At eight o'clock in the morning, Chen Ba woke up with a splitting headache, picked up the mobile phone that had been piled on by himself all night, and breathed a sigh of relief after lighting up the screen.

It's okay......

Fortunately, this pineapple mobile phone has a metal body, which is not so easy to be crushed by him, and it is difficult to say if it is replaced with a plastic or ceramic body.

Last night, he and Yang Dong chatted for a long time, from industry anecdotes and gossip all the way to astronomy and geography, and the two of them made 7 bottles of soda in the refrigerator and stayed up until 1 o'clock in the morning before returning to the house one after another.

"When did you wake up?"

When he got up to go to the toilet, Chen Ba saw Yang Dong who was fiddling with the router in front of the computer in the living room, and said hello and asked, "Zhang Xiaojuan, why didn't you see her?" ”

"I went down to get the courier, and I heard that the pen tablet has arrived."

"Oh!"

Chen Ba hurriedly finished washing, walked out of the bathroom and came behind Yang Dong, looking at the computer monitor lit up in front of him: "The newcomer who talked about yesterday, has he contacted you today?" ”

"Not yet, I'll call and ask."

Yang Dong put down the router in his hand, picked up the mobile phone and pressed it a few times, and soon there was an anxious voice of a young man in the earpiece, as well as the sound of horns around him.

"I'm sorry, there's a traffic jam on the road, I'll come right over, sorry sorry......"

The young man apologized to Yang Dong vigorously, and seemed to be worried that being late on the first day of work would leave a bad impression on his colleagues and boss, so his tone seemed very worried.

"It's okay, there's no hurry."

"You know the address, if you can't find Building 4, you can ask the security guard directly, we will wait for you to ......"

Compared with the young man's impatience, Chen Ba and Yang Dong seemed very calm, after all, they have been in Jiangchuan for so many years, and the traffic congestion in the morning rush hour in the urban area can only be said to understand.

Fifteen minutes later, a sweaty Lu Jing arrived at the location of Tianba Game Studio.

Lu Jing is the young man in the traffic jam on the phone, and he is also the game planner that Chen Ba is looking for for the studio.

Don't look at Xiao Lu is very young, but his skills are okay, he can do everything in programming, art and scriptwriting, and he has taught himself a new media operation, a proper universal substitute player!

Of course!

Xiao Lu is not without its shortcomings.

His biggest shortcoming is that his diploma is not hard enough, and it is difficult to find a job with a secondary school degree in this era.

If it weren't for Chen Ba's eagerness to employ people, his concern for every applicant, and his willingness to listen to them talk about their strengths and work experience, I'm afraid Xiao Lu would not have had the opportunity to join Tianba Game.

"Damn, self-taught?"

After Chen Ba introduced Xiao Lu, both Yang Dong and Zhang Xiaojuan were stunned.

Is there still such a person in these years? The cultural achievements are scarce, and they learn to be as high as they are "professional-level" college students with just one love?

"No, you have the perseverance, why didn't you put some effort into studying in the first place?" Yang Dong was heartbroken.

Xiao Lu's experience is simply outrageous.

He is so versatile just after graduating from secondary school, if he is admitted to a good university, he will at least be a big guy in the future, right?

"I'm so playful when I'm studying."

Speaking of himself, Xiao Lu was a little shy: "At that time, in addition to surfing the Internet, I was obsessed with all kinds of games. It so happened that there was an uncle next door who was a game client programmer, so I pestered him to teach me how to make games......"

No wonder people always say that interest is the best teacher!

Out of his extreme love for the game, although Xiao Lu had no foundation at first, he made rapid progress under the guidance of the uncle next door.

Later, after leaving school and entering the society, whether it was working as a waiter or working in an electronics factory, he did not abandon this craft, nor did he break off the connection with the "teacher".

He never gave up his game dream, and it was not until he saw the recruitment information released by Chen Ba not long ago that he resolutely resigned from his job and chose to pursue his dream.

"Thank you Brother Chen for being willing to give me this opportunity, thank you very much!" Xiao Lu said gratefully.

"Thank me for what? It's gold that will shine sooner or later, and if you have the ability, then you don't have to feel inferior for your academic qualifications. ”

Chen Ba waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to thank him in this regard.

He recruited employees, and it happened that Xiao Lu's ability was enough to be qualified for the job, and there were almost no problems except for lack of experience, so he recruited.

It's that simple!

After clapping his hands to attract everyone's attention to himself, Chen Ba said: "Xiao Lu is here, and our studio is almost all together, so I'll talk about business!" ”

"This is a production plan for the second game, you all take a copy and take a look, you can say whatever you want, don't worry about me......"

Distributing a stack of printed paper documents to the three of them, Chen Ba sat on the engineering chair he had just bought, looking forward to everyone's enthusiastic speeches.

With the sound of rustling through the documents, Yang Dong, Xiaolu and others soon saw some basic information about the studio's new work.

Fence Simulator!

The naming is still the same as always, "Chen Ba" style, simple and rude, and it also continues the tradition of the previous work [Cold Window Reading Simulator], so that people can know at a glance that this is the work of the same studio.

The difference is that this new game will have more details than the previous game, and the art style will also come with a big upgrade.

The reason why the cold window hard reading simulator is pixel style is mainly limited by Chen Ba's art skills and financial reserves, and it can only be made like that.

But this time was different.

Chen Ba, who has money in his pocket, not only got exquisite 2D vertical paintings for the characters, but also planned to hire a professional outsourcing team to be responsible for scene design and character design.

"It's going to cost a lot of money, right?"

Xiao Lu was the first to speak: "Our studio...... Uh, is there so much money? ”

"Don't worry! There is no shortage of this. ”

Since Xiao Lu is new here, he doesn't know how much money the [Cold Window Hard Reading Simulator] has earned for Chen Ba, so it is normal to have this kind of worry.

In order to dispel his doubts, Chen Ba didn't mind telling him the sales data of the previous work.

I saw him draw out a "ten" word, and then said with a smile: "The sales volume of the Cold Window Bitter Reading Simulator has exceeded 100,000 copies now, although there are not many of them, but it should be more than enough for outsourcing." ”

"So much?!"

Xiao Lu's eyes widened, and the word shock was written all over his face.

Don't look at the best-selling triple-A masterpieces that sell millions of millions of copies at every turn, and the pricing is expensive, so I look down on the 100,000 copies of these 18 games.

You must know that [Cold Window Reading Simulator] is an independent game, and it is all completed by Chen Ba alone.

For a single-player indie game, 100,000 sales is a big success.

No way?

No one really thinks that indie games can casually have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of sales, crushing many game companies, right?

Naive!

Games produced by other game companies are usually accompanied by large-scale publicity and promotion, where does an independent game producer have the confidence to touch a porcelain game company?

It's not that there are no cases of indie game dark horses counterattacking, but it's so rare that it's so rare that it's hard for the entire industry to have one a year.