He took his laptop in his arms and walked out of the conference room. Zhao Mengke slammed his fist hard on the desk, “Hey! It’s not entirely impossible, right!?”

…….

But Zhao Mengke had guessed wrongly. Lou Wei left the conference room not because he didn’t agree to the recruitment. It was because he was worried that Wen Fan might overhear Lin Xiao’s words and thought about the fact that he is unable to turn himself back into his human form. 

But after he left the conference room and checked on Wen Fan, he noticed that he was researching recipes with the fat penguin. They sat with their backs facing Lou Wei and were talking non-stop. They weren’t even aware of what was happening outside the phone. Wen Fan turned around when he sensed his background suddenly brightened and his eyes met Lou Wei’s.

Wen Fan instantly let out a smile, exposing the pointy tips of his canines, waving his hands toward Lou Wei.

After that, he continued talking to the penguin again.

Lou Wei secretly let out a sigh of relief and realized that he could have been a little over-sensitive. Lou Wei, who had been through half a day of the meeting was in deep thoughts, wondering why he would be worried about a certain person because of a comment made by someone?

He placed his phone inside his pocket and returned to his office.

Ever since everyone in Yuan Cheng Technology agreed to put ‘Compagnon’ as one of the game releases, all the senior management staff and some of the members participating in ‘Compagnon’ project set meetings for the next few days to discuss the main functions for the project and future development as well as sales directions.

Because they had done RPG before, there were a lot of ideas and breakthroughs that they could use on ‘Compagnon.’

As for the characters, ‘Compagnon’ team from LouV Gaming Studio decided to develop one that could link with other mainstream RPGs.

For example, the hosts from all platforms could place their avatar on Compagnon. If any fans wish to choose the character of the host’s avatar, they would need to make an in-app purchase. The profit made from those purchases would be distributed between Compagnon, the host, and also the platforms.

Compagnon would earn the opportunity to collaborate with popular games such as Nuan Nuan so that players can change the character of the games to the custom character that they created with Compagnon or even create a mini version of themself and let their avatar try on the outfit available from the game or even outfit from an online fashion outlet.

And of course, one of the main directions is to buy the copyright to use the avatar of well-known celebrities, game characters, or anime characters to create an in-game character to draw the attention of players.

If ‘Compagnon’ can collaborate with other platforms, some more, with the traffic from well-known celebrities, there will be not much challenge in marketing the game.

Moreover, on the Compagnon in-game function, players could perform a ‘quick scan’ at different locations to scan the available avatars at those locations. Not only that, when they scan a certain product, they could even see the avatar who is the ‘spokesperson of that product and use their avatar to interact with others.

The characters that were scanned would be categories by the SSR system, sorting them according to their scarcity, UR>SSR>SR>R>N to fulfill the interest of young collectors.

Besides, a game without meaningful content or emotional content is unable to capture the interest of its player in the long run. The romance plot is a crucial weapon to hold a player’s heart. 

And thus, on the romance plot, ‘Compagnon’ would promote the good spirit of patriotism and at the same time, assign classic, modern or medieval modes according to the player’s preference. And furthermore, they would launch a series of different outfits, skins, snacks, and scenery based on various districts and areas.

They also created couples mode, friendship modes, and social platforms modes so that players could choose the mode they like. For couples mode, the couple could create each other’s avatars, build their own house and interact with their other half’s avatar. As for social mode, Compagnon will build their own social platform to make it easy for players of various age groups to make more friends…

These were the outcome of the recent four-days meeting. This was part of the main game feature. As for the rest of the playable features, the designing staff was still continuing in exploiting the rest.

‘Compagnon’ team and Yuan Cheng Technology’s staff who studied the proposal of the game were all convinced that this game would quickly rise to fame after release. Because the game could open up to a lot of other opportunities.

And because of this, ‘Compagnon’ had faced a challenge of…not having sufficient staff.

Yuan Cheng Technology is not solely working on ‘Heaven’s Dream’ only. There were a hundred other mini-games that were in operation. And furthermore, they even collaborated with a lot of mini gaming companies and were the first to develop more than thousands of simple mobile games.

So, when they are at the stage of developing the various functions for ‘Compagnon’, they simply don’t have enough manpower.

Because of the extraordinary work scope, they couldn’t transfer the staff from other projects to work back and forth between the two projects. Lou Wei started to recruit a lot of fresh graduates that we’re passionate about gaming and motivated. 

They expanded the number of staff working on ‘Compagnon’.

One of them is a female student, Lin Xiu, who is a distant cousin of Lin Xiao.

Although Lin Xiu does not resemble Lin Xiao, they both had fair skin, tall and possessed a good temper. In the office, even if Lin Xiao was furious, he would never use any harsh words. Lin Xiu was the same as him. She appeared gentle and weak. She wore a spectacle and one would be able to tell that she is a fresh graduate of computing.

She always liked Yuan Cheng Technology and she knew that Lin Xiao was working here. When she heard the news about Yuan Cheng Technology recruiting staff, she looked for Lin Xiao and pleaded with him for a chance to go for an interview.

Lou Wei had a good relationship with Lin Xiao. It’s not really a big deal to add one more candidate to the interview. And furthermore,  she is the cousin of Lin Xiao.

When Wen Fan saw Lin Xiu for the very first time, she left a good impression on him. One of the main reasons is perhaps…

There are simply too few girls in this faculty! When he was still in university, there was only one girl in the class.

At first, Lou Wei was planning to recruit people to help develop ‘Compagnon’. But when he saw Lin Xiu who appeared so fragile and considered the busy working environment of ‘Compagnon’, he decided to let Lin Xiu work as Lin Xiao’s assistance. 

Sometimes, when Lin Xiao is very busy with work, he would let Lin Xiu help him to deliver some documents to Liu Wei.

A week passed in the blink of an eye. When the company produced the outline of ‘Compagnon’ main features, Lou Wei and the ‘Compagnon’ team officially entered the research and development stage. Some of the staff began to reach out to some platforms, games, and anime production companies to propose for collaboration in this project.

However, the project for the purchase of copyright from celebrities was placed at the very last. After all, they need to be able to produce a finished product before they want to buy the copyright of a celebrity’s image.

And all the various APPs waited together with Wen Fan on the progress of Lou Wei’s and the others.

Every time Lou Wei talked about the progress update with Wen Fan, all the other APPs listened attentively beside him, and sometimes, they even chewed on melon seeds as they discussed it.

Today, while Wen Fan was taking a nap, Lou Wei went to the designing department to refine the outcome with the ‘Compagnon’ team. Today, they obtained an agreement from ‘Nuan Nuan’ to collaborate on outfits. At the same time, they developed a collaboration campaign with ‘Heaven’s Dream’ which is a game developed by their own company.  Players could use their own avatar to use the outfit and accessories from ‘Nuan Nuan’ and even the plot and characters from  ‘Heaven’s Dream’.

‘Compagnon’ other features were about 60% developed. Although it was still a long way to go to Lou Wei expectation, they already had the qualification to release the game now. Regardless if it was the basic function or graphics, they were ready. The team in charge of purchasing the copyrights from the selected celebrities started to follow up on their progress and the project’s representative had already begun to reach out to the respective agents for those celebrities.

 

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