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The time came to July 20. At around 20 o’clock that evening, many people in the company’s other project teams have already left the company. Fang Zhe and his group have left the company because of something wrong with the server side program, and the rest are busy working overtime. With their respective work.

At this time, Shen Liang, a colleague in charge of art, came over to Fang Zhe to talk about something.Fang Zhe put aside his work and went into the small meeting room with him.

"Azhe, I have some ideas about the scene and the art style, I want to talk to you." After entering the door, Shen Liang opened his mouth first. For this boss who is 6 years younger than himself, Shen Liang is still a little uncomfortable. Not to mention anything else, just talk about the salutations, call Mr. Fang, Boss Fang, Brother Fang, nothing is appropriate, it's really because Fang Zhe is young, and he has only been here for a few days without any qualifications.

However, Shen Liang still recognizes Fang Zhe's ability. Whether it is to control the progress or to coordinate the work between program art planning, Fang Zhe has his own set of methods.

To Shen Liang, it seems that Fang Zhe’s ability is not much worse than the boss of his original project team, and in some respects, it also exceeds his original boss, such as the direction of the project, the realization effect and the progress of the project. Control on.

Therefore, today, he talked to Fang Zhe after careful consideration. In the original project team, he was the backbone of the art team. This time the company established a new project team. In order to go further, he applied for transfer.

However, he originally thought that after coming over, he could show his talents, but because Fang Zhe had quite a complete plan and ideas for art style and content, he felt like a hero was useless.

To this day, after completing some of the art resources related to the buttons and interfaces in the game, he started to make the scene. He suddenly felt a sense of inspiration in his heart. He couldn't restrain the excitement. He was calculating the art progress and possibilities in detail. After the impact on the overall project schedule, I came to Fang Zhe to talk about his ideas.

"I think that the overall art style of our scenes and games can be changed to a style based on the Olympic Games." Shen Liang said his thoughts.

"Olympics?" Fang Zhe had a bright feeling when he said that. Right, now the Yanjing Olympics is about to open, and the eyes of the whole world are gathered here.

Although his heart was a little moved, Fang Zhe didn't mean to speak. He waited for Shen Liang to continue to finish his thoughts.

"I have calculated in detail. The art work we have done before, basically did not involve much style changes, mainly the scene that we will start next, because the scene is a fine work, we plan to temporarily Five scenes were designed. Except for the simple wooden knife pattern guided by the novice, the others will take three to five days.

Especially when the game enters the main scene, it takes about a week to achieve the desired effect.Therefore, once the style is determined and then changed, it may seriously affect the game development progress."

"Azhe, you mentioned to us earlier that the style design with RB ninja culture as the historical background is also very good. After all, the popularity of RB culture in the world is quite high, but there are not enough hot spots. I like this The style crowd is relatively scattered.

The Olympic Games is a world-renowned event. With the arrival of the Yenching Olympics, the Olympic culture and Chinese culture have become very popular all over the world. If we can combine traditional Chinese culture and Olympic culture to design games If it is, I believe it can spread more easily than RB culture and even form a hot spot."

Shen Liang said a lot in one breath. After Fang Zhe listened, he was already a little affirmed in his heart.At the same time, he also secretly said that he was stuck in the mindset, thinking that this game was designed like this in the previous life, and it should be designed like this now. As long as he makes changes and optimizations on its basis, he can achieve the desired effect.

To put it bluntly, this is the mentality of most influential game practitioners, and Fang Zhe before, thinking that since others can succeed in doing this in the previous life, then it would be fine to do the same. The risk is small and the return is large. Use your brain.

Now that I think about it, if we keep this mentality, Fang Zhe will always be just an ordinary producer.As the saying goes, those who learn from me live, and those who look like me die. No matter what industry, people who only understand plagiarism will be gradually eliminated. Only those who can learn from others the strengths of others, take the essence, remove the dross, and form themselves Only a set of styles can last forever and continue to create fine products.

Shen Liang didn't interrupt Fang Zhe's meditation, he said everything that should be said, and now it's the temporary boss, not listening to his opinion.

On the surface, regardless of whether Fang Zhe agrees to change the style, Shen Liang will do it according to his ideas, but in the bottom of his heart, if Fang Zhe still sticks to his ideas and continues to do ninja-style scenes and backgrounds, then he will lose his heart. With Fang Zhe's approval as the boss, he would only complete the work as early as possible according to Fang Zhe's requirements and return to the original project team.

Since I can't show my talents and just do other people's cash-out puppets, what is the meaning of staying in this project team by myself, it is better to return to the original project team, at least the art director of the original project team will listen to his opinions.

After five minutes, Fang Zhe thought for a long time before he said:

"What you said is really good. There is still a month away from the opening of the Olympic Games. Even if time is reserved for arraignment and some unexpected events, as long as we rush, we can guarantee the launch before or during the Olympic Games. game."

"If we change to the Olympic style, I personally agree. Our current operation and promotion capabilities are very weak. If we design in accordance with the previous style, we can only rely on natural quantities to slowly accumulate reputation.

However, if we change the traditional Chinese culture and the Olympic cultural style, then we can take advantage of the opportunity of the world to pay attention to China in this Olympics, and it will be easier to make explosive models.In subsequent version updates, we can also cater to hot spot tracking methods, such as designing Western Halloween, Christmas and other holiday scene styles."

Fang Zhe considered for a moment, it is necessary to meet with the whole group to discuss and study matters involving style changes.

"You wait, I will call everyone in the group over, let's have a meeting!"

Fang Zhe’s determination has always been very simple. Two sets of plans are compared, and one is better. If you choose one and still care about the other, then you just choose the other.

But now, when deciding that the scene and background in the game adopt the combination of traditional Chinese culture and Olympic culture, he didn't mind the original ninja style in his heart.

People in the group agreed to change the game style to the softer part of the traditional Chinese culture and the Olympic cultural style. Not only because this style is more likely to become a hit, but also because all of you are Chinese. For the design of traditional Chinese cultural style, it is natural to support with both hands.

The meeting discussed the various impacts that may be caused by changing the style, including the impact on the completed work, and the impact on the planned work, as well as the game name, sound background music, multilingual translation, and so on.

In addition, many things about the Olympics have copyright protection, so how to make users feel the atmosphere of the Olympics directly from the game without infringing the relevant copyrights is also a difficult problem for everyone to discuss.

After a detailed evaluation, Fang Zhe believes that the estimated benefits of the replacement far exceed the cost that needs to be paid, because most of the content involved in the change of style is just a matter of planning at this time, and only need to study the change plan. .

According to the character of his previous life, Fang Zhe might not agree to such a big plan change, but now, whether it is from the enthusiasm of the team members than before, or everyone’s optimistic attitude towards the replacement, Fang Zhe believes that this This replacement was successful.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour, and all the team members participated in the discussion about the impact of their respective divisions. Although the server-side program was not present, there were almost no changes in his work, as long as he was notified about the style change. It’s just fine, so this meeting basically established the work plan and content behind.

The original game name "Fruit Ninja" was also voted to change to "Fruit Games" and the English name "FruitGames" at this meeting.

Although some team members mentioned that it would be better to use fruit for the Olympics, but the word Olympics cannot be held up, but there are copyrighted ones. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Fang Zhe still did not use the name with caution.

In addition, the game is a long-term operation. When the Olympic hotspots pass, they have to track other hotspots. By then, the name Fruit Olympics will be inappropriate.