Rebirth of the Wild Age

Rongcheng.

The Western Software Park has been renamed the Western Science and Technology Park. Although several companies have settled in one after another, there are still signs of "barrenness" on the whole.

Shenzhou Technology's electronics factory is located in the southwest corner. Outside the first phase of the park, it is already close to the later Rongcheng High-tech Zone. And software, network, R&D centers and other types of companies are located in the northeast corner of the first phase of the project. There are several miles in between, and they won't be disturbed by each other.

Ten years later in another time and space, you will not see these things.

The once famous Western Software Park will be replaced by a residential area, and Top Software will also become Top Real Estate, which will be bought directly by others for real estate. There is also a Top Information Technology Vocational College that is slightly related to science and technology. Just listen to the name and you will know what kind of school it is.

However, the Xikang Institute of Technology, not far from the Western Software Park, will grow bigger and bigger and be renamed "Xihua University".

Although this place is relatively remote, there are many schools nearby. To the east is the future Xihua University, to the east there are several junior colleges and technical secondary schools, to the southeast is the University of Electronic Science and Technology, and to the west is the Rongcheng Institute of Technology (which is still a junior college at this time). So Song Ruhua, a liar, is still very visionary. He chose the Western Software Park to be located in the middle of a bunch of schools. In a few years, Southwest Jiaotong University will build a branch school nearby.

Hu Geng finally accepted the invitation of the "liar" because Song Weiyang directly contacted his website and contacted him again through the webmaster. Confirmed that it was correct, Hu Geng was ecstatic, and took a plane out of the house with his bag.

Landing at Shuangliu Airport, Hu Geng first took a car to Rongcheng, and then took a taxi to Hongguang Town, Pidu.

The town is still relatively old at this time, and there are basically no modern communities, all of which are all kinds of rustic self-built houses. There are even the kind of mixed buildings of stone, bamboo, and soil. The typical Southwest residential style of Ming and Qing Dynasties has a history of at least a hundred years.

After getting off the bus, I asked all the way and finally found "Excalibur Network Technology Company".

There are no high-end office buildings in this park. Various buildings are below six stories. They were all built by Song Ruhua to deal with officials at all levels. Excalibur Networks directly occupied a building, four floors of which were vacant and not yet decorated. The next building is where the Shenzhou Technology R&D Center is located.

Walking into the building, Hu Geng found a group of college students in the company, queuing to receive the number plate for the interview.

"Hello." Hu Geng walked to the front desk.

The girl at the front desk asked: "Hello, are you here to apply? Just go there and line up."

Hu Geng said, "I was invited by Mr. Song Weiyang. Here is an invitation letter."

The girl at the front desk took a look and found that her position was "Excalibur Network Zulong Studio Project Chief Planner". She became extremely enthusiastic and smiled: "Please go to the second floor. There is a sign of'Zulong Studio' on the door."

Zulong Studio currently has more than 20 members. Half of them are left in the capital to continue the development of "Freedom and Glory 2" (single-player game), and Song Weiyang will come to Chengdu for the rest. The people living in Xishan are also on the second floor, and another "Xishan Studio" has been formed, and construction has not yet officially started.

Hu Geng received the invitation letter and asked, "Those who apply for the job are all programmers?"

The girl at the front desk replied: "Some are programmers from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, and some are students from the Academy of Fine Arts. I heard that the boss directly sent recruitment information to Yangmei. However, there are not many students from Yangmei, and there are more than a dozen from Chuanmei. After all, the salary is too high."

"Is the salary of fine arts high?" Hu Geng asked.

The girl at the front desk said: "The salary of interns is 1,500 yuan, and they start at 2,200 directly after becoming a full member. I heard that there are several levels of salary behind, and the top monthly salary can be tens of thousands of yuan."

This is really no way. The domestic game artists can't be described as singularity, but there are no professional game artists at all. 99.99% of college students majoring in art have never even been exposed to professional art software, let alone what CG painting is. These students still need to be trained when recruiting, and they can only be temporary interns, and they can become regular after mastering the initial skills.

The 3D engine of "World of Warcraft" was not the most advanced at the time, but Blizzard's art was too powerful, and art can be used to make up for the lack of the game engine. Also awesome is South Korea's NC, stupefied with the Unreal 2 engine, which is not suitable for MMORPG games, to produce the beautifully pictured "Paradise 2".

Hu Geng went upstairs to report to Zulong's studio, but found that no one was paying attention to him at all. Everyone was surrounded by a computer.

Song Weiyang was standing in front of the computer, looking at the semi-finished product of "Freedom and Glory 2," frowning and saying, "You are not good at 3D. The buildings are all angular squares, just built with building blocks. Same."

The designer of the first and second generation of Zulong's 3D engine is He Di, who has a master's degree from Tsinghua University. He replied: "This is already at the international leading level."

Song Weiyang asked: "Can you make it more realistic?"

He Di said: "Theoretically. Microsoft launched DirectX8.0 at the end of last year, introducing the concept of pixel rendering, and we can use this to develop a new 3D engine. But boss, I must remind you that games made with this technology, At present, 99.99% of computers in China can't afford to drag, and the graphics card will explode directly."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "It's okay. The online game you are going to develop will not go online until at least four or five years. By then, the domestic computer configuration will definitely be enough."

"Then we will develop a new 3D engine first." He Di said.

In fact, "World of Warcraft" has been set up in 1999, and now the picture is similar to that of Zulong Studio's game-the stones are all square.

The semi-finished products of "World of Warcraft" from 1999 to 2001 used the engine of "Warcraft 3". The screen effects are various and the characters of various races also make people feel nauseous. It happened that Microsoft launched DX8.0 in November 2000. With the so-called pixel rendering concept, Blizzard immediately began to develop an engine specifically for "World of Warcraft" and invalidated most of the results of the previous two years. "World of Warcraft" that players are dreaming about.

At this moment, although "World of Warcraft" has been established for more than a year, the new engine has just begun to be developed, and Zulong Studio has not been left too far.

"That, excuse me." Hu Geng said weakly.

Everyone swept over, and Song Weiyang turned around and asked, "Are you?"

Hu Geng said: "Wild fox under the tree."

"Oh, you're here," Song Weiyang introduced to everyone, "This is one of the game master planners I invited, the name of the tree, Wild Fox, who is responsible for the game plot design. Well, most of you are enemies. , The wild fox under the tree graduated from Peking University."

Everyone laughed, because more than 80% of them are graduates of Tsinghua University.

Song Weiyang asked: "Did you bring your game plan?"

"Bring it," Hu Geng took out a thick pile of manuscripts from his bag, "This is the game story outline, this is the game content design. However, the game content design should not be used much, because my original intention is Doing card games has nothing to do with large-scale graphic online games."

Song Weiyang had read the novel "Sou Shen Ji" in his previous life. He flipped through the outline of the story and found that the outline was exactly the same as the plot of the novel-the novel was written according to the outline.

"Just use this. The name of the game is "Shan Hai Jing" and the project name is "Shan Hai Jing Project"," Song Weiyang said. "Li Qing is the chief game planner, responsible for game content design, and Hu Geng is the deputy game planner and responsible Game plot design. You must cooperate with each other to achieve a perfect combination of game and plot. He Di serves as the game chief and is responsible for the development of a new 3D engine. As for the main beauty..."

Li Qing immediately said: "I know someone very awesome on the Internet. His name is Lu Xiaoyin. He is from the Department of Fine Arts of Zhejiang Normal University. He is only a few months away from undergraduate graduation. I have emailed him and he said I am willing to come over and try it, and it is estimated that I will be in Rongcheng within a few days."

Lu Xiaoyin is the perfect COO of the future. He is responsible for the fine arts of "Perfect World", "Zhu Xian", "Wulin Story" and "Swordsman".

Song Weiyang threw out a few more pages of the manuscript: "These are some of my thoughts, you can study them."

Song Weiyang also played "World of Warcraft" before, but only played the level 60 version. He didn't know the content of the game after that. The content of the manuscripts he threw out were nothing more than copies, PVP and PVE concepts, life occupations, and equipment color grading.

The crowd gathered around to take a look, and immediately put away their underestimation, and no longer took Song Weiyang's money to play the game as a layman, at least they did not expect a lot of content and gameplay in it.

For example, online games in Japan and South Korea are popular to take medicine to replenish blood; games in Europe and the United States are popular to eat food to replenish physical strength, and it is necessary to play slowly to regain blood. Song Weiyang pointed out here that the "Shan Hai Jing" to be developed can collect wild food or cut meat from animal carcasses, or even fish in the river by yourself. After learning the cooking recipes, you can make your own food. These foods can also be slow. Bleeding. Of course, there are various formulas of elixir. After all, it is an ancient mythical game. You can configure the elixir by yourself to return blood to blue.

The item levels in the game are set by Song Weiyang as "Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang", these four levels are special treasures. There are also green "craftsman"-level items, white "fan"-level items, and gray broken items.

Song Weiyang said: "What we are doing is not a game, but an ancient mythical world in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". We must do all the details well and surprise the players in subtleties anytime, anywhere."

Everyone suddenly promised, in fact, there is no need for Song Weiyang to remind the game developers of this era.

Is "World of Warcraft" really unbeatable? Can't even other games survive in its shadow?

Impossible, everyone will turn when the earth leaves. Another time-space NC's "Aion" almost counterattacked ~www.readwn.com~ How hot was the "Aion" at that time?

Shanda was planning to open 80 sets of servers in one month. Due to the influx of players, they were full in one day. The domestic card agency rights were sold at a high price of 200 million yuan, and Shanda's share price soared by 20%. Don't say that this is because "World of Warcraft" was suspended. It was a month after the "Aion" public beta. After "Warcraft" was suspended due to agency rights, the number of online users of "Aion" did skyrocket. .

"Aion" failed because Chen Tianqiao wanted to transform into financial investment and used this game as a cash machine. The card charging has been operating well. Suddenly, two-way charging has been created. Numerous RMB players have popped up, and even web page sweepstakes have been conducted. The money is used to exchange attribute equipment and props, forcing players to abandon the pit.

Let's talk about another NC game "Sword Spirit". This time they did not find the cheating Shanda, but found the reliable Tencent. Tencent is really reliable. The number of simultaneous online users of "Sword Spirit" quickly exceeded 1.5 million-the highest online number of "World of Warcraft" was only 1.3 million.

It's a pity that NC is in chaos inside, and the core creators run away with his sister-in-law one after another. The follow-up main creations got a batch of garbage, and they could only make money for wing fashion. Not to mention the progress of the update, but also made "Sword Spirit" a mess.

Although "World of Warcraft" had been updated to the level 90 version when "Sword Spirit" was launched, "Sword Spirit" had indeed dominated the game before it was defeated when it encountered chaos within the development company.

Song Weiyang invested in the development of this "Shan Hai Jing", as long as the game is steadily completed and launched before "World of Warcraft", it may not be able to keep Dad Blizzard under pressure, at least it will be evenly divided.

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