novelraw Chapter 997 - 983: Wifey Helps Him Start a Business! (1)
Chapter 997 - 983: Wifey Helps Him Start a Business! (1)
Chapter 997: Chapter 983: Wifey Helps Him Start a Business! (1)
After getting 5,000 yuan from Yan Siyuan, Yan Siyuan talked to Huo Feng about collaboration once again.
Huo Feng had already organized the details of the online game planning, putting a lot of thought into making money.
You have to know that downloading the game doesn’t cost any money for those who play online games.
What makes players willingly pay must be some in-game items.
Therefore, Huo Feng also put a lot of thought into perfecting the game.
Nowadays, the overall world framework is already out, and the rough system pages have also taken shape.
If you want to further refine the game, you have to start coding.
This is a very large program, and Yan Siyuan let Huo Feng handle the initial production, and he would perfect it later.
Besides, the drawing of every NPC (Character) in the game also requires hiring an artist...
There wasn’t anyone skilled in drawing on Yan Siyuan’s side, and he didn’t know many classmates studying computer animation, so the topic of their discussion afterwards was...
Hire someone specifically to draw? Or, go buy drawings from Taobao?
If it were a legitimate production team, they’d definitely have specialized artists, and wouldn’t stoop to buying art from Taobao.
However, hiring an artist isn’t cheap either...
In a way, it’s like directly hiring employees, right?
Yan Siyuan and Huo Feng faced a problem as soon as they started their entrepreneurship...
They were struggling with whether to establish a studio first, hire people, and then create the software?
In terms of business models, they also had two choices.
One was to directly find a distributor to buy the rights to their game.
In this way, the game rights would belong to the distributor, but the distributor would also invest money in them, allowing them to smoothly establish a studio, hire people, and run the studio normally.
Another option was for them to bear all the upfront costs.
They would bear the studio’s expenses, the hiring costs, and cover all the game production expenses, and then look for a distributor to invest at the end.
In this way, although the upfront investment is large, the game rights would be in their hands.
By then, they would have a lot of leeway in negotiating profit-sharing with the distributor.
Otherwise, if the game rights were with the distributor, they would be in a very passive position.
Huo Feng and Yan Siyuan discussed these issues for nearly two hours.
During these two hours, Pu Sangzhi didn’t see him study for a minute...
Earlier, he said that this semester he would study hard and reduce the time spent on other things.
As a result, he quit the Musical Club and Yan Siyuan’s business took up a lot of his time instead.
Pu Sangzhi inevitably worried that he might put the cart before the horse.
So, while Huo Feng was chatting with Yan Siyuan, Pu Sangzhi reminded him, "Aren’t you planning to do practice questions tonight?"
"There’s important stuff going on here, I’ll skip for now, and review tomorrow," Huo Feng replied while busy typing.
"Are you sure you’ll review tomorrow?" Pu Sangzhi asked him.
"Of course," Huo Feng answered without doubt.
"I think you might end up... writing some game code tomorrow," Pu Sangzhi said.
"Hey..."
Huo Feng looked up with interest, "How do you know I’ll be writing code tomorrow night?"
Pu Sangzhi closed her laptop in front of her and sighed, "Classmate Huo, I have a very serious question to ask you."
Huo Feng heard her call him that, knowing she was indeed serious, "Go ahead. Ask!"
Pu Sangzhi asked, "Didn’t you say this semester you’d start studying hard? Are you sure you can still study well while putting so much effort into making games?"
Huo Feng answered without hesitation, "I can study well! At worst, I’ll just... not participate in other activities. The Street Dance Club has one class a week, and the Wilderness Association organizes an event once every two weeks, so there’s plenty of time."
Pu Sangzhi asked, "Not joining the student council either?"
Huo Feng shook his head wildly, "That’s too much trouble, and it requires frequent community service, but my future is to be a CEO! I don’t have the time for that."
Pu Sangzhi sighed, "Then pretend I didn’t say anything."
"Hey..."
Huo Feng suddenly called out to her.
Pu Sangzhi curiously looked up at him...
Suddenly, Huo Feng leaned forward, his thin lips landed on her forehead, leaving a light kiss!
Pu Sangzhi was stunned, her eyes widened in surprise, almost unable to react...
Huo Feng’s lips lingered on her forehead for quite some time before they slowly left.
He still wore a teasing smile as he raised an eyebrow at her, "Don’t worry, I can handle everything! As a man, I must strive for our future!"
Pu Sangzhi pursed her lips, unsure of what to say to him, her silent demeanor seemed to accept him.
"Babe, do you know any classmates studying computer animation?" Huo Feng asked.
Pu Sangzhi shook her head, "No. Why do you need them?"
Huo Feng said, "We’re short of an artist... No one to draw or model our characters. We don’t know such classmates either, so we’re discussing whether to hire someone or first get a distributor to invest. It’s been two hours of discussion..."
Pu Sangzhi asked, "What kind of drawings?"
Huo Feng replied, "Game characters, like cartoons... Now we’re just short of an artist, writing code isn’t the problem."
"Oh..."
Hearing this, Pu Sangzhi nodded and tried to help Huo Feng think of a solution.
After a while, she patted Huo Feng’s shoulder, volunteering herself, "I can draw and model. Although I used to do architectural modeling, the software is interchangeable, and doing characters shouldn’t be a big issue. If there’s something I don’t know, I can learn now."
"Huh?!"
Huo Feng was shocked by her words, one eyebrow raised high, he closely watched her in surprise and delight...
Pu Sangzhi also looked at him with her big, watery eyes, her gaze meeting his...
After a while, Huo Feng raised both eyebrows, "Babe?"
Pu Sangzhi agreed, "Yes."
Huo Feng excitedly asked, "Helping for free?"
Pu Sangzhi couldn’t help but frown, "For free?"
Huo Feng immediately grabbed her small hand, "Entrepreneurship is difficult, babe... We know each other well..."
Pu Sangzhi asked, "Do we know each other well?"
Huo Feng: "We do! Haven’t we met each other’s parents?"
Pu Sangzhi finally couldn’t help but laugh, "Alright... Free is free, helping you a little is still helping."
At this moment, Huo Feng was immensely grateful, "Wow, babe~"
Pu Sangzhi was also quite pleased, "Are you touched?"
Huo Feng nodded forcefully, "Very touched!"
So touched that he wanted to give up his last few hundreds of private savings...
But he couldn’t!
Rationality told him to hold back!
"Ah, a kiss, babe..."
Huo Feng immediately pouted and leaned in, capturing her lips with precision for a peck!
Seeing him so happy, Pu Sangzhi also felt quite content.
She knew he was under pressure and that it wasn’t easy for him...
So, if she could help, she was definitely willing to.
Money truly didn’t matter...
Pu Sangzhi didn’t care because she knew she and Huo Feng were one, Huo Feng’s money was her money.
Of course, that was her thinking before she knew about Huo Feng’s secret stash...
...
A little past nine, they ended their evening self-study session.
Pu Sangzhi sat on the back seat of Huo Feng’s bicycle, and he rode to take her home.
On the way back, Huo Feng was in a great mood, shouting into the wind, "Babe, I’m getting more and more confident about this game! Do you believe that I’ll make a lot of money?"
Behind him, Pu Sangzhi wrapped an arm around his waist, silently pouting, "Let’s see the results first! Stop bragging!"
Huo Feng’s tendency to brag hadn’t changed.
He was like that in high school...
Would always claim he’d succeed before an exam even started.
Now too...
He hadn’t started making the software yet, but he was saying he’d make a fortune.
Pu Sangzhi used to think he was all talk, not actually doing anything.
But she had been proven wrong before.
"Babe~"
Huo Feng shouted into the wind, "I definitely want to buy you a villa from Moody’s! With a swimming pool! To marry you home grandly!"
Pu Sangzhi had to remind him, "Talk when you actually make money first!"
Huo Feng shouted again, "I will definitely make—a lot—of—money—!"
On this deserted campus path, Huo Feng shouted indulgently and happily, feeling extremely excited!
However...
He didn’t notice that on a small fork in the road next to them, someone heard his voice and recognized it.
It was Wu Di from the Musical Club...
He was just finishing an evening run, walking slowly along the campus path, hearing Huo Feng’s shouting from afar...
Later, Wu Di even saw Huo Feng ride past him on a bike, moving so fast that he had no time to greet him!
"Why is he riding so fast..."
Wu Di mumbled, staring at Huo Feng’s back as he biked away.
After that, Wu Di posted a moment on his feed, expressing his thoughts about Huo Feng—