February 8th, Monday …
As the end of the year approached, Pei Qian could feel the atmosphere of a 'holiday' everywhere.
Pei Qian did not have many memories of the 2010 New Year. He had even forgotten what programs were on this year's Spring Festival Gala.
Since this world was different from his previous life, the Spring Festival Gala should be different as well.
Of course, no matter how different it was, it should not be any better.
In school, after the examination week ended, the students had all gone home. Moreover, it was already winter, and the leaves on the trees were falling. Walking in the school grounds made one feel lonely.
Pei Qian came to the office and sat down.
He took the tea from Assistant Xin and sighed at another boring day.
He summoned the system panel.
"Huff …"
Pei Qian blew at the steam of the tea, his heart calm.
As expected!
In just a week, the original one million in System Funds had become 1.78 million.
After Ocean Stronghold updated its server and bandwidth, the number of players increased once again. The game had been on the official platform for a long time, and its income was still increasing.
Money was spent quickly, but it was earned quickly as well!
Even though he had been spending on rent, salaries, and other expenses, the company's funds were still increasing.
Luckily, Pei Qian had been very precise during the previous settlement. Otherwise, it would not have been easy to achieve a loss.
This time, Pei Qian had considered three directions at the same time, and all of them required a lot of money.
Huang Sibo had promised a million.
Ma Yang wanted to open a shop. According to Pei Qian's extravagant plan, the initial investment would be around two million.
For the development of Game Designer, Pei Qian was planning to invest at least two million yuan in the early stages. There was no limit to how much he could invest.
If he could not finish spending the money, he would add more!
His current daily expenses, including the company's rent and employees' salaries, amounted to around a million a month.
This was not a small sum, and the current System Funds were not enough.
However, the problem was that the cycle this time was three months.
Based on the speed at which Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold were earning money, they could earn more than three to four million a month!
It would still be difficult for Pei Qian to keep the System Funds below a million during the next settlement and achieve a loss again.
Pei Qian's head hurt as he calculated.
He had also thought about whether it would be better if he used the surplus from the System Funds to convert it.
But with a little calculation, one would know that it was not reliable.
The two games were indeed very profitable. It would not be a problem for them to earn close to ten million yuan in three months.
If he converted it according to the ratio of 100: 1, he would be able to convert close to 100,000 yuan of income, which seemed pretty good.
But the problem was, what about expenses? Was he supposed to make Pei Qian a miser?
Even if Pei Qian did not do anything, he would still have close to a million yuan of operating expenses every month. Three months later, he would at most have a profit of five to six million yuan. If he converted it, it would be fifty to sixty thousand yuan.
With such a small amount of money, wouldn't he be able to get it out by making a slight loss?
What's more, would Pei Qian bear to use the System Funds and public funds as his goal? Their living standards and working conditions would definitely plummet!
With a little calculation, Pei Qian knew that it was not the same level of difficulty to convert profits into losses. Pei Qian was no fool!
Therefore, losing money was the right way to go!
This time, Pei Qian wanted to set a small target for himself. Losing 700,000 out of a million in the System Funds shouldn't be too difficult, right?
Triple insurance!
Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Lu Mingliang pushed the door open and entered, holding a printed design manuscript in his hands.
"Boss Pei, the concept manuscript for Game Designer is done. Please take a look."
Pei Qian was stunned. "So fast? Did you work overtime past 9? "
Lu Mingliang hurriedly waved his hand. "No, no. I just feel that my ideas are surging, and my efficiency is very high. I definitely did not exceed the overtime that you set!"
Pei Qian could be said to be very strict with his employees working overtime.
After receiving the paper version of the concept manuscript, Pei Qian looked at it seriously and asked Lu Mingliang from time to time, "What did you think about this place?"
In any case, if there was anything he did not understand, he could always ask.
Lu Mingliang, on the other hand, nervously answered Pei Qian's questions. He told Pei Qian his thoughts from beginning to end without compromising anything.
Did Boss Pei not understand?
How could Boss Pei not understand?!
Lu Mingliang knew very well that this was Boss Pei's test!
He could not help but think back to when Huang Sibo was around.
He still remembered the first version of Ocean Stronghold's design manuscript. Huang Sibo had sent it to Boss Pei directly, and Boss Pei had quickly looked through it and decided on it.
Yet now, Boss Pei was asking about everything in detail, paragraph by paragraph.
What did this mean?
It meant that Brother Huang's draft was perfect, and Boss Pei was very assured!
My draft was far from perfect. Boss Pei was worried that I would not be able to control myself, and so he helped me look through the draft in detail and kept asking questions!
At that thought, Lu Mingliang suddenly felt a little guilty.
It's all my fault for being so useless. I even had to ask Boss Pei to teach me step by step!
Sigh, looks like I have to work harder in the future!
…
After reading the draft from beginning to end and raising many questions, Pei Qian felt slightly more at ease.
On one hand, looking at the format of the design manuscript really gave him a headache. He had to ask Lu Mingliang to explain it to him before he could understand it.
On the other hand, he had to ensure that this design manuscript had to perfectly replicate his ideas and not deviate from the original!
Ocean Stronghold was a bloody lesson. It was precisely because he could not understand the design manuscript that he had missed out on many details. That caused the game to deviate from his original ideas.
This time, it would not happen!
According to his previous ideas, the detailed settings for Game Designer were all out.
The game would take place inside the games company.
There would be work computers, promotional posters, figurines, greenery, and other decorations. There would also be many game industry workers as the background of the game.
Players would have a first-person perspective. They would start from the starting point of the game project and walk to the end of the game.
Each key point was a room.
For example, players would have to choose what type of game to create.
In this room, there would be many doors. Each door would be labeled with a game genre and a poster of that game genre.
Players would enter from whichever door they wanted to choose. This meant that the player had chosen the corresponding game genre.
They would pass through the corridor and come to the next room.
There were still many doors in the room, and each door represented a different detail in the game.
For example, mobile card games:
They could be categorized into 'heavy paywalls', 'light paywalls', and other different charging models.
They could choose 'sponsored partnerships', 'local promotions', 'purchase of advertisements on websites', and other different advertising methods.
They could have 'two-dimensional', 'three kingdoms', 'mythology', 'original IP', and other different themes.
They could be categorized into '2D cards', 'horizontal characters', 'full 3D', and other different art styles.
They could have 'turn-based', 'real-time battle', and other different battle modes.
All in all, each room represented a player's choice!
The layout of the room would revolve around these choices.
For example, when players chose 'two-dimensional', 'three kingdoms', 'mythology', 'original IP', and other different themes, the corresponding rooms would display these themes in a more vivid way.
'Two-dimensional' was a bunch of moe characters.
'Three kingdoms' was a traditional Three Kingdoms character.
'Original IP' was some original images.
These would be displayed in front of the player. Whichever they wanted to choose, they would just have to walk through the corresponding door.
After a series of choices, the player would come to the final room.
Here, they would see the scene after the game was released.
Perhaps they would see countless passionate camera flashes from reporters, passionate players, and fans.
Perhaps they would see a deserted and closed office.
Perhaps they would see huge advertisements in the downtown area and a theme park built according to the game.
Perhaps they would see a game disc in a remote video store that no one cared about …
All in all, this was the entire content of the game.
Players would choose different paths to create their own game, and finally see the results.
There was no action or interaction in the entire process, just walking and watching!
Wasn't it boring?
And the crazier part was yet to come.
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