Rewrite the Technological Landscape

I don't know if it was the blessing of a few glasses of wine. Si Yuhang, who usually doesn't talk much in the company, took the initiative to ask Meng Qian a lot about games.

Meng Qian didn't hold much back either, he wouldn't hide who could help Si Yuhang. For Meng Qian, talents must be found on the one hand, and must be cultivated on the other hand.

Now that you choose to accept these people, you must train them carefully. A company that only knows how to wait for talents is the same as a company that only knows how to use other people's technology. In Meng Qian's view, it will pay the price sooner or later.

Talking until one o'clock in the morning, Meng Qian asked Si Yuhang to go home and rest first, after all, he had to go to work tomorrow. The grievances in Si Yuhang's heart had also disappeared after this drink.

When seeing Si Yuhang at the company the next day, Meng Qian noticed that his expression was completely different.

"People at this age have high plasticity." Meng Qian sighed.

On the morning of April 3, 2000, Meng Qian came again to check the designs of the five members of the art department. There were still great changes, especially the interface design made by Si Yuhang, which was much simpler and rougher.

But under this simplicity and roughness, it can also reflect the beauty and design points that it should have. Si Yuhang's talent makes Meng Qian really like it.

Besides Si Yuhang, the other person who surprised Meng Qian was Fu Qinyi. Fu Qinyi and her roommate Li Yidan were in charge of action design and character image design respectively.

As for the action design that Fu Qinyi was in charge of, Meng Qian saw that she had marked the reason for the action design for all the changes this time. She was already thinking about what kind of visual experience the character would bring to the player when the action appeared. even psychological feelings.

Meng Qian nodded in approval, "Continue to design according to this idea, remember that I told you that there is one more thing you need to do?"

All five nodded, and Meng Qian first called people from the technical department to come over together. Recently, the company recruited three more programmers through social recruitment, and now there are eight people in the technical department.

"Which one of you has used QICQ?" Meng Qian asked everyone.

All eight people in the technical department raised their hands, and everyone in the art department except Tao Tingting also raised their hands.

"What's your opinion on QICQ?"

"The four plagiarists of QICQ, TICQ, MICQ, PICQ, and ICQ. How do you evaluate them? The plagiarism is pretty good?" Wei Pengtian from the technical department responded with a smile.

"I heard that ICQ is going to sue Penguin." A new programmer, Yan Zhe, answered.

"People can only say that they borrowed from ICQ, and QICQ has indeed made a lot of innovations." Song Zhenluo followed up to express his opinion, "Now these four companies are obviously standing out from the crowd.

It is not ruled out that ICQ sued Penguin because he could not win our Chinese market. "

Seeing that no one continued, Meng Qian said, "I'm not asking you to discuss the issue of plagiarism or not, but the issue of user experience."

"Convenience is really convenient, and it's free." Wei Pengfei was the first to speak again.

Meng Qian nodded, "What you mentioned just now are really the two most important points, why I have repeatedly emphasized that instant messaging will be very important is because people cannot do without communication.

You should have seen the rapid development of telephones and mobile phones. In my opinion, online instant messaging will develop faster, because compared with mobile phones and landlines, instant messaging software is much more convenient, and it is free.

Okay, let’s get back to business, have you noticed that there is an extra software on your computer today? "

"I see, Fengxin." Several people replied.

"Has anyone opened it?"

"Not yet." Everyone shook their heads.

"Actually, the one I installed for you is the basic beta version of our Dafeng Kechuang instant messaging software."

The people in the technical department reacted a bit more, Song Zhenluo hesitated for a while before asking, "Mr. Meng, did you develop it by yourself?"

"That's right." Meng Qian didn't deny it.

"How much time did Mr. Meng spend?" Song Zhenluo continued to ask.

"Back and back, about two months."

Several people in the technical department glanced at each other, and it was Yan Zhe, the newcomer again, "I heard that Penguin's Ma Huateng took three months to make the first version of QICQ, and there seem to be two people working together."

Meng Qian smiled and signaled everyone to stop worrying about this issue. After all, he was able to develop it so quickly because he had the advantage of rebirth, and he had nothing to be proud of.

The functions of the current communication software are very simple, the code is only tens of thousands of lines, and there are many related open source codes in later generations, unlike QQ in 2019, which has millions of lines of code.

"Speaking of business, today I will install the wind letter for everyone, there are so many tasks.

The functions of this version of Fengxin are not very different from QICQ. From now on, everyone in the company will use Fengxin as an internal communication software. The technical department is mainly responsible for finding bugs during use and comparing them with QICQ. Weekly Send me a usage report.

In addition, QICQ has already been deployed very well in commercial use, and the user base is also increasing rapidly, so if we can make the game, I will use the game to promote our Fengxin, and I will post it later. The source code will be sent to you, and you will incorporate Fengxin into it when developing the game.

There is one more thing to say hello to you in advance. In order to better compete, I will add a few very important functions to Fengxin. I will tell you the details after the game is finished.

Then there is the art department, you have to work harder than the technical side, because now you need to do a very important thing, that is the interface design of Fengxin, including the login interface, chat interface, address book interface, etc. Etc. I expect the interface to be a big competitive advantage for us in the future as well.

The design of the game and Fengxin had to start at the same time, thank you for your hard work.

If there are any doubts or difficulties, bring them up now. "

"No." Both sides accepted the arrangement.

"Okay, the last thing is to build a team this Friday. Let's go out and relax for a day. If you have any interesting suggestions and ideas, please directly ask Sister Sun."

"Wow~~"

Everyone cheered, and Meng Qian gestured for everyone to return to work.

Everyone immediately returned to their seats and calmed down, but as soon as Meng Qian entered the office, there was a commotion outside.

Listening to the heated discussion from time to time from the people outside, Meng Qian leaned against the door and smiled knowingly.

On the night of April 3rd, Meng Qian took the last bus back to his hometown in He County. April 4th in 2000 was the Qingming Festival, and Meng Qian had to go back to visit the grave.

Arriving at Jiushan at 5:00 a.m. on April 4th, Meng Qian stayed with his parents all morning, chatted with them about what had happened in the past few months, and returned to Hangzhou by bus at noon.

In 2000, Ching Ming Festival was not a statutory holiday, so everyone had to go to work.

After returning to the office, there was a thick stack of newspapers on Meng Qian's desk.

After rebirth, reading newspapers every day has become a habit of Meng Qian's life.

After making himself a cup of tea, he casually picked up a newspaper. Meng Qian's attention was immediately caught, and he changed several newspapers in a row, almost all reporting the same thing.

"The Nasdaq index plummeted continuously, falling more than 1,000 points in seven days"

"Breaking new lows again, can Nasdaq hold the 4000 mark?" "

"Internet stocks continue to plummet, has the bubble burst? "

"The U.S. market ushered in panic, Nasdaq will launch a 4000-point defense battle"

"4,000 points, this is just the beginning." Meng Qian said to himself, "In the end, it will drop to nearly 1,000 points."

Slowly putting down the newspaper, Meng Qian's eyes gradually darkened, "The Internet bubble recorded in the annals of history is about to start to get down to business.

This is an opportunity."