Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 51 Expanding the Game Territory: Recruiting Staff

  A mature game is often completed by multiple people.

  For example, Zhu Yuxing, who started it by himself, just stood on the shoulders of predecessors and copied it. In addition to the more mature programming system in later generations, it was relatively easy for Zhu Yuxing to make games.

   But wanting to build an entire game industry based on these is tantamount to talking nonsense.

   And the number of people needed to make a mature game is now at least five or six people.

   In addition to the producer, the planning can be all-powerful in levels, values, and plots. It takes one person.

  It takes two or three programmers to say less. The program needs to be written repeatedly by trial and error. It is not finished after typing. Sometimes it takes a long time to solve the problem. The insufficient number of programmers will seriously affect the progress.

   Then there is the art.

  Zhuyou Xingxing has aesthetics, but the painting is a scum. At most, it is the entire pixel painting that can barely be seen. This can only be done by real painters.

   With the function of the current red and white machine, it is enough to prepare two painters for one game.

   However, since it is a teaching method, more people must be involved, and it is better to teach and guide.

   In fact, game production is not troublesome, the world just lacks a person who can open up ideas, such as the principle of game operation.

   And if you have time, by the way, try to research the game engine.

  The game engine is like mathematical software with formula templates. You only need to ask questions, and you can give corresponding answers, which greatly reduces the difficulty of game production.

   can be said to be the cornerstone of future games.

   Take Yusei called Matsuhashi over, and now she is mainly in charge of personnel recruitment.

   Takenaka Sayaka focuses on the management and publicity of the company, and then the two are jointly responsible for legal and financial issues.

   "President, you called me."

  Matsuhashi has been in the company for a week.

   Working here makes her feel very comfortable.

   There is no discrimination here, and the work is very smooth. Zhu Yuxing has high trust in her and is willing to hand over some troublesome work to her without worrying that she is a woman and cannot do it well.

   This is quite rare in Japanese society.

   Here, she is full.

   And the company is doing well in the long run now.

   As long as the sales of game consoles expand to the whole country, it must be profitable.

  Ota, who is currently on an expatriate, is doing this.

   He has closed his entertainment hall and began to concentrate on the promotion and sales of game consoles.

   "Are the projects that I need to recruit for now?"

   "Part of it already, interviews are being arranged."

  Matsuhashi took out his notebook.

   "You need fifty-two computer engineers and thirty-four computer programmers."

   "Where's the painter?"

  Matsuhashi shook his head: "No one...but there were inquiries, most of them thought it was some advertising paintings or something, but they didn't get in touch after inquiring about something that didn't match expectations."

All right.

  The original game painting is a new industry, and it is not easy to find an artist who meets the requirements.

   But painting has the same goal, it seems that it should not be too restrictive at the beginning.

   "Increase the coverage of the requirements. Those who are good at advertising paintings and film and television paintings can also be considered. If you give enough salary, someone should come."

"OK."

  Matsuhashi recorded it in the notebook, then raised his head and asked, "I have already made an appointment for a group interview this afternoon. May I ask who the president will be the interviewer?"

   "I'll be fine."

  The computer interview is not difficult, just ask some simple programming questions.

   Now the first thing to do is to recruit employees first, and then start thinking about training and learning. An industry that starts from scratch will not be too easy.

   In the afternoon, Tsukino Aya stood in front of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., hesitating.

  Should I go in?

  There must be a lot of people, as long as there are too many people, I will be afraid... But I really want this job, it's really confusing.

   Around the afternoon of the day before yesterday.

   At that time, Tsukino Aya was still a little unsure about the story of Dragon Quest itself.

   This is your favorite game.

   Tsukino Aya thought so at that time.

   While thinking about it, I browsed the web at will, and then suddenly saw a job posting on the network where I usually take orders.

  Youxing Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd. is recruiting programmers, computer electronics engineers, digital media painters and other positions.

  Yu Xing, I am quite familiar with this name now.

  Because whenever you turn on the game console, the first screen that catches your eye is the gamestar screen, and then there will be two words "Yu Xing" in the lower right corner.

   This is that game company!

   Tsukino Aya, who was still a little confused, immediately regained her spirits.

   This company is hiring and working as a programmer.

   Tsukino Aya is quite curious about the game now.

   She also extracted the data of the game cartridge by some means. With her computer ability, it is not difficult to reverse the decryption.

   Then she parsed the program code inside, which gave her a basic understanding of game making.

   And the more she got to know her, the more she felt the fun of the game.

   is not just the game itself, but also the game program.

   It turns out that this villain operates through this logic.

   It turned out that the final boss was only a few lines of code, so it was obviously so difficult to fight.

   It's just that FC's game production is not difficult, but it just lacks an idea.

As soon as the idea of ​​   opened up, Tsukino Aya tried to write a similar game program on the computer by herself.

   She quickly made her own game.

   However, there is still a big gap with the games produced by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

  A game has a set of coherent systems.

   The links are intertwined. It is not only enough to study how to write the program, but also to have a creative mind enough to give inspiration.

   In later generations, there will be special logic planners and level planners. The more complex and super-large games are, the more professional the planners will be.

   She now wonders what the person who creates the game is like.

  Why he can create this interesting electronic world.

   If this creator can create a world, does that mean that more can be created?

   Then if you enter that company by yourself, maybe you can steal the teacher?

   With such curiosity, she sent her resume.

  The computer major from a well-known foreign university does not even require additional requirements. It easily passed the initial review and agreed to conduct a group interview in the afternoon a few days later.

   As soon as Tsukino Aya heard the group interview, she flinched again.

   Contact phobia.

   This is a very strange condition.

   And she is such a patient.

   Whenever there are too many people, she will fall into anxiety.

   Especially if someone wanted to touch him, she doubled her fear.

   That's why she wears thick clothes all over her body. Whenever she goes out, she is like a ball.

   Now that I suddenly have to go out and participate in a group interview, anxiety strikes again.

   However, curiosity prevailed.

  's curiosity about the person who created the game made her overcome the anxiety in her heart for a short time, and summoned the courage to come downstairs of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd.

   At this time, a lot of people have come to the door. They all seem to be the people who came for the interview. Just by looking at their appearance, it can be confirmed immediately that they are all geeky programmers.

   (end of this chapter)