As usual, Yan Qi came to the office building where Chaolu Game Platform is located during normal working hours in the morning and continued to look for bugs.
To be precise, finding bugs is only the second purpose. The first purpose is to verify the authenticity and universality of last week's guess about metaphysical laws.
Does this Feng Shui treasure land not take effect on weekends? Does the bug not work on weekends?
This issue must be carefully verified.
Yan Qi asked his testing team to work overtime for two days last weekend. As a result, the number of bugs found during the two days of overtime work was not as many as those found on Monday morning. This efficiency is really worrying. If he had known that the overtime efficiency would be so low, he might as well have left everyone at home.
Rest!
Therefore, Yan Qi told everyone that he would work a half-day shift this weekend. If the efficiency of finding bugs is still very low on Saturday morning, he would just take a rest this weekend and continue looking for bugs after the feng shui treasure land returns to normal during the working day.
That’s it.
At this time, everyone on the "Blade of the Empire" test team has basically arrived, and test teams from other companies have also moved in one after another.
All the workstations on this floor of the office building have been rented out, and even the two floors upstairs and downstairs have been rented out.
However, although the discussion in the group was lively and even attracted many companies from other cities, there were still many companies in the group that did not participate.
It may be that the leaders of these companies have relatively strong scientific literacy and firm will, so when it comes to such metaphysical issues, they remain unmoved no matter what others say.
Of course, Yan Qi doesn't care about these companies.
For him, a reminder is already the most benevolent thing. Whether love comes or not, who knows how efficient it is to find bugs in this place!
The leaders of the testing teams of other companies basically knew Yan Qi and said hello one after another.
But when passing by the workstations of other companies, it was obvious that these testers also had some doubts on their faces.
"Hey, it's strange, why are there fewer bugs found today? There are not many bugs left."
"Have you finished searching? It's impossible."
Obviously, they were all aware of the huge change in bug-finding efficiency on Friday and Saturday.
Yan Qi suddenly remembered that he had not told other companies about this matter.
I quickly sent a message to the group.
"By the way, there is one thing I forgot to remind everyone. Last weekend I discovered that this Feng Shui treasure land seems to be inoperable on weekends, so don't worry if you can't find the bug, it will be back to normal on Monday."
"I only arranged the test and a half-day shift today just to verify this. It seems to meet this rule. So if you don't have other work, you can go back and rest, recharge your batteries, and continue again on Monday.
Fix the bug."
Soon, the people in charge of the group responded one after another.
"Ah? Bug doesn't work on weekends? This is too unscientific!"
"This is not scientific, but it is very metaphysical! A geomantic treasure land that is spherical in space is already very unscientific, so it seems not surprising that the existence of this space has a certain time pattern..."
"I don't believe it!"
"Let's look for bugs again. If the efficiency is really low, it means what Mr. Yan said is true. There is no need for everyone to find bugs when efficiency is low. It is better to do something else."
This time, people in the group seemed to quickly accept this setting.
Although this matter still sounds very outrageous, after all, most of the companies that have moved here have been baptized by metaphysics and have objectively recognized the existence of this special space, so adding a little time rule does not seem to be something worth making a fuss about.
things...
Yan Qi sat down at his work station, took out his mobile phone and played his own game several times.
Well, sure enough.
Bug does not work on weekends!
In fact, before running, Yan Qi was still a little confused. Should he hope that there would be bugs or not?
If there are bugs, it means that you have to work overtime on the weekends, but the progress of the game can be accelerated a lot; if there are no bugs, there is no way to catch up on the progress, but you can rest on the weekends.
Now that the dust has settled, things have become more stable, giving employees a reason to take a weekend break.
Not bad either.
In fact, as a boss, Yan Qi is quite conflicted about the issue of overtime.
He is not like many unscrupulous bosses who force employees to work overtime for free simply to reduce costs and further squeeze employees' labor force, but even as a boss with some conscience, asking employees to work overtime is inevitable.
After all, as a small company and a startup, it does not have so many resources, nor a sufficient number of high-quality employees. Sometimes if you want to catch up with the schedule, working overtime is a last resort.
The game industry is an industry that pays great attention to timeliness. If two games of the same type are released one or two months later than the other, the difference in revenue may be several million or tens of millions.
For small companies, this difference in speed is enough to determine the life or death of the company.
Therefore, in order to keep the company alive, to prevent employees from looking for jobs again, and to get more bonuses in the future, Yan Qi sometimes had to ask employees to work overtime in order to keep up with the development progress.
This often made him feel confused.
Although the employees were very understanding of this behavior and very cooperative, Yan Qi still felt a little guilty.
It's fine now, no need to worry about it anymore. Since Feng Shui Prefecture does not advocate working overtime on weekends, and working overtime on weekends is inefficient, it is better to give employees a holiday to rest, adjust their status, and continue to fight against bugs next Monday.
Thinking of this, Yan Qi said: "Okay, it has been verified that it is really inefficient to fix bugs on weekends. Everyone is ordering Moyu takeout at noon today. I will order it. After eating, you can go home from get off work!"
"Of course, if you have an appointment at noon, you can leave in advance."
As soon as this was said, the employees cheered.
"Mr. Yan is awesome!"
"Thank you, Mr. Yan, for the treat!"
As a result, a small number of employees who had dinner with friends at noon or who were going home for dinner said hello to Yan Qi and left, while other employees stayed and waited until lunch was over before leaving.
Yan Qi no longer looked for bugs, but opened the official website of Chaolu Game Platform to check the current status of the platform.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
"Ah? The game platform started trial operation yesterday afternoon?"
"I think I mentioned it before, but aren't everyone still fixing bugs?"
Yan Qi vaguely remembered that the staff of Chaolu Game Platform had talked about the trial operation in the group before, but everyone was busy fixing bugs and was very busy, so he subconsciously thought that the trial operation must be postponed.
There are only a few games, so how can this platform be put into trial operation?
As a result, I now find out that I really have to give it a try!
Open the game platform, and at first glance everything seems to be normal.
The homepage of the platform also has various recommendation positions, and it is also divided into different sections according to game types and devices. Although the content is not very large and cannot be compared with those game platforms with hundreds or thousands of games, it still looks good.
Pretty neat.
Yan Qi habitually opened the column for action games to check.
After all, he makes action games himself, and he also wants to see if there are any competing games on the platform that directly compete with his own games.
However, when I clicked in, I discovered that there was actually its own game "Blade of the Empire"!
"Ah? Isn't that right? Our game is still being modified, isn't it?"
"Why are you already on the gaming platform?"
Yan Qi quickly clicked on the game's details page to view it.
There is an introduction, information and promotional pictures of the game on the details page. These have been given to the Chaolu Game Platform before, so it is not surprising that they appear on the platform.
The original Download Game/Start Game button is unavailable, and there is a special prompt bar that displays the current number of bugs in the game "Blade of the Empire"!
This number appears to be data captured directly from the game's test backend.
Yan Qi asked the test team leader: "Hey, did Chaolu Game Platform ask us for the data interface of the test backend?"
The test team leader nodded: "Yes, we gave it to you after we signed the contract. After all, they also need to know our bug fixes in real time."
Yan Qi clicked on other games and found that most of them were also modifying the status of bugs. The only difference was the number of bugs.
You can even occasionally see changes in the number of bugs, indicating that the company is working overtime. After a bug is fixed and submitted, the test team tests and confirms that there are no problems. After the modification is completed, the bug is eliminated, so the number of bugs in the background is also
Changes will occur and will be synchronized to the game platform in real time.
Most of the games on the Chaolu Game Platform are in this state: you can see how many bugs are left to be corrected, but they cannot be played.
Yan Qi searched for a long time before finally finding a playable game. It was an old game that had been launched on other platforms half a year ago. According to its lifespan, it should have entered the middle and late stages of its life.
There are indeed very few bugs in this kind of game because the version of the game is already very stable, but it also means that there is no new content and the appeal to new players is basically zero.
Although unreleased games such as "Blade of the Empire" are probably mobile games developed by small companies, at least they are new games and are still competitive in the mobile game industry.
As a result, competitive games were all fixing bugs, while uncompetitive games were launched, but they could not attract many players.
Moreover, although Chaolu Game Platform has made some distinctions between games that can be downloaded and played and games that are undergoing bug fixes, such as putting special marks on the game icons and filtering out playable games, it has not done so well.
It's not that obvious.
So much so that players who enter the platform cannot find playable games for the first time. When they click on one, they find that bugs are being fixed, and when they click on another one, they still find that bugs are being fixed...