Chapter 121 25. Sega! New handheld console!

Author: Pure Miwan

Chapter 121 25. Sega! New handheld console!

"Hiring people."

Qing Zhiyuan knocked on Ayase Akane's desk.

"Why?"

The latter was stunned for a moment, and his eyes immediately burst into light.

"Okay, Mr. President, how many people do you want to recruit now and for what positions?"

Akane Ayase quickly picked up the pen and paper and took notes at any time.

"Hmm..." Qing Zhiyuan glanced around.

Currently, there are 35 regular employees in the company, and several new employees will report to the company in April.

Then there are 5 regular interns.

The schools here in Neon have three holidays a year. They have summer vacation in July every year, and then start school in September until the Chinese New Year in December. Then there is the winter vacation in January.

Then we have spring break in February or March.

School will start again in April.

For example, Xin Haicheng came to the company for an internship this time during the spring break.

This group of interns had already left the company by April.

Of course, there are some exceptions. It depends on how you get along with the interns. If the conditions are good and the interns are interested, they can come to work in the company during their free time at school.

This is a very common phenomenon in neon and China.

In his previous life, Qing Zhiyuan worked for a small game company where half of the employees were interns.

It is a tacit understanding among capitalists to use interns as regular employees.

But at least Qing Zhiyuan will give them sufficient internship salary. If they perform well, they can also sign an employment contract first, and they can enter pokeni as soon as they graduate from university.

This can be considered relatively conscientious.

Most companies just let interns work without paying them at all, and some large companies even require interns to be paid for their internships.

Xin Haicheng is one of those whom Qing Zhiyuan pays close attention to, so even if school has started, Xin Haicheng will still come to the company to help in his free time and do some odd things.

He is not doing it for the internship salary, but mainly to have a sense of identity among pokeni, to have seniors he likes, and to be able to do the things he likes.

Sometimes the company will give him the original painting task and ask him to complete it in school and then bring it over.

Although Xinjin Cheng is not considered a formal employee now, he is still considered a member of pokeni and is used as a semi-regular employee.

In the future, Qing Zhiyuan also wants to hand over more important tasks to this young man.

In addition to Xinjin Cheng, there are several good young men who also receive similar treatment and are being trained as future talents of the company.

Of course, it is still unknown whether they will choose pokeni after graduation.

…

So now the company is fully staffed, with 40 people.

But it is only enough to support 2 to 3 teams.

One of the projects being developed is "Diablo 2". It was originally handed over to Shinji Mikami to produce, but he wanted to make "The Witcher" with Gen Urobuchi, so for Diablo 2, Qing Jiyuan could only do it himself.

Already.

The other one is "Pokémon". The development progress of Pokémon is currently relatively satisfactory.

The mechanics of this game are not complicated. The most important thing is that the original painting and character design take a lot of time. According to Qing Zhiyuan’s own estimation, Pokémon should be finished in June.

But these two projects have basically occupied all the company's manpower.

If you want to free up your hands to work on "The Witcher", you either have to expand your recruitment, or you have to see if you can work on programming and art seamlessly.

The so-called interspersed work is a bit like [time slice rotation scheduling] on computer processes, because everyone's work arrangements are arranged in a certain dislocation and sequence, and it is impossible for everyone to do a saturated amount of work at the same time.

When some of the people deliver the work at hand and wait for the next batch of work to arrive, there will be some spare time, and then use this part of the time to work on other projects.

To put it bluntly, "The Witcher" needs to review the rest of Diablo 2.

But as a result, the development cycle of "The Witcher" will become longer, and manpower support will not be available until Pokémon development is completed.

"Two programs, two art, that's about it for now." Qing Zhiyuan said, "Well, by the way, let Taiji Sakata pay more attention when the time comes to select. What we need are talents who can draw Japanese-style Western fantasy.

"

"Okay president." Akane Ayase wrote down carefully with a pen.

As a result, the number of people in the company will increase.

"By the way, we need to find a larger venue. The company's current area can no longer accommodate so many people." Qing Zhiyuan added.

"Huh?"

The little HR was stunned for a moment and pointed at himself, "Shall I contact you?"

"What if?"

"Ah... Damn it, President, you treat me as your secretary again!"

…

Back in the office, Qing Zhiyuan folded his hands and thought silently.

Large-scale game development is indeed a very time-consuming, money- and resource-intensive matter.

The development cycle is generally long, even half a year is considered short, and some projects may even take one to two years, three to four years, or even 10 years.

But the problem is that several of pokeni's current games are large-scale projects.

Games like Diablo have a long cycle.

In comparison, galgame has obvious advantages.

The development cycle is short and the selling price is high. P Company is now quite famous. As long as the product quality is good enough, it can actually make quite a lot of money.

Based on the current program development progress, as long as the amount of art can be spread, the production cycle of a galgame will only be 3 months.

Do you want to make another galgame?

…

It took 5 days to sort out the plan for the new galgame. On the afternoon of the second Tuesday, when Makoto Shinzu came to the company, Qing Zhiyuan called him, art director Taiji Sakata and copywriter Mika Ishino to the president's office.

among.

Qing Zhiyuan handed out a copy of the printed plan to each person.

Xinjin Cheng was a little flattered and took two deep breaths to calm down.

The president is so kind to me, I don’t even know how to repay him.

I looked down and saw a few big words written on the plan——

"Your Name"

This is an original neon animated film directed by Makoto Shinkai in 2016, with Ryunosuke Kamiki and Moe Kamishiraishi as the main dubbing actors, and produced by Comix Wave Films.

The film tells the story of male and female high school students who meet in a dream and find each other.

It can be said that this cartoon established Makoto Shinkai's position in the field of animated films, and he has since been hailed as Hayao Miyazaki's successor.

Your Name can be regarded as a mature work that he has been exploring for so many years. Before this, it was somewhat "the picture is beautiful, but the story is insufficient".

This movie has also set a box office miracle for animated movies around the world and has become a masterpiece in the minds of countless people.

Either don’t do it, or if you want to do it, of course go directly to a big one!

This is Qing Zhiyuan’s idea.

In the past, it was restricted by hardware, but now pokeni technology has also improved, both in terms of software and hardware.

Although using Sega's MD can't make the wallpapers as exquisite as those of Madman, it can still be done quite well.

…

A few people didn't speak and looked through the books silently.

The background of the story takes place in Neon, which coincides with the visit of a once-in-a-millennium comet.

Miyami Mitsuha, a female high school student living in a neon town, is bored by the election campaign held by her father, who is the mayor of the town, and the ancient customs of the family shrine.

She is full of longing for big cities and even fantasizes, "Please let me be a handsome guy in Tokyo in the next life!".

Suddenly one day, Mitsuha had a dream that she became a boy, in a strange room, facing strange friends, and on the streets of Tokyo.

Although she was confused, the girl was still very happy to be able to come to Tokyo, which she had longed for.

At the same time, Tachibana Taki, a male high school student living in Tokyo, also had a strange dream. He became a female high school student in a small mountain town that he had never been to.
To be continued...