Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 676 The Charm of Escape

"The speed is very fast. It is almost done. It is said that it will be released by the end of November."

Yu Dong was surprised, "So fast? The post-production should take a lot of time, right? I thought it would take next year to complete the production."

Cheng Yanqiu smiled and said, "Fortunately, Xiao Zhou has already made a rough outline of the main arrangement part, and the rest of the work is also simple, just do it according to his feeling. And the experts are also invited, so of course it will be faster. Last time Yu Yu called me, and now they are struggling with two issues. First, the release time, whether it will be released at the end of November or next spring. If it is released at the end of November, there must be less publicity time, but it can Taking advantage of the popularity of "Xingyue Liange", "Xingyue Liange" started broadcasting one after another in early December."

"Then let's post it at the end of November. The publicity doesn't have to be at the front, it's the same at the back. Besides this, what else are they struggling with?"

"There is another problem, that is the MV of the song. The margin means that it is enough to shoot two or three songs, including "The Roof". The MV for "The Roof" should not be filmed separately. It is directly cut from "Song of the Stars and the Moon" .”

Yu Dong nodded: "Okay, let's take a look at two films first, and if the album is well received, I will shoot more. There is also the mv of "The Roof", which will also let Xiao Zhou shine."

In fact, Yu Dong wanted them to shoot every one of them, but he couldn't say it directly, so he let the rest depend on the response.

"Well, in addition to quantity, there is also input."

"It's worth investing in. Since you have decided to shoot, you should spend more time to improve the quality. By the way, "Lovely Woman" can be filmed by Hu Jing or Chen Hao."

Cheng Yanqiu said with a smile: "Yu Yu said that I am optimistic about Xiao Zhou. I think you are the one who is really good to Xiao Zhou, right? Hu Jing is very popular now, and Chen Hao should be popular all over the world soon. How dare you let him know?" They ran to shoot the MV for Xiao Zhou."

"I'm doing it for the good of Hu Jing and the others. It just so happens that they don't have a good script recently, and it's not suitable for them to take on the show immediately. It's good to make an MV to adjust it."

In fact, Yu Dong was really thinking about Hu Jing and the others. The MV of the song "Lovely Woman" will most likely become popular, and it will continue to be passed down. Letting Hu Jing and the others film it, it can be considered that the rich water will not flow to outsiders.

And shooting an MV is the safest way, it can increase exposure without affecting word of mouth, almost no one would comment on an actor's acting skills in an MV.

"Okay, now that it's settled, I'll call Yu Yu later and talk to him."

Before Cheng Yanqiu called Yu Yu, Yu Yu's call had already been made to Yu Dong.

Yu Yu called to talk to Yu Dong about the release of "Runaway". After a period of preparation, "Runaway" will finally go on sale tomorrow.

The game will be released first in the United States, and then return to Asia, starting with Neon.

The marketing plan of "Runaway" this time mainly focuses on culture. It just so happened that ancient Chinese culture has become very popular in the United States in recent months, so Deep Space decided to take advantage of its own popularity and bind "Runaway" with ancient Chinese culture. Get up and focus on the map inside.

In addition, another selling point of this game is the characters.

……

On the way to work, Carmack saw the official sale poster of the "Runaway" game.

There were many people in the store queuing up to check out. Carmack took a set of cards and asked the person next to him, "Is this game made in deep space?"

"Of course, there's the Deep Space logo down there." The man pointed to the Deep Space logo on the top of the card to show Carmack.

Carmack nodded and continued to wait in line for the checkout.

He's been quite busy lately.

In fact, since the advent of Quake, he has had very little free time.

In order to promote 3D technology, he made a special version of "Thor's Hammer" that runs on verite graphics cards, but unfortunately the verite graphics cards did not live up to expectations and did not gain a firm foothold in the market, so the version he made naturally did not There is no way to continue promoting.

After that, he used the OpenGL standard to make a new version of "Quake", so that all graphics cards with 3D acceleration capabilities can render gorgeous images at a faster speed and higher resolution.

For Carmack, who focuses on computer games, it is reasonable not to notice that Deep Space has developed a console game.

But now that he saw it, he also wanted to play it, because he was very interested in the company Deep Space.

Many people say that Carmack created a miracle. It took less than five years for their company to go from nothing to a net profit of more than 500 million US dollars, and there was no capital behind it.At that time, there were only a dozen people in their company, and after counting, everyone became a millionaire, which was the envy of everyone in the industry.

But the miracles of deep space are even more astonishing.

Deep Space Company was founded later than their company, but now it has developed to a position that they can hardly catch up with. Amazon alone, which is indirectly controlled by Deep Space Company, is enough to fight.

After buying the game, Carmack returned to the company, found a TV and started trying to play it.

David, a partner passing by, saw Carmack adjusting the game, and walked in curiously, "Are you going to play console games?"

Carmack smiled: "Isn't this obvious? There is a game called "Escape" in deep space. I want to play it."

"This game has come out." David patted his head: "Speaking of deep space, I just remembered that a few days ago, Mikami, the person in charge of deep space games, talked with me on the phone about some computer games things."

"Do you still have the phone number of the person in charge of Deep Space Games?"

David rolled his eyes, "Please, if I don't contact them, do I expect you to?"

"That's right." Carmack smiled. "Would you like to play together? The poster says it's a game you can fight against."

David looked at his watch, then smiled and said, "I'll give you 15 minutes to beat me."

"Don't worry, it only takes 5 minutes at most to defeat you."

……

The game is tuned up, select the two-player mode, and the next step is to select the map.

There are five maps in total.

"Great Wall, Forbidden City, Songyue Temple Pagoda, Grand Canal, Mogao Grottoes."

"Just choose the Great Wall." David said with a smile.

Mainly because of these five maps, he knows one Great Wall.

"Do you want to read the game description?"

"No, I heard it's like an Antarctic adventure, just avoid obstacles."

"Ah."

Once the map was chosen, they started choosing characters.

The original character of the game is an Asian man in a gray gown. He doesn't look tall, but he is powerful and has very thick arms.

"Xu Sanguan, this character has three stars for agility and five stars for defense... The special skill is the ability to ignore obstacles by selling blood." Seeing the character introduction, Carmack nodded, "The setting of this game is pretty good. It's complicated, let's look at the other characters... Pfft!"

Seeing the second character, Carmack burst out laughing.

"YU, four stars for agility, two stars for defense... special skills, you can use pens as bridges when encountering gaps."

David smiled and said: "This skill is so strong, it means ignoring the gully."

Carmack nodded, then looked at the third character.

"Yu Hua, three stars for agility, three stars for defense...Special skills, one, accelerative acceleration, two, always travel faster than the opponent in battle."

Looking at it all the way, there are a total of eight characters, some are real people, and some are characters in the works.

David urged: "Choose people quickly, let's go to war, I don't have much time."

Carmack nodded and chose YU. After researching, he still thinks that YU's special skills are more powerful. If he ignores the gully, he can save one move.

Seeing that Carmack chose YU, David directly chose Yu Hua. The reason is very simple. Yu Hua’s speed is always higher than that of the opponent during the battle, and YU’s agility is relatively high in the general attributes. David took After Yu Hua, it was like taking YU's agility into his own hands.

After choosing a role, Carmack couldn't wait to start.

Games start.

The map of the Great Wall starts directly from Badaling, because the Great Wall here looks better.

The Great Wall in this game is not made according to the Great Wall in reality, but some interceptions. After all, the Great Wall in reality is very simple in many places.

It’s okay to add a small section of this kind of crude Great Wall to the game, but if a long section is that kind of simple Great Wall, it will affect the playability of the game****** At the beginning, Carmack and David Feel the difference in this game.

Character travel is fast, and the controls are smooth.

The characters move on their own, and they don't need additional operations. All they have to do is to control the characters to jump up, slide down, and dodge left and right.

The battle in this game is divided into upper and lower screens, the number one is on the top, and the number two is on the bottom, marching at the same time.

The distance traveled is shown in the upper left corner of the split screen, and the duration is shown in the lower right corner.

Yu Hua's special skill is faster than the opponent's speed, so David runs farther at the same time, but it's not all a good thing, the starting speed is too fast, it is easy to encounter obstacles and die.

At the beginning, both of them were a little uncomfortable with the speed of the game, and they died one after another after not going far.

David fell into the hole and Carmack hit the crossbar.

But David is still slightly better, traveling farther.

Carmack patted his head and found a reason for his failure, "The picture of this game is really good, as if you were on the Great Wall, I was fascinated by the beautiful scenery, otherwise I would not die So fast."

David pouted, "Let's do it again."

……

Even though Carmack and the others make games themselves, they are still easily fascinated when playing games.

Just a map of the Great Wall, the two played for more than half an hour.

Then Carmack proposed to experience several other maps, and David readily agreed.

By the time they played through all the maps, more than two hours had passed.

Carmack rubbed his sore wrist and said with a smile, "David, your 15 minutes is really long."

David also laughed, "Has it been 15 minutes? I feel like it's only been 5 minutes. We can still play for 10 minutes."

"Take a break."

Carmack put down the handle, looked at the Forbidden City on TV, and couldn't help but sigh again, "The visual effects of this game are really good. The game looks simple, but it takes a lot of thought."

"Indeed." David nodded, "When Mikami talked to me on the phone before, he also mentioned this game. I was a little impressed by what he said. He said that their new game is still not available. Best effect."

"What do you mean?" Carmack asked.

David shook his head, "He didn't say it, but I guess it might have something to do with the operation method."

Carmack said with emotion, "I have to say that Deep Space really has a lot of ideas. I have also played a few games they released after "Resident Evil". They were very average. I thought they would sink from now on. Not long after, "Runaway" came out. Not surprisingly, this game will definitely be very popular, and it can also be made into a series, with maps and characters constantly updated."

"Well, actually when I was playing just now, I kept thinking about a question, is there an end to these maps?"

"Theoretically speaking, there must be an end. The key is whether the creator of the game is willing to let you see the end."

Technically speaking, a console game must have an end, but the end can be placed in a place that is impossible for players to complete.

In the game "Runaway", the speed of the character increases with the distance traveled. After playing, the speed will reach a very exaggerated level. It is difficult for people to keep up with the reaction, and they will die if they are not careful. .

"Do you think we've just reached half of the map?"

Carmack shook his head, "If I were the producer, I'm afraid it would be less than one-tenth."

"One-tenth." David was surprised. "Is that an exaggeration? If the farthest place we have traveled is only one-tenth of the whole map, can someone complete the whole map?"

"Haha, don't underestimate people's potential." Carmack smiled, "Well, David, let's make a bet, if we get a few more game consoles, someone in our company will push our record forward today. Double."

David thought about it and said, "Okay."

"Well, I'll call them."

……

The game "Escape" is easy to operate, has various ways to play, and the most important thing is that the game screen is very beautiful, and it is quickly loved by the majority of players.

As the players continued to play, they also discovered more and more ingenuity.

For example, on the map of the Great Wall, the sky is dark at 800 meters ahead, until after 800 meters, a round of sun slowly rises from a distance. Such a picture is rare in today's games.

For another example, in the Mogao Grottoes, if you fall, you will vaguely see a giant Buddha.

Some people say that "Escape" is a landscape painting in the skin of an escape game, but everyone likes this tune, playing the game while enjoying the beautiful scenery.

Moreover, it is also quite interesting to manipulate great writers such as Yu and Yu Hua to avoid obstacles continuously.

(End of this chapter)