Restart the Gaming Era

Xiong Kai felt that he just took this opportunity to express himself: "Director Liu, I have added background stories to all the mechas and pilots. If I work overtime in the past two days, it should be completed before the new version goes online, and it should be possible. Make a difference."

Liu Yuxin nodded: "Okay, I hope."

Of course, Liu Yuxin knows that these so-called "background stories" are useless. Who would look through the background stories of each mecha when playing games on the bracelet? It was pure text information, and it looked dizzy.

Expect players to pay for these backstories? That would be even more impossible.

However, as a world architect, Xiong Kai took the initiative to do these things and was serious and responsible for his work. This attitude should be encouraged.

Liu Yuxin suddenly remembered Zhong Ming, and asked Xiong Kai: "That new intern, Zhong Ming, how is your performance today?"

"Uh... Today, I took him to familiarize himself with the project and told him a lot of things, but..." Xiong Kai paused deliberately, "I just feel that he may not have entered the role yet, and he hasn't just gotten off work. Say hello and leave, maybe this is a common problem of freshmen, haha."

On the surface, Xiong Kai was trying to excuse Zhong Ming, but in fact the "haha" sound was as fake as it could be.

"Oh." Liu Yuxin was a little disappointed, "Maybe he hasn't adjusted his mentality yet. After all, he just graduated and doesn't have the spirit of hard work and dedication like yours. By the way, he is very talented, and his ability should be good. , you assign more tasks to him and exercise."

Zhou Zhen nodded: "I didn't ask about this, let's see what work Xiong Kai assigns to him. Xiong Kai, don't you have a lot of written materials such as background stories for the mecha? Why don't you give him some ? You don't have to be so tired."

Xiong Kai suddenly had an idea.

Hand over these relatively simple tasks to Zhong Ming?

Write the mech's backstory? Drawing a mecha concept map? Or design a small function?

For Zhong Ming, there is probably no difficulty at all!

Xiong Kai had already noticed that Liu Yuxin held Zhong Ming in high regard, repeatedly emphasizing that he was "talented", combined with today's contact, maybe this Zhong Ming was really talented.

When the time came to assign the job to him, he turned out to finish it very beautifully. Isn't it embarrassing for me to be in this situation?

I have long heard that Zhong Ming is interviewing for the position of World Architect, if he does a better job than himself, what will happen to Xiong Kai?

So Xiong Kai turned his head and came up with an idea.

"Director Liu, that's what I think. The work I'm doing now, this version is almost finished, and the unfinished work is halfway through, so I can't give it away."

"If not, I think this Zhong Ming has just graduated from school and is still a newcomer. He may not have so many thinking patterns, and maybe he has some good ideas. Otherwise, let him write a version for the next version. Planning, what do you think?"

Liu Yuxin was stunned for a moment: "Version planning? Is this too difficult for a newcomer?"

"The difficulty must be a bit high, but there is no need to be so demanding." Xiong Kai continued to fool, "We don't have to adopt his plan, I just let him write it first, and Zhou Zhen and I Let’s see if there are any good ideas. If there are good ideas, maybe they can be included in the development plan for the next version.”

Liu Yuxin looked at Zhou Zhen: "What do you think?"

Zhou Zhen was a little hesitant: "I still feel that it is a bit too difficult to arrange this kind of job for an intern? But I think what Xiong Kai said is also reasonable. There is really no other job suitable for him now."

Liu Yuxin made a decision: "Okay, then give him the job."

Xiong Kai is proud of himself, an intern, I can't arrange you?

Version planning is simple and easy to say, but difficult to say.

Saying it is simple, in fact, it is nothing more than a table, planning what new functions will be implemented in the next version, and estimating the development time and investment of each function, which can also be regarded as a work plan.

It is difficult because it is not something newcomers can do.

The premise of planning a version is to have a very deep understanding of the game, know what the current defects of the game are, and what players need.

Otherwise, if you have planned a bunch of useless functions, wouldn't that increase the workload for others?

As for version planning, as long as you show it to other people in the project, everyone can immediately see whether there is any problem with what you wrote.

Moreover, the in-depth content of version planning cannot be done with a single table. For example, if you want to develop three new functions, you must have a general idea for these three new functions, right? You have to think about even some trivial things in advance, otherwise when the version plan comes out, the program or other designers will ask you a word, isn't that a shame?

What Liu Yuxin meant was to let Zhong Ming try to do version planning, even if it can't be done in a very formal way, it doesn't matter. Anyway, there is no work that can be assigned to him now, so let him practice his skills.

But Xiong Kai doesn't think so. After the work arrangement goes on, there must be a work summary and results. When the results are released, the version plan is written in a fart. Zhong Ming will definitely make a joke in front of everyone.

...

The next morning, Zhong Ming arrived at the company on time.

Xiong Kai next to him hadn't come yet, and he was late for more than an hour.

Like many companies, Lightwing Interactive Entertainment adopts a flexible working system. It is enough to clock in for 9 hours a day (1 hour of which is used as lunch time).

In fact, Xiong Kai doesn't really have a lot of overtime hours, but he gets off work late at night, and he is still there every time Liu Yuxin leaves, creating an illusion that he has been working hard to work overtime.

Zhong Ming was still flipping through the design documents and playing the game "Mecha Age". Yesterday, he had such an argument with Xiong Kai. Anyway, Xiong Kai didn't take the initiative to talk to him, and he didn't plan to talk to Xiong Kai.

In the end, Xiong Kai came to him on his own initiative, and his attitude seemed to ease.

"Zhong Ming, you said that the job given to you yesterday was not within your scope of work. Then today's job must be within your scope of work. Director Liu told me yesterday that he asked you to write the version plan for the next version."

Zhong Ming was a little surprised, what is the plan for the next version?

Version planning is usually written by the chief designer!

Zhong Ming is very clear that this version will be launched tomorrow, and the version planning of the current version was written by Xiong Kai and modified by Zhou Zhen, which can be found in the project file.

Why do you want me to write the next version plan? And it was Director Liu's request?

Xiong Kai continued: "Oh, I know this job may be confusing for you, it's okay, you don't have to worry too much, just write and write. The main reason is that the development progress of this version is almost completed, and it's really nothing. Good job for you."

Zhong Ming nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Xiong Kai was very happy: "Okay, then I'll write this into next week's work plan, you work hard."

Zhong Ming ignored him, judging from Xiong Kai's attitude, there must be something wrong.

Since it's something that Liu Yuxin knows about, and it's all written into the work plan, then this version plan is definitely not a matter of "casual writing".

But what Zhong Ming is looking for is just a version plan, do you think I can't write it? Sorry, it works!