It was normal that Lin Wan did not understand. When she was at Sun Strike Studios, she had worked on Bullet Hole. After she came to Tengda, she had worked on Ocean Stronghold and Game Designer. All of these were client-side games.
Bloody Battle Song was a web-based game. Compared to the other games, it was a completely different species.
Web-based games had a unique design concept and train of thought. The various mature systems and gameplay were rare in client-side games.
Not only had Lin Wan not participated in the development of web-based games, but she had also never played them before. She was not interested in them at all.
Ye Zhizhou and the others used common jargon in the meeting. They even mixed in some English abbreviations. When they were describing the gameplay, they used many colloquial and internal abbreviations.
That way, even though everyone was communicating in Mandarin, Lin Wan could only understand thirty to forty percent of what they were saying.
She could understand every single word in a sentence, but she could not understand what it meant when they were strung together.
Lin Wan could only record silently. She did not nod or ask questions.
She did not nod because she really did not understand. She did not want to pretend to understand. She did not ask questions because she was afraid that she would embarrass Tengda and Boss Pei.
Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin secretly looked at Lin Wan's expression every time they finished a paragraph.
They saw Lin Wan's serious expression. She kept writing and drawing in her notebook. Her expression was unreadable. No one knew what she was thinking.
Although she looked very young, no one dared to belittle her. After all, they knew that Boss Pei did not stick to a single pattern when it came to choosing people.
Those who Boss Pei liked were either truly talented or had deep potential that could be unearthed. No matter which one it was, they could not afford to offend them.
Ye Zhizhou paused after every paragraph. He wanted to give Lin Wan some time to express her opinion.
Although Boss Pei did not make any changes to the design manuscript, who knew if the development director had any good ideas?
Yet, Lin Wan only recorded silently without saying a word.
Ye Zhizhou was starting to doubt himself.
Why did Boss Pei and this director not have any suggestions?
Is my design manuscript really that perfect?
That can't be, right?
Or am I underestimating myself too much?
…
Finally, the design drafts were all finished. Ye Zhizhou briefly explained the construction period, the approximate amount of art resources, and the budget for purchasing various resources, which was a little more than two million.
Ye Zhizhou looked at Lin Wan.
This time, the director should at least say a few words, right?
Otherwise, what are you doing here?
Lin Wan panicked a little when she felt everyone's burning gazes on her.
What should I do? They've been talking for half a day, but I don't understand anything!
Even if he understood part of it, he definitely couldn't bring it out for discussion, because what he understood was obviously very basic. Wouldn't it be showing off if he took it out and talked about it?
The good thing was that Lin Wan did not panic in the face of danger. She successfully grasped something that Boss Pei was not satisfied with.
"The other problems are not big."
Based on my understanding of Boss Pei, I don't think that's possible. "
Ye Zhizhou was a little nervous. As expected, in the end, he still couldn't pass the budget!
For a web-based game, a budget of two million RMB was quite a lot.
For web-based games, research and development only took up a small portion. Most of the money was used for marketing, such as buying click-through ads on the website, hiring celebrities, and so on.
This was determined by the characteristics of the target audience for web-based games.
Web-based games were mainly targeted at office white-collar workers and ballers. These people did not have high expectations for the game's graphics. Most of them played the game secretly during work hours. They did not want to put in any effort or use their brains.
All they wanted to do was to top up money, click the mouse, and kill people.
Furthermore, these people usually had more spending power. Thus, they saved money for research and development and spent it on marketing so that they could maximize the profits of the game.
However, when Ye Zhizhou was making the budget, he was not willing to follow the traditional method.
It was not easy for Boss Pei to make the final decision. This time, the name of the game was' The Powerful Version '. He could not possibly make the graphics of ordinary web-based games, right?
The art resources had to be made into high definition, and the various gameplay had to be optimized to perfection.
Ye Zhizhou had specially discussed with Wang Xiaobin about the budget, and he was very satisfied with it.
Yet, he still exceeded it?
Ye Zhizhou looked at Lin Wan nervously. He thought to himself that he could at most cut three to four hundred thousand yuan. He could not cut any more than that!
Lin Wan continued, "I think … we would need at least four million yuan before Boss Pei would approve this project.
"Forget it. You should increase it to five million yuan. Otherwise, if Boss Pei calls you back, you would have to work a second time."
Every time the budget was overturned, all the art resources, the various plans, the artists that they had contacted on the resource website, and the programs had to be changed.
If they increased the budget from two million yuan to three or four million yuan, all the plans would have to be overturned and redone. After all, the change would be too big. It would not be as simple as changing a few artists.
Thus, Lin Wan very considerately helped them increase the budget. That way, they would not have to redo the budget that they had painstakingly created when Boss Pei called them back.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Ye Zhizhou almost thought that he had heard wrongly.
Two million yuan was too little? Increase it to five million yuan?
How could it be possible to increase it by a huge amount?
However, looking at Lin Wan's serious expression, she was definitely not joking. She was giving them a serious piece of advice.
Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin exchanged a look and hesitated. "Five million yuan? Isn't that too much … "
"Actually, we don't need that much money. Two million yuan is enough. It's really enough."
Lin Wan shook her head. "It's enough for you, but it's far from enough for Boss Pei. You don't know how much Boss Pei pays attention to these details. Listen to me. Increase it to five million yuan. "
Lin Wan could not help but smile as she looked at Ye Zhizhou, who was lowering his head and changing the budget.
"I finally understand why Boss Pei asked me to come here!
"Apart from learning about the design of other types of games here, there's another important thing: to convey the Tengda spirit!
"Ye Zhizhou's timid manner of doing the budget reminds me of Lu Mingliang in the past.
"Boss Pei is too busy with work and can't spare any time. He can't personally come and correct these people's bad habits. That's why he sent me here. On one hand, he's giving me a chance to train. On the other hand, he wants me to correct these people's bad habits!
"Thus, I should guide them more spiritually so that they can work hard to keep up with Tengda.
"Boss Pei didn't lie to me. This is a very important job!"
Ye Zhizhou quickly went through the budget and frowned.
"But … if we increase the budget to five million yuan, we'll run into a new problem.
"We're just a web-based game. Even if we change all the resources to high-definition versions and hire a few outstanding animators to do the concept design, I'm afraid we won't be able to spend all the money …
"What's more, we're using the official platform's 2D engine now. It won't support high-definition resources very well. The effect might not be very obvious.
"Simply put … the price-performance ratio will be very poor."
Lin Wan pondered for a moment and said, "Let's change the engine and go straight to 3D, then."
Ye Zhizhou was speechless. "3D … we can't make web-based games anymore. We need to transfer too many art resources. The current network speed is too slow. "
A web-based game could be played on the go. All the art resources would be transferred over in real time.
Limited by the network speed, they could not make too many resources. Otherwise, the transfer would be very slow. Players would have already moved on to the next scene, but the resources for this scene had not been loaded yet. That would be very awkward.
When Lin Wan played Bloody Battle Song, every time she reached a new location, she would see 'Resources are loading' because of this.
No matter how much they discussed, the problem remained unsolved.
Lin Wan knew very well that a mere two million yuan would not be enough to meet Boss Pei's requirements. However, due to the limitations of web-based games, even a five million yuan budget would not be able to significantly improve the graphics.
Unless they stopped making web-based games and made client-side games, allowing players to download all the resources onto their computers.
But in this way …
Even the genre of the game had changed. Wouldn't it be beyond recognition? Wouldn't it be a pile of rubble?
Wang Xiaobin coughed twice. "Ahem, I think that if we must use high-definition resources to make a 3D version, we can try to make a mini-client."
"In other words, it's a micro-client."
"Compared to client-side games, players need to download fewer resources, and the requirements for computer configuration are not as high. Compared to web-based games, the graphics are significantly better."
"Of course, it's also possible that we won't be able to please both sides. This is very risky."
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