game trailblazer

Chapter 145 Game Control Technology

After seeing off Dr. Chen, Zhang Lexing came to inspect the Game Research Institute, which is located in the same place as the Microelectronics Research Institute.The Hong Kong Game Research Institute was established at the beginning of last year. It was formerly the game console research and development team led by Chen Zhipeng. Since the semi-finished game console was sold to Sony, some members from the American Game Research Institute and RB from the game industry Senior personnel formed today's Hong Kong Game Research Institute, mainly engaged in the research and development of game-related technologies, such as game consoles, game controllers, game software development-related technologies, etc., and also included research on auxiliary projects such as game psychology.The reason why Zhang Lexing came here was to see what new achievements were made. By the way, he would like to inform the game console R&D team. After the computer miniaturization project is formally established, the two parties can communicate on some related technologies to reduce the duplication of work on both sides.

As soon as he entered the Game Research Institute, Zhang Lexing saw Chen Zhipeng, Uemura Masayuki, and a white man with a high nose and blue eyes, and the three of them walked out with arms crossed and excited expressions.

Zhang Le stepped forward and asked, "You three, what are you so happy about?"

The three people paid attention to Zhang Lexing in front of them, stopped hurriedly, and greeted: "Boss (Mr. Zhang), hello."

Chen Zhipeng let go of his hand, took a step forward, and said, "Boss, we just finished two interesting things and were happy for a while, so..."

"Oh, what a good thing, take me to see it." Zhang Lexing asked with interest.

"You two go celebrate by yourself, I'll take the boss to see." Chen Zhipeng patted Uemura Masashi and the white man on the shoulders, then turned around and took Zhang Lexing to the game research institute, and Uemura Masato and the white man Then continue to walk outside, it seems that they are planning to find a place to celebrate.

When he came to the hardware research group to which Chen Zhipeng belonged, he found a place with a TV set, first arranged the chairs and asked Zhang Lexing to sit down, and then moved in a few things one after another.The first one is a game console. According to Chen Zhipeng, this is the final product after joint research with Sony. It is almost the same as the final product on the market. Zhang Lexing compared it, and it is indeed much more exquisite than the one he saw at the beginning. .

After connecting the game console to the TV, Chen Zhipeng took another handle and connected it to the game console, put the disc in, and turned on the TV and the game console.Zhang Lexing took a look at the handle. It was larger than the common two-handed handle, and there was an extra handle in the middle, and there was something like a rocker on the handle.

"This handle..." Zhang Lexing asked curiously.

Chen Zhipeng handed over the handle and said, "Boss, just try it and you'll know."

Zhang Lexing took the handle, looked at the TV screen, and pressed "SELECT" and "START" a few times as usual to start the game.

On the screen is a villain similar to Mario standing in a three-dimensional space. Zhang Lexing tried the arrow keys and other function keys. Compared with before, there is no difference, but the villain's running and jumping is still interesting.

Chen Zhipeng coughed twice, pointed to the joystick-like thing on the middle handle and said, "Boss, try the joystick in the middle."

Zhang Lexing shifted his left hand to the middle handle, and his thumb just rested on the rocker, which felt very convenient.When I started to operate it again, the feeling was different immediately. When I used the cross key before, I pressed it to go, and released it to stop. It is very traditional. Go, if you press it hard, you will run fast, it seems that some kind of induction technology has been added to it.

This is Chen Zhipeng introducing next to him: "Boss, this is a new game controller developed by us. It is the one in the middle. We call it an analog joystick. Unlike the traditional joysticks before, we added Pressure-sensing technology, depending on how hard the player pushes the joystick, the movement speed of the characters in the game will change accordingly, which is especially suitable for the control of 3D games, and it is smoother than traditional cross keys.”

This thing is not bad, Zhang Lexing also played "Pro Evolution Soccer" with this kind of thing back then, it is indeed more convenient than cross keys.But thinking of this, Zhang Lexing looked at the handle in the handshake again. It seemed that it was much bigger than the ones in memory, so he took a piece of white paper and a pen from the table next to him, and casually took the handle he had played with back then. The PS handle "DualShock1" was drawn, of course the key part is the two analog joysticks in the middle, and then I pushed it to Chen Zhipeng and said, "How do you look at this?"

"Boss, why are there two?" Chen Zhipeng felt that the handles drawn on paper were weird.

"Well..." Zhang Lexing was about to explain, but found that he had forgotten why there were two analog joysticks. When he saw this kind of handle for the first time, he joked that he was afraid that the joystick would break. A backup, of course, this kind of nonsensical reason is definitely not on the table.After thinking for a while, Zhang Lexing finally came up with a passable reason: "The reason why there are two is because it can add more control methods and give the game design more choices, so that players will have more opportunities to play. fun of."

"Oh, that's it. Boss, you mean to let us design the handle like this?"

"Yes, but there is no need to report to Sony. When it is produced, we will engage in game bundle sales. I believe it will make a lot of people feel bad. After the redesign, remember to send it to the game development department, so that we can develop a game that suits the game. game."

"Boss, should we just give up on this controller?"

"How can I give up?" Zhang Lexing looked at the thing in his hand that looked like an N* handle in the near future, and said, "Don't waste such a good thing, pack it up, sell the license to Nintendo, at least pay the research and development expenses from them Earn it back."

"Boss is wise, then I will let the business team take care of it."

"Okay, let's do this. By the way, you said that there are two. Besides this kind of joystick, what is the other one?"

Chen Zhipeng pointed to a button in the middle of the handle and said, "Boss, you can press the red button in the middle and try again."

Zhang Lexing pressed the red button in the middle, but the game screen on the TV screen did not change, so he looked at Chen Zhipeng suspiciously.

"Boss, you will know when you control the person to move."

Zhang Lexing nodded, and the villain who was operating the screen with the handle ran up, and a nail-shell monster appeared. Zhang Lexing controlled the villain to try to avoid it. The nail-shell monster suddenly jumped up and fell heavily on the ground. The ground shook immediately, even Zhang Lexing's hand felt it.

"Vibrate the handle!" Zhang Lexing whispered.

"Boss, it is the vibration handle. In fact, the two motors in the handle and the two rotors of different sizes are combined to simulate various vibrations, large or small, with different laws. Combined with appropriate game content, it can bring A gaming experience like no other."

Unexpectedly, they also made something like a vibration handle. Although it is not as advanced as the force feedback technology, it is a very interesting gaming experience at this time, even for a long time.

"By the way, have you conducted research on force feedback technology?"

"Force feedback technology?"

"Yes, for example, in a racing game, you use the steering wheel to operate. When the speed of the car is different, you need to turn the steering wheel with different forces. In addition, when driving on different tracks, the game will give you different feedback. This is similar to the simple The vibrations are completely different."

"Boss, what you mentioned seems to be a technique commonly used by the military. It is said that they often use it in training, but this technique is very complicated, and we have not conducted similar research. Boss, do we need to add Manually carry out research in this area?"

"No need for the time being, I will check first to see if there are similar research projects in the research institutes in the United States, so as not to repeat."

"Good boss."

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After leaving the Game Research Institute, Zhang Lexing waved and called Lin Qianrui, the new assistant who arrived today, and explained: "You can follow up on the handle of the Game Research Institute today. After adding the analog joystick, you must Send it to Tianzhiyuan (Shanghai) and KF-Panda in the United States in time, and follow up the sales of the controller to Nintendo, and report to me in time if there is any situation."

"Okay, boss." Lin Qianrui nodded after writing in her own notepad.

"Zhao Jaw, come here." Zhang Lexing beckoned again.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Another new assistant Zhao Jai came over and asked.

"In the name of Honghe Fund, you help me inform He Guoyuan of Canada's ATI Company and Shen Wangbo of Singapore Innovation Company to come to Hong Kong as soon as possible, and say that there is something important to discuss. Inform Dean Yu and Vice Dean Ye of Oriental Microelectronics Research Institute , I will hold a meeting with them tomorrow, and the R&D director of motherboard-related technology will also attend. In addition, if you buy seven or eight computer motherboards, 486 and Pentium are fine, and you will use them tomorrow.”

"Okay boss, I'll do it right away." Zhao Jai replied after remembering.

Zhang Lexing walked up to * again and said, "You can contact Hua Ziqing. Tomorrow, Orient Holdings is about investing in the mainland. The head of the investment department will attend."

"Okay boss, I'll contact you right away." *Nodded, took out a Nokia mobile phone, turned to the side to make a call.

……

Back at the Peninsula Hotel, Zhang Lexing picked up the phone as soon as he entered the room, first called the Blue Information market research company, and arranged for him to investigate in RB whether there is a company with research force feedback technology.After having dinner and resting for a while, I called Russell Market Research Company in the United States and arranged for it to investigate the situation of 3DFX (a company that develops 3D accelerator cards) and NVIDIA (a company that develops graphics cards), and also to investigate The R&D team of hard disk and PC power supply, and look for companies in the United States that have developed force feedback technology.

Putting down the phone, there was a knock on the door. Ma Guanghai, who was sitting in the hall, got up and went to the door to look through the peephole, then turned around and said, "Boss, it's Miss Yan."

"Let her in." Zhang Lexing stood up, went to the window and looked out.

Ma Guanghai opened the door, stepped out of the way, * motioned to him with his jaw, and then walked in.Coming behind Zhang Lexing, * bowed slightly, and said: "Boss, the matter you explained has been arranged. The meeting of Dongfang Microelectronics Research Institute is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 03 o'clock, and the meeting of Dongfang Holdings is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. 30:[-]. He Guoyuan from Canada’s ATI Company and Shen Wangbo from Singapore’s Innovation Company both arrived in Hong Kong the morning after tomorrow, and we initially set the meeting time at [-]:[-] p.m. the day after tomorrow. Boss, do you think this arrangement is okay?”

"Well, that's fine. By the way, you can find a way to get a yacht tomorrow. It should be bigger. I want to arrange the meeting with He Guoyuan and Shen Wangbo the day after tomorrow on the yacht."

"Okay boss, I will contact you tomorrow, I believe there should be no problem. Boss, is there anything else?"

"Well, it's okay." Zhang Lexing didn't look back, looked at the scenery outside the window, and said casually, "Would you like to drink something before leaving."

"Okay," * suddenly became happy: "Boss, what would you like to drink?"

"Take a look at what's in the bar?" Zhang Lexing's mind turned to the integrated motherboard again, and he didn't notice the strangeness of * at all.

*Come to the mini bar to search, but unfortunately there is nothing to look at: "Boss, there is nothing good in the bar, how about I help you get a glass of red wine to drink."

"It's too troublesome to go out."

"Boss, soon, just wait a moment, I'll be right back." After speaking, * hurriedly left the room.

Sure enough, he didn't wait long, and * came back with a tray, on which there was a bottle of red wine and two goblets.Putting down the tray,* took a corkscrew from the mini bar and unscrewed the cork of the red wine, then poured at least half a glass into each of the two goblets, then took a glass with one hand and came to Zhang Lexing, put the tall glass in the right hand He handed over the cup and said, "Boss, try this."

Zhang Lexing took the goblet, shook it a few times, then brought the cup close to his nose, a scent of wine mixed with various smells floated up along the wall of the cup.Bring the wine glass to your mouth and take a sip. The complex aroma of black berries, liqueur and a little port wine fills your mouth.

"*, what kind of wine is this?" Zhang Lexing asked.

"Allgeltls red wine from Admiralty Chateau in France, from [-]." *Carefully replied: "Boss, you're still used to it."

Feeling the taste in his mouth, Zhang Lexing said, "Well, it's very different from the red wine I've drank before. The taste is very layered. It's broad and thick yet balanced and stable. There's also a sense of purity in the middle. , the aftertaste is quite long."

"Boss, as long as you like it." * Picked up the goblet and lightly touched the cup in Zhang Lexing's hand, and then drank it down. Under the light in the room, her face was much rosier than before.

Before I knew it, I drank up a bottle of red wine, most of which I drank.Maybe it was the effect of alcohol, *in Zhang Lexing's eyes, she was much more beautiful than usual.Putting the wine glass on the coffee table, Zhang Lexing went to sit down on the sofa. On the other sofa, * leaned on it, his eyes were a little blurred, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became subtle.

Zhang Lexing coughed lightly, looked at his watch, and said, "*, it's getting late, you should go to rest first."

"Okay, then I'll go first." * stood up, sighed, turned and walked out.

Zhang Lexing also felt it, *a little disappointed, although she still didn't understand why she was suddenly disappointed, but Zhang Lexing also knew that now was obviously not the time to study this issue.

The footsteps gradually disappeared outside the door, Zhang Lexing came to the window again and looked out, the night outside the window was getting darker...

(End of this chapter)