Chapter 817: Dreams
Meng Huo also understood Alice's concerns, but despite this, he had no choice now.△¢
The new game can only be discussed after the New Year. "Clannad" will be completed before the New Year. The new company has not been established, and there is no time to decide on the production of the remaining "Clannad" branches. Meng Huo predicts that his work will be more abundant after the New Year.
It would be more appropriate to consider new games and animations at that time.
Two days later, at Xu Jing's urging, Alice set off for Ninghai, but Meng Huo did not go to see her off, but Alice specifically asked him for goodbye before leaving and told Meng Huo a very important thing - she told Chen Jie that she had moved opposite Meng Huo.
"..." Meng Huo was shocked when he heard this: "Why did you tell her!?"
"I can't hide this matter, I'll say it sooner or later." Alice looked at him and said, "I think you must be worried about whether to tell her. It's more difficult for you to say it to her myself."
Meng Huo was silent. He was indeed very upset, but he didn't expect Alice to take the initiative to tell it out - if this matter was told from Alice's mouth, her relationship with Shen Jie, which had become colder!
"..." Meng Huo sighed: "What did Chen Jie say?"
"What else can I say?" Alice smiled and said helplessly: "I will try to avoid her in the past few months. If she catches me, you may have to see me in the hospital."
Her words seemed to be joking, but her expression did not mean joking at all. From this sentence, Meng Huo clearly understood Chen Jie's current emotional state.
"Then I'll leave." After telling this, Alice waved her hand to say goodbye to Meng Huo. But before leaving, she stopped again and added: "You don't have to worry about Chen Jie. It's me who fights against you and won't be angry with you."
Meng Huo was stunned. After Alice left, he took out his cell phone and thought about it, and then put it down - he didn't know what he should say to Shen Jie now.
“…Go to the game production department and have a look…”
Twist aside for the time being. Meng Huo got up and went to the game production department. After talking to Alice two days ago, he had already passed on the order to participate in the animation production of "Clannad". Now the painters should have prepared almost the same.
After a long time since I came to the game department, Meng Huo found that the department was much deserted. There were only a dozen people left in the studio that were originally full, most of the desks were cleaned up, and their owners also left.
"Teacher!" Seeing Meng Huo appear, the remaining employees immediately stood up and said hello, and He Qian also came over to say hello to Meng Huo.
"Where are the others?" Meng Huo asked curiously.
"Others? Oh, the teacher is talking about our painter?" He Qian was stunned at first. Then she smiled and said, "Did the teacher forget what she ordered two days ago? Today is the first time those painters went to Qinglong Animation Studio, and someone picked them up in the morning."
Meng Huo then realized that the painters started to go to the city today to participate in the production of "Clannad". Although he issued this order, he did not know the time, because the specific transfer arrangements were put into responsibility.
"He didn't report to me." Meng Huo thought to himself that no matter how busy he was at work, the secretary should tell him the time to mobilize the painters. Now, he actually lost in an empty room.
Seeing that the painters had left, Meng Huo and He Qian looked at the operation of the He Xizhi Home Forum and planned to leave.
"Wait, teacher." But when he asked to leave, He Qian stopped her. Her face was tempted to speak, Meng Huo felt strange: "Is there anything wrong?"
He Qian looked around, and the few dozen people remaining in the game production department looked at her with their eyes wide open. She nodded slightly to them, her expression turned up and said to Meng Huo: "Teacher, can you come to my office to sit..."
Meng Huo felt the atmosphere of the game production department, guessed their thoughts, nodded and said, "Okay."
He knew that He Qian and other people in this department must have the same idea as Alice before, because there was no new work for a long time and the painters were transferred away, the remaining real "game makers" began to feel uneasy.
After walking into He Qian's office, she did express the uneasiness in the department as Meng Huo guessed.
"We haven't launched a text adventure game for nearly a year. This time the teacher transferred all the painters to make "Clannad". Some people in the department began to worry that you want to give up the text adventure game, and the companies outside are also ready to move."
He Qian said: "Of course I know that you will definitely not do this by teacher, but I still hope that teacher can give them an example to reassure them, otherwise this year will probably be very sad..."
Phoenix's game production department has not made any new work for a long time, but the game companies that compete with them have grown vigorously this year. These companies have never stopped poaching, and over the years, the Chinese New Year has been the strongest time to poach.
Meng Huo's removal of painters had a great impact on the remaining programmers, and even made them suspect that Meng Huo wanted to quit the game industry. If such worries continue, these people may have changed jobs.
"Simple, I'll explain it to them later." Meng Huo nodded. He believed that as long as he explained it clearly to the remaining employees, he could not make new games because he didn't have enough time, and this problem could be solved.
"This is not enough..." But He Qian was not so optimistic and said, "Teacher, you should give us a plan. There are too many text adventure games now, and I am a little anxious to be surpassed by other companies. It is more reassuring to give a plan than anything else."
"What are you anxious about? If you exceed it, let it exceed it..." Meng Huo smiled and said: "The text adventure game is not a win based on quantity. We can never win by competing with quantity, so we should welcome others to launch more works."
He Qian was stunned: "Welcome?"
"Well, welcome." Meng Huo nodded, which was also the reason why he was not as worried as others: "Text adventure games are niche games. The more games there are, the larger the players will be... And isn't this a good thing for us?"
Meng Huo has not many text adventure games, but all of them are fine products that have been verified by the market, so he doesn't care about how many text adventure games other companies produce, because none of them will cause a blow to him.
"A good game is always a good game, and this will not change..." Meng Huo stood up and smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as we make a good game, no one else can threaten us."
He thought for a while and then said, "I will give you a new plan after the New Year, but in the past two months, you can focus on dealing with the problems of He Xizhi Family... If it is really boring, I will allow you to develop other games."
"Other games!?" He Qian's eyes lit up suddenly: "The teacher means that we can develop the games we want to make ourselves?"
"Of course." Meng Huo looked at He Qian in a little surprised: "You have never thought about this? I have never restricted you, right? If you have any good ideas, you can try to develop other games..."
Meng Huo never restricted the game production department from doing his daily work according to his orders. On the contrary, he gave the game production department a lot of free time. If He Qian could use this time to create interesting games, he would also strongly support it.
This is an independent department. The text adventure game in Meng Huo's memory is enough to keep the game production department at its current frequency for more than ten years, but he doesn't want to support it for the rest of his life. If he has the opportunity, of course he has to make it independently developed.
"I never thought about this..." He Qian said in surprise. She had never considered the independent development of new games. In her mind, the positioning of the game production department has always been "text adventure games" plus "He Xizhi Home Forum" and some data support for other departments.
Making other games and developing into an independent department - this has never appeared in He Qian's head.
"Teacher, then...that's what..." He Qian suddenly became a little excited. She said: "If we develop any good ideas, can we continue to recruit employees and evolve into a department like those outside game companies?"
Meng Huo felt that she had overreacted. Although he nodded, he still said conservatively: "The premise is that you have this ability."
He did not rule out this possibility, but whether he could completely look at He Qian and her subordinates. If he did not have the ability to become a real game company, Meng Huo naturally had no reason to support him. He Qian's expectations are just a simple dream at the moment.
But dreams are always exciting. Although there are still big questions about whether they can be done, He Qian's excitement has undoubtedly surged.
"Is any game possible?" She was eager to ask everything clearly: "Is online games OK? Or can it only be a stand-alone game? Or..." She couldn't finish speaking because Meng Huo interrupted her.
"Any game is OK," Meng Huo said: "I agree that you try any type of game, but you must hand over the planning and ideas to the company for review before making a game. If you do not receive a certain number of people, I will not be able to give you the production funds."
"And..." He thought for a while and finally added: "The premise of all this is that it does not hinder my game production. When I need to make a new game, your game must stop."
"This is OK!"
Chapter completed!