Chapter 1 Wednesday, April 25th, Morning

Ye Zhizhou arrived at Chi Xing Studio’s office address according to the address Lin Wan had given him.

After Lin Wan left Shang Yang Games, Ye Zhizhou took over as the new person in charge. The employees of Shang Yang Games had already had a farewell dinner with Lin Wan.

Although there was some reluctance, as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Moreover, internal work transfers within the Tengda Group were always very frequent. Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin knew that they would have to take over sooner or later, so they weren't too sentimental.

What's more, Chi Xing Studio's office was also in Jingzhou, not far from Shang Yang Games. They could visit each other often, and there would be many opportunities to meet in the future.

Ye Zhizhou was here today to finalize the details of Chi Xing Studio's new game with Lin Wan.

Previously, President Pei had decided that Chi Xing Studio's first game would be a VR game, but the specific design details of this game had not yet been finalized.

Ye Zhizhou was here to help with the decision-making.

As far as Ye Zhizhou knew, in addition to him and Lin Wan, a product manager from Shenhua Mobile's VR glasses development department and the new lead planner recruited by Chi Xing Studio would also be attending the meeting.

Finalizing the name and details of the game would allow Chi Xing Studio to get on the right track as soon as possible. Sometimes, entering the development process as soon as possible was the best way to integrate the team.

Ye Zhizhou arrived at Chi Xing Studio and subconsciously looked at the working environment.

Well, it was indeed in the same vein as Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games.

Although Chi Xing Studio had only been established for a short time, employees were already working at their desks. It had to be said that the recruitment efficiency was quite high.

Ye Zhizhou entered the conference room and sat down in an empty seat.

Lin Wan was carefully flipping through a thick stack of resumes, picking out the qualified ones and putting them aside, preparing to invite them for interviews.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Lin Wan tidied up the resumes slightly and tapped the conference table. "Everyone's here. Let's hurry up and get started. There are still a few interviews this afternoon."

Ye Zhizhou noticed that Lin Wan seemed to be developing more and more of a presence. When she first arrived at Shang Yang Games, she often hesitated and couldn't make up her mind, but now she was becoming more and more like a qualified leader.

"Your efficiency is very high. It's only been three days, and you already have new employees?" Ye Zhizhou said, taking a sip of tea.

Lin Wan smiled. "Well, as long as we put up the brands of Shenhua Group and Tengda Group, and add Shang Yang Games' previous successful games, the recruitment mailbox explodes immediately."

"Many people can't get into the Tengda Games department even with an exam. The benefits and treatment here are similar to Tengda's, and the reputation is well-known, so many game developers are eager to come."

"But... taking advantage of Tengda's reputation, I'm also under a lot of pressure. If I don't make the game well, I'll really be letting President Pei down."

"Let me introduce everyone. This is Ye Zhizhou, the current head of Shang Yang Games. This is Old Song, the product manager of Shenhua Group's mobile phone business. This is Cai Jiadong, the lead designer of Chi Xing Studio..."

Lin Wan quickly introduced everyone present.

Old Song was a product manager responsible for using Shenhua Group's resources to create new VR glasses. Cai Jiadong was the newly recruited lead designer, with an unknown background, but these two looked to be in their thirties or forties, and should have a lot of experience.

Cai Jiadong shook hands with Ye Zhizhou. "Nice to meet you! I've played all the games developed by Shang Yang Studio. I didn't expect the lead designer to be so young, I'm really ashamed."

Ye Zhizhou quickly said, "Not at all, Tengda Group's platform is good. If it weren't for President Pei's guidance, I'd probably still be an executive planner."

After some mutual compliments, they quickly got down to business.

Lin Wan distributed documents and said, "These are some of the key points that were decided after the meeting with President Pei last time. Take a look."

She looked at Ye Zhizhou. "It's still the same as the work flow at Shang Yang Games before, first analyze President Pei's intentions, and then determine the specific form of the game."

Cai Jiadong took the document with both hands and read it very carefully, with an extremely pious expression.

Although he was nominally the lead planner of Chi Xing Studio, his position was currently just a title, responsible for executing tasks, and gradually taking over the design work after getting used to the work rhythm here.

Cai Jiadong's resume as a designer was very impressive. He had many years of experience as a lead designer in large domestic game companies, and had led successful projects.

There were two reasons why he came to Chi Xing Studio, one was because the treatment here was better than his original company, and the other was because of Tengda Games.

Every game developer actually has a dream deep down.

Making pay-to-win games can indeed make money, but it's just a job and not very enjoyable. And truly making a 3A game of their own, with both sales and word-of-mouth success, is something that designers can truly be proud of.

The game *Mission and Choice* rekindled the long-dormant passion of many designers like Cai Jiadong, so he accepted the job without hesitation.

Although Cai Jiadong had extensive game design experience, the development process of 3A games was very different from that of pay-to-win games, and could not be generalized.

Moreover, he had long heard that Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games had a very unique game design approach that belonged exclusively to President Pei, so he could take this opportunity to learn more about it.

He looked at the document and found that there were several rigid requirements, including the investment in the game and VR glasses, the type of game, the general style, and so on.

Cai Jiadong's face immediately showed a shocked expression after taking a look.

An investment of 20 million in glasses and 20 million in games?

A casual game with a cartoon style... investing so much money?

Cai Jiadong was confused. Although there were only a few regulations in this document, in his experience, these regulations were obviously contradictory and simply unworkable.

Investing 20 million in a casual game with a cartoon style was already outrageous enough, but they were going to spend another 20 million to develop VR glasses specifically for this game?

In other game companies, this proposal would definitely be rejected immediately, but here... it seemed to be a common occurrence?

Cai Jiadong was new and didn't dare to ask too many questions, so he could only listen silently.

Lin Wan first looked at product manager Old Song. "With 20 million in funding for the research and development of VR glasses, what level can we achieve?"

Old Song answered truthfully, "It's enough to just develop the glasses themselves, even a bit of a waste. I suggest that it's not necessary to invest so much money, after all, the domestic market is not that big, and we can't expect it to sell well."

"It's better to just make a basic model, hype up the concept, and sell it casually to recover the costs."

Lin Wan immediately shook her head. "That won't work. The research and development funding can only be increased, not decreased. Just tell me what level can be achieved."

Old Song thought for a while. "Then we can only work on the controller."

"But controllers... it seems difficult to make something new."

"VR controllers are nothing more than those things, joysticks, buttons, and so on."

"Currently, there are two types of controllers. One is relatively simple, single-handed, without a joystick, only a simple touchpad, one or two buttons, and a trigger; the other is more complex, double-handed, with two joysticks, four buttons in the thumb position, and a trigger in the index finger position."

"The first type is too simple, and it wouldn't cost much to purely develop it. Since we have ample funding, we'll definitely make the second type."

"But the second type's functions are already very complete. Each finger already has buttons, and it's also more ergonomic. There's no need for us to forcibly change the design just to be different, at most we can just change the shape."

"So I think redesigning it... wouldn't make much sense."

Lin Wan thought for a while. "Then can we add some more functions?"

Old Song shook his head. "There's nothing more to add. The thumbs of both hands need to press the joystick and the four buttons on the front, and the index fingers need to press the trigger. They're all occupied, how can we add more functions?"

The scene fell into a brief silence. Obviously, everyone didn't have a good way to spend the money.