Pursuing Her Best Friend after Confession Failed-Chapter 126 - 96: Game Development, The Tricked Treasure Girl

In the company conference room, Li Yuan was holding a game development deployment meeting. Xia Zhijin, as Li Yuan’s executive secretary, sat beside him taking notes.

Based on the strengths and capabilities detailed in each new employee’s self-introduction, Li Yuan established three work groups. Hu Zhenqiang, Lin Yuwei, and Xie Zheng were appointed as the group leaders for the White Jade Capital studio.

"Chief Hu, your task is the heaviest. It requires completing various objectives like building the game platform, software development, and constructing Summoner’s Canyon. It’s a massive undertaking. With your experience in major web game development, I’m entrusting this burden to you."

"I hope that by the end of today, you can lead your team members to produce a step-by-step plan for every critical node in the game’s development. List all potential issues, problems that need to be solved, and the methods to solve them... Are you confident you can do it?"

Hu Zhenqiang’s eyes gleamed as he looked at Li Yuan and nodded solemnly. "Director Li, I have only one thing to say: I will give it my all and guarantee the task is completed."

Li Yuan responded with satisfaction, "That’s exactly what I wanted to hear."

Li Yuan then looked towards Lin Yuwei to assign her tasks. "Group Leader Lin, your task is also substantial. You’ll be mainly responsible for hero modeling and other related duties."

"For the first phase, I have selected thirty heroes, all well-known figures from Huaxia history, such as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong, the Green Lotus Sword Immortal Li Bai, the master strategist Zhuge Liang, Han Xin, Xiang Yu, Wang Zhaojun, Yang Yuhuan, Hou Yi, and so on."

"These historical and mythological figures are familiar to all of us Huaxia people. Additionally, after a while, I will write a novella based on the game’s background story to generate traffic."

"According to the design of Summoner’s Canyon, the map is divided into top, middle, and bottom lanes, as well as a jungle area. It will include five classes of heroes: Mage, assassin, warrior, marksman, and support."

"My requirements for the heroes are as follows: female heroes must be as beautiful as possible—the more stunning, the better. Male heroes must be handsome—the more dashing, the better. This is especially true for assassins and warriors, who must be designed in accordance with their historical characteristics."

"For example, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven Sun Wukong must wield the Ruyi Jingu Bang. His skills should revolve around using his staff, and we can incorporate his Somersault Cloud to create a mobility skill. Zhuge Liang can serve as the archetypal Mage, and we can make many of the female heroes Mages as well."

Lin Yuwei also nodded solemnly. Although her task wasn’t as immense as Hu Zhenqiang’s, her team was also smaller.

"Director Li, we will definitely meet the required deadlines."

Li Yuan nodded and then turned to Xie Zheng.

Xie Zheng was also a talented graduate from Zhendan University in Modu. He was experienced and technologically proficient, with a base salary that had already reached 12,000. When factoring in performance bonuses equivalent to at least half a year’s salary, his compensation was not much less than that of top software engineers at major firms.

"Chief Xie, you are responsible for hero skills, various Inscriptions, combat animations, skill effects, game performance, and other development and technical support. Your task is equally demanding."

Xie Zheng was a man of few words, and he simply nodded solemnly. "Understood."

"Alright, let’s get started," Li Yuan said casually. "Group Leader Lin, please stay behind."

Lin Yuwei looked at Li Yuan with some surprise and asked directly, "Director Li, is there something else?"

"Group Leader Lin, I need to give you an additional task. I’m planning to establish a forum website. I’ve already registered the name and domain. It’s called ’Zhihu,’ and the domain is zhihu.com... It will primarily target young people and university students."

"As for the site’s main content, it will primarily feature a section for users to document their lives and discuss local news hotspots, called ’Wet Hot Topics.’ There will also be a university dating feature called the ’Confession Wall,’ and dedicated communities for discussing basketball and football."

Li Yuan briefly explained his vision for the forum website. In his previous life, he had often hung out on forums, boasting and reading all sorts of posts. It was quite interesting. This method was one of the most effective ways to attract traffic, and traffic, to a certain extent, was money. There were just too many ways to monetize traffic.

"I’ve already made a rough content plan for the Zhihu website. It has over ten main sections, but for now, the primary focus will be on these four: the Confession Wall, Wet Hot Topics, the basketball community, and the football community."

After hearing his explanation, Lin Yuwei quickly grasped Li Yuan’s intentions. There were many forum websites these days, but promoting them and attracting people to register and use them was the biggest challenge.

Lin Yuwei looked at Li Yuan and readily agreed. Since the boss had made a request, her job was to get it done.

Establishing a website like this is no challenge for me. Even if I had to do it all by myself, I could probably set up the basic framework within a week...

"Director Li, rest assured. I will complete it as quickly as possible."

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The day was a flurry of activity: meetings, employee introductions, getting familiar with office equipment, and explaining various details and key points. Before they knew it, it was almost noon.

Back in his office, Li Yuan finally relaxed a bit. Looking out at the new employees working fervently at their desks, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Starting anything is always the hardest part. Encountering difficulties is to be expected on a pioneering path, and this will become the new normal. Besides, developing Honor of Kings isn’t an overnight task. He just needs to check their progress weekly and help solve any problems they encounter along the way. By his estimation, if they could build a preliminary framework within three months and conduct a closed beta within six, it would already be a success.