Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 7 This project is getting cold

Not long after, a careless and unkempt young man who looked 27 or [-] years old came to Liu Yuxin's office.

"Director Liu, you are looking for me." The young man nodded and said.

Liu Yuxin nodded: "Yes. Let me introduce, this is the intern who just came to our project, Zhong Ming. This is the world architect of our project, Xiong Kai."

"Hello." Zhong Ming stretched out his hand.

Xiong Kai shook hands perfunctorily: "You are the newcomer who is very good at drawing? Welcome."

Liu Yuxin said: "Xiong Kai, you take Zhong Ming around the project and get to know other people. As for the work... You can give him some points, he has no experience, so you take him more."

Xiong Kai nodded: "Okay, Director Liu, don't worry."

Xiong Kai took Zhong Ming out and introduced the whole project to Zhong Ming.

"Over there is the program team, all of them are uncles. We have to ask them to fulfill our needs. Look at the one in the plaid shirt... Forget it, they all wear plaid shirts. I mean the one who is drinking water now, that is The main program. Don't call them technicians, or don't blame me for not reminding you when they beat you."

"There is the art team over there, and they are all uncles, but they are a bit more bullying than the program. My usual main job is to deal with them, and you should be the same in the future. However, the art team of our project is a little short of manpower, and several people have been transferred. I went to another group. I heard that you are good at drawing, just right."

"This is the design team, you can take the empty seat next to me first, you can get to know the others slowly, and do the work I entrusted to you first..."

"As for other departments, such as finance, human resources, and other project teams, many of them are on other floors. Please ask if you need it."

Xiong Kai took Zhong Ming around and briefly introduced the personnel of the project.

Although everything that needs to be introduced has been introduced, Zhong Ming can clearly feel that Xiong Kai's attitude is very perfunctory, without any enthusiasm.

This is a bit painful, Zhong Ming is only an intern now, and there are not many opportunities to directly receive tasks from the chief designer, let alone the supervisor Liu Yuxin.Perhaps most of the time in the future, Zhong Ming mainly dealt with Xiong Kai, but this one still put on a bad face.

But after this round, Zhong Ming confirmed one thing, that is, the situation of this project is really not good.

He had heard about the project "Mecha Era" before. This is a game on a wristband, and it can also be regarded as a mobile game in this world. It has been in operation for half a year, and the data at the beginning is not very good. Monthly turnover It was only about 700 million, and it is estimated to be lower now, and it is doubtful whether it can reach 100 million.

Looking at the situation of the project team, this is even more confirmed. There are several programs that are fishing, and the design team is also playing with wristbands, secretly reading novels, and watching videos. The main designer has nothing to do with it. mean.

The most exaggerated thing is the art side. There are only four artists left in the whole project, two original painters and two modelers, and the others have been transferred to other projects.

No wonder there are not enough staff.

Zhong Ming sat down at his desk and turned on the computer.Xiong Kai impatiently directed him to log in to his employee account, download some relevant design documents and game resources to the computer on the internal network, and then download "Mecha Era" on the wristband to familiarize himself with the game first.

These design documents and game resources are all encrypted, and cannot be copied out, let alone taken away. Reading and modification must be carried out on my work computer, and every step of the operation is recorded in detail.

After all, Zhong Ming is just an intern with very low authority.

It was only his first day at work, and Zhong Ming hadn't even played the game "Mecha Age" carefully, so he definitely couldn't start working immediately.

There was nothing to do all morning, Zhong Ming just flipped through the design documents, and then played the game "Mech Age".

In fact, Zhong Ming only played for two hours before he thoroughly understood the game.

The gameplay of the game is actually quite simple. It is to collect mechas and fight against them. It is a turn-based war chess game. The payment point is to draw mecha parts and match a new mecha lineup.

From all aspects, it is not much different from the mobile games that Zhong Ming played in his previous life, the biggest difference should be the form of expression.The game is represented by the holographic image of the wristband, all the mechs are three-dimensional images, and the fighting effect is also very gorgeous.

But it can be clearly felt that this game is quite deserted.Zhong Ming also deliberately chose a new area, but after entering, the chat channels were all advertised, and there were not many people alive.

It seems that this game is not far from the dog leash, there is no promotional funds, and there is no fresh blood flowing in. As the old players collectively get out of the pit, optimistically, the game will stop version updates soon, and it is estimated that there will be another three years. In five months, the service will be shut down and the life expectancy will come to an end.

At noon, Xiong Kai took Zhong Ming to the staff cafeteria of the Light Wing Interactive Entertainment Building for dinner.Some of the others sneaked out at noon, some brought their own meals, and some ate in the cafeteria with Xiong Kai and Zhong Ming, but no one talked about the project at all during the meal.

Apparently everyone has lost interest in the project.

Zhong Ming also got acquainted with other people in the design team, but everyone's attitude towards him was relatively average, and they were not particularly enthusiastic.

After all, everyone is in a state of eating and waiting to die. No one knows whether the project will still exist after three months. If the project is really cut off, these people will either be transferred to other teams or be fired. In this state, everyone is too lazy to make new friends.

And Zhong Ming didn't know if it was his own illusion, as if other people didn't have a good look at this Xiong Kai?Seems like he's annoying.

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming continued to check the design documents.

The design documents in this world are quite different from those in the previous life. They are files in a special format.After the design document is written according to certain rules, the editor can automatically realize a large part, which can greatly reduce the workload of programmers.

So the game production progress in this world is very fast. Mobile games like "Mech Age" can release a new version in two weeks.

Therefore, if Zhong Ming wanted to write documents by himself, he had to learn this special format first, otherwise the programmers would definitely not do it for him.

Zhong Ming was looking at the document when Xiong Kai who was sitting next to him suddenly said, "You are good at drawing, aren't you?"

Zhong Ming looked at him: "It's okay, what's wrong?"

Zhong Ming felt something was wrong. Ever since he met Xiong Kai, Xiong Kai had been bringing up the topic "You are good at drawing" intentionally or unintentionally, at least three times.

Zhong Ming is indeed good at drawing, but that has nothing to do with his current job?
Xiong Kai said in a natural tone: "I sent you a concept drawing, you can complete the concept drawing into the original painting."

Zhong Ming looked at the computer screen, and Xiong Kai had sent over a drawing file, which was a concept drawing of a new mecha.

(End of this chapter)