Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer

When Li Sheng and the others saw the name Lin Cheng, they all had mixed feelings of being choked on the spot.

Based on the evidence they currently have of Lin Cheng's connection with the Internet trolls, it can almost be confirmed that Lin Cheng is not a good person, but in the end, the plan that they are optimistic about comes from Lin Cheng again.

Not long ago, the "Super God" update accident and the aftermath of various sunspots taking turns to hype, this incident is still vivid in my mind. Although Li Sheng and others failed to find out which company Lin Cheng was linked with, but Lin Cheng was already on guard against him.

Today, it was suddenly discovered that there was a promising plan that came from Lin Cheng. Li Sheng and the others felt that it was really difficult not to be complicated.

Li Sheng: 【...Do you still have to follow the old rules? 】

Chen Shan: [As usual, this is not bad. Isolate him to a separate business and reduce contact with the project. This is also the previous idea. 】

Li Sheng: 【All right then. 】

***

Lin Cheng has failed two mandatory tasks in a row.

This is the biggest setback he has faced since he was reborn into the binding system.

He originally thought that the system he bound to was his pure cheat, and he had never thought about the consequences of failing his mission.

He didn't really appreciate the cruelty of the system until a few days ago, when the task of forcefully slapping teachers and Jiang Ziye completely overdue and failed.

——Compulsory task: Slap in the face without losing to the teacher.Progress 0, judgment failed.

——Compulsory task: Slap Jiang Ziye in the face.Progress 0, judgment failed.

Failure penalty: The brightness of the protagonist's halo is -2, and the host's appearance and body values ​​are randomly -2.

(Warning: The lower the brightness of the protagonist's halo, the closer the host's appearance and body values ​​will be to the original values ​​before the host's binding system.)

Before Lin Cheng saw this mandatory warning, he had already forgotten that his upright appearance and excellent physical condition were obtained after binding the system.

This failure punishment completely blew up Lin Cheng's mentality. Now he just wants to complete the task at hand at any cost, and then give a little color to Mr. Buba and Jiang Ziye, the two guys who made him fail the task!

What kind of mission should I use to fight against the guys from the No Loser studio? !

The current King of Game plot achievement task requires the final game to be able to surpass other competing games in the same period in terms of discussion popularity.

Lin Cheng searched the Internet for the latest information on various games with a dark gaze, and all the key words of the games that caught his eyes were - krypton gold.

Lin Cheng also knew about the news of Wang Fei going to the Bulo Studio. After knowing that Wang Fei had gone to Jixing, everyone within Huanyu guessed that the first project of the Bulo Studio would be a major project. As the project manager of the game "Super God", Wang Fei is also very keen in mining profit points inside the game.

Through all kinds of information, Lin Cheng judged that the first game of No Loser Studio would definitely be a big gold digger.

That being the case... Lin Cheng carefully selected a game from the system's game library, redeemed it with all his points, and submitted it to the monthly draft competition of Jixing Studio.

***

Li Sheng: [Congratulations, the work "Wasteland" you submitted won the first place in this monthly draft competition. At the same time, after the evaluation by the management team of Jixing Studio, the work "Wasteland" you submitted has initially reached If you meet the production standards, you can choose to start the production of the "Wasteland" demo, and Polar Star Studio will provide you with project start-up funds.After the "Wasteland" demo has completed the demo production and passed the internal project approval review of the universe, you will receive financial and personnel support for the "Wasteland" project within the universe. 】

After receiving Li Sheng's notification, Lin Chengcai breathed a sigh of relief - the first step of the plot achievement task has been completed, and the next step is to make a demo and participate in Huanyu's internal project review!

***

While Lin Cheng was advancing step by step to complete the task while secretly wanting to take revenge on Pei Shu, Wang Fei, Pei Shu, and Jiang Ziye from the No Losing Studio were at the conference table in the coffee area, having stiff headaches together.

Pei Shu looked at Wang Fei's project budget, scratched his head with difficulty, and then sighed: "Old Wang, we don't have enough money..."

That's right, Budi Studio, which sits in a large flat-floor office building, has an outstanding office environment, and serves afternoon tea every day, is now so poor that it can't be opened.

A total of 80 yuan of funds, Pei Shu reserved 20 yuan as the server rental fee and the salary payment of studio members after the project was launched, and about 5 yuan was placed in the initial purchase of office equipment for the office-this is all necessary expenditure.

The remaining 60 yuan was invested by Pei Shu in the game development of "Codename Xianyuan".

But Pei Shu considered a lot of content, but he forgot to consider the 8-year inflation.

The various prices 8 years ago and the prices 8 years later are no longer the same. Pei Shu originally thought that he was the one who made two independent games at any rate. Suffering from a lack of funds, there must be no major problems in the estimation and use of funds.

but……

The face hurts.

In the past, Wang Fei was merciless when spending the budget on the "Super God" project. After all, "Super God" is a super S-level project in the entire universe, and the budget is sufficient.

During the "Super God" project, like the new expansion pack just released this time, the promotional CG of only one new character was worth 1 million RMB. It has nearly 750 million, and the production cycle of character CG is as long as half a year, which can be called the excellent production of cinema-level animation.

Not counting the internal developer costs and various CG placement costs, in short, the overall cost of a new expansion piece is estimated to be close to 5000 million.

Ever since he came to Pei Shu's No Loser studio, Wang Fei has adjusted his mentality in time, telling himself that this is a studio with a total investment of only 80 yuan, and there are only 3 formal employees in total - just these 3 people, Jiang Ziye was the only one who received his wages honestly. Pei Shu promised him a project dividend and a plan to make up wages and bonuses in the later stage, and of course Pei Shu himself did not need wages.

For these reasons, Wang Fei has been very careful when making the budget.

But no matter how careful you are, there are times when you can't hold back the budget.

Pei Shu looked melancholy at the character design part of the budget—the basic character image of the player, 6 stages for men and women, 3 each, 20 NPC character images totaling 5 yuan, 20 monster images totaling 5 yuan, fairy world maps, special Scenes and other packaged content total 10... There are also scattered item icons, interface UI design, etc.

Good guy, that is to say, the art alone requires at least a budget of 30 yuan.

In addition to the art, the price of the program is also a big head. The full set of the program is packaged, at least 10 yuan has not been lost. In addition, there are fees for the game application version number, game dubbing fees, music, and sound effects configuration... There are fees for renting a server for testing, fees for adding program functions, and so on.

60 should be considered a sufficient number in Pei Shu's opinion. After such a simple calculation, it is almost difficult to maintain it until the final game is launched.

Looking at the budget, Wang Fei also felt a headache: "I have tried my best to reduce it, but we need to ensure the basic game quality."

Pei Shu also understands this truth. For example, if you really want to save money and find students who haven't graduated yet, you have to write it. Maybe it's not impossible to write it. But these students lack game development experience, and to be honest, in The program-related knowledge that these students received during school is completely different from the concept of program knowledge in actual development and application.

Code written by such inexperienced programmers may have problems starting from the underlying structure, and if such problems cannot be found in low-load testing, wait until the number of program testers increases later, or during the development process. There are more and more redundant information, and it is entirely possible to cause the program to crash or the server to crash directly under the impact of the number of players.

So what Wang Fei said is correct, the program money cannot be saved.

"Then what about art...?" Pei Shu glanced at art, which accounted for the bulk of the overall cost.

Wang Fei was silent for a while: "This is already the lowest price that this team can offer. This is also a well-known team in the industry, and the game art can also give players the first impact. At present, we have initially determined the art Style also determines the quality standard of art, and to meet this quality standard, the cost cannot be low..."

Pei Shu let out a long sigh.

With a budget of 80 yuan, he originally thought that it would be enough to make an idle game, but he never expected that the inflation after 8 years almost made his dreams come to an end tonight.

Jiang Ziye was also a little worried, he thought about it, and tentatively said: "In terms of art, is it possible that we will follow the tone and quality standards that have been set so far, and then invite art personnel one by one on WG's outsourcing platform and outsource it to the team? In fact, there is also the coordinating cost of the art team, we can take over the coordinating work and review the final art effect by ourselves.”

"It's just... a little tired." Jiang Ziye frowned: "The other thing is that we may not be as good as professional artists in controlling the quality of art."

As the saying goes, there is specialization in the art industry. Among the three people present, there are no art professionals. It is no problem for them to look at the pictures to confirm whether the effect and style they want. It can be said that the quality of the finished product is reviewed and judged, and even how to propose amendments Opinions, etc., are another matter.

Wang Fei finally gritted his teeth: "I'll go to the WG outsourcing platform to take a look first, and confirm the approximate price of the art outsourcing that wants to achieve our quality effect. If the cost can be significantly reduced, then do so."

After making up his mind, Wang Fei shook his head angrily and smiled.

"It's been so many years since I've been working on a project so hard and simple."

Pei Shu also laughed: "Old Wang, don't say that, our current conditions are already very good!"

That's true, as long as there are only three of them in this huge office area, it is indeed a very good environmental condition.

It's a pity that the office environment belongs to the office environment, and the funds belong to the funds. Even if they stay in such a good office building, they can't hide the fact that they are short of money.

After saying this, Wang Fei began to care about other progress of the project.

Pei Shu nodded: "The division of various functions of the system master plan has been completed, but when it comes to placing games, the numerical value is a key point, and I still need to consider how to build a numerical framework."

Speaking of this, Pei Shu smiled: "After all, we have a game against dual cultivation systems!"

Wang Fei heard the meaning hidden in Pei Shu's words, and snorted angrily: "You really plan to do this? When you are beaten to death by the players, don't say that I know you."

Jiang Ziye, who was still studying the project budget, also sighed melancholy after hearing the conversation between Pei Shu and Wang Fei: "I think the players may kill me before killing Teacher Buba."

In the current division of labor, Jiang Ziye is the main copywriter in the project, that is to say, all the gameplay points given by Pei Shu will be packaged by Jiang Ziye's plot, and finally form a set of words received by the players in front of the stage.

In other words, Pei Shu used the gameplay to trick the players later on, and Jiang Ziye was the one who "helped the evildoers" package these gameplays in words and finally passed them on to the players.

As long as Jiang Ziye thinks about the plot line he is currently writing, he feels that his life may not be long.

Just as Pei Shu and the others were talking, a link was sent to Wang Fei's phone.

Li Sheng: [The company's pre-approval demo project, the one with the number 39, belongs to Lin Cheng. He won the first place in the Jixing internal pitch last month. 】

Li Sheng: [Ham, the game setting he gave is really good, what the hell, sometimes a person's character and talent really can't be compared, and it really upsets people at this time. 】

Wang Fei glanced at his phone, and clicked on the pre-approved project demo introduction on Huanyu's official website—this kind of introduction generally does not reveal too much information, at most people know that this is a project with a doomsday wasteland background.

After reading it, Wang Fei returned to his mobile phone and glanced at Li Sheng who looked troubled.

Wang Fei: [Since you also know that his character is not good, it is still doubtful whether this work really belongs to him. 】

Li Sheng: [... I know about the real and fake producers, but after I found out that the contributor was him, I searched the Internet, but I didn't see any new games with similar settings, similar themes in independent games I haven't seen the various unfinished products. 】

Wang Fei: [Before Jiang Ziye stepped forward, no one thought that there would be a real or fake producer incident. 】

Li Sheng: 【...No way?What happened to Jiang Ziye that time was already bizarre enough, can it happen again? 】

Wang Fei: [It's hard to say, we can't even deduce whether his guilt exists.Wait, time will always tell. 】

After saying this, Wang Fei took off his phone and told Pei Shu and Jiang Ziye about it.

When Jiang Ziye heard Lin Cheng's name, he frowned slightly: "Don't lose, Teacher Wang...Lin Cheng is a bit weird, it's hard for me to explain, but be careful."

When Wang Fei heard Jiang Ziye's words, his eyes flashed, and he remembered the previous update of "Super God".

Pei Shu glanced at Jiang Ziye, then at Wang Fei, and finally said with a smile, "I don't care about Lin Cheng's weirdness, but... I have a hunch that this new game of his will probably be aimed at us, maybe It’s not certain that it will be launched at the same time as our game.”

Wang Fei and Jiang Ziye were startled at the same time.

Pei Shu smiled and said: "Okay, let's start with all our strength. I hope that in the next collision, we can practice the name of our studio-not to lose!"

The author has something to say:

Pei Shu: ^^ Why would the player hit me?If you want to fight, you have to fight first... (turning to look at ing)

Jiang Ziye: 0.0? ? ?

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