Chapter 396: Undercurrents! Welcome to my world!
《Golden Wind announces that the engine has officially entered the development stage》
"Yunwei's next-generation motion-sensing masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum" announced to participate in this year's Cologne Exhibition"
"Konami revealed that the M&A is progressing smoothly and is expected to be completed before the Cologne Game Show begins."
According to joint statistics from SNG and Twitch, the number of people who have made reservations to watch the online live broadcast of this year's Cologne Game Show has exceeded 32 million.
《Tianlang, a famous studio under Xun Teng, announced that it has reached a cooperation with Poland's Ziao Engine and will completely abandon the Dream series engine》
《The president of German game company Fafox announced plans to develop and upgrade the business engine》
《……》
Growing anxious!
The world war caused by the price adjustment of Dream Game, which affected the global gaming industry, has been ignited!
From the West to the East, all game manufacturers seem to have taken action.
The manufacturers affected have invested heavily in the research and development of their own engines.
Manufacturers like Golden Wind, which are in the eye of the storm, have become the focus of global attention.
Manufacturers that were not directly affected, such as Germany's Fafox, Poland's Aurora Games, etc., are also in a state of crisis.
Not only has it further stepped up the upgrade of its self-developed engine.
It also took this opportunity to try to open up its self-developed engine for commercial use, attempting to seize part of the market left vacant by the mysterious operation of Huanmeng.
As for other commercial engines!
Naturally, there was beating of drums and gongs, and everyone was filled with joy!
Everyone rushed to tell each other and celebrated the drop in the share price of Dream Engine, and ruthlessly paid out of their own pockets to incite public opinion and step on Dream Engine's head again!
Of course!
In addition, this is the focus of this world war in the gaming circle!
The Cologne Game Show in Germany, which will be held at the end of February, has naturally become the most concerned thing for players, no doubt about it!
Over 32 million viewers have made reservations to watch the show, more than double the number of reservations in previous years!
Those who discuss, eat melons, and express their opinions...
Perhaps for the world's gaming industry, this is an unprecedented world war.
But for the players, this is an unprecedented public opinion carnival!
Especially Golden Wind and Cloud Power!
Judging from the current situation, the focus of this year's Cologne Game Show has become very clear.
"Minecraft" created by Golden Wind Wu Qing will challenge "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum", a super IP game derivative masterpiece created by Yunwei at a huge cost.
One is a block pixel game with a total investment of no more than 20 million!
One is a next-generation 3S-level masterpiece whose copyright licensing fee alone exceeds 100 million!
It seems clear at a glance which is better.
After all, to put it bluntly, the current golden trend is actually reversing the course of our own development history.
An investment of $20 million!
You must know!
When Golden Wind competed with Konami for the first time, the game they launched, "Escape", had a total investment of nearly 19 million US dollars!
At that time, Golden Wind had not yet absorbed Steel Chain Fingers, nor acquired Melancholy Blues, nor had it undergone multiple salary increases afterwards, so the personnel costs were far less than they are now.
That is to say!
Times have changed!
Although the labor cost of Golden Wind has increased today, in fact, the production team members of this game created by Golden Experience Studio are still the same people. To some extent, their investment in outsourcing fees is even less than that of "Escape" back then!
If this isn’t going backwards, what is this?
So much so that now there are voices in the market pointing out - I think 20 million versus 328 million, even if Gollum is in a mess, he can't let a 20 million project go through, right?
If this were a war, it would be equivalent to 2,000 people against 32,800 people, an average of one against sixteen.
Not to mention people.
Even if sixteen pigs were to push one person, they would probably push that person to death.
So even though the battle hasn't started yet, many spectator players have predicted that Golden Wind is likely to suffer its biggest Waterloo in history.
As for his opponent, Kotick couldn't help but laugh three times after seeing this kind of public opinion. He was looking forward to burying Golden Wind with his own hands at the Cologne Games Show, and then happily receiving the priceless word-of-mouth IP!
However!
Before Codick's wide-open mouth could make any sound!
The emergence of a piece of news instantly reversed the extremely unfavorable situation for Golden Wind -
【Golden Wind V: "What are you doing?"】
What are you doing?
This is a very common question in daily life.
At the same time, it is also the title of the first trailer of "Minecraft"...
…
"So——?"
Looking at the title of this strange promotional video, Dream made a black question mark face expression:
"What a strange name..."
Dream, one of the new anchors of Laoshu TV.
Oh no, actually it’s a bit of a stretch to say that he is a new anchor, after all, he has been broadcasting on Laoshu Channel for nearly four years.
It’s just that Dream has always been tepid before , because the games he broadcast live are usually more casual and relaxing games.
The game is not very popular, so his popularity is naturally not high either.
Until a few months ago!
Just when almost all live streaming platforms were broadcasting "Resident Evil 7" and its subsequent DLCs!
Because of personal preferences, Dream did not follow the crowd, but accidentally saw the game "Stardew Valley" and lived a pastoral life.
But who would have thought that it was this unintentional act that made him one of the first players to start playing Stardew Valley.
Some of his strategies on how to make money and gain favorability quickly became popular in the gaming circle after the game became famous.
Even after that, when Call of Duty was booming, he still didn't play it. He simply bought the game and left it in the warehouse to gather dust. After Fury released Euro Truck Simulator, he gloriously became a truck driver and even formed a multi-modal transport team with his good friend George, driving long distances every day.
now.
Thanks to his personal gaming preferences and live streaming style, as well as the excellent live streaming results achieved with his good friend George, Dream has become a big gaming anchor with 7.6 million fans.
And today, with the release of the first promotional video of "Minecraft".
Dream, who had long been interested in this strange pixel-style block game, naturally opened the official Twitter account of Golden Wind and watched the promotional video.
Ding...Dong...
As the piano music flows like a gurgling stream, the picture gradually emerges.
In the empty office, the ticking sound of the clock was faint.
A man in a sky blue shirt, who was still working overtime, was working at his desk, writing and drawing on a tablet computer, apparently making a blueprint.
"…What???"
Seeing this, Dream couldn't help but let out a soft cry!
"This is actually... a live-action trailer? Oh my god, the last time I saw a live-action trailer for a game was Golden Wind's "Phasmophobia"!"
You know, game trailers rarely use real people.
So it’s no wonder Dream was so surprised.
At this time, in the live broadcast room, all the fans' eyes lit up——
"As expected, there is a new job. You are worthy of being the Golden Wind."
'It's a pity that Sam and Mia are not in the show'
'LOOOOOOL'
"So Golden Wind is really going to go retro?"
'Dream back to phobia'
"But the gap between the real person and the cube person is too big. How is Golden Wind going to balance them?"
"It's quite interesting. Let's see if there are any surprises..."
"……"
And as the audience discussed!
Knock knock knock knock——
Suddenly, a series of muffled knocking sounds came from the ground under the feet of the man who was working overtime.
Following right on!
Bang!
With a slight cracking sound, the two floor tiles at the man's feet broke. Then, a girl with blonde pigtails and a grass-green shirt poked her head out, holding a pixelated shovel in her hand. It gave a magical cartoon feeling as if the dimensional wall was broken and the pixelated style was invading reality!
"Hey! Steve! What are you doing?"
The girl half-poked her body out of the ground and tilted her head to ask the man who was still working at his desk.
“Ah…Ah! Ah?”
Steve was surprised by the girl who suddenly poked her head out from the floor tiles:
"Uh...hi...Alex, I'm working on an architectural design, what are you doing..."
“Hey—”
Hearing this, Alex waved his hand, then put the pixel shovel beside him and reached out:
"It's already time to get off work! Or... can you find some inspiration in the world below?"
"The world below?"
Steve was a little confused after hearing what Alex said.
He stretched out his hand and was about to ask, but at this moment, he saw Alex pulling him to the ground!
call--!!!
moment!
The camera's perspective passed through the dark dimensional wall, and as the two people screamed, a brand new pixel-style world suddenly appeared in front of them!
The clouds floating in the sky are angular cubes, the scattered hills on the ground are cubes, and even the sun in the distant skyline is a huge cube!
now!
They are falling from the sky!
When the screaming Steve turned around, he saw that Alex beside him had turned into a cute cube girl!
"Woooooooooow-!!!"
“Ohhhhh—my fvking god!”
The camera movement that broke through the dimensional wall instantly caused cheers of surprise in the live broadcast room!
Dream screamed repeatedly, marveling at the imagination of Golden Wind!
There is no doubt that such special shots are really amazing!
From the three-dimensional real world, through a space-time hole dug out with a pixel shovel, you can instantly travel to the pixel-style block world!
The tension and expressiveness of this picture can't help but make people exclaim in wonder!
Plop!
As a bucket of water was poured accurately at the bottom of his feet, Alex successfully brought Steve to land on the green grass.
"Oh - oh my god - I'm going to puke -"
Steve used his rough rectangular arms to soothe the frightened little heart, and turned his head to look around at this wonderful world.
There were hills all around, with oak trees of varying heights growing naturally in the fields.
Without exception, everything here is made up of blocks of pixels.
Even the crown of the oak tree is made up of green cubes.
“Wow—”
Steve couldn't help but be stunned by the wonderful world before him:
"Where is this?"
At this moment, Alex, who was walking in front, turned around and gestured to Steve to keep up with me:
"Welcome to——"
“My world.”
