After hearing the empty question, Qiu Yu thought for a while, and then said: "There are quite a lot of problems, office politics, dumping culture, and all aspects ......"

"Getting to the point."

"Hmm...... That's you. To be more specific, it's you producers. ”

Kongkong shook his head slightly, although he was annoyed in his heart, he had to admit that the other party was right.

Being old and not dying is a thief, and Tianyi is a large game company, but it also inevitably brings various historical problems.

The biggest historical problem is that they are producers who have made achievements.

Most game producers have a prime age before the age of fifty, and by the time they're fifty years old, they have cognitive problems.

Technology is innovating, times are advancing, and the experience they have accumulated in the past will be useless or even become a stumbling block, and letting these people serve as producers will ensure the lower limit of the game, but the upper limit will definitely not be high.

What's even more terrifying is that sometimes, past experiences can have side effects, which is a problem that every producer has to face.

They should be like Mr. Shen, obediently pass on their knowledge to the next generation, and then go home to take care of their hair.

Nodding, he said to Qiu Yu, "Do you want to stay here, or find another way out?" ”

"I must be staying here, I haven't made any results yet."

"Okay."

After thinking sideways for a moment, Sora continued: "Don't leave after work, let's go here once a day." I am expected to retire at the end of the month, and I will make up for it during this time. ”

“…… Why me? ”

"Look at you."

“…… Thank you. ”

"Go ahead."

Seeing Qiu Yu leave, he leaned back on the chair empty, feeling that his body was hollowed out, but he had some comfort.

He is fully responsible for this loss, and his retirement at the end of the year is already a sure thing.

Looking back on his experience, he found that he had left almost nothing for the game industry, and the only game that could be used as a talking point was the first terminal game he made when he joined Tianyi.

That game imitates "Journey to the West", which includes functions such as teaming, catching pets, running rings, digging treasures, etc., and is a game that players must go online and invest four or five hours a day.

He has all kinds of traditional settings in his games, and has made various innovations in addition to imitation.

Although immature, that game is the product of his most care, and it is still in operation today, and there are still people playing online every day.

Thinking of this, he suddenly lost interest in Dark Guardian and suddenly wanted to play his own game.

turned on the computer, he skillfully opened the client, logged in to the account, and saw that his friend half a year ago immediately sent a message:

[Why have you been offline for so long and remembered your account?] 】

The other party didn't know that he was the producer of this game, and Sora didn't reveal his identity.

Finding that the other party was still playing, Sora also immediately responded: [Hmm. 】

[Let's go, just catch the ghost 4 and 1, you come together.] Fortunately, you have enough equipment and the level is not bad, so let's go together. 】

[Okay.] 】

In this way, Sora left a lot of work, immersed himself in the old time, and played games.

After that, just as Kongkong and Qiu Yu expected, the statistics of "Dark Guardian" deteriorated.

Players said that "Dark Guardian" is indeed good everywhere, but it is just not fun enough, and Krypton can really cool it, but it will soon be boring.

On the other hand, "Dark Builders" is steadily rising in popularity.

As a free-to-play game, Dark Builders has spread mythically.

There is no operation to add fuel to the fire, the team has no purchase, and the only download entrance is an official website, although the official website is quite cool.

But even so, it is still a word-of-mouth miracle with 200,000 downloads per day, and its slight social nature makes it easy for players to promote their four friends every time, so as to form a five-player game to play together.

Cooperation is the basis for its fission, excellent quality and randomness are the conditions for diffusion, different genres make it socially active, and a variety of devastating magic weapons also make it every time it ends, players love to have the motivation to continue playing.

And the pace of the game can also be accelerated, and the last time of each game can be compressed to half an hour, especially suitable for tired young people to take time to play a game.

Someone once joked that if a living immortal was willing to charge, he would immediately become a multimillionaire.

However, the immortals don't care.

He only cares if the player has a good time.

Due to the reproducibility of its gameplay, in addition to Tianyi, a large number of game manufacturers have begun to imitate it.

For a while, games like "Dark Builder" sprung up like like mushrooms, one appeared almost every day, and even a large number of foreign borrowers appeared.

But the one-to-one remastering is basically dead, and the ones who can survive are the manufacturers who have built a new gameplay on the basis of the original, and the new gameplay has filled some of the gaps.

Although it is only a small category, Dark Builders has created a new branch of the game and allowed some manufacturers to find a way to save money and make easy results.

After gaining the capital to survive through the initial imitation, some of them will continue to imitate, while others will embark on the path of originality, and then add some brightness to the game business.

However, compared to the achievements created by Dark Builders, Skywing is very down.

In order to be able to quickly iterate on competing products, Tianyi Rongcheng Branch invested a lot of manpower, and then iterated wildly, but in the end it failed to make any splashes.

High-precision art doesn't seem to be compatible with the genre, at least until the performance of existing consoles breaks through.

Eventually, before the arrival of the New Year, the newly established studio was disbanded again.

The once lively office was empty, and the seconded employees returned to the previous project team and continued to work hard in Tianyi.

President Zhang Ping originally wanted to send the empty one, but was rejected by the empty one.

I came back with great ambition, and now I am leaving like a lost dog, this process looks too embarrassing, so don't let others see it.

However, in the empty office, he called his last student, Qiu Yu, and gave him his last lesson here.

"What do you think is the most important thing for a game studio?" Sora asked, looking at the gloomy sky in the distance.

"Make a good game?"

"No, it's alive. Making a good game is the ultimate goal of the studio, and a game that can be remembered for thousands of years, even decades later, and even someone to help you make a mod is the obsession of every gamer. But before you can achieve that, your most important goal is to live. ”

Finding that Qiu Yu was still a little confused, Kongkong continued to explain: "A good game may not make you money, but a bad game will not necessarily make you lose money. Every game producer must learn to cut losses in time, cut sunk costs in time, and identify every opportunity to make money and keep themselves alive. ”

"If the hang-up game is popular, I will do it; When the card is on fire, make the card; Two-dimensional ...... Don't touch that first.,The two-dimensional volume is very.,Wait for them to roll up a batch.,And then invite a batch of original paintings at a low price.。 ”

"If the domestic environment is not good, do it abroad; Do what you like abroad; Even if they want to see astringent pictures, they can do it for them in the game. ”

Qiu Yu couldn't help shouting at this time: "This is very bottomless!" ”

"But you'll survive! For game companies, the bottom line is not important, but alive. Only by surviving can you have the right to speak, can someone speak to you, and can you whitewash everything before you. If you die, no matter how good the game you make, others will only remember your corpse. ”

"People often say I'm realistic, but I can keep you alive, so I've been successful before. Until...... Forget it, don't mention this. Anyway, survive. Don't send me off, I drove the car. ”

patted Qiu Yu on the shoulder, leaving a pensive Qiu Yu and leaving the office.

Qiu Yu's back road has been arranged, although he is already a person, but he still has some contacts who can help Qiu Yu arrange a master planning job.

Of course, it is the main planner of a small game, but I believe that with Qiu Yu's strength, he will soon be able to come out in Tianyi.

Downstairs, he was about to drive to a parking lot not far away, when he noticed that it was snowing.

This year, there is plenty of water in Rongcheng, and the temperature can occasionally get very low, and there are already a few snowfalls in winter.

After pausing in the snow for a while, he lowered his head and prepared to leave, when he noticed that there was an additional person coming out from the opposite side.

It's Huang Ping.

Since the previous conflict, they have not been in touch, but the dynamics between each other can still be heard through some channels.

Seeing Huang Ping's figure, Kongkong knew that the other party should have come to wait for him, so he sneered: "Come to see my joke?" ”

“…… No, after all, we've worked together before, and I'm not that bored. What are you going to do next? ”

"I'm retiring and I'm going to write textbooks. There are a few publishers who are still interested in my past experiences and are ready to go back and write about it. ”

"That's good."

After being silent for a while, Kongkong suddenly asked, "Living immortals...... It's Fang Cheng, right? ”

Huang Ping didn't answer, but his silent attitude has proven a lot of things.

Feeling Huang Ping's attitude, he felt relieved, patted his chest and said, "Sure enough, that's really good." ”

Now Kongkong has become very thin, his hair is half white, and the whole person looks more energetic and wise.

Pointing to the café on the side, he said, "Anyway, I'm fine, your studio doesn't work overtime at night, go talk to me?" ”

"Let's go." Huang Ping smiled and nodded.

In the dim light of the café, they chatted for a long time.

They talked about the first game they collaborated on, some strange things about their former departing colleagues, about the cutting down of the game's development prospects, and about the future development plan.

The two who once cooperated, then became hostile, and now they finally sat down together and chatted, and exchanged the words that they couldn't say in the past because of identity issues.

We talked until eleven o'clock in the evening, when they finally needed to go back.

Putting on a trench coat and scarf, he took out his car keys and asked, "Do you still live in the old place?" I'll drive you. ”

"No, I bought a house nearby and moved here a long time ago."

"Loans? How much is the down payment? ”

"Full."

Kongkong was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Huang Ping.

The fatigue caused by overtime before is no longer visible, and the originally thick dark circles under his eyes have disappeared, and Huang Ping in front of him seems to have become the same boy he used to be, overlapping with the figure when he first joined Tianyi.

Nodding slightly, he said softly: "That's good, you did a good job, and you left very well at the beginning." ”

Together, the two walked to the parking lot, ready to part with the fork in the road there.

The snow has stopped, and a rare layer of white snow appears on the ground, although it will not take long to melt, but it still gives people a white and clean feeling.

The orange lights lit up like torches, but they suddenly split apart as they led to the parking lot, splitting off into a completely different path.

At the fork in the road, Huang Ping hesitated, but still said: "I entered Tianyi when I first entered Tianyi, in fact, because of you. ”

"Me?"

"Hmm. The first game I played back then was the PC game you made, and at that time, I didn't expect a PC game to be so fun, and I've been aiming for Sky Wing ever since. Before joining the company, I always felt that you were the best producer in China. I've written to you back then, with my thoughts and changes to the game, as well as my vision for you, but you're supposed to have forgotten that. ”

“…… Indeed, what do you think of me now? ”

"Huh."

“…… Well, it's getting late, goodbye. ”

"Goodbye."

A friendly handshake was given, and the two parted ways.

Huang Ping followed the street lamp into the distance, slowly blending into the orange light, and walked towards his warm home.

Sora stepped on the snow and walked into the parking lot, which was no longer empty.

His pace was getting slower and slower, and by the time he got to his car, he was almost unable to stand.

How could he not remember!

How could he forget such a tender and enthusiastic letter!

When he finally remembered his original intention for the game, his ideals and ambitions pierced his chest like spikes, making him suddenly realize that he had become the person he once hated the most.

Kneeling beside his car, he cried silently like a lost wild dog.

The next day, the news broke that Dark Guardian was suspended, but it didn't attract much attention.

There are already a lot of Dark Builders-like games, and every day new genres are coming out and new genres are leaving.

Except for a simple report on the game information UP master on station B, and the news of the empty resignation, no one pays attention to it anymore.

Before you know it, the new year has arrived.

And Fang Cheng felt that he could.

The third watch and the plus more are in a hurry, and they are really busy today, so I'm sorry.

(End of chapter)