Number One Game Designer

This model of EA is what Fang Xi wants to learn.

This kind of company's gameplay, in a word, can be called the dog-big family gameplay.

Fang Xi previously announced that the Hongyi Industrial Park invested in Beiyang City is almost the same idea as EA, to build a city within a city.

The cost of doing this is also very high. So far, according to the budget of the project department, Fang Xi has almost taken a budget of close to one billion yuan just by taking the land, building, and installing glass. Let alone the subsequent renovations, etc., does it look like a bottomless pit for the time being? In a small city, there are so many places to spend money if you want.

So after reading this plan, Master Lin summed it up and called it "How to play with big dogs."

"Generally speaking, large companies have to burn a lot of money to make an office building smart. If you want a small city to be smart, you don't want to burn cash as a coin."

Regardless of whether it is money or cash, Fang Xi still intends to come here to learn more, at least EA already has a practical example here.

Perhaps the more interesting thing is that I met this Andrew. Fang Xi didn’t know if this person was born outgoing or was purely curious about Eastern faces. In this group of people, he was not the only one who came to play, but this eldest brother chose himself. , Chattering around him from beginning to end-the only advantage is probably that this elder brother is not here for the first time, and he can still be an incompetent tour guide besides the chatter, so Fang Xi also went with him.

In the midst of this kind of chatter, Fang Xi learned about Andrew, an older nerd who is currently living in Texas. He usually lives on online design work and prides himself on being a freelancer. I like EA games, DND enthusiasts, and model figure collectors. After graduation, I have never held a woman’s hand and raised a puppy named Andech...

Fang Xi felt that if he insisted on listening and returning to China, he might not be able to directly help Andrew register for the marriage of the Best of the Century. Anyway, all his information was cleared. So Fang Xi had to interrupt Andrew's endless chatter in this strange atmosphere.

"Andrew, you said you came here more than once? What is the tallest building over there?"

Andrew stood in the car and looked at it. He saw a narrow tall building behind the right window, which was obviously higher than all other buildings.

"Oh, ah, let me think about it... that is EA's own communication base station."

Fang Xi certainly understands what the communication base station means, and is a little curious:

"EA has its own satellite?"

"No, no," Andrew waved his hand:

"DAN, you are from Huaxia. You probably don't understand that there are many companies in the United States that can launch satellites independently. Of course, EA itself has enough money to launch its own satellites, but it's not cost-effective. So they rented satellites, right?"

Fang Xi nodded, took out a small notebook to write down this one, and he could use it later. And the role of satellites...

"As a result, EA has its own dedicated SIM card, and they have its own independent network service. EA employees can enjoy all this for free, just think about it."

……Classmate Andrew has already made a vivid explanation.

The area of ​​EA's campus is not small, basically the size of the standard campuses of two universities, but as a tour, you can see it in half a day, because many buildings are free from idlers, Fang Xi I can only stop and look at Andrew from a distance. What is open to tourists are all departments or content that EA has obviously not valued, such as the office of EA in the 1980s that they purposely built, and a cassette collection room. A collection of all the game cassettes and CDs produced by EA since its establishment, as well as a standard game room for tourists to relax. Andrew was very excited to see these, but unfortunately it was of no use to Fang Xi.

Declining Andrew's invitation to play games together, Fang Xi took out his notebook and slowly summarized what he had seen along the way.

What I saw along the way and what Andrew explained, EA’s campus has its own independent communication system, independent security facilities and medical facilities. The planning in the park is not well organized. According to Andrew’s inquiries, EA , The interior is divided into apartments of different levels, the commissioner-level apartment building has a simple gym, a bar and a projection hall.

The management’s apartment needs to be more exciting, with relaxing physical therapy, swimming and fitness, and movie bars.

Of course, there are more various laboratories and studios. EA is also a studio that collects crazy magic. It just happens that EA's revenue has stagnated in the past two years, and its personnel have also become saturated.

Fang Xi was thinking about what kind of functions he would add to his park while he was writing and painting. At this moment, a fluffy head suddenly stretched out in front of him, and Fang Xi jumped.

Looking intently at Andrew, I don't know when he has put down the game and ran to his side again.

"DAN, don't you really play games?"

Fang Xi smiled and refused. Most of the old games here have not been played by himself. After thinking about it, Fang Xi still tells the truth:

"Andrew, I'm not actually a fan of EA, I just came over to see what EA's headquarters is like."

"However, Andrew, you know so much about EA, and you also said that your design level is very good, why not try EA?"

When it comes to this Andrew's face is a bit bitter. It seemed that the pain was pricked, Fang Xi thought calmly, but the other president just likes to listen to stories.

"I tried and failed." Andrew replied, and after a pause, Andrew explained:

"In the United States, it is very difficult to enter EA now. Because EA's conditions are too comfortable, their personnel mobility is very slow. EA has not recruited people for a long time, and their talent replenishment depends on the studio. , They will buy those small studios, and then bring them to the headquarters, where the favorable environment will quickly disintegrate those small studios, and they will soon become a small molecule of EA, which is also the name of EA's "studio killer" outside. The origin of it."

"So I came here twice later, probably because I was unwilling." Andrew continued.

"Actually, I am here as a farewell. I have already voted for another company's recruitment. They appreciate my talents and I will go to work next week." Andrew didn't have a lot of happy expressions at this point.

"EA gave me a lot of joy in the same year, but then their games became less and less creative, let alone now completely stagnated. I now look at EA with a little sadness, because it is not what I liked when I was a kid. The energetic and creative EA is more like a lingering old man, which makes me sad."

"Then you might as well join a new company, make a game that you think is good, and then use your score to tell EA's current boss that their development model is wrong." Boss Fang is probably the president for a long time, and now this chicken soup Just came here casually.

"Oh, by the way, which game company you have joined, I would like to congratulate you in advance."

"Xuanniao Studio."

"what?"