Number One Game Designer

The VR department is in a newly rented building by Fang Xi, separated from the original office building by a tree-lined path, and now Fang Xi and Xiaolan stroll along it.

Seeing Fang Xi's wink, Xiao Lan snickered a little:

"So, boss, are you sure you don't need me to prescribe Dr. Geng?"

Taking a sideways look at Xiao Lan who was watching the show, Fang Xi let out a "hoo":

"Just because he yelled at me?"

Xiaolan nodded seriously.

"If I have already reduced a prototype by 300%, and the boss is dissatisfied and wants me to shrink it by 3000%, I guess it is also the same attitude, which is normal." Fang Xi said indifferently: "But isn't technology like this? , despise the target strategically, and pay attention to the target tactically.”

"So that's why you agreed to triple the research and development funds later?" Xiaolan asked curiously.

Although she is not the company's financial manager, she handles a lot of Fang Xi's expenditures, so Xiaolan is also good at appropriating funds for many departments, but she never shows off to others. This is one of the reasons why Fang Xi trusts her.

As for the VR department, which currently only has one prototype, its budget is almost equivalent to the combined budgets of all game departments, but now Fang Xi says that it will increase the budget by three times. Even if it wasn't financial, this number made her secretly startled.

"Yes." Fang Xi was silent and said:

"We're a gaming company, there's no denying that."

"We humans are very interesting creatures. We first used our bodies to play games, such as long-distance running, swimming competitions, etc."

"Later this part changed its name to sports, and later we invented some objects to make regular sounds to entertain ourselves, and this part later became music."

"And then until now, when we were young, we had NES, then we had arcade machines, and now we have computers. We are getting better at pleasing ourselves, but I always feel that this is not the final form of video games, so I try to Pushing technological innovation to the limit is also the purpose of the research."

Then Fang Xi thought of the handle vibration bag sold on the earliest old Ren N64. Although the N64 was fun back then, it was not yet at the monopoly level for other home consoles, but this seems to be a simple handle vibration bag now. As soon as it came out, the N64 immediately had no rivals in the market, and directly crossed the big step from visual feedback to tactile feedback. And now Fang Xi hopes that the VR technology will also have this effect, no, it will be even better than this effect!

"So we won't produce this VR for the time being, right?" Xiao Lan looked at Fang Xi, who seemed to be in deep thought and in a daze, and said cautiously.

"Of course not." Fang Xi replied decisively: "Remember, when we release all products in the future, we must ensure that no one in the market can imitate us in a short period of time."

"Technology gap, this is the best means of monopoly."

...

Until the scorching August came again, the studio in charge of Haifang City Chen Yu finally put up a sign.

Under the name of the studio, there is also a small line of products: "Speed ​​Racing World" R\u0026D Headquarters.

Although Fang Xi likes the name Qiu Mingshan very much, there is no "Initial D" in this world yet, so Qiu Mingshan Gunma County is just an ordinary place. Without this history, it is almost impossible to name racing games, and even Yes, if this name is chosen, Hongyi's sponsor's name will probably shrink tenfold. After all, almost only Toyota and Mazda cars appear in the original anime, and there are very few other brands.

In short, after Hongyi's team returned from Los Angeles, Chen Yu began to concentrate on organizing the recruitment of automotive engineers, the formation of a research and development team, supplementing racing knowledge, and studying the game draft given to him by Fang Xi.

If it weren't for the familiarity of seeing the plan, Chen Yu would have almost forgotten that he was also a game planner at first, until he was valued by Fang Xi because of his rigorous work habits, and he directly became the management team, and gradually became closer to the industry of game designers. walking away,

It wasn't until now that he was holding the draft given by Fang Xi again, did Chen Yu suddenly remember why he came to Hongyi in the first place?

Because I had no way to fulfill my ambitions in the original company, but after coming to the new company, my position was the fastest among the seven people at the beginning, but the person I was with at the beginning, A Ding is now the leader of Hongyi web game, although The game field developed by Hongyi has begun to shrink after a short period of prosperity, but the current dominance in this field is still unshakable.

Lu Qiu has decided to devote himself to the production of female-oriented games, and has set the goal of creating the best games for all girls. It's only me, and the distance between game development is getting farther and farther. Last time in Los Angeles, although Lu Qiu and Lu Qiu could cooperate seamlessly when they were busy together, the chat has completely disappeared.

It wasn't until he got the plan written by Fang Xi himself that Chen Yu suddenly realized that he was also a designer at the beginning. It is our duty to make the best game possible.

Of course, it is also possible that Fang Xi’s writing was too sloppy: this draft has traces of alterations everywhere, and many of the writings are contradictory-this is not surprising. It's hard to spread out, and some of the games have the protagonist of the speeder, the game plot is similar to the fast and the furious race while fighting against the traffic police, and some are simply focused on the game, such as the dust rally championship stunt race, etc. wait.

Fang Xi really doesn't understand this aspect, so this draft is actually to write down those he still has an impression of, and then believes that Chen Yu will hand in a satisfactory answer.

At this time, Chen Yu also turned to the end of the draft and saw the simple smiley face drawn by Fang Xi and the message next to it:

"So are you ready to go back to being a designer? Then this is the test, take inspiration from these, and then make a racing game that the world will love!"

With one sentence, all Chen Yu's complaints disappeared.

...

In Fang Xi's own office.

"And he's probably still grateful to me now."

Fang Xi made tea for Lu Wanqi who was sitting on the sofa in front of him, and said:

"A good boss who cares about his subordinates, a good mentor who is both a teacher and a friend, oh, I'm starting to like the personality I created for him."

Lu Wanqi picked up the hot tea and sipped it. Drinking hot tea in a cold air-conditioned room in extremely hot weather is really enjoyable, but at the same time, she must cooperate with Fang Xi:

"But actually?"

"Actually?" Fang Xi finally showed a bad face when he said this: "In fact, Chen Yu is the best assistant I have ever used. He is very happy to pursue his ideal, but he doesn't even think about him. How troublesome will my work be when I'm gone?"

"I want him to be grateful to me for the rest of his life, this is the best punishment!" Then Fang Xi took a sip of tea viciously, and then hissed from being scalded.

Lu Wanqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Okay, okay, then punish him and punish him. I'll be your secretary."