novelraw Chapter 333 : The Establishment of the Game Studio
Chapter 333 : The Establishment of the Game Studio
Chapter 333: The Establishment of the Game Studio
In the spacious office, Liang Shichu, sitting in front, was giving a speech at the meeting.
There were not many people in the small conference room, only about twenty or so, but at the moment, everyone was sitting upright and alert, not daring to whisper to each other.
The reason, of course, was the young man sitting to Liang Shichu's right.
Although this young man had rarely come to the company before, every employee had heard of him.
His name was Chen Fan.
He was the behind-the-scenes boss of this company.
Including the game studio they had just established, it was also launched under the orders of this boss.
Especially among this group of employees, some of them looked at Chen Fan with even more complicated and strange gazes.
Because they had all come from Han Zijun's company.
Last year, several of them had met Chen Fan in person.
At that time, Han Zijun wanted to invite Chen Fan to invest, but Chen Fan refused and frankly said that he didn't think highly of their project.
As a result, in less than a year, who would have thought that Han Zijun's project had really failed.
And this young man had casually established Feifan Technology.
The launched product Feifan Antivirus even killed all the antivirus software on the market.
It was no exaggeration to say that it made a fortune every day.
Especially Liang Shichu, who was giving the speech opposite them, had previously been a programmer at Han Zijun's company, just like them.
As a result, he suddenly became their boss.
Ah, such is opportunity.
Many people sighed in their hearts.
While the employees were observing Chen Fan, Liang Shichu was also observing Chen Fan while giving the speech.
He noticed that Chen Fan seemed very different from usual today.
Usually, Chen Fan was very casual, but he rarely lost focus.
But today, Chen Fan was clearly distracted during the meeting, often looking at his phone and occasionally sending a few messages.
Most importantly, this guy's mouth had not closed since the beginning.
What had happened that made the boss in such a good mood?
Although curious, Liang Shichu did not dare to ask.
After obediently introducing the situation of the studio, he stopped speaking and shifted his gaze to Chen Fan.
"That's the current situation of the studio."
Chen Fan finally put away his phone and nodded.
"Good work."
Then his gaze fell on the more than twenty employees in front of him.
"First, welcome everyone to join this game studio. Of course, you can rest assured that this game studio is also under the umbrella of Feifan Technology, and all the benefits and treatment are the same."
"In fact, in the future, your salaries and benefits might even surpass those of other employees..."
"Working at this company doesn't have so many rules and regulations. My only requirement is that as long as you create enough value for the company, the company will build a big enough stage for you and give you satisfactory salaries and benefits."
Chen Fan smiled and painted a big picture for everyone, but the employees below did not respond with laughter.
"What were the results of the discussions you had in these past few days?"
Liang Shichu spoke, "It's like this. We had two meetings where we discussed the more popular games on the market. In the end, everyone unanimously felt that if we develop online games, there might still be an opportunity. But if we develop single-player games..."
Liang Shichu smiled bitterly, "No one is optimistic about the current domestic single-player market."
Chen Fan shifted his gaze to the others, "Is everyone thinking the same?"
"You can each express your own views and thoughts."
There was silence for two seconds, until finally someone mustered the courage to speak up.
"I feel that the current domestic market does not have a suitable environment for single-player survival games. To put it bluntly, production, distribution, promotion, and the biggest difficulty of piracy issues, will all be roadblocks for single-player games."
"Currently, many single-player game companies are basically operating at a loss."
"If we really develop single-player games, it's very likely that the end result will be losing our hard work without gaining sufficient returns."
Once this employee started speaking, other employees also began to voice their opinions.
Who wouldn't want to leave a good impression on the boss? If you didn't speak up and the boss thought you were incompetent, that would be disastrous.
So seeing everyone vying to speak up, Chen Fan was still quite surprised.
Weren't programmers supposed to be a bunch of silent, reserved guys? How come everyone could talk so much.
After everyone had spoken, Chen Fan finally took over the topic.
"I did a count, and a total of thirteen people spoke. Ten of them advised against developing single-player games."
"It seems everyone really doesn't have faith in the single-player game market."
"Let me share my opinion."
Chen Fan put down the pen in his hand, "I want to ask you all a few questions first."
"The first one, have you all played single-player games before? Those who don't play single-player games, raise your hands."
No one raised their hands on site.
"Good. Second question, do you all think there are fun, high-quality single-player games in China? If you think there aren't any, raise your hands."
Again, no one raised their hands.
"Good. Since you all agree that there have been some good single-player games in China, but the manufacturers didn't make money, why is that?"
Chen Fan smiled, "The biggest reason, of course, is due to factors in China's gaming market environment, as well as rampant piracy, incomplete laws, promotion and marketing costs, etc."
"So I want to ask, if there was a game with decent quality, an attractive gameplay, and we could solve the promotion and piracy issues, do you think it could make money?"
After listening to Chen Fan's words, everyone looked at each other.
In fact, everyone's thinking was the same, that no matter how capable the boss was, it would be impossible to solve these issues.
Especially the piracy problem, if so many major game companies couldn't solve it, how could it be resolved?
In the end, it was Liang Shichu who tactfully expressed everyone's thoughts.
Chen Fan smiled.
"You can all treat it as if I was just speaking casually. Alright, for the studio's first game, I don't require you all to aim for making money. Let's start by developing the simplest single-player game first."
Liang Shichu asked if Chen Fan had any ideas for this first game.
Chen Fan grinned, "I do have some thoughts."
"I was born in a village as a child. Back then, having a black-and-white TV at home in the village was considered very impressive, but we could basically only receive one channel. So us kids spent most of our time running around wildly in the village."
"When I was little, the game my friends and I loved playing the most was 'shooting guns', or what we called 'beating Japanese devils'."
At this point, Chen Fan smiled, "Mainly because the impression left by the movies I watched as a child was too profound, trench warfare, flashing red stars, mine warfare... We watched with burning passion, wishing we could charge into the movie and personally beat up a few little Japanese devils..."
This string of words made all the employees present reveal smiles of recognition.
Everyone's age difference wasn't that big, so they had basically all experienced the things Chen Fan mentioned when they were little.
After everyone had laughed enough, Chen Fan spoke again.
"So for this first game, let's develop a simple 'beating Japanese devils' game. To fulfill a childhood dream of mine."
"Don't aim for how much money this game will make, just treat it as practice for everyone."
Upon hearing this, the group of employees breathed a sigh of relief while also feeling a bit resigned.
So it was for the sake of fulfilling a dream.
A single-player game about beating Japanese ghosts?
Wasn't this just fooling around?