Game designer: I am making games, not charity

As early as three months ago, there was a major personnel change in the domestic headquarters of the goose factory.

Those senior employees who had professional game design experience received an outpost contract.

If you accept the expatriate contract and work in the goose factory building in the beautiful country, you can get twice the domestic salary!
Of course, there are some older employees who already have families who don't accept it.

But most of the other employees will still be attracted by this generous treatment and go to the beautiful country.

Zhang Xu is such an employee. He used to be a personal game designer and made several small games by himself.

Later, when a game was successful, Goose Factory bought his game at a high price, and set up a special department for him in Goose Factory, and let him be the manager.

But it didn't take long, under the operation of the goose factory that only pursued profit, Zhang Xu's game was over.

He also changed from a department manager to a small grassroots employee.

For this, Zhang Xu naturally had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, but he just dared not speak out.

Because Zhang Xu's family conditions are not good, now he can get a stable job in the goose factory, which is enough for him to live safely, which is already very good.

This year, he is already thirty, and he has to think about his future and some things about starting a family.

As for those illusory dreams, Zhang Xu has now put them aside.

Therefore, after the expatriation contract at the Goose Factory was signed, Zhang Xu was the first to sign the contract, packed his bags in a short time, and headed to the beautiful country.

It was only after arriving at the place that they found out that this time, their main job here was to help the Dini company in the beautiful country to produce a game that conforms to the national style of the beautiful country and promotes the style of freedom in the beautiful country.

In this regard, Dini has already figured out a game of the beautiful western era.

At first, Zhang Xu felt that the Dini company in the beautiful country was a world-renowned large-scale game company after all, so he felt that the games they produced should not be bad.

But in the end, after actually understanding it, Zhang Xu suddenly felt disappointed.

It turns out that the games made by Dini Company are nothing more than this.

In this game made by Dini Company, the player can play a western cowboy and carry out casual daily activities such as farming and grazing in the vast western region of the beautiful country.

In addition, players go to various towns to trade, or interact with the residents of the town and so on.

Overall, the degree of freedom is high, but the gameplay is rather boring. The game forms such as farming and grazing are actually somewhat similar to Platinum’s "Diamond Farm" and "Diamond Ranch".

Therefore, for Zhang Xu, who has played most of Platinum's games, this game called "Western Cowboy" is really boring.

However, after all, it is a game created by the cooperation between Dini Company and Goose Factory, so the scenery, picture quality, and character details of "Western Cowboy" have reached the extreme that current technology can achieve.

As an expatriate employee of the Goose Factory, Zhang Xu's daily job is to help Dini Company to complete all the finishing work of the game as soon as possible.

Soon, the finishing work of "Western Cowboy" was completely completed.

After the finished product came out, the Game Management Bureau of the Beautiful Country conducted an inspection and was very satisfied with their game.

With the endorsement of the Beautiful Country Game Administration, Dini Company immediately started the production of the promotional video and all preparations for the promotion.

Although in terms of game production, Goose Factory is no longer as dominant as it used to be, but in terms of publicity, Goose Factory has never convinced anyone.

Including promotional videos, copywriting, event rewards, etc., are handled by the operation department of the goose factory. For the plan of the goose factory, Dini company also directly calls the experts.

This time, not only did they publish headline advertisements on major platforms in the beautiful country, but they even published advertisements on game platforms and social networking sites in other countries around the world.

At the same time, they also spent money to hire several game live broadcast platforms to promote them.

The promotional video perfectly shows the scenery and picture quality details of the game "Cowboy in the West".

As for the content of the gameplay, it is as vague as possible, and only presents the player with an authentic western world.

At the same time, Goose Factory has also formulated a pre-order event. Players who pre-order now can get free manor skins for seven days.

In addition, the energy of the Beautiful Country Game Management Bureau is indeed very strong, so the promotional advertisement lasted for several days, the popularity was high, and the number of game reservations also showed an explosive growth!
A week later, the number of pre-orders for the game had grown to 3 million!

Such a number of reservations directly broke the record in the game industry of the beautiful country.

Of course, there is still a big gap from Platinum's "League of Legends" record of 19 billion reservations.

The record of "League of Legends" is likely to be difficult to be broken by other game companies in the next few years.

But Dini Company and the Game Management Bureau of Pretty Country are already very satisfied with this result.

For this reason, the dispatch department of the goose factory also held a special celebration banquet and gave all employees a day off.

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After the dinner, Zhang Xu dragged his tired body back to the house he rented in the beautiful country.

Sitting on the sofa, he took out his mobile phone and clicked on the few messages he had received at the party before.

It was sent by Zhang Xu's junior in China.

His junior just graduated from graduate school this year and went to work at Platinum Game Company. He heard that the salary is not bad, and the salary is much higher than when Zhang Xu was in China.

The junior sent a message to ask Zhang Xu Goose Factory what kind of game "Western Cowboy" is, and if there is any inside information. He wants to see if it is as awesome as Goose Factory boasted.

If the game is really fun, he also plans to download it and play it after it goes online.

Zhang Xu hesitated for a while, but still sent a voice message to his junior: "Don't download it, this game is not fun, the gameplay is just the VR version of "Diamond Farm", it's not interesting."

The junior at the other end was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed and replied with a voice: "No way, Dini company has also started copying our company's games?"

Being ridiculed by his junior, Zhang Xu also shook his head helplessly.

Even if the gameplay is simple, judging from the current promotional efforts of the Beautiful Country Game Administration, the data of this game will definitely not be too bad.

At this time, he remembered that the Platinum Company seemed to be involved in the Xingyu Project, so he asked, "You Platinum Corporation also participated in the Xingyu Project, how is your game going?"

The student at the other end sent a video directly.

At the same time, a message was attached: "It's ready, this is the promotion video of our game, and the promotion will officially start tomorrow."