Now Mei Yue needs to spend time unraveling company-related matters, and Xia Yuan has just released her first album. In the following time, everyone can devote themselves to the development progress of "Journey of the Clouds".

Many people may not know what the birth process of a game looks like, so professional planner Mei Fang will introduce it to the newcomers——

First, students from the marketing department or operations department conduct market research to understand the most popular categories, write evaluation reports, and show the bosses and senior management the gameplay introduction, user portraits, market competitiveness, and payment status of these categories.

etc.

In the end, with the brainwashing of professional data terminology such as DAU, MAU, ARPU, etc., they will work hard to convince their bosses and senior executives that as long as they choose products from these tracks when incubating new projects, the company will surely prosper and develop.

The enviable year-end bonus;

After that, the boss and senior management will actually experience the corresponding game based on the research results, estimate the development cost, evaluate the control of the game by their own research and development team, and give the project team a certain budget for them to work around.

This category track is undergoing team expansion and integration, and the pressure comes to the project leader.

The project leader of the R&D team is usually the chief planner. After the chief planner determines the game category that the boss wants, he will ask the planning team to repeatedly play various games of the same category, while also preparing various materials for the new game and making a project proposal.

Report, go back and forth with modifications like this, and then you can start making games.

The main planner first determines the basic gameplay system framework, the main program begins to write the underlying code structure based on the framework, and the main artist formulates the art style and art specifications.

In this process, planners, as the middle office, continuously output requirement documents to the program and art according to the version content requirements formulated by the chief planner, and gradually improve and optimize the content of the product.

This process inevitably involves all kinds of tuning trials and errors, overthrowing and starting over. Occasionally, the boss will take a look at the performance of the current version and make some comments. If the boss is not satisfied, the team will go back to optimize iterations until the product is submitted for review.

This is the completion of the first phase of the development cycle.

The above is a relatively standard process for developing games, and many times it seems like an ideal process.

Artist Guo Yun is obedient to Mei Fang's needs and strives to understand and satisfy Mei Fang's ideas. Her occasional self-expression will only make Mei Fang feel brighter, and she does not feel that she is out of control;

As for the program, the main people in charge are Lin Youxi and Mei Fang herself, but there is nothing much to say about this aspect.

"steamed stuffed bun?"

"..."

Xia Yuan hadn't played for a while when Lin Youxi suddenly said:

In fact, game development: The boss found a game among the top 10 and 20 best-selling games and played it for a few times. He felt that the game was good, so he called the project leader - let's also make this one and do better than him.

good.

Mei Fang held her forehead and sighed, "Baozi, Baozi... pay attention to your buns."

"I've eaten. Your portion is on the table. It may be a little cold. You can put it in the microwave to heat it up."

"It's a bit difficult to expect high school students to be interested in this... plus Guo Yun herself... still doesn't seem to be very good at communicating with others."

"okay."

When Mei Fang occasionally chatted with Guo Yun, she actually discovered that in addition to her daily classes, Guo Yun spent all her extracurricular time on game development and fitness, and it was natural that she had no social interaction.

Most of the pain and suffering Mei Fang encountered while making games in her previous life came from the fact that the project leader did not have a firm determination for the project, the gameplay was changed day by day, and the boss would tear everything down and start over again with just one sentence. These were all very demoralizing behaviors.

"I'll study it later."

"Phew... I slept so well."

"Speaking of which, the amount of resources on the art side seems to be a bit small, but fortunately the quality is very stable..."

This is still the behavior of bosses who want to make games, but those bosses who only make money from games have simpler ideas. He called the project leader——

"Oh, can we play now? I want to play too."

"Why did you start working so early in the morning...Have you had breakfast?"

Xia Yuan yawned and came out of the bedroom. When he saw Lin Youxi and Mei Fang sitting at the computer desk, typing away on the keyboard, he suddenly said curiously:

"Ah, let me say, Yuanyuan... can you go change into your pajamas first and then come over to play? I'm afraid you'll catch a cold."

The project leader worked on it for a while, and the boss came in from time to time and said, "This game is not bad. If you add the gameplay of this game to the game, plus the graphics of that game, well, I also want the theme of this game."

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But Similu Studio does not have such a problem, because everyone is united around Mei Fang when doing projects.

The main body of the character villain has been designed, mainly testing whether the functions of the basic framework are complete and the performance of some art resources included in the package.

A professional planner who understands program development and won't come up with all kinds of unreasonable and idiotic demands to change things every day, and they have more than ten years of running-in experience, what else can be said about the tacit understanding between them?

Under the leadership of Mei Fang, Lin Youxi quickly created a simple demo version of the package body and sent it out early the next morning for everyone to try.

Xia Yuan first looked at the bun in his hand and the external structure of the bun, then realized the meaning of Mei Fang's words and suddenly blushed.

"Do you have to react to me if I speak human words?"

"It's just a demo version, it's still early..."

Although the operation is similar, the overall effect is still very different from the "GRIS" that Mei Fang had in his previous life, especially in the operation feel and performance of the villain.

But she was not in a hurry to run away. Instead, she poked Mei Fang on the back and teased him, "Brother A Fang, you are too sensitive to talk so much after just touching him, hahahaha..."

"Come on, this game is very popular recently. Let's get a reskinned version. I think this thing is just that. It should be easy to make. It will be ready within 3 months."

The planners are Mei Fang and Zhang Ming. Now Zhang Ming’s free time is at the disposal of Mei Fang. Although he is still doing some execution work of matching watches, he does it quite seriously. He occasionally discusses some gameplay with Mei Fang and understands Mei Fang.

This is the intention behind the design.

Lin Youxi couldn't help but think, "Before, you asked Guo Yun to find some artists who could help her with her work. Is there any follow-up on that one?"

When Mei Fang was the chief planner in his previous life, he often led novices in planning. This aspect was a work skill that he could never forget.

Mei Fang continued to use his experience and strength as a reborn person, "The best effect of dragon bone animation is this... Recently there is a new 2D animation production software called spine on the Internet. I think the effect of making 2D villains is quite good."

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But after all, the games developed have not been tested by the market. No one can guarantee that this is wrong, or that mine will definitely not work. It is normal for everyone to argue about this.

Mei Fang has actually experienced a lot of Xia Yuan's heavy pressure in various forms, but there are still relatively few barrier-free experiences like this, and it also makes him feel even more stressed.

"That's it..."

"Um...it's okay, it's not too cold today, hehe...I feel like summer is coming soon."

Xia Yuan went to heat up breakfast in the microwave, and after eating half of it, he trotted to Mei Fang with a bun in hand. Seeing Mei Fang controlling the little man to move left and right, he leaned on Mei Fang's back excitedly to watch.

"You just need to understand this briefly. Similu Studio still needs to recruit some more people. I will ask Sister Yueyue to help me hire some spine animators and special effects artists. This kind of TA technology understands programming.

Art is also a key role in determining product strength."

Lin Youxi also gave feedback on this, "The effect of the movement of this villain feels a bit unsmooth... The skirt of the turning skirt is very unnatural. Would it be better if Guo Yun added some more action frames?"

But this will also add some extra memory."

"Yuanyuan, don't be lazy here. Isn't there a finished product for the game music yet? You are the only one who has made no progress at all in the demo."

"Oh... I'm writing that now. I should be able to give you two songs today."

Xia Yuan put his hand on Mei Fang's shoulder and spoke in his ear quite intimately: "Hmph... Today I will let you see how powerful I am."

There is another chapter left around 2:30. My gay friend came over to play mahjong. I might be able to update it with a cute Shirogane update in the evening.
Chapter completed!