Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Pei Qian came to work the next day.

A little-known fact— The legal representatives of a company could also apply for jobs at other companies.

After signing the contract, Chen Yu happily brought Pei Qian around the company and proudly introduced Pei Qian to everyone.

It caused the entire company to gather around and take photos together.

Pei Qian sighed silently. Fortunately, he was used to this.

He finally came to the meeting room to discuss the game after much difficulty.

He almost sat in the main seat out of habit, but Chen Yu arrived first this time, so he sat on the left side of Chen Yu without making a mistake.

Chen Yu first told him about the company's current situation.

"It's like this. Dream Stealing Games is a start-up company that has just been established for half a year. The game we're developing now is called Nightmare Journey."

"The content of the game is very simple. Actually, the initial inspiration was the fear of being alone at home when I was young and always felt that there were some terrifying monsters in the room."

"However, we don't want to make a particularly terrifying game. We want to make it a fantasy game with some horror elements to reflect the characteristics of the game's Ninth Art as much as possible."

"The general content of the game is that a foreign child lives in a villa by the sea. One day, his parents are asleep, but this child can't fall asleep no matter what. Hence, he looks at the shadows and begins to fantasize."

"He imagined himself becoming various animals, exploring the corners of the entire villa and defeating all kinds of creatures hidden in the shadows…"

"In the end, he managed to escape and fell asleep."

"The content during this period is mainly to show various imaginative strange scenes from a child's perspective. It's… more inclined to artistic game content."

Pei Qian nodded. "It sounds good. Which segment did you encounter a problem with?"

It was quite interesting judging from this idea alone. Many players would like it if it could make it to the shelves.

They might even win an award if they were lucky.

Chen Yu sighed silently. "I found problems everywhere when we started making it!"

"First of all, our art standards are too poor. We can't create scenes that combine realistic, suspenseful, and fantasy styles. It's useless no matter what if the concept is wrong."

"Second, we don't have enough imagination. We can't imagine the kind of monsters and enemies this child will encounter during his exploration."

"It wasn't easy to think of a few, but after making them, we felt that the effect was very poor and killed them all."

"Lastly… I realized that I don't have enough funds."

He paused for a moment. "Speaking of which, this is actually a pit left behind by the previous chief planner."

"At that time, I was also desperately looking for a chief planner. Then, a very experienced designer came. He said that he had once worked as a chief planner in Shang Yang Games and had worked with big shots like Huang Sibo and Ye Zhizhou."

"I felt that he was really awesome upon hearing that! So I trusted him with the entire project."

"In the end, the entire project became even more chaotic after he fiddled with it. He even planned many strange functions. I hurriedly asked him to stop when I saw that something was wrong. However, after this period of trouble, a lot of funds were wasted."

"That's why… We recruited a new chief planner to see if we can plug this hole."

Pei Qian frowned slightly, looking confused.

Huh?

The chief planner of Shang Yang Games has been here before? Who was it?

Chen Yu seemed to realize this instantly. He asked, "By the way, you've worked at Tengda before. Do you know this person? His surname is Liu."

Pei Qian almost slapped his thigh and stood up after being stunned for two seconds.

Oh!!

Wasn't that Old Liu?

Wasn't that the Old Liu who had brushed past him 100% of the time!

In fact, he realized that the only core asset of Shang Yang Games was Old Liu! Back then, Old Liu was the one who made him lose money the most when Tengda first started recruiting people!

Unfortunately, he missed Old Liu every time.

Either the recruitment had made a mistake and did not hire him, or he had run away before the company he was in was acquired.

They met again here unexpectedly.

Actually, Old Liu wasn't lying.

He had indeed been the chief planner in Shang Yang Game and had worked with Huang Si Bo and the others.

However, that was before Pei Qian bought Shang Yang Games. It was completely different from the Shang Yang Games that would become one of the three key pillars of the gaming industry with Tengda Games and Slow Movement Studio.

Look at how things had turned out…

Chen Yu rubbed his hands in embarrassment. "Do you think we can save the situation?"

He thought for a moment. "Yes. However… I can't guarantee that we can earn money. I can only guarantee the company's survival."

Chen Yu was puzzled. Wasn't this the same thing?

Only by making money would the company survive! On the other hand, since the company could survive, it must have made money!

On the other hand, Pei Qian was chuckling in his heart. You know nothing about 'survival'!

It did not matter even if the game lost money. That was because he had already confirmed that Chen Yu was a good boss and producer. When the time came, he would just ask Dream Realization Ventures and the Destitution Plan to invest in him.

Moreover, since this group of people had no other way out, he would not have any psychological burden if he went all out.

Chen Yu asked, "Do you have any suggestions?"

He felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when he saw the gazes around the conference table.

It was a walk in the park!

Since that was the case, he would give them a dark path according to the Pei family's design method. In any case, it was a Hail Mary effort. If he really ruined this game, he would get Dream Realization Ventures to take action.

He was not good at making money after all.

Pei Qian organized his thoughts and said calmly, "I have three suggestions. They correspond to the three problems we have encountered so far."

"Firstly, if the art style is not suitable, contact Halo Workspace and get Ruan Guangjian to design it."

Everyone fell into a daze.

Chen Yu was a little embarrassed. "Well… Of course it's a good idea. We would also like Master Ruan to help in designing the art style… But Halo Workspace is now the top art studio in the country…"

"Putting Big Boss Ruan aside, even his disciple's disciple's schedule is full… Moreover, their fee is too high. We can't afford it…"

He nodded silently. "Oh, I see…"

Everyone nodded. "That's right!"

Chen Yu said in embarrassment, "This is a small company after all. You can't always consider your work experience in Tengda. Tengda's platform can easily obtain any resources…"

He waved his hand. "It's fine. Actually, I had some personal ties with Ruan Guangjian from back then."

"I'll give him a call later. I'll ask him to give me a friendly price, he should be able to design it at a good price."

Chen Yu couldn't help but be shocked. "Huh? Do you even have such a network?"

Everyone's expressions changed again.

He did not mind and continued, "In short, this problem has been resolved, right? Let's move on to the next one."

"Secondly, you don't have enough imagination and can't think of specific scenes. This is mainly because you chose the wrong materials."

Chen Yu was a little conflicted. "How could we not know that? But it's even more unsuitable for an Oriental background. After all, we have never lived in a villa when we were young…"

He nodded. "That's why I want to overthrow them all. If you don't mind, I want to change to the environment and theme that I'm most familiar with."

Chen Yu raised his eyebrows. "Oh? What do you mean?"

He paused for a moment before saying, "It's Tengda's office area!"

Chen Yu couldn't help but turn pale with fright. "Huh? Then what would the game be like?"

The others were also shocked. They did not expect such a thing to happen.

This was because their original style contained a little horror and suspense.

In the child's fantasy, he would enter the shadows of the villa, encounter some monsters, and have a tense and exciting battle.

What kind of style would that be if they used Tengda's office settings?

Forgive our lack of imagination, but we can't imagine it at all…

He smiled. "What's so unimaginable about that?

"This game should be named 'Destruction of Tengda'. The main plot is about a young man coming to Tengda Corporation but realizing that this place is already empty and overgrown with weeds."

"He wandered around here and walked past major places like Tengda Games, Shang Yang Games, Fei Huang Workspace, Fish-Catching Take-Out, Upwind Logistics, and so on. He saw that these places that were once unique and prosperous were all cold and empty. They were completely ruined."

"Therefore, he used some clues in the scene to experience some imagination and trigger some memories."

"Isn't this completely compatible with the core of your game?"

Everyone was dumbfounded and did not know what to say.

It felt right but at the same time, it also felt wrong…

Chen Yu wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. "This… Ahem, it's a good idea, but won't we be sued by Tengda? This is slander, right? At the very least it would be a curse…"

"Even if Tengda is magnanimous and doesn't mind, where are we going to get these materials? It's still an incomparably huge workload to produce all of Tengda's scenes from scratch!"

The others nodded in agreement. They clearly felt that this was completely impossible.

He smiled slightly. "This can be resolved with the third point."

"Aren't you short of funds? If we use this plan, we can save on art resources."

Everyone was still dumbfounded.

He continued, "Actually, Tengda had a plan for a long time. It was decided by the three major games departments, Tengda Games, Shang Yang Games, and Slow Movement Studio."

"That is to gamify the entire Tengda Corporation!"

"Actually, we had already made and used some materials from the Tengda Building when we were making the game 'The Future You Choose' previously. However, they were all materials for sci-fi."

"In the future, they might even have plans to build an entire virtual universe. Therefore, they have been constantly turning the elements in reality into art resources and placing them in the library."

"Tengda Corporation plans to put all these resources on their own game platform and open them to all developers for free!"

Chen Yu's expression changed from confusion to joy. "Oh? Is that true?"

However, the others in the conference room shook their heads in no time. "I've never heard of it! How could we not know if such a major thing really happened?"

Pei Qian cleared his throat. "Ahem! That's because this plan is still in the preparatory stage and hasn't been announced on a large scale. I was considered an internal staff member previously, so I know about this."

"However, don't worry. It should be announced by this week at the latest."

Everyone looked at each other, still skeptical.

However, it didn't matter, because this matter would become an established fact in a few hours.

He smiled. "In that case, all three problems are solved, right?"

He had already stood up before anyone could react.

"Meeting's over!"

With that, he walked out of the meeting room, leaving everyone dumbfounded.

The meeting was done so fast! Is it over just like that?

It was as if he was the only one talking the entire time. We didn't even have the chance to interrupt…

Chen Yu remained silent in his seat for a long time before he scratched his head and realized a problem.

I think… I am actually the boss here?