I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 493 Aren’t you afraid of leaks?

Haixi, Dongjiao, Yunqi Yuejing.

Two commercial vehicles slowly stopped in front of a townhouse door, and seven or eight men got out of the GL8.

The five people have different appearances and ages. The oldest looks to be in his early thirties, and the youngest still looks like a student.

The only thing they have in common is that they both wear glasses and have silly looks on their faces.

"Will we eat, live and work here from now on?"

The tallest boy pushed his glasses and looked around: "The environment is quite quiet, but it feels a bit remote, and the climate is not as good as Pengcheng, it's too dry."

"Old Wei, after we finish this project, the stand-alone 3A project we discussed earlier will definitely be approved."

The tall man took a puff of iqos, and two thin streams of smoke came out of his nostrils.

Pengcheng is close to Xingang. In the past few months, this thing has become quite popular in Xingang, and as a result, more and more people in Pengcheng have started smoking this thing.

"The environment is similar to Xili, at least there are fewer mosquitoes." Old Wei, who looks the oldest and has the furthest hairline, unloaded luggage from the trunk and said casually, "Do you think I don't want to do it? Isn't it because we don't have the conditions? A 3A project requires at least several hundred million yuan in investment. Without investors, what can we do?"

"Whose suitcase is this? Sui Yi's? Why is it so heavy? Fuck! You're just a beauty, and you dare to ask the boss to carry your bag for you? Where do you get the courage?"

Sui Yi took another puff of iqos and said confidently: "Why didn't you bark when you held our shares on our behalf? Only your name, Wei Ao, is registered on the company's business registration. Is it unfair for you to carry a piece of luggage?"

Wei Ao shrank his neck and stopped talking.

In order to attract investment, from the day the company was founded, the shares of other shareholders were held by Wei Ao on behalf of the company, which was equivalent to everyone unconditionally giving their voting rights to Wei Ao.

This has also been a common practice among startups in recent years, especially among teams with a high level of trust.

As investors fall into more and more traps, they naturally become more and more professional. For a company like Zhen Gongfu, where two shareholders each hold 50% of the shares, no investor is willing to invest no matter how well it operates.

For investors, it is more important than anything else that the founding team is united.

What I fear most is that the first thing that happens is Romance of the Three Kingdoms. How can I vote then?
Therefore, the more concentrated the initial team's equity is, the lower the risk for investors, and the greater the room for future equity dilution.

"Don't worry, 3A will be done sooner or later." Wei Ao moved the luggage with force, "Hey! Before you get cirrhosis of the liver, I'll let you watch a demo version."

A few days ago, Sui Yi went for a physical check-up, and it turned out that his blood lipids were a little high. The standard blood lipid level is 1.7, and his was 1.75, slightly above the standard. As a result, Sui Yi was worried for four days.

On the first day, he said it was no wonder that he always felt sleepy in the afternoon recently, it turned out to be high blood lipids.

The next day, he was told that high blood lipids would lead to fatty liver, and now he felt pain in his liver.

On the third day, he said that fatty liver was very likely to lead to cirrhosis, and that I might develop cirrhosis soon.

On the fourth day, he said that there was a 50% chance that cirrhosis would progress to liver cancer, and that my health might not be good and I wouldn't have much time left.

In four days, Chiang Kai-shek's disease went from slightly high blood lipids to liver cancer, but it didn't get better as fast as Sui Yi's.

Why was I only worried for four days?

Because on the fifth day, Wei Ao spent 80,000 yuan to buy a cemetery for Sui Yi in Chashan Town, Wancheng, and said that the money would be deducted from his year-end bonus.

Wei Ao and Sui Yi were both from Penguin Games and were in the same group. At that time, they were already well-known in the domestic gaming industry.

Sui Yi was already one of the top game artists in the country a few years ago, and Wei Ao was also an undefeated general in the Penguin game planning team.

Two years ago, Penguin canceled their project, so Wei Ao simply took the entire team out to start his own business and founded a game company called Game Philosophy.

It's a bit pretentious to elevate games to the level of philosophy.

But it has to be said that Wei Ao was still a bit idealistic, and was determined to make a local 3A stand-alone game with the Great Zhou cultural background.

Birds of a feather flock together. His team, including Sui Yi, are more or less similar to him.

However, in recent years, stand-alone game studios in China have almost died out, and the few independent studios that still hold on to gaming ideals can hardly get investment.

Therefore, Wei Ao had no choice but to lead his team to develop mobile games to make quick money, so as to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible and have the capital to make the games he wanted.

In the past two years, they have made two mobile games. The first one was a skin-changing card game that piggybacked on the Three Kingdoms concept. The krypton gold points were not set correctly, so they didn't make much money, but they did accumulate some experience.

They are still confident about their second mobile game "Red Wave", especially when Yu Dan, the most well-known partner of Haojie Interactive Entertainment in China in the past one or two years, came to them and wanted to take over the distribution business of their game. Wei Ao knew that he had it secured.

Because Haojie Interactive Entertainment not only acted as the distributor of Red Wave, but also reached an agreement with them: if the revenue of Red Wave met the target within three months after its release, Haojie Interactive Entertainment would acquire 20% of the equity of Game Philosophy for 60 million.

This valuation is really not low. Game Philosophy cannot be compared with Youguo Games, which is backed by Youzi Technology.

Even if Youguo Games only has a company name, the risk of a valuation of 25 billion Da Zhou coins is far less than that of Game Philosophy, which is valued at 3 million.

To put it bluntly, the news that Youzi Technology is entering the gaming industry is worth so much money alone.

What's more, with the support of AI+AR technology that is ahead of its time, the game mode of "Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm" has been revolutionized.

What is game philosophy? Is there philosophy? The valuation of game philosophy is 3 million yuan, and the planned investment of million yuan is purely Yu Dan’s personal sentiment.

In this situation, when Yu Dan called Wei Ao two days ago and said that he hoped their team would come to Haixi to help for a few days, Wei Ao said nothing and did not even ask what kind of help they needed. He brought his core team to Haixi.

Wei Ao, Sui Yi and their group were moving their luggage into the villa when they saw two more GL8s driving into the villa area. After passing by their car, they stopped at the door of the townhouse on the right, and then seven or eight stupid-looking people got out.

It’s just that among these seven or eight people, more than half are girls, unlike them, who are all men.

"Liancheng Studio?"

"Diga!"

Seeing the leaders in the other two GL8s, Sui Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised, and shouted at them with his neck stretched out.

The leading boy was not tall, less than 1.7 meters. When he heard his voice, he turned his head and saw Wei Ao not far away. He couldn't help but be surprised: "Lao Sui? Why are you here? Were you also called by Danniu to help?" After saying that, he nodded to Wei Ao. It was obvious that the two knew each other but were not familiar with each other.

Danniu is the homonym of Yu Danang’s literary name Daniel.

Sui Yi frowned: "He even contacted you guys? What project is so fussy? Since he contacted you guys, why did he contact us? Our styles don't match."

Liancheng Studio does not make games, but specializes in art subcontracting.

The founder Di Jialun is Sui Yi’s junior. In the six years since he founded Liancheng Studio, it has become one of the largest art outsourcing studios in the Da Zhou gaming industry, and is particularly good at two-dimensional style scenes and characters.

What Sui Yi is good at is precisely the creation of real scenes and characters.

In the previous two-dimensional skin-changing card game, Sui Yi had used Liancheng's outsourcing.

Before they could talk for a few words, another GL8 drove in and stopped at the door of the townhouse on their left, and several young people got out.

"Liu Wei?"

When Wei Ao saw one of the young men, his eyes narrowed involuntarily.

Liu Wei, one of the three founders of Mile Games?
He met Liu Wei at the Big Week Joy in Haipu two months ago, and also attended a closed-door sharing session in the industry with him, but Liu Wei was the one who shared on stage, and he was the one who communicated off stage.

What is Yu Dan going to do? He said there is a very important game project that he wants us to take a look at and help with for a few days. What is the project?
Even if it's to help, is it necessary to find so many independent companies in the industry?

By inviting so many companies, aren’t you afraid of leaks and raids?

This is nothing new in the industry.

Signing a confidentiality agreement is pointless these days. If someone really wants to plagiarize, there is always a way to get around it.

Wei Ao was confused. After moving all the things into the townhouse with the employees of Game Philosophy, he was about to go out to talk to Liu Wei when the phone rang.

Yu Dan's voice came from the phone.

"Yocar, are you settled? Come down if you are. David and I are smoking downstairs. Youguo Games will arrange a meeting for you to familiarize yourself with the situation."

"Youguo Games?" Wei Ao touched his forehead, looking puzzled. "Forgive my ignorance, Daniel, which company is this? I don't think I've heard of it."

"Oh, sorry Yocar, I didn't tell you before because I didn't get the authorization. Youguo Games is a game company invested by Youzi Technology. They are going to make an AI-driven open world mobile game."

Yuzu Technology? Mobile games? AI-driven?

Wei Ao's face changed.

Since the AI ​​revolution at the beginning of the year, AI has changed the gaming industry from the bottom up. The first to lose their jobs were a large number of low-end artists and plot planners from reskin mobile game companies and web game companies.

In the field of web games today, many bosses only employ less than ten people, using AI to produce art materials and AI to write plot scripts. It’s no wonder that the quality is not worse than in the past.

But Wei Ao is not so worried. In his opinion, the productivity of this industry has been changing all the time, but the only thing that remains unchanged is that popular games must be because of their content and playability, not technology.

No matter how good the technology is, without the production capacity for content creation and without playability, no matter how much you invest, you will fail.

This was not just his opinion, he clearly remembered that this was also Yu Dan's opinion half a month ago.

At that time, the two were playing a foreign battle royale game called H1Z1. Dozens of people entered to kill each other, and in the end there was only one winner.

The game was crudely made and only had an international server. The voice channel was filled with "Cao Nima" in various tones, but after he and Yu Dan played for half an hour, they both concluded that this game would be a hit.

Because the gameplay of this game is too strong.

However, the entry threshold is very low, and there may be a lot of followers later.

No matter how powerful Youzi Technology is, it is just an AI company. It does not have the genes for making games and it is impossible for it to make truly good games.

Yu Dan is an expert in this field and there is no way he doesn’t know this.

"The situation is quite complicated and time is tight. Mr. Fang from Youzi Technology is here today. He will personally communicate the details with you. I will be waiting for you and Sui Yi downstairs. Hurry up."

(End of this chapter)