Chapter 46
"Horror game?"
"Yeah!"
The representative of those who want to actively develop new projects is a little girl wearing pink puff sleeves and furry rabbit ear hairpins. Her name is Ruan Xiqian.
She looks very young and seems to have just graduated from school.
"Boss Tan, Ruan may look young, but she is the second in command of our technical department. She has rich work experience and is very careful in her work." Perhaps because she was worried that Tan Li would judge her by her appearance, Li Hui deliberately added an extra sentence to introduce her.
Tan Li didn't feel anything special about this.
Isn't it just wearing the pinkest skirt and fighting the bloodiest fight?
It's all a small matter.
It's just...
"Boss Tan, have you read novels like Infinite Flow?"
Facing Ruan Xiqian's sparkling eyes, Tan Li leaned back slightly, "No."
It's true that she hasn't read it, she just entered it.
Ruan Xiqian's eyes flashed with a trace of regret, but soon she cheered up again, "It's like this, I want to make a
game similar to the infinite flow novels that are like level-breaking."
"I want to make more characters, each with different skills and talents, and then let the players choose which character to use to pass the level." "
For the dungeon, I want to make it a horror type, and then the player will slowly uncover the truth of the infinite flow world by constantly breaking through levels, and then I want the ending to be..."
"Xiao Ruan!" Li Hui saw that she was getting more and more excited, and couldn't help but interrupt her.
Ruan Xiqian blinked, and seemed a little unwilling. She moved her lips and said quickly, "In the end, only the character chosen by the player survives, and everyone else is destroyed."
"I'm done." She shut up obediently, lowered her head, and didn't make contact with Li Hui's eyes.
Li Hui secretly sighed in her heart and said helplessly, "Boss Tan, this project has not been officially established yet. Everything is still in Xiao Ruan's imagination stage. Things like horror elements and the annihilation ending can all be adjusted."
"No..." Ruan Xiqian raised her head when she heard this, but she shrank back again in Li Hui's eyes.
Li Hui's analysis was very rational. "In the current market, horror games are niche games after all, and setting up an even smaller annihilation ending would be too risky."
"We can't just make games for our own enjoyment, we must consider the market."
"If you really follow your idea, you won't have a place to cry when you can't sell it."
Ruan Xiqian lowered her head even more.
She also knew that what Li Hui said made sense, but...
"Okay," Tan Li's voice suddenly rang, "I can invest in this idea."
Happiness came too suddenly, and Ruan Xiqian didn't react for a while.
"But..." Tan Li's calm eyes fell on Ruan Xiqian, "I have conditions."
Ruan Xiqian was stunned.
Time seemed to be stretched very long at once, and Ruan Xiqian seemed to hear the sound of her swallowing saliva.
She rubbed her fingers, "What, what conditions?"
Did he want her to make the horror elements more tactful, or not have a total annihilation, and change it to a happy ending?
Tan Li: "First, since you want to add horror elements, you have to make it extremely bloody and scary, not like a child playing house. If the picture doesn't pass my test, I have the right to stop this project at any time."
Ruan Xiqian was stunned for a moment, and nodded quickly, "Okay!"
"Second," Tan Li did not stop because she agreed to the first request, "The total annihilation ending is fine, but since you said it's total annihilation, there can't be a situation where only one person survives."
This time, not only Li Hui, but also Ruan Xiqian was surprised.
Tan Li: "If we have to die, we all die together, and the characters selected by the players are no exception."
"This... this..." Ruan Xiqian even stuttered.
Although she didn't consider the market response when she proposed the plan, she subconsciously switched herself to the role of a worker at this moment, "If all the players are wiped out, the market response may be poor..."
Ruan Xiqian was very happy that Tan Li was willing to invest in her idea, but other people's money didn't fall from the sky, and she couldn't let her spend the investors' money recklessly. Ruan Xiqian
's mind suddenly became clear, "Boss, considering your investment return, this ending doesn't have to be a total destruction..."
"Either all are destroyed," Tan Li looked at her indifferently, "or, all survive."
Ruan Xiqian was stunned.
Tan Li: "Can't your game have that kind of hidden ending?"
"It doesn't matter if the conditions are harsh. In the hidden ending, make an ending where everyone survives."
"As for the normal ending, annihilation." "
You don't have to make a hidden ending where everyone survives, but you can't have an ending where only one person survives."
Tan Li was very persistent about this, "If you agree to my two conditions, I will invest in you."
"Unlimited." She added three words.
Ruan Xiqian's eyes instantly lit up to the point where they could stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun.
The ultimate bloody horror, the ending of annihilation, the hidden happy ending that is extremely difficult to achieve...
In an instant, the originally blurry picture in Ruan Xiqian's mind became clearer and clearer.
"I can do it! I can do it!" Ruan Xiqian raised her hands excitedly, "Boss, I can do it! I have confidence! I can make a game that will go down in the history of horror games!"
"Okay." Tan Li was equally straightforward, "Xiao Tong, draft an investment contract and make additional investments."
Li Hui, who had been listening, was dumbfounded.
It was originally a happy thing that the investor was straightforward, but Tan Li was too straightforward. She was full of thoughts, what would she do if she let such an angel investor who was really like an angel lose money!!!
"Boss Tan, this..."
"You are not suitable to join this project team."
Li Hui just spoke, and was interrupted by Tan Li.
Tan Li: "I hope that this project will be a group of people who don't consider the market response, don't consider the public's preferences, can eliminate all external factors, and purely want to make this game."
"I don't want to see brakes, hesitations, market research and other things in this game. If you want to do it, don't think about anything else and do it to the extreme." There
seemed to be an undercurrent of power flowing in her calm eyes, and Li Hui was speechless for a moment.
There was a feeling that, obviously, I was the mature, stable, and correct one, but I was defeated by another more pure thing.
"I know what you want to say, and I think everything you said is right."
"But," Tan Li smiled, "sometimes, I don't want to do the right thing."
Tong Jing had not followed Tan Li's instructions to draft a new investment contract. When she heard this, she paused, and the turbid hesitation in her eyes slowly became clear and firm.
She had just started to learn about the game industry, and she didn't understand many things. In fact, in her opinion, the plan proposed by Ruan Xiqian just now was not suitable for investment.
This was a project that might not even make a sound if you threw money into the sea.
However, Tan Li's words convinced her.
How wonderful it is to always make the right decision, as if life will become smooth sailing because of it.
But...
are those things that seem wrong meaningless?
"Boss, wait a minute. I'll go prepare a new investment contract." Tong Jing took a step forward.
No, even if it's not right, even if you don't get the corresponding return, some things are still meaningful.
Tong Jing, who was listening, was convinced, not to mention the person who was really talking to her.
Those fears and anxieties, in Tan Li's words, seemed to encounter the haze of the sun and slowly dissipated.
"I understand." Li Hui instead had the idea of getting back to her original intention of making games. "Xiao Ruan will be the chief producer of this project, and I won't join."
"But," a gleam flashed under Li Hui's black-framed glasses, "I will do a good job on the Yi Leng project."
She raised her lips and said, "Boss, don't worry, even if Xiao Ruan's project loses money, your investment in us will definitely not lose money."
Tan Li: Not really, not really, she really has a lot of money now, and it's okay to lose money occasionally.
Ruan Xiqian also couldn't stand hearing this, "Our project won't lose money! Just wait! When we become the sales champion, we'll make you kneel down and call me daddy!"
Wow.
The little girl in a pink skirt and a plush bunny is still very good at making tough talk!
Although Li Hui's position is higher than Ruan Xiqian's, she did not care about Ruan Xiqian's harsh words. Instead, she was ignited with fighting spirit. "Dream on! When your game comes out, my Yi Leng will have become the leader in the dress-up game industry!"
"I don't want to listen! You are just chanting!"
"Lululu!"
Seeing the two adults quarreling like children, Tan Li couldn't help but smile with her hands covering her lips.
"Wow..." Ruan Xiqian suddenly came up, "Boss, you look so amazing, can I use you as a model to create an NPC in the game?"
Li Hui was reminded by her and said, "It's okay if an NPC in a horror game is inappropriate, boss, why don't you come to our Yileng?"
"No," Tan Li immediately put away her smile and refused sternly, "I'm too expensive, you can't afford the image usage fee."
Ruan Xiqian: ...
Li Hui: ...
reasonable and well-founded, and cannot be refuted.
The two sighed heavily and thought that they could only ask Tan Li this question after making the game company bigger and stronger.
**
Although Tan Li is a terminal lazy person, her efficiency in spending money has always been amazing.
If it weren't for the required procedures such as the capital verification report, she could even transfer the money on the spot with her mobile phone.
But even so, her investment was received unusually quickly.
At the same time, her share of the game company has further increased, and there are even signs that she will surpass the original founders and become the largest shareholder.
With such an investor as an example, the horror game project team naturally can't be slow.
Recruiting people, expanding the team, and setting up the early stage characters, one by one, have all progressed rapidly.
And in the hearts of the people, Tan Li has also changed from a kind investor to a fairy-like rich woman who can support the dreams of game developers.
The title of boss makes her even more satisfied and convinced.
Ruan Xiqian even hoped that Tan Li could serve as a special consultant and make plans for this horror game that will surely surprise everyone in the future.
This is back on the day when the investment contract was signed. Ruan Xiqian and Tan Li talked for a while about their ideas for this horror game.
You won’t know until you talk about it. You’ll be shocked when you talk about it.
Although Tan Li doesn’t know how to make games, she seems to have a natural talent for designing unlimited dungeons. With just a few words, Ruan Xiqian was enlightened and her scalp was numb.
If Tan Li is a special consultant, the dungeon design will definitely be more exciting!
Tan Li went back and considered it for two days and refused.