Chapter 253 Confidence
"Lu ÷, do you want coffee? I'll get you a cup."
"No, I'm not sleepy yet. By the way, how are you completing your request?"
"I just adjusted it casually, and I haven't had time to run yet. Who cares, I'm tired, just fish hard."
"I was thinking about meeting Mr. Luo today, but I saw a bunch of colleagues showing off photos in the group."
"Now, Mr. Luo is probably called to dinner by those stupid leaders. It's very annoying. I hope I can see him tomorrow."
"Hopefully."
The above chat records are from two ordinary employees of the "Cyber·Liaozhai" game development team.
It can be seen that neither of them has much interest in work now, they are like two breathing corpses.
When Boss Tang Yunpeng informed Mr. Luo that he would be personally invited to the development department to experience the current internal beta version of "Cyber·Liao Zhai", all the development team employees were very excited.
They have been fascinated by this man for a long time.
Not to mention Luo Bai's current outstanding influence in the game industry, the fact that he is indeed leading the domestic stand-alone development environment to become increasingly better is enough for everyone to admire him.
Of course, the more important thing is that they actually want to go to work at Chuxin.
In the early stages of the development of "Cyber·Liao Zhai", a professional team from Chuxin once settled in the development department and provided considerable help to the entire game development process as a "consultant".
At this stage, the most talked-about thing is the off-duty time of Chuxin’s staff.
Although sometimes I do a little overtime to accommodate normal development work, it can be said to be a nine-to-five schedule.
Leave as soon as you arrive and never stay any longer.
Then working overtime is a kind of help and is not mandatory.
If he just got off work early, everyone would actually be a little jealous, but his professional skills are indeed excellent, and everyone is convinced.
This feeling has turned into a yearning for the company that I originally founded.
Although the managers at Tianxing were very critical of Chuxin's team's behavior of "shaking the morale of the military," they even made a request to the board of directors that Chuxin should allow the professional team to work the same hours as the employees in the development department. But in the end it was nothing.
This is the advantage of having someone behind you, I can’t help but envy you.
And all of this must be attributed to that man.
However, the current understanding of Luo Bai basically comes from side stories and hearsay on the Internet.
Suddenly I heard the boss say, this man that everyone has been thinking about for so long is suddenly coming to us, how can we not be excited?
Just today, all employees in the entire development department are as strong as chicken blood. Needless to say, their work efficiency is high.
But now, the sun has set. Looking at the colorful neon scene in the city, everyone just feels tired.
You said that even if Mr. Luo didn't say anything to everyone, why not come and meet him?
When I think that my group of people have worked hard all day, and the beasts that I led are enjoying the hot food and drinking spicy food, and maybe they even took off the black silk stockings of the people accompanying them in a shopping mall, I feel so cold. Cool.
If the picture failed to materialize in the end, it’s no wonder that the entire development department was lifeless.
Fishing is all about fishing, and everyone is quite sensitive to the coming and going of movement.
Someone goes to the toilet, takes a look, and continues fishing.
Someone pours coffee, takes a look, and continues fishing.
Someone coughed twice, took a look, and continued fishing.
Stock trading, chatting, and drama watching.
Under normal circumstances, this situation is actually very common in any company.
But tonight...
As soon as he got up to pour the coffee, the guy almost peed. As soon as he got up, almost half of the people looked at him, as if he had made some big mistake.
That’s ridiculous! Don't you all have to go to work? Why are you fishing?
Oh, I’m fishing too, so that’s okay.
Zou Lecheng also had a headache when he saw the scene in front of him. As Tang Yunpeng's deputy, he should assume the responsibility of managing the project team when Old Tang is not around.
But it was understandable that everyone was depressed. Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would not force everyone to work in this state.
Doing this business with emotions is horribly inefficient.
But more than half of the people in the project were in this state, so he had to say something.
I was about to get up and tell everyone some empty words about Chicken Soup for the Soul, so that everyone should at least not behave too much.
At this time, the appearance of Tang Yunpeng, the No. 1 person in charge of the project department, made Zou Lecheng, who had already raised his butt three centimeters, sit down again.
The boss came back, and the whole project department was making a lot of rustling noises, and then it quickly returned to dead silence.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the computer screen in front of them. The programmers pretended to type quickly on the keyboard, while the old fritters next to them rolled their eyes fiercely.
How can you write a program so fast? What are you pretending to be? Isn't it all copy and paste?
After all, he is still young and has too little experience to even pretend.
This scene where everyone seems to be seriously engaged in work is exactly the same as when the high school evening self-study class teacher comes to the classroom.
Luo Bai, who was following Tang Yunpeng, naturally had a panoramic view of the scene in front of him.
To be honest, everyone's little moves can actually be seen clearly, just like the teacher knew what little moves you were doing back then.
It’s just that no one exposed it.
He glanced at Old Tang beside him teasingly, and Tang Yunpeng smiled awkwardly.
Zou Lecheng's butt that had just been put down was lifted up again at a very fast speed, and he hurriedly walked to Luo Bai, his eyes full of uncontrollable surprise.
Damn it! Isn't this supposed to be a meal and drink at a business restaurant at public expense? Why is Mr. Luo here?
"Mr. Luo."
Zou Lecheng smiled.
"Old Zou, long time no see."
Luo Bai smiled and waved to him.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Luo Bai's main focus was on the employees in front of him.
The news here cannot be hidden from anyone, and everyone clearly heard the two words Zou Lecheng said.
However, everyone seemed to be on the same page, and no one stopped what they were doing, but focused on the keyboard.
Well... at least that's how it looks on the surface.
Luo Bai saw a lot of obscure glances directed towards him.
The keyboards in some people's hands were almost smoking. Jubi was sharing with others that Luo Bai actually came to the development department of "Cyber·Liao Zhai".
Tang Yunpeng also knew that it was time for him to take action. He coughed twice and raised his right hand:
"Everyone, please put aside what you are doing for a moment and I will make an announcement."
I'm a fool!
Luo Bai added something to Old Tang silently in his heart, looking straight ahead with a peaceful smile on his face.
Today, Old Tang called him over. In addition to testing the game, he also had the idea of giving the development brothers a shot in the arm. Naturally, Luo Bai had to show his attitude.
Everyone looked up at this moment.
Some people's faces deliberately wanted to keep calm, but they turned red and could not hide their excitement; some looked straight at this side and wished they could get closer; some even waved directly and generously towards Luo Bai, excitedly looking for Mating monkeys.
"Brothers, you have lived up to your expectations! I promised you to bring Mr. Luo over to you, and I did it!" Old Tang has also been in this industry for so many years, and he is naturally good at project management.
I also know what words to say now can best arouse everyone's atmosphere.
Luo Bai didn't stretch his hips and waved directly to everyone:
"Hello everyone, I'm Luo Bai, nice to meet you."
In an instant, the entire development department was in a state of excitement.
"Mr. Luo! Mr. Luo! Mr. Luo!"
"I'm super! Luo!"
"Luoshen! Luoshen! Luoshen!"
The applause and cheers resounded throughout this development department, as if they were about to overthrow the entire building.
The employees in the development department in front of me are no different from the players who are first-time fans.
No, a more accurate statement would be that they are also players.
After finally waiting for everyone's cheers to subside, Luo Bai said jokingly:
"It's so late, let's not make too much noise. You're really not afraid that Old Tang will be jealous of me for putting on your little shoes."
Old Tang also pretended to have a straight face and raised his chin slightly, as if I'm going to make you work crazy overtime if I'm not happy.
However, this expression did not stick to his face, and he grinned directly.
The whole audience burst into laughter.
Looking at the relationship between our boss and Mr. Luo, most people present knew it well.
Old Tang is jealous? The leaders above are just jealous!
Everyone present also put away the smiles on their faces, and turned to look at Luo Bai with focused eyes.
Luo Bai also ended the joking in the warm-up and turned to face everyone seriously:
"The project of "Cyber·Liao Zhai" has been more than two years since its establishment. If you include its predecessor "Cyber·Fengshen", it has been three years.
This project is the first cooperation project between Chuxin and Tianxing, and it is also a project that I have been eyeing.
I attach great importance to this project. Whenever there is a new breakthrough in this game, Lao Tang will happily discuss and communicate with me.
Among everyone present, there were old employees who had been working at Fengshen since the beginning, as well as new employees who had joined the project later.
It can be said that I see everyone's efforts. ”
Having said this, Luo Bai turned around and glanced at Tang Yunpeng beside him:
"Sometimes Old Tang would complain to me. He said he was confused.
I don’t know if this project will be successful in the end, I don’t know if this game will be welcomed by players, and I don’t know if there will be a tomorrow.
But in everyone's eyes, he always has to maintain confidence in the project, and he will definitely sell it in the end.
He had to give everyone confidence, but he himself had no confidence, so he had no choice but to find confidence with me. ”
Everyone present raised their lips slightly, feeling very emotional in their hearts.
In fact, everyone is quite confused, Tianxing is not as good as the original intention.
The development department of "Cyber·Liao Zhai" is the pioneer of stand-alone games in the entire company. To put it mildly, it is considered cannon fodder.
In the field of online and mobile games, they already have a mature profit formula that cannot be more mature, so they are an outlier among the company.
Many people are discussing that if this project ends up losing money, all of them will lose their jobs.
Who wants to be unemployed?
I can only paralyze myself with the idea of "at worst, I'll get paid for one day's work" and bite the bullet and get on with it.
It’s really bad, but I feel unwilling to join in this industry. Don’t you say that everyone should be a world-class game developer? At least they should have some highlights in their career, right?
For example, he participated in the development of a certain "million-selling", "hot game", and "phenomenal work" game.
Although the reputation of "The Legend of Mountain and Sea Cultivation" was completely ruined on the Internet a few years ago, the programmers involved in the development are actually doing very well in the industry now.
I am unwilling to show off, but I can’t see the direction even if I work hard.
The whole day is spent internally.
That is to say, Old Tang was whipping the whip from behind, and he also took the lead, otherwise everyone's mentality would almost collapse.
To be honest, it would be more comfortable to find a small studio to hang out in than to work in Tianxing.
The management here is too rigid.
“Old Tang asked me to give him confidence, but actually I don’t know how to give him confidence.
I have also gone through stages where I was extremely confused about making games, and I have also had works like Wanda that were not accepted by the vast majority of players.
So I asked him, let alone whether he has confidence in the future of games, do you have confidence in games?
He said yes, he would definitely be able to do this game well.
Actually that's enough. ”
Luo Bai looked at everyone present with a smile, spread his hands,
"Whether "Cyber·Liao Zhai" can successfully make money in the end is not something you should worry about.
What you need to pay attention to is always the quality of the game itself. Even if the game loses a lot of money in the end, Tianxing will protect everyone without having to pay a penny. ”
Everyone was amused by Luo Bai.
Tang Yunpeng was also laughing, but he was smiling superficially.
Damn it, Mr. Luo is not honest. You don’t work at Tianxing. The loss must have nothing to do with you.
"Everyone's more than two years of hard work will finally yield a result. The development of the game has now come to an end.
I believe you all know that the purpose of my coming here today is to participate in the internal testing of the game.
After the test is over, I definitely can’t give you an answer as to whether this game will eventually become a hit or a big seller.
But I believe that everyone's efforts are meaningful.
The future of stand-alone games is infinitely broad, and you are the future of this industry. ”
The applause lasts forever.
Looking at the people who had regained their fighting spirit, Tang Yunpeng felt a heavy sense of responsibility in his heart.
What Mr. Luo just said, if the final game is done well, it will be a good story.
If the game is not done well, it will become chicken soup.
Although Luo Bai himself may not care about this thing very much, Old Tang now feels a bit like being roasted on the fire.
Forget it, this is not enough.
Let’s start with the core part of today.
About the experience part of "Cyber·Liao Zhai".
Luo Bai, who is following Tang Yunpeng, is looking forward to it. A cyberspace story with plot-driven gameplay like "The Witcher 3" is really exciting.
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(End of chapter)