Reboot 2003

Chapter 288 067: E-Sports Fever ([-]-in-[-])

Ah Yue probably wasn't very interested in this, and she didn't seem very interested.

Moreover, time is so tight now, Chen Qin is busy making engines, and Ah Yue herself is only a junior high school student, so she is not capable of doing this.

What's the point of doing this...

That certainly makes sense.

First of all, the trend is naturally coming... The craze of e-sports actually started two years ago, but its commercial explosion was probably the first wave of e-sports players attracted by Gaige after winning the championship. When it first came online.

Of course, now that we have mentioned this, we naturally know that this is a 'chicken before the egg' market, so Ayue now wants to make a game by herself to catch the wind. Of course, it is not as simple as making the game and waiting for the wind to blow. This means that it is the same as building your own open source mobile phone system. It is quite difficult to think about it.

But thinking about Chen Qin's ultimate goal, this is actually not useless...

So in the next few days, the two of them were busy.

After the release of Ah Yue's version 1.0 map... it received some good reviews, or in other words, the reviews related to the game are basically all good reviews.

There are just too many bugs.

The test that day was just to see if it could be played. This was the A-test in the general testing process. Later, people from the community tested it in a semi-public form for two days, but the time was too short.

Chen Qin's open source engine is gradually producing results. Although the goal is relatively low, it is only an enhanced developer toolkit and mainly focuses on sinking. The technical threshold requirements are not very high in theory. .

However, making a game engine without graphics rendering capabilities is too much. As for making an engine, of course it cannot just be a Java support. In the future, the main language for the front-end of mobile games will be JavaScript, and related infrastructure also needs to be carefully constructed. ; In addition, since we want to support online games, do we need to integrate some simple database functions?
If there is such a demand, of course you cannot reinvent the wheel from scratch, that would be too troublesome.

You can just use the code from other open source projects. Your own code is also open source anyway, so you don’t need to say hello to the author.After two months of this, the new engine already looks a bit like it.

And in this process, sometimes you can see that those open source components and programs lack one or another function. Although these things are strictly the information advantages of being a reborn person, most of them can't make money if they are left alone, so Chen Qin saw it and wrote it for others.

After two months like this, it probably reached a certain critical point of quantitative change. Chen Aotian of Galaxy Software built a game engine and was active in the open source community, attracting the attention of many people.

At some point, the number of followers on the Github account surpassed that of Linus, the manager of Linux, and Li Nanguang, the manager of Tiantianhe, and successfully became the number one on the entire site...

Of course, after all, he is a Weibo celebrity, and I can't say all the fans who follow him. Probably a large part of them come to watch the fun. However, in the past, Chen Aotian had a bad mouth and was a troublemaker. This time, his reputation has been greatly improved. With the advent of the Internet era, open source is becoming a trend.

Even laymen who don't understand programming can probably hear some of this information.

Maybe no one cares about the poor open source creator who has no money, but Chen Aotian is fashionable and rich. With this halo, he is still willing to do open source. His previous bad words and fights with big Wall Street banks have also changed. He became cute, and for a period of time, there were even more foreign girls sending him sex pictures on Waibo.com.

Of course, this is off topic. After all, this is not why we, Mr. Chen, are doing so many projects...

Although strictly speaking, it is not in vain. In the old society, wealthy landowners would spend money to gain a reputation as a good person. Having a good reputation is also the only way to gain power, and power is indeed one of our Mr. Chen’s ultimate goals. one.

But after all, it is already the 21st century. If he just wanted to be known as a good person, he would not have had to go around in such a big circle. But now he is writing open source and building engines, and he has secretly communicated with Qiao Yongping and asked them to Let’s also organize the e-sports event for Ah Yue’s map. Spend more money on promotion...

After doing so much and going in such a big circle, it’s almost time to come back.

The first is the game engine, and finally decided to call it the 'Magic Sword Engine'.Programmers are bad at naming names. In order to prevent the name of this engine from becoming the name of some kind of food or drink, Mr. Chen dug out the domain name list that he has collected for many years. Although many of them have been used by the companies he invested in, The programmers involved in the development chose the 'Magic Sword', which looks young and casual, which is a good thing for a game engine.

Then what do you do with a game engine?

Of course, it is to develop games for Kaitian platform for people.

At this point, the open source community is very active. After all, open source game engines are not very popular nowadays. The Magic Sword Engine chose the loosest Mit protocol when it came out...

Of course, it’s not just for fun. For developers, a loose open source agreement not only looks very attractive, but it can actually help developers carry out low-level development, which is naturally more attractive.Compared with commercial companies, most individual developers are less forward-thinking. In short, this engine is not bad. In fact, in the first few days after it was open sourced, some people used the Magic Sword engine to make games and participate in Google's developer competition.

As the Magic Sword Engine gradually began to mature, more and more people were making small games.

But that's not enough.

Not to mention that the quality of these games varies, and they often have little ambition. Most of them are successful if they can earn some advertising fees. The interaction method is not much different from the games in the era of PC and button mobile phones. Some games even have virtual keyboards. Just looking at it makes me a little dizzy.

So of course at this time, I have to make a game myself and teach the market how to use this awesome tool - when Unreal Engine was first launched, there were first-party games just to show off its skills. Although Magic Sword has no skills to show off, , but in the final analysis, this model is "Look, the games I make using this engine can make a lot of money." What it wants to show is not how high your level of game making is. In a sense, "such an ordinary game can be popular." It's actually more useful.

Now the game is almost complete, and its name is "Relics Brawl". It's just an IP, it's not shabby.

In the end, it was designed as a vertical screen game, and the art was mainly 2D hand-painted.The mode has changed to cards, and the gameplay is the typical Hearthstone tavern gameplay. Building cards are drawn every round, and then soldiers are added through the mutual reaction of the cards. Finally, the outcome of each round is determined through automatic combat.

So...the algorithm is a little difficult, but the logic of card size ratio is very clear. Random card dealing can also be solved with a simple temporary database, and there should be no big problem in itself.

The communication requirements are not high either, because you can use a fixed random seed local calculation method and communicate once per operation, which consumes much less performance than ordinary online games.

Finally, there’s the graphics... Hearthstone’s performance requirements are quite high. After all, it’s not difficult to draw the collision of braised eggs. What’s difficult is to make the collision of braised eggs look high-end, so Blizzard really didn’t save anything when making Hearthstone. , and Chen Qin does not have such a luxurious environment now, so he can only work hard on original paintings and fine arts, and the original paintings themselves are very memory-intensive. Now a high-end mobile phone only has 8G of memory. If the game materials are too large, the resources and materials will not be stored at all. No less, the rendering pressure is much greater.

So we can only reuse materials. Fortunately, Ah Yue’s game is about building buildings, building soldiers, and fighting. In short, you can use one set of materials for buildings and one set of materials for soldiers. If you make a game like this, the next version of the mobile phone should be able to barely run. …

Fortunately, the yellow light knife that Ah Yue looked for last time is quite powerful. Not only does the painting look good, but he is also good at design. Now that he has been hired to work in the Flash Empire, he can use it to draw original paintings... Considering the angry little Bird’s lesson is that since we attach so much importance to this project now, we certainly can’t skimp on talent.

Teacher Huang lived up to expectations and spent a few days making a set of plans, using multiple materials to combine cards. Although the buildings are all carved from the same mold, they are highly recognizable, and some drawings such as 'civilians' and 'soldiers' Units such as the Chimera and the Stone Giant seem to have a little bit of Warcraft, which facilitates subsequent IP development, but also have their own characteristics. Players can see the relative value of these 'cards' at a glance. To this point, Actually it's almost there.Of course, because the project has not been completed yet, it is still in the secret development stage. Before gradually entering the final stage, not many people in the company know the progress of the game itself. Only the secret development team, Chen Qin and some people have stepped in to help. Busy engine crews know it exists.

Seeing the game being gradually completed, Chen Qin also began to consider the next publicity plan, and at this time, the last prepared bargaining chip could also come in handy.

Of course, to say that it is a bargaining chip, this matter is probably not as planned as other methods. However, as the college entrance examination is over and another summer vacation is about to begin, the e-sports circle is getting hot again this year, and the game Ayue is in It became popular among so many competitors, but the way it became popular was still a little different from what Chen Qin expected...

In Chen Qin's expectation, this is probably a casual custom battle map for Internet cafes. As long as the entertainment performance is good, it will naturally become popular.In fact, it has developed like this. For example, in the recent new era, Ruins Brawl has somewhat surpassed Dota.In the Moyou.com forum and post bar, the number of players in the community is also increasing rapidly.

But just before the summer vacation, Xiao Gao came to A Yue without knowing the operation of e-sports, saying that he had discussed it with the people in the Internet cafe and planned to start an Internet cafe competition like other Internet cafes... A Yue was a little suspicious after hearing this, and also He specifically came back to ask Chen Qin if this was his idea.

But Chen Qin never said anything about this, it was completely Xiao Gao's own idea.Nowadays, Internet cafe licenses are difficult to obtain, so existing Internet cafes are working hard to expand their scale. After a wave of renovations at the beginning of the year, New Era recently intends to expand its scale again. Holding such activities is a good way to attract customers.

As for why I chose Super Smash Bros.… it’s because Dota and CS are already being played in other Internet cafes. Apart from anything else, there are really a lot of people playing Super Smash Bros. in the new era.

In the online community, it seems that someone is starting to explain it seriously. Although Ayue's gameplay is not that complicated, at first glance, it does seem to have some team elements. For example, there is a recent debate in the community about 'support in the end' Players had different opinions on whether to save life or help teammates, but at this time some more experienced commentators began to become popular.

For example, a caster named Xiaozhi who transferred from 3c has been casting this recently. His popularity is much higher than before. Professional players in several circles frequently invite people to play Super Smash Bros., and some people are talking about forming a team. The team is coming...

Why don't they go play Dota?
Chen Qin himself thought it was a bit unexpected, and he thought so when he first saw it.

However, he took the time to visit Tieba and quickly understood what was going on.

But this year, something big happened in the e-sports circle.

What's big is that Maphack is becoming popular.

For real-time strategy games that rely on the fog of war to create information gaps, the destructiveness of map-based plug-ins is similar to that of FPS games to a certain extent. However, the World of Warcraft map is a platform similar to Borderlands, so there is basically no need to count on it. Are there any official anti-cheating measures? Since the emergence of Haofang, Haofang has quickly fallen from the top because there is no cheating management method at all. VS has relatively little supervision, but basically can only rely on manual account closure, and the actual efficiency is very poor.

At present, the cheating problem in the entire environment has become very serious. But at this moment, a female team was suspected of cheating, causing an uproar in the community. At this moment, everyone saw Ayue’s big fight...

Maybe it's a bit too random, but the randomness itself is based on Blizzard's balance system, so it's actually not a big problem.

Now that the core player circle is having a headache due to cheating, some people have begun to reconsider the future of e-sports. Naturally, they will see this new map that seems to be 'unfair'. Compared with those who became famous earlier, or Old-timers who have been more or less affected by the cheats that open pictures...

LOL, it has no fog of war at all.

Nowadays, Dota cheats are rampant, but Ah Yue’s Brawl has no impact at all. Everyone is the same novice, how can it be so interesting to play...

In short, it felt a bit like being hit by a baby that fell from the sky. A-Yue herself was probably a little confused. She didn't know how to use this baby. She didn't have much feelings about it. She only knew that there were a lot more people picking bugs now.

But Chen Qin took these things into consideration, and it seemed that his plan could start ahead of schedule.

The original purpose of this transplant was to gain popularity.

However, to become a "social phenomenon" game, you can rely on the chicken battle mode, or you can rely on auto chess, but now that you have reaped the dividends of pure e-sports... there is actually nothing to dislike.

The distance is a bit far, but if you think about it carefully, it's not too far.

So after telling Qiao Yongping, I asked him on the spot to find a way to add this map to WCG for me.

Of course it didn't work out, and I've been adding Dota and WCG for several years.Brawl has just been released this year, and it needs to at least run through the current 3v3 competitive mode.

But if they don’t want to organize it, then they can organize it themselves. It just so happens that Moyou.com is also organizing a domestic cup competition, and the main event is Dota.

Galaxy Software directly sponsored 100 million and changed the name to 'Kaitian Cup'. A Yue's game was also added to it, making up the bulk of the prize money.

I didn’t plan to promote his mobile game Ruins Brawl here, but... 100 million.

For ordinary people, it is indeed a lot, but in today's advertising industry...can 100 million be considered money?It's not US dollars.

Nowadays, the advertising industry is booming, and online advertising is not as cheap as it used to be.

E-sports advertising is not the same thing as online advertising, but a competitor on the same track as traditional media advertising. Its main function is not to attract traffic, but to 'shape brand awareness'.

For gamers, the effect of e-sports related advertising is the same as online advertising, which is a dimensionality reduction blow. This is one of the fundamental reasons why the entire e-sports industry can flourish.

With this arrangement, it's almost July. A-Yue's bugs are almost fixed. Brawl is quickly updated to 1.02, which is a relatively stable version, but I have to take the exam again recently.

Early that morning, Chen Qin came to the classroom, stopped when passing by the aisle, and looked back at the eye chart for a while.

Then shaking her head and coming to her seat, Ah Yue asked, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing." Chen Qin opened his schoolbag as he said it, but he looked very energetic. "By the way, I asked someone to draw a loading picture for you. Take a look."

As she spoke, she took out a color picture printed by an inkjet printer. A Yue took a look at it and said, "Teacher Huang?"

"It doesn't matter who it is." Chen Qin took out his mobile phone again and opened QQ, "By the way, how is your map repair going? I recently met a foreigner, and he is quite knowledgeable about custom maps. Maybe I can give you some guidance, please add me when you have time!"

(End of this chapter)