Pei Qian could tell from He An's expression that he was really angry.
That was normal. Anyone who was cheated would be angry.
Ruan Guangjian's' Boss Pei 'had explained everything. He An must have understood by now that Pei Qian had called himself' Ma Yang 'to trick him into giving lessons.
As for how He An understood this …
That was hard to say.
Pei Qian thought about it. The more he said, the more wrong he would be. It was better to say less and wait for Teacher He to ask questions.
At that thought, Pei Qian quickly broke the silence. "Teacher He, would you like to come in for a cup of coffee?"
He An's gloomy expression eased a little, but he remained noncommittal.
The two walked into Fish-Catching Internet Cafe one after another. They found a random seat and sat down. The waiter immediately came over to ask questions and then brought two cups of coffee.
He An drank his coffee. Boss Pei's' Teacher He 'calmed him down a lot.
Logically speaking, he should be angry now, but his emotions were a little complicated.
If it was someone else, He An might have brushed his sleeves and left. However, this was Boss Pei … he had to think about it again.
There seemed to be a lot of doubts in this. It was not good to flare up before he figured it out.
The 'Boss Ma' who was listening to the lesson and the actor in Boss Pei's Daily Life were actually the real Boss Pei. The question was, why did Boss Pei put on the identity of Boss Ma and ask me to give lessons to him?
Was he worried that I would not teach him if he said that he was Boss Pei?
Hmm … that was possible. If I had known that I would be teaching Boss Pei, I would definitely not have accepted it. At most, I would have met him and discussed it briefly. I would not have charged him any tuition fees or prepared those lessons seriously.
Therefore, Boss Pei wanted to learn these lessons from scratch?
That did not seem possible.
Even if Boss Pei had not studied these lessons systematically, he would have learned them without a teacher with his genius mind. Why would he need to learn them again?
Creating a successful game was luck, but creating so many successful games shouldn't be luck no matter how he thought about it, right?
Or could it be that Boss Pei wanted to subvert the concept of game design? Is that why the game 'Struggle' was created to go against my theory?
Or perhaps, as a genius in game design, Boss Pei was too far away from the ideas of ordinary people. If he wanted to complete a textbook-like work like Struggle, he had to accept the design concepts of some traditional designers?
Only with these traditional concepts can we make breakthroughs and innovations on this basis?
The two of them drank their coffee in silence, each with their own plans in mind.
Pei Qian thought for a long time but could not think of a suitable reason.
Why did he want to learn this? Because this was the system's requirement.
This reason couldn't be used!
Was he supposed to tell He An that he didn't know anything about game design? You just want to learn these basic knowledge? You've succeeded too many times, so you're learning from your failures?
He An would probably splash the coffee in his face before he could finish.
From He An's point of view, he would definitely explode in anger if he heard such words.
This was too difficult.
Pei Qian did not want the awkward silence to continue. He probed, "Teacher He, I actually have a special reason for doing this. It's just that I can't say it clearly."
He An was silent for a moment before he said, "Boss Pei, I'm just … do you think that learning this knowledge as an ordinary person would allow you to better see the problems that you neglected before?
"Just like some talented painters and musicians who don't know how to go further after achieving great success. Instead, they look for ordinary artists to find inspiration from them?"
Pei Qian: "?"
He An took a sip of coffee and continued. "Although I'm very angry that you hid your identity, I wouldn't have taught you so seriously if you had told me your identity in the beginning.
"Moreover, you called me 'Teacher He'. You listened carefully when I was talking about Tengda Games. Obviously, you wanted to re-examine your game from another perspective.
"I talked about 'The Landlord Game' in class and talked about the expectations for domestically-produced standalone games. You also responded very well with 'Struggle'. To be honest, I'm very pleased with this.
"Therefore, I'm not a narrow-minded person. Let bygones be bygones!"
Pei Qian never thought that He An would figure it out on his own before he said anything.
This …
The imagination that only happened to his employees was now happening to the people around him on a large scale?
Pei Qian was silent for a moment. "Er … Teacher He, what you said makes sense, but it's not all because of this."
He An was stunned. "Oh?"
Pei Qian deliberated over his words. "Actually, the game 'Struggle' deliberately added some elements of failure. I mainly wanted to experiment and see what kind of impact these failure elements would have on a game …
"It's just that by a freak combination of factors, these failure elements also succeeded …"
Pei Qian did not want to take all the credit for Struggle's success. To be honest, he had always been very distressed by the praise from the outside world.
That was because most of the content was not his original intention at all!
Boss Pei's image would float higher and higher if he continued to be praised like this. Then, he would fall miserably in the future.
Pei Qian did not care about it, but he was afraid that the people who praised him would not be able to accept such a gap.
Therefore, he had to keep a low profile. He had to give everyone a heads-up so that they would not have too high expectations of him.
Pei Qian was just short of writing 'I'm just an ordinary person' on his face.
It was the same for He An. Pei Qian wanted to work hard to dispel He An's misconception that everything about Struggle was planned by Boss Pei.
Of course, he could not say that he wanted to lose money, but he could say that he was doing an experiment to see the real impact of various failure elements on the failure of the game. That would be much easier to accept and would not arouse too much suspicion.
He An was stunned. "Deliberately added some failure elements into the game? To see how these failure elements would affect the game?
"Boss Pei, have you reached the realm of 'doing as you please'? You can succeed by adding some failure elements at will?
"Are you … challenging yourself?
"Boss Pei, you might be qualified to say this, but I still have to say that young people should not be too arrogant! Pride makes people fall behind. Why do you make it sound like you're already 'alone in seeking defeat'?
"It's not easy to make a successful game, but isn't it easy to make a failed game?
"You have to think carefully. It's not that easy to succeed after failing."
Pei Qian found that the more he explained, the more distorted He An's understanding became.
However, He An's words made Pei Qian's eyes light up.
It was easy to make a failed game?
"How about this, Teacher He, you say a game that is bound to fail. Let me challenge myself, how about that?"
Let's not talk about deliberately making a failed game to lose money. It should be fine to say that he wanted to challenge himself, right?
Anyway, some truths could not be said, and some truths could not be said. He An would not believe it even if he said it.
This was the only explanation that He An would accept.
Let He An think of a path that was bound to fail, that would definitely be in the bag!
The corners of He An's mouth twitched slightly. "Oh? You're provoking me?
"I'm just thinking of a failed game, and you dare to do it according to what I say?"
Pei Qian nodded fiercely. "Of course!"
He An laughed. "That's easy! You don't have to invest much to make an RTS game. Just invest 200 million yuan. Now that the engine is ready-made, a large part of the development time and cost has been saved. Doing this will definitely incur losses! "
Pei Qian nodded. Sure enough, Teacher He also thought that making RTS games could incur losses! This was the same content he talked about in class.
However, it did not seem safe to just set the game genre.
"What about other aspects?" Pei Qian asked.
He An was shocked. "So confident?! How about this, you invest another 300 million yuan to make a CG, and you will definitely lose everything! "
"As for the theme, I don't need to restrict it anymore. Anyway, you can invest 500 million yuan in this game and CG. If you can't lose money …"
"You're awesome."
He An panted for a long time, but he still did not dare to set any flags that were too suicidal.
Pei Qian thought about it. 500 million yuan of investment?
Well, it would be a little troublesome to squeeze out this money, but for the sake of losing money, it would be troublesome.
What's more, this 500 million yuan would not be taken out in one go, but in installments. Such a game would definitely be developed across two settlement cycles. It might take a year to develop. It would not be a big problem to squeeze out 500 million yuan in such a long time.
Pei Qian nodded at this thought. "Alright, Teacher He, Tengda Games will make this for the next game!"
He An was drinking coffee and almost spat it out.
"You really want to make an RTS game?"
He An originally thought that Boss Pei was just saying it casually, but looking at Boss Pei's expression now, it seemed that he really wanted to challenge himself?
"Boss Pei, that's 500 million yuan! Are you sure you don't want to think about it anymore? "
Pei Qian smiled slightly. "There's no need to think about it!"
Looking at He An's expression, it was definitely a loss!
Since it was definitely a loss, what else was there to think about?
He An was a little dumbfounded for a moment and did not know what to say.
Looking at Boss Pei's expression, 500 million yuan did not matter!
Could it be that Boss Pei already had a plan when he heard about RTS games? What did he do that I didn't know about?
He An was convinced. What was this called? This was called being bold with great skills!
At first, he felt that young people should not be too arrogant and too arrogant.
However, Boss Pei's heroic look made him seem to have found the passion of youth.
How could he be called a young man if he was not arrogant?
He An could not help but admire him and raised his thumb. "Alright, Boss Pei, if you really do this, I'll write off the previous lying to me. Not only that, but I'll also wave the flag for you on Weibo! "
Pei Qian quickly said, "There's no need to wave the flag! If this game really loses everything, then please give me more pointers in the future, Teacher He. "
He An: "?"
Boss Pei was really a maverick game designer. Even the things he said were so specious that it was hard to fathom him.
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