Chapter 12: Healing Nangong Game
Grok, who said he would hire employees together with me, didn’t come.
I was honestly taken aback by a text message saying he suddenly got sick.
Ah, I was nervous, thinking I had to pick them myself, but it turned out it wasn’t that difficult.
I just acted like I knew, saying whatever I wanted, and just nodding, and the applicants either understood or left to wait, reflecting on themselves.
But personally, I didn’t like the applicants.
There were many people who applied without knowing anything about games, or who said they wanted to make games without even playing them.
There were many such developers in the past lives.
In the past, when games didn’t make money, there were many skilled developers who jumped in with just passion, but as you know, as games started making money, there were many developers who jumped in without any interest in games.
The result is that the employees are immersed in PCs and the game company becomes a mess, or that bad works come out.
Of course, investors who only looked at money without interest in games were also a problem.
How can a game company say that they are ashamed of being a boss who just sells games?
Most game companies are the current game companies and markets where a person who doesn’t know what products they sell is sitting at the top.
The bigger problem here is that this fantastic duo is happening not only in South Korea, but also all over the world.
The reason why this phenomenon occurs?
Skilled developers finish developing games and put them back into developing new games.
Then, who operates the game? There are developers who are only put in to maintain the game.
It’s a shame to re-invest, just the developers who keep the current situation.
Should I say the operators?
Anyway, the feature of these people is that they don’t have any affection for the games they operate, since they didn’t make them, so they just play the role of a salary-muncher.
Their skills can’t help but be lower than those of the first-line developers.
It’s a difficult situation where they can’t get any motivation, and they’re constantly harassed from above to earn money.
In that case, it’s a total disaster.
As much as that, I didn’t want to create such a situation in this world.
If it shows signs of happening, I have to cut off the bud.
However, there are occasional people who are worth keeping, but I don’t know how to solve this part, since I don’t know how to see skills.
In fact, it wouldn’t be bad to hire people who are enthusiastic regardless of their skills, because they can be nurtured and used.
Hmm, one of those enthusiastic people regardless of their skills was the next-door neighbor I met at that time, and when I asked what she was best at, she said “battle” out of the blue, but isn’t it a slip of the tongue because she was nervous?
It’s absurd even now.
‘What are you best at?’
‘Killing!’
‘?’
‘?’
‘Doom, I mean?’
‘Ah… yes!’
It’s a little strange, but it wasn’t bad.
That face and body…. Hmm!
It’s a joke, and it means that I want to hire her because of her passion.
Will I hire an employee just because of their looks?
Of course, it’s an industry where many people say they change jobs even after training a new employee… I have to try it somehow.
If I treat them well, won’t they stay?
But there needs to be someone to teach the employees… where can I find a new employee?
Kaela poked my thigh with her tail, expressing that she was bored, but it was 2 hours after that it ended.
I told Kaela, who was whining, to be quiet because I was going to release a new game, so she sat right next to me and kept her mouth shut and shook her tail like a dog.
Of course, even she couldn’t stand it for 3 minutes and chattered away.
“What is it! What kind of game is it! Show it to me right now! Is it a secret? Then, give me a hint…”
“It’s the new game you made last time, so be quiet for a while.”
Um, first of all, I’ll talk with Grok about hiring later… should I think about what to release as my next game?
I pushed Kaela, who was holding her face close to the monitor, out.
I can’t show her, of course.
I don’t have the confidence to explain it.
Now, the healing game I’m going to release is… Stardew Valley.
Ah, of course, the original game is separate, but I’ll talk about this a little later, and anyway, I’m going to release Stardew Valley.
The reason is that it has a high level of popularity and is easy to play among farming healing games, and also it has a very high level of completeness.
It’s lighthearted, and the farming is more fun than expected, and while building relationships with the villagers, I’m sure that I’m not the only one who’s fallen into the tranquil music and the unique dot-point feeling.
Of course, there was an uncomfortable truth about this game in the past life, that is, there was a controversy that the original game was separate, and the gameplay followed it a lot.
In fact, the developer also acknowledged this to some extent.
In an interview, he said that he made a clone game of Farm Story because he couldn’t get a job and was working part-time at a theater, and it has developed into the current Stardew Valley.
Now it’s a different game because it’s changed the source, but the gameplay is still a problem that can’t help but be pointed out, but since the game is fun enough and popular enough to cover this problem, it’s obvious that the success will be successful.
In the point where the game’s violence is a problem, I’ll be embarrassed if I release this kind of game, but it might be a suitable game at this time when parents and politicians are getting attention.
Should I release this and then release Tetris?
[Doomguy: Guys, did you see that?]
[Yongyongjukkessi: If you ask what I saw, what should I answer?]
[WLS: LOL]
[Doomguy: No, what the f*ck, if you ask if they saw it in a game community, what else is there?]
[Smelly natural: There’s only one game company?]
[Doomguy: There’s only one company that releases games. F*ck, I just named it carelessly]
[Yongyongjukkessi: So what are you talking about?]
[Doomguy: If you still don’t know, are you the f*cking guys who play games?]
[Angry Human: You’ll play Doom, you b*tch]
[Electronic Brain: Do what your name says]
[Doomguy: No, a new game came out; a new game that the Doom developer mentioned in an interview.]
[aczsa: Why are you telling us now?]
[Doomguy: I’ve been trying to tell you since earlier. You b*tch]
[Smelly Natural: Link… hehe]
[Doomguy: Link]
[Yongyongjukkessi: Thank you very much. May the blessing of the goddess be on your three generations. You’re a really good guy.]
[zero: LOL, take a bow.]
[Do not cut the wing: +3]
[Demon hater: I’m scared of what kind of race they’ll discriminate against this time, f*ckㅋㅋㅋ If you demon hate again, I’ll really go to the Kuhn guy and make a scene.]
[Doomguy: Ugh… Demon level]
[Yongyongjukkessi: LOL, I’ll turn on Doom today and break the demon’s head.]
“Stop playing games and come eat!”
“Oh, Mom! Just a little more, and I’ll finish!”
“Come before I break that computer!”
Elly, who was sulking at her mother’s urging, was having a hard time due to the recent conflicts with her mother.
She’s been doing all her homework and even reviewing in advance, but her mother always scolds her.
She even promised that she could play games after her study time was over, but she didn’t keep her promise, so even though she’s a well-behaved daughter, she couldn’t help but get annoyed.
Elly, who doesn’t know that her mother firmly believes that she’s becoming crooked while playing the violent game that’s famous in the news, turned on Doom today after finishing her meal.
“Elly, you know it’s soon, right?”
“But Mom! I used up all my time helping with the dishes!”
“A promise is a promise, right?”
Ugh! I helped with the dishes for nothing!
She puffed her cheeks, but it was useless.
“Look at your dry skin. You’re an elf, how can your skin be dry like this? I raised you beautifully, and you don’t take care of yourself.”
“How can an elf have dry skin! It hasn’t even been an hour since I sprayed water?”
After pushing her mother, who was nagging, out of the room, she sat down, but there were only 10 minutes left before the study time she had promised with her mother.
The time is too ambiguous.
If her father was here, they would have shared time and played Doom… Unfortunately, her father went to the bar with his friend, taking the allowance he had received after a long time.
Even if he was at home, she didn’t think her father, who was an angel husband and a man who listened to his wife, had any right to speak…
While she was chatting in the game community for 10 minutes, she got good information.
That the developer, named Kuhn, released a new game!
She urgently clicked the link and tried to buy the game, but it was impossible for her, who was only a middle school student.
From the beginning, it was a promotional video called a trailer, not a game, but… she pressed the purchase button, which was pitifully locked, several times, but it couldn’t be.
‘Should I ask my mom? No! It’s fortunate if she doesn’t scold me.’
‘How much is my dad’s allowance this month…?’
Elly, who was even considering such a disrespectful act to her father because of the game, played the video to see what kind of game it was, and the video was going in the opposite direction of what she had expected.
“Ehh?”
“Ehh is what I’m going to say! I thought you were studying, but you’re doing something else again!”
Her mother has been annoyed these days!