Video Game Designer

One month later, just after the Spring Festival, the employees of various departments have returned to Jinling from all over the world. Although they have just started to work, the Tianhe employees who have returned to their posts are still very happy.

The various year-end bonuses issued before the Spring Festival, as well as project dividends, and corresponding benefits made them so happy that they couldn't find their way.

In terms of game dividends alone, including TINGK and Longzu, Tianhe Network has distributed a total of one billion yuan in bonuses and project dividends. I will also change to a new work place, and move to the new Tianhe Building.

According to Chuhe himself, he also bought a house in a community next to the company's new building. After all, the original house was close to Qilin Park, but it was too far away from the new office address Tianhe Building.

The employees of the headquarters have not yet been relocated. The first to relocate to the new building is the motion capture studio located in the second phase of Kirin. It's about the same.

After all, as a well-known game company, it is obviously not enough to fill the staff.

Canteens, cake shops, convenience stores, including self-operated peripheral stores, coffee shops, and dessert houses all need to be prepared.

At the same time, there must be places for leisure and entertainment, such as libraries and entertainment halls.

Including the dedicated reception floor and the display area for Tianhe's online game culture, it would be quite easy to fill up if you do the math.

And after moving into the new building, the corresponding viewing area can also be opened to the public, instead of having to separate a separate floor as the player's viewing area in the already tight place like in the Qilin Park.

As the size of the Tianhe network grows, the influence on overseas players is also increasing. Every week is a bit exaggerated, but every month, some players from all over the world will form a group to browse the Tianhe network. It's true.

And when it comes to media interviews, even Tianhe Network does not even have its own release hall, so it has to borrow the release hall in the park every time, which is a bit inconvenient.

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"I have to move to a new working environment suddenly, and I still feel a little bit reluctant." Cheng Yu, who was still reporting to Chuhe in the office of Qilin Park, said jokingly.

"Come on." Chuhe turned his head slightly and glanced at him.

What are you pretending to do? I have only come to Tianhe Network for a full year, so why not give up.

"However, it's fine if you like the paper version of the materials, but prepare an electronic version for me." Chu He grabbed the materials, looked at Cheng Yu and said with a sigh.

Every game producer has his or her own hobbies, and Chuhe knows this well. Cheng Yu likes to use paper versions for things like game planning and materials.

But I don’t like it. The paper version seems too cumbersome, a booklet with dozens of sheets of paper, and there is no catalog for finding something. If you don’t understand it, you have to search for a long time.

"The art design is okay, but have there been internal tests for the skills of various heroes?" Chu He asked Cheng Yu.

"The basic effects have been tested, but whether various combinations and special trigger conditions will cause bugs is still being tested." Cheng Yu nodded and said.

The hero's art style is basically in accordance with Chuhe's previous instructions.

It didn't use the DNF style that Asian players prefer, nor did it adopt the European and American style similar to World of Warcraft.

It is similar to the cartoon-style styling that is biased towards Japanese comics. At the same time, it is determined according to the background positioning of the heroes in the game whether it is biased towards a specific style.

For example, the swordsman hero who can shuttle soldiers mentioned in the example given by Chu He and Cheng Yu earlier is biased towards the image of the swordsman in Chinese martial arts novels.

As for balancing this situation, the team will specially invite someone to conduct internal testing.

Before the test, regarding things like balance, the internal staff can conduct a trial test by themselves, and then make modifications based on the data.

If you want to really investigate whether the hero is strong or weak, you can only judge whether the hero is strengthened or weakened after the game is released and the players have played a certain number of games and collected big data.

"In addition, the later promotion of the game can start with e-sports." Chu He said to Cheng Yu.

Although it did not aim at e-sports at the beginning, it is undeniable that this is indeed a good starting point for publicity.

"It's a bit early to publicize this. Considering the completion of the game, as well as internal testing, and the second modification, based on the current development progress, I think it will take at least half a year." After thinking about it in his heart, Cheng Yu said to Chuhe.

"Time doesn't matter, just grasp the quality of the game. We have plenty of money, and we don't need you to rush to the market to withdraw funds." Chu He shook his head when he heard Cheng Yu's words, but then thought of something and added: "Of course, I don’t ask you to rush to work, but don’t grind foreign labor, I don’t expect to hear you saying that you have to skip the ticket, and the progress is only half done, which is less than such an excuse.”

Cheng Yu couldn't help laughing and said quickly: "Don't worry, Mr. Chu, absolutely not. Even if I want to work abroad, other people in the project are not willing. The bonus for the first half of the year is shared with the project, and our project team did not enter the top ten." , they don’t even have as many operation teams as Jianghu and Left 4 Dead. Last year, they were in charge of the DNF operation rotation for three months. If they are still struggling with foreign work this year, it is estimated that the project dividends will completely miss us.”

It sounds cheesy, but it's more real.

After all, for most practitioners in the game industry, the biggest wish is to make a lot of money while making games that players praise.

As for those who say that I don't want to make money, I just want to make the game I like, even if the game doesn't make money, I'm happy.

It is estimated that ninety-nine out of one hundred such people are in these situations.

Either it's just talking, or it's a hobby that doesn't expect this to support itself, or it has a mine at home and doesn't care about the game revenue.

As for the gamer who doesn't have a mine at home and no source of income, and doesn't expect the game to bring him income, then probably...well, this kind of person is not very easy to comment on.

"If you want to share the bonus with the project, just play the game well." Chu He looked at the small print on the planning book and his eyes hurt.

"In terms of hero design, we can link Red Dead Redemption with DNF, Jianghu, and Prototype. Anyway, it's easy to talk about the authorization of their own game IP characters, and it will be fine to give a price when the time comes." What did Chuhe think of? Then Cheng Yu said.

"Send me another electronic version. I'm too lazy to read this brochure, and my eyes are blurred." Chu He threw the brochure on the pile of documents next to him, and said with a yawn.

"Okay." Cheng Yu nodded, but then he thought of something: "By the way, Mr. Chu, let me ask you a question. Is there any new action in the headquarters next? Want to develop a 3A game like Red Dead Redemption?"

During this period of time, Cheng Yu also heard some rumors, and he had already participated in the development of Red Dead Redemption before. Although the things he was responsible for were not very big, he also learned a lot.

Although he was the main project of Penguin's Dark Westward Journey before, he really doesn't have much experience in this kind of international 3A project.

In other words, 99% of domestic game producers do not have such experience.

If possible, he would of course prefer to participate in this project rather than League of Legends.

"Don't worry, I will definitely make it in time. I will draw a batch from your team to complete the League of Legends project. Moreover, the new game is still under conception, and the project has not yet been decided." Hearing Cheng Yu's words, Chuhe knew He wanted to say something, smiled and said.