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Chapter 533 - 324 Own child, own bird eats (Seeking subscriptions)_1

Chapter 533: Chapter 324 Own child, own bird eats (Seeking subscriptions)_1

Previously, Ding Yue hadn’t considered establishing a game department under the Feiyue Group, as he was busy establishing the Mist City Arts and Science University, it was impossible to cover every professional field.

But, with the discovery of [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology] from the University Treasure Chest, Ding Yue contemplated upon the idea of creating a gaming sector.

The positioning of Ding Yue’s Feiyue Group was very clear.

That is, as the company behind Mist City Arts and Science University, future business ventures would need to be closely related to the university.

If the university excels in something or has a talent for something, Feiyue Group can implement related technologies or products to carry out commercial activities and generate profit.

The profit earned by the Feiyue Group would then be reinvested in the construction and development of Mist City Arts and Science University.

Such a virtuous cycle of growth is a major construction and development policy for Mist City Arts and Science University!

The field of gaming is immensely vast.

With [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology], Ding Yue can now concentrate on the gaming field.

Why has the Penguin Group become so big?

A big part of it is the fact that the games under the Penguin Group are highly profitable. However, as Pei Gou just suggested, Penguin’s focus on revenue generation has contributed little to the healthy and sustainable development of the domestic gaming market.

"Principal Ding, you mean...you want to employ us, just like you did with the Mechanical Engineering Department’s Tong Yihang and his team?"

Upon hearing this, Pei Gou asked, greatly excited.

Now, at Mist City Arts and Sciences University, Tong Yihang and Liu Tiefei have become role models for the entire student population.

While still in school, they were hired by Principal Ding’s Feiyue Group. Most importantly, the positions and benefits were excellent. Who wouldn’t envy that?

Not to mention, Pei Gou’s friend Xu Hong recently joined Feiyue Animation Studio at the university. The pay and benefits were equally attractive.

Principal Ding has been exceedingly generous in providing for his employees. The members of Feiyue Animation Studio are even willingly pulling all-nighters to work on projects like "Super Combat Team."

Who would willingly work overtime in this day and age?

"If you can get an official position, that depends on your abilities," replied Ding Yue, not planning to recruit Pei Gou and his team directly to Feiyue Games.

Ding Yue had only used a campus game design competition to judge that Pei Gou and his team had some skills. He wasn’t sure if they could take on a big role.

Ding Yue intends to let them try their hand at creating game engines. If it pans out, he might let them join Feiyue Games. If it doesn’t, he might wait for a few more years and see if there are any satisfactory talents in the game design program at the university.

"Mmhmm!"

Pei Gou nodded firmly: "Principal Ding, we will definitely put in all our efforts!"

"Yes, Principal Ding, we will not let you down!" chimed the other seven, nodding in unison.

Ding!

"Congratulations to the host for successfully bestowing [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology] on students Pei Gou, Liu Lang, Zhang Tianming, Xu Hong, Wang Kaiwei, Peng Xing, Li Shu, Chen Yunhui."

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ding Yue imparted his [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology] to the energetic young group.

They would now have to create a game engine that could rival or outclass the Unreal Engine, depending on how hard these young people worked.

"Good, I have faith in you. As Pei Gou mentioned, your next target will be to make a game engine. The university will take care of the funds. If you can create a game engine that satisfies me, then our school’s company will welcome you," Ding Yue said, setting a task for his highly motivated students.

It could be more aptly described as a test, rather than a task.

If accomplished, it would show that they have high abilities. If not, all their highfalutin talk would be nothing more than empty words, and Ding Yue wouldn’t necessarily hire these students.

Hearing Principal Ding’s offer of complete funding for the production of a game engine, Pei Gou’s eyes instantly lit up with excitement.

The other seven were also somewhat excited, as Ding had given them an opportunity.

If they seize this opportunity, they might, like Tong Yihang and Liu Tiefei, become talents valued by Principal Ding.

After all, Tong Yihang and Liu Tiefei were officially hired by Feiyue Group only after they had experienced the creation of the Big White robot.

"Principal Ding, if we are to create a game engine, we fear... perhaps... maybe..."

Suddenly, Pei Gou appeared to be in a bit of a predicament.

"Not enough people?"

Ding Yue laughed as he asked.

Indeed, with only eight people, making a small game wouldn’t be an issue, but creating a powerful game engine would take an eternity.

After all, creating a powerful game engine involves a broad range of programming and workload, which takes an incredibly long time.

"Yes, we are short-handed!" Pei Gou nodded in agreement.

This was what he had been trying to say earlier.

Currently, he is leading a team of only eight people, and even if all eight were worked to death, they still couldn’t produce a top-notch game engine.

To develop a game engine is a large project, and this project team needs to be big enough.

It doesn’t necessarily require experienced game designers and developers, but even if it’s a group of students handling it, they will still need sufficient manpower.

"So, are there more people from your game design major who can be added to the team? If so, feel free to recruit," Ding Yue said.

Of course, Ding Yue would allow Pei Gou to expand his team.

"We also need some computer programming experts," Pei Gou added. "Principal Ding, may I look for team members from the computer science department?"

"Sure!"

Ding Yue still agreed, but specifically instructed, "Please prepare a list of your team members for me when the time comes!"

That’s because Ding Yue had only granted the [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology] to the eight of them. If Pei Gou wanted to expand the team to over a dozen people, then Ding Yue would also provide the [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology] to the rest of the students as well. Only after having received such knowledge can they be better equipped to create a satisfactory game engine for Ding Yue.

Seeing Principal Ding’s prompt and affirmative response, Pei Gou and his buddies instantly felt like spring had finally come to their game design major.

All they wanted to scream at that moment was—Principal Ding is awesome!

"I look forward to your good news!"

Ding Yue looked at them with a meaningful expression.

Even though he had just given them the [Advanced Game Engine Manufacturing Technology], it would certainly take them some time to master and digest this technology.

Given that Pei Gou’s team also needed to expand, the production of the game engine was likely to start smoothly only by the end of the year at the earliest.

But that’s okay, Ding Yue could wait for two or three months.

After Pei Gou and his buddies left Principal Ding’s office, they immediately got busy.

Firstly, they tried to expand their team—Pei Gou asked his buddies to start finding people from game engine-related majors that they knew.

For example, those specializing in animation, or computer science—Pei Gou needed them all.

Because Pei Gou clearly understood that with only his own gaming design majors, creating an outstanding game engine wasn’t easy.

Graphic rendering, scripting engine, physics engine, sound effects, computer animation, etc., none of these could be accomplished by a gaming design major student alone.

To them, creating a game engine was like constructing a building—it had to be done step by step, starting with laying the foundation.

Laying the foundation meant that everyone on their team needed to master the related technologies of game engine production.

At the beginning, Pei Gou thought that this would be tough.

However, after studying for a while, he found that his buddies seemed quite talented in this aspect.

"It seems you guys have quite a talent in learning game engine production. You always said ’no, no, we can’t’, now look how well you’re doing!" Pei Gou exclaimed to his buddies.

Liu Lang, Zhang Tianming, Xu Hong and Wang Kaiwei also never thought that learning the technical knowledge for game engine production would be this simple and straightforward. It felt like they had opened the door to a new world.

On Ding Yue’s side, besides letting Pei Gou and his team try to create a game engine, he also appointed An Yujia, the CEO of Feiyue Group, to set up a game department within the group.

The department was named Feiyue Games.

Thus, there was one more branch under the Feiyue Group—Feiyue Games.

However, since Feiyue Games was set up to handle the gaming area, the staff they needed to recruit would not only be for game development or engine development teams but also various other personnel for operations, customer service, and so on.

Ding Yue left all these recruitment tasks to An Yujia.

However, the first principle of this recruitment process was to prioritize the students of Mist City Arts and Science University.

It must be said that Ding Yue’s internal circulation method has already provided several majors’ top students at Mist City Arts and Science University with promising job opportunities during their sophomore year.

For example, the accounting major.

A number of excellent accounting students from Mist City Arts and Science University have already started to intern in various departments of the Feiyue Group.

These include Feiyue Technology, Feiyue Animation, Feiyue Logistics, Feiyue Media, etc. All industries under the Feiyue Group required accountants.

Once Feiyue Games was set up, they would also need accounting staff. Naturally, following Principal Ding’s instructions, An Yujia would prioritize students from the relevant majors of Mist City Arts and Science University when recruiting.

This was akin to the saying "keep it in the family".

While An Yujia was busy preparing for the Feiyue Games department with the Feiyue Group, and Pei Gou and his buddies were busily recruiting new team members and learning game engine production technology, it quickly became the end of October.

The weather had gotten a bit colder.

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