Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 230 Game Engine
The game engine, as the name suggests, is the engine of the game.

A good game engine can make game development more efficient. A mature game engine should be as versatile as possible for various game productions and provide a complete production process.

For players, the most intuitive feeling that the game engine can bring is the picture and details of the game, from light, shadow and sound effects to scene details, from picture touch to various delicate experiences, and then to the capture of character expressions, flowers and trees. Beauty and more.

To use a more vivid metaphor, it is like writing a novel in WORD. WORD is a novel engine, which can set the language, font, format, paragraph, color, background, size, thickness, layout, symbols, etc. of the novel text. And editing, avoiding repeated editing of the same attribute content, reducing the workload.

If this scope is expanded, such as a game, then the WORD software system is only one of the subsystems for processing text, and other subsystems include PS for processing image texture materials, 3DMAX for object modeling, and 3D object processing. Camera systems and renderer plugins for light rendering... and more.

If you think of these as the image modules of a game, then add audio, animation, physics, logic, plug-ins, scripts, AI programs, servers and other system modules to form a game engine system.

It can be seen from this that the game engine is a huge systematic project. Each subsystem is equivalent to developing one or more pieces of software. accomplish.

Especially for game planning, programming and art, the planning of different departments carries out the control and guidance of different subsystems, which plays a connecting role. The programmer is responsible for building the framework and realizing the corresponding functions, and the artist is responsible for filling in a large amount of specific game content. The amount of work that can be done by a few or dozens of people.

In addition, talents in other fields are also needed. For example, mathematics alone requires proficiency in vector operations, trigonometric functions, matrix operations, quaternions, random numbers, and coordinate system operations (Cartesian coordinate system, polar coordinate system) , spherical coordinate system), space transformation, and other geometries (the distance from a point to a surface, whether a point is within the geometry, etc.), calculus, etc.

The systematic engineering of the entire game engine cannot be done by Fang Jie alone. Even if all the old employees of Boiling Game are gathered together for 10 years, 007 every day, it still cannot be done.

For this reason, Fang Jie called Wang Yu, who was in charge of the game engine architecture, to him, and exchanged his thoughts and plans.

"In terms of game engines, my plan is to develop and purchase existing game engine licenses by myself, and walk on two legs. Otherwise, it will be too late for us to develop by ourselves, and it will not be realistic."

"Currently, we have four game plans on hand: "Legend", "Cross Fire", "Legend of Jin Yong" and "Magic World". These four games have different styles, and it is difficult for the game engines to be consistent. .”

“《传奇》是幻想MMORPG类2D游戏；《穿越火线》是No.1称3D射击游戏；《金庸奇侠传I》肯定是2D武侠类MMORPG网游，之后还会开发3D角色扮演、3D格斗、3D竞技，甚至VR虚拟现实等一系列网游；《魔幻世界》则是3D角色扮演，不排除扩展为其他类型的网游。”

"And our boiling game must have its own game engine. At present, at least 2-3 game engines need to be developed. So my idea is that instead of developing multiple game engines, it is better to integrate them and create an open one. The MMORPG game engine platform allows other game developers to participate, otherwise we will definitely not be able to do it alone."

"As for "Cross Fire", you can just spend money to get the authorization of the Thor engine to develop it. "CS" is developed on the basis of the Quake (Thor) engine. If you want to copy it, you should be thorough and use the same engine..."

"Strive to develop "Cross Fire" within one year, and our own game engine can reach the standard that can produce "Legend"..."

Fang Jie just said a general idea, and Wang Yu was petrified.

According to Wang Yu's true inner thoughts, according to international practice, even if all the conditions are met, it will take 3-5 years to make one...

Well, now Boiling Games has money and can recruit a large number of talents. If this time is reduced by 1 year, it will take at least 2 years to produce a game engine, and the quality and completion cannot be guaranteed.

As a result, the gods said that it will be produced within a year, which is simply whimsical!

"It's...impossible! I can't do it."

Wang Yu is not a person who likes to brag. After listening to Fang Jie's thoughts, he honestly stated that his ability is limited. In his opinion, this task is impossible to complete.

Fang Jie also knew that it was very difficult, so he said: "Don't give up before you start. What kind of support do you need? People? Money? Except for time, feel free to mention anything else. I will try to satisfy you as much as I can!"

Wang Yu said with a bitter face: "Boss, it's not a matter of support or not, it's simply impossible!"

Fang Jie didn't care what the other party thought, and said with a smile: "Let's do this... Isn't the company's various departments recruiting a large number of people now? You can pick any new talent in each department. If you like someone, you can directly dig into your department. If anyone objects , Let them come to me! Find some yourself, there is no limit to the number of people, even if you have a team of 1000 people, I can afford it!"

Wang Yu opened his mouth and wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it carefully, if there is a team of 1000 people, it seems that this is not completely impossible, and you can still try it.

Fang Jie said again: "It's okay to ask for money. There is no upper limit for your department's R&D expenditure. The salaries of department employees will be increased by 20% as a whole! We will give priority to welfare housing in the future!"

"Emmmmmm..."

Wang Yu, who was quite emotional, hesitated for a while, and asked: "People from other departments, are you really allowed to pick at will? Tiger, Lover, Iron Man, can they also come under my command?"

Fang Jie rolled his eyes and said: "You don't need to think about those directors, they have a lot of things to do. However, in terms of overall deployment, you have the right to let them cooperate with your work tasks. If anyone is disobedient, you can come find them." Me, I'll stand up for you!"

Wang Yu thought for a while and said, "I think Shisanmei's art department can be assigned to us temporarily, especially the students in the training camp. Anyway, they are engaged in art and cannot do without the game engine. I am also training them. The knife is not mistaken for the woodcutter."

Fang Jie nodded: "Yes. What are the other conditions?"

Wang Yu didn't raise any more conditions, but smiled and watched Fang Jie stay silent for a long time.

After a while, Fang Jie glanced reluctantly at the computer screen where "Wulin" was hanging, and sighed, "Okay, I'll do it myself too! Are you satisfied now?"

(End of this chapter)