Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 368 The Father of Martial Arts Fighting Games
(I just found out that the number of chapters in the last few chapters is wrong, so no one reminded me...)
What Fang Jie didn't know was that QQ was shut down on his side, and Tiger was surrounded by a group of people, and the two sides almost quarreled.

The leader was a 30-year-old man who looked exactly like Shisanmei, with long and curly hair, but much more handsome.

"Tiger, you didn't ask the boss, when will the game project our team is responsible for begin to work?"

"I didn't have time to ask, he seems to be playing the QQ liver game."

"Sai Lianmu!"

When the tiger heard this, his expression darkened: "Who are you scolding? Don't think I don't understand! Lao Cai, Cai Junsong, you can just scold me. If you scold the gods, don't blame me for being rude!"

"Sailianmu" means X Nima in Hokkien, and it is a classic national curse in the Bay Area.

Although Cai Junsong may just say a catchphrase casually, Fang Jie's status in the eyes of Tiger and other veterans is paramount, and catchphrases are not good!
Cai Junsong immediately put on a smiley face, and continued to speak in his authentic Wan Wan dialect: "Is Jiang Zi angry? Ha, ha, what are you doing so seriously? It's shocking to death! It's just a mantra, no, I'm not scolding anyone, I'm just in a hurry Well……"

Only then did Tiger's expression soften, and he said speechlessly, "What's the use of asking me about this? I'm in charge of game operations, and the production and development of games is something that God personally handles. You can ask him directly in the work group! If it really doesn’t work, ask Xiaodao and my lover.”

"Oh, I've asked, and asked several times. He said we'll wait until "The Legend of Jin Yong" comes out, and other people said the same."

Cai Junsong sighed helplessly, and then said: "Isn't this game already on the market today? It's my turn for that project, right?"

The tiger rolled his eyes at the other party and said: "If you care about it, you will be confused. Why are you in a hurry? Since the god said this, it should be soon."

After thinking for a few seconds, Tiger became a little curious: "How is the progress of your game project? I heard that the framework was basically formed at the end of last year?"

"Yeah, but the boss said he was not satisfied after reading it, so let's keep messing around."

Cai Junsong rubbed his cheeks, obviously a little crazy: "I came to you Boiling Game with the team and the project, but I heard that you were going to make a martial arts game, and you were still developing a 3D game engine yourself. It turned out that I came here in early 2002 , Now a year and a half have passed, either let me continue to grind, or let me continue to wait, I am almost impatient..."

The tiger nodded slightly, deeply sympathizing with this.

As the senior management and operation director of Boiling Games, Tiger is quite clear about Cai Junsong's situation.

Cai Junsong is a native of Wanwan. Like Shisanmei, he majored in fine arts. After graduation, he worked as a designer in a well-known 3D animation company in the Wanwan area.

Don't compare the Bay Bay with the mainland at that time. You must know that before 97, the Bay Bay, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea became the four Asian tigers. The level of economic development is no nonsense. All aspects of technology and talents are in line with international standards The talent situation on the mainland side simply cannot be compared with it.

In short, Cai Junsong’s original dream was to make a great 3D movie one day, but young people like to play games, and after playing, they realized that 3D animation technology can be used in games as much as in movies The production can even have a higher mastery.

In this way, Cai Junsong started his game production journey.

After Cai Junsong switched from a 95D animation company in 3, he joined Yuquan International, a well-known game company in Wanwan.

In previous lives, this company has produced oriental-themed stand-alone games such as "Legend of Dunhuang", "Swordsman", "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "Fengyun 2 Seven Weapons", "Xiao Li Flying Knife", all of which are related to Cai Junsong , he is a game producer and has created sales miracles for the company!
For example, "Swordsman" is a stand-alone game. It is a 3D action game. It is the first movie-style camera, which combines martial arts moves from Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

The game was produced in 2000, and the sales volume in the first week was as high as 30 sets of game software!

This is the sales volume in the Bay Area, which shows how popular it is, but there are only pirated copies in the mainland, and not many people know about it...

Then at the end of 2000, Yuquan International launched the online game "Swordsman Online", which was also released on the mainland simultaneously.

However, this online game is still on the mainland.

It's not an issue of piracy. There is no piracy in online games. The main reason is that this online game is completely outdated in terms of gameplay and has many bugs. It is obviously a semi-finished product made by a stand-alone game manufacturer.

At that time, there were not only "The King of Kings" and "Three Kingdoms on the Internet" in mainland China, but also Fang Jienong's "Place a Thousand Emperors", and "Wulin" released on New Year's Day in 2001.

And "Swordsman Online Edition" is a MUD game with background pictures and text. The game mechanism is almost exactly the same as MUD, except that the mouse is used to control the characters to move around the scene, but the network structure is not well done, and every step is stuck. A sum of money, and even dropped the line.

This is not as convenient as MUD. At least MUD can input dozens of instructions and walk dozens of steps at one time without any delay.

In short, this game probably showed its face for about a week to half a month, and then disappeared. Fang Jie didn't even pay any attention to it at the time, because it was not worth mentioning.

But "Swordsman Online Edition" has nothing to do with Cai Junsong.

His game dream or concept is to use the theme of oriental martial arts to make fighting game masterpieces like those developed by foreign game manufacturers, not this kind of garbage online games.

This point is very consistent with Shisanmei, even going too far. It is a typical game idealistic madman, and he prefers fighting games the most. He wants to combine fighting and oriental martial arts elements to make a "true martial arts" fighting game.

After "Swordsman", after developing several games of Mr. Jin Yong, Cai Junsong began to think about where the next road of innovation and innovation in the game should go.

Thus, the idea concept of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" was born.

The meteor in Gu Long's novel, a group of killers, has all kinds of chivalrous and tender stories, which is very attractive to Cai Junsong. This is a theme that makes him very excited, so he resolutely decided to develop a fighting martial arts online game "Meteor Butterfly Sword" .

At this time, by chance, Cai Junsong watched the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" released last year, and the content in it deeply attracted him.

In the movie, director Ang Lee uses Hollywood shooting techniques to tell traditional martial arts stories, which subverts everyone's perception of martial arts movies, allowing foreigners not only to understand, but also to be moved by the storyline.

This allowed him to find the driving force behind Meteor's innovation, and he hopes to use the latest technology and the most exciting gameplay to tell about Meteor this time.

Because the source of inspiration at that time was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Meteor Butterfly Sword", he thought of the word "assassination" at the same time, and hoped to use the assassination method to play Meteor. A few thousand yuan of Lego was used to simulate the scene, and many scenes were designed in response to the assassination gameplay.

But this game idea is a very high challenge for game companies and R&D teams.

At that time, the main program he admired so much in the team refused to continue to cooperate with him, saying that he was crazy, and strongly advised the company not to initiate this impossible project.

Because the "Meteor Butterfly Sword" he proposed is not only a 3D martial arts fighting game, but also an online game with extremely fast response.

But Cai Junsong is a very persistent person, just like the thirteenth sister, who studies art, has an elegant mind, and puts all his eggs in one basket to do whatever comes to his mind, regardless of whether it is feasible or not?
For this matter, he has been arguing with the company and the team for several months, and finally less than 10 people are willing to believe and support him.

If it was the previous life, Cai Junsong, known as "the father of Huaguo martial arts fighting online games" and "the father of shooting stars", might have endured it, or stayed and continued to persuade the company's senior management to approve the project.

But hasn't Fang Jie misled the game industry in Huaguo in the present age?

So the next thing will be a matter of course.

Cai Junsong lost his patience completely after months of talking.

Just in the beginning of 2001, Boiling Group was established, and related news on the Internet was everywhere, and according to these news, Boiling Games and its company boss Fang Jie were obviously of the same kind as him, which made him very interested in Boiling Games. Fascinated.

Then, with a few team members who trusted him, they threw themselves into the arms of Boiling Games, with only one request: the company must support him in making an online martial arts fighting game called "Meteor Butterfly Sword"!

Fang Jie was also a gamer in his previous life, so of course he knew Cai Junsong was a master. After listening to the other party's request, he was very happy!

Paralyzed, is this considered a request?
This is an active gift, okay?

support!Must support!
But Fang Jie also has a request.

The game must be produced using the 3D game engine independently developed by Boiling Games, but the game engine has only just begun to be developed and approved, so it will take at least a year and a half for the game to come out, so that he can do other preparations first.

Cai Junsong certainly has objections to this, because he does not believe that Boiling Games can independently develop a 1D game engine within one or two years, nor does he believe that its quality can meet the requirements.

However, when he went to the game engine department, he found that thousands of people were doing research and development around the game engine, and after learning more about the situation, he decided to agree.

It's not that he has confidence in the "Boiling Engine" of Boiling Games, but he found that Boiling Games is really rich, and spent 100 million US dollars to directly buy the latest "Thor III" 3D game engine license.

You know, the "Swordsman" he developed before only used "Thor I". If he used "Thor III" at that time, I believe the game picture and quality will be better.

Boiling Games is using the most advanced 3D game engine at the moment, but it is only used for reference and learning, and it makes a copycat version of "Cross Fire" from "CS".
Of course, the main manpower, energy and funds of Boiling Games are invested in the research and development of 3D game engines with independent intellectual property rights, showing great patience and ambition, which also makes Cai Junsong more confident about the future.

Taking a step back, even if "Boiling Engine" is not available, there is a way out. He can use "Thor III" to make "Meteor Butterfly Sword". Anyway, the game engine is only for image processing, and there are many other tasks. , don't be in a hurry.

It is impossible for Boiling Games not to let him use "Thor III" after the game engine developed by itself fails, right?

So in the end, the two sides hit it off, and Cai Junsong joined the game.

His joining also allowed Fang Jie to carry out another internal mechanism reform of Boiling Game and implement the game producer system.

The so-called game producer system is centered on game producers, relying on their own resources and advantages, to establish and host their own game development teams and projects, that is, game studios, and the company provides funds, resources, personnel, technology, Necessary support in after-sales, operation, etc., both parties share according to a certain proportion of revenue, and the studio director has greater autonomy.

For example, Jinshan Company's "Xishanju Studio", Tencent's previous "Northern Lights Studio", "Photon Studio", and "Rubik's Cube Studio" are all like this.

Cai Junsong established his own "Meteor Studio" under Boiling Games with his own project and team.

In the next few years, some high-level game enthusiasts were not satisfied with a little bit of high salary and company allotment, and began to follow suit and set up their own game studios.

For example, Shisanmei followed closely behind. He set up the two studios of "Snail" and "Tiangong" very capriciously at once, and he did it very impressively.

"Snail Studio" is mainly for the development of the specific game project "The Age of Navigation", while "Tiangong Studio" is an outsourced art studio. Its team members are from Boiling Game Design Department and Boiling Digital. He is a master, specializing in all kinds of game art work, such as CG animation.

Not to mention the gold medal planners from previous lives that Fang Jie had recruited long ago, Xiaodao, Lover, Iron Man, Wang Yu and others have also established their own game studios directly or indirectly, hoping to personally host and make a game. The online game of your dreams.

In fact, "The Legend of Jinyong" is the ideal online game of the boss Fang Jie. Currently, due to technical limitations, it only has 2D graphics. In the future, it will expand to 3D graphics, XBOX, mobile phones, sports, fighting, TV, virtual reality and other types.

Now that the boss has taken the first step, it should be the turn of the following master planners from previous lives to show their talents. According to the plan, after the 2D MMORPG "The Legend of Jin Yong", there will be the 3D fighting "Meteor Butterfly Sword".

In fact, in the previous life, Cai Junsong only took 10 months to make "Meteor Butterfly Sword.NET" around October 2002. In this life, due to Fang Jie's requirements for him, he must use domestically produced 10D game engine production, so the time has been postponed for more than half a year and still has not yet taken shape.

In the previous life "Meteor Butterfly Sword .NET", ".NET" means networking, that is, this game can be divided into two game modes: stand-alone version and online version.

In the stand-alone game, the player plays the role of the "killer", and the player basically proceeds one level at a time, that is, the traditional stand-alone story mode. Each level has its own scene, story background, and victory conditions.

The stand-alone mode is very challenging. Each level has a different scene map, and there are even harmful organs in the map. Of course, the bosses of each level are also very powerful, and it is frightening to play.

The online version mode is not the World Wide Web, but a local area network connection, similar to the one in "CS". Players enter the game map through the local area network and fight against each other.

Fang Jie also played "Meteor Butterfly Sword .NET" in his previous life, and it was indeed very exciting, and he thought it was a blast at the time.

Not to mention fighting, the map scenes in the game are those scene maps in the stand-alone mode. Compared with the later versions of "Meteor Butterfly Sword", the game map is considered a super large scene. Gang and Youdou, once they entered the pit, they couldn't stop at all.

At that time, the network beta version of "Meteor Butterfly Sword.NET" attracted more than 20 players to settle in, but when the official version was released, it only sold less than 10 copies.

The reason is, of course, that this game had many problems in the previous life, the graphics were not refined enough, the map had many bugs, and it occasionally crashed, and the network structure and network conditions of the official server platform were not good, and it often got stuck, and the LAN in the Internet cafe was difficult to communicate with. The game experience is very bad.

In particular, the biggest weakness of this type of FTG fighting game is that it has extremely high requirements for the player's game operation skills. This alone can persuade at least 70% of the novice players, and the remaining 30% cannot be played directly. Because they get dizzy and vomit when they play 3D games...

3D game dizziness is because the ear is connected to the brain, and there is a structure called "vestibular organ" at the connection, which is used to perceive space, including horizontal, vertical, and rotational movements.

The information is transmitted to the brain, and the brain is processed to form the human perception of three-dimensional motion. People feel dizzy because the motion seen by the eyes and the motion perceived by the three organs are not coordinated, so that the brain cannot process an accurate answer, so it is will be dizzy.

It will be more serious when the picture quality is not good, or even freezes, or the rotation speed is too fast, and "Meteor Butterfly Sword.NET" has particularly serious problems in this aspect due to production technology reasons. Sometimes, you will get dizzy after playing for a long time.

The so-called sharpening the knife does not cut wood by mistake, although the launch time of this game in this world has been delayed, the quality and details of the game must have been greatly improved, at least to prevent players from getting dizzy easily, so the delay in the launch of the game is not a bad thing.

Boiling products must be high-quality goods, this is not just talk.

The production team of Cai Junsong in the previous life included 8 people, and it only took 10 months to release "Meteor Butterfly Sword.NET". No matter how fun the game is, there are inevitably various problems. Not a very mature product.

Now Fang Jie has given Cai Junsong two years, the number of production team has expanded from 8 to 80 people, the funds are sufficient, and Boiling Digital provides 3D modeling and animation support, one can imagine how the current "Meteor Butterfly Sword I" will be How well made!
It is precisely because he is full of confidence in the project "Meteor Butterfly Sword I", and the preparatory work has been done extremely carefully, that Cai Junsong can't wait to finish the later stage of this game immediately, and then launch it on the market, so he keeps going around Find someone to inquire about the company's next main project.

Every game production team has its own projects, but the company has only so many channels, operations, and after-sales resources. In addition to the company's strategic considerations, these game projects must have a priority and priority.

Previously, Boiling Games was originally "Wulin", then "Legend", followed by "Journey to the West II" and "Jin Orchestra", and now "The Legend of Jin Yong". These are the main projects. ", "I'm a Big Star" and many casual games on Lianzhong are all secondary projects.

At present, Boiling Games has approved the FPS game "Cross Fire" (No.1 called shooting), the MMORPG game "The Age of Discovery" and "Magic World" (Massive Multi-line Role Playing/3D), and the MUG game "Audition". (music rhythm), SLG game "Three Kingdoms Heroes" (simulation management), TCG game "Three Kingdoms" (collectible cards).

Although the boss has personally promised to push it after "The Legend of Jin Yong", but there are so many game projects, each of which is very classic, and the person in charge of the project is a senior member of the veteran faction. There will be accidents.

Cai Junsong has no affiliation and no faction background. His RPG+FTG game "Meteor Butterfly Sword" may not be in the ranking at that time.

So he immediately found Tiger, the director of operations.

Tiger is indeed only responsible for the game operation, not the specific production of the game, but any game launched will inevitably be handed over to the operation department for operation, and the operation department will inevitably make preparations in advance, so except for the boss Fang Jie, the entire boiling game, Tiger must be the first to know the news.

But Tiger is a very steady person. He will definitely not talk about such matters involving company secrets. Moreover, "The Legend of Jin Yong" has just been released today. The operation department will be busy with this game in the short term. What should be done next? What, also waiting for Fang Jie's instructions.

Fang Jie has indeed done a lot of things in the past six months, but overall he is still in a relatively leisurely nerd state. Compared with the previous two years, the pace of work has slowed down a lot. Anyway, there are countless talents below. In the front, he didn't need to do everything himself.

However, for a classic and special game like "Meteor Butterfly Sword", he decided to personally participate in the post-production. To participate, at least he had to wait until August passed. Anyway, he would definitely not go out for the next two months.

He was not in a hurry, but Cai Junsong was in a hurry. After coming out of Tiger's office, after thinking about it, he couldn't hold back the heat in his head. He gritted his teeth and directly dialed the boss's phone number.

Everyone knows that today is the boss's birthday, and they also know that the boss is living a peaceful life with his girlfriend, so he can't be disturbed easily, otherwise it will be difficult to leave a bad influence on the boss.

Like Shisanmei, she is very smart and hugs her thighs very tightly. Not only did she enter the game and follow Fang Jie into the Blood Knife Gate, but she also bought a martial arts cheat book as a birthday present. This is a person with high emotional intelligence. If you want to trouble Fang Jie with anything, the favor can be sold.

Cai Junsong is far behind in this aspect, except for games, he doesn't care about anything else.

When the phone call came, Fang Jie was enthusiastically working on a game mission. As soon as he saw the call, he knew what the other party was up to, so he didn't want to answer the phone. If it was Thirteen Sister , for the sake of 500 recharge points, he will definitely not be impatient.

He answered the phone patiently, and before the other party could speak, Fang Jie had already spoken: "If you wish me a happy birthday, thank you! If you want to talk about games with me, that's fine, but you can only talk about "The Hero of Jin Yong" "Biography"! The rest will be discussed in 2 months."

Cai Junsong on the other end was stunned by these words for a long time, and suddenly realized that today is indeed not a good day to trouble the boss, and it feels like he has fallen headlong into the abyss.

But this is the end of the matter, if you just hang up the phone like this, wouldn't you lose your wife and lose your army?
So he changed his mind, and Cai Junsong said very honestly: "Then let me talk about the game "Legend of Jin Yong"! Boss, I have participated in every round of the game's closed beta. In my opinion, this game is a fake game It’s not martial arts at all! Especially the design of the combat system, what kind of weapons and five elements are against each other, very low-energy, no pleasure in fighting!”

Fang Jie was dumbfounded for half a second, and couldn't help laughing. Although this guy didn't mention the "Meteor Butterfly Sword" project, he was actually bragging about his game...

(End of this chapter)