Time passes day by day.
It was finally the day before the Shanghai City Game Exhibition opened.
Several core employees of Yunmeng Games have arrived in Shanghai City and booked several rooms at a five-star hotel next to the convention and exhibition center.
A group of people sat in the hotel's cafeteria, covering the corner, planning to sit here and eat while discussing the division of labor at the exhibition.
To be honest, everyone is quite confident about this game. After all, it is a "big production" with a total budget of up to 10 million. Compared with the previous works of Yunmeng Games, the resources invested in this work can be said to be quite abundant.
The only thing that worries people is whether the market can accept this novel way of playing.
Everyone in the production team knows that there is actually an element of gambling involved!
Pacing back and forth in the open space next to the dining table, Li Zongzheng at this moment looked like an old father wandering outside the delivery room. Every few minutes, he would randomly grab a department head for soul torture.
"Is the publicity work completed?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Li, we have invested a total of 5 million in publicity costs. From the UP in the B-station game area to the big V in the evaluation of the scarf game, we have basically hired everyone we can! We are sure to get a batch!" This is already the first time! Hearing this question for the Nth time, COO Du Ziteng answered skillfully and confidently.
Li Zongzheng nodded, his expression slightly relaxed, but within two seconds, he looked nervously at Jiang Lecheng, who was responsible for the original painting design of the game.
"Where's the original painting? Have you made the poster?"
Jiang Lecheng, who had a straight temper, couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said something back.
"Didn't do it! The poster you saw in the exhibition hall is fake!"
Li Zongzheng was speechless. After holding it in for a long time, he grabbed Liu Ye again.
"Where's the script? Our script—"
"Ahem," a cough interrupted Li Zongzheng's words, and Liu Ye said with an embarrassed look, "There is no script for our game... Mr. Li, I suggest you sit down for a while and stop spinning around."
"Oh, alright."
Li Zongzheng nodded, walked to the chair next to him and sat down. However, not long after his butt was pressed against it, he stood up again nervously.
An employee of the original painting department quietly pulled Jiang Lexeng and whispered.
"Sister Chengzi, aren't we, Mr. Li, crazy?"
Jiang Lecheng sighed.
"Probably crazy."
From the moment he got off the plane to now, this guy has never been normal. He has been nervous all the way.
The condition must have worsened now, and Jiang Lecheng was even thinking about whether to contact the hospital first.
In case the game show starts tomorrow, this guy's condition will get worse and he won't be able to find a bed.
After asking the heads of several major departments, Li Zongzheng took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
To be honest, this feeling is more stressful than giving birth to a son.
Although he has never given birth...
At this time, a group of people suddenly came to the door of the cafeteria.
One of them was tall and thin, about twenty-five or sixty-six years old, with an eye-catching nose bridge. The other one is slightly shorter, looks a little chubby, and has slightly sparse hair on his forehead, but his hair is very neat.
The two were talking and laughing, as if they had been friends for many years.
Several followers followed suit and crowded behind him, and from time to time they would make compliments to each other.
I always felt that the two leaders looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had met them.
Li Zongzheng stared at the two for a while, and suddenly a name popped up in his mind.
Zhou Zhenyu!
Manager and Chief Game Designer of "Sunbird" Studio!
But on the contrary, it is impossible that old stand-alone fans who often look for games to play on the Dianqu platform have not heard of this name.
The same goes for Li Zongzheng. He knows Zhou Zhenyu's resume very well.
His representative work "Knives and Swords", with its refreshing game rhythm and epic game plot, once won the first place in the independent game sales list of the E-fun game platform in the new 15-year calendar!
And with a super high 5-star praise rate of 91%, it has attracted countless fans, becoming a phenomenon-level work that exploded in both word-of-mouth and sales that year!
It was also since then that Zhou Zhenyu and his Sunbird Studio became famous in one battle and became an upstart in the stand-alone game industry.
Because of his excellent game design capabilities, he himself is favored by countless industry insiders as a rising star in the future gaming industry!
As for why Li Zongzheng knows so well, do you still need to ask
That's naturally because he was a fan of Sunbird Studio back then!
It was not until this week that Zhou Zhenyu became more and more arrogant, and his new work "Dragon King" was delayed one after another, which led him to choose to quit his fandom out of anger.
But this time, "Sunbird"'s "Dragon King" is probably really coming out.
About three months ago, before Li Zongzheng joined Yunmeng Games, Zhou Zhenyu posted a message on his personal scarf, announcing that "Dragon King" would be exhibited at the Shanghai Game Exhibition at the end of the year, and he would participate in the competition. Participate in the "Golden Keyboard" Independent Game Designer Competition in the form of your work!
As soon as this news came out, the entire gaming industry was shocked.
Many independent game production companies have even taken the initiative to postpone and adjust their schedules in order to avoid its influence.
There is no doubt that if you want to compete for the golden keyboard, "Sunbird" Studio will be the most threatening rival of Yunmeng Games!
In contrast, although Yunmeng Games has developed the hit mobile game "Temple Run", in terms of industry influence, number of fans and cohesion, it cannot even compare with "Sunbird".
After all, there is a chain of contempt in the gaming circle.
Not to mention the fact that there are no loyal fans of mobile games and web games that are just bad for money. If you don’t hate them, it’s a blessing that you have cultivated for eight lifetimes.
Not to mention that Yunmeng Games has only been established for half a year, and it can no longer be described as young. In front of the "Sunbird", it is simply a baby.
As for the person standing next to Zhou Zhenyu, Li Zongzheng didn't recognize who it was.
However, Du Ziteng, who was sitting beside him, widened his eyes and exclaimed softly.
"It's actually Wang Mingfeng, President of Pineapple Entertainment Asia!"
Hearing this unfamiliar name, Li Zongzheng was slightly startled and said with a frown.
"What is Pineapple Entertainment?"
Du Ziteng looked at him with a strange expression, obviously not expecting that Mr. Li was so ignorant.
"A subsidiary of Pineapple Group... The target is Rice Entertainment of Rice Group. Its main business is basically games. Even if you have never used Pineapple Mobile, you have played Pineapple Speedy, right?"
"No." Li Zongzheng replied honestly.
What are you doing with that thing
Anyone in the People's Federation will know that Xia's electronics industry technology ranks first in the world. Who cares what mobile phones the old farmers on the other side of the Pacific use.
"...Well, their low-end and mid-range mobile phones and supporting exclusive games are quite popular in emerging markets, but their sales here are average," Du Ziteng continued to look at the two people who were chatting and laughing, and murmured in a low voice, " I didn’t expect Sunbird to hook up with the Pineapple Group... No wonder the Dragon King’s budget is so sufficient this time.”
"Budget?" Li Zongzheng was slightly stunned.
"Don't you know?" Du Ziteng looked at Li Zongzheng in surprise, "Isn't it rumored at the beginning of the year that Dragon King's development funds reached 150 million, and it was said that they had found a big sponsor. I thought they were I'm bragging, but I didn't expect it to be true... and the sponsor is actually Pineapple Games."
Listening to Du Ziteng talking about the gossip in the industry, Li Zongzheng looked confused.
It seems that he was still on the construction site at the beginning of the year, and he was not even considered an insider, so it was naturally impossible for him to know these gossips.
Noticing the gaze here, Zhou Zhenyu glanced at them, but just smiled faintly and looked away carelessly.
His intuition told him that those people should have the same identity as them and were also exhibitors at the Shanghai Game Exhibition.
If there is no accident, they should also be participants in the "Golden Keyboard" independent game design competition at the Shanghai Game Show.
But so what
These ordinary people are just here to run with you.
The corners of Zhou Zhenyu's mouth raised slightly with a hint of contempt, not concealing the arrogance in his heart that was so swollen that it overflowed.
The championship can only belong to Sunbird.
It must belong to it too!
He was extremely convinced about this!