Chapter 31: The first meeting of the team

The first meeting of the founding team of the future Oasis took place at the temporary development site.

The four participants were Su Li, Shirasin Xia, Aranson Doyle and Summitt Raj, all members of the current team.

This is the current full team and the first official meeting between them.

The first floor of the development base has been lightly refurbished, and all the equipment and equipment used for development have been put in place, and they are all new.

Summit is very happy to be in this environment, it is a paradise compared to the apartment in Mumbai. Compared to the communication on Skype, after meeting Summit officially, Su Li found that Summit's personality was much better than that of his Indian classmates during his study abroad.

Optimistic and cheerful, diligent enough, and relatively fair in appearance, he gives a good impression.

The living room on the first floor is now used as a meeting room and game experience room, Su Li replaced the original TV with a large-screen 4K TV, and all game consoles on the market have purchased a new one.

A good game designer must be someone who can play.

Playing games is an indispensable part of a game designer's job.

The crowd sat on the couch and gathered in a circle.

Su Li looked at his team, as the founder of the team and the boss of the company, he naturally presided over the first meeting.

Although everyone has already communicated on the Internet, since it is the first formal meeting, Su Li still made a formal introduction first.

"Well, let me introduce you."

Su Li first pointed at Alanson and said, "Alanson Doyle, a member of the new project engine team of the former AE company, and the technical director of the future oasis. ”

"Natsu Shiramori, our only art staff, well, art intern and art director."

"Summit Raj, producer, designer and programmer of the indie game Asura."

None of them are introverts, although everyone was only familiar with Su Li before coming here, but after some introductions and chats, everyone became familiar with each other. They were all young people of similar age and had the same hobbies, and it didn't take long for the atmosphere to become very cheerful.

After chatting for a while, Su Li pulled back the topic of the meeting and said: "As you can see, we are now an independent game development team, there is no external investment, I am responsible for all the expenses of the team, and my source of funding is only the sales revenue of "Into the Mist 2" for the time being. ”

"Although Deep in the Mists 2 has achieved some success, this revenue can only last for one development cycle, so the pressure on us is still there, the team has the resources to start a project, but it is difficult to afford the loss of project failure."

In case the project really fails, Su Li can only return to the working state of independent development and start all over again, and it is difficult to continue to maintain the operation of the team.

The combination of the pressure of reality and the vision of a better future is what motivates the whole team.

"Of course, we have a unique advantage over others, a secret weapon."

After saying the heavy reality, Su Li's expression changed from serious to relaxed.

In addition to Alanson, Hatsu Shiramori and Summit have not yet had some surprises, they have not yet come into contact with the core secrets of the future Oasis Company.

"We have a unique advantage over other indie game teams, or rather, over all the game companies out there. It may be hard for you to believe it, but our team has an unbeatable advantage in terms of technology. ”

Technical superiority has never belonged to an indie game team, and basically only the top manufacturers may have a technological advantage.

In the field of games, the embodiment of technical advantages is in the game engine, picture rendering technology, excellent physical and chemical engines, etc., these things belong exclusively to the top manufacturers.

Those who have the ability and capital to do engine development are the top ones in the game industry.

Some small game development studios, with their long-term development technology accumulation, may be able to have their own unique accumulation in a certain aspect, but such accumulation is not a technical advantage.

Shiramori Natsu and Summit turn their attention to Aranson, who is the technical director of the future oasis.

Aranson spread his hands and said, "What the boss said is indeed a fact, but I didn't make this thing, and I'm just a learner now." In fact, there should be five people in our team, and there is a mysterious Mr. L who is our special technical advisor, who is actually the real technical director. ”

This somewhat detouring way of speaking made Bai Senxia a little confused, and she looked at Su Li as if she was asking for help, so Su Li and Alanson introduced the entire Oasis engine to the team.

"That's our strength, an unrivaled technological advantage, at least an era ahead of the industry."

It wasn't Su Li who said this, but Alanson, who was obviously even more fanatical about it as a tech maniac.

Summit and Shiramori Natsu listened to the introduction of the two of them in disbelief.

How can an independent development team have technology that is ahead of the times?

"Although our current state is simply win or go home, I don't think of anything other than success."

Compared with Su Li, who came up to put pressure, Alanson seemed much more optimistic.

Alanson's confidence has also infected Shiramori Xia and Summit, and the personalities of these two people are very optimistic, and now they are full of confidence.

Summit is more impressed by this, and as someone who has done independent development, he knows what that means.

After beating the chicken blood, Su Li began to lay out the first plan of the whole team and put the finishing touches on the entire meeting.

"At present, the specific project of the team has not been decided, and the project code name is Project Zero for the time being, and the team will have several project meetings in the next period of time, and I will give a general framework next week, and the design of the whole project needs to involve everyone."

"In the future Oasis, I hope that everyone will not passively accept the arrangement and tasks, but need to take the initiative to find their own work content."

This is a feature of V Society, where the requirement for employees is that they need to take the initiative to find their own work direction and content, and no one will tell employees what they should do, which is also a point that Su Li agrees with.

Over the next week, Aranson and Summit became familiar with the Oasis engine development environment and the Nerve language as quickly as possible, and they could ask L for help with any questions. Bai Senxia needs to be familiar with 3DF software, a new software for making art resources, and I need you to be familiar with at least some basic operations of the Oasis engine, and be able to import art materials by yourself. ”

Bai Senxia nodded heavily, his expression quite serious.

"All software used in development is confidential, and everyone may need to sign a non-disclosure agreement. In addition to getting acquainted with the new development environment, I hope that from now on everyone will write down your interesting ideas and discuss them with you. ”

"Maybe you can create the future with a chance idea."