Chapter 418 I am a producer?

Chapter 418 I am a producer?

The next morning.

Gu Fan, Zhou Yang, Wei Chengjie, and Su Tong came to the small conference room. Although it looked like a small meeting, in fact, it would directly determine the direction of the Nitiantian game in the future, which can be said to be very important.

Gu Fan first distributed some materials to the three people.

"This is the company's current game sales and profitability that I just got from the finance department. You can take a brief look at it first. Don't get too hung up on the specific numbers. Just have an idea.

"In short, the biggest problem our company has now is how to spend the money."

Of course, this material was prepared by Xiao Mingyu in advance. In fact, every once in a while, the financial department will issue such a report. However, in the past half year, Nitiantian has been working hard to develop various games because of insufficient funds. There are problems, so no one pays special attention to these contents.

I just feel like I’m getting more and more bonuses.

And last night, after Mr. Li made some strategizing arrangements, he decided on the general direction of the game for the long term in the future, so everyone should calm down and pay attention to the parts that were too lazy to pay attention to before.

Yes, for these core members of the company, they all prefer to focus on the development plan of new games and have little interest in the company's specific financial situation.

So many numbers give me a headache just looking at them.

But when they saw the specific numbers, everyone's faces showed quite complex expressions.

When did our company... become so rich?

As early as when "Ascension" was being developed, the accumulated development and operating expenses on Nitiantian's books were already more than 50 million. This half a billion was already too much to spend. The full development of "Ascension" cost more than 37 million. As a result, the sales volume exceeded one million not long after its release. Not only did the cost be recovered very early, but subsequent sales volume remained strong.

Since then, games such as "Road Rage Simulator", "Hell Racing", "Shadow World", "Endless Fantasy Legend" and "Dreamland" have also been steadily making money.

Of course, make a lot of money? That's not the case.

This is because Nitiantian's games are relatively restrained in their charging models. For example, "Shadow World" is an mmorpg game that has been very successful in both versions. As long as you release the appearance and buy skins, you can significantly increase your revenue, and "Heartbeat Dreamland" If all characters are obtained by drawing cards, many players can get a lot of money.

But Nitian did not do this, and basically set charging standards based on the baseline of not losing money.

Of course, there are benefits to doing this. Although it is not a cash cow, the sales volume of each Nitiantian game is very stable. In the long run, the sales volume is rarely less than 3 million.

This is quite an impressive achievement for a stand-alone game manufacturer.

So far, even Nitiantian has done some big things, such as directly purchasing the finished game "Clash of Demons" as a successor, or launching the first-generation Erios figure locally at a total loss, but in general, the funds on the books are Still rising steadily and sharply.

So far, the accumulated R\u0026D and operating funds on Nitiantian's account have reached nearly 500 million.

Moreover, because Nitiantian’s game development cycle is very short, and a new game is often launched within three or four months, those old games also have great stamina. As time goes by, more and more games are making money at the same time, and the company There will inevitably be more and more money on the books.

For Lilith, her idea is simple: spend all the money as quickly as possible to speed up the production of the game as much as possible!

Because the faster and more games are produced, the more likely there will be a lucky person who will make a lot of negative emotions.

It is precisely for this reason that last night Lilith strategized, scolded Fang Qiu, and made Nitian's next grand plan.

It can also be regarded as the "Reverse Heaven 3.0" form.

If Nitiantian, which initially had only a few employees such as Gu Fan, Zhou Yang, and Su Tong, was in the 1.0 form, and Nitiantian, which continued to expand after moving to the villa and even opened two projects at the same time, was in the 2.0 form, then in order to go further at this time, Hua To lose more funds and strive for more negative emotions, Nitian must enter the 3.0 form.

Zhou Yang put down the information: "This amount of money is indeed enough to support our continued expansion, and we can even buy many outsourcing companies."

For outsourcing companies, as long as they have money, they can make any arrangement.

It is completely feasible to even completely "support" the outsourcing company and turn it into a long-term partner or even a subsidiary of Nitian.

Originally, everyone was worried that doing this would be too expensive, but since Mr. Li and Mr. Gu both agreed, let's just burn it. It would be burning the company's money anyway.

Maybe we can explore a new business form.

Gu Fan continued: "According to what Mr. Li said last night, in order to transform Nitiantian into the 3.0 form better and faster, we will make the following arrangements.

“First of all, I will continue to be responsible for the physical business of Nitian. This time, I will launch a new physical product for the new game.

“As for the specific product, I haven’t decided yet, but it has nothing to do with you.

"Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie, you two need to select a group of people from the company, mainly key employees, including programmers, planners and artists, and then go to Magic City and Yangcheng respectively to establish Nitian's "Modu Studio" and "Modu Studio" Yangcheng Studio".

"Your task is to find relatively capable outsourcing companies in these two cities, turn them into part of our game development process, and incorporate them into our development process by spending money, so as to achieve President Li's goal of increasing the speed of game development.

"Of course, since this is the first time to try this cooperation model, the efficiency may not be very high in the early stage, and even the development progress of the game "Blood of Lies" may not be improved.

"But as time goes by, our cooperation gradually matures, and the development time of subsequent games should be shortened to a certain extent.

"This matter is of great importance, and President Li also attaches great importance to it. I'll leave it to you two."

Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie had obviously talked to Gu Fan privately and made mental preparations in advance, so they nodded: "Don't worry, President Gu, we will definitely get things done."

Su Tong, who had not paid much attention to it, suddenly realized that something was wrong with the problem.

"Hey? Isn't it right?

"Of the three of you, one is busy with new physical products, and the other two are going to Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively. What about Blood of Lies? Who will be the producer?"

The three of them fell silent, and then said in unison: "What do you think?"

Su Tong pointed at herself in shock: "Could it be me?"

At this moment, she felt like she was walking on the street and was suddenly hit by a billboard falling from the sky. She felt a little dizzy.

Obviously before this, Su Tong had never thought that she would one day be the main planner of a game.

After all, she has been a test team leader since she joined the game Against Heaven. And before this, she didn't have much game experience at all.

Even after becoming a test team leader, she did play a lot of games, and even created a top speed runner account on the entire network while playing games like Sisyphus and Ascension, but she still had obvious deficiencies in game experience.

She may be proficient in a single game, but her understanding of game types may not be as good as some hardcore game enthusiasts.

What's more, you have to be the producer of the game?

Gu Fan coughed twice: "It doesn't matter, this is not as difficult as you think.

"First of all, you are the producer of "Blood of Lies" appointed by General Li. She has repeatedly requested that there is no room for negotiation on this point.

"In order to expand at the fastest speed, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie are indeed the best candidates to go to Shanghai and Guangzhou. And if you want to choose a producer from the remaining employees, it can only be you.

"As for how to do it specifically, you don't have to worry too much about it.

"Because the entire design plan of "Blood of Lies" is still completed by the design team, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie will each be responsible for a part.

"When the time comes, you just need to strictly supervise the production according to the design plan.

"Besides that, Blood of Lies, as an action game, actually has some similarities with Ascension, which we developed before. You are familiar with Ascension before, so it shouldn't be a big problem to adapt to it."

Su Tong was helpless: "Except that they are both action games and have a bit of Cthulhu style, what is the same!"

She has also seen the concept draft of Blood of Lies. Obviously, the two games are too different, whether it is the story background, combat mechanism or special mechanism, they are very different.

But it is obvious that Su Tong is going to be forced to do it by President Li.

Gu Fan knows why Lilith made such a decision.

Letting Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie to create the Magic City and Yangcheng studios of Ni Tiantang is just an excuse. In fact, it is because Lilith no longer trusts them.

After all, the games they were responsible for before also had strange bugs, which had very serious consequences.

There is no evidence, but it is suspicious enough!

So, after eliminating these "three idiots", Lilith could only reluctantly pick Su Tong's head.

Of course, Lilith did not completely trust Su Tong, but she could not really pull someone who had no idea about her to be the producer of this project. After all, the basic ability of the producer must be there, otherwise, if the development progress is slowed down and the game is difficult to produce, who will make up for the missing negative emotions?

Moreover, Su Tong has been conscientious and has not made any mistakes in the long time he has served as the test leader of Against Heaven. He even made contributions in helping Lilith to get the wool of Hell Front.

Lilith had a beautiful idea: as the test leader, Su Tong's working mode has always been to follow the design documents in a rigid manner. If she is the producer of the new game, "Blood of Lies" should also be able to be developed in a rigid manner according to the design documents, right?

In that case, Lilith can already thank God.

Even if there are problems, a straight-forward tester is always easier to deal with than those planners with a lot of tricks, and it is easier to leave loopholes.

So, Su Tong was honored to be the producer and test leader of "Blood of Lies".

"Okay, if there are no other questions, then everyone should hurry up, President Li doesn't have much time left for us."

Gu Fan stood up: "By the way, it's the same as always. The promotional video and trial demo of "Blood of Lies" will be released first, and we will warm up while developing it.

“This time, we will not only bring players an unforgettable experience like Ascension, but also make a clear difference from Ascension, so that players can’t stop playing!”