In the evening, I naturally had to treat again to thank Clivia for her help. This time I chose a famous Internet celebrity Chinese restaurant in the imperial capital based on Gu Lan's recommendation.
As the saying goes, once it's new, it's the second time it's familiar. Being caught in the middle by Erlan again, Gu Feng's face turned red and his heart stopped beating.
Although the two siblings are both talkative and quiet, with Clivia around, it was impossible to stay silent. The three of them ate happily and chatted happily.
"Hey! Junior Sister Jun?"
The three of them followed the sound and happened to see a man in a plaid shirt who looked to be in his early thirties walking over with a surprised look on his face.
"Senior Du, what a coincidence, you are here to eat too?" After seeing the person clearly, Clivia brushed her hair from her forehead and stood up.
At the same time, Gu Lan also stood up and said hello with the same smile: "Senior Du."
Gu Feng had no choice but to stand up.
"Haha, isn't this game about to be launched in a month? The project team is having a dinner together." He pointed at a group of people not far behind him who were waiting for the waiter to share a table.
Gu Feng turned his head and glanced slightly, and saw that except for two women, the rest of the group of people were all men. At this moment, they were looking at them here with great interest. Even though they were seven or eight meters apart, Gu Feng could see
I can clearly see the gossip, envy, and jealousy in their eyes.
Coincidentally, Gu Feng saw that Zhang Qiang was also inside. Of course, the other party also saw him, but the two of them were in tacit understanding and had no intention of saying hello.
He knew clearly about Longteng's people.
"I see, can you tell me what kind of game it is?" Clivia's eyes seemed to be shining with curiosity.
This senior Du was also very upright and said without any hesitation: "I don't want to disclose anything. It's an arpg game. I won't say the name. Anyway, it is definitely better than our company's previous action games. I will definitely not let anyone know about it."
Junior sister, you are disappointed." [Note 1]
"I still believe in Senior Du's strength..."
The two looked familiar and chatted a lot.
"How many people do you have in your project team? I thought that for a big company like yours, any game project team would have dozens or hundreds of people."
Senior Du laughed: "What a shame! Of course it can't be just a few people. It doesn't matter if I tell you. Those who came to dinner tonight are all from the design team. Today the boss gave us a new task, asking us to make a model similar to "
We are competing with a game similar to "Happy Xiaoxiao Le". Anyway, it is to celebrate the upcoming release of the new game, and it can also be regarded as a start-up banquet."
"Ha...it really looks like Dragon Teng's style. There are very few games that are my own creation." Clivia made no secret of her disdain for this kind of behavior.
Senior Du shook his head and was not angry at all: "This is normal. Strong funds are Longteng's advantage. Innovation means risk. Longteng can innovate, such as the new games we are about to launch, but it is impossible to innovate them all because this is not in line with businessmen.
The thinking of a businessman is to use more abundant capital to learn from the successful works on the market to make a better quality game and beat the original! This is the thinking of a businessman."
"The reality may be a bit cruel. There are very few adventurers who are dedicated to making independent games. Most of them are followers behind the first adventurer. For example, think of Happy Xiaoxiaole as
A leopard has just caught its prey. At this time, there must be many people watching. They are not willing to hunt by themselves. They would rather make a match-3 game similar to Happy Xiaoxiaole and eat as much as possible.
Happy Xiao Xiao Le eats the leftover meat, they are like a group of vultures. And Long Teng is a lion, it is not willing to spend a lot of energy to hunt, it will drive away the leopard and occupy the land that the leopard has not yet had time to eat.
All food.”
"This is also the reason why I gave up making independent games in the first place. Individuals cannot fight against capital after all. Society is not a house of play. Players don't care about who comes first. They only care about who has more fun."
"Xuemei Jun, I have to go over first. When the game comes out, I will definitely be the first to tell you. Please give me your support."
When Du Jianghai returned to his colleagues, a group of people immediately started joking.
"Brother Du, you are awesome. Your girlfriend is really beautiful. She is even more beautiful than those stars on TV."
"Yes, not to mention her temperament, she is at the level of a goddess."
"Brother Du, is the other beautiful woman your girlfriend's best friend? Is the man next to her her boyfriend?"
"Okay, Jiang Hai, you've done a really good job keeping secrets. In our line of work, it's not easy to find such a beautiful girl." Han Taoyan said insincerely. He was still single in his thirties, and he thought he was good-looking and well-paid.
He was definitely better than Du Jianghai in every aspect. When he saw that Du Jianghai had such a beautiful girlfriend, he was so jealous that he almost lost his mood to eat.
Du Jianghai was very pleased with everyone's praise. He waved his hands and explained: "Don't talk nonsense, everyone. I really want to, but for the time being, we are just good friends."
Hearing this, everyone smiled politely and even laughed out loud in their hearts.
"Ah? She's not my girlfriend. That's a pity."
"It's okay. It's only a matter of time. Once you see the relationship, it's going to be good."
They said it insincerely.
Zhang Qiang was disdainful in his heart, so he said how could the goddess like this guy? He didn't look good, and he was more hypocritical than him. He didn't like this guy very much on weekdays.
But in comparison, Gu Feng, who was obviously eating at the same table as the goddess, was even more annoying.
Thinking about the ranking mode mentioned by Gu Feng, he hesitated to speak, and finally decided to find a chance to tell the boss alone.
the other side.
Clivia's mood also dropped a lot.
"Senior sister, you don't really believe that guy's words, do you?" He did not call the other party Senior Du, but referred to him as that guy. There was no way, the other party stood in front of him and said that he would make a game to kill Xiaoxiaole.
, it would be too difficult for him to ask him to look good to others.
"He is actually right. This is how the game industry is. It is right for players to choose better games, and it is even more right for independent game designers to design games carefully. However, large manufacturers learn from or acquire small manufacturers or independent game designers.
From their standpoint, it is in the interests of the company, and rightly so."
Her tone was low: "Perhaps this is why there are so few good games. After all, the power of individuals cannot resist capital."
"Ha." Gu Feng accidentally laughed out loud. When he realized what he was doing, it was already too late to regret it.
Clivia raised her head and looked at him, frowning slightly, a little unhappy. She could tell that Gu Feng was obviously disdainful of what she just said: "Why are you laughing?"
Seeing her expression, Gu Feng felt inexplicably panicked and quickly explained: "Senior, don't get me wrong, I'm not laughing at you."
Clivia stared at him coldly, waiting to hear what he said.
"I don't quite agree with his statement. After all, any individual can't compete with capital. It's just an excuse for not being able to make a good game. Capital has advantages of capital, such as capital, talent, and channels."
"But capital also has flaws. For example, the purpose of every game from the beginning is to make money. For example, designers' ideas are severely restricted. Even if they have good ideas, they may be forced to shelve them because their superiors disagree.
For example, many people do game development, testing or other jobs just for work, not for love."
"Take Xiaoxiaole, for example. In the eyes of most people, the whole game can be seen at a glance. It is very simple, but is it not easy to copy? In fact, it is absolutely impossible for Happy Xiaoxiaole to achieve such success.
It's not as simple as they think. I won't reveal the specific reason yet. The senior sister will just watch it. If you want to be more happy than happy, it's up to them, haha." Gu Feng glanced sideways at the location of Long Teng and everyone, disdainfully.