Reboot 2003

Chapter 241 020: Productivity Tools (Three-in-One)

"Eh? This..."

A-Yue took the composition book that was thrust in front of her, a little confused, and started reading it carefully.

Waterfall development... is a software development model. It can divide a software project into different parts, distribute them to different people according to business directions, and then start their own development without interfering with each other.

The above plan is written very carefully. For example, first of all, we need to make a running demo, and everyone’s tasks according to the corresponding dates. As a producer, Ayue can actually leave the art and UI design work to others. First, she has to write a Requirements documents, and then recruiting people to do these things.

After the demo is completed, the project will be formally established, and then the development cycle will begin. When it is almost done, start setting up the backend and debugging, and then continue with one or two rounds of version iterations. Although time is tight, this is a small game on the Flash platform, and the front end The structure itself is very simple, and it doesn't have to be too stressful. Considering that she still has to go to school, the time can probably be extended... If you plan on it, two or three months is almost enough.

As A Yue looked at this document, the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

"This...when did you write it?"

Chen Qin replied: "I wrote it before. I felt that your planning was almost finished, so I wrote it in advance."

A Yue looked at it for a while and wiped her face again. Chen Qin thought she didn't believe it: "I will continue to tell you how to do it specifically. Of course, I am just giving some suggestions. How to do it specifically is still It depends on yourself..."

"I know you are right." Ah Yue hesitated, "But did you already know how I would change it?"

"How to change what?"

Ah Yue pointed to the paper and asked: "When you wrote the 'numerical planning' above, you said you need to understand the weighting algorithm. What is this?"

Chen Qin explained while working: "Because your electronic cricket fight, the AI ​​moves and so on must have a weight algorithm."

"But how did you know before that I would adopt the automatic combat plan?" A Yue asked him seriously, "You must have guessed how I would change it in the end."

"Uh." Chen Qin just remembered this and could only explain it randomly, "Actually... I just thought of it. After all, servers and other things also need weight."

"You're still talking about it." Ah Yue pouted, "I thought what I was thinking was very powerful."

Chen Qin didn't know how to coax this little niece...if he had known better, he would have put the notebook away first.

To be pragmatic, he did know it for a long time, but his answer was not what he thought of, but what Future Vision knew. When he saw her plan, Chen Qin thought that he should change it like this - look at this set of templates It looks like "Q Pet Battle", and the originator of this type of flash game is called "My Barbarian".

QChong Da Le Dou is essentially an IP product, while "My Barbarian" is a social web game. Compared with games such as "Happy Farm", the social nature is weaker, so it cannot be regarded as a 'standard answer'.

Now let A Yue reinvent the wheel according to the mature methodology in the future. On the one hand, it is to let her get familiar with the work first, and on the other hand, it is also because this game is not very social in the first place.

Although it's still not perfect, the general framework has been finalized.

Just when she was about to think of how to encourage her, Ah Yue didn't seem very depressed. Instead, she sneakily came over and said, "Well, Chen Qin, how about you be the producer."

Then she whispered in Chen Qin's ear: "I have 100 million in my account."

"What?" Chen Qin suddenly turned his head in surprise. Ah Yue was so close that he quickly stepped back and stood up straight, staring at Chen Qin with shining eyes, expecting his answer.

Chen Qin asked her: "Where did it come from?"

"It was those uncles who donated that day." A Yue stretched out her hand to grab his sleeve and whispered, "They donated after the class reunion. Now the account is in my hands. I can pay you wages and wait for the game to be completed. Okay, I'll give you some money..."

Chen Qin asked her: "No, I mean why is it only 100 million?"

A Yue was confused: "Isn't 100 million too much?"

Chen Qin told her: "It's quite a lot, but you vowed before to open a company and hire people, but you only have this little money to buy a server and it's gone!"

Ah Yue seemed not to have thought about this problem. Chen Qin said to her again: "Nowadays, online game servers are very expensive. An ordinary server for you is definitely not enough. And if you hire people, it costs 60 yuan a year for each person. That ten thousand It costs 10,000 per person, and renting a venue costs [-]+, and office equipment costs hundreds of thousands. If your game cannot be developed within a year, it will be all in vain. You are still throwing money at your junior high school classmates every day. Are you afraid that your family has too much money?"

"Eh... okay." A Yue realized the seriousness of the problem, "Actually, I also know that I don't have much money, but I'm not sure. There are so many jobs above..."

She hesitated and said: "I will work hard to learn, but after all, I am only a junior high school student. You said you want to recruit people to do it, but I don't know how to recruit..."

"Isn't it easy to be a boss?" Chen Qin shook his head and crossed his legs. "As long as you pay them, then even if you ask them to do somersaults for you every day, they will do it."

"but……"

"And you have to remember that our purpose is to make games, not for you to put on a suit and go drink with the boss." Chen Qin taught her, "You have to be familiar with various software development tools, such as this."

As he spoke, he opened an office software with a red logo on the interface.

"This is a version management tool. Although it is not the oldest, it is the most popular recently."

A Yue remembered: "You said before that version management is very important..."

"Yes, this tool is very useful. Its specific functions...do you know what its name means?"

Ah Yue came over again and read: "Git?"

Chen Qin nodded: "It's 'rice bucket'. Although the original meaning in English is a bit harsher, it still means almost the same."

Then he explained to her: "The name was given because its creator is Linus, the author of Linux. Linux is the software project with the most participants in the world, but it is an open source project, and the people involved in the development are like a vegetable market. Coming and going, chaos..."

A Yue nodded, and Chen Qin continued: "There are many experts among these people, but there are more idiots, so Linus needs to use the version management tool to know which idiot developed each piece of code..."

A Yue nodded seriously: "I understand, so as long as you pay attention to the game code and report text, you can focus on the project instead of the game functions."

She asked again: "Then how to use this software?"

"Don't worry, I'll teach you this afternoon. In addition, Git is a local software. If this is the only one now, it's actually a bit outdated... In contrast, I actually recommend another tool."

"What is it?"

"Galaxy Software's newly launched Github can almost be regarded as the web version of Git." Chen Qindao said, "In this way, a project can be directly turned into a web page, and participants can modify and improve it through the website as a medium."

As he spoke, Chen Qin opened a webpage through a link. The link was on Waibo.com and was just posted by Chen Aotian. Ayue knew Chen Aotian, but she was not good at using social networks yet and did not realize that the profile picture in the upper right corner was exactly the same as Chen Aotian's.

Click in and see that this Github page is blue and black, and the interface layout is somewhat similar to Weibo. The homepage is some information flows, and there are many recommended open source projects, the most eye-catching of which is Galaxy Software's KaitianOS'——

That's right, Kaitian OS chose to release it specifically today just to wait for Github.

After all, although the source code of open source software is open, it does not mean that it will be completely free to use. In more than ten years, Red Hat will have a strange operation of "charged open source". Their reason is that "the open source rules only require me to Your own customers are open source, so you bind your projects to your own platform. Only your own customers can view it directly. Outsiders need to pay money or see other forwardings.

Although Chen Qin is not so demanding, and Galaxy's Kaitian OS cannot set such a high threshold, since he wants to open up his own Kaitian OS, of course he has to squeeze out the last bit of value from this thing, so he did it himself GitHub is probably not well understood by ordinary people, but it is an important productivity tool for programmers. It is one of the new social platforms in the web2.0 era. It is like pixiv for programmers. It’s like LinkedIn for engineers…

Of course, because online social networking has the two dimensions of commercial value mentioned above, social projects that focus on social networking and light on content generally have more commercial value.

Therefore, the original world-line Facebook and Twitter are certainly more valuable than content communities like Zhihu and Github.

However, the commercial value here is limited to the commercial value in the advertising field. The Zhihu model has not found a reliable way to make profits other than advertising until 2023. But Github is different, or it can be used as a more important Preliminary plan for technical route.

"But aren't these software open source?" A Yue asked, "So our games must also be open source?"

Chen Qin demonstrated to her: "Of course not, we can set up a private project and only give access to those who are involved in the work, so that we can only use it to work without having to pay for it, and we can even have a small network disk for the team. .”

Ah Yue nodded, but then asked: "Does this cost money?"

"Of course." Chen Qin said, "But you don't have to worry about it. I just want to buy one to check it out, so you just have to play your game."

"What's so funny..."

"Why are you asking so many questions? Do you remember what I told you before? You only have 100 million, how about I loan you a favor?"

"All right……"

"Let's eat!" Grandma fried another plate of mapo tofu, filled up the rice, and was ready to start lunch.

Chen Qin patted her on the back, and Ah Yue quickly went out to help carry the bowl.

Chen Qin also wants to eat.

But he finally looked at the GitHub homepage on the interface... It had only been less than 10 minutes since the website was officially opened, and many projects other than Kaitian OS had already appeared, and the stars of Kaitian OS had appeared in just such a short time. It has already exceeded 500... No, why is this rising a bit slowly?

Grandma outside was already calling him, but Chen Qin took the time to open the shrunken star core and first called on everyone to order some for themselves.

However, when I put on my headphones, I heard that the voice channel in the background was a bit messy.

"Google...open source...Qualcomm..."

Hearing some messy messages in the noise, Chen Qin typed and asked: "What's wrong?"

Lu Rong was there to watch the excitement and had nothing to do, so she explained to him: "It's Mr. Chen, so you're here. There was breaking news just now. Google suddenly announced that it had established an 'Open Mobile Alliance' '..."

Zheng Nanling, who was also watching the excitement, said: "Mr. Li has already gone to confirm the situation. Several media outlets have published articles at the same time. It seems that it was premeditated."

Chang You was a little annoyed: "I just said that people like Google are not well-intentioned. They don't announce it sooner or later, and they specifically choose the time to collide with us, right..."

Others all said yes, and they all said that they would die when our patent comes out. The crowd was excited for a while, but also a little worried. After all, the Open Handset Alliance does seem to have something.

However, Chen Qin didn't care after hearing this.

I just want to say that you don’t need to pay too much attention to them. If you have nothing to do, go and give a star to Kaitian OS on the new website...

Then I logged off and went to the living room to eat.

The much-anticipated new project of Galaxy Software just appeared, and it doesn’t seem to make much waves.

In the afternoon of that day, Chen Qin began to teach Ayue how to use several productivity tools, and also taught her how to write requirements documents.

Ayue called the next day and said she wanted to buy a laptop...

After preparing for work in this way, the days became dull. The outside world seemed to be in turmoil, but for both parties involved, it seemed that there was nothing special to care about.

In Longshan, a small Flash game has entered the demo stage - it is actually not as difficult as imagined.

Games are the most complex programs... Although this is the truth, in fact it is not much more difficult to develop than ordinary software. Not only are there a variety of existing codes for reference, but functions that cannot be implemented can also be directly cut off. Lose.

Object-oriented languages ​​have become more mature in recent years, and Flash is indeed a very easy-to-use platform. Chen Qin originally wanted to outsource it, but he did it himself and found it not difficult.Although database programming is not as convenient as it will be in the future, and operating the game also requires a lot of work in the field of network security, but now it is just a demo, and he takes care of all the front-end code himself.

besides……

But we also need to recruit some other people.

At this time, of course, we cannot directly look for help among junior high school students.

Art and sound effects are both very professional types of work. There is no need to worry too much about art. After all, it seems that Ayue herself is enough for the time being. She relies on painting by herself and finding materials on the Internet for secondary processing. At least it is enough for demos. .

Sound effects... also happen to have a professional person.

After confirming with A Yue, one afternoon, a very fashionable 'professional' came to New Era. It is said that this person is a teacher and trainer, but he has been in a band before and has also taught himself digital music. Although I am not considering full-time work for the time being, I am very free during the day as a teacher and trainer, and I am willing to work part-time to help Ayue record some sound effects.

In this way, time flows quietly in this peaceful small town. November passes like this, and winter gradually comes.

"Chen Qin, do you think we should add some personal positioning or something like that?"

"Like what?"

"For example, related to geography, there are some differences according to the player's location..." A Yue said, "For example, players in different places have special signs, or the matching rules are tampered with."

"This is meaningless." Chen Qin said to her while looking at his mobile phone under the table, "For players, what is the difference between beating a Yanjing player and beating a Shencheng player? Besides, these mechanisms are not related to the game content. There’s no interaction.”

"You can think about the solution slowly. I just want to ask if this can be realized." A Yue said, "And at the beginning, you said that my project was not perfect enough. I think this is a solution."

Chen Qin asked back: "The problem I mentioned at the beginning has nothing to do with geography?"

"You said this game is good for everything else. The only problem is that if we want to increase Kuaikan's stock price, we need people outside China to play it." A Yue said, holding her chin with her slender wrist and biting Holding the end of the ballpoint pen, he seemed to be thinking about this issue seriously, "If we include every country and province, foreign players will not feel ignored."

"Localization is a very mysterious thing. For example, if we made 'Ruyi Sword Art', Chinese players would definitely like it very much, and foreigners would definitely not be able to understand it. But if we directly put Mickey Mouse into it, Disney would issue a lawyer's letter. Of course, you don’t have to worry too much about this. Our demo is now ready. If you want to make further modifications, we can wait until the project officially starts..."

While Chen Qin was teaching her, he was also playing with his cell phone.

Lately...it's still business as usual.

After Kaitian OS was open sourced, in addition to friendly merchants, it also attracted the attention of many developers, and even led to a surge in sales of the recently launched Guazi mobile phone.

On the other side, Google has launched the 'Open Handset Alliance', which seems to be more powerful. From Motorola to Motorola, from Intel to eBay, Google waved its banner, and there were a lot of responses. It seemed that it was better than the open mobile phone alliance. TianOS is more promising - think about it, although Google itself has plans to build mobile phones, it has strong technical strength and money after all; the global economy is in recession this year, and all traditional media have a dead look on their faces, but Google Revenue continues to surge. A survey by the Meridian Government in the middle of this year found that Google's advertising revenue increased by 60% during the economic crisis. If you want to choose a free system, Google may be better.

However, Galaxy and Apple have been in a verbal spat recently, claiming that the other party has infringed on their patent rights and clamoring to go to court.

The patent case between large companies stands out for a long time, just because it involves several seemingly important mobile phone patents. Both parties insist on their own opinions, and the public is still not sure which party is talking harshly. At this time, Google took the initiative Participate in it. Although everyone still doesn’t know what Android looks like, the spokesperson of Galaxy seems to have mentioned them in an interview. After all, a good show can’t run away. The media is talking about it. At present, it seems that It is Galaxy Software that has a greater chance of winning.

In comparison, Github is less eye-catching.

After its emergence, it has received a lot of praise in the open source community. It has been quite popular recently. Several classic open source foundations have registered accounts on Github. Although many existing open source projects have not yet moved in directly, But it has also set up a mirror on Github, and its private warehouse service has also attracted a lot of attention.

It’s just that this web 2.0 project that has attracted a lot of attention does not seem to be that powerful in the field of commercial advertising. In addition, San Diego seems to have begun to reduce its holdings of Facebook stocks recently. This seems to be related to the recent new national security law of Meili Jian. and their controversial behavior in financial markets...

Although these stocks have been sold for a lot of money, Facebook's valuation is now as high as more than 130 billion. The stocks in Santiago alone are worth close to more than 30 billion, but Facebook seems to be going public soon, and there is currently no sign of it. As a sign of decline, investors who have withdrawn from other fields are crazy about buying Facebook shares, and they don't have to worry about no one taking over.

Therefore, many people believe that this is a signal for San Diego-based companies to withdraw from the web 2.0 track. Even Github has been looked down upon by the media. Now the media generally believes that it has no prospects and blames the recent stock drop of Kuaiba on it. Previous - The concept of advertising is hot nowadays, but everyone knows that traffic is the foundation of advertising. Microsoft's acquisition of aQuantive seems to have failed. In the web2.0 era, how can you make money without traffic?

Of course, these things have little impact on the small cities in the mainland of China. For the people of China who live in peaceful days, the impact of the recently introduced plastic restriction order is greater...

As an industry insider, A Yue has recently begun to pay attention to these news - of course, she does not fully understand what kind of industry she is in now.

But she has become anxious. Recently, the Flash craze has entered an explosive period.

Probably... The Flash Empire launched Happy Farm, and the concept of stealing food became popular all over the country overnight. Now it is simultaneously launched on Facebook and Waibo.com, and it is very popular. Although it has only been a few days, the two social media are already full of people talking about it. It's discussed.

This is probably a good sign, indicating that this track is probably very promising now, but it is also a warning sign - other people's projects have become popular, and I have to speed up, and the wind is waiting for no one.

Fortunately, the demo of 'Friend Music' has been completed recently, and the project can be officially launched next.For a flash game, the program is probably not the most important issue. The most important issue now is how to enrich the social gameplay.A Yue has been thinking about how to make the game all day long, and she seems to be quite serious. In addition to writing code, Chen Qin will also teach her some other things.

After reading the news, Chen Qin put away her phone and was about to talk to Ayue about the area recognition. At this moment, the phone in her bag also buzzed.

A Yue took out her cell phone and wanted to hang up directly, but when she saw the phone number, she suddenly raised her head and glanced at Chen Qin.

"what happened?"

"The call came that week."

"Which week?"

"...Look at the current general manager, the same one we met last time."

"Then you pick it up!"

Chen Qin reminded her, but Ah Yue hesitated for a few seconds, but finally took her cell phone and went outside the classroom to answer the call.

(End of this chapter)