Chapter 136 Naming the studio(1/2)
At the beginning of 2011, Weixin had just come out and mobile payment was still in its infancy. It was not easy to make online mobile payment. You had to go to a bank.
Mei Fang had already done this during the summer vacation, so he could order his laptop online using Taobao.
However, logistics in this era cannot be expected to be very fast. The three Alienware M11X units purchased by Mei Fang for 40,000 yuan took a full week to be transported from Shanghai to Jiangcheng, and were not delivered until the weekend of the first week of school.
The task of telling Aunt Liang that "the school has distributed computers" was completed by Lin Youxi.
In the eyes of her stepmother, Lin Youxi has always been a good child with excellent academic performance and hard work, so she has always believed in Youxi's words, which also made Lin Youxi feel a little guilty.
At the same time, in order to reassure Aunt Liang, everyone’s laptops were usually kept in the living room for use. This involved the matter of getting network cables to apply for network broadband. Mei Fang thought of ways to coax Aunt Liang to apply for the 10M telecommunications bandwidth, which was extremely rare at the time.
The bandwidth of most home computers in this era is about 2M, which means the download speed is 200K. This is definitely the slowest speed in the eyes of Mei Fang, who will return in 2022. A bandwidth of 10M can guarantee a speed of about 1M.
Of course, the price in this way is about 4 times that of 2M, and the Internet fee is 3,200 yuan a year. This can be said to be a huge sum of money, which is already worth one month's salary of Liang Meijuan.
Although Mei Fang Xia Yuan said that she could pay for it herself, Liang Meijuan was worried that the children would not have enough living expenses, so she gritted her teeth and paid the money.
Liang Meijuan did not interfere too much in what the children did, and she could be said to have considerable trust in Mei Fang and the others, which was something that no other parent in the three families could say.
But it was also the case that Liang Meijuan kept hiding their actual actions, which made the three little ones feel very uneasy.
So they would help Liang Meijuan with some housework on weekends, Xia Yuan would clean at home, and Lin Youxi would accompany Liang Meijuan when she went shopping for groceries.
Only Mei Fang, the little girl, was busy installing the computer and configuring the network environment. Only Xia Yuan helped when she needed help with cleaning.
"These cardboard boxes are not used anymore, right?"
Xia Yuan put down the broom, picked up the unpacked box of the laptop and asked Mei Fang, "Don't you want me to throw it all away?"
"Please keep the three-guarantee warranty certificate, the box will not be used anymore."
"is that all?"
"Yeah, right... put it on the coffee table. I'll get it later."
Mei Fang glanced at it and continued to busy configuring the computer and installing it. As he was busy, Xia Yuan suddenly pinched his shoulder from behind and kissed him, "Is the computer done?"
"Well... that's almost it."
"So starting from today, are you going to code with Youxi again?"
"Besides coding, I have other things to do. I have to read the plan written by Zhang Ming and the text written by Yue Xinyi."
Xia Yuan said in surprise, "He really started to help you?"
"Hmm... But I guess I have more time during the summer vacation. I probably won't have time when school officially starts. After all, I gave him such a good car, so I have to squeeze him a lot."
While Mei Fang was talking, Xia Yuan kept leaning on his shoulder and watching the screen, but she would only be so unscrupulous when Youxi and Aunt Liang were not around.
Of course, Mei Fang didn't know that Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi had agreed that their relationship would not go any further. He still tried to pull and hold the water. As long as Yuan Yuan didn't do anything that crossed the line, he wouldn't resist.
"Is there anything I can do to help? Everyone is helping you now. I also asked Yue Xinyi to help with the copywriting of the game. She was very happy writing it."
"Well... Then you can learn some arrangement software. It will not only help me make game soundtracks and sound effects, but it will also be helpful for you to make music in the future! Well, take a look at Fruit Arranger. It is a relatively powerful function.
arranging software.”
"Okay, then I'll search and download it, and then study the tutorial."
Xia Yuan took Mei Fang's clothes to dry his hands, and then sat down at the side.
Mei Fang saw that her mop was put aside, so she took the initiative to take over the job.
"Shall I go help you mop the floor?"
"Yeah, sorry for your trouble, thank you Al Fang!"
When Mei Fang had almost finished mopping the floor, Aunt Liang and Lin Youxi came back and knocked on the door. Xia Yuan immediately climbed down from the chair as if she had been electrocuted.
She put on her slippers and quickly asked Mei Fang to open the door, while she took the mop and pretended to finish the finishing work.
"I'm home."
"Hmm... Yuanyuan is mopping the floor. You're working really hard."
Xia Yuan smiled guiltily at Aunt Liang, "It's okay, it's okay, I should... Hey, don't go too fast, the ground is not dry yet."
"All right."
Lin Youxi carried the vegetables and went to the kitchen with Liang Meijuan. Liang Meijuan pushed Lin Youxi and said, "Youxi, you go watch TV or play on the computer with A Fang and the others. I will cook."
"It's okay, Auntie, let me help you -"
Liang Meijuan was not happy:
"My job is to take care of you three, why do I need your help everywhere?"
"It's true that you are all good children, but you usually eat in the school cafeteria. Auntie has more things to do on weekends. You can't take away all my work. Auntie, I have a boring life."
When Liang Meijuan said this, she deliberately said it loudly so that Xia Yuan could hear it, which meant that the children did not need to be too sensible and obedient.
"After dinner, you three go out for a walk. Don't stay at home all the time and get bored."
"All right……"
So the three little ones were kicked out of the house by Liang Meijuan in the afternoon.
"Where are we going to play? Where are we going to play?"
Xia Yuan became excited as soon as she left the house, "Speaking of which, we haven't watched a movie together in Jiangcheng. Do you want to go to a movie theater in the city?"
Mei Fang shook her head, "This place is far away from the city. It takes about 2 hours to drive there and back."
"Ah..." Xia Yuan said with a bitter look on his face, "That's too far, and I can't even catch up with the evening self-study."
"The weather is so hot now, how about finding a milk tea shop to spend the afternoon?" Lin Youxi suggested, "Then let's find something to do."
"Well... there are things you can do outside-"
Xia Yuan thought for a while, "Afang, do you have any good ideas?"
"Oh, I just have something I want to ask everyone for your opinion on."
Mei Fang explained, "It's about the naming issue of our game studio."
Previously, Mei Fang released "The Stupid Bird Flies First" on the Internet, which was created under the signature of "Claring May" (Clever May) as an independent game producer. Next, he plans to take advantage of the entry of Pingguo 4 to start to accumulate experience in the domestic game industry.
Reputation and fame.
"Life Restart Simulator" and "Kingdom" are the works he plans to put on the App Store during the National Day in October. Because they are highly interactive word games, the program development and art resources have already been completed.
Now we just need to wait for the table matching and bug testing, so we need the name of a studio.
The name of this studio is of great significance to Mei Fang.
Previous games were just replicas of the success of their predecessors, and creating it was the first step for Mei Fang to expand his game territory and gain a foothold in the industry.
The three of them found a milk tea shop opposite the school and sat down. Since it was the weekend of summer vacation, there were indeed some students from the same year who lived on campus gathering together. Mei Fang and the three of them did not hesitate to sit down in an inconspicuous corner.
, Xia Yuan asked for stickers and pens, and gave them to Mei Fang and Lin Youxi.
"Afang, before I think of a name, let me ask you a question."
Xia Yuan rubbed his hands and said, "Well... I can only help you with very few games now, not even as much as Yue Xinyi and Guo Yun. Is it really appropriate for me to also participate in thinking of this name?"
"Is there anything inappropriate about this? We are the starting trio. This is not determined by the division of labor. Moreover, Yuan Yuan, your work will become more and more important in the future. You must be mentally prepared. I
But I will treat you very harshly."
"Hmm...that's good."
Xia Yuan smiled and stuck out her tongue, "Actually, I just wanted to say something polite..."
Lin Youxi suggested at this time, "Since it is a studio founded by three people, a common naming method is to take each person's name to form a studio, right?"
"Then it's called Mei Youyuan Studio. It's quite attractive."
Mei Fang often liked to tease this group of words, but this time she was hit hard on the head by Xia Yuan.
"Don't use such an unlucky name! Your last name is too difficult! Don't use Mei as your name!"
"The fate is square, the fate is square, the fate is square, the fate is square..."
Lin Youxi transcribed all the permutations and combinations. Xia Yuan watched her operating on the side and couldn't help but sigh:
"This doesn't work either...the names of three people cannot be combined into a good word!"
"Then think of other word combinations."
Mei Fang suggested, "Reorganize the name of the studio by taking the pinyin initials of our names, such as M from Mei Fang, L or X from Lin Youxi, and Y from Xia Yuan."
As she spoke, Mei Fang crossed her arms and said with a proud look, "In this case, we can be called Mi Xiyou, or Mi Leyou. When we become famous in the future, we will also be Mi Xiyou."
Come travel to the Big Three."
"The method is indeed a good one, but what about the three giants of Mi Xiyou——"
Xia Yuan said in disgust, "It sounds too weird! Neither Missy nor Journey to the West sounds good. It's far-fetched."
"I think so too." Lin Youxi nodded.
"You actually dislike me, but I think it's pretty good..."
Got into trouble.
To be continued...