Is it not a galgame?

After the E3 electronics show ended, every day in the world seemed to be no different from yesterday. Everything was the same as before, and everyone was repeating what they did before.

The Sun Also Rises.

But a lot of things seem to have been changed and become very different.

Although no one said it explicitly, people in the industry could feel that something terrible lurking under the water was about to surface.

The whole world will become turbulent.

And everyone believes that it won't be long before Paradox creates a storm that may even sweep across the entire gaming industry.

Especially on the Sony and Ren Tian Tang sides, the leaders of the two companies have been feeling anxious and unable to sleep well during this period, as they always feel that something big is about to happen.

Sure enough, Pokeni announced a plan in August.

Pokeni's self-developed game engine Pioneer 2 is open source.

Once this news came out, it was like a bombshell that turned the whole world upside down.

It immediately caused a huge earthquake in the industry.

"Oh my God! My scalp is tingling." Square Enix's Masashi Miyamoto grabbed his hair and looked distorted.

"Pokeni is willing to open source the Blazers engine. What are they thinking?"

Open source means that all the source codes of the Pathfinder 2 engine will be published to the public. The engine will not be encrypted in any way. At the same time, all the manuals about development, including the explanation of each code section, will be released.

In other words, Pokeni has made its technology available to the world without reservation.

Anyone can obtain the code of the Pioneer 2 engine through the Internet, and can also use this code to modify the engine according to their own ideas.

With the Trailblazer 2 engine, game manufacturers no longer need to work hard on the research and development of game engines themselves. They can completely free up these talents and focus on game development.

For Square Enix, this is of course a good thing, because the release of Pokeni's "Spirited Away" allowed the whole world to see the power of the Pioneer Engine. Without the Pioneer Engine, Pokeni would not have been able to create such a great project as "Spirited Away".

According to Masashi Miyamoto's own words -

The Trailblazer engine was at least 3 years ahead of the current generation engines.

And now, although Trailblazer 3 has not been released yet, with their understanding of Pokeni, they can at least push the technology back by another one or two years, which is about 5 to 6 years ahead of this era.

Pokeni is willing to share such an amazing thing with others.

Should we say that President Qing is great?

Or stupid?
"are you crazy?"

"Is Pokeni crazy? Is President Qing crazy? Or have they become so arrogant that they don't even bother to keep their technology secret?"

People from other companies in the industry were simply dumbfounded.

"What is Pokeni doing now?!"

"I don't understand, I don't understand at all, I feel like my intelligence has been insulted.

Anyway, if it were me, I would definitely not be willing to open source the company's engine.

Not to mention Trailblazer 2!

OMG!

This is Pioneer 2! I find it incredible that Pioneer 2 made a game like Spirited Away.

The boss of Pokeni is willing to open source this thing? "

"Yeah, I also think that President Qing is really incredible. Is this person crazy?"

"It's totally unconventional. I find that Qing Zhiyuan and women are the most difficult creatures to understand in this world."

"No, no, no, President Qing is much harder to understand than a woman."

……

Although most of its peers do not quite understand why Qingzhiyuan wants to open source the Pioneer 2 engine.

But they all expressed support.

Because there is no reason not to support it. The Pioneer Engine has always been Pokeni's greatest technical weapon, and it has developed products such as Harry Potter and Spirited Away, especially Spirited Away, which directly pushed RPG action games to a new height.

Spirited Away's in-game performance is now at the top level in any country.

President Qing's willingness to open source the Trailblazer 2 engine is something that everyone wants.

……

"Has President Qing found his conscience? Do you think you were too cruel to your competitors? Why are you so nice all of a sudden that you're willing to open source Pioneer 2?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I feel that every time President Qing makes concessions, there is a bigger conspiracy behind it."

“Yeah, last time we had free games, it seemed like we could play games without spending any money, but when we did some statistics, we found that the total amount spent by players seemed to be even higher.

Free is not necessarily the cheapest, and you may make a profit.”

"It's more than just a quick buck. Paradox's several online games are making money every day of every month, which is equivalent to releasing a million-level game every month.

If Pokeni is not open source, you will be fighting against others without using the Dandelion game platform."

"But then again, Qing Zhiyuan's concessions this time are really too tempting. I don't know what others think, but our company will definitely use them anyway."

"My boss would love this. He will definitely let us use the Trailblazer 2 engine, which will save a lot of manpower."

……

In short, although people in the industry are cursing Qing Shechang for being crazy, they are also looking forward to Pokeni launching Pioneer 2 as soon as possible.

Countless small teams that want to work in the gaming industry but suffer from high R&D costs are now gearing up to make a move because Pokeni Pioneer 2 is going to be open source.

"To be honest, I've had the idea of ​​making a game for a long time, but I was fooled by people who said the cost of making a game was too high, so I didn't try it. Now Pokeni has given us a big benefit. With Pioneer 2, I feel like we can give it a try."

"Yes, to be honest, I admire President Qing. He is a man of great skill and courage. Others treat the game engine as a treasure, but President Qing is dismissive and just throws this weapon to the poor.

Now the world is going to see the rise of many heroes, and it is not necessarily the era of big companies anymore.”

"Anyway, I have already assembled a team and am just waiting for the open source release of Pioneer 2."

……

From Trailblazer to Trailblazer 2, it is a qualitative leap.

According to Qing Zhiyuan's evaluation of it, in the previous Pathfinder, players played the first generation of Monster Hunter, but now in Pathfinder 2, players can play Assassin's Creed.

In this generation of engines, the number of faces has increased, and the number of triangles is about 1 to 10 times that of the original Trailblazer 20, and the picture is more refined.

The rendering effect is stronger.

The functions are richer and more complete.

It's almost as good as the original Unreal 3.

Again, if it weren't for hardware limitations, Pokeni could now jump to a few versions based on Qingzhiyuan's needs.

However, NVIDIA is also a powerful company. It releases and upgrades graphics cards every year. After the GeForce 4 generation, it will enter a period of leap in image quality.

Nothing is more intuitive than the presentation of the work itself. Once the game "Spirited Away" was released, the whole world knew how powerful Pioneer Engine 2 was.

At the beginning, everyone was envious and very jealous of Pokeni's R&D capabilities.

But I didn’t expect that Paradox would actually open source it!!!

This directly spread a lot of sugar to the whole world, and third-party game manufacturers were all grinning from ear to ear.

After the open source, it is equivalent to you saving a lot of R&D steps, you can directly get other people's research results, and you can also make modifications based on the pioneer engine. There is a saying that goes -

Only by standing on the shoulders of giants can you see farther.

Who knows, maybe some of them can turn their lives around through Trailblazer 2?

……

Before Pokeni, every company was building its own technological barriers in order to make itself competitive enough and maintain its leading position.

That is to say, the person who gets on the car first welds the door shut.

So sometimes it’s not necessarily a lack of design capabilities or a weak art team. It’s possible that the team’s innate accumulation is not as much as others, their technology is not as good as others, and they are blocked, so it’s difficult to produce a strong enough latecomer effect.

What now?
Pokeni is equivalent to distributing a batch of the most advanced weapons to all game developers around the world who want to participate, even individual studios and teams.

The generation gap in everyone's weapons has disappeared, and what remains is to see who can make the better game based on their own abilities.

It is foreseeable that -

Competition will become increasingly fierce in the future, and more and more emerging companies and even small individual studios will emerge.

This has both advantages and disadvantages for those veteran game manufacturers.

The advantage is that they can also use Paradox's most advanced tools, but the disadvantage is that there is not much difference between them and other small manufacturers on the technical level.

Then we can only rely on other things to build new barriers.

For example, around the company's star projects, we can consolidate the territory that has been successfully occupied, or make more efforts in publicity and design.

In general, Pokeni's open source of Pathfinder Engine 2 is beneficial to the development of games around the world, promotes healthy competition, and gives countless game makers more opportunities to prove themselves.

This can be regarded as a great contribution made by Qingzhiyuan to the entire gaming industry.

Although Pokeni is open source, there are certain conditions for open source, which are similar to the conditions for open source of Unreal in the previous life:
When your revenue is less than $500 million, you do not need to pay any fees to Pokeni.

For amounts over $500 million, Pokeni charges a 10 percent royalty.

Moreover, Pokeni makes money through technology. If you want, you can get P's technical services in a paid form while using the Pioneer Engine products for free.

To put it simply, the main body of the game is free, but personalized DLC and various after-sales services require payment.

While benefiting the entire industry, Pokeni has also retained certain backup plans, and the company is constantly iterating internally. Although what is released now is the Trailblazer Engine 2, it is Pokeni's most advanced engine.

But the company has already upgraded to version 2.5.

This is equivalent to Paradox only releasing the engine that had been eliminated internally to the public after it has created a new game engine.

This is also what Qing Zhiyuan asked Akanishi Ken to do, and it is used as a means to maintain the leading advantage.

With Qing Zhiyuan's technology and vision that are 20 years ahead of the times, he is confident enough to stay far ahead in engine design.

……

Soon someone realized that something was wrong.

The first to react was naturally Epic Games, the game company that created the Unreal Engine.

When founder and current president Tim Sweeney saw the relevant news,
His face was ashen.

It felt like a bolt from the blue, with a loud bang, it blasted his entire body into pieces.

Too bad!
Pokeni is so cruel!
Qing Zhiyuan's move was truly vicious!
The intention is to kill everyone.

It can only be said that they were born at the wrong time. EPIC, which was a powerful company in its previous life and should have played the role of the pioneer of the current Pokeni engine, faced a catastrophe not long after its start.

Because once Pokeni's engine is open source, it will cause a dimensionality reduction attack on its own Unreal Engine.

You have already made it free and released the code. Most game manufacturers will definitely give priority to using the Pioneer Engine to develop games.

Unless Epic's Unreal series can surpass the Trailblazers...

But! Is this possible? !

Tim Sweeney held his forehead with his hand and felt like the sky was falling.

He has been to the E3 Electronics Show and felt the power of pokeni technology firsthand.

Once Spirited Away is brought out, no one in the world can beat it.

At the time, Sweeney himself estimated that Unreal Engine was at least 3 to 5 years behind, which was about 1.5 to 2 versions of content.

It's really hard.

The basis for R&D is sufficient funds, and the basis for sufficient funds is that you have enough customers and sales.

Originally, Sweeney planned to continue iterating by making some money from the sales of Unreal Engine.

Now it seems that this route does not exist, and is basically blocked by pokeni.

and so……

"Aaaaah! Fuck pokeni! Fuck Aojigen!!"

Sweeney even wanted to kill Qing Zhiyuan.

……

In fact, Sweeney is not the only one who wants to kill Qing Zhiyuan.

Ren Tiantang and Sony both wished that some accident would happen so that Qing Zhiyuan could be taken away. They wished they could eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Pokeni's move completely hit the pain points of many competitors and deeply poked at their soft spots.

"It's over, it's over."

On the other side of Rentian Paradise, Shigeru Miyamoto felt very disappointed.

Nintendo's software and hardware technology is not as good as Pokeni's, but now it has open-sourced its engine.

So should Ren Tiantang join or not?
If you join, and you use the open source engine to modify it yourself, it doesn't seem to be a big problem, but if the profit exceeds 500 million US dollars, you will have to pay royalties to Pokeni, which is very uncomfortable.

Moreover, Ren Tiantang was the overlord of the past!

Why does it feel the other way around now?!
It's totally embarrassing.

Even if Pokeni's engine is to be used, Shigeru Miyamoto must first convince Chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Although Yamauchi Hiroshi is no longer the president and has handed over the position to Shigeru Miyamoto, it would only take a few minutes for him to take over.

Shigeru Miyamoto is now in a complete dilemma, with fire coming from both sides.

Qing Zhiyuan deserves to die!

What a joke!
……

On the Sony side, Ken Kutaragi has a similar mentality.

Before, everyone was fighting each other and claiming their own territory. But, Pokeni's open source engine directly gave other game manufacturers weapons.

The most important thing is that Sony only needed to deal with Pokeni.

Now it has become a fight against pokeni and the game developers who have been bewitched by pokeni...

It's painful no matter how I think about it.

Qing Zhiyuan, ah Qing Zhiyuan!
Although I knew very early on that this guy was cunning and as sly as a fox, I never expected him to do such a thing!
The key is still an open conspiracy, there is no solution!
……

...(End of chapter)