Chapter 24: A New Beginning
Hiring people is never easy, especially in the gaming industry, where it's even more difficult to get the right people.
Perhaps due to the rapid development of the domestic game industry in recent years, the composition of the entire game industry is quite mixed.
Of course, these people are usually concentrated in the field of mobile web games.
According to the requirements of the system, the team members recruited by Su Li must pass the evaluation of the system, and Su Li does not know what level the system's 60 points represent, but as far as Su Li himself is concerned, he will not recruit an unqualified person.
As far as the current domestic situation is concerned, the quality of employees is still relatively worrisome, and this characteristic is especially obvious in small companies.
As far as fresh graduates who enter the game industry every year are concerned, the top domestic companies can still recruit good talents with good treatment, their own attractiveness and strict resume screening, but it is difficult for small and medium-sized companies to recruit potential talents with training value.
It can be said that the domestic game industry is a state of savage growth, and the rapid development of output value and the lag of personnel training are in stark contrast.
A very realistic situation is that there is no valuable game design major in domestic universities.
In the United States, many universities have very good game design majors, such as New York University, where Su Li studied, has excellent graduate programs in game design, and also has the world's top hardware conditions. In addition, USC, the University of Utah, Carnegie Mellon, etc. also have good game design-related projects. The focus of these projects varies, with NYU focusing on indie games and Carnegie Mellon focusing on programming development.
Even in terms of programs, the technical accumulation of game programs in China has lagged behind a lot. The most critical reason is that for good programmers, the cost performance of entering the game industry is too low, and for programmers, the game industry has never been a priority choice.
If Su Li just wants to make a mobile game that cheats money, then he can easily recruit the people he needs. For example, a programmer who is familiar with the planning of various money tricks and a programmer who is familiar with various mobile game templates. But what Su Li wants to do at the moment is an excellent stand-alone game, and what he needs is an excellent game designer, a programmer with super learning and development skills, and even a talent with multiple abilities.
A lot of small development teams, indie game teams, and team members basically have multiple skills. Especially for game designers, design and development are not separated, and code ability is an important requirement for designers.
Domestic game planners can hardly be regarded as a real designer, and the commercial flavor is too strong, and only writing documents and not technology occupy the vast majority, which also leads to people's understanding of the job responsibilities of designers.
These days, many people feel that they have a lot of good ideas and can become a designer. I feel like I can lead a team, as the saying goes, "I have an idea for a giant NB now, and I'm just missing a programmer and a drawer." ”
But in fact, most of the people who lead successful game projects are technical, or at least have development skills.
Only such a person will have a deep understanding of how to turn an interesting idea into a working game.
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It's hard to recruit people.
This is Su Li's understanding of his current situation, and he feels that this task is more difficult than the first task.
If the first task requires 70% of your strength and 30% luck, then the luck component of this team building task may account for more than 80%.
Su Li feels that his first team, the design can be completed by himself, he also has strong development ability, and at the same time has a certain reputation, which is one of his major advantages.
Having your own successful work is a huge advantage for a game developer who wants to build a development team, as it gives others a reason to trust you.
From the very beginning, Su Li defined his team as an international team, and his goal was to recruit outstanding designers from all over the world with different cultural backgrounds.
A good game is an excellent cultural product, and it can even be said to be a work of art. The game itself has been called the "Ninth Art", but it has been replaced by a merchandising for the purpose of making money in the wave of commercialization.
Su Li first made a list of acquaintances, and in the past few years, whether it is in the independent game circle or studying abroad, Su Li has accumulated a certain amount of contacts. If he could, Su Li would definitely be willing to recruit those he knew or cooperated.
At least Su Li has a certain understanding of their level and character, if it is a stranger, Su Li also needs to examine its ability in all aspects and whether its personality is suitable for his team, quite a lottery ticket.
Su Li temporarily set the location of the team in his hometown of Xinhai City, if Su Li wants to expand the scope of recruitment to the whole world, if he wants others to work here, he must think of a way to fool people.
For game development, online cooperation is not a good way, and it is important to have your own production and development base.
Of course, while recruiting, Su Li still has a few important things to do, the first is to re-establish a company as a new starting point for himself.
Now the process of setting up a company has been shortened a lot, and the name of the company has been decided, and it will be named after the system, Future Oasis Company.
The name of the development engine used by Su Li is also Oasis Engine.
Now it is just a small workshop, and Su Li has not seriously considered the equity structure, but according to Su Li's idea, his company must not be controlled by commercial capital, and he must have absolute control over the company.
At the same time, Su Li also began to look for a temporary office location as an initial R&D base.
There is no need to find a good place when the funds in hand are not sufficient, and the number of team members is not large, some technology companies that have entered the world's top ranks are starting from garages, student dormitories and other places, Su Li plans to find a spacious residential building or villa with a decent environment as a temporary development base.
At this time, Su Li had also sent emails to some people, saying that he wanted to form a development team and invited.
He was busy waiting for a reply.