Chapter 9 Recruiting a Tester
Lilith looked at Gu Fan confused.
Gu Fan looked at Lilith firmly.
The two looked at each other, and the room fell into a deadlock.
In the end, it was Lilith who lost her temper first: "Okay, that does seem to be my problem..."
But soon, she gritted her teeth and said: "But even so, that hateful lecturer Ding should bear the main responsibility! The two-hour promotion time is obviously over, why does he have to study this BUG!
"Damn it! If it weren't for him, this bug wouldn't have been discovered so early. No, it might even have been completely undiscovered!
"I could have harvested a lot more negative emotions!"
Lilith tugged on her twin ponytails angrily, her teeth itching with hatred.
Although this game does have a "bullet turning" BUG, this BUG is so hidden that even the official "AI-debug" testing tool has not been able to detect it, let alone human players.
The operation of "shooting away" is not very common. Only a few masters can master it. And how can any serious person pay such careful attention to the trajectory of the bullet after throwing away the sniper?
If it weren't for Professor Ding's meddling, this bug might not have been discovered at all. This game can still collect a lot of negative emotions as usual!
Gu Fan was very smart and didn't say anything. At this time, he had already thrown the pot away perfectly.
Lilith took half of the pot herself, and Professor Ding took the other half.
Originally, Gu Fan was still thinking that as a powerful hell demon, Lilith would kidnap Professor Ding in a fit of rage to become his colleague, right?
But he soon realized that he was worrying too much. Although Lilith was angry, she was helpless and could only watch as the negative emotions contributed by the game became less and less.
Obviously, the demons from hell do not do whatever they want in the human world.
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Wednesday night.
In the blink of an eye, the game "Hell Tracks" has been on sale for five days.
Although most companies will use "seven days" as a node when counting game data, it is no longer needed for this game.
Because all kinds of data clearly point to the same fact:
"Hell Tracks" is a hit!
On the night of its release, the sales of this game began to skyrocket, from the initial few dozen to hundreds, and quickly exceeded 10,000.
Five days have passed, and the sales of this game have reached 120,000 units!
By the weekend, sales are likely to exceed 150,000.
The first-week sales of 150,000 is already a very impressive achievement for a start-up game company. In fact, if many games sell tens of thousands of units in the first week, they can already pop the champagne.
Of course, "Hell Tracks" is cheap. The price of only 18 yuan does have an effect on sales, but don't forget that Lilith's marketing budget for this game is only 2 million.
The early exposure is not saturated, which means there is plenty of stamina!
According to general trend estimates, the first-month sales of the game "Hell Tracks" should reach 500,000.
In other words, after deducting various platforms and necessary taxes, this game will bring nearly 5 million net income to Nitian Game Company in the first month!
According to the contract signed between Gu Fan and Lilith, 70% of the money will be used as development funds for the next game, and 5% will be given to Gu Fan himself as a bonus.
5%, that is, you can get a bonus of about 250,000 in the first month!
As for negative emotions…
So far, the negative sentiment value brought about by this game is only over 7 million.
Obviously, after the game became popular, it has triggered the recommendation mechanism of each platform, and new players are constantly entering, but the growth of negative emotions is getting slower and slower, and there is even a tendency to gradually stop!
According to original estimates, even if no new players enter later, this game can still contribute 20 to 30 million negative emotional points.
But now, it has only reached 7 million and it will not increase!
In fact, it's not that it's not growing, but that the speed at which players produce negative emotions is about the same as the speed at which they are deducted, so the growth is getting slower and slower.
As time goes by, and players become more proficient at "Bullet Turning," the positive emotions brought about by the game may grow. By then, the negative sentiment value of more than 7 million may continue to decline.
You don't need to guess to know that Lilith definitely wants Gu Fan to correct this bug.
But that won't work.
Because the game is also part of the contract, if the game is changed, the contract will become invalid, and even the current negative emotional value will be gone!
Gu Fan has been very comfortable these days.
As a programmer, this was the first time he encountered the situation of "developing a game but not requiring subsequent updates."
Every day I just refresh the sales figures of the game and calculate my bonuses. I don’t have to do anything else. It’s so exciting!
However, such happiness will always expire. When he saw Lilith appearing in the living room again, Gu Fan knew that his happiness had expired.
You have to prepare immediately to start the next challenge.
Lilith has not appeared these days, apparently going somewhere else to heal alone.
As for specifically going back to hell? Or did you go to another office location of the negative emotion collection office in hell? That's unknown.
It seems that Lilith has adjusted well. Although she still has a straight face, she seems to have come out of the haze of the game "Hell Tracks".
Obviously, she is ready to sum up her experience and start the next game.
"Come on, I have new tasks to assign!"
Lilith said as she sat unceremoniously on the beanbag in the living room.
Gu Fan moved the small bench over and sat down, pretending to listen carefully.
Lilith cleared her throat and said quite seriously: "Before developing the next game, I think we should summarize the lessons learned from the previous game.
"Don't you have a saying in the world? Failure is the mother of success.
"Although the game "Hell Tracks" did not collect as many negative emotional values as expected, it is still good as a first attempt.
"After I returned to hell, Lao Lu also praised me and asked other demons to learn from me and dare to develop new business models and strive to collect more negative emotions.
"So, we still have to get out of the shadow of failure as soon as possible and make persistent efforts!"
Gu Fan nodded seriously.
Lilith paused for a moment, and then said quite confidently: "After my reflection and your previous reminder, I believe that the main problem with "Hell Tracks" is that the testing work was not done properly!
“The testing period of the game before release was indeed too short, so that bugs were not detected, which led to very serious consequences.
"So I decided! For future games, the testing time will be extended to at least two weeks!
"Besides, I think the workload is a bit too much for you to be responsible for both development and testing at the same time. "Inverse Heaven Game" should recruit a tester to share these tasks, what do you think?"
Lilith looked at Gu Fan seriously, her attitude was sincere on the surface, but in fact her eyes were flickering, and she obviously had another agenda.
After all, Gu Fan is also a veteran in the workplace. He can't even deal with the leaders of big factories, so how could he be plotted by a mere devil.
He immediately expressed his stance: "I completely agree!"
Obviously, when the leader says these four words, "What do you think?", he is definitely not asking for your opinion.
He just hopes to get a positive answer from you so that his plan can be promoted quickly and smoothly, and if something goes wrong, he will push you to take the blame.
In addition, Gu Fan also heard the implication of Lilith's words.
Why hire a tester?
In fact, with the current size of the game, there is no need to recruit new employees as long as the design draft and art resources are available.
For the job of game testing, Gu Fan plus the "AI-debug" testing tool is completely sufficient.
But obviously, as a demon, Lilith is still quite suspicious. She still doubts what Gu Fan did during the explosion of the last game, but there is no evidence.
So, she wanted to hire an extra employee to be responsible for testing.
If this tester could discover bugs like "Bullet Turn" in advance, the tragedy of "Hell Tracks" would never happen again!
Regarding these, Gu Fan felt the same as Ming Jing, but he didn't care.
There are policies and countermeasures. As a senior programmer who has been fighting with his boss for many years, Gu Fan has rich experience.
I thought that Lilith would give the design plan for the next game, but unexpectedly she changed the subject and asked a new question.
"So do you think there are any other lessons that can be learned from the game "Hell Tracks"?"