Reboot 2003

Chapter 280 059: Engine (two-in-one)

A Chinese foreigner came to Longshan City.

The purpose is to investigate the Red Water Fund, and the method is to use known black materials to coerce Principal Lu, who accidentally entered the Red Water Fund last year, to help him collect intelligence.

But secretly, I was looking for information about local elementary schools.

Chen Qin was not calm anymore, what is this, what is this, where does such a free and easy person come from...

But forget it, the identity information is already known anyway.

Did you come to Longshan to seek death? I will go to the darknet and hire someone to kill you when I get home today. Damn it.

Chen Qin, who is in the first grade of middle school, thought like this and secretly made up his mind.

Speaking of which, does this service exist on the dark web?
In short, send a message to the brothers first, keep an eye on him first, and then slowly deal with him after school.

With this in mind, Chen Qin started tinkering with his cell phone again.

But at this moment, the morning self-study started. The teacher asked the students to take out yesterday's composition. Boss Chen, who was just thinking about murder and silence, rummaged through his school bag for a long time and couldn't find the homework book.

A Yue asked kindly: "You didn't write it, did you?"

"I wrote it. I finished it yesterday afternoon. I forgot where I wrote it..."

"It's obviously copied from Guo Yang..."

A Yue watched him looking for something and saw him take out a pamphlet from his schoolbag. The pamphlet was thrown next to it. It was originally a notebook used to discuss the design plan for the ruins battle a few days ago.

Ah Yue picked it up and looked at it. The previous content was basically what they discussed and wrote down a few days ago.

But on the new page, there was a dense mass of newly written words. A Yue took a closer look and saw that it was the plan he had just written last night.

"You're pretty quick. You just talked about it yesterday and started writing it in the evening."

Chen Qin didn't want to hide it from her: "Yes, although it sounds simple, it is still quite troublesome to write it by yourself. How about you see if there is anything that needs to be changed."

A Yue held her chin, but she didn't look very positive.

Chen Qin shrugged secretly, thinking that if she didn't want to do it, she couldn't force it, as long as she was willing to cooperate with the marketing.

However, the brothers set off to keep a lookout. Although Ah Yue looked less interested, she took Chen Qin's plan and actually made two suggestions.

Of course, the quality is indeed not very good. She used to make social games, and the methodology in her hand was mainly focused on the social field. Her understanding of mobile games, which do not emphasize player interaction, is indeed very ordinary. I wrote two rough sentences, and it seems Neither is very necessary.

So Chen Qin didn't continue the discussion with her, and today's day continued as usual...

Next, in addition to attending classes as usual, Chen Qin continued to think about the design of Auto Chess - compared to before, he either had to guide A Yue or describe the game to the small team in the Flash Empire, this time no one was holding him back. , and more resources can be mobilized.

But because the game is relatively advanced, he has to constantly make compromises based on the actual development environment and personnel resources, and also take into account the various existing designs of this 'IP work'.

In addition, the team is also newly recruited... Of course, after what he said last night, the management is already helping him recruit the team. For the sake of training and inspection, Chen Qin originally said that he would find some people whose level is not easy to determine. Technical talent, he can help test the quality by the way.

In Internet companies, a new project team is an opportunity for promotion and salary increase. In short, early this morning, the basic team of the project has been hastily determined after a round of voluntary registration. Chen Qin opened the project team's public email and sent some I sent the specific technical requirements. I originally wanted to test the skills of these people, but when the email came back, I found that several people were from the previous department when I was working on streaming media services.

Their level is of course a bit biased in the gaming field, but in short it should be above the level.

However, during the specific discussion, many differences arose.

Although the specific gameplay has not been involved, the discussion has just begun on some implementation plans in the field of graphics and algorithms, and differences have begun to appear, because these people are not engaged in mobile platform development at all and do not understand many features of the mobile platform. He was too familiar, and some of the suggestions he gave were mentally retarded. They simply didn’t look like mistakes that veterans in the industry would make.

This kind of thing is quite normal when you think about it. After all, when the mobile Internet first emerged, those old programmers were struggling like this. When they enter the industry in the future, many talents transferred from the PC side will still be able to do it. Because of various problems, even if the same language is used, the front-end is not adapted to the environment.

However, when he thought about it, he suddenly thought of last night's myth again. Shouldn't he play a game now?

The answer does not require much thought. Making a game to ignite the ecosystem is of course a way. It may be a bit problematic for ordinary companies. The main problem is that popular games are not that easy to make, but it is a shortcut for rebirthers. Even if there is no If you can achieve a phenomenal level, you will win if you can become popular.

However, although gaming is a type of content production, it is also a very complex technology.

Chinese people generally don’t think highly of this thing for a series of reasons, but the most cutting-edge computer graphics technology applications in the world today are basically the first to take place in the game industry. Limited resources must be used to realize a product that will mature in the future, large and small. Problems are inevitable.

So here comes the problem... To make a good game, in addition to creativity, there are also engineering problems.Naturally, it is not a problem for his large company. Let alone making a game on the Java platform, even designing a game console system specifically for the game is not impossible as long as he is willing to invest.

But if it were an ordinary person...

Chen Qin suddenly thought of a good idea. Of course, he usually had a lot of creative ideas, but he had to consider costs and user needs in everything. In short, he couldn't just slap his head and issue random orders. He had to talk to someone in the industry first.

Finally I looked up and saw that it was already time for extracurricular activities. The industry insider at the same table was not in the classroom, probably going to the student union.

Chen Qin was very anxious and wanted to go to the student union to arrest someone on the spot. When he got to the classroom door, he remembered the phone call and quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed Ayue again.

A Yue probably didn't bring her cell phone with her, and no one answered the call, but Chen Qin was at the door of the classroom, and in the corridor around the corner from the door, he happened to hear someone mention his name.

"It feels like you two have become a little bit normal these past two days. You were so nagging before that you were thinking about playing games with Chen Qin and Song Ziyun all day long..."

"We were playing a game, not just playing, although we actually played a lot..."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about what's going on with you these days?"

"What's the matter?"

"Why haven't you played the game that you were playing with all day long? Is it because Chen Qin and A Yue are having a conflict? By the way, what's going on with Chen Qin and A Yue?"

Chen Qin heard that three people were chatting outside - when he went out to see Li Sitong leaning on the corridor, Min Xiaoya and Guo Yang were lying on the window sill next to them, and the three of them were chatting happily.

Li Sitong started gossiping as he spoke. After talking, he suddenly found Chen Qin walking over and leaning on the opposite side of the corridor, with a curious and gossipy expression on his face.

But the other two people haven't noticed yet, and Min Xiaoya is confused: "Chen Qin and A Yue?"

Guo Yang also said: "You think so too, I also think they both..."

Min Xiaoya was curious: "What do you think? Do you think they are getting better? This is impossible..."

Guo Yang said depressedly: "I don't want this either. After all, they are both very powerful. Song Ziyun and I just follow them to make soy sauce. If they have a conflict and can't go on, then we can only be honest. Not anymore.”

Min Xiaoya felt a little incomprehensible: "No, I just agreed to do this. Didn't Song Ziyun tell you about it? Chen Qin..."

Halfway through, he felt Li Sitong secretly calling him from the side. Min Xiaoya turned around and saw Chen Qin leaning against the wall next to him with his pockets inserted, looking at them helplessly.

However, Guo Yang didn't notice, and thought that Min Xiaoya had finished speaking, so he said: "That's what I meant, but when it comes to making games, the more I do, the more I feel that my abilities are limited. We can only do it if we have a little talent in our own team." If they break up due to personal reasons, Song Ziyun and I will have to do our own work, and we don’t know where to start..."

As he said this, Guo Yang seemed to be really worried. After he finished speaking, he felt that Min Xiaoya had been kicking his instep. When he looked back, he met Chen Qin's eyes.

Chen Qin asked helplessly: "Are you done?" Min Xiaoya said awkwardly: "I'm sorry Chen Qin, we didn't mean to say this..."

"I know." Chen Qin said to Guo Yang, "Guo Yang, you think too much. The game industry is still a rising industry, and you are also the team members who have contributed to successful works. If you want to create, you will definitely not fail. There’s a way to go.”

Guo Yang was not embarrassed at all, and explained: "I know, I read that Flash tutorial myself, but it's just too difficult. I felt it was too difficult. If I want to write a game by myself, I don't even know where to start. And it is said that this is the simplest language. C++ and Java mentioned on the Internet are more complicated than this. I thought about it. If Song Ziyun and I want to continue making games, we can only continue to follow you two. You two have to continue. If you do it, we can still do it. If you two don’t do it, then we will definitely lose our jobs immediately..."

"You don't have to worry about this. In short, there will definitely be a lot of work for you. But then again, why do you think no one wants you except us? After all, you two have participated in two popular If you go to a game company for an interview, this resume will be more useful than a fresh graduate from Tsinghua University."

Guo Yang was a little unsure: "Because the seniors in the company and the cases introduced in the book seem to be completely different from our game making process. I can't understand how their database is written..."

Then he said depressedly: "Besides, I think we are playing games, and I think I am still different from you."

"You seem to be able to understand everything, and you can allocate the work to others in an orderly manner, but Song Ziyun and I are still half-hearted. If we are asked to write something interesting immediately, we can probably finish it. In fact, even if we don't have any money, we can't do it. Okay, but for us to learn so many things in order to develop games, I feel... it’s just difficult.”

The two girls next to him didn't actually understand. They just felt that Guo Yang was a little frustrated. Li Sitong comforted him and said, "I think it's very good. I also played the Friends Brawl. I think you guys are really good."

Guo Yang scratched his head with some self-deprecation: "I feel that our level is still low anyway, and that's all we can do now. Of course we can continue to do this. I can also learn a little bit about what is relevant now, but I I feel that I really can’t adapt to the need to thoroughly understand those codes and functions, so I really hope that you and A-Yue can get along well, and then you can just take Song Ziyun and me to see the world when you have time..."

He seemed to have a nervous breakdown due to ActionScript. Chen Qin smiled: "That's okay, but you don't have to worry too much about what you said. As for games, of course, everyone has to perform their own duties to make good things. , no one requires a gameplay designer to know how to write code. If you feel that there is no room for you to develop elsewhere, this is actually because the industry is not standardized enough. Many companies use one standard per project, so in order to facilitate job-hopping in the future, it is indeed You should learn something at any time, but in this case, the main thing is to pay attention to some skills..."

Guo Yang nodded. It wasn't that he really didn't want to learn. It was just that he was still young and didn't know whether his efforts were in the right direction before. However, he just had an opportunity today and Chen Qin taught him some experience -

"Do you still remember what I said that day about how to communicate with programmers? If you have to be engaged in the game industry for a long time, whether it is planning or copywriting, it is better to master some skills, but it may be a bit troublesome to learn the language from scratch, that P The language of surnames is not perfect yet..." Chen Qin said, "So you can consider a game engine. Do you know what a game engine is?"

Guo Yang heard: "Unreal 3? I heard that the graphics are very good, but the charges are very expensive. I feel like they are only used by large games..."

"Yes, but actually you don't have to take this thing too seriously. We talked about 'modularity' when we were making games. In fact, most programs are like this. In order to facilitate debugging and calling, all programs first make a A lot of modules are then finally assembled into a game, but many of these modules can be used by everyone, so someone combines some of these modules into a product, makes it very good, and then sells it to others for money. This product is the game engine.”

Chen Qin said, gesturing and introducing seriously: "For game companies, a mature engine can save man-hours, provide technical ease of use, and also reduce employment costs. For example, if you follow The current positioning is that you want to be a copywriter or numerical designer. Of course you will do well in our team, but every team has its own habits, and you may not be able to adapt to their standards if you go elsewhere."

"At this time, you need an engine. Each game engine has quite a lot of work facilities suitable for different types of jobs. After mastering the engine, even if you change companies in the future, it will be much easier to familiarize yourself with the work than before..."

The more Chen Qin talked about it, the more excited he became. Yes, why hadn't he thought of it before?

Excellent content can stand out among mediocre technologies. Now we need to promote the ecosystem, so promoting the convenient and easy-to-use OpenJDK is certainly one direction. This thing is a completely object-oriented framework, has good network support, and is already very easy to use. Perfect.

But you can still build a small game engine, which sounds difficult. After all, game engines are not a new thing for current large-scale games. The PC platform itself is a relatively open platform, whether it is Unreal 3 or something else. Engines are basically based on technology as a selling point, which is probably not that easy to do.

In the future, Unity's 3D performance and related ecology will indeed reach the point where a technology-based engine should be, and by then the mobile platform's engine will also be on the road to professionalization.

However, the current mobile game engine happens not to be that serious. This is because the mobile platform has just emerged, and the mobile platform itself is different from the relatively open PC platform. It is a packaged, completely immutable black box, and many settings are It's fixed. These things are relatively rigid and don't have such high technical requirements to make.

When it is completed, on the one hand, it will provide a framework for programmers with basic knowledge to get started easily, and on the other hand, it will provide relevant enterprises with a similar standard to reduce the running-in costs required for team work.

After such an introduction, Chen Qin became more convinced of his previous idea. He didn't care to chat with them and asked anxiously: "By the way, where is Ah Yue?"

Li Sitong then replied: "She seems to have gone to the student union."

Chen Qin nodded and went upstairs without looking back, leaving only the three of them looking at each other. Min Xiaoya said in surprise:
"What did he mean just now?"

Li Sitong didn't understand and guessed: "Guo Yang said he was afraid that they would become famous and there would be no more games in the future."

Guo Yang scratched his head: "Then he introduced me to a way to continue making games after the team disbanded."

The three of them all had a sad face, but at this moment Ah Yue came from the other side, carrying a bottle of mineral water that she had just bought, with a straight face as usual, although she probably attracted the attention of the male compatriots. , but also with an aura of not letting strangers in, and walking his own path seriously.

Li Sitong quickly called out: "Ah Yue, Ah Yue!"

A Yue came over: "What's wrong?"

Li Sitong was so anxious that he couldn't speak clearly: "It's Chen Qin!"

"What's wrong with Chen Qin?"

"It seems he wants to see you for something."

"Oh, where did he go?"

A Yue seemed unaware of anything unusual. Li Sitong pulled her into the classroom and whispered: "I feel like Chen Qin is a little..."

"Something?"

"Oh, I don't know how to describe it. Anyway, didn't you say that you two had a quarrel that day?"

"Actually, I'm joking." Ah Yue said. She was actually not used to saying such things.

"Don't be serious about joking. I think he is quite easy to be serious..."

Li Sitong gave her an idea. Ah Yue was confused when she heard it. She sat back in her seat and glanced to the side. Chen Qin still had a messy plan on his desk. Was he being serious?
Then I just took out my phone and looked at it, only to see a bunch of missed calls.

One of them belongs to Chen Qin, and she kind of understands it. Perhaps the sudden visit to her is about the game?

There were also a few calls from my uncles and uncles at home, and Ma Yun personally. I didn’t bring my mobile phone with me when I went out just now. What happened?
A Yue quickly called back, first to Mr. Gu. After getting through, the old man asked her where she was.have you eaten?A Yue answered as usual. He had stopped living with his grandfather for a long time. Now his parents were stranded in Meilijian, but she was not used to staying in a crowded hometown, and she was not close to her relatives in Yanjing.

"Uncle Ma is interested in getting Xingxing to invest. Your latest work is the key. Wenjie would be very happy if he knew you were so ambitious," the old man said, "but this time the other party wants to buy not just intellectual property, but also intellectual property rights. And your small team, I think it’s a good thing that they think highly of us, but the specific decision is up to you.”

After listening to Mr. Gu's words, Ah Yue was mentally prepared for this. While speaking, she glanced at the empty seat next to her.

But almost at the same time, a boy broke in: "Ah Yue!"

A Yue was startled, almost subconsciously hung up the phone at home, and put away her phone with some guilt.

But when he took a closer look, it was Song Ziyun.

"What's the matter?"

"Where's Chen Qin?"

He seems to be looking for me?
A Yue shook her head: "I don't know..."

"Something bad happened!" Song Ziyun said anxiously, "A brother is going to track down the person you mentioned, did you know?"

"I know, Chen Qin said it this morning."

"Then he was discovered! Although there are many brothers, we can't arrest him and wait. You two should tell us what to do next, otherwise it will be difficult to chase him after he leaves!"

　there will be another chapter

　　
　
(End of this chapter)