The strongest game production method

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Sunny days are often followed by heavy rains, and thunderbolts are often followed by sunny days.

Yu Hanguang was worried about the headset, he squatted in the hospital for three weeks, and was finally rushed out of the hospital.On the first day when I returned to the company, I was struck by the thunderbolt brought by this temporary management meeting.

Since moving to the Future Venture City, the CEO's office has never been as quiet as it is today.

When he was hospitalized, he heard from Liu Yang that PintoPin's MCU was fine in the laboratory, but a small batch was trial-produced in the factory, and the pass rate of the final test was less than [-]%, and the rest were defective products.

Doing business is to make as much money as possible. No one understands the importance of reducing costs, and no one dislikes "replacement".

But in many cases, a substitute is a substitute.Just like "small property rights" are not real property rights, "Mrs. Ru" is not a real lady.

The supply chain will affect the whole body, the MCU cannot be produced, and other parts cannot be assembled no matter how many other parts are prepared.

The benevolent factory owner invited Meng Ai and Zou Haiyao to a meal. The implication was that the final payment could not be collected in a short period of time, but he did not want to continue to cooperate with Aimeng.

The money invested was like meat buns beating dogs. No one thought that the first person to lose his mind was Zou Haiyao.

"Stop it, you have to stop the loss." Zou Haiyao sat on the sofa with his back slightly arched, changing his usual laziness.He looked at the strange office and the other four people.

—— During the days when Yu Hanguang was hospitalized, Meng Ai rearranged the office.

The original azure sofa was replaced by a set of brown leather sofas, which added solemnity after a long time; the small speaker and CD player were received from the desk in the newly added glass cabinet; Leave a light gray picture frame indentation.

Meng Ai had been standing by the window looking at the green bushes below the office building, and turned around when he heard the words: "Old Qin, Mr. Zhao, Lao Yu, what do you think?"

Before waiting for a few people to answer, Zou Haiyao continued: "If the hardware project continues, everyone will be finished. It's not that you can't spend money, it's just that you can't make a fart if you spend so much; the cost is too high."

His tone is not urgent, but the tone is very strong.

Meng Ai rubbed his forehead and smiled lightly, blue blood vessels emerged from the back of his hand, his eyes couldn't hide the tiredness: "Opportunity cost is like this."

"It's not an opportunity cost, it's a sunk cost." Zou Haiyao's face became darker and darker, "The hardware thing was set in a rough way at the beginning, and everyone was paid for it by a feasibility study. Lao Meng, you are so funny ? Or are you forcing a smile?"

He remembered the wrong decisions he made on impulse in [My name is Jing Jing] back then, and he wished he could kick the meditation room eight meters away.

"We're going to clean up the bullets soon. It's a pity that we didn't sign the betting agreement at the beginning, otherwise the investor will be killed. Do you know what the investor told me? He said that we all felt that Aimeng was overtaking on a curve, but After passing the bend, I found that there was a cliff in front of me."

He and Zhao Huifeng exchanged glances: "Mr. Zhao just calculated, and now the cash flow in the company's account is only enough to last for two months, and the figures are impossible to read."

"It's not a cliff." Meng Ai stretched his hand to the back of his neck and wiped his sweat. "The money in the company's account can last for three months."

Yu Hanguang tried to rescue him: "Yes, isn't it always like this in the past? Everyone didn't say anything."

This is true for "Lonely Cracking Ice", "Your 99 Stories", this is true for StarKey, and this is true for every project.

We have to walk through rough roads, weather bad weather, and be ready for possible dangers at any time.

But if it's not a cliff, you have to walk over it to know.

Zou Haiyao was completely speechless: "I have convinced you too. Who is the person in charge of NewLab?"

"Old Yu, when we were in the incubator, we always bumped into each other, but there were few people back then, and the big guys came here after mixing with each other. What about now?"

"Come on, let the company go bankrupt? More than 100 people are bumping here, who is responsible?"

Yu Hanguang's neck shrank when he said that.

He lashed out at Meng Ai again: "I know you've been burning this month, but are you confused? Yes, you're fine. You can last two months, three months, or close the company. At worst, you can go back." The family inherits the family property!"

"What about people who love dreams? The big guys came to Yizhou, got married and started a business, counting carefully one by one - even if the monthly salary is less than a few yuan, something will happen. If something happens, the people above are fine. The people at the bottom are fine, but the people in the middle have to pay a painful price. You have to know that as long as one domino falls, it will fall in succession."

Meng Ai lowered his arms and stopped talking.

Yu Hanguang vaguely understood Zou Haiyao's family background.This boss came out to start a business. He used to think that he was just tossing around with nothing to do, or after the material life was extremely abundant, he wanted to meet Maslow's highest level of "self-actualization" (1).

At the moment, Zou Haiyao, who is most qualified to be the hands-off shopkeeper, has the most serious attitude; although Yu Hanguang disagrees with his point of view, he does have some admiration and guilt.

So he bit the bullet and said: "Old Zou, the data of several key games of the company are all available, StarKey's payment trend is also very good, and there will be new promotions for the online game festival next month. Business group Q2 to Q3 One of the north star indicators is to make more income."

The idea of ​​the hardware project was proposed by him, and he also wrote the "scribbled" feasibility study reports in Zou Haiyao's mouth, but now he dragged the company into the quagmire.

He is no longer willing to steal money from players' pockets, and has to act expediently.

Zou Haiyao looked at him meaningfully: "Put water in the swimming pool and fill it with a thin leather pipe, will it work?"

Sunk costs add some suffocating silent costs to the office.

After a long silence, Zhao Huifeng, who was sitting on the opposite sofa, suddenly said, "You should vote. Isn't the company always using the voting system when setting up projects? Xiao Zou came up with this method."

Zou Haiyao paused, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's make it easier today, just raise your hands here to vote. Those who support continuing to make hardware, raise your hands."

Yu Hanguang slowly raised his palm to the side of his temple.

He looked around the room. Zhao Huifeng and Zou Haiyao were stuck on the sofa, and Qin Haotian was leaning on Meng Ai's computer desk to watch his mobile phone.

The three of them are like sculptures, motionless under the scorching sun.

Meng Ai stood by the window, touching his nose with his fingers.

His originally straight fingers were slightly bent, and he looked at Meng Ai again with some guilt and uncertainty, hoping that the boss would change his mind at a critical moment.

Meng Ai let go of her hand.

"Hardware is a tough nut to crack." He was dazzled by the light outside the window, and his breathing became more and more rapid. "It takes half a century to travel a hundred miles. Now we may need time and a little luck..."

As soon as the word "luck" came out of his mouth, Yu Hanguang knew that he had lost the game.

Entrepreneurship is a metaphysics. Xuanzai is often unpredictable, and Xuanzai is sometimes helpless.

"Do your best and obey the destiny" is the saying that everyone is talking about.

But after all, gambling with the sky is the last excuse for the incompetent after all.

When he was annoyed, he heard Zou Haiyao say: "If you make hardware like you did in the incubator back then, maybe you can make it out. Now it seems that there is little hope. Lao Yu, you can't put luck above the laws of business." superior."

How can there be any so-called luck in the world?

But they are all carrying money and courage, fighting for the possibility of crossing the cliff.

"I also support the suspension." Qin Haotian raised his head slowly, with a rare serious expression, "Old Yang... After the accident in the product group, more and more brothers left, and thirteen left in the second quarter alone. Go with a group. Lao Yu and Mr. Zhao are better, and our technical group is the hardest hit area."

He also looked at Yu Hanguang: "At this time, the hearts of the people must be united and stable. If we really can't pay wages, what consequences will be beyond our imagination."

Under the cliff, undercurrents surged.

But it was obviously an undercurrent, but it flew to Yu Hanguang's eyes as if he had spread his wings, covering and engulfing him inch by inch.

Even more hopeless than when I was on the train a few weeks ago.

He felt that his luck seemed to have run out in that train accident as well.

Yu Hanguang subconsciously stretched out the hand held by his ear, wanting to call for help, but he couldn't make any sound.

Seeing movement by his side, Zhao Huifeng hurriedly got up to support the fainted Yu Hanguang, and exclaimed in a low voice, "Quick, call 120!"

Yu Hanguang had a splitting headache, his hands and feet were limp, and he gasped in pain.

Open your eyes, the ceiling is white, the hospital gown is white.

Still a familiar taste.

The mild concussion made everything in front of him a little blurry. His pupils adjusted to the light in the ward for a while, and he saw a shadow by the window out of the corner of his eye.

"Old...Old Meng," Yu Hanguang struggled to get up and looked around, there was no one else around except Meng Ai.

He reacted, and quickly said: "You guys sent me here? I'm causing you trouble."

"Your father and Wei Bo are outside." Meng Ai moved a stool to the side of the bed and sat down with a faint smile. "Shall we have a private chat first?"

"..." Yu Hanguang pressed the tune of "Little Star" on his watch, and took a few deep breaths to adjust his heart rate.

"Although no problems have been found for the time being, and the brain CT is normal, but I just asked the doctor that in your situation, it is best to take a rest for a while." Meng Ai said, "I also had a fever intermittently for more than a month. This month, I figured it out, people sometimes have to stop."

"Rest is to do things better." He said in a deep voice, "You have to be up and down when doing things, you can advance or retreat."

Yu Hanguang's nose twitched, and only the hospital-specific smell of disinfectant came into his nostrils.

The familiar, slightly sour smell of tobacco seems to have long since disappeared.

He flipped out the idea in his head again to figure it out——

Since he returned to the company to resume work, he feels that the boss has undergone subtle changes from the inside out.

The office has changed, the speech has changed, and so has the smoking habit.

It seems to be deliberate indifference and business-like, but it can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words.

He quietly pressed his heart, pretending to be full of confidence: "I'm fine, I have to go back and stare at the laboratory and factory."

Meng Ai sighed calmly: "Old Yu, please stop."

"Maybe luck will come tomorrow, and the MCU final test will be passed, and the pass rate will increase?" Yu Hanguang still had a faint light in his eyes, and under the illumination of the incandescent lights in the room, it focused into two bright spots.

He knows that it is Meng Ai's character to be good at maintaining balance, and he also knows that the ass determines the head.

But he didn't give up.

"Old Yu, how many levels are there in "Your 99 Stories"?" Meng Ai suddenly chatted about the game.

Yu Hanguang: "...there are 98 online temporarily."

Meng Ai squinted: "98 levels, at least 392 options, even if there are two jumps and one, three jumps and one (3), the story line has five figures."

"However, there are only dozens of endings."

Yu Hanguang found that Meng Ai was as familiar with this game as he was.

"Among these dozens of endings, the probabilities of good endings, good endings, medium endings, and bad endings are 5%, 10%, 65%, and 10% respectively; it's not easy to have a good ending."

"At the very beginning, Aimeng was just me, Lao Zou, and Lao Qin. They were not afraid of anything, and they did what they thought of." Meng Ai continued in Yu Hanguang's daze, "It really made us do it."

The industry of VR games is full of flowers and turbulent.

A person like him who "does it" will think that as long as he works hard, he will have a bright future in many moments, and his road to success is clear to follow.

However, if you have really struggled in the waves and choked on the water, you may realize that the position of the tide-rider is not stable. In many moments, all your efforts have to succumb to the power of luck.

"Yu Hanguang, it's not that we are unlucky now," Meng Ai looked at him, and seemed to be talking to himself, "It's that we were too lucky in the past."

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(1) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Motivation theory in psychology, from bottom to top: Physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), social needs (friendship), esteem and self-actualization.

(2) Two-jump-one, three-jump-one: game planning terms, referring to two options to jump to the same option in the next level.

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The road of reform of Aimenggame enters the deep water area_(|3」∠)_

Mr. Meng completely let go of the past.

Regarding Mr. Zou, it is good for everyone to regard him as a normal, flawed straight man. Because of his family background and ideals, he thinks highly of himself and does not respect Sister Chi enough; but at the same time, he is also very responsible for the company. It's normal and not contradictory.