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Chapter 123 Improving day by day
Yang Ji also ran out of the crowd in a panic. He breathed a sigh of relief after he stood still and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose.

When he saw him, Feng Qi's eyes lit up.

Feng Qi walked quickly to his side and quickly pulled him in front of Niu Tieming.

“This is the real hero of our project!”

Feng Qi put his arm around his shoulders and spoke to Niu Tieming.

Yang Ji looked at the three people in front of him with a confused look on his face.

"Oh, yes, Team Leader Yang, your art style is truly the most unique I've ever seen." Niu Tieming came back to his senses and said with admiration in his eyes, "If it weren't for you, this game would probably have lost its soul."

"You and Team Leader Feng are like a duo, invincible!"

Yang Ji scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "Boss Niu, thank you for the compliment."

"It's all thanks to everyone's help."

"I'm just doing my job. Without Feng Qi controlling the overall situation, Brother Kuang coordinating resources from all parties, and Mr. Niu's support, our game wouldn't be where it is today."

Feng Qi looked at Yang Ji with satisfaction. He still remembered how Yang Ji was not good at speaking when he first met him that year.

At that time, he was just a shy and introverted young artist who had just graduated.

And now, with his influence and help, Yang Ji can at least say such polite words.

Sure enough, Niu Tieming was very pleased to hear this and patted him on the shoulder.

Zhou Kuang then concluded with a smile: "Everyone has contributed greatly. This journey has not been easy."

"But no matter how many difficulties there were, we faced them together as a team and overcame them."

"No one can be missing."

Feng Qi nodded in agreement, and the other two also looked approving.

"Later, let everyone go home and rest, and have a good sleep tonight." Zhou Kuang said.

In fact, the game was completed yesterday afternoon, but it was already late at that time, and Feng Qi wanted to check the game in the morning when his mind was clearer, so it was delayed until the next morning.

They finished testing the game this morning and there is no further work.

New Year's Day is just a few days away, and the employees have not had many days off throughout the year, so Zhou Kuang thinks it's time to let them have a good rest.

They combine work and rest, and when the New Year's Day holiday is over, they will once again enter a tense optimization phase, so that their work efficiency can reach the best level.

"New Year's Day is almost here. How about giving everyone a holiday and then getting back to work after the holiday?"

Zhou Kuang looked at Feng Qi. Although he was the boss, he still had to seek Feng Qi's opinion. After all, he was the real leader of the team, and he understood the work arrangements much better than Zhou Kuang.

Feng Qi almost didn't think twice before answering, "That's a great idea! Everyone's been exhausted lately and really needs to relax."

Feng Qi once promised Zhou Kuang that all development work of the entire project, except for optimization, must be completed before the New Year.

Since the release date has been announced, Feng Qi will naturally not break his promise and will definitely complete the development of the main body within this year.

And now he has done it.

"I'll tell everyone this good news later. After the New Year's Day holiday is over and we've recuperated, we'll do another big job!"

Feng Qi was eager to try. Being able to get vacation time for the team was also a way to gain the trust and prestige of employees.

Yang Ji watched the conversation between the people in front of him, and his heart was filled with warmth.

Compared to Antarctic Interactive Entertainment, I feel that there is more human touch between people in Kuangshi Games.

Feng Qi is his accustomed and tacit partner. Zhou Kuang gives them more power to allow them to freely display their talents, and all the employees under him work for their own dreams.

Everything is so perfect.

I hope this kind of time can continue forever.

"Okay, then it's decided."

Zhou Kuang made the decision and decided to give them a holiday.

"I'll go tell everyone about the holiday first. I guess some people have been looking forward to this news for a long time!" After saying that, Feng Qi turned and walked towards the crowd.

In the office, people's faces were still filled with joy at completing the project. Although the game had not yet been released, the dawn of victory was not far away.

Feng Qi strode to the center of the crowd, cleared his throat, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

"I have good news for everyone. You don't have to come this afternoon!"

"From now on, it's vacation time!!"

"Come back to work after the New Year's Day holiday!"

When everyone heard Feng Qi's announcement, they were excited and the crowd cheered and applauded.

One good news comes after another, is there more to come?

Feng Qi looked at their expectant expressions and scolded them with a mixture of laughter and tears: "Just go home and get some sleep. Look how exhausted you all are."

"You're still talking about us, you have so many dark circles under your eyes that you're almost like a panda!"

"Hahahahaha!"

I don’t know who it was, but someone suddenly shouted, and everyone burst into laughter.

"Whoever said that, stand up!"

Feng Qi pretended to be angry and walked around looking for the person who was talking.

Seeing his reaction like this, the laughter got even louder.

Feng Qi himself was amused.

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"Netherworld Mountains and Seas" has finally completed the development stage and is waiting for final optimization.

As time approaches New Year's Day, there are less than four months left until the final release date.

Zhou Kuang sat alone at home, watching the New Year's Eve party on TV. The atmosphere was full of festivity, with people singing and laughing.

He turned his head and looked out the window. The neon lights of the city were still there, looking particularly gorgeous under the lights.

There was a constant flow of traffic on the road in the distance. Besides the sound of horns, he could occasionally hear the sound of someone lighting firecrackers.

Zhou Kuang sighed secretly. Fireworks and firecrackers are basically not allowed in the central areas of the city now, but there are still people who are so brave.

He turned around and looked inside the house. It was such a big room, but there was no one to spend the New Year's Eve with him, which made him feel inexplicably lonely.

Zhou Kuang's thoughts gradually drifted away, recalling every detail of the development of "Youming Shanhai" over the past two years.

From the initial drawing of the plan for "Crab Crab Treasure Hunting Adventure", and then Yang Ji used his personal style as a basis to modify it into the current "Netherworld Mountains and Seas".

The demo went viral online, we were contacted and invested in by Antarctic Interactive Entertainment, we moved to a new office, Feng Qi invested, and we expanded to our current size of over 100 people.

Every single incident was vividly etched in his mind.

Zhou Kuang stood up and walked to the window, gazing at the scenery outside with his arms folded across his chest. The scenery seemed both lonely and prosperous at the same time, giving people a contradictory feeling. Just as he was lost in thought, his cell phone suddenly rang.

I picked up the phone and saw that it was Feng Qi.

I pressed the answer button and the other party's hearty laughter came from the speaker of the phone.

"Brother Kuang, Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year!"

When Zhou Kuang heard Feng Qi's voice, the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

"Where are you?"

"Stay at home and watch the New Year's Eve Gala." Zhou Kuang said concisely.

"Why don't you go out and have some fun?"

"I don't have the time for that. It's quite relaxing to just eat something good at home and enjoy the night view. How about you?"

"Me too, I didn't go out. I just thought my brothers are on vacation now, so I'd call them one by one to say hello during the New Year."

Zhou Kuang nodded. There was no doubt that Feng Qi was an expert at building team cohesion.

"It's been a tough year for everyone. It's all thanks to you, Brother Kuang, who backed us up and let us do what we want. That's why we have Nether Mountain and Sea today."

Hearing Feng Qi's words, he felt slightly moved.

The two then talked about the release of Netherworld Mountain and Sea, especially the subsequent schedule.

According to the release date of April 4, "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" will soon enter the pre-sale period.

Once the pre-sale channel opens, Zhou Kuang will soon know the lower limit of the game's commercial performance.

Reaching the upper limit of sales requires the right time, people and location, all of which are indispensable, but the lower limit only requires players to buy in.

The pre-sale results will depend entirely on the current recognition of their game by the player community and the popularity of "Youming Shanhai" in China.

Only when the quality of the game satisfies players can sales continue to rise.

They chatted about the holiday plans of other team members and laughed a lot.

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Kuang felt a warm feeling in his heart. The reason why they were able to create "Nether Mountain and Sea" was because they had such a group of like-minded Chinese game developers who fought side by side.

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The New Year's Day holiday passed in a flash, and the team members returned to the office again. This time they were full of energy, obviously having replenished their physical strength after nearly ten days of rest.

They immediately plunged into the intense work of optimizing the game. Their work intensity at this time was obviously greater than before the break, but no one complained.

Because they know this is the final sprint before reaching the finish line.

No one can underestimate the importance of optimization work for a game, and people are fed up with having a game with great gameplay but a disastrous initial release.

Bugs are everywhere, the game freezes and drops frames, crashes frequently, and the hardware requirements far exceed expectations.

These are all "weapons" to discourage players.

Optimization is not just superficial work. After all, superficial work at least means that you can still experience a good core. However, if a game is not optimized, players will not be able to have a normal gaming experience.

When the BGM sounds in the game and the plot is playing, the players' emotions have been aroused and they are waiting for the game to enter the next stage.

boom!
It crashed!
Players can only helplessly open the game again, wait for loading, go back to the previous save point, and then advance the game to this position before they can hear the same music and see the same plot again.

Do you think players will play the next game with the same mood and emotions as before?
Absolutely impossible!

Feng Qi is busy shuttling between various groups every day, constantly controlling every detail of the optimization.

Even though they were so busy, they still didn't have enough staff, mainly because there were not enough testers, so Zhou Kuang sought external help.

Naturally, they are from Antarctic Interactive Entertainment.

Of course, Zhou Kuang can also outsource it himself. What he needs are testers, mainly game testing engineers, also called QA, which stands for Quality Assurance.

But now "Youming Shanhai" is too well-known in the domestic gaming circle, and he needs not just one or two QAs. For the sake of data security and confidentiality, he can only turn to Niu Tieming for help.

Niu Tieming naturally agreed. He was not afraid that Zhou Kuang would ask him for help. What he was afraid of was that one day Zhou Kuang would no longer need his help. That would be bad.

He directly sent a dedicated game QA team from Antarctic Interactive Entertainment. The positions were divided very finely, from QA managers, test engineers, automation test engineers, performance test engineers to security test engineers, test analysts, etc.

The entire QA team alone has a total of fifty people! !

You should know that in the entire company of Megvii Games, the number of employees assigned to "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" is only about a hundred.

It can be said that Niu Tieming has absolutely done his utmost.

Not only that, Niu Tieming didn't even ask for a penny.

Of course, this could not have been his own arbitrary decision. It must have been the result of discussions with the board of directors and other senior executives.

We sent several technicians here before, and no matter how high their personal skills were, there was naturally no need to talk about money. After all, this was still within the scope of technical exchange.

Antarctic Interactive Entertainment is not that petty.

However, this time it is a super large QA team of fifty people. If Zhou Kuang wants to hire them himself, given their experience and level, not to mention whether he can hire them, just the price alone will definitely cost several million or tens of millions.

And they actually said they would waive this money, which surprised Zhou Kuang greatly.

He even offered to pay, but Niu Tieming ultimately did not agree.

After all, Zhou Kuang still has a lot of cash in his hands, and the company's cash flow is very healthy because "Vampire Survivor" continues to generate revenue on both PC and mobile phones.

In terms of funding, Zhou Kuang had never felt such a wonderful start!

He is very willing to pay for Antarctic Interactive Entertainment's QA team.

But now that Niu Tieming said he didn't have to pay, he was willing to go along with it and take advantage of it.

Give and take is the way to deal with people.

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On the other hand, localization work is ongoing.

As early as June last year, Zhou Kuang had already found localization companies in various regions and started the specific localization work.

Except for some minor languages, which may be difficult to find translation companies, for other common languages, you can basically make an appointment with an experienced dubbing studio.

For example, for English localization, which is the most important besides Chinese, he originally wanted to find a localization company in North America called Minori Interactive, which can be called "Minori Interactive" according to the transliteration, or "Minority Interactive" according to the literal translation.

The reason why Zhou Kuang chose this company was because they had cooperated with many well-known 3A games in Eastern Europe and Japan in the gaming industry.

However, the other party later rejected his invitation. After all, there are so many games that want to be localized by them every year, simply too many to count!

Companies like Megvii Games, which have never produced any works, will not take the job even if they can afford it.

(End of this chapter)