When they arrived at Guangzhou, Sun Strike Studios sent a car to the airport to pick them up.
This was a normal treatment that Zhou Muyan should have arranged for both work and personal reasons.
Sitting in the car, Pei Qian reminded Min Jingchao, "The working conditions at Sun Strike Studios are slightly worse than Tengda."
"However, it's not much. Work hard to adapt and treat it as helping the poor."
"Every company has its own situation. Don't ask too much, understand?"
Min Jingchao nodded. "Don't worry, Boss Pei, I understand."
This was Min Jingchao's first visit to Sun Strike Studios.
Back when he was developing Ocean Stronghold, Pei Qian had organized a public holiday for his employees to have fun in Guangzhou and visit Sun Strike Studios at the same time.
However, Min Jingchao had not joined Sun Strike Studios at that time – he had only joined during GOG.
He was not worried about anything else. He was just afraid that Min Jingchao would ask a series of questions like Ma Yang. 'Why are you still working on a Saturday? Are you getting overtime pay? ' 'Why are the workstations so cramped?'
He did not want to ruin Zhou Muyan's mental state.
Even though Min Jingchao should not be as lacking in EQ as Old Ma, it would not be wrong to remind him beforehand.
Sun Strike Studios had a seven-storey office surrounded by green trees and pines – the environment was pretty good.
The car stopped at the entrance where Zhou Muyan and Sun Xi, who was in charge of reception, were already waiting.
When they saw Boss Pei, the both of them welcomed him warmly.
Pei Qian had a vague impression of Sun Xi. He was also the one in charge of reception the previous time around. Previously, he was the core designer of a large MMORPG project in Sun Strike Studios and had also participated in the development of Bullet Hole.
He was a core member to begin with. After two years of training and grooming, he was now Zhou Muyan's right-hand man and a rather influential chief designer in the studio.
Passing through the bamboo forest at the front yard and the front desk, they arrived at the fourth floor.
There was a tour the previous time around. However, it was skipped this time around. That was because Zhou Muyan felt extremely awkward at the thought of it …
To think that he would flaunt the benefits of his employees in front of Tengda! What was he thinking back then?!
Back when Tengda was still a small company, their benefits were already better than Sun Strike Studios'. Now that they were getting bigger, their benefits were even better.
Zhou Muyan also knew that he couldn't compete in this aspect.
Therefore, they tacitly agreed not to mention the previous incident and treated it as if nothing had happened.
After Min Jingchao settled down, Sun Xi would bring him around to familiarize him with the working environment.
"Boss Pei, should we sit down, take a break, and have a casual chat, or …" Zhou Muyan tried to seek Pei Qian's opinion.
After all, Boss Pei had just flown over. He should be a little tired. A friendlier schedule would be to sit in the guest room and arrange a time in advance. Then, Boss Pei and Min Jingchao would return to the hotel to rest and come for the meeting the next day.
Pei Qian waved his hand. "There's no need. Let's begin."
In any case, he was in business class. It was not tiring at all. What's more, Pei Qian's design method was to let fate take its course. He did not need to use his brain cells or accumulate ideas. It was completely up to fate.
Min Jingchao might have a lot of work to do, but he didn't need to finish it in a day.
He could memorize the main points today and slowly perfect them later.
The earlier this meeting ended, the earlier Pei Qian could return to Jingzhou to rest.
Zhou Muyan nodded. "Alright, I'll call a few chief designers over to listen. I'll pick the most capable one to assist Brother Min.
"Have some tea first. Please wait for a while."
Zhou Muyan stood up and said a few words to Sun Xi, asking him to inform the designers.
Although he said that he wanted to pick the most capable designer to assist Min Jingchao, he actually wanted to use this opportunity to let the chief designers listen to Boss Pei's lectures and improve themselves.
Such an opportunity was too precious!
It was like watching a real martial arts expert practice. Even if you did not understand anything, you would still improve.
At least, you would have broadened your horizons. You would know how martial arts experts trained and understand the general direction.
It was the same for game design. Everyone knew that Boss Pei was a genius in game design, but how exactly did he design games? There were many rumors in the outside world. However, those who were not insiders would not know the truth.
This was a precious opportunity. They had to make good use of it and learn more.
Of course, Zhou Muyan only called a few core chief designers. They were all people he trusted.
The reason why he did not call more people was because Zhou Muyan felt that the others were not at this level or were not core members that he trusted. They were not worthy of listening. On the other hand, he could not go overboard and make Boss Pei angry.
If he arranged for a huge conference room to be filled with people, his intentions would be too obvious and impolite.
All in all, this was not just a game that he was collaborating with Tengda Games. It was also a learning session for game design knowledge.
There might not be a second chance like this. How could he not take it seriously?
As for Pei Qian, he sipped his tea while thinking about where he should start with the design.
After much thought, he only knew one design method. That was to design to incur losses. However, he ended up making money …
He had to admit that this was quite sad.
Actually, Pei Qian was a little confused. Logically speaking, there were so many ways to incur losses in games. Why did he always end up creating games that made money?
Was it because he was so lucky that he happened to encounter all the ways to earn money?
Apart from this, there seemed to be no other possibility.
He couldn't possibly be a game design genius, right?
In that case … would he be able to incur losses after trying a few more times?
Tengda's own development ability was limited after all. It could only produce four or five games a year at most. Many loss-making ideas could not be verified.
However, if he had the help of other companies, he could develop a few more games at the same time. What if one of them succeeded in incurring losses?
Thus, Pei Qian's idea this time was still to design in the direction of incurring losses.
If they earned money, it would mean that Long Yu Corporation and Sun Strike Studios were lucky. It would not matter if they just fulfilled the contract normally.
Even though they would give Tengda a share of the money, Tengda already had so many profitable games. It did not matter if there was one more or one less.
What if they lost money? That would be very meaningful!
Pei Qian had to study this loss-making model carefully and strive to use it for himself.
It would be even better if they were to incur huge losses. Pei Qian could use the opportunity of compensation to continue working with Sun Strike Studios and Long Yu Corporation. At that time, Tengda would take the lead in research and development and monopolize this great opportunity to incur losses.
In short, this could be seen as an additional attempt. No matter what the result was, it was acceptable.
After a while, Sun Xi returned. "Boss Zhou, Boss Pei, the conference room is ready."
Zhou Muyan looked at Pei Qian. "Then, Boss Pei, shall we go?"
Pei Qian nodded. "Yes, let's go!"
They arrived at the large conference room on the same floor. The designers who had come to listen in had already arrived. When they saw Zhou Muyan and Pei Qian, they stood up and greeted them.
Zhou Muyan left the seat in the middle and gestured for Pei Qian to take a seat.
Pei Qian said a few polite words. However, seeing how insistent Zhou Muyan was, he did not reject him anymore.
After everyone took their seats, Zhou Muyan coughed twice, signaling for everyone to be quiet.
"Boss Pei, you've come all the way here. You've brought light to our humble workspace."
"I've already introduced the new project to everyone before. It's a project jointly developed and operated by Tengda Corporation, Sun Strike Studios, and Long Yu Corporation. The opportunity is very precious. Everyone here should know how important such a large-scale project is to designers."
The designer industry was also particular about 'gilding'.
A designer who had participated in a successful project and a designer who had not participated in a successful project would have a completely different price tag when applying outside.
Not to mention a designer who had played a key role in a successful project.
After all, there was no clear standard for measuring ability in a creative field like this. Under the premise that the basic abilities were similar, successful experience was the biggest highlight.
There was no need to elaborate on Boss Pei's identity and status in the gaming industry. Everyone present had heard of his name.
To these designers, it would definitely be a highlight of their entire careers if they could participate in this project.
If this project was successful as expected, not to mention bonuses and shares, just this resume alone would be enough to raise their career plans to a whole new level.
However, it was not certain how many people would enter this project to help Min Jingchao.
In the end, they might have to rely on Zhou Muyan and Min Jingchao to screen and review them.
Therefore, these designers were all rubbing their palms together, hoping to listen carefully and think carefully. At that time, they would come up with some unique views and opinions to increase their chances of being selected.
Zhou Muyan looked at Pei Qian. "In that case, Boss Pei, shall we begin?"
"From now on, we'll follow Tengda's development process and we'll cooperate fully."
Of course, Sun Strike Studios had their own development process. However, since Boss Pei was here and had a better process, why wouldn't they use it?
Sun Strike Studios was determined to be apprentices and tools. They would try their best not to let their habits affect Boss Pei and Min Jingchao.
Otherwise … if Tengda Games' undefeatable legend were to fail in their hands, how embarrassing would that be!
Boss Pei's game would become popular with every game he created.
Yet, when he came to Sun Strike Studios, he flopped the moment he created it.
How could that be?
If something like that really happened, no one would think that Boss Pei was useless. They would only think that Sun Strike Studios was too useless and a burden.
How lousy was this team that even Boss Pei couldn't bring them along?
Zhou Muyan could not take such a blow.
Pei Qian nodded. "Alright, let's begin."
"Have you guys thought about what type of game to make?"
That was the way to go with the flow. From the start of the game, it was all up to fate.
To Min Jingchao, that sounded normal and normal. However, to the other designers, it was a completely different story.
Their faces were filled with shock.
From the looks of it, Boss Pei hadn't even thought about the type of game to make?
They thought that Boss Pei had already thought about the content of the game long ago!
Didn't that mean that Boss Pei could design any type of game? Furthermore, he was confident that he could design it well?
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