The first day at work.

Zhong Ming was waiting specifically at the door of the studio, holding a large stack of red envelopes in his hand.

The first one to come was Jiang Wanna, who basically came with Zhong Ming and was surprised to see Zhong Ming: "Hey, you came so early today."

"What does it mean to come so early today? Haven't I always come early? I'll draw one of the New Year's red envelopes by myself." Zhong Ming handed the stack of red envelopes in his hand forward.

Jiang Wanna said in surprise: "Hey, there are red envelopes? Yes, it's okay, it's a good time to start work. Does everyone have it?"

Zhong Ming nodded: "Yes."

"Then it's not appropriate for you, a boss, to send red envelopes here, why don't you give them to me?" Jiang Wanna wanted to take all the red envelopes in Zhong Ming's hand.

"What's wrong with the boss sending red envelopes? It's the boss sending red envelopes. Or, if you take the red envelope, I'll hand it to someone else." Zhong Ming said.

Jiang Wanna thought for a while: "That's OK, it looks more formal."

She took the red envelope from Zhong Ming and stood aside.

Not long after, someone came again. It was the new original painting, Xiao Mu.

Seeing someone at the door, Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment.

Zhong Ming took the red envelope from Jiang Wanna and handed over: "New Year's red envelope, good luck in construction."

Xiao Mu was stunned for a moment and hurriedly took it over: "Okay, thank you!"

After pinching the red envelope, there was probably three to five hundred yuan in it, which was not too much, but when I got the red envelope at work on the first day, Xiao Mu still felt warm in his heart.

Xiao Mu received the red envelope and was about to walk in.

As a result, I happened to see the couplet at the door.

"Writing codes for liver pictures, employees work overtime and are willing to be public servants to make selfless contributions; recharge krypton gold to draw boxes, players sell blood, kidneys, and loyalty and wealth."

"Puchi!"

Xiao Mu almost laughed out loud at that time, it was so terrible!

It is also very consistent with the essence of a game company.

Moreover, this word is so beautiful, it is flying and phoenix. I don’t know who asked to write it or which master’s work.

Soon, within a few minutes, the others arrived one after another. The red envelopes prepared by Zhong Ming were quickly sent out one by one. Everyone was very happy, introduced and got to know each other.

Zhong Ming had already divided the workstations and placed signs on each workstation, just check the numbers and take the seats directly.

Of course, the place is quite large, so the existing people only account for a part of them, and there is still room for further expansion of personnel in the future.

Xiao Mu sat down in his seat, busy installing software for the computer, upgrading the system, etc.

Before the holiday, Zhong Ming asked everyone that they configured according to their needs, but they bought it and unpacked it. Everyone took it and dismantled it by themselves. So this morning, everyone was basically busy decorating the working environment.

Next to Xiao Mu is an action art. The famous brand on the workstation reads Lin Dawei, who is tall and tall, and looks like he is a relatively easy-to-get-friendly personality.

"Hello, I am Yuanhua, Xiao Mu. I just came to this company, so I will take care of you in the future." Xiao Mu stretched out his hand.

Lin Dawei hurriedly shook hands with him: "Lin Dawei, action art. Alas, I just came here too, let's help each other."

These two people are more likely to become friends because there is no direct cooperative relationship in their work.

Xiao Mu made the original painting, and after the painting was finished, he handed it over to model, and then handed it over to Lin Dawei for the action.

Without direct cooperative relationships, there will be very few fights, so naturally it will be easier to become friends...

"Well, do you know who our boss is..." Xiao Mu asked in a low voice.

Lin Dawei felt very strange: "It's just the one who sends red envelopes, why don't you even figure it out..."

"He? I thought he was the master of art..."

Xiao Mu was a little confused.

During the interview before, Zhong Ming interviewed him directly and gave him a lot of guidance. Although it was not a particularly detailed guidance, a few words also benefited him a lot.

As a result, is the boss who has such a high level?

It’s not that it’s impossible, but it’s really rare for bosses from art.

Because many art masters do not mean that they understand game design. If they come to be producers, they are changing careers and laymen and experts, and it is easy to mess up the game.

It’s not OK to be a boss simply. If you can’t even participate in game design, then who is the company? The boss who can’t even control the products basically has no sense of existence.

Therefore, many art masters either work with producers who are aware of their roots or start art outsourcing companies themselves.

For independent game studios, the primary prerequisite is to understand design. So, it is indeed rare for bosses like Zhong Ming to be proficient in art, design, and so young.

Lin Dawei said: "I am a fan of the boss. I know him on Weibo. It's so awesome! I just graduated last year, and then I jumped out to open my own studio. I have worked as a question-answer game, worked as a virtual idol, and then made three independent games, all of which became..."

Xiao Mu: "...It sounds a bit irritating."

"It's true, so when I saw the recruitment information, I came here without asking anything. It's so awesome. With this kind of boss, I feel like I can win by lie down." Lin Dawei said.

Xiao Mu nodded, feeling deeply in agreement.

The young boss gives people a feeling that it is unreliable, but if it is a young boss who already has successful works, he will not feel unreliable, but will feel that his future is unlimited!

In the morning, everyone was busy with their own work, registering internal chat accounts, activate intranet permissions, etc. Zhou Sen worked hard for a long time and finally helped everyone get all the permissions.

Zhong Ming didn't plan to do anything that was fake, such as meetings to get rid of chicken blood, team building breaks the ice, and there was no one.

Perhaps due to personal preference, Zhong Ming doesn’t like these relatively empty things with a sense of ritual.

Of course, strictly speaking, this kind of ritualistic thing is still useful. Whether it is to boost morale or bring closer employee relations, there is certainly a reason for so many companies to do it.

But Zhong Ming feels that truly reliable employees can complete tasks conscientiously and communicate hard with others, and do not need to break the ice in team building to bring closer relationships between employees; for truly reliable companies and reliable projects, everyone can do their own jobs and do not need to rely on the use of chicken blood to squeeze employees to make that little profit.

So Zhong Ming didn't do so many virtual things, but just explained some basic things to the new administrative assistant, such as who should be in charge when encountering problems at work, reimbursement to find finance, and where to go for dinner. If you have questions, just ask the administrative assistant directly.

Zhong Ming said while the little girl in the administrative assistant was recording carefully, nodding frequently, and her attitude was quite serious.

The little girl in the administrative assistant is named Miao Zhu. She is graceful and has two dimples when she smiles. She looks very beautiful.

Miao Zhu worked in a large company for a year before and had certain work experience. Zhong Ming felt that she was quite serious and responsible, so she recruited her.

Of course, Zhou Sen's opinion is also quite critical. He strongly demanded that this girl must be recruited unless she wanted to recruit someone better.

Zhong Ming hated Zhou Sen with such ugly faces as the association, criticized Zhou Sen fiercely, and then sent an admission email to Miao Zhu.

On the design team, the new world architects are under a lot of pressure.

The new world architect is Fu Xing'an. He used to do plots and had no experience as a world architect. However, Zhong Ming is more optimistic about his literary talent. He graduated from the Department of Literature. He has written several short stories and has a lot of reading.

This is of course a good thing to deal with Xing'an. Being able to become a world architect means taking a solid step towards the main designer. But this is Wei Guang Studio after all. There have been outstanding drama works like "Land of the Red Path". For Xing'an, it is of course Alexander.

As for the numerical designer, he is named Jia Jia, who graduated from the Department of Mathematics, three years older than Zhong Ming. He has the rigor and patience of a science student, and especially prefers card games.

These two people will be Zhong Ming's right-hand man in the future, one cheats the liver and the other cheats krypton. Oh no, one does the plot and the other does the numerical value.

In addition, there are testing, customer service, human resources, finance, legal affairs, etc., responsible for some other company affairs.

However, these people are not part of the R&D team.

...

In the afternoon, Zhong Ming sent a message in the internal chat group: "At 3 o'clock, all members of the R&D team (design, program, art) will come to the conference room for a meeting and try out the design plan of the new game."

The conference room is home, so you can use it whenever you want, and of course you don’t have to make an appointment. But what surprised many people was that the pace was a bit fast!

If you are in other companies, new employees may not arrange any particularly important tasks in the first week of joining the company. They are basically learning and progressing step by step. After all, everyone has just arrived in a new environment and is not familiar with anything, and the work may not be particularly smooth.

However, in Weiguang Studio, there is obviously no such thing. For normal working hours, you must have high work efficiency if you don’t work overtime as much as possible.

Soon, everyone arrived.

There are 16 people in the R&D team.

Although they do not know each other completely, they at least know the heads of their respective departments. The first time they held such a meeting, everyone was also curious.

Zhong Ming stood up and looked at everyone present.

Yes, there are many talents.

These are the people he recruited himself, and of course they are all very satisfied.

"First of all, everyone is welcome to join Weiguang Studio. I won't say much, and there is really nothing to say. You will know that you have a long time to spend with me. I hate those cumbersome rituals. I just hope that everyone can do one thing well, that is, do their own jobs. As long as they can do it, they will wait to make money while lying down."

"I know that everyone is new to a strange environment and it takes some time to adapt, including new colleagues, new projects, new ways of working, etc. It doesn't matter, everyone can slowly adapt at work."

"The atmosphere in our studio is relatively relaxed. When completing our own work, we can play games or watch TV shows, and it is okay to go in front of me. Of course, the premise is that the work we have to be done well."

"That's all I have said. Let me briefly talk about the game we're going to develop next."

"Taigo's scroll."

There is a projector in the conference room, and Zhong Ming had already written the design draft on the projector screen.

Everyone below was confused.

Taiwu's scroll?

This name makes the game content impossible at all.

Zhong Ming introduced: "It's still an independent game, and the content is not complicated, but overall, it's a sandbox game with myths and martial arts elements."

"...Sandbox Game, do you all understand?"

Zhong Ming was afraid that someone would not understand, so he asked a question.

The people below looked at each other, Jia Jia, Fu Xing'an and several others all nodded and said, "I understand."

Isn’t Zhong Ming saying that he looked down on these people too much, mainly because everyone’s expressions were too stiff, which made him wonder, what was going on with everyone’s expressions? Don’t you know about Sandbox Games?

Many people complained in their hearts that they didn’t know about sandbox games, but they didn’t expect that you were going to make sandbox games!

The key is a sandbox game that contains myths and martial arts elements.

Let’s look at the floppy name “Taiwu Painting Scroll”. Well, I feel like I’ve just started to make this game, but I’ve gotten halfway through it…

It’s not that it can’t be done, but in most of the minds, this kind of game cannot be controlled by an independent game studio.

Sandbox means rich content, but it also means higher development costs. Even many large companies, such as Guangyi Interactive Entertainment, basically dare not touch this type of game.

Guangyi Interactive Entertainment has invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to develop the game "Leaning the Sword of the World" for a year. It is not a sandbox game, but a more traditional mmorpg.

Why?

Because the risk is too great!

When making sandbox games, either they are well received and popular, with a lifespan of several years or more than ten years; or they are a mess, and they are scolded to death, and there are basically no intermediate options.

However, the former is too few.

Most sandbox games paint a very beautiful scene and blueprint for players, making them feel that the game is about to explode. But after it is launched, the repeated game content, boring gameplay, and all kinds of promised game content instantly become empty checks, causing a huge psychological gap for players, and then triggering a collapse in reputation and a cliff-like decline in scores.

Have any indie game studios in the world ever made classic sandbox games?

There are, but very few!

Moreover, it is even more difficult to integrate myths and martial arts elements like Zhong Ming said!

Since there is martial arts, it is mostly traditional Chinese style games. If you want to integrate these cultural elements into the gameplay, this is not a simple small project.

Moreover, it may not be pleasing to you. It is very likely that you rack your brains to do a lot of gameplay. In the end, players not only don’t buy it, but will instead scold you, what exactly are you doing!

Of course, everyone is unhappy in their hearts and dare not say it.

He even smiled on the surface, with a look of "Boss, you are really right."
Chapter completed!