The strongest game production method

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The week is short and Monday is long.

When moving bricks in Jingzhou, Wei Bo held a vicious stand-up meeting every Monday morning. More than a dozen people chatted about work in the conference room in a daze, which can be called a double injury to the brain and spine.Therefore, he will deliberately wake up an hour earlier on Monday to avoid the terrible morning rush hour and come to the company in advance to prepare.

The pace of life in Yizhou is much slower than that in Jingzhou. The small apartment he rents is not far from the company, so he doesn't have to worry about being squeezed into photos in the subway like before.

But he has not been here for less than a month, and he has not been able to get rid of the habit of arriving early.

Wei Bo locks the "shared electric daddy" he just rented.Although this self-driving electric vehicle has not yet been put into operation on a large scale, it has quietly become popular in the Internet circle in Yizhou.

He randomly picked one of the early shops in the row outside the Future Venture City, and entered the office building with steamed stuffed buns and soy milk.

There are some well-reviewed bakeries in the park, as well as cafes and restaurants; but as a typical oriental stomach, he can't eat a bite of bread and coffee.

Not only that, but his mouth is also tricky, and he stays away from sweet, salty, sour and spicy; when he was in school, the famous vinegar pepper tofu in Jinhai City could not make him tempted.

Choose and choose, only bun soy milk that perfectly combines fat, protein and carbohydrates is the soul partner for activating the brain.

The company was silent all around, leaving only the blinking router and the [EyeMore 爱梦] logo on the door to accompany Wei Bo.Like a small animal that has just caught its prey, he found a cave sheltered from the wind and rain, and enjoyed the feast contentedly.

This feeling of not being disturbed is very comfortable.

"Why don't you turn on the light! How about we play "Ghost in the Office" here?" His freedom was quickly disturbed by a butterfly, "Wei Bo, it's Monday, why are you here so early!"

Wei Bo put down the steamed stuffed bun soy milk, turned his head helplessly, and looked behind him.

"Why did you come so early?" Wei Bo directly rebounded.

——He has already mastered the secrets of winning against Huadie.

If it was last week, even if he didn't fight, how could Yu Hanguang cheer up and talk to him.

But now he didn't care.

Since Chi Lan wanted to remind him yesterday that crisis public relations incidents and project approval are closely related to him, he must come to the company in advance to prepare for a rainy day.

He suspected that Meng Ai would even make a fuss about his fight with Wei Bo.

Yu Hanguang ignored him, and used the sticky note on the desk to fold a small star, and threw it into the transparent glass jar next to the computer.

Whenever he was upset, he would pile up stars and save them, and named them "Trouble Stars" for fun-this is a unique hobby that he has developed since he was in school.

Every once in a while, he will count a little bit of "annoying star", and then pour it out, which can be regarded as clearing some "brain cache".After all these years in a startup company, he understands that things can't overwhelm people, but negative emotions can overwhelm them.

In just a few short weeks, the glass jar was about to be filled again.

He withdrew his gaze, turned on the computer and sorted out the meeting thoughts, thinking that it would be easy to deal with it whether it was a violent storm or a bloody storm.

Yu Hanguang was inexplicably superstitious today, wearing a white T-shirt with [Talkischeap, showmethecode.] (1) printed on it.

This T-shirt is his big trick for pressing the bottom of the box. He basically doesn’t wear it to harm others; because every time he wears it and comes to the company, it’s like opening up, punching and kicking products, and turning on the "I am walking sideways" mode. Surprisingly good.

He hopes that this T-shirt will bring him good luck in the next meeting.

Luck seems to be absent.Just 10 minutes into the meeting, Yu Hanguang was frustrated—he called Meng Ai "Lao Meng" for so long, but he still couldn't figure out what the boss was thinking.

Because this impromptu meeting of core staff was not a violent storm or a bloody storm, but a mild wind and drizzle that he did not expect.

Every meeting room in Aimeng is equipped with excellent audio-visual equipment, but today Meng Ai locked the door when he came in, and did not use the microphone or stereo.

His voice is not loud, but very clear.

Wasn't it because the meeting room was too quiet, and there were a group of chilling cicadas sitting with their own concerns.

"Old Qin, you came to Aimeng before finishing your Ph. D., and you are the fourth employee to join the company. Except me and Lao Zou, no one here knows how Aimeng got here these years better than you. You It is always said that start-up companies have a lot of work pressure and a strong sense of crisis.”

After a brief warm-up session, Yu Hanguang thought that Meng Ai was going to bring up Saturday's scandal and was ready to be punished, but Meng Ai turned his attention to CTO Qin Haotian and sighed for no reason.

"Tell me what's in your heart, after Aimeng, how strong is your sense of crisis?"

"The sense of crisis... I really didn't have it at the time. Because I was too busy, I didn't have time to think about it at all." Qin Haotian is not from Yizhou, and his northern accent sounded very happy. So tired."

"When I first came here, I was the only one with skills, and I spent all night coding all night. I didn't have the time to think about it. At that time, I felt at ease——Yang Ye not only helped me, but also patted his chest to promise that I could sleep with him for free. Camp bed."

"Now Aimeng wakes up, and my brothers are all amazing...I'm so happy, because I finally live a happy life where I get off work at six o'clock." Qin Haotian spread his hands, "Isn't that the sense of crisis? My old age I was thinking, what should I do if my level can’t keep up? What if the things we make are not fun and can’t be sold? Then I won’t be able to get off work at six o’clock!”

When Qin Haotian talked about the excitement, he gestured with his hands, very much like the naive panda in the opening title of "Animal World"; this made the chills present a little more relaxed.

"Old Qin is right. The sense of security is the greatest sense of crisis, and the sense of crisis is the only sense of security." Meng Ai suppressed his smile.

Under the gentle wind and light rain, there is a raging undercurrent.

"Ai Meng Man Da is seven years old. From the beginning, there was only one game, and now there are 1 heavy games and 7 light games. This does not include the 15 games that were removed from the shelves, and the 8 projects that failed to be approved." Meng Ai was born Sensitive to numbers, memory is also strong.

"But we are still a very young start-up company. Aimeng doesn't have so many rules and regulations. It hasn't even set KPIs until now. The performance is determined by ourselves, and then communicated with the superior. Because making games depends on this-"

He drew a circle around his temple with his finger: "The output comes from the brain, from endless thinking and creation, rather than mechanically completing assigned tasks."

This is the rule Aimeng has set since the beginning of recruitment: only choose strong people with self-motivation and ideas, and let the strong people set their own goals, because self-motivation is always the best way to stimulate potential.

Instead of dragging mediocre people forward, it is better to join hands with strong people with generous rewards.

It is precisely because of this that even though the employees in the game industry have a high frequency of job-hopping, the flow of personnel is faster than the stream in the back mountain of Yuhu; the turnover rate is still surprisingly low when Kawaiimeng is in it, which is a miracle in the Internet circle of Yizhou.

"I know that you are all capable and want to achieve results. What happened? You were chased behind by a sense of crisis."

Meng Ai's voice became deeper and deeper: "The product group is under a lot of pressure, and it's not easy to be a PM. Yang Ye and Sun Han have worked very hard these years from working alone to leading a team; everyone can see it."

His sky-blue shirt was loosely rolled up to his elbows, his hands were propped up on the conference table, one foot was slanted over the other, and he looked like a tired and wealthy idler.

However, the wealthy and idlers are sharp: "Among the 106 games that have been approved so far, 74 are led by the product group, which is close to [-]%. If the base is there, even if the probability remains the same, there will inevitably be more and more problems. What happened last weekend is understandable."

He cast a understanding look at Yang Ye: "Yang Ye, haste makes waste. If you run in a hurry, you will fall easily. I personally suggest that you go out in groups to have fun, eat, drink and play games. Give yourself a break." It’s a vacation, and it will also give some opportunities to those in other groups who want to join the project.”

Meng Ai's words were made with the strength of his strength, which was clearly a compliment but a derogation.

Although the smiling eyes of Yang Ye's doll's face were slightly curved, the corners of his mouth had long since lost their curvature.Sun Han became an ostrich, wishing he could bury his head in the carpet.

"Aimeng has grown from 3 people in the incubator to 146 people now. With more people, the appeal will be diversified." Meng Ai scanned the circle of people around the conference table, "Employees care about work, Chi Lan, you guys The personnel team has not done enough, and we must pay more attention to it in the future.”

Chi Lan originally thought that this impromptu meeting was to accompany the prince to study, but at this moment she was absent-mindedly lowering her head to browse the shopping website, when she was suddenly hit by Meng Ai's words, she raised her eyes and stood there in a daze.

Although she works hard, after so many years of work, it is inevitable that there will be bottlenecks.

It is difficult to excel in personnel and administrative work, and it is the job to do it well; if it is not done well, the shortcomings will be magnified thousands of times.

Zhao Huifeng, the person in charge of the functional group, asked for leave today, and no one stopped her. She looked embarrassed like a poor student who was suddenly asked by a math teacher for the last big question of the test paper.

Meng Ai took off his gentle mask and began to shoot: "Chi Lan is not the only one who is not doing enough. Boss Wan, your business group is on the front line, and you communicate with players a lot, so you often receive some negative feedback. But we collect negative feedback, It is to collect needs, and then communicate reasonably and efficiently across groups to solve problems. For example, you solved it well last Saturday. I have said so much, and I hope you can put your minds right."

"Solve the problem, not the other person."

Although the words were directed at Wan Minzhe, Yu Hanguang knew that Meng Ai was short of reporting his ID number.

Yu Hanguang suddenly lost his strength and leaned back in the chair.

The sword hanging above his head finally came down.

He looked at Meng Ai and felt that although the boss was only half a round older than himself, the internal strength of the check and balance management was at least at the level of an old fox.

The game industry is connected with art, which is an anomaly in the Internet circle.

The people in the middle are more divided into two categories, either they are extremely pure, full of dreams and love in their hearts, and are bound to come up with a work that will shock the world; or they are fans of extreme pragmatism, and everything is about money.

Meng Ai's balance is extremely rare in it.

He can handle water freely between various groups, and he is also very good at "hitting a stick for a sweet date" for recycling——

Meng Ai criticized Chi Lan openly, and reprimanded herself secretly.But both I and Chi Lan have achieved the set goals, so the criticism is limited to oral articles.

It wasn't easy for Yang Ye and Sun Han, and they were praised; however, no matter how hard the product group worked, the things they made were not good, and Meng Ai robbed them of their opportunity with just a few words.

As the company grows, it is understandable that Meng Ai's management style is going thick and dark, but it always makes Yu Hanguang feel awkward.

He knew that Meng Ai still recognized the results of his work.

It's just that I can't figure out the boss's attitude towards Yang Ye.

"Both Lao Meng and Lao Qin mentioned a common problem: communication."

Everyone's thoughts were on Meng Ai, who was at the head of the conference table. Now they heard the voice, and they all turned their heads—on the guest seat at the end of the conference table, Zou Haiyao leaned on the engineering chair and put down the purple sand pot.

"Earlier, when Haotian was working on a project, there was a sea of ​​trouble, and Yang Ye helped a lot. This time, Hanguang also had a problem, and we worked together with the product group to settle it." Zou Haiyao stroked Zisha with his palm, "I I don’t care much about business, so I will talk about my ideas from other angles. Let’s just listen to it.”

"Making games is more difficult than making other products. Why? Because we face more uncertain information. Now is the era of information explosion, and the information we receive will be habitually domesticated by technology, forming an information cocoon."

He continued: "For example, a buddy likes to play the page game of Great Sword. As long as he watches three or five videos, the app will figure out his way, and he will see Tianer push the page game for this person. If it is a little too much, even The opening screen advertisements are all 'If you are a brother, come and kill me'."

Zou Haiyao paused, as if he was giving everyone time to digest, before he said, "Chi Lan, if you are this internet-addicted girl who loves to hack people and want to break the information cocoon, what should you do?"

He didn't ask the people in charge of the business, but looked at Chi Lan with great interest.

Chi Lan's neck stiffened.

She scored twice today, and she felt the feeling of poor students being repeatedly cueed in class: "I...will take the initiative to look at other content, MOBA, IO, sandbox..."

After all, she was born in the English department, and her understanding of games was much lower than that of the others in the conference room. She had almost run out of words she could think of at this moment.

"That's the reason. If you don't want yourself to be backlashed, you have to introduce different information. Let alone geniuses, if we ordinary people want to make good games, we must have enough experience and good enough products."

"If you want to see, you have to interact, you have to touch it—the people you meet and the things you see will make up for your shortcomings in thinking."

Zou Haiyao's energy in the past two years has been mainly focused on financing and acquisitions. Although he humbly "doesn't care about business", it doesn't mean he doesn't understand.

On the contrary, he is too understanding.

"Chi Lan, can you watch 50 different types of game videos every day?"

Chi Lan, who won three yuan in a row, continued to shrink her neck, her voice became softer: "...I'll try."

"'Try', but you can't do it." Zou Haiyao stood at attention.

Everyone was wondering why Mr. Zou got in touch with Chi Lan today, and he said solemnly: "It is almost impossible to break the cocoon purely subjectively. The best way is to introduce an objective avoidance mechanism."

"Lao Meng, I suggest that from today onwards, the company's projects will adopt a multi-team responsibility system, with two or more people from different groups taking the lead."

"Stop talking about it."

Meng Ai thought for a moment, nodded, and sang with him: "I agree. I hope everyone can adapt to the multi-person responsibility system as soon as possible to improve production efficiency."

"Speaking of efficiency, it's just right, don't show PPT at the next project approval meeting - what we are doing is a game, not a PPT."

"Talkischeap, showmethedemo. Interested project managers, please bring demos directly." Meng Ai's eyes settled on Yu Hanguang's T-shirt.

He had already seen through the little Jiujiu in Yu Hanguang's heart.

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(1) Talkischeap, showmethecode: It is a famous saying of Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux system, which is regarded as a standard by the majority of programmers.

Translated, it roughly means "less force, more codes".

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