I Am a Nobleman in England

Arthur, who was drinking fried liver, was seen as a novelty by the people around him, but Arthur didn't take it seriously, and he missed this sip for a long time.

However, Bell and the two who accompanied them were helpless. For foreigners who never ate offal, it was an unacceptable food. Stir-fried liver was mostly made of pig’s offal and fried with a secret sauce. However, because the internal organs always have a bloody smell, Bell and the two of them looked disgusted without even tasting it.

Arthur didn't blame them, after all, even people in other provinces of the Chinese Dynasty couldn't accept Chaogan, so Arthur understood how helpless Bell and the two were, and expressed sympathy for them.

After eating and paying the bill, Arthur was satisfied with the gaze of the strange eyes. He led two stern-faced, burly and tall bodyguards, and left with a sassy smile, leaving behind a strange discussion. Perhaps the scene that happened today, It will become a lot of people's bragging.

For Arthur, it doesn't matter whether it's a French meal or a roadside stall, as long as it's delicious, he won't be picky about eating. I love dim sum boxes, of course, there are also unacceptable ones, for example, tofu nao must drink salty ones, and as for sweet ones, I can only huh. . .

Back at the Capital Hotel, Fried Liver replaced Arthur in the afternoon tea, drank coffee, turned on the laptop, connected to the Internet, and prepared for the video conference.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, around nine o'clock in the morning London time, the video window lit up, and Arthur's figure appeared on the projection screen in the conference room of the London game studio.

"Happy New Years, everyone."

"Happy New Year, Boss."

After the video was connected, Arthur greeted with a smile on his face, and everyone in the conference room also sent greetings to the boss who was far away in the sky.

After the greetings, Edward reported the good news to Arthur with an excited smile, "Boss, good news, up to now, Fruit Knight has sold more than one million copies, which is simply a miracle!"

"Yeah, it's unbelievable. We're checking Apple's leaderboard every hour, admiring Fruit Knight's achievements. We're so excited..."

Before Arthur came to praise happily, the other designers in the meeting room were excited and excited, discussing and making the meeting a bit noisy.

However, Arthur didn't get upset and angry about it. Instead, he watched all this happen with a smile. He didn't say until the voice of the discussion became quieter, "Congratulations, everyone, you have made a popular mobile phone." tour!"

"This is all your boss's idea..."

"Boss, your plan is excellent."

Everyone in the conference room naturally knew that Fruit Knight was excellent, mainly because of the boss's creativity, and they naturally wouldn't brazenly think it was their own credit.

As the first mobile game to make full use of the features of icrazy mobile phones. It seamlessly connects game form and content together. Some media and players even call it a touch screen. It is also reasonable that it can create a small miracle in the history of game design as soon as it goes on the market.

"Strike while the iron is hot, publicity, and marketing must keep up. There are not many game pps like "Fruit Knight" that are suitable for players over 2 years old. We must make good use of this hot situation and strive to make it a must-have for platform users. next game.

At the same time, Android version, Microsoft version, etc. should be launched as soon as possible. We want to make it a truly universal game among smart phone games. Do you have confidence? " Arthur asked encouragingly.

"have!"

Hearing the confident answers from his subordinates in unison, the smile on Arthur's face became brighter and brighter. One million copies were sold in such a short period of time, which is definitely not a small number for the current mobile game market. And everyone, including Arthur, believed that the sales of this game would grow even more rapidly in the coming time.

As a paid mobile game, $099, the price of less than one dollar is definitely a conscience price. Although the selling price is cheap, Arthur has put most of Fruit Knight's profits on in-game purchases from the very beginning.

Perhaps some people would think that Arthur was too dark for collecting money at both ends. Well, Arthur admitted that he was black.

However, in order not to disgust the players, the concept of the game’s in-app store was changed by Arthur and turned into value-added services, such as swords with special functions, and more colorful and distinctive background scenes, rather than the obvious purpose Sell ​​gold coins, sell special props. . .

In this way, players really didn't complain too much about the dead money of this game, because no matter whether it is in-app purchase or not, it will not affect the playability of the game in the slightest.

"Boss, the sales of our in-app store have exceeded 300,000 US dollars, that is to say, among the one million downloads, 20% of the players have purchased props or backgrounds.

Fruit Knight currently has a profit of $1.1 million. The total profit of Stupid Bird is 5.63 million US dollars. After deducting the cost of signing celebrity endorsements, North American publicity costs and British Christmas advertising costs, our studio's profit in 2009 was 2.73 million US dollars. "

Edward had a smile on his face, and reported to Arthur with great joy and emotion. After the figures were reported, everyone in the conference room smiled even more. They never imagined that such a small game company newly established Room, can earn so much money.

And Arthur wasn't surprised by this, he just got there, whether it's the game studio where Zombie or Angry Birds is located, didn't the market value soar to over 100 million after it became popular?

"Hehe, soon, since you've made money, let's celebrate it... Well, it's a year-end PR for everyone. All the employees in the studio will go to Fiji Island for a week's vacation. Everyone can drink and eat to their heart's content. Roast a whole pig on an iron fork, relax!"

"Long live!"

"Boss, I love you!"

"Long live the boss!"

As soon as Arthur finished speaking, everyone in the conference room cheered excitedly. Arthur also showed a bright smile on his face when he saw the happy and excited people.

Although the current game studio's successful development and the games under development all come from his ideas, but the group of people under him are young, but they are very good, and they are very focused and desperate in their work. Overtime is the norm. Never even heard a complaint, full of energy.

Arthur knew that what they longed for most was creative freedom and a working environment full of geniuses. And Arthur just wanted to make his studio a holy place for the entire game industry. Therefore, the organizational structure of the studio has always been flat, without any middle management. Except for the only person in charge, Edward, everyone else All are treated equally.

Because once there is middle-level management, these designers who are full of genius ideas and creative needs need to endure the middle-level dictating the project, and the middle-level is often airborne, and the endless meetings will make designers suffer and limit. Arthur knows better than anyone else how to control their thinking. Now maybe he can rely on his foresight to come up with some game plans, but one day, his own thinking will not be able to keep up with the development of the company and the pace of the times.

In the end, he still had to rely on his group of professional talents to help him make money, so Arthur decided to make his game studio an open company from now on.

"I'm going to implement a 'producers only team' policy in the company! From the beginning of the studio, I wanted to make the studio a designer-driven company.

What I hope is that the production team has more control over the game, rather than being in the hands of a few people. Because I believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, I want to contribute to that atmosphere.

We need to focus on the future. We cannot just dwell on the past. Arthur said the decision that shocked everyone in the conference room, but soon fell into a frenzy.