Chapter 85 The little thoughts of manufacturers

Empty floors, dirty walls.

Meng Shu stepped on the dust on the ground and came to the window, silently lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.

Looking at the green vegetation of the industrial park from the height of the 7th floor, I blew out smoke rings.

"Quote a suitable price."

"Okay, Mr. Meng."

The female agent in professional attire behind her showed her signature smile.

"The location of Jichuang Industrial Park is in a relatively prosperous area. There are various shops and restaurants nearby, and it is less than ten minutes from the subway station. If you really want to rent, this entire floor of more than 500 square meters can be rented.

I’ll give you 4 yuan/day.”

Meng Shu nodded after hearing this.

"The monthly rent is 60,000, right? What about the property management fee?"

"The property management fee is 15 yuan/square meter, paid monthly."

After Meng Shu heard this, he took a deep breath of smoke, exhaled, and let it float into the air.

"67,500."

He turned around, walked into the empty company, and looked at it carefully.

This is one of the rooms on the 7th floor of Building A, Jichuang Industrial Park.

In terms of scale, it’s about 70 square meters.

Originally, Meng Shu had no intention of considering this place. Even if the location was good, he was prepared to change places.

Because it's too small.

But then the agency lady said that the entire floor had been moved, so he stopped.

After careful questioning, I found out that my previous company was a training company. Due to some reasons, I couldn't continue working, so I chose to leave.

Meng Shu doesn't care what happened to his last company.

Opportunities like this to build a whole floor are rare in Shenzhen.

And the area is about 500 square meters. As long as the walls other than the load-bearing walls are opened up, it will look very spacious.

So he thought about it and didn't leave in time.

Instead, I went in and looked at every room.

I have to say, there is a lot of garbage.

The previous training company left a lot of things here.

"Is it possible the price is lower?"

The agent suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Mr. Meng, this price is already the lowest. It was originally 5 square meters/day. Seeing that you are a young entrepreneur, I talked with the landlord for a long time before we got the price of 4 square meters/day."

Meng Shu couldn't help but smile a little when he saw the intermediary's sincerity.

Just listen to her words.

After looking around, the more I looked, the more satisfied I became, and I vaguely had a decoration plan in my mind.

If we rent this place, we can deploy more staff.

At the same time, for the sake of employees' health, the fitness room, office desks and chairs have to be upgraded in all aspects.

Therefore, the office area and fitness area should be larger.

We also have to hire a cook to prevent them from eating takeout.

There is enough space to build a larger motion capture room, and since it is a game company, it is reasonable to equip a full-platform game experience room.

At least employees can relax here.

Of course, you may not be able to use it frequently because you are too busy at work.

But it doesn't matter. For Meng Shu, it's no problem to have such a break room, and employees will definitely use it.

So after thinking about it, he decided to rent it.

So after discussing the safety hazards and follow-up situations with the agency lady, I went to the agency company to sign the contract.

Next, it’s time to find a suitable decoration company to start designing and decorating.

Meng Shu directly handed over this matter to Finance Sister Mei, and then went to the real estate center.

The new office space has been selected, and all that's left is decoration.

This probably won't be done within half a year.

So I still have to work in my current company.

And due to space problems, there are not many places for new employees, so the recruitment matter has to continue to be put on hold.

At the same time, Meng Shu also outsourced the console porting work of the three games "Dark Forest", "Blackjack" and "Face".

It was originally planned to be handed over to Infinite Entertainment, but they are also developing new games now and can't spare the time.

Therefore, we can only provide Meng Shu with a few studios with long-term cooperation and good technical skills for him to choose.

Meng Shu spent some time getting to know these companies and finally chose a small company called Future Studio.

Although their scale is not large, judging from the company information, they are quite powerful.

They are involved in most FPSs on the market, and they themselves say they are very good at shooting games and are long-term partners of many game companies.

Because their shooting feedback is surprisingly good, they have a good reputation in the industry and among players.

So asking them to help port the game is overkill.

However, this also made Meng Shu feel relieved. He handed over all three games to them for transplantation at once, and the funds were abundant.

The purpose is to allow players who are afraid to play VR to be exposed to horror games through other ways.

As for the VR version of "Dark Forest".

Due to the limitations of engine technology currently on the market, no other company can do it except its own monkey system.

So you have to do it yourself.

Qiu Yuan, Xu Hong, and Xia Nianzhen are currently working intensively.

Chen An even asked him to expand the plot and add side missions to the VR version of "Dark Forest".

Meng Shu thought for a while and agreed to the request.

Anyway, everything will be implemented after his review in the end, so let them use it to their fullest.

Now, it's time to move to a new home.

At this time, due to the global popularity of "Sky Mountain", there were also public accusations from the Game Network.

Many medium and large domestic manufacturers began to re-examine this development company called ‘Only Game’.

Although I paid a little attention to the game "Dark Forest" when it was released before, I didn't take it seriously.

After all, the game was a horror game at the time, and it was promoted as a personal development.

Therefore, domestic manufacturers do not think there will be any results.

Just think of it as a whimsical young man who wants to pursue his dream.

Because there are many such people at the College Student Game Show every year.

But what shocked them was that this young man actually succeeded!?

The gaming industry is known to be extremely unpopular, but the horror and suspense genre of who does it and who dies actually made him, an unknown young man, and his game popular?

But even so, the major manufacturers were only slightly surprised and did not pay attention to it.

After all, the horror game genre has been unpopular for more than ten years.

The sudden release of a popular horror game can be regarded as a flashback before the market dies, or a small wave of calm.

After that, it was still as peaceful as before.

They will not mindlessly enter the horror market just because a horror game has become a hit. Entering rashly without experience is an act seeking death.

It's better to just stick to the type of games you're good at.

And for more than a decade, there have been many bold companies that have ventured into this unpopular market to make profits, but they have all ended in failure.

With so many failed examples in the past, they don't want to blindly spend a large amount of budget and manpower to develop a horror game with an uncertain future just because of the only successful case.

Therefore, the popularity of "Dark Forest" made the manufacturers not take it seriously, and even thought that it was just a matter of taking advantage of the right time and place, and the next version may not have such results.

but

They never expected it.
To be continued...