Chapter 43 – [What Is Life, Just Live as You Live]

I woke up a little late today. I work for a game developer, not a chicken restaurant, but since I am the president, it can be a bit late.

Of course, I don’t mean to go there for lunch. I will go to work in the morning at the latest.

“I’m good at using my body. I’m not good at using my head and giving orders. I’m not suited for it either.”

“Isn’t that comfortable instead?”

“I know, but it’s just like that. In the end, it’s a matter of taste.”

Still, he bought a company for me on purpose, but I have to manage it diligently. Even if it’s broken, let’s not ruin it until the end.

The company location of Zion Co., Ltd., A game developer made by Zion, was in Guro. As far as I know, there were some pretty big game companies there too, I remember…

Anyway, let’s get to work. Looking at the Lamborghini parked in the parking lot, the languid drowsiness disappears. It’s nice to be in good shape, but if I get scratched while driving while drowsy, my hands shake because I’m afraid of the repair cost.

It was blocked because I was on my way to work, but it didn’t bother me too much. I don’t care, but it’s a pleasant road trip because I’m driving safely around and securing a safe distance. This is why people say they have to drive expensive cars.

It didn’t take long before we arrived in front of a building. The top floor is a penthouse, the 1st and 2nd floors are used as shops, and the middle is used for office purposes.

What on earth did my wife not buy with money?

It is a building that looks to be about 20 floors, and among them, 4 floors from the 15th to the 18th are used by our company. Roughly, it is divided into each field such as management, planning, programmer, server room, etc.

I parked my car in the parking lot, climbed into the elevator, and looked in the mirror to see if there was anything strange.

Because of my eyes, when people saw me for the first time, they were afraid.

At least, if a normal person is wearing a suit, it would seem that he works in a job where the letter ‘four’ enters, such as a doctor or a prosecutor, but I have a bad face that occasionally asks if I’m a gangster. Honestly, when I look in the mirror, I wonder if I’m going to cut sashimi if I’m holding a knife.

First, I went up to the 15th floor, where I was with the lobby. First of all, there is someone you need to meet first.

He was the one I picked out from among the documents Shion gave me. It is also necessary for making games.

When I entered the lobby, a female employee who was cleaning up at the desk greeted me and asked.

“Oh, welcome. How did you come?”

“The president who came to work today is the worst. Nice to meet you.”

“…..Yes?”

He seemed surprised for a moment, but he hid his expression to see if he had heard anything, and greeted him again.

“Hello, boss! Is this your first time coming out today? My name is Cho Hyun-kyung, the head of counseling.”

“Good morning, Mr. Hyungyeong. Please take good care of me in the future. And……Is the team leader Jeong Yi-hyeon inside?”

“Chief Jeong is already at work and is inside. Shall I call you?”

“No, I’ll go in first.”

It is true that Zion created a game developer, but it is also true that he bought it. After buying an existing small game company, renaming it, adding people to it, and moving it back into a new building, it’s almost the same as making another one.

It’s a cumbersome way, but it’s said that it was because it would be faster to work with people who know a little bit than to stick with people who don’t know completely.

Go through the lobby and go inside. By the way, the president’s office was on the 15th floor, so I had to come anyway.

Employees who came to work for the first time like me were connecting computers or organizing their seats, and among them, I found one person who had already finished organizing and was working on something.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses. There were dark circles under his eyes, perhaps as a reward for working late. He seems to have prepared neatly for his first day at work, but rather it looks awkward.

This is Jung Yi-hyeon, the team leader who is in charge of the game producer.

When it comes to producers, aren’t most of my wives and me raising idols? As you may ask, producers are in charge of management and planning. It’s a bit different from directing… If a director handles directing and editing, a producer manages money, time, and manpower.

In other words, he is the person who gives instructions when I am not around.

“Chief Jeong Yi-hyeon?”

Not realizing that I had come, I quietly called him. Then he raised his head and looked up at me.

I was a little surprised by the impression, but soon I stopped working and got up from my seat.

“Ah, yes. This is Jeong Yi-hyeon from the producer side. Who are you?”

“The boss is the worst”

“Yeah?!”

People say that wearing glasses makes your eyes look smaller, but I was surprised to see Team Leader Jeong’s eyes wide open to the extent that such words are colorless. Even though the impression is different, the age of the appearance is in the mid-20s, even if there is a little presbyopia.

I’m young, but when I say president, most of them would parachute down from above or be the president of pants. I am closer to the former.

“Let’s talk for a minute”

He made a seat with a smile.

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The boss’s office was not as big as I thought. There was only a desk I could write on, a few bookshelves next to it, and a small table where I could hold meetings with team leaders. I’m just glad it’s not big enough to play golf. If so, I would have been more ashamed.

“Ah, thank you, boss.”

“We will work together in the future, so what is this?”

We started talking over a cup of coffee each other. First of all, for the game I want, this person must move the way I want.

“I’m going to call you all over and talk about work, is it okay?”

“No, boss! It’s okay. Take it easy!”

“Then what I want to say first. Let me tell you why I created this game company.”

Games are meant to be fun.

Some to pass the time, some to feel rewarding, and some to feel pleasure. That’s why we play games.

However, modern mobile games are so saturated with money that they have lost their meaning. All new games coming out in the world these days have real elements, even if they are not mobile.

Of course, I understand that you want to play games faster, stronger, and more comfortably than others. However, since the game focuses on that and only tries to suck people’s money, the game quality is put on the back burner.

I also know all the repertoire of games these days… I mean those games that have advertisements on the main screen of the site and go bankrupt without even knowing it.

I hate games like that. No, even if there is a charging element, it’s worth watching if it’s fun, but the game is not like that.

“I want to make fun games while running this company. Nothing else matters. Just one thing, fun.”

“Are you having fun?”

“Isn’t there a game that Team Leader Jung also enjoyed?”

Even if there is no element of charging, there are many games that I enjoyed playing as a child.

At least there is no one who has not used a 100 won bill at the arcade machine in front of the stationery store. Except for today’s generation.

“There are so many… If I were to tell you now, I could spend all my time talking about games until the evening.”

“I want to make a game like that. Can you help me?”

When I asked for an opinion, Team Manager Jeong thought about it and sighed.

“I would be surprised too. As the president said, there are a lot of games in the frame that are drawn and illustrated with only the illustrations added, but funny enough, it is the world now that such games keep coming out because they make money. But that’s not worth the money.”

What game producers need to worry about is determining the business and direction of the game.

But I had no intention of giving it another way.

“Who told you to make a money-making game?”

“Yes? But I have to earn money…”

“This building belongs to my wife.”

“…….”

“There’s a Lamborghini in the underground parking lot, and that’s mine.”

“………”

Team leader Jeong opened his mouth wide and made a surprised expression.

“I’m not saying to make a game that makes money, but to make a fun game. In our company’s games, we do not tolerate charging elements. Even if we include charging elements, we will do as little as possible.”

I’m not completely ignoring billing either. However, I intend to reduce it as much as possible. To be honest, it’s not finalized, but does it make sense to pay 100,000 won for a set with a few stones to select characters?

“What are we little princes? If you say ‘out of 100 people, 100 of you played a game that was fun’, you don’t know, but if you say ‘I played a game with 10 billion won in monthly sales’, ‘That’s a really good game!’ I know?”

Haha, the analogy is a bit funny.”

“So you don’t have to worry about budget and time. We will give you enough budget and time.

“……Voluntary overtime?”

“It’s voluntary if you pay overtime pay.”

Work gives you money That’s natural. Even if you work overtime, you have to pay for it.

Even if you work overtime because of a busy schedule, if you give them money, they work hard. No money is given, so who wants to work hard? Just lose enthusiasm

“Don’t worry about anything else. I only pursue fun. I play the games made by my company first, and if I say it’s not fun, I’ll skip it.”

“Okay, boss!”

Now that the conversation with team leader Jeong, who will carry out and direct the work in my absence, is over, the rest can be adjusted gradually. To do that, the first thing I did was to talk to Team Leader Jeong.

“First of all, let’s start with the reboot of the Heroic Chronicle series. From the first part, we fix the graphics, system, and story again to gather the nostalgia of the old users and build a fan base. Because I won, I’m going to hit the average.”

Elyos and Asmodians lived in these days. Many online game stories are like that.

Of course, I wouldn’t say that there are no masterpieces among those games, but honestly, it’s a problem because there are so many cases where the opposite is true.

“Hero Scribe…That’s a nostalgic name. It’s a game from 10 years ago. Are you saying you want to reboot the series?”

“I already bought the copyright, so you can relax.”

“Already? You’ve made up your mind!”

Team leader Jeong also became talkative, probably because he had a memory of having fun.

As a rule, no matter how timid a person is, he will quickly become a talkative person if he tells a story that interests him and that he knows well. Shion is also quiet in front of strangers, but his eyes light up when talking about a new anime.

“The first series were all good, but it was difficult to catch the boss monsters. The difficulty of the bosses was not a joke, so I packed my equipment and bought dozens of potions before finally catching them.”

“Ah, I remember that. The first boss had crazy damage and it was hard to catch because the guardians weren’t trained yet. Compared to that, the pattern was so annoying that it was difficult”

“You seem to have done a lot?”

“Instead, I ended up doing the second female character. The next series came out.”

“Swordsman of the Ice Sea! That series is also a masterpiece.”

“I was a knight without knowing anything, but I didn’t raise any beasts and only took the hard final boss with pure character deals.

“Have you tried the zero that followed?”

“Of course I did. It’s the first series with a job change system, isn’t it? Gunslinger also came out of there for the first time. Kuh, then I first raised it as a Gunslinger and later changed it to a Warrior wearing three red lions and wielding a greatsword. Thanks to the Gunslinger stat, the crit rate is 70. Every time the fur went over and hit, only a crit came out. Later, it was a speed run that took less than 20 minutes to finish a round.”

“As far as I remember, the three Red Lions in the Zero series seem to have a movement speed increase option… I’m sure the Warrior has a Crimdem and a movement speed increase option, so I’ll buy it.”

“What was funny at the time was that there was an event in the beginning where the final boss came out and was defeated. In Hellmode, the final boss is level 70, but I’m 99, so I didn’t take any damage, so I had to take off all my equipment and get hit to progress the story. But if I beat him again, it’s a gag ending end”

“Ah! That ending!”

After talking about this and that, it was already lunch time.

Anyway, today is the first day. Just like students who don’t want to go to class on the first day of school, office workers will hate to work on the first day of work.

“Gather all the staff. There is a meat restaurant downstairs, so let’s have lunch there.”

“Uh…… Boss. It’s a beef restaurant over there.”

“So what?”

He took out a black card from his wallet and showed it. It is a personal card, not a corporate card.

…… Let’s put aside for a moment that the name is Shion, not me. In this case, you need to get in shape.

“The young meat of Seon is said to be pork, but I want the employees to work hard, so I am buying beef with the meat of my heart. Have dinner for lunch and ask everyone to leave work early today.”

“Yes! I see, boss!”

A good thing in dealing with people is to show them goodwill. In the short term, it’s easier to rule with fear, but in the long run, it’s better to deal with goodwill.

Of course, money is also important. Working in this industry must be because each person has a liking for games, big or small, but they say they will make fun games, so there’s no way they won’t work hard.

When I came up earlier, I saw a meat restaurant on the first floor. It’s a pretty big meat restaurant, so I looked at it because it’s a restaurant that all the employees can eat. Of course, if all 60 people enter, you won’t be able to receive other guests…. How many people will be able to grill beef and drink alcohol in broad daylight?

Team leader Jeong left his boss’s office and called the other employees together. A dinner party is also a dinner party, but it is gathered to create a place for employees to introduce themselves and get to know their faces.

Employees on the upper floor came down the stairs or the elevator and entered the office on the 15th floor. When there were only staff from the management department, it was rather spacious, but it feels full when all of them are gathered.

When it seemed that almost everyone was gathered, I sneaked out of the president’s office.

“Come on, everyone, be quiet. The boss is here!”

Team leader Jeong gathered his attention and quieted it down. People’s eyes are focused on me.

I try to familiarize myself with people’s faces as much as possible, but it’s hard to remember all 60 people in one place. If you just tell me to remember the presence, I’ll do something with my senses.

“Nice to meet you all. The president is the worst.”

In this industry, the sex ratio is inevitably male, but the ages were different for each. There was a middle-aged man, but there was also a young man who looked a few years older than me.

“Some of you might be worried because I’m a young-looking president, but I’d like to tell you to be at ease. At least as long as I make the games I want, this company will never go bankrupt. So I’ll ask you all…Make fun games. That’s all you need.”

“Boss! What kind of fun game is this?”

A question came from somewhere. It was a voice heard among people, so I don’t know who did it, but I didn’t think to figure out who it was.

It was a question I thought someone would ask in the first place.

“Everyone here must have had a game that they enjoyed at least once. From famous games to games that only fit their taste. Why were those games fun? You just have to think about it and make it. We will take care of the detailed order.”

And one thing I’ve been wanting to say for a long time.

“Our company claims to be a family-like company. Not a family-like company, but a real family-like company. If you have any difficulties while working, please come to the president’s office at any time. Of course, when I’m there. Sometimes I can’t come because I’m busy.”

The response is still a bit lacking.

Then you have to get the good stuff out.

I held up the card I had taken out earlier.

“Today, to commemorate the opening of the business, I will pay for the dinner! With beef!”

“”Wowaaaaa!!!””

“You can go home right after the dinner!”

“”””Wowaaaaa!!!!””””

The cheers were louder at the sound of getting off work than at a dinner party. Well, for an office worker, getting off work is more sweet than a dinner party. I understand.

But I’ll roll it forward.

You have to make me work overtime every day so I don’t have to go to work. Not intentionally, but voluntarily because of overtime pay…..!!