Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

After finishing the novel, Lin Baicheng asked the factory security guards to come to his home the next day to move the large computer to the factory.

Lin Baicheng plans to continue developing games in the factory and at the same time learn about the current situation of the factory.

Factory director Liu Yihui reported the current situation of the factory to Lin Baicheng. Although Lin Baicheng asked the factory not to seek authorization from game companies to assemble new arcade machines, because he only acquired the factory for a few days, it had no impact on the operation of the factory. Old games continued. You can still make money by assembling it and selling it.

However, because Lin Baicheng asked the factory to recruit nearly ten new employees, the factory's expenses increased greatly. If this continues, the factory will not actually make much money.

As for Lin Baicheng's arrangement, Liu Yihui carried it out and asked for money from Lin Shufang to purchase the raw materials needed to assemble a hundred arcade machines. The raw materials for these 100 units alone cost nearly 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.

In other words, the cost of raw materials alone for an arcade machine is nearly 3,000 Hong Kong dollars, not counting the costs of game development, labor, water and electricity.

For an arcade machine, the most important thing is the electronic base board. It is very similar to the motherboard of a personal computer. It has CPU, ROM, RAM, video memory, input and output interfaces (I/O), etc. There are no arcade machines without an electronic base board. It's just an empty shell.

If you think about the price of a computer now, you can guess that the cost of an arcade machine is not much lower.

More importantly, the current electronic base version of an arcade machine can only load one game and cannot run more games.

Lin Baicheng only had a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars left. He did not dare to buy too many raw materials because there were many places where he needed to spend money.

The post-production of the game actually doesn't cost much, but the bulk of it is the application for game copyright. He hired lawyers to apply for copyright in countries around the world that have relevant laws, which costs a lot of money. Fortunately, copyrights are universal in many countries, so there is no need for lawyers to go from country to country.

In addition, you may have to spend some money when promoting, especially overseas promotion, whether it is shipping to abroad or sending employees abroad, etc., it will cost money.

Therefore, it can be said that if the game he made this time does not succeed, Lin Baicheng will suffer heavy losses. At least in the short term, he will not have the funds to make new games.

Lin Baicheng finished listening to Liu Yihui's report.

"Lao Liu, I was not disappointed if I was handed over to you to manage the factory."

Lin Baicheng nodded with satisfaction. He had now recognized Liu Yihui's ability. As long as Liu Yihui made no major mistakes in managing the factory, he would not replace him.

"I will continue to work hard."

Liu Yihui said immediately, he knew that his position as factory director should be secure.

Lin Baicheng said: "From today onwards, you should not take any more orders. After completing the order in hand, make a hundred empty arcade machines first. My game is almost finished. I will wait for post-production." , we can sell our new games.”

"Okay, Mr. Lin."

Liu Yihui nodded in agreement.

After chatting with Liu Yihui for a while, Lin Baicheng and Liu Yihui left the office together. Liu Yihui went to do other things, while Lin Baicheng went to the security captain Wu Jianjun and asked him to summon all the security guards and he wanted to see them all.

Although he has not been to the factory recently, Liu Yihui has screened the newly recruited security guards, so Lin Baicheng has general information about these people.

These security guards are indeed veterans. They stand as straight as pine trees with high aura.

Lin Baicheng got to know them one by one. He first affirmed their jobs, then described the future in which they would receive salary increases after the company made money. Then he talked about the importance of security work and asked them to protect the safety of employees and property in the factory, etc. .

Although Lin Baicheng has never been a boss or a leader before, he has never eaten pork and has always seen pigs running away, so he can still draw pie. And the big pie he drew was not a blank check. When the game sold well and made money, he would definitely increase the salary of all employees in the factory.

After meeting the security guard, Lin Baicheng walked around the workshop again, greeted the employees, and chatted for a few words before returning to the office to continue developing games.

In the next few days, Lin Baicheng would go to the factory every day. In addition to developing games, he also wanted to get familiar with the factory employees and let them know his new boss.

Lin Baicheng doesn't want to get along with the employees, because there is no need for that, but he at least wants the employees to know him as the boss, who pays them wages, and who they work for.

Over the next few days, Lin Baicheng devoted all his efforts to developing the game. In addition, he had already developed a lot before, so he developed the Xiangjiang Cube game on his computer.

After developing the game, Lin Baicheng asked the management of the factory to try it out, and it received good reviews. People like Liu Yihui and others also became confident in the future of the company.

Afterwards, Lin Baicheng went to the recording studio to dub the soundtrack for the game and complete the final post-production.

Xiangjiang Cube did not require much soundtrack dubbing, so post-production was completed on the same day.

After bringing the game back to the company, he immediately copied it to the electronic base version that had been prepared long ago, and then installed the electronic base version into an empty arcade machine to complete the production of Xiangjiang Cube's first arcade machine. The empty arcade machines are already equipped with monitors, speakers, remote control handles, etc., and can be used immediately after the electronic base is installed.

The arcade machine for the new game has just been finished, so of course it needs to be tested. Not only should we test whether the game is fun, but we should also test whether there are bugs in the game. If there are any, we must correct them in time.

This time, the test subjects are not only the management, but also all employees. Everyone must express their thoughts after playing the game.

Fortunately, Lin Baicheng has specially adjusted the difficulty of the game. Unless you are a master, you usually can't play for ten minutes. There is no way, arcade machines are mainly sold to arcade owners. If you can play for a long time by inserting coins once, how can the owner make a lot of money. If the arcade owner couldn't make a lot of money from arcade machines, he would definitely not buy a lot of arcade machines. How could Lin Baicheng make a lot of money?

After testing, the employees all said that the game was very fun. I don’t know if they were speaking honestly or because the game was developed by their boss.

Lin Baicheng didn't care about these. He would release the game no matter what the employees said. Only when they raised bugs in the game would he write them down and prepare to modify them.

Although the game is ready, it does not mean that it will be produced and sold immediately. Lin Baicheng also needs to develop software to detect coin input and software to encrypt the game code. Although the copyright is already being applied for and registered, this does not mean that there will be no piracy. Only by encrypting the game can we better protect our own interests.

With Lin Baicheng's computer skills, the encryption software he developed cannot be cracked by today's computers. For computer practitioners in this era, the technological gap of several decades is actually no different from black technology.

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