game trailblazer

Chapter 255 Zhao Haiguang's Plan

On the morning of the second day after returning to Hong Kong, Zhang Lexing rushed to his office. As soon as he turned on the computer, the phone on the desk rang. He reached out to pick up the phone, and Zhao Haiguang's familiar voice came from the receiver: "Le Xing, I heard that you guys just came back yesterday. How about France? Is it fun? Watching the World Cup on the spot feels different."

"Fortunately, it's a pity that Brother Zhao, you didn't have time some time ago, otherwise it would be more interesting for everyone to watch the game together."

"Hey, I can't compare with Lexing you. We are born to be exhausted. During this period of time, the situation of many domestic game companies is not very good. They are closed almost every month. I am worried every day. .”

"Brother Zhao, there's nothing we can do about it. After all, even if the method we think of is useful, it won't take effect immediately. If we persist for a while, I believe it will gradually get better."

"Hey, I hope so." Zhang Haiguang sighed on the phone: "Le Xing, are you free next Friday?"

"Well, let me take a look." Zhang Lexing took out a PalmIII from his pocket, opened his recent schedule and looked at it, and it happened that there was nothing scheduled for next Friday, so he said into the microphone: "It happens that there is no schedule, Brother Zhao, is there something wrong?"

"It's like this. Our association plans to hold a game expo in the second half of the year, and plans to imitate the model of the E3 exhibition. We have basically finalized the specific operation, but we still want you to check it out. After all, we have experience in this area. Not enough either."

"That's no problem. As long as it's for the development of the domestic game industry, I'm definitely obliged."

"Then let's talk about it. Next Friday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, it's still the old place. The people who come here are mainly people from the Game Expo Organizing Committee. In fact, they are the three guns of our association. They are all old acquaintances. "

"Okay, Brother Zhao, I will come then. By the way, did you receive the email I sent you yesterday?"

"Email? Oh, I haven't had time to read it yet. What's the matter?"

"Now that some places in the country are not experiencing major floods, I wonder if we in the game industry will hold a charity sale or something to raise some money for the disaster areas."

"Oh, so that's what happened. We actually have the same intention. We are planning to contact those game companies. Unexpectedly, Lexing, you have already thought of it."

"Brother Zhao, if you need assistance on your side, you can directly contact Mr. Chen at Fengyun Interactive. I have already notified them."

"Thank you for your support. I will arrange this matter. Lexing, don't forget, next Friday."

"Don't worry, you won't forget it."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Lexing wrote down the arrangement for next Friday in the schedule management of the PalmIII in his hand, then put the PalmIII on the base connected to the computer, and pressed the sync button to synchronize the schedule to the office system. , his assistant also immediately received a reminder message, so the new schedule is considered complete.

There was a sound of "uh-oh" from the computer speakers, and the ICQ icon in the lower right corner also started to flash. Zhang Lexing pressed the three keys "Crtl" + "Atl" + "Z" at the same time, and the ICQ message window popped up. popped out.

"Brother, when did you come back? Did you have a good time in France?" It turned out to be the message from Yang Xinxin.

Zhang Lexing replied: "I arrived yesterday afternoon, I'm sorry, sister Xin, I forgot to call you."

"Forget it, who told me to be magnanimous as a sister."

"Sister Xin, I have good news for you. I proposed to Shanshan, and she agreed."

"Really? Then this is really good news. It seems that I have to help you prepare the plane."

"Ah, sister Xin, you are serious."

"Of course, my younger brother is getting married, so I, as an elder sister, must give him a big gift."

"Okay, then I have no choice but to be respectful rather than obedient. But if sister Xin wants to get married tomorrow, I will also give her a big gift. How about a super luxury yacht?"

"Okay, dare to make fun of my sister, be careful I call your Shanshan."

"Don't dare dare..."

"Oh, let's get down to business. Brother, I heard that there have been major floods in some parts of the country. It seems that the situation is quite bad."

"It's true. In some places, the county towns have been washed in by water. Many people are short of medical care and homeless. So I plan to set up a charity fund."

"Brother, how is your charity fund doing? Do you need help? I am rich and have a lot of money now."

"Then I really want to thank Sister Xin. I'm still looking for someone to help me. As for donations, the more the better."

"Okay, when your fund is established, tell your sister the account number, and I will send you a sum of money. By the way, when are you going to get married, brother?"

"The specific time has not yet been determined, it may be early next year. Don't worry, I will notify Sister Xin when the time comes."

The two chatted again, Yang Xinxin was going to bed, Zhang Lexing had to give up, closed the ICQ message window, and started his daily routine work.After looking at the work emails for a while, one of the emails from the Game Research Institute caught his attention.The title of the email read "Moon Goddess Prototype 02031 has made a major breakthrough, and the hardware has basically reached the listing standard", followed by 3 exclamation points, and he immediately transferred the text of the email.

After automatically filtering out the many technical terms in the text, Zhang Lexing basically understood the meaning of the email. After two years of continuous improvement, the original Moon Goddess No. [-] machine, which was the "dream" host in Zhang Lexing's mind, has gradually been reborn. On the one hand, the performance has been further improved, and on the other hand, the estimated production cost has been greatly reduced.

After hastily browsing through the emails, Zhang Lexing couldn't resist his impulse, and immediately called Wang Mengyao. Accompanied by bodyguards, he hurried to the Game Research Institute to watch it in person. After this trip, he felt quite rewarding many.

The main system of the Luna No. 4050 machine has not changed much, but the central processing unit as the core has been slightly adjusted. The original MIPSR-4052A processor has been replaced by the optimized R - 20A, the performance of a single processor has not changed much, but when the dual-processor mode is enabled, it can improve the performance by at least [-]% compared with the original system.

The graphics processor has also been updated from the Redwood chip to the RedwoodPlus chip, which has increased its processing capacity by 36.7% compared to the original, enhanced the processing capability of the light source during 3D rendering, and corrected the design defects in the Redwood chip. It can be said that the chip has approached to perfection.The audio processor is still the Emu10k1 chip from the innovative company, but the chip that was originally out of the testing stage was replaced with the finalized End version. Not only the original bugs have been completely corrected, but also the output ports are more than the original ones. .

These aspects all belong to the hardware performance of the game console, but according to Chen Zhipeng, their biggest achievement in the past two years is to reduce the estimated production cost of the Moon Goddess II machine to less than 3900 Hong Kong dollars, and if the production line is further improved to ensure reasonable The production volume is expected to have a large room for compression in production costs.All this means that as long as the game is properly prepared, the launch date of the Moonlight Goddess No. [-], the "dream" host, is not far away. For Zhang Lexing, it can be said that this year is second only to Chen Zishan for agreeing to his marriage proposal. Second best news.

After telling Chen Zhipeng to produce a few more Moon Goddess No. [-] machines, Zhang Lexing hurried back to his office, and then sent an encrypted email to Yang Xinxin through the communication satellite of the VisualSystem Group, in which he would update the latest progress of the Moon Goddess No. Attached to it, and invited her to send someone to attend a secret internal technical appraisal meeting a month later.Afterwards, Zhang Lexing sent an email to the senior executives of his game companies according to the address book. He did not specify the details of the Moon Goddess No. [-] machine, but asked them to come to the internal technical appraisal meeting in a month. Garden of Heaven.

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The time soon came to next week. During this period, Yang Xinxin and the top executives of the game companies replied to the emails, saying that they would arrange the best game developers to come and participate in the evaluation.The preparations for the Leshan Fund are also proceeding in an orderly manner. Although Zhang Lexing did not deliberately publicize it, many business friends have heard about it. After Yang Xinxin, many people verbally expressed their willingness to donate part of the money to Leshan Fund, as a result, the fund has not been formally established, and the amount of money it is willing to donate is close to 10 billion US dollars.

On Friday morning, Zhang Lexing flew to BJ on the earliest flight of Hong Kong Dragon Airlines. As soon as he got off the plane, he was stopped by Zhao Haiguang before he saw the person from his company coming to pick him up.Because there were not many people participating, in order to save time, Zhao Haiguang temporarily adjusted the arrangement and combined the meeting with the meal, but he had no time to inform Zhang Lexing, so he had to come to the airport to block people. Fortunately, he happened to be blocked .

"Le Xing, the plan has changed. In order to save you some time, let's talk about it together during lunch." Zhao Haiguang said shyly.

Zhang Lexing didn't care about this change: "It doesn't matter, I have to eat anyway."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Lexing waved his hand to let the others go first, then followed Zhao Haiguang into his car and drove to today's destination, BJ Hotel.

After parking the car, he went upstairs to the private room that Zhao Haiguang had reserved. There were already two people waiting there, both acquaintances, one was Wang Bo and the other was Yan Xiaowei.Seeing Zhang Lexing and Zhao Haiguang coming in, they hurriedly greeted them and greeted each other with smiles on their faces.

After exchanging a few words of greeting, Zhao Haiguang shouted to the door, "Waiter!"

The waiter immediately opened the door and walked in, and asked with a smile, "Sirs, what are your orders?"

"It's time to serve, hurry up!" Zhao Haiguang ordered.

"Okay, I'll go tell the kitchen, please wait!" The waiter bowed with a smile, turned and left the room.

"Come on, drink tea first!" Zhao Haiguang poured several cups of tea, put them on the glass table in the middle, and turned to Zhang Lexing.

"Thank you." Zhang Lexing picked up a cup of tea and took a sip, then put the cup in front of him.Wang Bo and Yan Xiaowei also took a glass each, and each drank.

Zhao Haiguang coughed twice, then tapped lightly on the dining table. Yan Xiaowei, who was drinking water, raised his head, took a document from Wang Bo, and handed it to Zhang Lexing.

"Mr. Zhang, this is the planning document for our game expo. The time is tight and the preparations are rushed, so I would like to ask you to help review and review it." Yan Xiaowei pushed the document over with a smile on his face.

"Okay, let me take a look first." Zhang Lexing nodded, and reached out to pick up the document.

According to the document, the full name of the so-called Game Expo is "International Digital Interactive Entertainment Products and Technology Application Expo", which is jointly organized by the General Administration of Press and Publication, the International Trade Promotion Committee, the National Copyright Administration, the Ministry of Culture and the China Game Industry Association. Organized and imitated the E3 exhibition, it is also a press conference of "computer games, video games and related peripherals in production".The exhibition will be held at the BJ Exhibition Hall and will last for three days (October 10th to 8th, which is the three days before the Game Developers Conference).

Zhang Lexing roughly browsed through the game expo's plan, and felt that it was well thought out, basically thought of every aspect involved, and he didn't have anything to add for a while.It just so happened that the waiter began to bring up the pre-ordered dishes one after another. Under Zhao Haiguang's call, everyone simply started eating.

Putting a piece of slippery tenderloin into his mouth, while chewing, Zhang Lexing suddenly thought of it, so he swallowed the piece of tenderloin in his mouth, put down his chopsticks and said, "I think this exhibition can be divided into professional days and ordinary days. The professional day only entertains publishers, distributors, developers, media, etc. in the industry, and the ordinary day is when general audiences enter the venue. Ordinary days. For example, in the first exhibition this time, if there are not many game companies participating, then we can set the first day as a professional day, and the next two days as ordinary days. If there are more exhibitors in the future When the time comes, we can also expand the number of days of professional days, and even position three days as professional days.”

"Le Xing, what you said makes sense." Zhao Haiguang tapped on the table and said happily: "Actually, we are worrying about this matter. You know the current situation in China. We have initially contacted. Many companies are now too busy to take care of themselves. There are not many people who can come to participate in the exhibition. Try the method you said, it should be good."

(End of this chapter)