Chapter 72 Camera Obscura Studio!
"But how do we tell the company?" Gong Min asked in a low voice.
"The company will definitely disagree with using its resources to make games, right?"
"Tencent is tied to the Steam platform. If we go to the Deep Blue platform, wouldn't that be a betrayal?"
"They're just workers who are saying they're betraying us. How much money does the company give them..."
"What are you guys whispering about?"
During the discussion, suddenly, a slightly low voice interrupted.
Several people were startled and looked up at the same time.
They saw Manager Liu Peng standing next to them, with his arms folded across his chest, looking at their screens with a frown on his face.
"Uh, Team Leader..."
Sun Qianli smirked, quickly cut off the page, and pretended to be writing code.
"Deep Blue Gaming Platform?"
Liu Peng glanced and saw through their evil intentions in an instant.
"You guys want to sign up too?"
Several people looked at each other, and no one denied it.
Liu Peng sneered and shook his head.
"Don't even think about it. Just work hard. The company is making original games and can directly release them on Steam at any time. Why would you go to Deep Blue?"
"You performed well, so Tencent's year-end bonus can also be given to you!"
"If I keep working hard, I can easily get recommended on the Steam platform thanks to my relationship with Tencent."
"But... the steam content is too high." Wang Hao muttered in a low voice.
"What's wrong with a high commission? They have traffic, users, and sales!"
Liu Peng said impatiently,
"Do you really think that DeepBlue's waiver of commissions means you can make money? That's ridiculous. The platform is just getting started, who would want to play?"
"but……"
Sun Qianli wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Liu Peng.
"If you really have the time, you might as well do the project at hand. The company pays you so that you can work, not so that you can think about getting rich on other platforms."
"Do you understand?"
Seeing Liu Peng's tough attitude, several people had to shut up, but they all felt unwilling in their hearts.
After Liu Peng left, Sun Qianli cursed in a low voice,
"Damn, you won't even give me a chance to try?"
Wang Hao gritted his teeth and said, "We can't give up. Let's just... do it secretly!"
"Anyway, no one will monitor the project we have on hand every day."
Sun Qianli lowered his voice.
"Let's use our after-get off work time to work together and create a small game. No one will know!"
"Okay!" Wang Hao's eyes lit up.
"The three of us will have our own division of labor. We'll create a playable game within a month and quietly sign up for Deep Blue's competition!"
After reaching a consensus, several people quickly took action.
The three of them took advantage of their lunch break to sit around their workstations and discuss their next plan in low voices.
"Since we are going to do this, we must first give ourselves a team name."
Wang Hao whispered, "This way, when we sign up, it will appear more formal."
"What name should I give it?" Gong Min held his chin and thought.
"Or let's call it a threesome"
Sun Qianli rolled his eyes at him.
"No, this will reveal the size of our team too much!"
“That’s right…” Gong Min shut up angrily.
Wang Hao rolled his eyes and said with a smile,
"Since we're doing this secretly, how about calling it the Camera Obscura Studio?"
"It sounds like a shady operation." Gong Min's mouth twitched.
"I think it's good."
A hint of excitement flashed in Sun Qianli's eyes.
"It's done behind the scenes, without anyone noticing, and it suits our current situation."
"Then let's go to the darkroom studio!" Wang Hao decided.
The three of them smiled at each other and secretly registered a developer account on the Deep Blue Game Platform's official website.
And filled in the registration information preliminarily.
Team Name: Dark Camera Studio
Members: Sun Qianli, Wang Hao, Gong Min
Game Type: TBD
After submitting their registration, the three of them couldn't help but high-five excitedly.
Although it was just a simple registration, at this moment they felt like they had taken the first step in starting a business.
…
In the following time, the three of them began to use all their free time to work hard to develop a game for several people.
During the day, they are outsourced employees who honestly complete the company's tasks at their workstations.
But at night, after get off work, they quickly returned to their shared rented house, turned on their computers, and devoted themselves to developing their own games.
"What type of game should we make?"
Gong Min asked while typing code and looking for the art resources he had designed before.
"It has to be simple. Time is too tight. There's no time to make it complicated."
Sun Qianli thought about it,
“How about making a hand-painted game?”
"Okay, the projects we outsourced before were hand-painted, so we have experience with that!"
Wang Hao nodded.
"But the gameplay can't be open ended, there's not enough time!"
"or……"
Sun Qianli narrowed his eyes.
"How about we make a 2D-style horizontal scrolling game?"
Wang Hao was stunned for a moment, frowned and said,
"Two-dimensional? Are you sure? Do we have the resources for this style?"
Sun Qianli grinned: "Yes! Have you forgotten the abandoned project we worked on before?"
Gong Min reacted immediately and slapped his thigh.
"Shit! Are you talking about that magical girl's plan to break through?"
"Yes!" Sun Qianli nodded.
"Didn't we get a cancellation for a 2D project we outsourced? We had already done a bunch of character designs, art assets, and basic code, but then that company decided against it. Even though the project fell through, we still have the assets!"
Wang Hao's eyes lit up: "You mean, just take that project and change it?"
Sun Qianli smiled triumphantly.
"Of course! With such a tight timeline, we don't have enough time to recreate the art ourselves, but if we just revamp the original and tweak the gameplay, development speed could be ten times faster!"
Gong Min stroked his chin, thinking.
"What about the gameplay? What kind of horizontal level-breaking game should we make?"
The three of them turned on the voice chat and began to quickly discuss the design direction.
"We can't make the system too complicated. We have to keep the rhythm tight and the number of levels not too many, but still challenging enough."
"Then let's use the small level + boss battle model. Each large level has four or five small levels, and then a boss."
Wang Hao seemed to be thinking about something.
"Yes, but then the combat system needs to be a bit deeper, otherwise players will get bored."
Sun Qianli thought about it, his eyes lit up,
"Then... let's make the protagonist a musician who can switch weapons at any time through the blessing of different music, such as saxophone, trumpet, recorder, etc.?"
Gong Min immediately responded,
"Great! This way, each weapon can be paired with different skills, so players won't feel monotonous."
"And, in that case, we should be considered a relatively special music game!"
"What about music copyright? We don't seem to have anyone specifically responsible for this!"
"We can just make do with the free ones and enjoy the sound. We don't have the money to buy original sound effects!"
"That's okay too!"
Wang Hao touched his chin, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.
"Then let's get started!"
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