I'm a Hard Rice King Chapter 415: Little Things of Happiness
Tang Feng: "Do you have time?"
Lu Shuang: "Let's have dinner together tomorrow?"
Gao Yuanling: "What are you busy with recently?"
Li Peifeng had a wide network of contacts at Beihua Normal University, and many people knew that he graduated early. Therefore, not only his classmates but also many old friends wanted to have dinner with him. However, their invitations were all rejected by Mr. Li because he was busy with work.
Reason for rejection.
On the one hand, he is unintentionally flirting with women, but on the other hand, he is indeed very busy.
Leaving aside my love life, I still have to write books, manage copyrights, shoot admissions promotional videos, and do chores related to graduation... I have no worries about anything else.
Even Wu Ankang and Gao Xiuhua, the couple who came to the capital for tourism, only saw Li Peifeng and his daughter a few times when they came and left. How could Li Peifeng care about these old friends?
Besides, graduation is approaching and it’s time for everyone to return to the sea of people!
"The sky can be mended, the sea can be filled, and the southern mountains can be moved. The sun and the moon have passed and cannot be traced back."
This is Li Peifeng’s latest post on WeChat Moments. The picture is a photo of the sunset on campus that day. It is intended to tell those old friends to look to the future and live well. I won’t go into details, but I hope they can understand it.
And he himself is also working harder towards the future.
…
Xizhou Technology Co., Ltd., the predecessor of Menglong, changed its name to Xizhou after it was acquired by Li Peifeng.
Even though He Yi Meng did not say anything, Li Peifeng guessed that the origin of the name was taken from the poem "The south wind knows my wishes and blows my dreams to Xizhou".
Needless to say the deeper meaning, he knew exactly what she meant.
The two of them don't communicate by phone or WeChat now when something happens, so why would they dream of looking for him? Just take a picture of his face, and Li Peifeng will understand and communicate with each other through heart-to-heart communication.
The company has expanded to 130 people, including a screenwriter, an art director, a chief programmer, and a producer who was hired with a high salary... Now that we have a strong team, I think "Sword and Law" can be started as a project. Come over and have a meeting.
Talk about your ideas.]
almost there.】
After a brief exchange of ideas and quantum entanglement, Li Peifeng drove to Xizhou Technology.
After the company changed its name, although the office address remained the same, it rented an additional 200 square meters for expansion, increased workstations, and employees were busy shuttling back and forth. It looked like a new and prosperous atmosphere, and the old appearance of Menglong was no longer visible.
"Wow, is Yiliangfeng so handsome?"
"I've told you before, he's the kind of handsome guy who shocks you at first sight."
"By the way, our boss lady is also pretty."
"Haha, don't say the word boss lady randomly."
"Why, aren't they two lovers?"
"It's not a simple couple, it may be a darker relationship, do you understand?"
"Ah...the boo is here."
Li Peifeng walked past the work station with a normal expression, saying that there are many smart people nowadays, but they don't know how to pretend to be ignorant, and they are blind in private. The emotional relationship between the two bosses is very difficult...
He kept walking and walked into He Yimeng's office. He was sitting in the boss' chair working. When the door suddenly opened, Fang raised his eyelids.
"It came pretty quickly."
Li Peifeng hummed and said casually: "I just heard employees gossiping during working hours. It seems that the atmosphere in our company is very relaxed."
High emotional intelligence: The atmosphere in our company is very relaxed.
Low emotional intelligence: Are employees too damn idle?
He Yimeng has been in the company longer than Li Peifeng and has spent more time with these employees. Naturally, he understands the gossips of the people below him better than him. But at this time, he just smiled indifferently: "They will definitely be busy when the project starts after today.
No time for gossip."
After saying that, He Yimeng picked up the landline phone on the table and called the newly hired game producer to the office.
Li Peifeng and He Yimeng, two good students, let alone making games, don't have much time to play games, and there is no use in making up lessons later. The two of them can only be bosses, and they have to find someone knowledgeable to actually make games.
Do. Check the planning, research and development, marketing and other aspects of the game, and coordinate and manage the following teams.
This kind of talent is hard to find. Fortunately, "Sword and Sorcery" is big enough and has unlimited potential. With generous remuneration, it is sufficiently attractive to senior talents in the game industry. Even if it cannot attract senior talents from major game companies,
It doesn’t matter, but it’s enough to yearn for the talents in small factories.
After He Yimeng released the news, some game producers with very good resumes came to her door. She selected the best among them and selected the most suitable one to be the producer of "Sword and Law";
Wang Lianzong, 37 years old, has worked as a game designer in many large game companies such as Konami and Giant Network. The peak of his career was when he left with his colleague and friend Yang Le and joined the tpwrk studio founded by the latter.
The year before last, a buyout mobile game called "Pascal's Contract" was produced.
This is an extremely hardcore soul-based action-adventure game, known as the Dark Souls on mobile.
Once launched, it became the focus of the industry due to the soul tag and buyout charging standards, and the quality of the game was also well received by the industry and welcomed by the market. One year after its launch, "Pascal's Contract" reached 150
Sales volume of 10,000 copies.
What does it mean for a game to sell a million copies?
"Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice" produced by "Father of Dark Souls" Hidetaka Miyazaki initially sold about 2 million units. The well-known Souls game "Nioh 2" produced by the famous Ninja Dragon Team only reached one sales volume two months after its launch.
Millions of sets.
Although Soul-based games are good enough to break out of the industry and become popular every minute, from a market perspective, this is not a category that is strong enough to attract money. After all, there are only a few players who dare to spend money to challenge, not to mention the buyout system for mobile games.
This is an even rarer species.
Under such a market background, without the escort of a major company or the blessing of P, a mobile game produced by a domestic team and based on the theme of LKE has actually achieved million-level sales.
Two words, awesome.
But this honor is bestowed on Yang Le, the game producer and studio owner. Naturally, the benefits brought by the success of "Pascal's Contract" have little to do with Wang Lianzong, his deputy.
The increased salary and dividends could not satisfy Wang Lianzong's appetite. He also wanted to develop a game by himself. He wanted more.
He happened to hear that "Sword and Sorcery" was adapted into a mobile game and urgently needed a chief producer. Wang Lianzong felt that this was a rare opportunity. He chatted with He Yimeng several times to confirm the salary and decisively changed his job.
"Teacher Li, nice to meet you."
"Teacher Wang, please sit down. Please sit down."
Li Peifeng attaches great importance to the development of the mobile game "Sword and Law" because it does have the potential to make a lot of money.
As the saying goes, a mirror and a wallet can answer the why and the why in life.
Li Peifeng believes that if he can earn tens of billions of dollars, even if the parents of the four girls find out about his crime one day, it will not be completely irreversible...
In order to gain more profits from the "Sword and Law" mobile game in the long term and not make it a one-time deal, he also paid great attention to the production of the game and reduced the coding time in the next two weeks, every day
They all check in at the company.
Either discuss the core gameplay and operating concepts of "Sword and Law" with Wang Lianzong, or brainstorm with the people in charge of programming, art, levels, etc. to determine the narrative angle and presentation style.
It is very difficult to make a role-playing open world adventure game. Fortunately, the structure of the alien world in the book is rigorous and clear, and the author himself is adding details, down to the economic system of each camp and the characters of each important role.
images, even flowers and plants from other worlds and different scenery.
This is the advantage of adapting a game from a mature novel. Thinking of a story from scratch requires a lot of time and energy, ranging from months to years.
The existing stories avoid this trouble. "Sword and Law" has also been tested by the market, greatly improving the success rate of the project, saving costs, and allowing the development team to reduce the difficulty, so they think more about how to
While authentically restoring the world of "Sword and Law", it also creates extremely high playability.
What is playability? Beautiful graphics?
Of course, it must not only be beautiful, but also fit the temperament of "Sword and Law".
The character's figure is too slender and cute, and his face is too feminine. The fresh and fresh two-dimensional style is obviously not suitable. The game graphics should be more realistic in order to attract more audiences.
Elegant, ethereal, some maps can be a bit mysterious and weird, integrating the aesthetics of the East and the West, emphasizing the use of color, using large color blocks and splashing ink style, just like impressionist oil paintings...
"Or like my watercolors."
Li Peifeng narcissistically believes that if the final picture of the mobile game matches the watercolor painting he made, it will be more popular.
Regarding this point, everyone in the team quite agrees, so the art direction of "Sword and Law" was decided without any controversy.
But the playability is not only about the graphics, but also includes all aspects.
Such as levels, puzzles, tasks, social interaction, growth, and combat systems. Wang Lianzong is strong in combat design. He is accompanied by a group of programmers, who will give a perfect answer after applying for votes.
In addition to these, the most important point in playability is - the sense of immersion, or in other words, the plot.
According to the approach of gamification of domestic novels, the original work basically exists as a background setting. At most, a few task chains are designed that are related to the novel's big world view and main plot, but the main gameplay is no different from other online games.
This is called selling dog meat by selling sheep's head, and Li Peifeng is not willing to do it. But he really wants to copy the entire story line of "Sword and Law" into the game, and add Wang Chi, Qiu Qing, Lin Shang Huayue, Ji Tuo...
Ivy and other protagonists in the book are made into NPCs, allowing them to interact with the players, and letting the characters in the book take adventures with the players, which seems to ruin the readers' expectations for the characters in the book...
If you get too close, it won’t be fun!
This is actually a shortcoming of the mobile version of novels, because there are natural barriers between the narrative methods of novels and games, and these barriers can sometimes cause opposition between content and gameplay.
Therefore, if you want to convert a given novel into a game expression, you must make more efforts in plot reconstruction and gameplay design, or make a two-way compromise.
To put it simply, if the plot is not changed, people who have read the novel will feel nothing new when playing the game, which is equivalent to reading the novel again.
After changing the plot, the original author's party will greet the family of the game maker and scold them for ruining the original work.
Even Li Peifeng was a bit confused about how to balance the scales.
In the past week, Xizhou Technology has expanded its recruitment from 130 to 150 people, including many foreign employees. Li Peifeng has brought out the strengths of many experts and gathered the talents of the group... In fact, it is just a series of meetings to absorb them.
After careful consideration, I finally came up with a great idea.
"Then let's make a free and truly dynamic open world."
"cool!"
"Okay, I knew it!"
After Li Peifeng said this, several supervisors in the audience had smiles on their faces.
Open world games have three characteristics;
1. Free exploration. There are no clear level requirements. Players do not need to be at a certain level to reach a certain map. Even a new player who has just entered the game can "go wherever he wants to go."
Second, non-linear tasks, even if they exist, will not force players to do the main storyline in the game before they can continue playing. There is no need to worry about players not knowing what to do after entering the game, because there are many side tasks in open world games, all of which are hidden.
In the huge map, players are waiting to explore and trigger.
3. Extremely high interactivity: Players can freely explore and interact with scenes in the game, and can interact with NPCs to gain favorability, etc. However, these interactions have limitations, and they can only obtain tasks or rare props under limited conditions.
This is an open world game, and if you add 'dynamic' in front, the degree of freedom will be further improved, and the player's sense of involvement will be stronger. Simply put, the growth or every move of each player's character will affect
Changes in the surrounding areas may even affect the direction of the game world.
Looking at PC games or mobile games, very few online games on the market can truly achieve this. Although the players are the protagonists, they are also the protagonists. They are not the ones who have the final say. The game planners and screenwriters are the ones who make the decision in the game.
The stories are all fixed, and no matter how hard the players try, the plot will not change at all.
And Xizhou plans to make some innovations with "Sword and Law" to let players become the real protagonists...
"Then let the player arrive at the third year when Wang Chi traveled through the past, which is Chapter 210 'The Fall of the Xianglu Empire'. If the players and the protagonist work together to repel the invasion, then
Rewrite the plot in the book, save the life of General Geng Wu, and avoid tragedy... and some regrettable events in the story will also change with the efforts of the players."
"Of course, if the necessary conditions are not met, the novel may have a happy ending, but it may also end in tragedy."
"Yes. But the conditions must be more stringent!"
"Also, boss, I think your future outline will include Wan Rong. Can you..."
"It can be saved, everything can be saved, but it depends on the player's ability."
Li Peifeng chatted with everyone about other plots in the novel that could be dynamically changed. After chatting for a long time, Wang Lianzong whispered: "If we do this, the cost and production time may increase."
He Yimeng had heard similar words from him many times in the past few days. At this time, he was quite uncertain: "How much cost will be added and how long will it be delayed?"
Wang Lianzong mused: "The current number of people is actually a bit short. According to my expectation, it should be 200 people. Now the game is positioned as a large-scale dynamic open world. The company lacks the technical accumulation for this type of game, so it needs to continue
To recruit more than 20 technically mature programmers from large manufacturers, it is best to have an architect."
"There are also changes to the original plot that require at least three more screenwriting teams, two art teams, a level planning team, a mission planning team... and twenty other related assisting members."
Faced with He Yimeng's sharp eyes, Wang Lianzong gave the answer after calculation: "We have to recruit another 200 people. If it is a team of 400 people, the research and development time will be about one year... but the development cost will be doubled, three
Around 100 million."
The development cost of the game is basically staff salary, and the budget of 300 million is also worthy of the grand plan of the "Sword and Law" project...
But it seems like Boss Li doesn’t have that much money anymore, right?
Yes, agree.]
He Yimeng looked at Li Peifeng silently, paused for a moment, and nodded slowly: "I understand, you go and do your work first."
"good."
The others hurriedly left the room, and after only two people were left, He Yi Mengdan said: "Each person has 100 million and you spend 500 million, and you spend more than 80 million to buy a villa. In the future, do you plan to use the royalties to pay for them?"
No? But don’t forget, you will get married soon after graduation, and money will be spent on the wedding.”
"It doesn't matter." Li Peifeng said with a smile: "The rich woman next to me will take action...right, Mr. He?"
He Yimeng sneered: "Ask me to give you money to help you organize a wedding? You can imagine it!
"
Li Peifeng didn't mean that. He knew that she also knew that he didn't mean that. He just said this to humiliate himself deliberately. It didn't matter, he would take action!
"Let go, I still have work."
Li Peifeng hugged He Yimeng and said, "It's up to you, then do it."
What understanding ability do you have?
He Yimeng was speechless, staggered to the window sill, and closed the blinds...
At five o'clock in the evening, Li Peifeng left the company, returned to the villa, and started preparing dinner.
Under the relaxed pace of work, the mobile game project of "Sword and Law" is progressing step by step in an orderly manner, and the relationship between the four girls in the family seems to be no longer so tense after living together for more than a month.
Even quarrels have become rare, with only occasional quarrels. Most of the time we get along, we can even call them harmonious, just like the way we get along in a dream.
But what Li Peifeng expected, the scene of four or even five people sleeping together in the same bed did not happen. Whenever he tactfully proposed this idea to someone, he would be ridiculed.
And a few days ago, when Zhao Qingge saw that Li Peifeng had actually bought a custom-made large bed and moved it into the master bedroom, he became furious and asked him to change the bed back immediately.
Even though Li Peifeng replaced the bed with the original one, Lao Zhao didn't talk to him for a day.
Under this situation, Li Peifeng did not dare to push too hard, he just felt that the heat was not yet there and he needed to wait for the opportunity.
This opportunity should not be too far away, it may be tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or it may be the coming summer of June...
"Next Wednesday is the graduate student defense. Three of the professors who will be reviewing are from the School of Liberal Arts of our school, and you all know them. There is also Professor Cao Wenbin from Yanda University, who you should have heard of. Play your part normally, don't be nervous, just go through the motions.
Enough."
Before going to bed that night, Li Peifeng and Zhao Qingge chatted as usual. The latter gave some instructions about the defense. Although she seemed to be telling Li Peifeng not to be nervous, she herself seemed to be more uneasy.
Naturally, I am not worried about whether Li Peifeng will perform abnormally in the defense. As long as he does not slap the review teacher on the stage, even if he talks nonsense about the topic, Li will be able to graduate smoothly.
What makes Zhao Qingge uneasy are some of the important issues the two of them will face after he graduates!
Li Peifeng knew this very well, pursed his lips, put his arm around Zhao Duoduo's shoulders and whispered softly: "Tomorrow is the weekend. If you are okay, let's go to the major photo studios tomorrow to see where the wedding photos are taken?"
Zhao Qingge was silent for a moment, gave a very light and short hum, and then asked: "Where are your parents..."
Li Peifeng had a headache, thinking that his father must not have slept at this time, so he simply picked up his cell phone and went to the bathroom to call.
"explain?"
"Dad, I'm about to graduate."
"so?"
Li Peifeng pondered for half a second and then asked, "Should you take some time to come to the capital again to propose marriage to the Zhao family, or inform you on the phone?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Qiyuan asked: "Are you still living with the four of them?"
"……Um."
"Then I won't go."
"No, you promised me before, why don't you come now?"
"I just want to gain some virtue for your unborn sister."
Li Peifeng quickly grasped the key point and said in surprise: "It's a girl? My sister?"
"Yesterday during the pregnancy test, the doctor gave a hint... Okay, it's okay."
Li Peifeng didn't hesitate and continued to ask him with a smile if he had given his sister a name.
Li Qiyuan was hesitant, probably because he had not thought about it well. At this time, Yu Huizhi's voice came over the phone: "Fengfeng, which one do you think sounds better, Mo Yi or Yue Qi?"
Li Peifeng came up with an idea: "Both are good, but Yue Qi sounds more catchy."
"I took this!"
Yu Huizhi finished speaking a little proudly, but then hesitated: "But it doesn't seem to have any distinctive features, and it's easy to have the same name."
The mother and son discussed the name issue for a while, and Li Peifeng brought up business with his mother again, asking her to persuade his father that when the parents met and had a good conversation, it would be a disgrace to the Li family's reputation to break their trust.
Yu Huizhi was a little at a loss: "I didn't expect you, Fengfeng, to still care about the reputation of Lao Li's family. Husband, you see, your son still needs face."
"He wants face, but I don't?"
Li Qiyuan sighed and took the phone: "Hang up. I'll call President Zhao later... I hope he's not asleep yet."
Li Peifeng was heartbroken and praised him repeatedly, then hung up the phone and walked out of the bathroom.
"How about it?"
Zhao Qingge was lying on his side on the bed, his eyes twinkling.
Li Peifeng smiled: "Just wait until you hold the microphone and say 'I do'."
The corners of Zhao Qingge's mouth raised slightly, then quickly calmed down. He raised his head slightly away from the pillow and let Li Peifeng's arms come in to hug him. Then he curled up in his arms and closed his eyes peacefully, as if talking sleepily.
He whispered: "Tomorrow, go choose a photo studio."
"good."
Li Peifeng lowered his head and kissed her lips. Looking at her trembling eyelashes and intoxicated expression, he laughed dumbly: "Why are you so cute?"
This description made Zhao Qingge very uncomfortable and even a little disgusted, so he reached out and pushed him to express his dissatisfaction, but found that he couldn't push him away, so he hugged him again and ordered in a slightly tough tone: "Sleep!"
Li Peifeng didn't want to sleep, and wanted to do something more, but the other party's principles would definitely not allow him to finally break through. Today was Zhao Duoduo's menstrual period, so he closed his eyes angrily.
"Fell asleep?"
Twenty minutes later, feeling that the breathing of the person next to him became long and steady, Li Peifeng gently lifted his hands and stood up, tiptoed out of the master bedroom and went to Huang Tianxuan's room downstairs.
I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll turn over the cards one by one!
"Still not asleep?"
Huang Tianxuan was wearing light pink pajamas. She was sitting at the computer desk typing on the keyboard as if she was at work. She didn't even look at Li Peifeng who entered the room. She stared at the screen intently and said casually: "Write an article. You are relieved after graduation. This Ph.D.
These hard days have just begun... I’ll go to sleep soon.”
Li Peifeng sat waiting patiently. There was someone watching next to him, but Huang Tianxuan had no idea. She simply turned off the computer and got up to wash up: "Old Zhao is asleep? Hehe, Bai asked, you can't come to my place unless you are asleep.
.”
The resentment in the words is ready to come out
Li Peifeng coughed dryly: "What do you think would be a better name for our son in the future?"
Huang Tianxuan stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at Li Peifeng, her eyes joking: "How about you give birth to a child with me now, and then think about longer-term matters?"
…
Half an hour later, it was already twelve o'clock, and Li Peifeng arrived at the door of Wu and Xu Ernu.
There was no light at the crack of the door, so the lights should have been turned off. Turn the door handle again, and there was a click, and the door opened!
"Haha, Yueyue, look at this."
"It's interesting. You can learn from this routine... Well, I'll ask them to shoot a similar one tomorrow."
The two night owls were lying on the bed, each holding their mobile phones, scrolling through Douyin in the dark. When they noticed someone pushing the door open, Wu Wenyue glanced at the screen of his mobile phone. She was not surprised to see Mr. Li's face, so she continued.
Watch the video.
"Make some room."
"Get out of here, don't press my hair!"
"One room isn't enough for you to sleep in, right? Why do you come to our place every night?"
"What are you talking about? Don't pretend to be stupid. Who came up with the condition of eighteen times a week?"
"We want to take a break today and go out!"
Regardless of the dissatisfaction of the two girls, Li Peifeng lay down in the middle, hugging one on the left and the other on the right. Wu Wenyue sniffed, smelling the delicious milky fragrance on his body but frowning: "This smell of death on your body... comes from Tianxuan.
Did your sister come here?"
Li Peifeng emphasized: "I took a shower, and this is the smell of her shower gel."
"Here he is doing this again!"
Wu Wenyue cursed angrily and kicked him. Xu Maning also stood up quickly, picked up the thin quilt and covered Li Peifeng's face while saying angrily: "I'll cover you to death, you bastard!"
"Hmm...if you think it's not good to take turns, I can ask her to join us next time."
Happiness is not a unique event, but a collection of small things.
Although Li Peifeng is currently beating the two girls with their blankets covered, he is happy at this moment.
"Ah, wives, hurry up!"
The reason for happiness is definitely not simply because he deserves a beating!
This chapter has been completed!