industrial maniac

Chapter 420 TEP Group VS Ironhide Company

Daze Underground Industry Group, West District.

Director Xu is no longer an ordinary person.

Three years ago, when he visited a certain company, everyone would scramble to surround him, asking if the tin company was still hiring.

Two years ago, when he visited a certain company, everyone would follow the company's top management, holding flowers and lining up to welcome him.

If it were last year, when he visited a certain company, everyone would be notified in advance and stay in the office honestly, pretending to be working hard.

And this year...

No one knew that Director Xu would come, including the manager and person in charge of the company.

So, after Xu Fei threw the vicious dog to Daze's militiamen, he adjusted the authority of the power bank, and swiped his card to enter the "Golden Age Dynasty" network service company. Except for the female employees who frequently looked back, no one noticed the rest. Come in a big boss.

Therefore, Xu Fei visited the company's planning team, program department, art department, testing department, customer service department, human resources and Daze labor dispatch docking center unimpeded all the way...

Shengshi Dynasty Network Service Company used to be a powerful guild formed on the server of the legendary game Thunder.

Later, members were organized to sell Leizer Technology's keyboards and mice, adapter cables, high-quality imitation charging treasures, etc., and successively leased special counters in supply and marketing agencies in various places, and set up salesmen.

The members made money offline, and in order to maintain the relationship with the president, they were even more willing to spend money on playing games, which greatly improved the strength of the guild.

In this way, Shengshi Dynasty quickly developed into a famous "game guild" in China, with more than [-] core members, that is, counter salesmen, and more than [-] peripheral members, that is, players who did not participate in consignment sales.

The president of Shengshi Dynasty, relying on several luxurious parties and willful spending of money, not only changed his identity from "factory manager's training" to "mysterious rich second generation", but also relied on the hidden background of the factory manager's training to become one of the 'Guiquan' has become a well-known figure in the domestic Internet field.

Later, something happened to the legendary game, and the president of Shengshi Dynasty also accumulated a considerable amount of funds through the consignment business, so the other party called on the technical personnel among the players to set up a network service company to help other game manufacturers complete some game production aspects. small order.

I don’t know if it’s luck, or there is a real background, Shengshi Dynasty first got the development order of "Mechanical Three Kingdoms Game Big and Small Secret Realm in March 02", and then got the art order of "Mechanical Three Kingdoms Krypton Gold Card Game", and then got the Old Walker Manor - Chinese dubbing order for Call of Duty Mobei to suppress drugs.

Relying on the benefits brought by these three orders, Shengshi Dynasty successfully completed its start, and then recruited senior IT talents everywhere to make the game foundry business bigger and stronger. In May this year, it even decided to develop its own online games.

Up to now, Shengshi Dynasty has a registered capital of 1.2 million red notes and a paid-in capital of 6500 million. It has leased Daze Underground Industry Group - No. 1195-1268, West District, a total of 73 sets of two-story commercial buildings, with more than 1500 employees. The IT field is also considered to be on the top of the list.

At present, it owns a game-specific chat tool - Dynasty CC, and has reached a cooperation with CCC Network Company, which is responsible for the integrated commercial operation of radar communication, to support "internet chat".

For example, if you log in to the Mecha Three Kingdoms game and find that there is a player 150 meters away, you can send information to the other party's game character, or establish a communication connection.

Of course, in order to protect the player's gaming experience, any player can set the 'reject strangers to establish contact' in the game, and the security responsible party of CCC Network Company - TEP Network Service Company will also review the relevant information to avoid certain People use this tool to carry out illegal activities.

As a result, the radar communication integration project cannot enter North America because it involves personal privacy.

However, no one knows that the Tower Company under the TEP Group is monitoring the world, even the "NSA that monitors the world". The UU launched by the other party is even worse than Dynasty CC in terms of privacy.

Otherwise, how would the oil king die...

Xu Fei was strolling around Shengshi Dynasty Company, thinking of the oil king, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

There is no way, to remove one of the world's three giants, and my younger brother becomes one of them, how do I think, how do I feel that I am really awesome.

"Hello, are you a new employee?"

At this time, a young man with plain clothes and glasses greeted him while sitting in the office.

Xu Fei nodded, "Brother, what's the matter?"

"I haven't slept for two days, it's going to be a bit of a nap, you help me stare at the screen, as long as there is a freeze, you press Enter, don't worry about the rest, I'll go buy a cup of coffee, and have a meal, up to 5 minutes Hurry back."

Xu Fei heard the words and looked at the five computer screens in front of the other party.

Sometimes, you will find that there are some incomprehensible things about your side.

For example, in the 80s, Eastern football was a top-ranking team in the Asia-Pacific. Now let alone Wadao and Nanbangzi, they might not be able to play South Vietnam.

For example, in the 80s, a series of high-quality cartoons emerged in the East, including the stories of Calabash Brothers, Sukebeta, Avanti, and the recently popular Haier Brothers. to other boutiques.

For example, in the 90s, Dongfang was able to independently develop large-scale games, otherwise there would be no Qin Shang, Swordsman Qingyuan, and Butterfly Meteor Sword.

When Xu Fei encountered 'non-mainstream' in Daze last time, he also suspected that capital had penetrated into the cultural management, and some people with dishonest buttocks, under the influence of capital, distorted their own thinking.

It's a pity that after a long time of investigation, no evidence has been found.

The East is not an overseas country. We must abide by the rules when we do things. Naturally, we can't do it without evidence.

Fortunately, I have already established the first-generation database. With the help of countless resources, the Eastern game industry has grown rapidly without being fully revived.

Just like the current development of Shengshi Dynasty, it is an online game with horizontal version fighting + map exploration + scene decryption + collection of achievements.

The fighting engine of the horizontal version is the same as that of the "Mechanical Three Kingdoms Game", which uses the TS engine of "Command and Conquer", but only part of the structure and background images have been adjusted by West Studio, which looks like a horizontal version.

Players fight monsters and upgrade in the horizontal version of the scene, unlock the mechanism in the scene, and then enter the next scene.

When 10-20 scenes are explored, the player exits the scene mode and will appear in a large map.

The big map adopts the framework of "Mechanical Three Kingdoms Game", but the designers of Shengshi Dynasty Company complicated the framework, the artist filled the framework with exquisite stickers, and the programmers patched up the above products to create a game different from the " The "Magic Map" of the Big Map of the Mechanical Three Kingdoms game.

The large and small secret realms in the old game map become a copy of the scene in the new game.

The pixel character fighting in the old game has become a horizontal fighting version of the gorgeous character in the new game.

Treasures and mechanical devices in the old game can be replaced with stickers to become materials and equipment in the new game.

In addition, the cards in the "Mechanical Three Kingdoms Krypton Gold Card Game" are replaced with stickers, and they become various "fragments" that can be collected in the new game, which are used to form equipment, fashion, attribute titles, etc.

It can be said that the games of Shengshi Dynasty are equal to "old game background" + "own creativity" + "a little bit of own technology".

And what the IT staff has to do is to add their own to make the old game reborn.

You can even draw materials from games such as Qin Shang, Swordsman Love, Meteor Butterfly Sword, Duty and Call from the database, adjust the frame, and replace the stickers to make these materials something you can use.

Using this model, Shengshi Dynasty Company can completely produce a "new work of burning graphics card" within half a year, and other companies can also produce their own "work of burning graphics card" in a very short period of time.

Of course, burning a graphics card is tantamount to setting a threshold for players to pass.

If players are not willing to spend money on graphics cards, they will naturally not play such games.

Therefore, the game must be fun, and it must be fun to squeeze out other games, so that only "games that burn graphics cards" are left on the market.

At this point, players who want to play games have to buy a graphics card.

Unless you never play the game.

In order to make the game fun, due to the limited material in the first generation database, and only three or two game engines, the company can only take the special effects route.

This is the same reason that RGB Co., Ltd. borrowed the "industrial three-color PN knot" to become the second largest game manufacturer in the world, focusing on gorgeousness.

What, what is the ranking of Bandai Toys?

Bandai is already making smartphones, not toys now.

It's just that gorgeousness has gorgeous gameplay. If you make the skills colorful, make the map radiant, and make the equipment blind your eyes, players will definitely not buy it.

The philosophy of Military Division - Game Strategy Department is: to bloom in simplicity.

For example, the gunslinger in Shengshi Dynasty's new game.

At the beginning, he was dressed in shabby clothes, holding two Colts, and the bullets he fired were only a few points.

Even if it is upgraded, even if the equipment is replaced, the whole is still extremely simple.

But he has a powerful skill called: Explosive Grenade.

Players need to collect materials and make N copies before releasing N times.

Every time it is released, it can almost clean up the monsters in the entire scene.

When it is released, the system not only gives the voice prompt of "beware of grenades" in the CS game, but also gives a big countdown in the middle of the screen.

3, 2, 1~~~

Boom!

In an instant, the flames were raging, fragments shot out, the screen shook violently, countless flames engulfed the monsters in the scene, and even other players could see you released the 'explosive grenade' on the big map.

It can be said to be full of refreshment, full of vanity, and full of sense of accomplishment.

Then the graphics card died.

In the same way, other professions also have a similar skill.

The same goes for other games as well.

In short, our game does not require a high graphics card, and any player can experience it. But after you play for a while, you finally gather the materials and create a professional finishing move. Do you choose to release and change the graphics card, or choose to abandon the game?

This is 'blooming in simplicity'.

It has to be said that the group of old men in the military division is very bad.

While Xu Fei was thinking, he helped the young programmers in the planning team stare at the screen, waiting quietly for the other party to return.

Since it only needs to hit the 'Enter key' when the code is stuck, it looks to the left boringly.

The programmers in the planning department are different from the brick movers in the programming department. They are responsible for connecting all kinds of finished 'fragments' one by one to form the client.

In front of the programmer on the left are also five computers, one displays the game screen, which is a bit like a running map, one displays the frame rate, gear change gear and other tools, one displays the background code, one is used for recording, and one is used for adjustment.

What the other party is testing is the movement of the game character, movement and casting, movement continuity, recoil after being hit, body stiffness, and so on.

Xu Fei secretly checked the development progress of the game from the power bank. It has reached 100%, and only the final test is left.

"No wonder the young man who asked me to help hasn't slept for two days."

Thinking about it, Xu Fei called out the translucent page, found the fragments related to Internet cafes from the expansion pack, and then went in to experience and observe the future game.

Soon, he discovered a Tianxia 2 and a Nishuihan...

Xu Fei looked at the programmer on the left, and said, "As a horizontal version of the game, the height of the model of the game character accounts for one-third of the length of the screen. I think that what players care most about is whether the character looks good or not. No sense of substitution."

The programmer of the planning team, who was testing, turned his head when he heard the words, "The artist has optimized the character's face shape, and put a lot of effort into the clothing, even showing rings, bracelets, accessories and other small parts, the fineness has surpassed the market. on most games."

"Do you like the sameness? Or, do you want other people's game characters to be exactly the same as yours?"

"This……"

"We can add the 'squeeze face' module, and synchronize the pinched face to the character's avatar. In the future, we will form a team and speak on the world channel, all of which are unique. In this way, we can set the 'first pinch face free, second pinch face Half price, three face pinches will be charged a service fee based on the adjustment."

"Makes sense!"

Suddenly, the middle-aged man on the opposite side of the computer stood up and said, "And we can also add a character portrait frame to launch a 'custom frame' that has nothing to do with the game's attributes, but you can enjoy it only after charging money."

Xu Fei appreciated his ability to draw inferences from one instance to another, "Then, if we don't change the theme of the game, which is plain and simple, maybe we can introduce the 'illusory wings' system according to the player's level. This wing is also simple and plain, with only a touch of Phantom, even if the player plays it in the later stage, it will not be noticed by people, but if the player is willing to spend money, we can not only change the shape of the wings for the player, but also make the wings flutter gently, and even glow with red light spots, blue light spots, Black dots of light... In short, the more money the better."

The middle-aged man thought for a while, "It can be done, but if you want to make the wings attractive, the current picture can't show it."

"What about X-series graphics cards?"

"That's for sure."

"Isn't this a promotional slogan? Use the old graphics card with one image quality, and use the X-series graphics card with the same image quality. It's completely two games."

"Hey, we are a game company, and we don't sell graphics cards."

"..."

Let you play games, isn't it just to help me sell graphics cards?

Xu Fei wanted to say something else, the programmer who went out to eat returned.

The other party holds a cup of coffee in his left hand and a cup in his right.

When he came to the office, he handed over the coffee in his right hand, "Thank you brother, but today's coffee is a bit bad."

"polite."

Xu Fei took it smoothly and inserted the straw. ,

The reason why this cup of coffee is unpalatable must be because when the programmer decided to buy it, intelligence personnel had already replaced the waiter in the coffee shop, and then replaced it with internal ingredients to make two cups urgently.

If the intelligence people were too late, someone from the board of directors would show up.

After all, James of the TEP Group really wanted Director Xu's life.

Xu Fei chatted with the planning team for a long time, and finally learned about the new game of Shengshi Dynasty. Then, after getting off work at noon, he went to the "Jiangshan Picturesque" multimedia company next door to have a look.

The overall situation is similar to Shengshi Dynasty, and it is also independently developing online games. The new product is similar to Chenghai 3C in the expansion pack, which is a Three Kingdoms battle game.

If it's just for experience, the requirements for the graphics card are not high.

But in the later stage of the team battle, the number of monsters increases, and the character skills become more and more blind. If the graphics card can't keep up, there will be a lag phenomenon.

If you get stuck at a critical moment, you will definitely lose the game.

It doesn't matter if you lose once, it's a bit annoying to lose twice, but if you lose three times, or even lose all the time, you're probably going to smash the computer.

Therefore, it is necessary for our company to launch a comprehensive product that can play games with graphics card + monitor.

"Or, integrate the graphics card into the monitor?"

"Or, integrate the CPU into the display as well."

Thinking of this, Xu Fei quickly walked into the control room of the rail car, turned off all recording and monitoring, contacted James, the chairman of TEP Group, and told the other party this idea, and asked TEP Group to launch 'graphics card + monitor', or 'graphics card + CPU + monitor' all-in-one.

In this way, TEP Group also entered the field of graphics cards and formed a competitor with Ironhide, which owns Octopus Technology.

The two sides confronted, confronted, confronted, and the graphics card continued to develop, develop, develop...

It won't be long before Nvidia, ATI, AMD, etc. can be dragged to death by themselves.

After Xu Fei finished operating, the power bank suddenly received a notification.

The advent of the X-series graphics cards damaged the interests of the Western Science and Technology Alliance, and the other party formed a group to sue Ironhide and Octopus Technology.

Now a month later, the case officially opened for trial.

However, the family reached a cooperation with Wall Street, and the financial tycoons who invested in the Western Technology Alliance appeared on the scene. The case will definitely win the Iron Sheet Company.

However, the Western Science and Technology Alliance was not reconciled, so it threw out Nintendo and angered Director Xu.

"No wonder you dare to criticize me for polluting the game industry with light effects. It turns out that there is support behind me."

Xu Fei pondered for a while, and looked up at the starry sky, "The director of the factory made a calculation, and Nintendo must have a bloodbath tonight."