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”Horror game?”
”Uh-huh!”
The representative figure who wants to actively develop new projects is a little girl named Ruan Xiqian, who wears pink puff sleeves and furry rabbit ear hairpins on her ears.
She looks very young, as if she had just graduated from school.
”Boss Tan, Xiao Ruan looks young, but she is the second-in-command of our technical department. She has rich work experience and is very careful in her work.” Perhaps worried that Tan Li would judge her by her appearance, Li Hui deliberately added a sentence to introduce her.
Tan Li didn’t feel anything special about this.
Isn’t it just about wearing the pinkest skirt and having the bloodiest fight?
They are all small things.
only……
”Boss Tan, have you ever read novels like Infinite Flow?”
Meeting Ruan Xiqian’s sparkling eyes, Tan Li leaned back slightly and said, “I haven’t seen it.”
I haven’t seen it, I just went in.
Ruan Xiqian’s eyes flashed with regret for a moment, but soon she cheered up again, “It’s like this, I want to make a level-breaking game similar to the infinite flow novels.”
”I want to make more characters, each with different skills and talents, and then let the players choose which character to use to complete the game.”
”As for the dungeon, I want to make it a horror-type one, and then the player will slowly uncover the truth of the infinite flow world by constantly passing levels, and then the ending I want…”
”Xiao Ruan!” Li Hui interrupted her as she saw she was getting more and more excited.
Ruan Xiqian blinked, looking a little unwilling, and said quickly, “In the end, only the character chosen by the player survives, and everyone else is killed.”
”I’m done.” She shut her mouth obediently, lowered her head, and avoided making eye contact with Li Hui.
Li Hui sighed inwardly and said helplessly, “Boss Tan, this project has not been officially established yet. Everything is still in Xiao Ruan’s imagination stage. Things like horror elements and the annihilation ending can all be adjusted.”
”No…” Ruan Xiqian raised her head quickly when she heard this, but she shrank back again when she saw Li Hui’s gaze.
Li Hui’s analysis is very rational. “Horror games are niche games in the current market after all. Setting an even more niche ending of total annihilation would be too risky in the market.”
”We can’t just make games for our own enjoyment, we must consider the market.”
”If you really follow your idea, you won’t have anywhere to cry when you can’t sell it.”
Ruan Xiqian lowered her head even lower.
She also knew that what Li Hui said made sense, but…
”Sure,” Tan Li’s voice suddenly sounded, “I can invest in this idea.”
Happiness came so suddenly that Ruan Xiqian didn’t react for a while.
”But…” Tan Li’s calm gaze fell on Ruan Xiqian, “I have conditions.”
Ruan Xiqian was stunned.
Time seemed to be stretched out very long at once, and Ruan Xiqian seemed to hear the sound of herself swallowing saliva.
She rubbed her fingers together. “What conditions?”
Does she want her to make the horror elements more tactful, or not to completely destroy the whole thing and have a happy ending instead?
Tan Li: “First, if you want to add horror elements, you have to make it extremely bloody and scary, not like a child playing house. If the images don’t meet my standards, I have the right to stop the project at any time.”
Ruan Xiqian was stunned for a moment, then nodded quickly, “Sure!”
”Secondly,” Tan Li did not stop just because she agreed to the first request, “It’s fine to have a total annihilation ending, but since you said it’s a total annihilation, there can’t be a situation where only one person survives.”
This time, not only Li Hui, but even Ruan Xiqian was surprised.
Tan Li: “If we have to die, we all die together, and the characters chosen by the players are no exception.”
”This…this…” Ruan Xiqian even stuttered.
Although she didn’t consider the market response when she proposed the plan, at this moment, she subconsciously switched herself to the role of a worker, “If even all the players are wiped out, the market response may be poor…”
Ruan Xiqian was very happy that Tan Li was willing to invest in her idea, but other people’s money didn’t fall from the sky, and she couldn’t bear to waste the investors’ money.
Ruan Xiqian’s mind suddenly came to its senses, “Boss, considering your return on investment, this ending doesn’t have to be a complete annihilation…”
”Either all of them are killed,” Tan Li looked at her calmly, “or all of them are alive.”
Ruan Xiqian was stunned.
Tan Li: “Can’t your game have a hidden ending?”
”It doesn’t matter if the conditions are harsh. In the hidden ending, make an ending where everyone survives.”
”As for the normal ending, all will be destroyed.”
”You can choose not to have a hidden ending where everyone survives, but you can’t have an ending where only one person survives.”
Tan Li was very persistent about this. “If you agree to these two conditions, I will invest in you.”
”No limit.” She added two words.
Ruan Xiqian’s eyes suddenly lit up so brightly that they could stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun.
The ultimate bloody horror, the finale of total annihilation, the extremely difficult to achieve hidden happy ending…
In an instant, the originally blurry picture in Ruan Xiqian’s mind became clearer and clearer.
”I can do it! I can do it!” Ruan Xiqian raised her hand excitedly, “Boss, I can do it! I have confidence! I can make a game that will go down in the history of horror games!”
”Okay.” Tan Li was equally straightforward, “Xiao Tong, draw up an investment contract and make additional investments.”
Li Hui, who had been listening, was dumbfounded.
It was a happy thing that the investor was straightforward, but Tan Li was too straightforward. All she could think about was what to do if this angel investor who was really like an angel lost money!!!
”Talking about the boss, this…”
”You are not suitable to join this project team.”
Li Hui had just spoken when she was interrupted by Tan Li.
Tan Li: “I hope that this project will involve a group of people who don’t consider market response, public preferences, and all other external factors, and who simply want to make this game.”
”I don’t want to see things like braking, hesitation, and market research in this game. If you want to do it, don’t think about anything else and do it to the extreme.”
There seemed to be an undercurrent of power flowing in her calm eyes, and Li Hui was speechless for a moment.
There is a feeling that, although I am mature, steady and correct, I am defeated by something more pure.
”I know what you want to say, and I think you are right.”
”But,” Tan Li smiled, “sometimes, I don’t want to do the right thing.”
Tong Jing had not followed Tan Li’s instructions to draft a new investment contract. When she heard this, she paused, and the turbid and hesitant eyes gradually became clear and firm.
She has just started learning about the gaming industry and still doesn’t understand many things. In fact, in her opinion, the plan proposed by Ruan Xiqian just now is not suitable for investment.
At first glance, this is a project that would be like throwing money into the sea without hearing any response.
However, Tan Li’s words convinced her.
How wonderful it would be if we could always make the right decisions, as if life would then become smooth sailing.
But……
Do things that seem wrong have no meaning?
”Boss, please wait a moment. I will go and prepare a new investment contract.” Tong Jing took a step forward.
No, some things are still meaningful even if they are not correct or even if they do not get the corresponding rewards.
Even Tong Jing, who was listening in, was convinced, not to mention the person to whom these words were actually directed.
Those fears and anxieties, in Tan Li’s words, seemed to be like the haze of the sun, and slowly dissipated.
”I understand.” Li Hui instead had the idea of getting back to her original intention of making games. “Xiao Ruan will be the chief producer of this project, and I will not join.”
”But,” Li Hui said with a gleam under her black-framed glasses, “I will do a good job on this project.”
She raised her lips and said, “Boss, don’t worry. Even if Xiao Ruan’s project loses money, your investment in us will definitely not lose money.”
Tan Li: Not really, not at all. She really has a lot of money now, so it’s okay for her to lose money occasionally.
Ruan Xiqian also couldn’t stand hearing this kind of talk, “Our project won’t lose money! Just wait! When we become the sales champion, we’ll make you kneel down and call me daddy!”
Wow.
The little girl in the pink skirt and the stuffed bunny is pretty good at making harsh remarks!
Although Li Hui’s position was higher than Ruan Xiqian’s, she didn’t care about Ruan Xiqian’s harsh words. Instead, she was inspired by her fighting spirit. “You’re dreaming! By the time your game comes out, my Yi Leng will have become the leader in the dress-up game industry!”
”I don’t want to listen! The monk is chanting!”
“Lululu!”
Seeing two adults quarreling like children, Tan Li couldn’t help but smile with her hands covering her lips.
”Wow…” Ruan Xiqian suddenly came up to him, “Boss, you look amazing. Can I use you as a model to create an NPC in the game?”
Li Hui was reminded by her and said, “It doesn’t matter if you are an NPC in a horror game. Boss, why don’t you come and become a model for us?”
”No,” Tan Li immediately put away her smile and refused sternly, “I’m too expensive. You can’t afford the use fee for my image.”
Ruan Xiqian: …
Li Hui: …
It’s well-founded and cannot be refuted.
The two sighed heavily and thought that they could only ask Tan Li this question after making the game company bigger and stronger.
**
Although Tan Li is a terminally lazy person, she is amazingly efficient when it comes to spending money.
If it weren’t for the required procedures such as the capital verification report, she could even transfer the money on the spot using her mobile phone.
But even so, her investment funds were in place unusually quickly.
At the same time, her share of the gaming company has further increased, and there are even signs that she will surpass the original founders and become the largest shareholder.
With such an investor as an example, the horror game project team naturally cannot be slow in its progress.
Recruiting people, expanding the team, and setting up the early script and characters, each item progressed rapidly.
And in everyone’s mind, Tan Li has also transformed from a kind-hearted investor into a wealthy woman who can support the dreams of game developers.
The title of boss makes me feel more and more convinced.
Ruan Xiqian even hopes that Tan Li can serve as a special consultant to provide advice on this horror game that will surely surprise everyone in the future.
This goes back to the day when the investment contract was signed. Ruan Xiqian and Tan Li talked for a while about their idea for this horror game.
You don’t know until you talk about it, and you’ll be surprised when you do.
Although Tan Li didn’t know how to make games, she seemed to have a natural talent for designing infinite dungeons. With just a few words, Ruan Xiqian was enlightened and her scalp tingled.
If Tan Li were a special consultant, the design of the copy would definitely be more exciting!
Tan Li went back and thought about it for two days and then refused.
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