be placed. This place is located just behind the planning team's seat, and the content on the planning team's monitor can be seen at a glance, which is simply a feng shui treasure for the exploiter's supervisor.

The efficiency of the operation and maintenance team is okay, although there is only Xiao Hei alone, Ye Shenxi held the mouse and clicked casually, almost all the productivity software needed for work, but why is there a computer in the internal test by the window? And from the host monitor to the keyboard and mouse, it looks different from your own?

Sure enough, after a while, Xia Qingyu stood directly in front of him: "Excuse me, borrow it." ”

Ye Shenxi stiffly moved the swivel chair forward, and Xia Qingyu walked straight in and sat down next to him.

"Huh? Why are you moving out when you're fine? ”

Xia Qingyu replied in a low voice, "Why do you think your seat is arranged here?" ”

"Overseer them."

Xia Qingyu smiled in his eyes: "Then why do you think I arranged my seat here?" ”

"Overseer, I'm ......"

Xia Qingyu snapped his fingers and said with a look of shame: "Bingo." ”

Ye Shenxi covered his forehead with his hand: "From the dormitory to the company, I feel that I have no private space." ”

Xia Qingyu's apricot eyes widened: "I haven't said this yet." I don't like the word dorm, that's my home. ”

"Okay, okay, what about the general manager's office, it's a waste."

"It's empty, when it's a break room, go in and squint for a while when you're tired."

Ye Shenxi only felt that she could probably guess that Xia Qingyu was uneasy because she did not equip herself with an independent office, so she also moved out and planned to "share weal and woe" with herself, although she did not have such a need at all, but Xia Qingyu seemed that the product director needed to be worthy of the treatment and pomp of this title......

So silently defined a new label for Xia Qingyu, adding sensitivity in addition to being smart, careful, and a little evil...... and a hard mouth.

After cleaning it up casually, Ye Shenxi turned his head and asked: "After the art style is finalized, we need to start accumulating a large number of art resources, according to the size of our team, this needs to be outsourced, do you have any outsourcing teams that you are familiar with?" ”

The so-called outsourcing refers to the solution of entrusting the amount of work that cannot be completed to a third-party company for a fee when the manpower of the organization itself is insufficient, so as to reduce operating costs. With the rise of the game industry, outsourcing teams for game production have also sprung up everywhere, the most common of which is art and music outsourcing, regardless of the theft of infringement and other illegal acts, unless some large manufacturers with strong capital, it is difficult for small teams to complete the art and music resources of a game by themselves.

Xia Qingyu was looking through the web page, she wanted to check the data related to the user of the page game such as gender, age, education, work industry and income, but she flipped through several big data survey and analysis websites she was familiar with, there was little relevant information, and frowned slightly, "You should have a professional team you know, right?" ”

She wasn't surprised by outsourcing, she had thought so originally.

Ye Shenxi smiled narrowly: "Yes, there is, but it is more expensive." ”

However, with the strength of the milestone company, there is naturally no need to consider the issue of cost performance.

Xia Qingyu rolled his eyes: "Then forget it, I'll contact it myself." After thinking about it, he said, "Music and sound effects are also needed, right?" ”

Ye Shenxi shrugged and said, "Yes, but it's a little early to think about it." ”

Xia Qingyu nodded slightly: "Okay, this week, I will contact a few, and when the time comes, we will screen and settle down together." ”

Ye Shenxi pointed to Xia Qingyu's computer screen: "At present, the domestic page game has just emerged, although the market has aroused the interest of some people, but the attention is far from enough, and the corresponding market research data is not perfect, and even fewer are published for free." ”

Xia Qingyu blinked and said curiously: "In the past, your milestones were specially commissioned to data companies to do research, right?" ”

"Yes, we have been cooperating for some years, and the cooperation is quite tacit."

"What's the price?"

"Depending on the difficulty and number of statistics, there can be thousands to hundreds of thousands."

Xia Qingyu glanced at him: "I think I'm poor again, right?" ”

There's no way, the owner knows that firewood and rice are expensive.

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In the evening, the heat of the earth, which had been scorched by the scorching sun for a day, had not yet dissipated, and it was the rush hour for work, and the traffic on Tianfu Avenue became a long queue. In summer, a breeze from north to south in a plain city like Funan sweeps through the city, rolling up a heat wave, which is simply a warm breeze that makes tourists sweat.

After the democratic vote of the project team (Xia Qingyu has a veto power), it was finally decided that the way to have a dinner was hot pot, and eating hot pot in the summer was also in line with the habits of the Shu people.

The restaurant selected by Xia Qingyu is at the entrance of the software park, a newly opened hot pot village, the advantage is that it is close to the company, and the distance of a few hundred meters can be walked directly, and the disadvantage is that it is too close and can only be walked, especially in this weather.

As soon as you walk into the store, the cool air of the air conditioner hits your face, and it is almost two worlds from the outside. Ye Shenxi sometimes thinks that fortunately he has traveled to the 21st century, if it is the Qin and Han Kingdoms, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, I really don't know how to spend the summer.

There was no big table for 12 people in the store, so after discussing with the waiter, the two square tables were put together into a large rectangle, and the project team could barely sit down. Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu naturally occupied one side of the rectangle, the two girls from the art department sat on one side, and the remaining rough men squeezed at will.

Xia Qingyu skillfully wrote and drew on the menu, and one person almost finished ordering the dishes, not forgetting that Ye Shenxi was the nominal initiator of the dinner, and looked up and asked him: "Do you drink?" ”

Ye Shenxi could see that everyone was more restrained, and they didn't let go of it much in front of him, so they still needed some drinks to adjust the atmosphere: "Let's have a case of beer first, iced, and a big bottle of Sprite." I asked the waiter if I could return the unopened wine, and I received a positive reply.

"No one is coming by car, is it?" Ye Shenxi looked at everyone, and everyone shook their heads.

After Xia Qingyu finished sketching, he passed the menu to Ye Shenxi beside him: "Let's see, if there is anything else you want to eat, add it yourself." ”

Ye Shenxi just looked at the bottom of the mandarin duck pot at the two tables, so he was relieved to pass the menu to the next person, and after a circle, the menu returned to the waiter, looking at the dense menu girl with a smile.

The wine was the first to be served on the table, Xia Qingyu opened a bottle of beer, poured it for Ye Shenxi first, poured himself a glass, stood up and toasted: "Let's touch one first, welcome Director Ye to our company." He looked at Cao Ruoruo and Tong Ling and said, "If a girl can't drink, she can drink Sprite, not reluctantly." ”

Ye Shenxi stood up and clinked glasses with all the members one by one, and the atmosphere was slightly more harmonious.

The little sister Tong Ling asked first: "Mr. Ye, where are you from?" ”

"My ancestral home is in the capital."

"How old are you? It looks so young, I always thought the producers were middle-aged men or something, huh...... Just like Brother Yulin......" Tong Ling also pointed to Cheng Hao, the server master who was whispering to Qi Yong. Hao Yulin looked confused, hey, why was he suddenly CUE?

"I'm 24 years old."

"Wow!" Everyone was amazed. Originally, everyone knew that this product director was very young, but I didn't expect it to be so young!

Rao Bin, the executive planner, was surprised: "Then you were only 17 years old when you founded Milestone!? ”

Ye Shenxi recalled that he had indeed spent his 18th birthday in a milestone company, and joked: "Ah, you found out that I didn't go to college......

Compared with other traditional industries, it may be that the game industry has relatively low requirements for academic qualifications, especially planning. At the same time, the professional skills required to make games are rarely related to the majors in universities, so the biggest point for many companies to recruit newcomers is logic, whether they have enough rich game experience and maintain a love for games, and academic qualifications are not so important.

In addition to the heads of the three departments, the game producer is a mysterious existence for newcomers and semi-newcomers to the project team, especially those with experience in successful projects. Most game people are crawling and rolling in this circle, ups and downs for half a life, but they have never encountered a successful project, for them there seems to be an invisible barrier in the industry, dividing everyone into three, six, nine, etc., marginal people, project core, industry core...... It's like drawing circles, and too many people are desperately trying to squeeze into the small circles inside.

Two newcomers got up, and everyone's chatbox opened up at once, and they asked Ye Shenxi questions one after another, and Ye Shenxi also picked up some anecdotes in the industry that had nothing to do with trade secrets to blow to everyone.

For example, when it comes to overtime, the overtime of first-line manufacturers is relatively strict, and the commonly referred to 996 (9 a.m., 9 p.m., 6 working days a week) is just the basic. Like in the past, Milestone's "Eternal" project team must have a version day every week, and basically they catch up with the version all night, even if it is not a release day, it is relatively rare to get off work at 10 o'clock at night. As for Sundays, there are always people in the company, and basically except for the Spring Festival, the door of the company is not closed much. Many people simply buy their own folding beds and put them in the company, and when they are busy, they simply sleep directly in the company.

Wei Cheng also had the experience of drifting north, and he stayed in the team in a first-tier city, and he was a little unbelievable: "Such a bloody ......"

"Of course, I personally do not encourage or advocate coping overtime, some company employees overtime is added to the boss to see, there is no work themselves, but they still have to sit at the workstation and do nothing to chat and brag, but there is no efficiency. The best situation is that everyone can complete the work in time and quantity, of course, this is not realistic for the time being, one is that our team ability is not enough, and the other is that time is the life of the project, which is my personal vision for the future. ”

Someone asked about the year-end bonuses of some large companies.

"The project has a high income, and the natural bonus is rich, and the year-end bonus of all the people in the "Eternal" team last year is one year's salary, which is a fixed bonus, and of course, there is a lottery for the annual meeting, not including the project dividend."

"Twelve months! Oh, my God. "It's a lot of amazement, envy and jealousy.

"I'm willing to work overtime 365 days a year." This is Xiao Qiang's heartfelt emotion.

"What are the lottery draws for the annual meeting?" Rao Bin asked curiously.

"From personal toiletries to digital products, from paper rolls to cars, there are different quantities, of course. It's a bit funny to say, the year before last, our project team just came to an intern newcomer, and it was not a week before the annual meeting. As a result, the annual meeting lottery this guy drew an Apple laptop, and the next day he left a letter of resignation and ran away. ”

"Poof, then your company has lost a lot." Xia Qingyu also couldn't help laughing.

"Let's run, I don't bother to investigate, he's lucky." Ye Shenxi is also in the air.

At this time, the bottom of the two pots was finally served to the table, and they were all a group of carnivores, skipping the ingredients and serving hairy belly, pork belly, and pork ribs.

After Ye Shenxi came to Funan, he also ate authentic Bashu hot pot a few times, picked up a piece of fat cow and poured it into the pot. He felt that the fat cow was simply a middle essence, raised the chopsticks to the boiling pot, gently soaked, a little time to cook, the meat is fresh and tender, the taste has been deep, rare.

Xia Qingyu also ate a piece, quite surprised: "This shop tastes good." ”

Ye Shenxi couldn't help nodding: "In the future, we will have dinner at least once a month, and we can come often." ”

Tong Ling hurriedly clapped his hands: "Okay, okay." ”

Ye Shenxi raised his glass: "I also toast to you, I'm very happy to meet you." ”

In addition to being young, handsome and scary, the work is vigorous and resolute, but in private but casual and humorous, very affinity. Slowly let go of his restraints, and after Wei Cheng took the lead, they also toasted Ye Shenxi alone, including the two girls in the art department, who said things like "I did what you ...... at will", can Ye Shenxi be embarrassed to take a sip.

The two teams of planning and programming quietly fought for each other's wine, and several people toasted each other.

After a while, Ye Shenxi's eyes became confused, his cheeks were also dyed red, and his voice increased slightly, and he began to talk nonsense, as if he was a little overwhelmed.

Xia Qingyu sat beside him, did not speak, and quietly listened to Ye Shenxi for a while talking about the hard work of the creation of the "Eternal" project team and the milestone company when the company was just established. The flow of people, the flow of funds, and everyone cut back on food and clothing to tide over the difficulties together. He also talked about the fact that when the project was finally launched, all the members hugged each other and cried, and said that after the success of the project, people were different, and some people scattered while walking...... From time to time, I shook a few burdens coldly, and even had a little color......

Everyone also involuntarily played the role of a qualified audience, and their emotions were also followed by the past things that Ye Shenxi talked about, one moment happy, one moment sad, one moment nervous, and one moment sad.

The man next to him spoke like this, and there was no joy or sorrow in his tone, but he had a charm that made people empathize.

This kind of experience is a valuable experience for everyone, especially the young people here who plan to devote themselves to the game career, Xia Qingyu hopes that they can understand that this is not an after-dinner conversation, this is the future that they may experience in this circle, including themselves.

Xia Qingyu was quite moved in his heart, looking at the angular side face and slightly distracted, maybe it was the effect of alcohol, and two red clouds flew on his cheeks at some point.

Night has already fallen, and the first team building activity of Qingyu Network ended perfectly. After this gathering, the cohesion of the team and the sense of belonging of the employees have been improved.

Even from the perspective of a party, everyone talked happily and the atmosphere was harmonious, and it was a good party.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Xia Qingyu announced that he would disband in situ, go back to his own home, and find his own mother. When checking out, a few men staggered, full of nonsense, Xia Qingyu told them to pay attention to their own safety, to see that they were still somewhat controlled, and they also knew to say, "Goodbye Mr. Xia, goodbye Mr. Ye." He left with Ye Shenxi.

At this time, Xia Qingyu found that Ye Shenxi, who was walking side by side with him, had clear eyes and a tall standing posture, where was he still a little drunk?

Ye Shenxi looked at Xia Qingyu's expression of a pound of snacks, and said with a smile: "What's wrong?" ”

Xia Qingyu also smiled: "Are you pretending to be drunk?" Even I was deceived, and my acting skills were good. ”

Ye Shenxi said smugly: "I sometimes feel that I am an actor who has been delayed by game development. ”

"It's a good thing you didn't act." I didn't say anything in the second half of the sentence, otherwise what would my company do.

Ye Shenxi naturally didn't have the ability to read minds, and asked, "You also drank alcohol and took a taxi?" ”

Xia Qingyu shook his head: "Let's go for a while, breathe." ”