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Chapter 24 A New Beginning

Recruiting people is never easy, especially in the gaming industry, it is even more difficult to recruit the right people.

Perhaps because of the rapid development of the domestic game industry in recent years, the personnel composition of the entire game industry seems to be quite mixed.

Of course, these people are usually concentrated in the field of mobile games and web games.

According to the system's requirements, the team members recruited by Su Li must pass the system's evaluation. Su Li is not sure what level the system's 60 points represent, but Su Li himself will not recruit an unqualified person.

As far as the country is concerned, the quality of practitioners is still quite worrying, and this characteristic is particularly obvious in small companies.

As for fresh graduates who enter the game industry every year, top domestic companies can recruit good talents with good treatment, their own attractiveness and strict resume screening, but it is difficult for small and medium-sized companies to recruit potential talents with value for cultivation.

It can be said that the domestic game industry is in a state of wild growth, with the rapid development of output value and the lag in personnel training.

A very realistic situation is that domestic universities do not have valuable game design majors.

In the United States, many universities have very excellent game design majors. For example, New York University where Su Li studied, its game design graduate course is quite excellent and has world-class hardware conditions. In addition, USC, University of Utah, Carnegie Mellon, etc. also have good game design related projects. The focus of these projects is different. For example, NYU focuses on independent games, while Carnegie Mellon focuses on program research and development.

Even in terms of programs, the domestic technology accumulation of game programs has lagged a lot behind. The most critical reason is that for excellent programmers, the cost-effectiveness of entering the game industry is too low. For programmers, the game industry has never been a priority choice.

If Su Li just wants to make a money-scammer mobile game, then he can easily recruit people in need. For example, programmers who are familiar with the planning of various money-scammer routines and are familiar with various mobile game templates. However, what Su Li wants to do is an excellent stand-alone game, and what he needs is an excellent game designer, programmers with super learning and development capabilities, and even talents with multiple abilities.

Many small development teams, independent game teams, and team members basically have multiple skills. Especially for game designers, design and development are inseparable, and code ability is an important requirement for designers.

It is hard to be considered a real designer in China. The business flavor is too strong and only knows how to write documents without technology occupies the vast majority, which also leads to people's deviation in understanding the responsibilities of designers.

Many people nowadays think that they have many good ideas and can become a designer. They think they can lead a team, commonly known as "I have a huge NB idea now, and I'm just one programmer and one who draws."

But in fact, in some successful game projects, most of the people who dominate these projects are technically, at least with development capabilities.

Only such people can deeply understand how to turn an interesting idea into a game that can run.

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Recruiting people is difficult.

This is Su Li's understanding of his current situation and thinks that this task is more difficult than the first task.

If the first task requires 70% of your strength and 30% of your luck, then the luck component of this task of forming a team may account for more than 80%.

Su Li felt that his first team could be completely completed by himself in design. He also had strong development capabilities and had a certain reputation, which was his major advantage.

Having your own successful work is a huge advantage for a game developer who wants to form a development team, because it gives others the reason to trust you.

From the very beginning, Su Li defined his team as an international team, and his goal was to recruit outstanding designers from all over the world with different cultural backgrounds.

A good game is an excellent cultural product, or even a work of art. The game itself is called "Ninth Art", but in the wave of commercialization, it has been replaced by commodities that aim to make money.

Su Li first made a list of acquaintances. In recent years, whether it is in the independent gaming circle or studying abroad, Su Li has accumulated a certain number of connections. If possible, Su Li will definitely be willing to recruit those who know or those who have worked with him.

At least Su Li has a certain understanding of their level and personality. If he is a stranger, Su Li also needs to examine his abilities in all aspects and whether his personality is suitable for his team, which is quite like buying lottery tickets.

Su Li temporarily set the location of the team in his hometown Xinhai City. If Su Li wants to expand the scope of recruitment to the whole world and wants others to come here to work, he must think of a way to fool people.

For game development, online cooperation is not a good way, and having your own production and R&D base is very important.

Of course, while recruiting people, Su Li still has several important things to do. The first is to re-establish a company as his new starting point.

The process of establishing a company has been shortened a lot, and the company's name has been decided, so it is named after the system, Future Oasis Company.

The development engine used by Su Li is also named Oasis Engine.

Now it is just a small workshop, and Su Li has not seriously considered the equity structure. However, according to Su Li's idea, his company must not be controlled by commercial capital, and he must have absolute control over the company.

At the same time, Su Li also began to look for a temporary office location as the initial R&D base.

There is no need to find a good place when the funds are insufficient and the team is not large. Some technology companies that have entered the world's top ranks have started from places such as garages and student dormitories. Su Li plans to find a spacious residential building or villa with a good environment as a temporary development base.

At this time, Su Li had also sent an email to some people, saying his willingness to form a development team and his invitation.
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