In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

For them, "rats" were truly a bit terrifying.

Now, suddenly hearing the boss casually group rats together with succubi and big sisters nearly caused an immediate panic attack!

Tang Ya, who had brought up the succubus idea in the first place, instantly broke out in goosebumps, hugging herself and scratching her arms.

The artists exploded on the spot:

"Boss, what are you thinking??"

"Yeah, no way!"

"Rats? Oh my god, can rats even be anthropomorphized?"

"Forget rats, even hamsters are a no-go!"

… …

Clearly, this concept was a bit too avant-garde for them, and they instinctively resisted it.

But Xu Meng didn't take it to heart, simply asking them: "Have you ever considered that over a hundred million people in Xia have the rat as their zodiac sign?"

"And half of those hundred million are women."

"So the idea of a rat girl isn't any more outrageous than cat girls, dog girls, tiger girls, or dragon girls, which are all popular archetypes."

"It just requires more skill from the artists."

Seeing that everyone still looked confused and skeptical, Xu Meng thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll draw up a rough draft for you guys to look at this afternoon."

Pairs of surprised eyes turned to him.

Clearly, none of them had expected that the boss also possessed the skill of original artwork.

Xu Meng did indeed know a little.

— An independent game developer, classically a jack-of-all-trades.

However, he didn't plan to draw it himself.

With Little Meng around, why would he need to draw? Wouldn't that make raising her pointless?

He'd just create a general outline, let Little Meng refine it, and he'd just point and give directions from the side.

But that wasn't the key, nor was it the reason he came here to chat with the artists—

"That's right, I do know how to draw a little."

"But let's put that aside for now."

"Whether these characters are outstanding, whether they are attractive enough, whether they can make players continue to like them and be willing to buy them, largely determines the lifespan of the game."

"So I hope you don't limit yourselves, try to draw inspiration from broader and richer fields, and don't let your creativity dry up and fall into the cliché of homogenization."

"In the world of gacha games, homogenization is a slow death."

Everyone revealed thoughtful expressions.

But Xu Meng had also been in the workplace before and had been fooled once by the "sincere expressions" of his employees during a previous dinner, so he wouldn't be so easily convinced by their expressions this time.

He also knew that these words sounded a bit cliché.

But he had to emphasize them.

His energy was limited, and he had to devote a lot to new games, new companies, new hardware, and raising his daughter, so the team ultimately had to operate on its own.

However, the direction of 'Project Frost Snow' had to be controllable, and the helm of this large ship had to be in his own hands.

So every time he appeared, he had to emphasize some key things so that the team would always be in sync with his ideas.

For the original artists, the key was "continuous, sexy, and distinctive characters."

For the operations department, it was "treating players sincerely and responding to questions quickly."

For the planning department, it was "be a person."

If possible, try to "be a good person."

You can always stare at the player's wallet, that's fine.

But you have to come up with enough good content to make players actively spend.

And you can't just reach out and grab it.

… …

Xu Meng didn't stay long, seeing that it was almost noon, he hurriedly left, so as not to delay everyone's lunch orders.

After the lunch break, he first spent half an hour drawing the outline and a few dynamic poses of the rat succubus.

— This was actually not difficult.

As long as the figure was good enough, with the right places being big, the right places being slender, the right places being perky, and the right places being firm.

Add big sister-style garter stockings, succubus-style slender rat tail, cartoonish soft beast ears, and make the movements and posture more mature and seductive.

And it's basically done.

Then it was up to Little Meng to enrich the details and fill in the colors.

Little Meng was familiar with the development process and experience of Zhumen, and even exerted her subjective initiative. As soon as she finished drawing, she made the character move according to the dynamic poses designed by Xu Meng.

Xu Meng once again marveled that raising this daughter was worth it, she was really amazing!

— Then he pointed out the problematic details and asked her to redraw them.

The little girl wasn't angry either, she blinked her eyes, rubbed her head, her soft cat ears twitched, and she gave the second version of the plan in less than 30 seconds.

After redrawing it three times back and forth, Xu Meng nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad, Little Meng is really amazing!"

And he forwarded the picture to Ding Nian.

Little Meng happily spun around on the desktop.

Then she ran to the side of the fruit-cutting game, and without saying a word, she leaned against the game icon, looking left and right.

So Xu Meng put down his phone, and without looking at Ding Nian's workplace flattery, he quickly opened the game and cut watermelons with Little Meng.

After playing for a while, he asked the little girl to continue studying and sorting out the VR glasses information.

He himself took the information and ran to the Administration for Industry and Commerce.

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Registering a company didn't originally require him to personally run to the Administration for Industry and Commerce. After preparing the materials, he could find someone he trusted to run the process.

But Little Assistant was left in Huacheng by Zhang Yang to eat, drink, and have fun.

Chen Wanhua, the head of administration and personnel, was not only frantically recruiting people, but also running around outside every day, looking for suitable new office space.

Marketing Director Zhang Baiquan received the task of making figurines, and he has been inspecting reliable factories these two days.

— The figurines given away during the Mengjin event were still made by the small studio that had cooperated before.

The production capacity was too low. It was no problem to make a small amount for a lottery or an event.

But with the current popularity of "Project Frost Snow", once the figurine plan was released, the sales would definitely not be low.

The small studio simply couldn't handle it.

Even if they insisted on taking it, a lot of problems would arise due to insufficient capacity, and in the end, it would still be Zhumen's reputation that would suffer.

So Zhang Baiquan would be busy with this matter for the next few days, and after it was finalized, the figurine plan would be launched.

— After the remake of "Project Frost Snow" was completed, players began to want character figurines.

In recent days, with the explosive increase in the player base, the demand for figurines has become stronger and stronger.

You can't not make money when you have it, so Zhang Baiquan went to find a factory.

In the end, the matter of running to the Administration for Industry and Commerce fell on Xu Meng's own head.

Fortunately, things weren't complicated.

— What troubled him the longest was naming the new company.

Considering that the main task of this company was to produce hardware, not only the current [War Simulator] and [Somatosensory Synchronization Suit], but also the new technologies that would be obtained in the future, the company name should be a bit more sci-fi.

Xu Meng tried a few names and found that they had all been taken.

In the end, he simply used the name of his favorite book to register the company—

[Neuromancer]

The Gibson guy in this world also doesn't know what he's doing, and he didn't write the book "Neuromancer".

This discovery really made him quite regretful.

… …

… …

After returning to the company, Little Meng had already completed the sorting of the VR glasses technical data.

Those descriptive texts left by Xu Meng, those brief descriptions in the blank spaces, the rough line drawings, were all filled in, rewritten, and redrawn by Little Meng according to the knowledge she had just learned, and sorted into a formal, rigorous, and regular technical data.

Xu Meng spent some time checking this information again.

By the time he got off work, it was already at the level where it could be taken to register patents and produce sample prototypes.

Still have to find a patent agency?

As soon as he thought of this, Xu Meng realized again—

Zhumen is really a makeshift team.

Not to mention not having reliable talent to do public relations…

There is no legal department, and in case of trouble, we rely on finding lawyers outside.

There is no intellectual property department, and IP development is still stuck in the figurine stage.

There is no game security department, and related work is all managed by Peng Linmu together.

… …

In short, it highlights a compromise.

Fortunately, Zhumen is now rich, and all of this can be done!