Reboot 2003

Chapter 240 019: Electronic cricket fight (four-in-one)

"You say it's scary or not, but Lao Gu suddenly logged into his account."

"what?"

"Actually, it's his daughter who suddenly came to see Lao Li recently, I mean Li Yunlan from Moyouzhu City, and asked him about game development."

"Oh...what did you ask?"

"Tell me if you can teach her game development..."

"This... how old is she this year?"

"She's in the second or first year of junior high school. She's younger than Lao Li's daughter."

"That's... okay, but it's good to have some hobbies at a young age."

"So what happened next? Did Lao Li teach her?"

"Taught her, but how do you say this? She probably wasn't even born when Lao Li was playing the game. He told her some stories and then she left..."

"what story?"

"It's the story of early online games, how people developed games at that time, what the games were like at that time, and what the earliest online games were like..."

“So what were the earliest online games like?”

"It's that kind of text MUD. It's called Ten Thousand Kings or something like that. It was first made by Baodao people who learned from Meili Jian, and then it came out here too. By the way, the author is quite famous now."

"Who?"

"It's just Fang Zhouzi."

"The one who recently engaged in the counterfeiting case of Shen Da?"

"Okay, okay, stop talking. Mr. Li finally came here today. Please hurry up and tell Mr. Li about the situation of our Guazi mobile phone! Don't chat like usual."

In a small channel of Xinghe, a group of big bosses from all over the world are discussing trivial matters on the Internet. Considering their personal worth, it seems a bit inappropriate to discuss these trivial matters. In fact, these new Although Jin Fuhao has made more money than most social celebrities, they are now a bit inconsistent with the upper class circles of traditional rich people...

It’s just that for themselves, due to a series of internal or external reasons, such as the company’s corruption scandal last year, the shooting case this year, and the recent fierce external competition the company is facing, they often don’t like to I describe myself as a rich man but a successful engineer or product manager, so there is generally nothing unnatural when discussing this kind of issue.

Of course, today is indeed different. After all, Li Nanguang is here - aside from his status as an academician of the Science Bureau, he is also an old-timer in China's IT industry. He created China's earliest Chinese system.

Now I don’t know why, but I have become the person in charge of the mobile phone system within the group. Recently, the company’s Guazi mobile phone has finally been completed. The person in charge is Zhao Shiqiang. He is the original person in charge of the company’s ‘Galaxy Free Input Method’. I met Mr. Li It's almost the same as meeting the ancestor.

"Mr. Li, the main problem with our Guazi mobile phones recently is quality control. Our upstream and downstream suppliers are basically connected. The capacitive screen is customized by Chenhuan from Baodao, the chips are supplied by Qualcomm, and the batteries are supplied by BYD. The OEMs are ZTE and TCL. In fact, other problems are not a problem. But now when it comes to high-end products, the main problem is that the quality control is not good enough. No matter how hard we try, we are still not as good as those mature foreign manufacturers. Even if we find foreign manufacturers to OEM, They are not familiar with our software environment, and they still feel uncomfortable..."

Zhao Shiqiang carefully explained his problem. After hearing this, Li Nanguang said helplessly: "Our 'Kaitian' system is still not perfect enough. It will probably take some time before we can challenge the high-end positioning."

After hearing this, Lu Rong asked doubtfully: "What is the price of our Guazi mobile phone?"

"$399." Zhao Shiqiang said.

"This is more expensive than Apple's iPhone." Lu Rong worried, "Although we launched the conference earlier, Apple's mobile phone was launched faster, and they said they were developing it the year before last, but their mobile phone was being developed the year before that. , actually much earlier than us."

"There's no need to be afraid," Zhao Shiqiang said. "They'll be arrogant for a while now. We'll see how tough they are next year."

Lu Rong sighed: "I hope our sales can be better than theirs."

"It's not that we can sell better than them." Zhao Shiqiang said with a smile, "We have a patent."

"Has the certificate come out?" someone asked curiously, "So are we planning to sue Apple?"

"Yes, it just came out two days ago. Although other processes have not been completed, two books have been released, and they can be used to deal with Apple..."

"Is it the pinch to zoom? We spent a lot of effort on this thing last year."

"It's not pinch to zoom, it's the most basic, rounded casing and sliding screen to unlock." Zhao Shiqiang said, "Especially for sliding screen to unlock, we have already built patent barriers..."

Lu Rong was curious: "By the way, how do you unlock Apple?"

"It is the simplest sliding unlock." Zhao Shiqiang said, "What we are applying for is a solution that can be unlocked by sliding your finger in one direction. As long as they use this method, whether it is a direct horizontal slide, a vertical slide, or a continuous Whether you draw a straight line on the nine-square grid or enter a row of numbers on the nine-square grid password lock, it all slides to unlock."

After speaking, he added: "By the way, we have also registered the patents for connecting the nine-square grid, sliding up and preventing accidental touches. There are also some solutions that cannot be mentioned yet. They are also being developed. Although they may not all be useful, they are As long as this barrier can be built up, as long as they make mobile phones in the future, they will not be able to bypass our patent barriers as long as they make large-screen phones."

"Tsk," Chang You laughed, "Why do I think it's a bit unethical for us to do this..."

"Hey, let's kill Apple first. Just like us, they have no patents in this area. In the past, when we used this to talk about patents with manufacturers who didn't make touch screens, it was like a scholar meeting a soldier. Now Apple If they come to seize our market, then we have to educate them on how to behave..."

When Apple was mentioned, the bosses became excited, like boys discussing how to bully girls. Even Lu Rong was excitedly discussing what to do after the 'Pinch to Zoom' and 'Round Home Button' came out. After tossing the other party, the topic circled around and talked about the advantages and disadvantages of Kaitian OS and Xos. The bosses began to criticize Apple's software strategy again, saying that the performance of the current iPhone is not as good as Kaitian OS...

At this time, Mr. Li said: "To be honest, there is still some gap between our R&D capabilities and those of foreign companies. We just got better design solutions and started earlier. Now they...I mean Apple and Google, they Following our design plan to catch up, although there are flaws in the patent, the overall development speed is very fast."

The bosses heard the name of Google: "By the way, Mr. Li, what on earth are those people at Google doing? Their Linux system, called Android, seems to be very popular recently..."

"Yes, they are doing it too." Mr. Li said, "The progress is not as good as ours, but actually their progress is worse than ours...how should I put it?"

"I used it when I went to negotiate." Chang You, who had been in charge of the mobile phone project, suddenly said, "Their use of Android is very poor, and the design is full of traces of imitating ours. Even if they make something in the future, I think it will be... It’s not as good as our Kaitian.”

Mr. Li shook his head: "That's not the problem. Although... although we all know that the galaxy is very good, and I was talking about 'technology, industry and trade' back then, if no one uses our technology, it will be in vain."

Others were curious: "By the way, aren't we promoting Kaitian recently? I remember that many companies have accepted our system."

Mr. Li said: "At the beginning, our boss Chen asked us to find ten big customers. In fact, we have almost reached it now..."

Lu Rong asked: "Isn't this good?"

Mr. Li said helplessly: "The main reason is that Mr. Chen has changed the standard. At first, it said ten foreign customers, but now it can be changed to domestic customers..."

"Which ones are they?"

"There are many domestic ones, such as Meizu and TCL from Guangdong Province, BBK from Southwest, Gree from Zhushi, Dopod from Baodao..."

"There are actually some overseas companies. TCL has attracted Alstom and Lucent, but Alstom is no longer good at making mobile phones."

“Sanyo pulls in the neon Yamaha.”

"By the way, Disney, a beautiful company, also said it is willing to cooperate with us."

Others were curious: "Disney, is it the Disney we know? And Yamaha..."

Li Laodao: "That's right, these two companies have strong financial resources, but they actually don't have any technical accumulation... After pulling back and forth, the one that seems to be the most reliable among these companies is actually our Lenovo."

"Lenovo?"

The people on Channel [-] were speechless. They all knew about Mr. Li’s grievances with Liu Chengzhi, but in order to promote the domestic system, Mr. Li lobbied everywhere. Lenovo seemed to have ‘reluctantly’ accepted this condition. Now that I think about it, everyone is a little uncomfortable. Unfortunately, bullying Apple and Google isn't that interesting anymore.

So everyone started complaining:

"Those people outside are ignorant. They don't use our products, so what do they want to use?"

"I heard it was Google who caused the trouble..."

"Those guys from Google, wait until their system comes online and see if we can sue them to death..."

"In the final analysis, our project is still not online. When it is officially made public, everyone will know that we are better than Google..."

"By the way, will the project start tomorrow? I will have to register an account then..."

"Why are you sleeping? You have to go to bed at noon today, otherwise what do you think we are waiting for..."

On the Rich Channel on the day off, Chen Qin was listening to a group of young people talking about messy industry news in the background. He was writing something in a composition book on the table while wearing headphones, when suddenly someone knocked on the door.

He put down his headphones, and Wang Yinglan, who was busy cooking in the kitchen, went to open the door. When Chen Qin left the bedroom, he saw the girl standing outside the door bowing politely, and felt a vague sense of déjà vu.

But A Yue came to Chen Qin's house for the first time today.

"Hello grandma!"

"Yo, you're the one..."

"I'm the Ayue who called just now. Grandma, this is a gift!"

"Hey, come in quickly, you little girl, aren't you classmate Chen Qin? Why do you bring so many things..."

"It's okay, grandma, I have been taken care of by Chen Qin. I came to disturb him today and ask him some knowledge about game development!"

The polite girl entered the door and smiled at Wang Yinglan attentively. Based on past experience, she was probably a little nervous.

Wang Yinglan welcomed her in. When she saw Chen Qin, the girl laughed heartily and made faces at Chen Qin behind Wang Yinglan's back.

Wang Yinglan invited her to the living room.

"I remember that Xiaoqin brought pig's trotters to a classmate in the class..."

"It's me, grandma. My family is from Lin'an. I am now a dormitory student. I can only eat food from the cafeteria recently. If it weren't for Chen Qin, I would have starved to death."

"This is what Xiao Qin said. He said that one of his tablemates was anxious because he couldn't eat any meat. I also said that I would make one for you in two days..."

"Hey, thank you grandma!"

"So what do you want to eat for lunch today?"

"no need……"

"Hey, why are you so polite? Xiaoqin's parents are busy with business. He and I are the only two people at home all year round. No one comes when we cook delicious food!"

"That's disturbing grandma!"

"Don't bother, don't bother..."

Ah Yue politely replied to her grandmother, and she went to the kitchen with a smile.

Chen Qin stood nearby and watched her calling her grandma affectionately. He felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be no more accurate title.

He could only look at A Yue, who was sitting unceremoniously on his sofa, and raised a problem with his hands behind his back: "It's already November, and this is all you wear?"

Today she is wearing a black sweatshirt, a knee-length skirt, a baseball cap, and shiny earrings dangling on both sides of her white face. She looks quite fashionable, and she does look like a girl from a big city, but it is a bit inappropriate. season.

Ah Yue ignored Chen Qin's mutterings and explained to him while holding on to her thick stockings: "Oh, there are socks!"

On the other hand, he had already taken out a notebook from his schoolbag: "By the way, Chen Qin, it's done!" "What's done?"

"It's the planning book! Come and take a look." She patted the sofa and opened the notebook. "By the way, I also drew a panda. I'm learning to design monsters recently. This can also be used in our games. , In addition, I also thought of some new names for our game..."

It has been several days since the day when Ah Yue was asked to figure out the game design by herself. Ah Yue has been thinking of ways, and it seems that the progress is pretty good - although not all the problems in game design have been solved, and the production team now only has one and a half people. , Ah Yue herself is one, Chen Qin said he would help, but his help was still focused on suggestions.

But even so, the game development does seem to be making some progress——

The first thing is that after determining the general gameplay of the game, Ayue began to prepare to design the UI and some art materials that she could handle by herself.

The second is the specific gameplay - although it has not been determined exactly how to do it, as the research deepens, the outline of this game has gradually become clear...

Although some inspirations and ideas may have appeared one after another before today, they are not yet perfect.

But it was almost done today... Chen Qin gave her a bunch of suggestions. The truth seemed to be there, but it was a bit restrictive, and it was a bit unreasonable to apply it to her elementary school planning project. Fortunately, she Finally figured it out...

"Let's give it a try. I don't know how to describe it specifically, but I think if I change it like this, it should be able to meet the conditions you mentioned!" A Yue opened the notebook, and the entry interface on the first page was still open. The entry has been changed to 'Character Information', and other menus such as 'Enter Game' and 'Settings' are all normal.

Chen Qin asked: "By the way, what is the version number?"

"0.11." A Yue said, "On average, there are two versions a day. Isn't it a bit fast? When I developed it myself, I basically didn't care about it."

"Version iteration is also very important." Chen Qin said, "Then let's click Start Game."

Ah Yue followed the bookmark and flipped through a page after many pages: "Skip the step of setting up the character?"

Then I entered the game interface at the beginning. It looked different from the 'Friends Fun' where I sent flowers to each other at the beginning. Although there were still two virtual characters, the interface layout changed a bit and the characters became smaller. The two characters Standing on both sides of the screen, there are two pairs of health bars above your head.

A Yue continued to explain: "Since we are going to fight, I refer to the page layout of fighting games, so that players can know that a fight will happen next as soon as they come in. This is what you said two days ago, the player's 'inertial psychological effect' …”

Chen Qin nodded, but he saw that the flowers-sending buttons on the screen were gone: "Then what's next? How to operate?"

"I don't know how to operate anymore." Ah Yue said to him as if she was very happy, "I'll tell you what will happen next."

She pointed her pen at her villain: "This is my character. She used the skill 'Punch You' on her opponent, knocking out 10 points of blood from her opponent."

Chen Qin nodded: "What about me? What can I do?"

Ah Yue said: "You used a 'Turtle Style Qigong', but I dodged it!"

"Why should I use Turtle Style Qigong?" Chen Qin questioned, "I should have punched you."

"That's because it's random!"

A Yue suddenly became proud.

"After entering the game, all the players we can encounter are actually AI." She introduced, "At that time, all moves and character actions will be random."

Chen Qin nodded: "So you are also an AI yourself?"

"That's right!" A Yue said, "After entering the game, my character and your character will start fighting automatically, so neither of us needs to operate. It is what you said 'providing feedback for every operation'!"

Chen Qin smiled: "Then you are really a little genius. If you don't need to operate, there will be no unnecessary operations. It is indeed a method."

A Yue added: "In addition, you said that 'both parties are not required to be online at the same time.' If there is an automatic battle, this will not be a problem. As long as one of the objects of the battle agrees, the data will be read directly from the server when a battle occurs, so that there is no need for both parties to be online at the same time." It’s online.”

Chen Qin continued to nod: "Well, that's a way. So what's the player's game goal?"

"Of course it means becoming stronger and then winning. For example, you can upgrade and so on, but you won't become particularly strong. Not only will your turtle style Qigong be missed just now, but I also plan to add pets to the game to make the game more powerful. The uncertainty is higher, so that no matter how strong a player is, he may be defeated by others with good luck, and it will also prevent players from losing interest in the battle process due to the disparity in combat power."

Chen Qin finally asked: "Then how do you become stronger?"

"We can set a certain number of challenges that a player can take every day, and then level up through battles," A Yue said. "This is what you said, 'try to let the player decide how to allocate his game time.'"

Chen Qin nodded.

A Yue added: "But in this case, players who lose will definitely be disappointed, so if the challenge fails, we can allow players to ask for help from others to recover the number of missed challenges. This is also what you said, 'asking for help is to activate social interaction important medium'."

After saying that, lunch was ready, Wang Yinglan came up with a plate of braised pig trotters, and A Yue quickly got up to help carry the plate.

Wang Yinglan smiled and said no, but asked: "Ah Yue, what are you discussing with Xiao Qin? School questions?"

Ah Yue was in high spirits and talked non-stop to Wang Yinglan: "Grandma, Chen Qin and I are preparing to play a game!"

After speaking, she picked up the notebook and demonstrated it to her grandma. First, the homepage, and then the player selection. Wang Yinglan clicked twice casually. Before she could figure out what was going on, Ayue began to describe to her grandma what the game would be like in the future. , saying that this person hit, that person also hit, a pet came out here, a big move came out there...

Wang Yinglan asked: "I don't know much about computer games. I have only seen Xiao Qin playing on his computer. So what should I do now?"

"Grandma, you don't have to do anything, just watch your little man fight with the opponent!" A Yue explained to her, "It's very simple to operate, we just need to watch the fun!"

"Isn't this just like fighting crickets?" Wang Yinglan smiled, "When we were young, we didn't have so many things to play with, so we just fought with crickets! You catch one, I catch another, and then put them in a clay pot for them to fight..."

"Yes, yes!" A Yue said excitedly, "Actually, I didn't expect so much, but this kind of gameplay is actually played by people your age, but they are foreigners. They were not as good as they are now. The machines were just fighting crickets on the computer. Later, the technology improved and they got tired of playing, so they started to play new things. But what we are doing now are games on new platforms, and the players are children about the same age as us. So they will definitely like our game!"

Grandma also nodded: "We have to go to the grass beach to catch crickets all day long. Xiaoqin also caught them with other children when he was a child. It was fun but still too dirty. Fighting crickets on the computer is also fun, but it is not good for the eyes!" "

After getting her grandma's approval, A'yue became very happy. Before the rice was ready, she gnawed on a big pig's trotter, and her little mouth was so oily. When her grandma went to the kitchen, she happily asked Chen Qin: : "Chen Qin, what do you think? Is it perfect? ​​I feel like I can already do game planning!"

She was probably really happy, but Chen Qin looked at her, as if he was deep in thought. Ah Yue was waiting for her to praise her, but Chen Qin then commented: "Although it can't be said to be perfect, it's really good..."

Ah Yue suddenly pouted her lips, but still asked seriously: "I think it's very good, what's not enough?"

"Probably……"

At the critical moment, Chen Qin got stuck.

There is indeed something missing, but where did you just think of it?

Electronic cricket fight?Text mud?

"By the way, something happened..."

Chen Qin remembered something. He hadn't eaten yet, but in the middle of talking, he went back to his room.

The computer is still on, and Star Core has retreated to the background.

Chen Qin opened the browser. He had been looking at it for so long, and he was actually a little absent-minded.

Today at noon, Galaxy Software has something big going on.

Specifically...it's actually two big things. After all, just today, two important projects are going to be made public.

One that is actually no longer news is Kaitian OS, which is the Linux system for Galaxy Network mobile phones.

Galaxy Network phones have almost been sold out recently, and the 'Guazi Phone' is about to be launched. The two phones have different positioning - Galaxy Network phones focus on network experience, and because they only plan to release one version, they will not release it after one version is released. At the beginning, the main purpose was to occupy the market, so they were basically affordable machines. After deducting various expenses such as OEM and patents, I actually didn't make much money.

The recent "Guazi mobile phone" focuses on high-end, and it is a genuine brand. After all, high-end phones are indeed very fragrant - although Apple will only occupy about 20% of the market share in the future, it will make close to 80% of the profits. What about Xiaomi? Huawei's blue and green factories are all overcrowded and want to be high-end. As a pioneering brand, Guazi mobile phones must be priced high. Details can be worked out slowly, and quality control can also be done slowly. Now let's collect the money. stand up.

Of course, this comes at a price, and the price is Kaitian OS.

Although it is a free system, major manufacturers are not particularly interested in it at present. Although there is an example of Sanyo making money after cooperation, major manufacturers are shunned by it because of Guazi mobile phones - no one wants their own Upstream suppliers are its own competitors. The reason why Google was able to serve as the 'martial arts leader' back then was that its poor mobile phone production was an important advantage. Now Mr. Li is promoting products everywhere, but he only attracts a bunch of crooked melons and cracked jujubes. companies got involved, and among the dozen or so companies, only his old enemy Lenovo looked like a normal mobile phone manufacturer. This is probably the reason.

But that's okay.

Kaitian OS is now free, but it is not open source. In fact, there are many complaints about this in the Linux community. Galaxy Network mobile phones use Linux, but do not comply with the open source agreement. There are already lawyers from Meili Jian Preparing for prosecution.

At the beginning, Mr. Li meant to be more flexible. After all, those open source rules have few successful prosecution cases. The worst thing is to make an expired version and put it up. If the lawyer comes, he will slowly argue, and Galaxy is a Chinese company after all. Beautiful Jian's laws may not be able to control it. The relationship between China and the United States is very good now, and no official will use this chicken feather as an arrow...

If you don’t want to open source, there are always more solutions than problems.

But now it is still necessary to open source - in order to allow peers to use Kaitian OS with confidence, it is certainly not worthwhile to give up Guazi mobile phones. This is a waste of time.

Abandoning standards will make other systems bigger, so it is still necessary to open source Kaitian OS. Not only must it be open source, but it must also use looser open source rules - the open source agreement of Linux is GPL, which means that projects using Linux must also use it. Open source, this kind of rule is called "open source pollution" by opponents of open source. It is a very unfavorable rule for commercial projects. After all, no company would like to be forced to disclose the source code of something that makes money.

Fortunately, the open source rules used by Linux are the relatively sloppy GPLv2 rather than the more complete GPLv3.

So Galaxy engineers designed a plan to isolate the core of Kaitian OS through some complex isolation rules. The surface layer is not open source, and the core is called "Sky Core". It sounds like I don't know who started it. , of course this is not important.

The important thing is that the GPLv2 rules are limited to the bottom layer of the kernel, and the upper layer of the kernel adopts Apache rules. This is an open source rule that is not contagious. In other words, if your commercial partners use the Tianhe system, you don’t have to open source it yourself...

Recently, these isolation projects have been successfully completed, and today is the day when 'Tianhe' is officially released.Many friends are paying attention to its progress, but the mobile phone system is not strictly customer-oriented yet, so this does not matter much to ordinary users, and there is no need to pick a special day for release.

In contrast, it seems to be another project that is more eye-catching.

Now that web2.0 is in full swing, Galaxy Software seems to be planning to launch a new web2.0 project, which seems very eye-catching.

After all, today's Galaxy software is like no other, and it seems to be quite good at social networking. Many people seem to be waiting for news with the mentality of 'witnessing history'...

"Chen Qin, grandma wants you to eat!"

A Yue came in with a bowl. Chen Qin was actually a little absent-minded today. A Yue had already said that she wanted to come, but because of this incident, although Chen Qin was listening to what she said just now, he was thinking about his own affairs. Let’s wait until school starts on Monday for my niece’s game.

"Go ahead and eat your pig's trotters." Chen Qin sent her away, "Whatever you eat will make up for it. You will be busy in the next two days..."

"I've finished everything." When it came to this, Ah Yue was a little unconvinced. "What do you think I should do next? Now that the planning project is finished, you still say that I didn't do it perfectly..."

Ah Yue said, but she wasn't actually angry, but she had finally finished writing such a good plan. When she was sleeping, she thought about how the game was going to be good. Chen Qin also said that what she wrote was not perfect, and she was a little unconvinced. After entering the door, I looked at the boy's room curiously - the whole room was clean and tidy, with no extra decoration. There were fitness equipment in the corner and a mess of electronic equipment on the table.

Among the pile of things, she saw a composition book placed in front of Chen Qin.

Seeing this, A Yue asked in surprise: "Hey, Chen Qin..."

"what happened?"

"You can actually do your homework!"

She was about to go out, but A Yue saw something on Chen Qin's table and started to stir up trouble.

"Why can't I do my homework?"

Chen Qin was typing and talking to her, and Ah Yue came over and looked at Chen Qin's desk: "You still said that you are a big bully, asking Guo Yang to do your homework for you every day..."

As I said this, I saw the content of the composition book on the table which was a bit strange.

It's like a table. The row labels are dates, and the column labels are work arrangements, sound effects, art, code and testing.

Why does it look wrong?
"This is the waterfall flow, which is the next work plan. Although agile development is completely different from waterfall development, you are a novice, so you can write down the process waterfall in small stages." It was originally written to her, and Chen Qintou also He handed the notebook to her without turning, "If you want to know what to do next, just read this by yourself."

(End of this chapter)