The strongest game producer

Seeing that Xiao Gou was out of his mind, Qiao Hong made the decision and gave Xiao Gou half a day off.But even though it was a holiday, Xiao Gou still sat in the office with Qiao Hong, Qiao Hong was working, and he was playing games.Thanks to Qiao Hong's open-mindedness, otherwise he would definitely drive Xiao Gou away.

The game Xiao Gou played was the PC version of Xia Meng's last holographic game so far—this may also be the last authentic Hua Guofeng game of Lao Xia Meng.

This game is Xia Meng's biggest IP, the "Flowers in the Mirror" series. "Flowers in the Mirror" is a famous legendary novel in Qing Dynasty.The first half of the novel is the story of Tang Ao and others traveling to strange overseas countries, and the second half is an unprecedented story of women as the protagonists, explaining the story of hundreds of talented women who were reincarnated from Baihua Fairy, who took Wu Zetian's imperial examination and entered the court to become officials.Whether it is the first half of the novel that combines the mystical events in the "Shan Hai Jing" with reality through rich imagination, and humorously satirizes the world, or the second half of the novel, in the era when the status of women was almost reduced to the lowest, it is about Wu Zetian as emperor. The achievements of the time were positively evaluated, and even Fairy Baihua became an official in the court, which can be regarded as a great feat at that time.

Perhaps the author Li Ruzhen has limited her horizons due to the times. Although she saw the problem, she did not propose a real solution.But at least he has seen these, exposed them, and satirized them, making "Flowers in the Mirror" worthy of being a masterpiece both in terms of artistry and thought.

Based on "Flowers in the Mirror", Xia Meng has produced a variety of interesting games—the first half of "Flowers in the Mirror", fighting and role-playing games that conform to the mainstream of the game society; the second half of "Flowers in the Mirror" In the plot, there are also mobile games and web games where women study and advance to love, and a love harem game where a man assists Baihua Fairy to enter the court and become an official. The latter is the main one.Xia Meng's thinking still entered the misunderstanding that men are the main players of the game, but women still like the magnificent world in their games.

Xiao Gou likes the world presented by Xia Meng in this series very much. He also thought that if he wants to repeat the same mistakes and become a programmer who died of overwork, he must choose to go to Xia Meng to perfect this series.

In the end, he did repeat the same mistakes, but failed to go to Xia Meng.And now the Xiameng game is almost gone.

Xiao Gou doesn't believe that after Stella buys Xia Meng, Xia Meng will continue to make the original Chinese style game.Because this is not the first foreign game company acquired by Stella, and Xia Meng is not the first Huaguo game company to be acquired by a foreign game company.The top executives of Western game companies, especially talented game designers like Leon, are always confident and even proud. They think that the one they like is the best.After they acquired game companies from other countries, from the plot to the modeling, they all required to conform to their own aesthetics and tastes.

For example, take the Peach Blossom Demon as an example.The Peach Blossom Demon designed by the Hua people may be a beautiful woman in pink or light green clothes.She may have peach blossoms and peach trees embroidered on her clothes, and peach blossom-shaped hairpins may be inserted obliquely in her hair.But if it is a Westerner, then it is estimated that the woman must grow a peach tree on her head, or simply become a tree person.

In terms of the plot, foreigners may not necessarily understand and like the etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame deeply rooted in China's 5000-year-old culture.

When many Huaguo players play foreign games, they feel that the three views explained in foreign games are subtly inconsistent with themselves.In fact, foreigners think so too.

After Stella takes over the "Flowers in the Mirror" series, the wonderful creatures in "Shan Hai Jing" will probably become Western monsters and ghosts; Baizuo and the witch or something.

Anyway, it's not the first time they've done this, and they've even been doing it all along.

Thinking about it this way, Xiao Gou felt that although his father penguin in his previous life was throwing money everywhere, his attitude of only throwing money and not caring about other people's creations, as long as he made money, was really very friendly to people in the industry.As for what kind of vip system to implant, that's all secondary, at least the game designer's own thinking, the penguin won't slap his head and say that your big boss must be a penguin.

"Tell me, can we buy the IP of "Flowers in the Mirror"?" Xiao Gou asked suddenly.

Qiao Hong didn't raise his head and said, "If you talk about Xia Meng's game series and the studio that produced it, we have the money to buy them, and Xia Meng and Stella won't let them go. If you just refer to "Mirror Flower" Yuan”, then you can do it without buying it.”

"Of course, of course I know, just like the Three Kingdoms Water Margin Westward Journey to the Red Chamber, everyone can do these themes. I might do better than Xia Meng. But I'm not staring at this IP." Xiao Gou closed the game, Frustrated, "It's just that their game is relatively complete in terms of character design and world view. So many people's hard work for so long will be ruined in one go. It's really uncomfortable."

"Stella wants to make Huaguo's game, so he may not give up this IP." Qiao Hong reassured, "Maybe they will do well."

Xiao Gou rolled his eyes: "Do it well? Although "Flowers in the Mirror" and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" are masterpieces, foreigners may not stop to read them. I don't think they will study carefully in order to do a good job of Xia Meng's original IP. "Flowers in the Mirror" and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", maybe they just play a fighting game with Hua people as the main characters, or simply Journey to the West."

Qiao Hong originally wanted to say, you can reshape this series after they smashed the signboard of the "Flower in the Mirror" series.But he thought of Xiao Gou saying "it's not for this IP", and he sighed.

Well, Xiao Gou is just hypocritical and doesn't want to see the game company he liked in childhood become not like him.But in business, such sympathy is unnecessary or even ridiculous.Besides, it might be the red dog who gave Xia Meng the final blow.

Xiao Gou knew it in his heart, but he still felt uncomfortable.Maybe after he sleeps, he will be relieved, and then devote himself to his current work with a more serious attitude.

……

Stella and Xia Meng's negotiation on the acquisition was gradually released. This time, Xia Meng finally overwhelmed the limelight of Red Dog's pre-sale of Red Dog glasses.

For this acquisition, some players are struck by lightning, while others are optimistic.The players are just playing the game, they analyze blindly, and they may not necessarily see the core and essence of this acquisition.They just mourned that Hou Rui, the founder of Xia Meng, was finally forced to leave Xia Meng's management, and hoped that Stella, a legend in the industry, could revitalize Xia Meng.

Although Huaguo already has Red Dog, it would be nice to have another Xia Meng.Xia Meng's "Mirror Flowers" series is the sentiment of many Huaguo players.They hope that with the help of Stella, the "Flowers in the Mirror" series can become a masterpiece that rivals the sword and the wild.

Optimistic players have never thought that acquisitions are not help.What's more, Xia Meng's "achievements" and "masterpieces" in the eyes of Huaguo players could not catch Stella's eyes at all.

Perhaps if Stella buys Red Dog one day, he will let Red Dog be free to play the games he wants. As long as he can achieve results, Stella will not interfere with any of Red Dog's creations.But Xia Meng is not qualified.

As Xiao Gou expected, Xia Meng's game production department became Stella's "talent factory".Xia Meng's several studios were all split up and merged into Stella's game studio.As for the project they originally had, it was naturally put on hold indefinitely.Perhaps in the future, when one of them gets the approval of Stella's senior management and reorganizes their own studio, they will restart this project.

However, apart from other departments of game manufacturing, Xia Meng, especially the department of game equipment manufacturing, is highly valued by Stella.Stella spent a huge amount of money to acquire Xia Meng, just to eat Xia Meng's hardware production department.

Whenever a game company grows, it wants to get involved in manufacturing, and Stella is no exception, which is also its shortcoming.Huaguo's high-tech manufacturing industry is still very admirable.Acquisition is the quickest way to absorb Huaguo's game hardware manufacturing technology.

For many of Xiameng's employees, their personal prospects appear to be better.Entering the large platform of Stella, although the competition is more intense, there are more opportunities.Although it is almost impossible to be the chief planner and creator, but having a name in an internationally renowned [-]A masterpiece, the income should and may be more.

Not everyone wants to become Xiao Gou and Leon, they just want to work in a company with high profits and receive higher wages.

It's just that for Xia Meng's old players, Xia Meng's existence in name only really dealt a huge blow to them.

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During the period of Xia Meng's acquisition case, Huaguo game players can be described as gloomy.Even if he is not a fan of Xia Meng, regarding the fact that Huaguo's old game manufacturer exists in name only, and Xia Meng is just an agency platform and hardware manufacturer, and no longer a game studio, he still feels that there is a vacancy in his heart.

This kind of vacancy is probably like watching the amusement park that I used to go to in my childhood being demolished and built into a commercial center.This may just be a nostalgia for the past.

Fortunately, Red Dog's new game preview has been withdrawn. Its cool scene, which is obviously a card game, can actually burn to the extent of its own bgm. broken jaw.

In the trailer, it is a scene in reality.The red dog who is too lazy to find celebrities to endorse, this time it is Xiao Gou and Qiao Hong who both appear on the scene. The two of them are sitting at the two ends of the desk. , Just like the magic chess in Alice in Wonderland, the fighting is particularly powerful.

Players: It feels so interesting, I feel like I have become a magician in an instant, super awesome!