After seeing off Lao Liu, Tang Yishu returned to her work station.
"How is the situation?" Li Yada asked.
Tang Yishu hesitated for a moment: "This game has a lot of bugs... so I asked him to go back and correct it, and then come back after fixing the bugs."
Li Yada was a little surprised: "Ah? Isn't this game already online? Why are there still so many bugs?"
"Isn't this unreasonable?"
Tang Yishu crossed her fingers and said, "I don't know about this either."
Li Yada nodded: "Maybe the outside companies are not as good as Tenda in all aspects, so the testing team is not very powerful. It's okay, you did the right thing."
"It is normal for a game to have one or two bugs, but if there are so many bugs that it affects the normal game process, it can only mean that the company is not doing its job well, the testing department is not doing its duty, and there are also problems with internal management."
"If there are so many bugs that it affects the normal experience of players, it really shouldn't be put on the shelves. Instead, it should be modified until there are no bugs before it is put on the shelves. It is right to persuade them to quit."
"It's okay, this is just one company, let's look at another one."
Having said that, Li Yada had a bad premonition inexplicably.
Because the first company has a game that is already on the shelves. Logically speaking, there should be relatively few bugs.
The second company’s game is still under development.
Although this game called "Blade of the Empire" has almost been completed, only the final finishing work is left, and testing work is definitely in progress, but the completeness is definitely not as complete as those projects that have already been launched.
There is a high probability that it will have more bugs than the previous "War Hymn of Heroes" which was a copycat of "War Hymn of War".
Then here comes the problem.
Is it just bad luck and the game I encountered happened to have a bug? Is this an accidental phenomenon?
Or are all outside game companies like this?
Li Yada came to work at Tenda not long after joining the industry, so she doesn’t have much experience working in other companies.
In her impression, Tenda's games seemed not to be plagued by bugs.
During every development period, bugs pop up like mushrooms after a rain. The testing department keeps raising bugs, and the development department keeps fixing them. Generally, the bugs are basically fixed before the game is launched.
Even if some subsequent modifications are needed after going online, the workload is usually not very large.
Therefore, she has always felt that fixing bugs is nothing more than physical work. If the bugs have not been fixed by the time the game is launched, it only means that there is a problem with the attitude.
If you can't even do this kind of physical work well, is it not a matter of attitude?
But now it seems that these companies outside are really not that good?
"Forget it, I don't want to think about this anymore. It might have been just an accident before. How could every company not be able to fix the bug?"
Li Yada felt that she was worrying too much, so she shook her head and stopped thinking about it, and continued to do her own thing.
…
After Tang Yishu waited at her workstation for more than an hour, the boss of the second company arrived on time.
Tang Yishu followed the previous procedure and invited him to the conference room.
"Director Tang, hello, hello."
"My name is Yan Qi. Information about our company and my personal resume have been sent over before."
Tang Yishu nodded: "Yeah, I've seen it, please take a seat."
After Lao Liu left, Tang Yishu carefully read the information Li Yada gave her again. This time she had plenty of time, so she memorized it all.
Yan Qi and his company can basically be seen as the epitome of many mobile game startups.
He used to be the chief planner of a game company in Shanghai, and the project he led was considered a success, but the boss was too stingy, with a monthly net income of six to seven million, and as a result, the entire project team did not pay a penny in bonuses.
The boss’s euphemistic saying is: use the money you earn to advertise and make more money.
He also made a joke by the way, saying that after a few months of advertising, the money earned by the game might be doubled several times, and everyone would receive a large bonus by then.
After all, Yan Qi had been in the workplace for two or three years. How could he not know how much this pie was, so he decisively ran away.
On the day he resigned, he knew he had done the right thing, because the boss only tried to persuade him to stay with him verbally, but did not mention any salary increase or bonus.
It can be seen that this boss does not care whether the employees leave or not.
This is a normal phenomenon. After all, the game has been made. With stable operation, we can earn millions every month. Does it matter whether the employees leave or not?
I just hired a chief planner and hired him later. Anyway, there is no shortage of people in this industry.
After resigning, Yan Qi no longer wanted to be a high-level wage earner for others, so he had the idea of starting his own company.
He is from Jingzhou himself. He heard that Jingzhou has developed very well in the past two years and has a good environment for game entrepreneurship, so he recruited several friends in the industry to come to Jingzhou and established a new mobile game company from Beijing.
Some local investors in the state received millions in venture capital.
After working on it for less than half a year, the game was finished.
The game he is making is called "Blade of the Empire", which is an ARPG mobile game, which is also an action game.
It stands to reason that this type of game has a relatively high threshold and is not suitable for start-up companies. However, thanks to the official editor and Yan Qi’s previous work experience, the development went smoothly.
Of course, due to investment constraints, it certainly cannot be said to be particularly outstanding, but Yan Qi feels that the quality of his own games is acceptable, and it shouldn't be a problem to make a little money after they are released to support the company.
For most mobile game startups, the idea of getting rich overnight may be too unrealistic. The first thing they should consider is how to survive.
The development of the game is almost completed, and Yan Qi has contacted many game channels.
For small companies, the more channels they have, the better. As for the share ratio, don’t think too much about it. You can take whatever you give. Small companies basically have no say.
Therefore, when he heard that there was a new gaming platform here in Jingzhou, and it was quite close to his company's office, Yan Qi was very happy and came immediately.
"This is an internal beta version of our game. Only a small number of players are currently playing it. But don't worry, Director Tang, there are very few bugs and it will basically not affect the normal game flow."
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Tang Yishu nodded and took the phone.
"Okay. Mr. Yan, this is the agreement. You should take a look first."
"If you are satisfied with the terms of the agreement and the number of bugs in the game does not exceed three within half an hour, then we can sign the contract today."
Yan Qi took over the agreement and felt a little surprised.
Is it that simple?
He has also negotiated with other channels, and each of these channels is even more powerful than the last.
Some offer very low commissions, and some require major changes to the game. Anyway, they all have conditions, but some are particularly excessive, while others are relatively okay.
He has never seen a channel like the Chaolu Game Platform that only requires no more than three bugs to appear within half an hour.
Half an hour? Three bugs?
Yan Qi thinks there should be no problem, right?
Although the game "Blade of the Empire" has not yet been officially launched and has many bugs, these bugs are basically concentrated in some large levels and in-depth gameplay in the mid-to-late stage.
Half an hour is basically just the early stage.
During the development and testing of this game, in order to optimize the novice guidance, the early content was modified many times, and the bugs were minimal.
Yan Qi felt that as long as he didn't memorize it too much, he shouldn't encounter three bugs in a row within half an hour, right?
One of them tried the game, and the other read the terms of the agreement. The reception room became silent for a while, with only the sound of the fight in the game remaining.
Yan Qi just looked at the beginning and saw that the two sides were divided 50-50, and Tang Yishu had already encountered the first bug.
The novice guide was stuck. Originally, there would be a gray mask blocking the screen during the guide, highlighting the place where the player wanted to click and pointing it with an arrow. However, after clicking the button, the mask did not disappear normally and the screen remained on.
In a gray translucent state.
"Ah this..."
Yan Qi was a little embarrassed.
It’s not that there’s anything strange about encountering bugs, the key is that it’s so damn fast!
Moreover, when a novice introduces a bug, let alone he has never encountered it before, not even his company's testing team has ever encountered it.
Before Yan Qi could explain, Tang Yishu had already very skillfully closed the game process and re-entered it.
"It's okay, just keep reading the agreement."
Yan Qi had a vague premonition, but he couldn't say anything and could only continue to read the agreement carefully.
…
Half an hour later, Yan Qi had read the agreement carefully twice, and the number of bugs found by Tang Yishu was finally settled.
Within half an hour, Tang Yishu found twelve bugs, large and small!
There are four bugs here that are very serious. Once they occur, the game process will not be able to continue. The remaining bugs, although the consequences are not that serious, will also have a very negative impact on the game experience.
Yan Qi's face was a little confused.
There are too many bugs, what's going on!
He even suspected that the program on his mobile phone was installed incorrectly. Instead of installing the stable version, he brought the development version.
Otherwise, why would the stable version have so many bugs in the early stage?
This is totally unreasonable!
Tang Yishu seemed to have expected such a result, and handed the phone back: "It's okay, Mr. Yan, it's normal for the game to have bugs. You can go back and modify it, as long as you can fix the bugs within half an hour.
If the quantity is controlled within three, we will sign an agreement."
"By the way, have you read the contents of the agreement? Are you satisfied with it?"
Yan Qi nodded: "I'm satisfied, what can I be dissatisfied with? This condition is already very good for us."
"Don't worry, I have memorized the bugs you encountered, and I will ask them to fix them as soon as possible when I get back!"
"It is our duty to correct bugs, and we even have to thank you. If we hadn't happened to encounter these bugs, we might not have known that there were bugs in this place."
"If these bugs were released only after the official launch, the losses would be huge."
Yan Qi thanked Tang Yishu profusely and left with his cell phone.