Days of playing games in the past (1)

After 7 consecutive shifts, we had a three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday. I don't want to work overtime during this holiday. First, I do not have any work to work overtime or want to go out for a tour, because staying at home makes it easy to watch the World Cup and the NBA Finals. I went swimming again last night. Although this summer's hot season hasn't come yet, it's so refreshing that I can freely move in the water without sweating. When I got up in the morning, the alarm clock was not canceled, so I watched Lakers vs. keltel's fifth finals on time. The overall performances of the Lakers have made me lose a little bit. I think that the games I developed are stuck and the team's combat power is declining. We can't help but review the days that have elapsed over the past two years.

In September April, I joined the current game development team in this unfamiliar city. Due to the urgent schedule of the project, I started a long overtime process, in addition, because the office is a temporary rented place, it seems to have been converted from a bar to an office. due to too many people, the density of seats is large and large. Remember the first seat, it's actually behind the door. What's more funny is that if you want to go in, you have to bypass a group of plug-boards. Walking carelessly may be in danger of electric shock. However, since the average age of the team's developers was relatively young, several of them were coder years old, And everyone could be very angry. They all struggled to work overtime. Although they were a little confused at the time, but we still have a good wish for tomorrow. Although the work is very tiring, we don't forget to have a weekend together. The summer in was very hot. In addition to the lack of exercise for long-term overtime, I was worried that my body would not be able to cope. I started regular swimming with several colleagues. At the beginning, I was at the Pudong Swimming Pool, it's a little far away from the house I rented. I remember that due to frequent overtime and insufficient personal spare time, I often had a couple of siblings playing a taxi in the past, I used to swim in rivers from an early age. During this period, I learned a standard breaststroke. During this period of time in, everyone was so busy and working overtime, and they stole free sports to eat a big meal. Although the effect of the game was very good, many people had no idea, however, everyone has a common goal and works together to move forward. At this time, the management of the project team was gradually standardized. Basically, most of the planning cases were documented, and some of the core program functions were also written into the development documentation, drawing a flowchart. However, although most of the designs are documented, the main communication methods are face-to-face conversations, and sometimes there are a lot of arguments. However, we all know that the arguments are for the purpose of a good project. Since everyone is almost back to back, the connection between the server and the client programmer is also the most primitive way, mutual encouragement, and several people often appear during the day to compete, coupled with debate, the excitement is really a comparison with that in the vegetable market. The project progress is relatively rapid thanks to the effort of working overtime.

In the fourth quarter of 100, the company rented a whole floor, but due to the increasing number of developers, the peak hours should exceed, and our per capita office density has not increased, even because the company adopts a dual-host (one Internet and one intranet) approach, the office is like a volcano when the weather is hot in another summer, and the air-conditioning system of the office is too junk, many of my colleagues sat down and sat down, so they got wet. Then some male colleagues simply took off their jackets and wrote code. Think about the scene, it was really a strong man. The summer in Shanghai seems to be very long. I continued to swim with several colleagues, usually in a group of 4 people. So far, we have a few people swimming together, but the number of times is not as long as before, and occasionally new members are added. Think about the passion that everyone worked together under difficult conditions. It was not Sun's determination to win the World Cup for any team. Thanks to the joint efforts of all of you, the project has been gradually developed. Although the sparrow is small, it is very complicated. The game's tasks, teams, pets, friends, and other systems all have basic functions, although these bugs are also hidden. At this time, the QA testing department was introduced, and the TD defect management model was also adopted. Many facts have proved that in the middle and late stages of the project, using TD with a professional testing team is an essential part of a game's success. Due to the rapid progress in the early stage, many program systems still have bugs. During this time, most of them are spent on fixing bugs in old functions and developing new systems, even the National Day holiday was sacrificed. I think everyone did have a lot of effort to make the game.

Around December, I suddenly received a message that the project had to open closed tests in advance. Although there were only limited tests, it was the first time that a real player was started, in order to make the game a smooth test, everyone is struggling to work overtime to modify bugs, and even some headaches of bugs need to be discussed in a meeting. Remember to discuss a bug of fake items once, in the conference room, people were drawing pictures and arguing that they could not compete for an hour. At that time, everyone had only one purpose, in order to successfully publish the game. By December, the closed test was started on the game date. Since the company was already the first online game company in China, there was no money to publicize it. During the test, a large number of players came in. Everything is still under control. It takes less than one year to complete the game from scratch. As a result, there are still many bugs in the game system bug, however, no major bugs have been detected. Basically, there have been no bugs such as money-and-brush-and-drop. In this way, the Chinese New Year of has passed without fear. Most people only receive a few year-end awards. However, since we all know that the game has not started to make money, most of them do not complain much.

After the Spring Festival in, the company decided to test the game in advance in the first quarter of because there were no other new games released in that quarter. In fact, to be honest, in order to favor NASDAQ investors and boost share prices, the company launched a game strategy on a quarterly basis. Although it seems that the momentum is very strong, The Hidden Worries of this strategy were gradually revealed in many public beta games, speed is not up. Since the game was in beta testing in advance and just passed the Spring Festival, everyone had not been so angry, and started another round of crazy overtime. People's energy is limited after all, but at this time it is like a marathon race that is about to reach the end of the last few laps, and everyone is not discouraged. The public beta test went smoothly in advance. With the momentum promoted by the company and the promotion of public beta time, the number of simultaneous online players of the game has continuously increased, and even has exceeded 20 million. Although it is incomparable with some very successful games, however, looking back at online games listed in the year, there were only a few games that could surpass million online (it seems that there is still a tower of everlasting wisdom which is not very good, but now Shumen is still doing well, fantasy westward journey, tianlong Babu, the journey was successful in the past few years ). The Public Beta of the game is still smooth, but the number of online players is constantly increasing and the level of players is constantly increasing. Due to the limited development time of the game, it is not enough for the game to support the simultaneous online gameplay of so many players, and new bugs are constantly exposed. But at this time, it is really too tired to work overtime, just like an athlete who has finished a-meter race and finished the sprint, at this time, what he needs most is proper rest and adjustment so that he can fight again. However, at this time, the company's leadership did not give everyone a break, and even refused to pay a penny of money to developers. Think about how a person who tries his best to help the company achieve his goal will not receive any rewards, and will immediately greet him with a new round of crazy overtime work. At this time, even a little encouragement will not even be given to a small celebration banquet, in fact, what everyone wants most is the company's affirmation. Even if a meeting is held, there are several top-level comments of praise. The following results show that many of us are only 25 or 26 years old that year because we were tired and had no spiritual or material encouragement. At this time, the status of the entire team can be said to be the end of the storm. Both the bug fixing speed and the design and implementation of new functions have slowed down significantly. At this time, the company has made a decision so far that I think it is the most counterproductive to continue to maintain the rising momentum of the project, the game mall opened an unlimited number of gems. This trick is no different from killing chickens and getting eggs. People who tried to play the game with their heart already felt the lethality of this decision. I even had a private discussion with my colleagues, almost all of them opposed it. But we cannot change the results. The company's ultimate goal is to get money as soon as possible, not to take into account the playability of the game. Everything was unexpected. After the infinite gems were opened, the game was filled with buzz, and even a lot of playbacks from the same guild were lost, the game has changed from a stable and rising momentum to a straight decline. In fact, the game trend is almost irrecoverable at this time, and it is difficult for players who basically leave to return again. So in, the brothers experienced the excitement of the successful public beta of the game, and the unencouraging policy of the company. A team that was once full of fighting power and passion gradually began to show off the hearts of the people. Many friends outside the Spring Festival in thought that we had all earned money, as a result, many of them felt chilling. Although our games experienced ups and downs in 0.3 billion, our game revenue for this year was RMB, behind this gorgeous number, I don't know how much heart and blood the bottom-layer comrades have paid. Unfortunately, they didn't get the expected reward for all these contributions, at the end of the project general meeting, the boss's classic explanation was "the world's crows are generally black ".. speechless. Later, there was even a dark screen that was hard to tell. Some younger colleagues even collapsed and began to block the world.

When our team needs encouragement and support most, most of us have little encouragement, even a word of praise. A young and passionate team disappears. Fortunately, after all, we have not been defeated yet, and most of us are still young. We have devoted the best time in our lives to this game for two years. Although we have not been treated fairly, however, we still have a long way to go. We should not be decadent. We also want to continue to find the young and passionate heart, but this heart may no longer belong to this company !!