134: Chapter 134 A New Journey! Spark Internal Meeting!

The three-day holiday ended faster than Jiang Yuan had expected.

On the way back, Lin Xi was sleeping in the backseat, slumped all over the place, with her sun hat covering her face, making it impossible to see her features; at first glance, it looked like she had been kidnapped.

Su Meng was driving, and Jiang Yuan was sitting in the passenger seat, gazing at the scenery rapidly receding outside the window while holding a latte bought at a service area. In her heart, she felt both anticipation for the upcoming new work and nostalgia for the leisurely life of the past three days.

By the time the car drove into the city center, the sky had completely darkened.

The streetlights lit up, and clusters of familiar office buildings swept past the window, filled with the unique charm of an international metropolis.

Su Meng dropped her off at the bottom of her apartment building, and Jiang Yuan woke up the still groggy Lin Xi, and they got out of the car together.

She said something in a clear voice, telling the slightly dazed Lin Xi to take the things upstairs first.

Looking at Su Meng, who was breathtakingly beautiful under the moonlight, even more radiant than the flowers, Jiang Yuan chuckled and said:

"I had a great time these past three days, thank you for the recommendation!"

Smiling sweetly, Su Meng looked at the beautiful and dashing young girl wearing casual denim, and said in a gentle voice:

"I was also very happy to be able to go out and have fun with you, Xiao Yuan."

Waving her hand, Jiang Yuan smiled and turned to walk into the apartment building.

Not until Jiang Yuan's slender and tall figure completely disappeared behind the unit door did Su Meng turn back to the car with a radiant smile, humming a melodious tune in a cheerful mood.

The next morning at 8:30.

When Jiang Yuan arrived at the company, although the eighteenth floor lacked its usual liveliness, it was still maintaining normal operations.

Passing by the Development Department, she glanced inside.

Workstations for nearly a hundred people almost covered the entire floor, and the sound of keyboards clicking away filled the air. Although a small portion of people were on rotating shifts, thanks to the company's continuous hiring, the Development Department was still packed.

As one of the leaders of the Development Department, Zhou Ming was sitting by the window, wearing headphones and staring at the screen, his fingers typing rapidly on the keyboard.

Lin Zhengtao was holding his ever-present enamel mug with a great person printed on it, leaning over to look at someone else's screen while saying something.

As for the lead artist Su Meng, she hadn't arrived yet; she was probably on her way.

Jiang Yuan looked around, didn't say anything, and went straight to her office.

Although she hadn't been here for three days, because someone cleaned every day, the office remained tidy and clean, with no musty smell.

Putting down the hot soy milk and a fried dough stick she had bought on the way to work, Jiang Yuan didn't rush to eat breakfast but instead opened her computer and scanned through the messages from Qin Gong over the past three days from beginning to end.

The Xbox contract was signed, and the fifteen million US dollars was without any issues.

Although Jiang Yuan had refused Microsoft's request for her to appear in person for promotional purposes, the other party clearly knew who was begging whom, so they didn't have any objections to it, or even if they did, they didn't dare to voice them.

In addition, Sony had reconfirmed that the ps version of [Minecraft] would go live on July 20th.

Besides that, the Publishing Department had also proposed an assessment for Switch and mobile platforms.

First, there was no need to say much about the Switch; although it was a bit troublesome, it was, after all, a large and high-quality user base. To enable them to play one of the greatest games in the world, the porting definitely had to be done.

As for the mobile side, as an increasingly hot and potentially dominant source of revenue in recent years, not doing it would simply be turning away huge sums of money.

Jiang Yuan finished reading through them one by one, thought for a moment, and replied to Qin Gong:

"Both the Switch and mobile versions need to be ported. Not just Minecraft, but Plants vs. Zombies and Vampire Survivors can also be considered, but it has to wait until the porting for PS and Xbox is finished."

Qin Gong lived up to his title of "nuclear-powered workhorse," replying almost instantly:

"Understood, President Jiang, received!"

Jiang Yuan leaned back in her chair, thought for a moment, and sent another message to Qin Gong:

"Notify the Development Department: meeting in the large conference room at 9:30."

In fact, this matter would normally not fall to Qin Gong.

But firstly, this "nuclear-powered workhorse" had already implicitly become the company's semi-vice president and chief steward, and Jiang Yuan was already used to relying on him.

Secondly, it was because, besides the vacancy for a lifestyle secretary, positions like presidential assistant and work secretary were also sitting empty around Jiang Yuan.

When the company was small, she hadn't really noticed it, but now it seemed that while a lifestyle secretary might be optional, for the other positions, it was indeed urgent to recruit suitable people.

The time reached 9:30, and Jiang Yuan went to the large conference room, where she saw that everyone from the Development Department who was currently on duty had already arrived.

The current staffing of the Spark Games Development Department, after continuous and high-intensity recruiting, was now approaching one hundred people.

When these people joined the company, after a face-to-face talk with Jiang Yuan, she would assign them to one of the two studios currently under the Spark Games Development Department: Spark Studio and Star Studio.

This split was something Jiang Yuan had decided on beforehand and had been executing all along.

In Jiang Yuan's vision, Spark Studio would subsequently be responsible for the company's self-developed medium-to-large projects, while Star Studio would be responsible for smaller, indie-style projects.

Both sides would have a complete team, from programming to art to planning, independent of each other, and report only to Jiang Yuan.

Of course.

Once upon a time.

Jiang Yuan had thought that establishing these two studios was enough to handle the company's upcoming production processes.

But now it seemed that, in Jiang Yuan's vision, there might also be a need to establish a studio specifically responsible for the daily operations of the Spark Game Platform, as well as a studio responsible for large-scale multiplayer online battle games.

As for mobile games, Jiang Yuan had thought about getting involved, but currently, she was spread too thin, so she could only let it go for now and wait for a suitable opportunity in the future.

Looking at the large conference room, which, despite the absence of a small portion of people on rotating shifts, still looked packed—even though when Jiang Yuan rented the new building, she had rented as large a space as possible.

But now it seemed she might have underestimated the expansion speed of Spark Games, and she needed to consider office space for the company again.

Fortunately, there was still a part of the eighteenth floor of this building that hadn't been rented out; if push came to shove, she could consider renting that part first to use as new office space.

Jiang Yuan walked to the head of the table and sat down, her clear eyes sweeping around the room.

Although she looked young and beautiful, as delicate as a fragile snow doll, her powerful aura and brilliant resume instantly caused the conference room to quiet down, with only the noisy sound of people breathing being heard.