Although Lin Wan could not accurately describe the difference between web-based games and client-side games, she could roughly understand the problem with this approach.
Client-side games and web-based games were two completely different types of games.
Their traditional gameplay, core, and target groups of players were all completely different.
If anyone thought that web-based games could be easily changed to client-side games, only a noob who knew nothing about games would think that way.
Porting could only be done from top to bottom. For example, client-side games could be ported to web-based games, or web-based games could be ported to mobile games.
What's more, it had to be supported by the game itself.
If it was the other way around, such as migrating from web-based games to client-side games, there would be too many things to change. That would be as difficult as developing a new game from scratch.
However, Shang Yang Games had already confirmed that they wanted to develop Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version. They had even finalized the design draft. This was Boss Pei's decision. They could not make any changes.
That way, to spend so much money, making a mini-client was the only solution.
However, as Wang Xiaobin said, making a mini-client was very risky.
A mini-client would require players to download fewer resources than a client-side game, and the graphics would be better than a web-based game. It looked like the best of both worlds.
However, from another perspective, it was a solution that would not please either side.
To client-side gamers, its graphics would not be as good as regular client-side games.
To web-based gamers, they would have to download a mini-client. They could not play the game immediately. That would be very troublesome.
Players on both sides might not like it. That would be the end of the game.
Everyone turned to look at Lin Wan again.
As the director, she had to make the final decision.
Lin Wan was a little flustered.
Although she had been in charge of some work at Tengda in the past, she had never made such a crucial decision.
One had to know that this decision would most likely directly affect everyone's work in the next few months, as well as millions of dollars in funding.
Of course, if it succeeded …
If it failed, everyone would have worked for nothing. What's more, all the money would have gone down the drain.
Such a heavy responsibility made Lin Wan feel very pressured.
Subconsciously, she wanted to consult Boss Pei.
However, on further thought, she felt that she could not.
Boss Pei had sent her to take charge of Shang Yang Games because he had high hopes for her!
If she consulted Boss Pei for everything, wouldn't she become a mouthpiece? That would be letting down Boss Pei's good intentions.
Lin Wan fell into deep thought.
"If it were Boss Pei, what would he do?"
"Phew, calm down. Boss Pei often makes unexpected decisions, but if you think about it carefully, it makes sense. "
"Will Boss Pei slash the budget? Absolutely not. "
"Does Boss Pei care if the players accept the mini-client or not? I don't think so. "
"Boss Pei would probably make a choice for the players. He wouldn't care if the players accepted it at the beginning.
"Therefore … it is very clear what Boss Pei is going to do.
Lin Wan considered it for a moment before decisively saying, "I'll be a mini-client. The design will remain the same, but the art resources will be upgraded from 2D to 3D. "
Lin Wan looked very confident.
Her confidence did not come from herself. Instead, it came from her accurate prediction of Boss Pei's intentions.
This was the self-cultivation of a Tengda employee!
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After the meeting.
Ye Zhizhou returned to his workstation and began to edit the budget and requirement list.
Although it was a good thing that the budget had doubled, it was still a headache for Ye Zhizhou to modify the various requirements.
Fortunately, this was also a kind of happy worry.
As he was busy, his cell phone screen lit up. He took a look and saw that it was a message from Boss Pei.
"How's the progress?"
Ye Zhizhou perked up. That's great! Boss Pei took the initiative to ask!
Ye Zhizhou was still a little worried about Lin Wan's decision.
Doubling the budget and changing the web game to a mini-client were two too risky decisions. Without Boss Pei's approval, Ye Zhizhou still felt guilty.
However, he could not report this to Boss Pei. That would make him look like a snitch.
Now that Boss Pei took the initiative to ask, of course, that was for the best.
Ye Zhizhou quickly explained the results of the meeting. It was mainly about the budget and the mini-client.
He thought that if Boss Pei had any questions about this, he would answer them himself.
Two minutes later, Boss Pei replied.
"Very good. Let's do it this way.
"Just listen to Director Lin if you have any undecided questions in the future."
Boss Pei did not have any problems. He completely agreed with Director Lin's decision!
Ye Zhizhou could not help but feel emotional. Indeed, a design director who had parachuted in from Tengda would not live up to her reputation.
In fact, Ye Zhizhou was still a little suspicious of Lin Wan during the meeting.
After all, Lin Wan had not raised any questions about the details of the design draft. She had directly decided on such a huge change. Ye Zhizhou had felt that it was rather sloppy.
However, with Boss Pei's affirmation, all his doubts disappeared.
How could Boss Pei be wrong about something that he had decided on?
What's more, it was indeed as Director Lin had said. Boss Pei had approved the budget of five million yuan without hesitation. He had not even questioned the risky decision of making a mini-client.
It looked like Director Lin's understanding of Boss Pei was indeed several levels higher than ours!
This way, the busy Boss Pei should be able to rest assured about Shang Yang Games, right?
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Pei Qian put down his phone in a good mood.
Lin Wan's performance was better than he had expected!
Pei Qian was mainly worried that Lin Wan would be tied down at Shang Yang Games. She would not dare to do anything. She would then be a commander without an army.
If that was the case, Lin Wan would not feel a strong sense of frustration. She might push the blame to others and not willingly return to inherit the family fortune.
However, from the looks of it, Lin Wan had done a good job changing her role!
It was exactly what Pei Qian had thought.
Not only did he spend more money, but he also changed the originally stable web-based game into a mini-client.
In fact, Pei Qian knew about mini-clients. However, he also knew that this model had never become the mainstream model for web-based games.
Not now, not in the future.
There were some web-based games that had mini-clients, but they were just icing on the cake. Moreover, most of the mini-clients were limited to 50 megabytes.
Take Shang Yang Games for example. On one hand, it would increase the hardware requirements of the game. On the other hand, it would increase the size of the downloaded client. It would be at least two to three hundred megabytes.
Many people who used office computers or old computers to play web-based games would be immediately dissuaded!
To put it bluntly, there was no way for the game to please client-side gamers or web-based gamers. It was a dead-end, and they had to spend more money on it. It was perfect!
For a web-based game like this, Pei Qian could spend five million yuan to produce it. Then, depending on the situation, he could spend two or three million yuan to promote it. His research and development progress would probably be faster than Repent and be Saved.
At that time, he could go online more than a month in advance and ensure that he would incur losses in advance. How wonderful!
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