The project plan was finalized.
All aspects of the company are also operating in full swing.
In terms of project costs, Gu Sheng was spoiled by a boss like Shen Miaomiao, who always asked for "the more the better".
It is said that it is not easy to learn good things, but it is easy to learn bad things.
From the beginning, he was shocked by Shen Miaomiao's wealth and her frantic move to increase the budget.
Later on, I got used to the crazy increase in cost budget.
Now, he asks for money without even waiting for the boss to ask, showing his unsatisfied desire.
Don’t understand local tycoons, understand local tycoons, and become a local tycoon.
The three steps seemed long, but Gu Sheng only took one and a half years to complete them.
Even now, Shen Miaomiao, who was always extravagant, was a little frightened when she saw Gu Sheng reaching out his hand.
It’s not that she was afraid that the company would lose all its money, but it was mainly because she seemed to be increasingly unable to meet Gu Sheng’s cost demands.
However, this situation will not last long.
After TTF successfully makes a loss, he will have money.
By then, I will be able to regain my former glory as a wealthy woman and make eight or nine figures with a wave of my hand.
In order to achieve this goal, in this investment, Shen Miaomiao also tried her best to cooperate with Gu Sheng, cater to Gu Sheng, satisfy Gu Sheng, and strive to squeeze out the golden wind.
Fortunately, the PUBG project is now very popular all over the country, and the income is stable and considerable.
The final cost of the project was even higher than their previous budget, at 170 million yuan. The estimated price was 198 yuan per copy, and the development cycle was estimated to be five to six months.
On the day when the project was officially launched, Shen Miaomiao hugged her fifty-year-old birthday and was so happy for a long time.
"Fifty, fifty. This time we've made a fortune..."
Shen Miaomiao couldn't stop laughing:
"The cost is 170 million. Even if we take the worst-case scenario into consideration and let Lao Gu earn 100 million,"
"That still leaves 70 million that cannot be recovered."
"Seventy million, ten times that is seven hundred million,"
“Tsk tsk…”
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao felt relieved.
Once upon a time, I was a weakling crying and wailing for a small treasury of 10 million.
Just a month passed.
My vision has increased by seventy times, and I have begun to focus on projects with a rebate of 700 million yuan.
It’s true!
A blessing in disguise.
Although PUBG made money.
However, it also laid the economic foundation for her to suffer even greater losses today!
"Believe me!"
Shen Miaomiao paused for a while, then placed the fifty pieces neatly back on the desk and patted them:
"This time, we will win!"
…
beginning of winter.
It is auspicious for traveling, getting married, taking up a new post, starting construction, and erecting beams and pillars.
With the funds in place, the Titanfall project officially started.
The first thing to do when starting a work is not to launch the program, nor to start composition and modeling, nor even to create a new folder.
But——
"Now Mr. Ou has replaced all the cameras on the entire floor with facial recognition,"
In the project department, everyone surrounded the backbone Gu Sheng, and everyone was worried:
"How do we work overtime?"
actually!
This time, they have relatively ample time for the project and no longer need to work overtime as hard as they did during the PUBG period.
But the problem is, when it comes to work, especially when you are doing a job you love, you cannot set a strict time to get off work.
But the camera’s facial recognition doesn’t care about that.
As long as you are still in the company between 17:00 and 9:00 in the morning, even if you leave one minute late, it will be considered overtime.
By then, the snack coins will be gone.
You must know!
Nowadays, in the golden wind, snack coins are the main currency circulating within the company!
This thing can not only be used to catch dolls.
You can use snack coins to ask colleagues to bring you milk tea, smoke a pack of cigarettes, or even trade fruits after a meal!
Yes.
Shen Miaomiao's outrageous anti-overtime mechanism finally worked, and everyone is now inseparable from snack coins.
I don't want to give up my snack coins, but I can't guarantee that I won't work overtime for even a minute.
Therefore, how to obtain snack coins and work overtime at the same time became the first problem for the Titanfall project team.
Everyone brainstorms!
Some said they hacked the camera, some said they unplugged the camera, and some got inspiration from the movie and wanted to stick photos in front of the camera.
final!
After a series of heated discussions!
Everyone agreed with the director's good idea -
Bend the camera angle upwards a bit.
High-end hacking methods are often presented in the simplest way.
that's all!
The biggest problem that troubled the project team was solved.
The work pace is back on track.
The Return a Favor Action Team Group has been activated again.
And Shen Miaomiao's Porsche also appeared frequently in the group again.
The project quickly got on track.
Everyone's serious attitude towards work is even more serious than in the previous PUBG project.
Gu Sheng also moved out of his office again and spent the whole day in the project department——
"...Hey, that's right, this is exactly the effect we want."
Gu Sheng crossed his legs, held a cigarette in his mouth, and nodded repeatedly as he looked at the level scene modeling renderings sent by the art team.
But in the rendering, there were mountains in the distance, with towering peaks reaching into the clouds.
Between the mountains, a group of huge signal towers stand. Their mottled metallic luster exudes a heavy and cold steel atmosphere under the setting sun.
Steel cable lines crisscross between signal towers.
The huge signal tower and the mountains and clouds complement each other, interweaving into a wonderful and shocking scene.
[My analysis shows that throwing is the only way]
BT's icy yet extremely reliable voice rang in Gu Sheng's mind.
When the game is ready, I will experience for myself what it feels like to be thrown out by you.
Thinking of this, Gu Sheng couldn't help but smile and gave a thumbs-up to Dajiang beside him:
"As expected of our art director, precise, efficient, awesome."
"Well……"
Hearing Gu Sheng's praise, Dajiang grinned a little embarrassedly:
"Actually... this... is also thanks to our Junior Sister Jiang."
"Why--"
Gu Sheng quickly made a stop gesture:
"Don't be so mean, I've never called me my senior brother, and I'm not his idol, so don't drag me down with you."
As soon as you say this!
Dajiang's face turned red!
“Oh no…”
But the words are not finished yet!
Then the sound of footsteps was heard, and Jiang Shan walked over with brisk steps.
He nodded and greeted Gu Sheng first: "Director Gu."
Then he said softly to Dajiang: "Um... Senior Brother, I have a question that I don't quite understand. Do you have time..."
Gu Sheng got goosebumps!
He quickly kicked the swivel chair under Dajiang's butt.
Go away!
"Hey? Hey hey?"
Dajiang screamed and flew away in his chair.
Gu Sheng smiled and waved.
Stay away from me, you brothers and sisters, go and have fun somewhere else.
This way.
Just as Dajiang was kicked away, Lu Bian came again.
"Old Gu, I won't waste any more of your time. I have two questions."
"speak."
"First of all, the setting of this level [Cause and Effect] is really awesome. Let me brag about it."
"Then?"
"The second thing is that Kailang and I have been studying it for two fucking hours, and we still can't figure out how to make the switch seamless."
“…”
Gu Sheng knew that what Lu Bian was talking about was the level when the game entered the mid-term and the protagonist obtained the new time-travel equipment.
In this creative level, the protagonist will master the ability to travel through time.
Avoid battles and solve puzzles by switching between different timelines in the same scene.
This level is very cleverly designed and refreshing.
But it’s well known!
Every game will go through a graphics loading process when switching maps, which is inevitable.
Such frequent map switching will inevitably increase the rendering load of the game screen, resulting in a decline in graphics quality and even screen tearing.
Lu Bian knew that if he wanted to achieve stunning results in this level, he had to ensure that the picture was perfect after the player switched the timeline.
"The performance of Yiyoux2 is not that great yet, and it cannot reach the rendering speed of frame-pulling level,"
Lu Bian said:
"Such crazy map switching will inevitably cause the graphics to load in a delayed manner. The best we can do is to ensure that the screen does not tear,"
"Do you have any good ideas?"
Gu Sheng thought for a moment:
"Changing the map causes the graphics to load untimely, so why don't we just not change the map?"
"ah?"
Lu Bian was stunned:
"Brother, do you know what you are talking about?"
The theme of this level is to jump back and forth between two level maps. You say we don’t switch maps?
What are we going to do if we don’t switch maps? Are we really going to let players travel through time?
How can we make a stupid game with that kind of technology?
Seeing that Lu Bian didn't understand, Gu Sheng took out a cigarette, put it in Lu Bian's mouth, and lit it for him:
“Think about how we deal with the camera?”
Camera?
Lu Bian didn't understand what Gu Sheng meant.
In order to avoid being caught for working overtime, they raised the camera's angle of view?
This way, the camera won’t be able to capture their facial recognition.
But this is in line with the scene...
Wait?!
“Fuck!”
Lu Bian seemed to suddenly understand what Gu Sheng meant:
"Z axis???"
Gu Sheng shrugged: "High-end optimization methods are often presented in the simplest way."
"Wow, that's awesome! That's awesome!" Lu Bian exclaimed repeatedly!
He completely understood Gu Sheng's solution——
As Gu Sheng said, since switching between the two maps requires rendering time, we can put the original two maps together.
The "past" and "present" scenes are divided into upper and lower layers and placed together on a map, just like a two-story building.
Afterwards, by moving the Z axis of the main perspective, the time switching effect is presented.
In this way, when the player walks into this two-story building, the scenes on the first and second floors have actually been loaded synchronously.
The final effect is that the player can travel through time and space by pressing the watch.
Bang!
I'll throw you to the second floor. The switching speed is so fast that it is impossible to detect it with the naked eye.
You press the watch again.
Bang!
I'll put it back on the first floor for you.
In this way, no matter how many times the player switches, he is actually jumping up and down in one map. There will be no graphics loading delay at all, let alone screen tearing.
“Awesome, awesome, awesome…”
Lu Bian was convinced, he pushed off the ground, and rolled away automatically like the river.
However, before Lu Bian could roll away for half a minute.
Jiang Yun came over again: "Director Gu, can we make some changes to this place..."
"Brother Sheng..."
Rolling bones——
"lead……"
Rolling bones——
“Look here…”
The swivel chair slides in the project department.
For a moment, the huge project department turned into a curling rink. Everyone seemed to be paralyzed, sliding back and forth in the middle of the rink.
The progress of the project has also made rapid progress with each of these rollouts.
…
Over here, development on Titanfall is in full swing.
On the other hand, various media players were also very curious about the Golden Wind project called TTF and were discussing it a lot.
Yes, this time Gu Sheng did not choose to block the entire project, but only asked employees to sign a technical information confidentiality agreement.
Because he really needs to keep the project hot and get more users to help them promote it for free.
After all, 170 million is still a bit tight for this project.
This money is basically only enough for them to carry out the main development work of the project, and the proportion of publicity and promotion expenses is almost zero.
Therefore, Gu Sheng cannot keep the game completely confidential.
He needs to use the gimmick of "mech game" to arouse market discussion and increase the attention of the media and players.
It turns out.
His plan worked very well.
Since the TTF project was launched, various media have been speculating and reporting continuously.
"Informed sources revealed that the escort masterpiece that Golden Wind is developing is actually a mecha game?"
"Find a new path or give up on yourself?"
"A well-known game reviewer said that the choice of theme for Golden Wind this time is the biggest disaster in history"
"Silent counterattack? Is Golden Wind's selection of materials a silent protest against Yiyou?"
"Fall or Continue to Shine? A Rational Analysis of the Theme of Golden Wind's New Work——"
Reports came in one after another.
Judging from the overwhelming number of pessimistic voices, the current position of mecha games in the gaming genre is indeed very embarrassing.
There were a few media outlets that didn't sound pessimistic, but they only did so out of consideration for Huang Jinfeng and Gu Sheng's sake.
"There really isn't even a single platform for mecha games..."
In the office, Shen Miaomiao slid the mouse, flipping through the reports about them, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise.
Check out the comments below -
"This type of thing is too outrageous. Has Brother Sheng lost his mind?"
"This is no longer abstract. The choice of Escort Masterpiece to make a mecha game is simply performance art."
"It's normal. If I were to take on the three major FPS manufacturers, I would also be a jerk."
"You kid, you always come up with something new for me (Yun Fei face)"
"Don't be so pessimistic. Didn't no one have high hopes for horror games before? Didn't phobia still explode? "
"Are you comparing mecha games to horror games? Even if you don't like horror games, you can't criticize them so harshly, right?"
“Hahahahahahaha…”
'Indeed, horror games also had their heyday before the rise of paraphobia. Works like Midnight, Sin, and Mansion were all top-tier back in the day, but they gradually fell out of favor because everyone got tired of being scared.'
"Now that you mention it... it seems like there aren't any good mecha games out there..."
'It's just a pie in the sky'
"Balance is a big problem for this type of game, and it's easy to enter sage mode after having fun."
"If Golden Wind is not playing a prank, then it must be doing scientific research."
'indeed……'
Genius, I found a treasure!
As she read the comments, Shen Miaomiao's smile became brighter and brighter, and her big eyes sparkled like gold coins.
Gu Shengcheng never lied to me, and the project team never lied to me!
This type of game is simply a discarded pawn among discarded pawns, a failure among failures.
It looks like I can finally—
…
"I can rest easy now! Hahahahaha..."
at the same time.
Shenzhou, Xunteng Technology Headquarters, Deputy General Manager's Office.
Ding Kai sat opposite Chen Guangde, general manager of Xunteng Technology, clapped his hands and laughed, then handed over the phone.
"Mecha game, this is really...tsk tsk tsk,"
Ding Kai shook his head and sneered:
"Golden Wind is really desperate and is trying every possible means to cure his illness,"
"I feel that I have been successful in finding new ways before, and I am getting more and more arrogant, so I dare to try this type of game ."
"I don't know whether they are overconfident or anxious."
Hearing this, Chen Guangde on the opposite side also smiled.
Although he was not as arrogant as Ding Kai, he also had a look of being sure of winning.
After all, both of them have been working in the gaming industry for many years.
No one knows better than them what the trends in the circle are.
Mecha games, a genre that has been out of fashion for a long time... Oh no, it can't even be considered out of fashion, because it has never been popular...
It would be harder than climbing to the sky to create any waves.
not to mention!
Golden Wind's investment this time is only 200 million.
Fighting three against one was already an impossible task, and now he had to put himself in shackles.
"It seems that Yiyou and Golden Wind have really discussed the horse racing game this time, and Golden Wind has simply let himself go..."
Chen Guangde smiled slightly and shook his head.
"well!"
Speaking of this, Ding Kai seemed to have some regrets:
"It's a pity that Golden Wind got scared at the last minute and came up with such a game theme that no one cares about,"
"I originally wanted to avenge my previous humiliation and pin Golden Wind to the ground and give him a good humiliation, but now it seems..."
"Drink tea, drink tea,"
Before Ding Kai could finish, Chen Guangde interrupted him and pushed the small cup over:
"Let's not talk about regrets. The most important thing is to focus on the present."
Chen Guangde had a smile on his face, but he knew what was going on.
Okay, you're going to stop bragging. You used 100 million to make someone beat you like a fucking melon, how can you still lick that idiot's face and talk nonsense?
Weren't you the one who was pinned to the ground and beaten by the Golden Wind II FPS?
How come the scar healed so quickly and the pain was forgotten?
This time, the reason why we are sure to win is that Golden Wind is not large enough and the cost is limited.
The second reason is that we are three against one.
If you can't win this battle, you three families can just go wherever you want, and I'll turn around and poach Gu Sheng.
To avenge the previous shame...
Drink your fucking tea.
After complaining in his heart, Chen Guangde picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly.
Nowadays, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is still very comfortable to drink a sip of hot tea.
Putting down the teacup and flipping through the calendar, Chen Guangde nodded.
Wait until the New Year is over.
The battle is about to begin.