Genius Game Planning

Chapter 108 The Pretentious Master Lu Fan Lu
For the next few months, Liu Neng will continue to stay in Shanghai, working with the game engine, which is the center of his current work.

The game engine is the core code of the game.It includes a series of content and scene management such as renderer, physics engine, collision detection, sound effects, script engine, artificial intelligence, network engine, computer animation, etc.The vast majority of game companies, especially large game companies, will develop their own game engines, but they must cherish themselves.

It can be said that the game engine is the foundation of a company and represents the highest technical level of the game company.

Of course, there are many commercial engines on the market, but they have various defects, and the prices are extremely high.For example, some game engines are not comprehensive enough, and some engines are not highly adaptable.

Liu Neng insists on making his own game engine, a large part of which is for the long-term development of the company.Although we are currently working on a few simple games, the most complex of which is "Three Kingdoms OL", in the future the company cannot rely solely on these games, and will still have to develop RPG games with stronger narratives.Whether a company can produce mmorpg games is, in a sense, a business card for it to be called a "big game manufacturer".

During this period of time, many people in the company have gotten along well enough, and the big cow among them is Lu Fan, who Liu Neng poached from Feiliu Entertainment for a double price.

Lu Fan is not ordinary at all. In a sense, he is not just a technical expert of Peacock Digital at all, but also a well-known technical talent in China.Now Liu Neng still remembers the scene when we met and chatted with him. It was a very peaceful spring afternoon, and the spring sun was warm, shining in from the window.

The lady in personnel affairs notified Liu Neng that the interviewer had already arrived in the office and asked him to go to the interview.

Liu Neng had read the resume before. He looked like a polite middle-aged man. There was very little personal description of himself on the resume. There were only a few lines to introduce his name, age, and current situation. Positions and responsibilities held.But he has a rich resume. He has been in the industry for more than ten years and has been in the game industry for seven years.

But almost every year will change a host.HR originally wanted to pass this frequent job-hopping person directly, but because his resume is so eye-catching, he will serve as the chief technology officer in every company, and when he does background research, the answer he gets is also yes .In the end, I asked Wan Binglin and Liu Neng if they wanted to be invited for an interview.

After sitting down, the other party was obviously taken aback when he saw Liu Neng, "Are you the interviewer?"

Liu Neng nodded, "Hello, Lu Fan?"

What Lu Fan didn't expect was that the interviewer was so young.He asked tentatively, "Is there anything wrong?"

"That's right, I'm the interviewer, and you're Lu Fan, that's right." Liu Neng was also a little strange about the slovenly middle-aged man in front of him. After all, other people came to interview, especially most "successful people" would The suits and leather shoes he wore were like that.

But Lu Fan has a stubble beard, wears a horizontal lined shirt—at least a bit more advanced than the plaid shirts that ordinary programmers usually wear, and wears glasses with beer bottle bottoms, looking at him with distrust Looking at himself, "Come with someone else, you are not qualified to meet me."

Liu Neng laughed, put his shoulders up and leaned back in his chair, "What kind of qualifications do you need for the interview?"

"The boss or general manager of the company is almost the same. How could a young boy come to interview me?" Lu Fan thought highly of himself.

Liu Neng didn't think he was disobedient, and looked at him with a smile, "It's boring to be idle anyway, I heard that people in the industry say that Lu Fan is Master Lu or Master Lu, can I ask a few questions?"

Lu Fan was a little impatient, "Call your boss over after asking?"

Liu Neng made an OK gesture, "I heard that Master Lu is mainly engaged in game engines now. I see that there are several big companies in your resume. Why do you keep changing jobs frequently? Looking at the speed, one a year is considered a long stay." gone."

"It's boring to stay, and it doesn't fit with the boss's philosophy. Everyone looks like five people and six people, but in fact they are just a group of beasts in human skin. They think about how to play with the player's psychology every day. What I hate the most is this The kind of person who thinks that if he understands his psychology, players will obediently send money."

"Games, game companies have to be poor. You can't let everyone use love to generate electricity or eat northwest wind. But if you do technology, don't care how they plan the game. Can't you just do it well technically?"

"You know what a fart!" Lu Fan said angrily, "All the bosses are short-sighted and insist on changing the underlying code. I want to design a more comprehensive game engine, which is as small as Snake Tetris and as big as RTS and ARPG. A game engine that can be made. But these sun thieves always think they know something, pointing fingers at me, saying that there is no need to make such a complicated game engine to make a game. They really know a fart, my engine After it comes out, it’s no problem to make any games on it in the future, so why can’t they understand it?”

"Oh?" Liu Neng became interested, "What kind of environment do you need? Let me see if I can provide it?"

"You?" Lu Fan looked Liu Neng up and down several times, and suddenly felt a little familiar, but immediately began to spray, "Can you provide a fart, don't waste my time, call your boss over here, I You can tell at a glance if it’s okay, if your boss can’t, I’ll just turn my head and leave without stopping. Why am I babbling with you for so long, it’s a waste of time!”

Liu Neng stood up and straightened his back, "My humble Liu Neng."

"Who?"

"Liu Neng."

Lu Fan shook his head, "I don't know, who is it?"

Liu Neng spread his hands helplessly, "The producer of "Three Kingdoms Killing OL", Liu Neng, is now the boss of Blue Star Studio."

Lu Fan looked this young man up and down again, and after a while, "What are you talking about with me? Are you here for an interview? Are you kidding me? In your twenties? Has your hair grown..."

"Look at you, why don't you make sense at all?"

"Wait a minute? I see that you look familiar. Are you the one who was rumored to have an affair with Li Lizhen? Damn, are you really Liu Neng? Interesting, did Li Lizhen catch up?"

Liu Neng hammered the table vigorously, "Brother, you have really made a big circle, don't worry about scandals, talk about your conditions, don't waste time, can you make it? By the way, you have joined our company. Li Lizhen is one of the bosses, we can meet each other often, if you want to know about the scandal, ask the person involved!"

"Aren't you also a party?" Lu Fan muttered, seeing Liu Neng's complexion gradually changed, he hurriedly said with a smile, "Okay, okay, I said, I want to deploy a team of at least 15 people, I want absolute autonomy, and I want money. Limit, or tell me what to do with my work."

"These problems are not big, but before I want to make a game like this, you need to make a simple version of the engine within half a year, which should be in line with your previous ideas. You see, if you can do it, I will give you a double salary, and the treatment will be favorable; if you can’t do it... I have the right to treat you as incompetent.” While speaking, Liu Neng threw the game design plan of "Spore" in front of him.

Lu Fan picked it up and stared at it for a while, "The game you want to play?"

Before Liu Neng could say anything, he said, "It's kind of interesting, but my salary is not low now, with an annual salary of 75W."

"So much nonsense..." Liu Neng rolled his eyes.

(End of this chapter)