It is normal for Lin Wan not to understand, because the project she worked on before at Tianhuo Studio was "Bullet Traces", and after arriving at Tenda, she participated in the production of "Sea Fortress" and "Game Producer", and These are all end games.
"War Song" is a web game, which can basically be regarded as a completely different species from the above games.
Web games have a unique set of design concepts and ideas, and various mature system gameplays are relatively rare in PC games.
Not only has Lin Wan never participated in the development of web games, he has never even played web games and is not interested in them at all.
When people like Ye Zhizhou hold meetings, they use some commonly used terms in web game development, mixed with some English abbreviations. When describing the gameplay, there are many colloquial and internal abbreviations for the gameplay. .
As a result, although everyone was communicating in Chinese, Lin Wan could only understand 30% to 40%.
In one sentence, I obviously knew every word, but when I put them together, I couldn’t understand what it meant...
Lin Wan could only record it silently, without nodding, or Don't ask questions.
The reason she didn’t nod was because she really didn’t understand and didn’t want to pretend to understand; the reason she didn’t ask was because she was worried that she would reveal her cowardice and embarrass Mr. Tengda and Mr. Pei.
As for Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin, they secretly looked at Lin Wan's expression every time they spoke.
I saw Lin Wan's face was solemn, and she kept writing and drawing in a small notebook. Her expression was unpredictable, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Although she looks very young, no one dares to look down upon her. After all, they all know that Mr. Pei always employs people in an eclectic way.
Those who can be favored by Mr. Pei either have real talents or have deep potential that can be tapped. No matter which one they are, they must not be offended.
Every time Ye Zhizhou spoke, he paused slightly, wanting to give Lin Wan some time to express her opinions.
Although Mr. Pei has not changed the design draft at all, who knows if the development director will have any suggestions?
However, Lin Wan just recorded it silently without saying a word.
Ye Zhizhou even had some self-doubt.
Why don’t Mr. Pei and the director have any suggestions for revision?
Is the design draft I wrote really so perfect?
Can’t?
Or am I underestimating myself?
......
Finally, all the design drafts were finished. Ye Zhizhou briefly explained the construction period, the approximate amount of art resources this time, and the amount needed to purchase various resources. The budget is just over two million.
Then, Ye Zhizhou looked at Lin Wan.
This director has to say a few words this time, right?
Otherwise, what are you doing here?
Lin Wan also felt a little panicked when she felt the intense gazes on her.
What should I do? They talked for a long time, but I basically didn’t listen.Got it!
Even if you understand part of it, you definitely can’t discuss it, because what you understand is obviously very basic. Wouldn’t it be cowardly to talk about it?
Fortunately, Lin Wan stayed calm in the face of danger and successfully caught something that Mr. Pei was absolutely dissatisfied with.
"Other problems are not big."
"This is the budget...According to my understanding of Mr. Pei, it is definitely not feasible."
Ye Zhizhou was a little nervous. Sure enough, in the end, the budget failed!
The budget of two million is a bit too much compared to web games.
In the web game model, research and development funds only account for a small part, and most of the other money is used for marketing, such as buying click-through ads on web pages, spending money to hire celebrities, etc.
This is determined by the characteristics of the target population for web games.
Browse games are mainly targeted at office white-collar workers and rich bosses. These people do not have high requirements for game graphics. Many of them play secretly during working hours and do not want to work hard or use their brains.
They just want to top up money and kill people with the click of a mouse.
These people often have strong spending power, so they can maximize the benefits of the game by saving money on research and development and spending it on publicity.
But when Ye Zhizhou made a budget, he was not willing to follow the traditional method.
Finally, Mr. Pei made the decision. The name of the game this time is "Power Enhanced Edition". It can't be made to have the same level of graphics as ordinary web games, right?
The art resources must be in high definition, and the various gameplays must be optimized to perfection.
After two rounds, the budget was increased to more than two million. Ye Zhizhou even met with Wang Xiaobin and was very satisfied with the budget.
However, it is still exceeded?
Ye Zhizhou looked at Lin Wan with some anxiety, thinking, at most, he could cut off three to four hundred thousand, but he couldn’t cut off any more!
Lin Wan continued: "I think... I'm afraid it will take at least four million before Mr. Pei will approve this project."
"Forget it, you should just increase it to five. Save a million. When you save it, Mr. Pei will call back and you will have to work again."
Every time the budget is overturned, all the art resource lists, various plans, and the painters contacted on the resource site. , programs, etc. must be replaced.
If the increase from two million to three or four million is doubled at once, these plans will basically be overturned and redone. After all, the change is too big, and it cannot be done by simply changing a few painters. Done.
So Lin Wan was very thoughtful and directly helped them upload the budget, so that the budget table they had worked so hard to make would not be brought back and redone by Mr. Pei.
Everyone was confused.
Ye Zhizhou almost thought he heard wrongly.
Two million is too little? Increase it to five million? ?
Is it okay to just give me a super double?
But looking at Lin Wan’s serious expression, she definitelyYes, this is no joke, but serious advice.
Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin looked at each other and hesitated: "Five million? It's too much..."
"In fact, you don't need that much money, more than two million It's enough, it's enough."
Lin Wan shook his head: "It's enough for you, but it's far from enough for Mr. Pei. You don't know how diligent Mr. Pei is about these details. To any extent, just listen to me and increase it to five million."
Looking at Ye Zhizhou who looked confused and lowered his head to change his watch, Lin Wan couldn't help but smile knowingly.
“I finally understand why Mr. Pei asked me to come here!”
“In addition to learning the design knowledge of other types of games here, there is another very important point, that is Convey the spirit of Tengda!"
"Ye Zhizhou's obedient way of making budgets is really like Lu Mingliang in the past."
"Mr. Pei is busy with work and has no skills. It’s impossible to come here in person to correct these people’s bad habits, so I was sent here to give me a chance to practice, and on the other hand, it also allowed me to correct these people’s bad habits!”
“So, I should guide them more mentally so that they can keep up with Tengda's footsteps."
"Mr. Pei didn't lie to me, this is really a very important job!"
Ye Zhizhou quickly went through the budget and frowned.
“But...if the budget is really increased to five million, we will encounter a new problem.”
“We are just a web game, even if we add all the If all the resources are replaced with high-definition versions, and a few excellent original artists are hired to do concept design, I'm afraid the money will still be spent..."
"Furthermore, we are currently using the 2D version of the official platform. The engine will not support these high-definition resources very well, and the effect may not be particularly obvious by then."
"In short... the price/performance ratio will be very poor."
Lin Wan thought for a while: "Then change the engine and go directly to 3D."
Ye Zhizhou was speechless for a moment: "If you go to 3D... then you can't make a web game. The amount of art resources that need to be transferred It’s too big, and the current network speed is too slow to load.”
The web game mode is to play immediately, and all art resources are transferred in real time.
Limited by network speed, resources cannot be made too large, otherwise the transmission will be very slow. Players will go to the next scene, but the resources of this scene have not been loaded. Wouldn't it be embarrassing?
When Lin Wan was playing "Battle Song", he would see "Resources Loading" every time he entered a new scene. It was because of this.
After discussion and discussion, the problem is still not solved.
Lin Wan knew very well that a mere two million yuan budget would definitely not be able to meet Mr. Pei’s requirements. However, due to the model of the web game, increasing the budget to five million yuan would not significantly improve the graphics.
Unless we no longer make web games, we will make client games and let players play them.All resources are downloaded to your computer.
But in this case...
This game has even changed its game type. Wouldn’t it be completely unrecognizable and a mess?
Wang Xiaobin coughed twice: "Well, I think if we must use high-definition resources to make a 3D version, we can try to make a micro-client."
"That is, micro-clients ”
“Compared with client games, players need to download much fewer resources, and the computer configuration requirements are not very high; compared with web games, the graphics are Obtain a significant improvement."
"Of course, it is possible that both parties will not be happy, and this is very risky."