After finishing the financing intention talks with the Penguin side, Mei Fang suddenly felt that the pressure on his shoulders was relieved a lot.
Judging from the intelligence currently available, his three cards are a very attractive investment in the eyes of Penguin. Mei Fang can feel that Penguin is also very interested in the sago game.
You should know that at this time, Penguin's market value was the highest among the Big Three, and its gaming industry was developing in full swing.
At this moment, Penguin is protecting their self-developed flagship MMO "Fighting Saint", starting the third round of internal core testing, and announcing the news of open testing in March 2013.
From Mei Fang's perspective at this moment, his own Sago game doesn't seem to have anything to attract them. The current little Mei Fang doesn't seem to be able to lead the future mobile game craze, nor can he really make a decent 3A with the current team.
Maybe it's really because there is enough money, enough to take a long-term view and cast a wider net
Although it is good to have Penguin as his backer, Mei Fang does not intend to rely entirely on it for growth. While maintaining the bug iteration of "Cloud Journey", Mei Fang also began to use the reputation accumulated by C Station and Ximilu Games to prepare to absorb a group of new members. His next step is to prepare an independent project team.
The goal of the coconut juice project team is to make a lot of money for the sago game, so Mei Fang can use his experience from his past life to escort the new project team.
The most popular games of this era, "Temple Run" and "Fruit Ninja", have already been launched. After careful consideration, Mei Fang decided to focus on casual match-3 games.
The biggest impact that smartphones have had on China is the expansion of game users. Games have changed from being an interest for mostly boys to being a stress-relieving application for people of all ages.
The existence of general users makes the casual game market promising. At present, there is no match-3 game in China that can dominate the market, including Penguin itself. The "Kai Sen Match 3" that dominates the whole nation will not be released until two years later. This also gave Mei Fang an opportunity to display his talents.
As for the name of the project team, Mei Fang and Xia Yuanlin discussed it. Since the entire studio is called Sago Studio, the name of the new project team should undoubtedly be a dessert.
Thus, the [Coconut Milk Project Team] came into being.
After discussing the general content of the cooperation, Mei Fang completely handed over the subsequent details of the intention to Sister Yueyue. As an auditor by training, she was very adept at finance. Mei Fang was very confident in his cousin, and he and Xia Yuanlin Youxi returned to their daily lives.
Mei Fang and Lin Youxi participated in the NOIP retest in the second half of 2012, and finally won the second and first prizes respectively. Lin Youxi became an A-class student due to his excellent results and received an invitation letter to participate in NOI as a provincial representative team on the spot;
Mei Fang originally needed to pass a test to advance to the selection, but considering his performance in the sago game, he was recommended by a teacher at his school and obtained a place as a Class C recommended student.
The first prize winner of NOIP in 2012 still has the qualification for recommendation. Lin Youxi has already received some recommendations for recommendation from 985 universities, but if he wants to participate in the NOI competition, he will have to attend intensive training, which will take nearly a semester.
Lin Youxi and Mei Fang discussed it and decided that if they had to lose a semester of enjoying their youth just to be admitted to the third year of high school, it would be better to go through the three years of high school. In the end, they decided to give up the qualification to participate in NOI and enjoy high school life with Xia Yuan.
However, this NOIP league trip also brought some unexpected gains to Mei Fang. During the competition, he met many alumni who have excellent programming talents and profound programming attainments.
Compared to Mei Fang's amazement at their programming skills, they admired Mei Fang even more for his pioneering work in independently publishing commercial games in high school. They all expressed their hope to join Mei Fang's game development team after retirement. These are also some of the connections that Mei Fang has accumulated. Their figures will appear in Mei Fang's commercial development team in the next few years, but we won't talk about them now.
In the second half of campus life, Ximilu Studio welcomed two new members.
The first one was Zhu Nanai, who had already become Mei Fang's super single promoter. After trying to let her do some work, Mei Fang unexpectedly felt that she was quite useful. After asking Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi for their opinions, Mei Fang agreed to let Zhu Nanai join the team, doing all the work of a secretary assistant.
The second is Wan Chaoxiong, who has been an outsourced member for a long time. He had been helping with the team's video promotions with editing work. After confirming that Lin Youxi is Miss Shan Youlinxi and Mei Fang is the webmaster himself, he was so excited that he masturbated all night and couldn't sleep. The next day, he happily applied to join Ximilu Studio and became a member of the team.
Time flies and it is Friday, December 21, 2012, the winter solstice, at 3:14 p.m., which is exactly the break time.
Xia Yuan pulled Mei Fang and Lin Youxi to the second floor next to Lin Youxi's class and chatted with them. As they chatted, they realized that the end of the world predicted by Maya had already passed.
Seeing Xia Yuan looking a little disappointed, Lin Youxi asked her with a smile, "Do you really hope that the end of the world will come?"
"How could that be? We are so happy now... It is better not to do that."
Xia Yuan blew hot air into her gloves and put her hands on Mei Fang's face to keep him warm. "But even if they really come, it doesn't matter. As long as the three of us are together, there's nothing to be afraid of."
Lin Youxi watched Xia Yuan and Mei Fang interacting intimately, and then asked with a smile, "Come to think of it, you and Fang have been together for almost a semester. Compared to your childhood sweetheart status, do you feel any major changes?"
"Changes? Apart from feeling that Ah Fang has become astringent... there's nothing special about it."
Mei Fang pinched Xia Yuan's nose in annoyance, "Who of us is more bitter? You need to make it clear."
"Alright, alright... I'm the elder sister, that's enough... Ah Fang is such an old man, but she always asks me to give in to you. Only Youxi and I won't care about these things."
Xia Yuan gently pinched Mei Fang's cheek, then put his hand into Mei Fang's clothes to keep warm. Because everyone was wearing thick cotton-padded jackets and the three of them were hugging each other tightly, ordinary people could not see it without careful observation.
"Come to think of it, is it really okay for you and Youxi not to participate in NOI? That's still a pretty good chance of being admitted..."
"The prerequisite for admission is to achieve a gold medal. To get a gold medal, you need to work very hard for half a year."
Mei Fang smiled and shook his head. "With that half year, I wonder how much money we can make from the game?"
"You, you're just thinking about making money and you don't want to participate in the competition? Ah Fang is such a superficial person."
Before Xia Yuan finished complaining about Mei Fang, Lin Youxi chimed in:
"Afang is just too shy to tell the truth. He just wants to spend more time with you, Yuanyuan."
"Youxi, don't speak for Ah Fang. It will only count if he admits it himself." Xia Yuan put his hand on Mei Fang's chest. "Ah Fang, tell me yourself, do you think so? I want to hear your true words."
"Is that even a question? Of course I am - eh -"
As soon as Mei Fang finished speaking, he suddenly shuddered and almost hugged Xia Yuan on the spot.
Because at this time Lin Youxi also put her hand into Mei Fang's arms to keep warm.
"Wow, Youxi, what are you doing? What if we get discovered?"
Xia Yuan scolded Lin Youxi in a low voice and quickly pulled her hand out of Mei Fang's clothes, "I'll just help you keep warm."
While feeling the warmth of Xia Yuan's hands wrapped around her, Lin Youxi suggested, "It's been a while since we three have been together. Do you want to sleep together tonight?"
There was originally no update for today, but after our meeting, our company's senior executive Tiangao Yuyue saw that I had not finished typing and asked me to go back to type, and also gave me a leader reward, so this chapter will be updated. I will be back to my full potential starting tomorrow, updating at noon and 6:30 every day. Invincible!
(End of this chapter)