Chapter 398 Let’s Go to My House
Li Roumei stood up directly, put her hands on Zheng Xiuheng's shoulders, and spoke in a coquettish manner, which made Zheng Xiuheng helpless and felt discouraged.
"Are you satisfied with my arrangement?" Li Roumei, the rich girl, suddenly seemed to become Zheng Xiuheng's little follower . She even massaged Zheng Xiuheng's shoulders and asked with an expectant expression on her face.
Zheng Xiuheng felt uneasy. He had a feeling that this young lady must be plotting something since she was so attentive.
But on the other hand, Zheng Xiuheng also had to thank this woman. Although CJ Network sounded like just a shell company with the name of CJ, the fact was completely different.
Although CJ Group does not hold the majority of shares, the role of this company is still very prominent, but it also has certain limitations. Lee Yoomi's brother Lee Yong-je wants to enter the gaming industry, but before that, CJ actually had a subsidiary called Netmarble.
First of all, the development team, and secondly the game portal, both are doing well. Compared with them, CJ certainly values Netmarble more. Even CJ network relies on Netmarble for the promotion of some of its agent games.
It was Li Yongqi's father who gave him advice on offline Internet cafe management and system services, which allowed the company to develop slowly and reach a certain scale. However, the weak point was that the game development team within the company was relatively weak, and the Internet publicity channels still needed to rely on Netmarble, which made CJ Network's pace of entering the game industry very slow.
However, even in this situation, Zheng Xiuheng had already developed "Deemo". After sending the finished product to Lee Yoomi, this fair, rich and beautiful girl quickly came up with a promotion plan.
First of all, on the Internet, of course, they advertised on Netmarble's website. Of course, it was mainly some promotional reviews and some small advertisements. After all, it was not their own company, and Lee Yoomi could not do more unless Zheng Xiuheng was willing to pay. But there was no doubt that Zheng Xiuheng had no money.
Secondly, the Internet cafes currently operated by CJ Network will fully promote "Deemo" after its release. Since the game will not be sold on discs, but only in digital form, most players need to purchase a digital code to activate the game.
After the game is released, one quarter of the content of "Deemo", which is about five songs , can be played for free in the Internet cafes of CJ Network. If you like it, you can directly purchase the digital code to activate it through the Internet cafe payment system, and unlock the remaining songs and game content at a discounted price of 20%.
Lee Yoomi even helped Jung Soo-hyung contact a number of Internet cafes that cooperated with CJ Network to launch this game. You should know that this is different from online games. In Korea, there is a law to protect the property rights of online games. Although like most countries, some countries comply with it and some do not, for some specific games, such as stand-alone games developed in China, the protection is very strict. Generally, after the game is launched, it cannot be played in Internet cafes. This is the same as the unique online game franchise stores in Korea.
For example, if a Korean Internet cafe becomes a franchised Internet cafe of a certain game or gaming company, it has to pay money to the gaming company.
The advantage of becoming a franchise store is that the game company will organize relevant activities specifically for players who play games in franchised Internet cafes (for example, experience value increase, increased explosion rate, etc.), or when a new game is being tested, players can experience it in the relevant franchise stores even if they do not qualify for the test.
Some popular overseas games, such as "Warcraft", also require authorization and franchising. Although there are certainly many Internet cafes that do not franchise, objectively speaking, this violates the intellectual property protection law formulated by Koreans themselves.
However, this situation is relatively rare for Korean domestic games, especially for stand-alone games, which are becoming increasingly scarce. It can be said that Korean stand-alone games are close to death. Even if there are still companies that insist on development, no one is optimistic about them.
So, the reality is, even if Zheng Xiuheng's "Deemo" becomes popular because of the music, no one will come to him to discuss joining, let alone pay.
So Li Roumei's help to him was no longer just a simple thank you. Of course, in Li Roumei's words, you saved my life, this little thing is nothing.
Although there were many objections in the company, the current president also knew that, to put it bluntly, this company belonged to her, the Li family. Since the emperor had made the decision, he could only support it in the end. It was not a big deal anyway, just some technical work, which could probably be completed in less than two hours.
Due to the special nature of Korean games and Internet cafes, Zheng Xiuheng did not need to pay . It seemed more like CJ Network was optimistic about this game and chose to join and promote it.
So, even though Zheng Xiuheng was a little annoyed by her constant calling, he answered the calls every time.
"I am satisfied, but Miss, you don't have to ask me to come here for a special inspection, right? Do you want me to play the game for a while and then test the charging and recharging?" Zheng Xiuheng asked with a smile.
Li Roumei replied cheerfully: "Of course, isn't this a matter of course? Also, you can also visit the PC room under our company's name!"
"Why should I visit the PC room? Aren't you being too irrational?" Zheng Xiuheng was amused by this. He really couldn't understand what this young lady was thinking. Although he had also thought about whether she would become like Li Yinxin, he could find out through contact that it was different. This girl clearly wanted to do something.
"It's almost six o'clock, shall we go eat?"
"Let go, don't pull me!"
Zheng Xiuheng suddenly felt like he was selling himself to accompany a rich woman, and he really didn't know what to say.
"Eat, eat, eat, now it's okay to let go!"
Seeing the woman holding his arm and pulling him up, Zheng Xiuheng had no choice but to compromise. Most importantly, the lady's movements were so big that her chest pressed against his shoulders. The plump feeling forced Zheng Xiuheng to compromise quickly, but he was still thinking, "Are you going to cross the river and destroy the bridge after the game is released?"
With this in mind, let’s consider this meal as a thank you meal…
When Li Youmei saw that Zheng Xiuheng agreed, she naturally showed a triumphant expression, and then...
"Then let's go to my house!"
"ah?"
Zheng Xiuheng immediately became Spartan. Looking at Li Youmei who was smiling sweetly, he really wondered if she was crazy.
The release of "Deemo" has been confirmed on the 30th. For this game, the Antenna official website has released some preview photos, basically one a day since last week, and five photos have been updated so far.
Moreover, the style tends to be dark, with the four corners of the background basically completely black. The first picture only has three colors: the green sapling in the center of the picture and the dark golden tree in the water reflection.
The second one shows a large golden tree and a castle with tiny lights on. Both are the only things emitting light in the darkness.
The third picture shows a black figure in the second picture. It is Deemo’s design, a black ghost figure with only two bright white eyes. The overall look does not give people a scary feeling.
There are two more albums later, and from the design alone, they give the audience a lot of mystery, which is completely different from what everyone expected at the beginning.
In order to publish the game, Zheng Xiuheng and Cui Minxi discussed and decided not to release it to other game sites for sale. After discussion, the two of them formally established a game studio, a very small company, and then sold the game on the website set up by the company .
After all, the two were not joking. First of all, since "Deemo" was sold, it would naturally generate revenue. Zheng Xiuheng now understood that not everything could be listed on his company for sale. The revenue, tax and other issues generated at that time would be very troublesome.
In addition, Zheng Xiuheng has confirmed that he will develop a new game derived from "Deemo", and this time, it is not a situation that can be completed by the efforts of a few people, and Zheng Xiuheng cannot invest money to do it, so he can only look forward to the profitability of "Deemo", because this time the subsequent development can no longer use those ordinary engines. According to Cui Minxi's meaning, it may be necessary to do 3D. At that time, whether it is modeling or rendering, you need to spend money to get a licensed commercial engine, and at the same time you have to expand the team.
In fact, for Choi Min-hee, the development speed of "Deemo" this time was actually too slow. The reason was not that there were not enough programmers, but that there was only one artist, and most of the time he had to cooperate with Han Ji-won's work efficiency and even help out.
Of course, this is Choi Min-hee's first time as the chief planner, so he is not in a hurry. Instead, he is adapting to his job and accumulating experience.
At this moment, Han Zhiyuan was sitting in front of the piano, staring blankly at her sister who was lying on the bed with her eyes open and lifeless. The music in the room kept playing, with different music looping...
One song, two songs, three songs... Han Zhiyuan sat there for two hours on repeat.
This is the only CD available now, which contains ten songs specially included in "Deemo". This is the "Deemo" music album that is planned to be released after the game is online for a period of time.
This was what Zheng Xiuheng gave her a week ago after the evening show, and since then, this music has been played on loop in Han Zhixiang's room every day.
Although it is not clear whether the child heard it or not, Han Zhiyuan often listened to it. Her favorite was "Sakura-colored Dream" sung by Teacher Li Shanji. It always reminded her of the past, before the accident happened... home.
During this period, Han Zhiyuan learned to daydream, not only at home, but also at the radio station. After returning home, she would rather stay in this room.
"The figure of someone who can't be forgotten
When returning to the distant sky
The cherry blossoms will wither and fall
The day they walked along the riverside path
Melting snow sparkles on the river
I once talked about the future with you under the blooming cherry blossoms..."
"This is a gift for Tomoka, and for you too!"
Han Zhiyuan remembered Zheng Xiuheng's words again and lowered her head to look at the sketch in her hand with an indescribably complicated and touching expression.
