Chapter 414: Father is more valuable than son
After chatting with three key members about the company’s recent situation, Zhou Jing went to the Starlight Game Studio.

There are a total of thirty-five people in the four groups ABCD of the game studio. Group A has eight people responsible for the development of Happy Elimination, Group B has eight people responsible for the development of Rhythm Master, Group C has thirteen people responsible for the development of King Summon, and Group D has six people responsible for adapting the version of Happy Elimination to Apple mobile phones.

Happy Elimination and Rhythm Master are proceeding step by step according to Zhou Jing's plan.

What Zhou Jing is most concerned about right now is the Summoning of the King, which Zhou Jing has planned to version 1.0.

There are a total of thirty heroes in version 1.0. The heroes are divided into six categories according to their professions: warriors, tanks, mages, shooters, assassins, and supports. Among them, warriors include hexagonal warriors and assassin-type warriors, assassins include physical assassins and magical assassins, and supports include hard supports and soft supports.

King's Summon is much more complicated than the previous two games, and the development difficulty is much greater than the previous two. Even version 1.0 cannot be completed in a short time. The code written by programmers needs to be repeatedly tested and modified. Zhou Jing gave Group C a one-year deadline for version 1.0. Development began in July this year, and it is scheduled to be launched in July next year.

When he arrived at the game studio, Zhou Jing first checked the development status of Happy Elimination and Rhythm Master. Happy Elimination had been developed to version 2.3 with 300 levels, and Rhythm Master had been developed to version 1.6 with 180 levels.

From the background data, we can see that the number of players of the two games has continued to increase rapidly since they were launched. Happy Elimination is second only to QQ Farm in the popularity list of stand-alone games, and Rhythm Master has surpassed Plants vs. Zombies in popularity, ranking fourth in the popularity list of stand-alone games.

Although Starlight Game Studio may not seem large, it is already well-known in the gaming industry. Two of the top ten stand-alone game popularity lists are from Starlight Game Studio under the name of Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd.

The mobile version 1.0 of Happy Elimination adapted for Apple has been completed and is currently being tested.

As expected, there are already plagiarized versions of match-3 games on the Internet. However, they have not had much impact on Happy Elimination. The plagiarists are eager for quick success and have no innovation, so they can only be the foil of Happy Elimination. Moreover, the largest rogue game company in the country owns 49% of the market share of Happy Elimination, and they have taken down the game after issuing warnings for obvious plagiarism, and have sued some of them.

Zhou Jing doesn't need to worry about legal matters, as Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd. does not have a legal department.

After checking Happy Elimination and Rhythm Master, Zhou Jing continued to plan King Summoning.

Zhou Jing first listed all the heroes he could think of, marking their professions, weapons, and skill mechanisms.

"Mr. Zhou, this is the first draft of the character."

The painter summoned by the king gave the task drawing to Zhou Jing.

"You sit down first." Zhou Jing pointed to the chair opposite him and said while looking at the draft: "Don't refer to foreign styles, use Chinese style completely. Watch more Chinese comics. Have you seen Qin Shi Ming Yue?"

“I’ve been watching.”

The painter nodded.

"There is also more research on traditional Chinese costumes and ancient accessories."

"Female characters should highlight three points of appearance: face, chest, and legs. Male characters should highlight their big bodies like a tank, and assassins should highlight their handsomeness."

Zhou Jing could not give the artist substantive advice on the game character drawings. Firstly, Zhou Jing did not understand, and secondly, Zhou Jing did not want to restrict the artist's creativity with his own ideas. In the art industry, it is very important to have independent thinking. Once the artist's thinking is interfered with by others, the artist will fall into confusion.

The painter listened and nodded, and almost couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhou Jing talk about the three prominent features of female characters.

After reading the artist's first draft, Zhou Jing felt a bit overwhelmed. One artist was far from enough. Character planning for online games was also a very labor-intensive task, and it required the expertise of many people, so a separate team had to be set up.

Zhou Jing returned to his private office and asked the King of Summoning planner to come to the office. The planner of King of Summoning was a professional online game planner, who was specially poached from a large company by Qin Zhengyu. He had participated in the production of League of Legends and DNF. It cost a lot to poach him, and his monthly salary was 200,000, which was at the same level as Wang Tao and others.

"Mr. Zhou."

The king summoned planner Jing Chen to come to the office.

"Sit down. You know a lot of people in the gaming industry. Do you know any painters or modelers who are good at Chinese-style character planning?"

Zhou Jing pointed to the seat and said.

"As for the traditional Chinese style, I know people who play Meteor Butterfly Sword, Immortal Sword, and Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils." Jing Chen said after thinking for a while.

Zhou Jing directly explained his intention and asked Jing Chen if he could recruit two traditional Chinese painters and modelers for the company. Jing Chen readily agreed.

Afterwards, Zhou Jing found Qin Zhengyu and asked him to be responsible for recruiting and setting up the King's Summoning modeling team, and try to poach people from Chinese style online games and Chinese comics production teams. He especially mentioned Xuan Ji. Zhou Jing liked the modeling in Qin Shi Huang very much. Zi Nu, Yan Lingji, Chao Nu Yao, Han Fei, Uncle and Second Uncle are all very classic, and they are undoubtedly the ceiling of Chinese comics.

Zhou Jing underestimated the complexity of developing an online game. The capital investment is not a small amount. The 1.0 version of King Summoning will take one year to develop. Even if it is successfully developed, the investment required this year will not be less than million. If the project fails, the loss will be huge. If no one plays it after it is developed and launched, the loss will be even greater.

Now that he has taken this step, Zhou Jing cannot give up halfway. What the development team lacks most right now is modeling. If that doesn't work, Zhou Jing will spend a lot of money to hire people. Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem.

"Okay, I'll get to it right away."

Qin Zhengyu did not delay and went to look up information as soon as he left the office.

The afternoon passed quickly. After get off work at five o'clock, Zhou Jing stayed in the company to work overtime and went home at seven o'clock.

Gu Jia and her mother had finished their meal. After Zhou Jing came back, Gu Jia went to the kitchen.

Zhou Jing washed his hands, went to the kitchen and put his arms around Teacher Gu's waist.

“Is it hot outside?”

The pot was boiling, and Gu Jia turned down the heat.

"Fortunately."

Zhou Jing said as he gently rubbed Gu Jia's belly.

"ready to eat."

Gu Jia took a bowl and gave the boy some noodles.

Zhou Jing came by himself and asked Gu Jia to go out and rest. Gu Jia took a can of beer from the refrigerator and put it on the dining table.

"No more drinking. From today until the baby is born, I won't drink at all."

Zhou Jing tried not to drink when he was with Gu Jia, in case Gu Jia needed to go to the hospital.

"Then I'll get drunk with you after I give birth, and I'll make you rock sugar mung bean soup tomorrow."

Gu Jia put the beer aside and looked at the boy with a smile.

“Less sugar.”

Zhou Jing picked up a piece of meat and put it to Teacher Gu’s mouth.

Gu Jia opened her mouth, ate the meat and said, "The Experimental Middle School website has posted your photo. Are you planning to go to the school celebration?"

"I'll see when the time comes. I don't want to go."

Zhou Jing was not going to go, as the school anniversary was still more than a month away. The academic director of Experimental Middle School had already called Zhou Jing twice, inviting him to cheer for the senior year at the school anniversary. Zhou Jing felt embarrassed just thinking about this, so he was not going to go. He would just donate some money when the time came. Anyway, nothing was more practical for the school than donating money.

Speaking of donations, Zhou Jing will donate some to his junior high school alma mater next time he goes back. It is related to his father's future. His father was recently promoted to the director of academic affairs. Zhou Jing's goal is to push his father to the position of principal, to live his life again, and to let his father experience the honor of a father through his son.

(End of this chapter)