My capital is quite large.

After seeing off the profusely thanking producer Zhang, the meeting room fell silent again.

Li Feng returned to his private office, leaned back in his leather boss's chair, and opened the company's financial details on his computer desktop.

"We've certainly spent the 25 million we earned from selling games pretty ruthlessly during this period."

Li Feng looked at the summary numbers at the bottom of the screen and gently rubbed his chin.

They poured five million yuan into the production team of "iPartment" and just allocated another ten million yuan to the production team of "Lurking".

In addition, there's the six-month rent for the 500-square-meter space in the science park, the first month's salaries for the more than 30 people we poached with high salaries, equipment purchases, and reserved administrative operating expenses...

What was originally a huge sum of money has now dwindled to less than three million in readily available liquid funds.

"Three million..."

Li Feng raised an eyebrow slightly.

There's still a little over a month until the official launch of Apple's App Store in July.

Even after the store launches, it will take time for the initial user base to grow and the ecosystem to develop. It will be at least until autumn before "Angry Birds" and "Fishing Joy" truly experience a profit explosion.

During this long period of inactivity, even with three million in the account, the financial resources still seem too meager for a company with ambitious plans to build a pan-entertainment empire.

Once overseas user acquisition and promotion costs increase, this amount of money won't even last for half a month.

"We must create a sustainable project that can provide a stable and substantial cash flow during this gap."

Spend three million on a PC game? You can't even afford a license for a sophisticated 3D engine.

Continuing to develop single-player mobile games? The monetization cycle is too long.

"If we want to make quick money and generate long-term revenue, then we have to go back to my comfort zone—web-based social games."

Li Feng's eyes gradually brightened.

Although Tencent has bought out its farm and parking spaces and is aggressively attracting users to QQ Space, the demand for social games from major companies is endless.

Instead of going head-to-head with Tencent in the traffic pool, why not take advantage of the fact that everyone hasn't fully figured out the tricks of SNS games and directly become a top content supplier for Tencent's open platform!

Leveraging Tencent's massive user base of 300 million daily active users for revenue sharing is the real way to print money while lying down!

"Which one should I get...?"

His mind quickly filtered through the top-rated web games that dominated the charts in his previous life, and soon settled on one name.

"Hu Lai's Three Kingdoms"

This is a masterpiece that perfectly blends SLG (strategy city building) and SNS (social stealing) elements!

Build troops, upgrade buildings, recruit chibi-style Three Kingdoms generals, and then... "steal" resources from your friends' cities, or even directly send troops to occupy your friends' territories and turn them into your "vassal states"!

This gameplay, which combines heavy gacha mechanics with light social interaction, reached its peak in later years, generating over 100 million RMB in monthly revenue, demonstrating an outrageous ability to make money!

"This game involves unit counters, general skills, and city upgrades, with a rather large numerical system. The development cycle will be at least eight months. The initial development cost of two million is more than enough, and three million in cash reserves is enough to sustain it until it goes live and becomes profitable."

Without hesitation, Li Feng pressed the internal phone on his desk: "Old Chen, have the key personnel from the technology and planning departments come to the first conference room immediately!"

……

Ten minutes later, in the conference room.

Li Feng stood in front of the whiteboard, looking at the dozen or so core employees below.

"Everyone, the company's strategic deployment will be slightly adjusted. Starting today, the R&D team will be officially split into two independent project groups."

Li Feng picked up a whiteboard marker and wrote "Mobile" on the left and "Web" on the right.

"Old Chen, you take a group of people and continue to work on the underlying algorithms of the Apple port of 'Angry Birds' and 'Fishing Joy'."

Then, Li Feng looked at the remaining Java and front-end engineers, "Everyone else will be integrated into the newly formed web game project team, which I will personally lead!"

These words immediately caused a suppressed commotion in the conference room.

The boss is personally leading the R&D team?!

In their minds, a mysterious tycoon like Li Feng, who could casually throw away tens of millions, should only know how to operate capital and give orders.

Although it was said that he wrote the underlying code for the previous company, many people still felt that the boss only knew a little bit about it.

"Mr. Li, what will our new project be about?" a numerical planner asked curiously.

On the right side of the whiteboard, Li Feng wrote four large characters heavily: "Hu Lai Three Kingdoms".

"We want to tailor a Q-version Three Kingdoms strategy game with strong social attributes for Tencent's open platform."

"Each player owns a city, and the core logic is 'development + social conquest.' Players can acquire generals like Guan Yu and Lu Bu through card draws, and the social interaction is no longer just simple 'farming,' I want you to make it 'conquest'!"

"Govern your friends' cities and plunder their resources. The conquered friends will be mocked in the public chat. Want revenge? Then spend money to get stronger generals and upgrade your troops to take them back!"

"Men's competitive spirit and their passion for the Three Kingdoms, combined with the pervasive social network of QQ Space—that's the secret to this game's success!"

The meeting room was silent.

Too bad!

It has taken the human desires of comparison, showing off, humiliation, and revenge to such an appalling degree.

If this game were actually made and posted on QQ Space, those nouveau riche bosses who don't care about money and young people who care about face would definitely throw a lot of money into it in order to compete for the empty title of "number one on the friends leaderboard"!

"But Mr. Li..."

A senior front-end lead programmer frowned, raised his hand, and said, "This game sounds like it has a very large system, involving numerical deduction, front-end and back-end interaction logic, and a very high database load. Our newly formed team hasn't worked together before, and just setting up the underlying architecture framework will probably take a month or two of adjustment..."

"No need." He pulled out a chair and sat down in front of the main computer in the conference room, which was connected to the projector.

"Now, everyone, bring your laptops and pull up a chair behind me."

Li Feng opened the code editor and gently placed his hands on the keyboard.

"Look carefully, I'll only type out the interaction logic of the underlying framework once. How much you can understand will determine your future livelihood."

next second.

"Da da da da da..."

The crisp, rain-like sound of mechanical keyboard typing exploded in the conference room.

On the projection screen, lines of low-level C++ and Java code, without any redundancy, poured out like a waterfall.

Whether it was the high-concurrency handling logic of the database or the underlying pseudo-random algorithm of the general card drawing system, Li Feng completed it all in one go, without even a single unnecessary line break!

The dozen or so technical staff standing behind him went from being nonchalant at first, to leaning forward slightly, and finally their eyes almost popped out of their sockets, their faces filled with shock at seeing a ghost.

What kind of godlike hand speed and logical clarity is this?!

He didn't even look at the drafts or UML diagrams; the entire massive and complex underlying framework of the game was completely stored in his mind!

Old Chen stood at the back of the crowd, staring at the textbook-level code on the screen, swallowing hard.

"The interfaces of the first version of the framework are all here, and I have hardcoded the inheritance relationships of the core classes."

Two hours later, Li Feng loosened his keyboard, rotated his slightly sore wrists, stood up, and looked at the group of employees behind him who were completely stunned.

"The remaining flesh and blood filling and art puzzle, eight months, that's your deadline."