Chapter 248: Fang Chang’s Proposal

At the Cangxue Games staff studio, all the employees were gathered together, and every face was filled with smiles; following their project bonuses, they had received their salary payments yesterday.

Of course, just receiving their salaries wouldn't have made them this excited.

The key was that their salary payments also included year-end bonuses and a 13th-month salary; combined, these amounted to tens of thousands.

How could they not be happy about this?

Soon, Fang Chang, Wei Yan, and Zhao Bowen walked in from outside.

"Is everyone here?"

Fang Chang asked the person in charge.

"Manager Fang, all the employees are present," the person in charge replied quickly.

Upon hearing this, Fang Chang nodded, looked at the numerous employees in the studio, and clapped his hands.

"Everyone, please quiet down; I have something to announce."

"You should have all received the news about the break tomorrow.

However, since we are a gaming company, it's hard to guarantee that no bugs will appear in our games during the holiday that require maintenance.

Therefore, even during the break, we need some people to stay at the company to prevent any emergencies."

"However, those who stay will receive triple pay, and we will also give priority consideration to them for future promotions to positions like team leader."

"Alright, that's all.

Anyone who volunteers to stay can go sign up with Zhao Bowen."

After Fang Chang finished speaking, he returned to the office with Wei Yan and the others.

"The company is on break, but we definitely need a leader to stay on duty.

If you two have things to attend to, I can just handle it."

Entering the office, Fang Chang turned to look at Wei Yan and Zhao Bowen.

Currently, in all of Cangxue Games, they were the only three people in positions above supervisor.

"Brother Fang, I don't have anything to do either, so I'll stay with you," Zhao Bowen said directly.

Wei Yan smiled slightly.

"I'll stay behind as well.

I've just entered the gaming industry, so it's better for me to learn more at the company."

"Alright, then let's work hard together.

It just so happens that Chen Mo is preparing to invest in a second game project, so I'll use this time to prepare well and strive to produce another hit game."

Fang Chang was not surprised that both of them wanted to stay.

It went without saying for Zhao Bowen; they were former colleagues, and their friendship was quite good, so his staying was inevitable.

As for Wei Yan, he was the person Chen Mo valued the most; there was no need to think about it, he would definitely be the one staying at the company to hold the fort.

"A new project? You two are the professionals, so it's best if you decide.

I'll just be responsible for assisting on the side," Wei Yan said with a smile, looking at Fang Chang and Zhao Bowen.

He knew his own capabilities well; if he were really asked to plan a new game by himself, that would be impossible.

Professional matters should be left to the professionals.

"I actually have two projects here that I prepared earlier; we could try those," Fang Chang said as he took out two prepared project proposals from his desk.

These two proposals were the other two out of the three he had submitted to Chen Mo at the time.

Furthermore, having absorbed the strengths of "Tianlong" and "Extreme Survival," he had made some subtle changes to these two game projects.

Therefore, he was very confident in these two projects.

Even if they wouldn't be as big a hit as "Extreme Survival," they would at least be on par with "Tianlong."

Wei Yan looked at the proposals Fang Chang handed over and opened them to take a look.

Having studied at Cangxue Games for so long, he could understand project proposals well enough.

The first proposal was a 3D Xianxia online game, which featured various sects, each with different martial arts.

Moreover, compared to most current online games, this game integrated many classical traditional cultural elements like zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, tea art, and so on.

From his perspective, it looked quite interesting and would definitely have significant appeal to gamers who longed for the Xianxia world.

The second proposal was a 2D fighting game, somewhat like the arcade games he used to play, but this game proposal made the arcade experience more diversified.

It included many dungeons, where one could defeat dungeon bosses to drop equipment to arm oneself.

Of course, what was even more interesting was that it featured many fun classes, such as Swordsman, Gunner, Magician, Summoner, and so on.

Each class had different skill combinations and combos, which looked very interesting.

If it were designed, even he would want to play it.

"What do you think of these two proposals?" Fang Chang asked after Wei Yan and Zhao Bowen had finished reading them.

"I think they're good," Wei Yan nodded.

"Brother Fang, I really want to see how your brain is wired; how do you have so many ideas?" Zhao Bowen couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

After planning the massive hit "Extreme Survival," to still have so many good ideas was truly enviable.

"Then which proposal should we choose for the new project?" Fang Chang looked conflicted; he liked both proposals and really couldn't make a choice.

"I think we should choose the fighting game proposal.

Our company already has the "Tianlong" online game, and if we choose the Xianxia-style online game, I'm worried it will siphon off traffic from "Tianlong," Wei Yan suggested.

"Brother Yan is right," Zhao Bowen nodded in agreement.

Although that Xianxia online game had many innovative elements, its overall model and framework were still somewhat similar to online games like "Tianlong."

Now that "Tianlong" was at the peak of its popularity, releasing a similar online game was clearly inappropriate.

"Then let's go with the fighting game proposal."

"When Chen Mo sets up the new R&D team, we will submit this proposal to him."

Listening to their suggestions, Fang Chang made his decision.

Meanwhile, at the Garment factory, not long after Chen Mo hung up the phone with Song Xia, a call came in from Pang Tao.

"Chen Mo, our Pet Park is still under construction, so we shouldn't take a break, right? Otherwise, it will delay the schedule too much."

Listening to Pang Tao's words, Chen Mo thought about it carefully.

Whether the Pet Park took a break or not didn't have much of an impact, and if it were completed earlier, he could hire more employees to consume the System Funds.

"That's fine, you can decide that on your end.

By the way, we can still add another 5 million in investment here."

It had been two months since the last additional investment, and now the system allowed him to make a second additional investment; he naturally couldn't miss such a good opportunity to spend money.

Through testing, he had roughly figured out the pattern: it seemed he could make an additional investment once every two months.

The current amount was set at 5 million, and he didn't know if the limit would increase in the future.

"Chen Mo, for the current Pet Park plan, we probably won't need that much," Pang Tao said hurriedly upon hearing that Chen Mo wanted to add more investment.

Two months ago, Chen Mo had added 5 million in investment, and he and Xu Zhengming had just finished the planning for it.

With another 5 million added now, he really didn't know how to handle it for a moment.