deltrittennovels #244 - Action Game Details (6200 words chapter, please order)
#244 - Action Game Details (6200 words chapter, please order)
Wan Xiaotong started introducing the company's benefits in a chuunibyou(chuunibyou: refers to someone, usually young, who exhibits delusional or grandiose behavior, often adopting fictional personas) manner.
After all, they are siblings, so Wan Jia's brain automatically translated it based on instinct.
Wan Xiaotong said that her current company has a relaxed work environment, many holidays, and the boss is very generous with money and benefits.
The work atmosphere is also very good, and everyone is purely focused on making good games, without any infighting.
And most importantly, the company's boss gave her a lot of discretionary power in project development,
So she can now do things according to her own ideas!
Even, the boss trusts her very much and lets her participate in the decision-making of other physical businesses of the company.
The reason why she has been addicted to cat-petting recently is because she personally participated in the transformation and operation of the cat cafe.
By the way, the main reason why the company boss took over that cat cafe was to provide a place for employees to pet cats.
Oh right!
The game she personally led the production of will also represent the company in this year's Tianzun Cup(Tianzun Cup: a competition name)!
...
Wan Jia's face became more and more serious as Wan Xiaotong finished speaking at length.
He couldn't help but put his hand on his sister's forehead.
No, she doesn't have a fever!
Could it be that her chuunibyou has become terminally ill and has entered a state of hysteria?
Should I take her to No. 600, Wanping South Road this weekend to see a specialist?
Wan Xiaotong angrily slapped her elder brother's hand away.
"I'm not kidding!"
Wan Jia observed his sister carefully for a while, confirming that she did not show any signs of hysteria, and felt a little relieved.
In this case, she is just exaggerating and deceiving herself.
The reason is simple.
Based on the company benefits and atmosphere described by Wan Xiaotong, in this world where involution(involution: the phenomenon of increasingly intense competition within a system that yields diminishing returns) prevails, it is no longer in the realm of fairy tales, it is simply a myth!
He would rather believe that he is the reincarnation of Qin Shihuang than believe this.
Besides, how could the boss of this company be so clueless as to give his chuunibyou sister discretionary power?
As for participating in the Tianzun Cup(Tianzun Cup: a competition name)?
Wan Jia felt it was extremely ridiculous.
He is now an employee of Mihoyo and has personally witnessed the terrifying level of technology and production of the company.
Even if the not-yet-polished "Honkai Impact 3rd" demo is released, all opponents will be daunted!
It is capable of competing with participants from the island nation.
So, it is estimated that this small workshop is just participating to gain exposure?
After all, there are indeed some companies that lack self-awareness and like to join in the fun to increase the visibility of their projects and gain a wave of one-time traffic.
Thinking of this, Wan Jia sighed.
Although the work at Mihoyo is not so satisfactory, looking at the domestic game industry,
Are there any better game companies than Mihoyo?
Wan Jia asked himself, and he was afraid that he could not find one.
Although he recently heard that a company called Taoyuan Township seems to be very good, and this company has been gaining momentum recently.
But...
According to Tieba(Tieba: a chinese online forum) , the company's recruitment requirements are extremely strict, and the exam questions are very tricky and strange.
They not only want to recruit geniuses in the field of game production, but even want to recruit "superpower employees".
Wan Jia didn't believe it at first, but when he saw the video of Zhang Qiqi knocking down a group of elephants, he realized that these rumors were not groundless.
Such a company must have very strict recruitment standards.
Even if his ability is ten times what it is now, he may not be able to get an interview opportunity.
So, since everyone is a rotten tomato, and Mihoyo is still one of the less rotten ones, then he can only make do with it.
...
Just then, Wan Xiaotong's phone rang, and she answered the video call.
On the other end of the video, Wan Xiaotong's grandfather, Wan Wuyai, the East Editor of the "Central Plains Five Editors(Central Plains Five Editors: a nickname)", had a kind smile.
Wan Wuyai: "Xiaotong, how are you doing recently? Are you happy? Is your pocket money enough?"
Because he is very familiar with his granddaughter, Wan Wuyai has automatically translated his granddaughter's chuunibyou(chuunibyou: refers to someone, usually young, who exhibits delusional or grandiose behavior, often adopting fictional personas) language in his brain.
Wan Xiaotong: "Grandpa, I have enough pocket money, but... I encountered difficulties in game action development, that is to say, I don't know how to do many details well."
Wan Wuyai: "Silly child, you can ask Grandpa if you don't know the details."
After all, he has been a game editor for most of his life,
If we talk about details, who is more important than him, the Central Plains Five Editors(Central Plains Five Editors: a nickname) who has pursued details for many years?
So, Wan Wuyai began to teach earnestly.
"First of all, you must pay attention to the character's body posture and the smoothness of the movements, which is the basis of a good game experience.
Remember, there must be a smooth transition between the key frames of each action, so that the player feels natural and full of power.
Secondly, regarding the design of attack actions, we must pay attention to the sense of impact.
For example, you can increase the player's real feeling of attack through vibration, light effects and other means.
In terms of defense, you should pay attention to making the character's dodge and block actions smoother, so that players have more room to maneuver when facing enemies."
Wan Xiaotong's eyes lit up, and she lowered her head and kept taking notes.
Wuyai on the other end of the phone became more and more excited, with saliva flying everywhere.
"I heard that your game has catgirls and beast-eared girls, so the diversity of actions is also very important.
You can design different types of cute action combinations, so that players can choose different strategies according to the battlefield situation.
Moreover, the action design of different beast girls should also be different, which can increase the playability of the game.
The release of skills should have enough cooling time to avoid overuse.
Too short skill CD will affect the rhythm, I tell you."
Wan Jia watched the two grandparents communicating with cold eyes.
In fact, this is not the first time Wan Wuyai has given guidance to Wan Xiaotong.
Since Wan Xiaotong revealed to Wuyai that she was working as a producer in a new company,
And that she was making a beast-eared girl game, the old man was unusually excited and often guided Wan Xiaotong on many details of game levels and system design, and can even be said to have imparted all he had learned in his life.
Among them, many tips may not be learned even by students who paid to listen to his lectures before.
Wan Jia looked at Xiaotong, who didn't even bother to eat while listening, and sighed:
"Xiaotong, put down your computer and eat while it's hot first.
Besides, why do you and Grandpa have to work so hard for a small workshop that you will leave sooner or later?"
Wan Jia secretly continued in his heart:
Anyway, I guess the game you make won't be presentable.
Although Wan Jia was afraid of hitting his sister's confidence, he didn't say this explicitly,
But he can guarantee that as long as "Honkai Impact 3rd" comes out,
That will be a dimensional reduction blow to the entire ACG(ACG: Animation, Comics, and Games) game field!
No, it should be said that it is a dimensional reduction blow to the entire domestic game field!
Wan Wuyai was so angry that he blew his beard and stared when he heard this:
"What do you know, kid? Although I don't know where Xiaotong works or what project she is working on.
But I only know one thing, this company is willing to make catgirls!
That's great enough and worth supporting!
People who are willing to make catgirls are good people!"
Wan Jia was dumbfounded.
Huh?
Catgirl?
What is this all about?
...
Next Monday.
After Lu Yu came to the company, he started to distribute a small booklet to all the employees of the project team.
Everyone curiously opened it and saw that it was full of beautiful photos of various cats from a cat cafe's name.
Lu Yu clapped his hands, gathered everyone together and said:
"Everyone needs to check their favorite cat in this booklet."
The employees of the Catgirl Paradise group looked at each other, wondering what President Lu was doing all of a sudden, but they had to do it anyway.
As a result, after everyone handed in the booklets,
That afternoon, Lu Yu and the employees of a cat cafe's name came to the office area with a cart full of pet boxes.
The pet boxes contained the signature cats that the employees had voted for before.
Lu Yu publicly announced the company's new cat petting welfare.
In addition to the half-hour afternoon tea time, the company will also take out another half-hour from the morning work time to become a special "cat petting time" for employees to pet cats.
Moreover, employees do not need to run to a cat cafe's name from afar. The cats will be transported by a cat cafe's name, and everyone can pet cats at their workstations or in the rest area.
During the cat petting time, Lin Ming or other employees of a cat cafe's name will lead the employees and cats to do cat health exercises together to relieve fatigue.
In addition, in order to encourage employees to actively participate in cat petting activities, Lu Yu announced that after the cat petting ends every week, a "Popular Poop Scooper Finals" will be held.
The cats will vote on the spot to select the poop scooper with the best cat petting skills and the most satisfied with themselves.
The employees who win the top three in the popularity election will receive cash rewards of 3,000 yuan, 1,800 yuan and 1,000 yuan respectively.
In addition, employees who maintain 5 days of full attendance in cat petting within a week will receive a guaranteed 500 yuan full attendance bonus.
These bonuses are not one-time, but are distributed cyclically every week.
Of course, in order to prevent someone from continuously dominating the bonus through cat petting skills, the employees who win the top three each time will automatically withdraw from the remaining finals of this month.
...
The employees were dumbfounded when they heard Lu Yu's arrangement.
Li Hongmei asked with a shocked expression: "President Lu, is this activity a special activity for this month or..."
"No!"
Lu Yu waved his hand: "This activity will be a permanent institutional arrangement of the company."
The employees were shocked.
Damn, President Lu has issued another amazing benefit!
Originally, the company already had a 5-hour work system. As a result, after continuing to remove the half-hour afternoon tea in the afternoon and the half-hour cat petting in the morning, there are only 4 hours left for work.
This can no longer be described as leisurely.
It's simply the level of a nursing home!
Secondly, President Lu is looking for an excuse to give everyone money again. As long as you insist on petting cats every day, you can get an extra 2,000 yuan a month.
If you have good skills and strive to win a championship, you can earn an additional 5,000 yuan per month.
Everyone was filled with emotion and silently calculated a question in their hearts:
How much monthly salary can an ordinary employee get working in Taoyuan Township?
First of all, the salary and benefits provided by Taoyuan Township during recruitment are far beyond industry standards, and are comparable to the top manufacturers in the industry.
Secondly, there is an additional 3,000 yuan convenience store subsidy and 2,000 yuan bookstore subsidy per month,
Third, there is a 5,000 yuan housing subsidy per month.
Fourth, there is a 2,000 yuan guaranteed cat petting bonus per month.
Fifth, there is a 30,000 yuan birthday gift per year.
Sixth, the year-end bonus is at least 10 months' salary.
Just with the above money, if a fresh graduate who knows nothing and is a blank sheet of paper joins Taoyuan Township, they can earn an average of about 40,000 yuan per month.
And this only requires you to work 4 hours a day. The company is even afraid that your work is saturated and has created a cost-increasing and efficiency-reducing method.
The ultimate trump card is that 20% of the company's annual net profit will be used to distribute dividends to all employees.
You must know that Taoyuan Township's net profit last month has exceeded 100 million yuan. The company now has only a hundred employees. It is hard to imagine what astronomical dividends will be distributed at the end of the year!
Many employees said excitedly: "President Lu, you, you, you are too generous, so generous that we are embarrassed..."
[All employees of Taoyuan Township feel excited and grateful for the company's benefits, feel happy, resonate, and gain 3000 leisure points]
Lu Yu looked at the 300,000 yuan in income with satisfaction, thinking that if the system did not have restrictions, he would have wanted to make it even more exaggerated.
This is just the beginning!
He suddenly said sternly:
"What's there to be embarrassed about? Let me ask you, you all know that the company's revenue exceeded 200 million last month, right?"
Everyone looked at each other and then nodded.
"Do you think, how was these 200 million earned?"
Everyone continued to hesitate: "Of course, it was earned through game sales, live broadcast advertising, and animation copyrights..."
Lu Yu continued to guide:
"Okay, then who made these games, animations, live broadcasts...? It can't be just me, right?"
Everyone was stunned.
"So, these 200 million were created by each of you personally, whether you are a programmer, an artist, a business person, or an operator... This is a big cake you cooked yourself, and it has nothing to do with any outsiders. Why are you embarrassed?"
Everyone nodded thoughtfully.
...
Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, there is an even more cruel truth that Lu Yu did not tell everyone.
That is, this 200 million big cake was clearly made by these employees paying their precious life and time, and consuming brain cells together, and Lu Yu only took out 20% of it to share, and everyone was already so excited.
But even so, in this world of involution(involution: the phenomenon of increasingly intense competition within a system that yields diminishing returns), the company benefits of Taoyuan Township are already rare.
More company bosses will completely swallow the big cake and are only willing to pay the minimum salary to maintain the survival of employees to to give a beggar a pittance and then coldly throw out a sentence "If you don't do it, there are plenty of people who will!"
Perhaps this fathead was the one who contributed the least to this big cake. How could he take the whole cake with peace of mind and humiliate those who created it?
In economics, this delicious cake has a scholarly name called 'surplus value'.
Behind it may be the entire youth of a white-collar female, the precious health and lifespan of a worker, the sudden death of a programmer and his broken family...
However, the boss who monopolizes the cake will turn this cake, piled up with countless blood and tears, into his own river-view villa, his wife's Louis Vuitton, and his son's Ferrari SF90...
He would rather die hugging a cold lamppost than squeeze a bit of cake crumbs from his teeth to share with the chefs who made the cake.
This parallel world is so strange.
......
In the following days, the employees of Peach Garden were immersed in the joy of playing with cats.
The chubby orange cat, with its fluffy body, jumped around in Liu Mengyuan's arms, making purring sounds from time to time.
The long-haired gray-white Persian cat sat proudly on Wan Xiaotong's legs, wearing black silk over-knee stockings, indifferent to everything around, as if it were the ruler of this absolute territory.
The spotted tabby cat was lively and active, always jumping around on Chu Xiong's desk, mischievously grabbing papers and pens, and the fatty had the expression of an old father.
And a British Shorthair cat, twisting its body into various strange postures, attracted Zhang Qiqi's curiosity for the whole day.
[The employees of Peach Garden enjoy the joy of playing with cats, Leisure Points +1500]
Lu Yu looked at the new Leisure Points coming in with satisfaction.
Very good!
Keep it up!
Li Hongmei, the company's HR director, watched all this with a puzzled look and said to Liu Mengyuan:
"President Liu, you said that the Heavenly Venerable Cup is coming soon. What is President Lu doing?"
In Li Hongmei's opinion, further shortening the already precious development time is quite illogical.
It's as if... President Lu is deliberately trying to reduce development time.
Liu Mengyuan was looking at the system screen at this time, constantly broadcasting the new cat-playing skills acquired by the employees, and was equally confused.
She shook her head in confusion:
"This is probably... President Lu has some new unknown considerations?
In short, since this cat-playing system was proposed by President Lu, just follow it. When I have time, I will explore President Lu's intentions and see what he is thinking."
Li Hongmei nodded silently.
Everything depends on your pillow talk, President Liu!
......
Wednesday evening.
Lu Yu was sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV.
At this time, the Finance Channel of Jianghai City TV Station was still broadcasting the reporter's interview with Cat's Tea.
The popularity of Cat's Tea has been enduring, which sounded the alarm for Lu Yu.
In the future, we must continue to introduce various welfare measures in different ways to squeeze the time of these little involution kings, and we must never drop the chain during the Heavenly Venerable Cup and cause large-scale involution events.
At this time, Liu Mengyuan was playing on the computer in Lu Yu's study, using the "Little Yuanyuan and Little Feather" D station account to live stream playing games.
Recently, more and more viewers have been watching her live broadcast of "Free Mouth Cannon Life", and she has also met many new friends in the game, such as the mysterious rich woman "Call Me Sister".
Suddenly!
With a snap, a thick diary fell out of the bookcase and hit her on the head.
She picked it up while touching her head and looked at it.
This diary gives people a strong sense of chuunibyou style.
Its cover is a children's painting drawn with watercolor pens, with a deep night sky background and stars, as if it were an entrance to another dimension. A mysterious purple rune floats in the night sky.
The title is written in childish and exaggerated fonts: "Wings of Fantasy - The Dimensional Book of Master Lu Yu".
The writing time is marked below: "November 26, 1999".
The author's signature is: "Lu Yu, 12 years old."
The edge of the cover is inlaid with a frosted purple frame, and the words "Prohibited from reading by anyone other than Lu Yu" are written on the frame with watercolor pens, as if it were a book full of taboos.
Opening the diary, the inner page layout is exquisite, and each page has a heavily colored night sky illustration with stars dotted in it.
Below each illustration are doodles and texts of Lu Yu's chuunibyou mood at the time, showing the unique thought world of the 12-year-old him.
For example, the first page is a nebula-filled galaxy map, and he wrote in chuunibyou language: "In the long river of time, I am the helmsman of the universe."
In the following pages, there are various settings, such as the superpowers he made up, and his diary of communication with aliens in his fantasy.
"Pfft!"
Liu Mengyuan covered her mouth and laughed, then roughly flipped through it and found that this diary was actually a fantasy chronicle, detailing the complete five volumes—
Volume 1: The Beginning of Time and Space
In the night sky, stars twinkle, and the gate of the universe opens. Under the ancient cherry tree, I embark on a journey through time and space. My name is Lu Yu, and I am the creator of this dimensional book.
Volume 2: Awakening of the Mysterious Island
Crossing the ancient tunnel, I came to a mysterious island. There, the door of time and space quietly awakened, and I met the ancient gods. The burning campfire reflected mysterious runes, and I was endowed with endless wisdom.
Volume 3: The Rise of the Mechanical City
In the modern city, skyscrapers rise like behemoths. I transformed into a mechanical messenger, driving a wing jet, crossing between cities. In this mechanical city, the power of technology gives me infinite possibilities.
Volume 4: The End of the Light of the Future
In the future city, I am immersed in the virtual dimension. Light and shadow cross the gate of the future, facing the unknown darkness. With the rise of mechanical life forms, I became the vanguard of resistance. In the darkness, I am looking for the source of the light of the future.
Volume 5: The Final Chapter of Time Intertwining
Crossing the final chapter of time, I returned to the cherry tree. Under the reflection of the starry sky, I used raven wings to depict the intertwining of time. This dimensional book is over, but my adventure will never stop.
......
Hearing the movement from Liu Mengyuan's side, Lu Yu came over to ask with concern: "What's wrong?"
Seeing the diary in her hand, Lu Yu was immediately embarrassed and stood there, his face instantly turning red to his ears.
"Cough, how did this thing fall out? I, I'll put it back."
He quickly stepped towards Liu Mengyuan, wanting to take back his chuunibyou history.
However, Liu Mengyuan dodged mischievously and said with a chuckle, "It's quite interesting, I haven't finished reading it yet."
"It's just something I wrote randomly when I was a kid, there's nothing to see." Lu Yu laughed awkwardly twice and continued to move forward to grab the diary.
"Hmph, everyone has their own dark history, just accept it frankly."
Liu Mengyuan raised the corner of her mouth and continued to flip through the diary while dodging nimbly: "To be honest, it's really well written, a masterpiece in the making."
The sound of their laughter echoed in the study,
However, accidentally, Liu Mengyuan slipped on the carpet under her feet,
"Ah!"
She fell unsteadily towards the massage chair, and Lu Yu immediately rushed over, reaching out to support her, but accidentally slipped and fell on top of her.
The two instantly fell into an awkward position.
Lying on the massage chair, Liu Mengyuan's black hair scattered like a waterfall, the skirt of her sailor uniform fluttered slightly, outlining the curves of her figure, and the over-knee black stockings outlined her slender and straight beautiful legs.
She looked up at Lu Yu with a dazed and charming look, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, and her eye shadow shimmering in the light and shadow.
Her slightly open lips carried a hint of shyness, revealing a heart-stirring charm.
Lu Yu's body sank slightly, feeling the other's softness,
He suddenly felt a little dry.