CH 15

Chapter 15: Under the legend

At ten o’clock the next morning, in an office building in Modu.

Chen Xu has just signed the lease contract with the agent and the owner, and is chatting with Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue on the sofa

“Chen Xu, your office building rents is lot of money every month, right?” Yang Xin asked casually, looking at the layout of the surrounding environment.

“Well, I signed a contract for three months temporarily. The rent is fine, mainly because the game development machine and other office equipment have a relatively large expenditure.”

The rent is 5 yuan per square meter a day, and he rented 2 common rooms with a total of 160 square meters.

The rent alone is 24,000 a month, and the property fee is 20 yuan per flat per month.

Of course, if you go to a small city, the money may only be one tenth.

But it is obviously unrealistic. After all, the gap between small cities and big cities in terms of talents is still too large.

“It’s simple. My company just closed down. All kinds of development prototypes are ready-made. You can look at it and give it to Chen Xu.”

“But then again, we are the two main developers of our company?” Yang Xin said towards Chen Xu.

At present, there are four employees in the company, including himself.

Yang Xin worked with him on game development, and the other two were employees of Yang Xin’s company before.

One is responsible for finance and administration, and the other is responsible for operations.

After testing the working ability of the two, Chen Xu also recruited them together.

“Well, it’s really the two of us now. The core team is missing an artist!” Chen Xu sighed, and then looked at Ruan Ningxue, who was holding ice cream next to him.

In Chen Xu’s plan, in addition to himself, there is also a need for someone with certain attainments in art.

And Ruan Ningxue was his target.

As for the team with only three people, Chen Xu is not worried about this.

After all, the game development industry in this world is different from my previous life, and a core development team of three people is enough in Chen Xu’s plan for now.

Among them, the numerical value, level planning, and core design can be completed by Chen Xu himself.

Most of the remaining content, such as art modeling output, can be handed over to outsourcing teams.

Because these are not technical jobs, they just take a lot of time.

Although the cost of outsourcing in these areas is definitely higher, Chen Xu is more willing to invest money cost than time cost compared to time.

All that was left was whether Ruan Ningxue could be ‘flickered’ into the team.

During the development of “Magic Mirror”, after seeing Ruan Ningxue’s art skills, Chen Xuke was eyeing it.

“Yes, Ning Xue, join us… By the way, what is the name of our company, Mr. Chen?” Yang Xin suddenly thought of something and asked.

“Nebulas Games.” Chen Xu said helplessly.

“Actually, senior, I don’t think there is much difference between comics and games. They are all about showing the stories in their hearts to readers and players.” Chen Xu looked at Ruan Ningxue in front of him, and said seriously, “And in the future, Nebula Games will also have a comic business, and for some games, there will be a corresponding comic book, etc., when the senior is interested, you can continue to carry out this content.”

Game extension comics, or comic adaptation of games, this is actually a very normal operation.

And compared with my previous life, the manga game is basically different from the money of the fans. According to Chen Xu, the parallel world understands. Although most of the game’s design concepts lag behind the previous life, the manga game is the only one that dominates.

Hearing Chen Xu’s words, Ruan Ningxue showed a moving expression, and finally seemed to have made up her mind, nodded and said, “Then I will call you, Mr. Chen, junior!”

“It’s just a name, senior sister can call whatever she thinks goes well.” Seeing Ruan Ningxue joining in, Chen Xu also smiled.

“Xiaoxue, why did you promise to be so carefree, I’ve get you a cake like this for you before!” Yang Xin next to him showed a speechless expression.

Although Ruan Ningxue’s joining made her very happy, the key is that she didn’t know how many times she had persuaded her before, but it didn’t work, but now how can it be replaced by Chen Xu?

“Sister Xin, you are just a big cake. Even if you succeed in a game, I won’t think about it without thinking.” Ruan Ningxue was speechless.

Chen Xu has a “Magic Mirror” guarantee, and the company’s development direction is very clear. The better the game on your side, the smaller the company and the fewer people you have.

“Okay, in order to celebrate the joining of Senior Sister, let me talk about some of the next arrangements.” Chen Xu looked at the two and said.

Hearing Chen Xu’s words, Yang Xin and Ruan Ningxue both showed serious and expectant expressions even though they had just joined the company and didn’t even have any office equipment.

After all, when the two of them joined Chen Xu’s company, they didn’t want to mess around, but they also wanted to achieve results.

“Next we want to develop a new game, a metagame type game.” Chen Xu said.

Yang Xin and the two showed puzzled expressions.

Metagame, metagame?

“Metagame? Don’t you continue to develop 18R games?” Ruan Ningxue was a little surprised.

“Of course not, 18R games are just our starting capital.” Chen Xu shook his head.

He has no idea of ​​building an I club in a parallel world.

“But Mr. Chen, what kind of game is metagame?” Yang Xin was a little confused, she developed three games anyway, and also got the title of game designer.

But she had never heard of this so-called metagame.

As for Ruan Ningxue next to him, let alone.

“Simply put, the so-called meta-game refers to the emergence of content in a game that escapes the game itself, and there is a direct interaction between the game and the player himself.”

“Have you seen “Don Quixote”? In the novel, the author walk into the novel from time to time and points out the plot.” Chen Xu explained.

“Break the fourth wall?” Yang Xin was still a little confused, but Ruan Ningxue understood.

“That’s right.” Chen Xu smiled and nodded.

Regarding the metagame, Chen Xu paid attention to it in the parallel world. In fact, some types have already appeared, but they have not yet become a system.

Including novels, comics and other topics, there are also applications, but it has not become a special category.

“Next, our new work is a metagame. The name of the game is “Under the Legend”. When the construction starts, I will tell you more about it.”

“Of course, in addition to “Under the Legend”, we will also develop a DLC character pack for “Magic Mirror” during this period, and sell more while the popularity has not dissipated.”