The various details for “Sea Fortress” were quickly finalized.

Within a week, all the functional design drafts were completed on schedule. Huang Sibo reviewed each one, making modifications wherever he found differences from Bao Xu’s original concept.

At the same time, the designers began using the editor to create a prototype of the game.

Because they heavily utilized generic templates, the initial progress was not slow. However, to achieve the effect that Huang Sibo and Bao Xu wanted, subsequent adjustments would need to be made gradually.

The art resource requirements had also been handed over to the art team, who were communicating with artists from the resource sites for customization.

This included generic zombie and mercenary character models, as well as customization of the little girl’s image, all of which were being rapidly prepared.

Taking the little girl’s image customization as an example, members of Tenda’s art team needed to repeatedly communicate and confirm details with the artists, Bao Xu, and Huang Sibo.

Three artists were responsible for the little girl’s image: one for concept design and original art, one for modeling, and one for animation, each responsible for different aspects of the work.

With this entire process, the little girl would become the game character with the largest investment in the entire game.

All the little girl’s actions and expressions in specific story segments were also custom-made—they were truly sparing no expense.

Of course, the investment remained within budget.

This was because in foreign AAA titles, every character was made to this standard, often with seven or eight main characters. “Sea Fortress,” on the other hand, only had the little girl being created to this standard, so the budget was naturally well-controlled.

Sometimes, when Huang Sibo discovered better art resources, he would go directly to Pei Qian.

And Pei Qian would always wave his hand decisively: Buy it!

At first, Huang Sibo was a bit anxious, thinking to himself: would it really be okay to keep increasing the budget for purchasing resources?

If this were any other company, the boss would probably be jumping up and down in anger by now!

From 700-800 thousand to 1.2 million, and then to 1.5 million…

At any other company, Huang Sibo would be labeled as having “unclear planning and poor cost control ability.”

But at Tenda, not only did Boss Pei not blame Huang Sibo, he seemed quite happy.

Huang Sibo couldn’t help but sigh at the difference in vision!

Despite my incompetence, Boss Pei still trusts me unconditionally…

I am utterly devoted and have no way to repay this trust!

If I don’t make this game excellent, I will be failing Boss Pei’s cultivation!

…

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the month.

Today was Friday, November 29th.

For Huang Sibo, it was just an ordinary day.

Currently, his work was nearly complete. All the design work had been finished, the details had been sorted out, and various in-game resources were in production.

As the executive lead designer, personally adjusting the editor was certainly not within Huang Sibo’s scope of work—naturally, his subordinates handled that.

Huang Sibo’s task was to supervise the other members of the design team and push the work progress forward.

This work was much easier compared to creating design drafts, so Huang Sibo hadn’t worked overtime for a while.

With sufficient manpower and adequate budget, the development progress was under control, so there was naturally no need for overtime work.

Huang Sibo had never felt work to be so relaxed and comfortable.

“Ding!”

His phone rang.

Huang Sibo picked it up and saw that it was a bank notification for a salary deposit!

“Huh? Isn’t today the 29th?”

Huang Sibo was a bit confused.

According to most companies’ practices, the current month’s salary is only paid in the following month.

Getting paid on the 5th was already considered very conscientious.

Terrible companies would wait until the middle or even the end of the next month to pay, essentially withholding an employee’s salary for a month without reason. Then, when the employee resigned, they would find all sorts of problems to deduct wages—in short, they would find ways to make life miserable.

Companies that paid salaries before the 5th of the next month were already considered very conscientious.

Huang Sibo had never seen a company that paid salaries in the current month!

“Your account XXXX received a salary deposit of RMB 5375.8 on November 29 at 11:09, [XX Bank]”

Huang Sibo was stunned.

This salary must be wrong!

He clearly remembered that he had joined the company around November 5th, so his working time was less than a month.

With a base salary of 4,000 per month, after deducting social insurance, housing fund, and income tax, the salary amount should be significantly less than 4,000!

But why was it over 5,000?

Huang Sibo was confused, but this kind of trivial matter was certainly not appropriate to ask Boss Pei about—he could just ask Assistant Xin directly.

Huang Sibo found Xin Hailu and expressed his confusion.

Xin Hailu smiled and said, “That’s correct—it includes overtime pay.”

“Overtime pay???” Huang Sibo was even more confused.

Xin Hailu nodded, “Yes, not just you—everyone who works overtime at the company gets overtime pay. You’ve worked about fifty hours of overtime at the company, right? Overtime is calculated at 1.5 times your hourly wage, and then after deducting social insurance, housing fund, personal income tax, and so on, that’s the amount you receive.”

Huang Sibo’s mouth hung slightly open, unable to speak for a moment.

Overtime pay that only existed in legends!

And calculated at 1.5 times the individual’s hourly wage!

Overtime pay was something most gaming companies simply didn’t offer.

Not just now—even ten years later, companies that provided overtime pay would still be as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns in most industries!

Moreover, many companies that did provide overtime pay calculated it based on the local minimum wage standard. This was a trick, just like paying social insurance based on the minimum standard!

But Tenda was different—they calculated overtime pay based on each employee’s standard hourly wage!

In simpler terms, they gave more overtime pay!

Take Huang Sibo as an example. His base salary was 4,000 per month. Calculated on 20 working days per month and 8 hours per day, his hourly wage was 25 yuan, making his overtime pay 37.5 yuan per hour.

Then, based on the number of hours Huang Sibo worked overtime, they calculated his overtime pay, added it to his salary, and after accounting for social insurance, housing fund, taxes, and so on, that was the amount Huang Sibo received on his card!

In two words: transparent!

Huang Sibo had never encountered such a conscientious company—no, not just encountered, he had never even heard of one!

Returning to his workstation, Huang Sibo’s emotions took a long time to settle.

So, Boss Pei knew everything all along!

He knew we were working overtime against his orders, but instead of reproaching us, he quietly transferred the overtime pay to our cards.

Huang Sibo felt warmth in his heart, and his eyes grew moist.

So touching!

Truly the world’s best boss!

…

As for Pei Qian, he had no idea how grateful the employees who received overtime pay were.

He was still troubled.

Why was it so hard to spend all the system funds?!

The reason for paying employee salaries at the end of the month was mainly because the system settled accounts at the beginning of each month.

Pei Qian had to ensure that before each system settlement, the employees’ salaries had already been paid out. Otherwise, a large sum of compensation would inexplicably accumulate, which would be very unfavorable for the loss of system funds!