game trailblazer

Chapter 216 "Highest Alert: Defending China"

A group of people came to the new office building of the creative workshop in a mighty manner. Several administrative staff who had been notified came downstairs to direct the people from the moving company to transport the dragged things to an empty room on the second floor. office.Because they brought a lot of things from the Asian Games Village, including several sets of computers and computer desks, people from the moving company moved up and down many times. In fact, there is a special freight elevator in the office building, but they think it is too much for the elevator to go up to the second floor. Trouble, I'd rather move up the stairs by myself.From time to time, someone moved things upstairs, and it also attracted the attention of a few employees who were tired from work and went out for a walk. They gathered in the aisle on the second floor to whisper and gossiped about setting up a new game studio.

While the people in the moving company were still busy, Zhang Lexing had already summoned the project managers of the company to the meeting room. Materials such as videos and pictures that can be called out will also be displayed for everyone to see.

When Luo Xunji introduced it, Zhang Lexing revisited the low-quality so-called titles and the images and scene settings that were completely unrealistic. Blood Lion, otherwise those game scenes that can no longer be called stupid would make people vomit blood.

Like a completely disproportionate civilian house, the two bases are stacked together, so-called tanks, soldiers that move like snails.As for the AI ​​​​in the game, it is almost completely unaware. It is obviously on a fierce battlefield, but the soldiers are walking leisurely there, and they will not fight back even when they are attacked by the enemy at close range.What's more terrible is that those soldiers are simply guys who don't obey orders. If you don't keep an eye on the point all the time, and you frequently issue orders to move or attack, then the soldiers probably don't know what to do, or Dazed in place, or sleeping on the ground, or spinning around like a puppy chasing its own tail, or even throwing grenades in the open space when there are no enemies in front of it, didn’t the original designers know how to suffer? Can't you throw them around? Even if you can't hit the children, it's not good to hit the flowers and plants.

More than half an hour later, Luo Xunji finally finished his introduction. Zhang Lexing looked at the project managers sitting at the round table in the conference room, and said, "Everyone has listened to the introduction. It is obvious that the game is currently very complete. Low, if you want to complete this game, do you have any good ideas?"

Everyone was silent for a while, and someone stood up and said: "If according to the company's long-standing standards, the quality of many materials in this game is not up to standard, but some ideas in planning can be retained, but I suggest that all parts of the program and art be redone. Only in this way can the quality of the game be guaranteed.”

Zhang Lexing nodded. He originally planned to completely remake "Blood Lion" because the original designs were really bad. However, Wang Mengyao mentioned a situation on the way just now. The responsible market operation has aroused the expectations of players and sellers. After a bounced ticket, Shangyang Electronics has faced great market pressure. Many sellers even went to the office of Shangyang Electronics to urge them. This is why Mr. Shen is willing to let go of " One of the reasons for Blood Lion.However, after the creative workshop took over the project, the pressure will naturally be transferred from Shangyang Electronics, so there is not much time left for the creative workshop.

"There is a situation that I want to explain to everyone. "Blood Lion" was originally planned to be released on March 23, but the original project team found that it was completely impossible, and later postponed it to April 27. Everyone thinks that in such a In a short period of time, it is impossible for us to complete the remake of the game." After Zhang Lexing finished speaking, his eyes turned to Zhan Jun, the head of the project manager.

Before Zhan Jun could speak, Zhao Yuanhuan stood up first: "Boss, this task is impossible to complete. At present, the company can deploy about 80 people. According to the company's previous production speed and quality requirements, a new "Blood Lion, it will take at least 220 working days, or about ten months."

"It's still been a long time," Zhang Lexing shook his head, glanced at the people around the round table, and said, "Think about it again, everyone. Is there a better way? On the premise of ensuring the quality of the game, tasks can be completed more quickly.”

Everyone lowered their heads and thought, at this time Zhu Jingyu, who had participated in the development of "Highest Alert", stood up, cleared his throat and said, "I thought of a way. When developing "Highest Alert", we had developed a real-time The engine of the strategy game, just now I heard about some planning of "Blood Lion", although this engine may not be completely suitable for "Blood Lion", but I believe that it only needs to be modified and adjusted appropriately, so that the work of the program part The volume is relatively much reduced, as long as the number of artists is appropriately increased, I think the time can be shortened by about half."

Everyone was in an uproar, and some people stood up and retorted: "Even if the time can be shortened by half, it will take at least five months, and it can't be completed before April 27."

Zhang Lexing himself was also thinking just now that the game will be released on April 27th. The time is really too tight. Even if it is barely completed, the game will probably only be slightly better than "Blood Lion", and it will definitely not reach the creative workshop. Consistent game quality standards, it seems that finding a way to buy more time is the right way.

Everyone was still arguing there, Zhang Lexing turned his head, and whispered to Wang Mengyao who was sitting next to him: "Mengyao, please contact Fengyun Interactive, the development time left for the remake of "Blood Lion" is too short, we need They help to fight for more. You ask Chen Jingyi to arrange for people to communicate more with the distributors who have pre-ordered "Blood Lion", try to gain the understanding of the distributors, and at least postpone the release date of the game until late July."

"Okay boss, I'll contact you now." After speaking, Wang Mengyao took out a mobile phone from her purse, got up, walked outside the meeting room, and started making a call.

Zhang Lexing sat in the meeting room and listened to the debate for a while, and found that after arguing for so long, Zhu Jingyu's proposal was the most reliable and required the shortest development time, so he knocked on the table with his hand, and everyone's voice suddenly became quieter go down.

"Okay, I understand everyone's opinions, but the main task at present is to find a way to complete the development of the remake of "Blood Lion" as soon as possible. Since Zhu Jingyu thinks that he has a way to complete the development in about five months, then This task is entrusted to him. The development cycle is initially determined to be five months. The project name is "Highest Alert: Defending China". Zhao Yuanhuan is in charge of manpower scheduling. He will submit the list of members of the project team before get off work tomorrow, so that the project team can start as soon as possible. Work. In addition, Zhan Jun will be the supervisor of this game." As he said that, Zhang Lexing looked at the people sitting at the round table: "Well, if everyone has no objections, then we will arrange it like this, and the meeting will end!"

After speaking, Zhang Lexing got up and walked outside the meeting room. He still trusted the developers of the creative workshop. As long as the tasks were assigned well, they would usually be completed on time.

Walking outside the meeting room, Wang Mengyao greeted her and said, "Boss, the matter has been settled. I have arranged for someone to send over the list of "Blood Lion" distributors. As soon as Fengyun Interactive gets it, we will contact you immediately." .”

Zhang Lexing nodded in satisfaction: "Very well, please pay attention to follow up on this matter, and report to me in time if there is any situation."

"Good boss!" Wang Mengyao replied with a slight bow.

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In the afternoon, Chen Jingyi, who had obtained the list of "Blood Lion" dealers, started to act.She divided the dealers in the list into two categories, one is the dealers who have been included in the channel management of Fengyun Interactive, and the other is the dealers outside the channel.Distributors in the channel are very talkative, often just a phone call from sales manager Qin Wencai immediately negotiated the postponement of the release of "Highest Alert: Defending China" (remake of "Blood Lion"), the past of Fengyun Interactive and Creative Workshop The results have conquered these dealers.

Distributors outside the channel are more troublesome. Many people believe that "since I have paid the reservation fee and received the user's advance payment, the game must be released on time."Fortunately, Chen Jingyi and others had already planned for this, and immediately came up with two plans for dealers to choose from. One is to accept the postponement of "Maximum Alert: Defending China" to the end of July, and assist Fengyun Interactive to explain to users Those who work will be included in Fengyun Interactive's channel system and can enjoy corresponding preferential policies.The other is unwilling to wait until the end of July, then Fengyun Interactive will provide it with a game that will be launched in April to replace the original "Blood Lion".

As soon as the two plans came out, the dealers were quiet and stopped making noise.In the end, the vast majority of dealers still chose the first plan. Many people have heard of Fengyun Interactive, and last year’s record sales of more than 12 sets set by "Highest Alert" and "Legend of Black Stone" are even more exciting. Many people's nerves.Many dealers have never had the opportunity to establish a relationship with Fengyun Interactive. Since there is such a good opportunity right now, of course they will not let it go in a daze.Many dealers are thinking, and then this opportunity to build a relationship with Fengyun Interactive, then the best-selling games will come in a flood in the future, and their own specialty stores will definitely become the "big brother" in the local software market.

The distributors here have been appeased, and at the creative workshop, the "Maximum Alert: Defend China" development team led by Zhu Jingyu has also been formed. "The planning book was standardized, and the artists started to redraw the game scenes, tanks, and soldiers in "Blood Lion" from the beginning. Even the title was sent to Hong Kong, preparing to make a more exciting one according to the artistic conception of the game. Yes, the development work is advancing in an orderly manner. With the efforts of everyone, "Blood Lion", which is extremely rough and not even considered a semi-finished product, has gradually become "Highest Alert: Defending China".

At the end of February, Zhang Lexing and Chen Zishan returned to Hong Kong from BJ. Chen Zishan continued to go to her biological research institute to preside over the interior decoration work, while Zhang Lexing returned to the office building of Oriental Holdings in Wanchai to deal with the work left over during this period.Although Zhang Lexing left BJ, before he left, he still told Zhan Jun to email the development progress of "Maximum Alert: Defending China" every day, so that he can also know in time what "Blood Lion" will become .As time passed day by day, Zhang Lexing also felt the changes in "Blood Lion" day by day, gradually becoming more like a game.

One day in mid-March, Zhang Lexing was staying in his office as usual, looking at the emails sent by Zhan Jun, when suddenly Zhao Zha came running in a panic, and said in a hurry just before he even got out of breath when he entered the door: "Boss, the integrated motherboard at the Institute of Microelectronics has been successfully developed!"

(End of this chapter)