game trailblazer

Chapter 222

Zhang Lexing was leisurely sitting on the sofa in his office, flipping through a children's book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which was said to be written by a British single mother named Joann Rowling, and had submitted manuscripts to many publishing houses. But they were all rejected, and in the end, somehow, it was spotted and published by a British publishing house under the Kunpeng Group.In order to open up more markets, this British publishing house sent many English versions of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to the headquarters, intending to coordinate the distribution of other language versions by the headquarters.

Zhang Lexing also happened to see those original English books sent over at the headquarters of the Kunpeng Group. He felt that the covers of the books looked familiar, so he took a copy and went back to study it.Hiding in his office, he spent three days flipping through the book roughly. Zhang Lexing was finally sure that he had read this book before, but at that time he read the Chinese version. The title of the book was "Harry Potter". Special and the Sorcerer's Stone".

Zhang Lexing started watching the movie "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" at first, and then turned to read the book, and gradually fell in love with the world composed of muggles and wizards. Later, out of curiosity, he studied the "Harry Potter and Behind the scenes of Harry Potter, I was surprised to find that "Harry Potter", which is basically a children's book, is actually a gold mine. JK Rowling, the author of seven "Harry Potter" novels, became "10 A member of the "Billionaire Club", Time Warner, which used the "Harry Potter" series of novels to make movies, won a box office of 18 billion US dollars for its two films, and even EA, which bought the game adaptation rights from Time Warner, also made a profit It was full.But now that Zhang Lexing already knows all this, he will naturally not give up this good opportunity to Time Warner. He plans to take advantage of the fact that "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has just been released and its reputation is not yet well-known. Its related product development rights have been taken down.

Just when Zhang Lexing arranged for people to fly to the UK to negotiate with the British single mother named Joanne Rowling about purchasing the development rights of "Harry Potter" related products, Southeast Asia was already trapped in the vortex of the financial crisis. It's getting deeper.

Following the resignation of Bank of Thailand Governor Luncha Malaga at the end of July, on August 7, the Bank of Thailand announced the closure of 8 financial institutions with bad debts and high non-performing debt ratios, and the Thai baht fell completely.That is, on this day, Thailand announced that it would accept the International Monetary Fund's standby loan plan with stringent conditions and a package of measures, giving up its own country's financial sovereignty.

At the same time, other countries in Southeast Asia gradually lost their ability to resist under the aggressive attacks of international speculators, and were forced to give up control over the exchange rate of their currencies. In order to save the crisis, the leaders of these countries had to ask for help everywhere. In mid-August, the Thai baht collapsed, the Philippine peso plummeted, the Malaysian ringgit plummeted, and the Indonesian rupiah plummeted. The stock markets of East Asian countries were devastated, and the confidence of the people fell to freezing point. The first thing many people thought of when they woke up in the morning It is "how much will it fall today".Finally, the long-delayed assistance from the International Monetary Fund was announced at a press conference. Although the countries in Southeast Asia did not receive the cash, the leaders of these countries felt a lot more at ease. Coincidentally, at this time The international speculators also died down, and the currency exchange rates of Southeast Asian countries also temporarily stabilized. Many people breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the storm had finally passed.

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On August 8, another Fengyun Interactive game "Adventure King" was launched. "Adventure King" placed a lot of expectations on Zhang Lexing, but this time the venue for the first release was changed indoors and placed in the event venue of Fengyun Game Club .The rearranged game appreciation area is divided into two parts, one side is composed of 23 computers assembled with ASUS KN20 motherboard and Pentium MMX, which are used for live trial playing of "King of Adventure" for players, and the other side is a high-end computer The connected projector is playing the game demonstration of "King of Adventure". Of course, the game sales desk near the wall is also indispensable.

However, there are many people watching the game demonstration and trial play on the spot, and not many people actually pay for the game, because the situation of "Adventure King" is quite special. During the previous development process, it was found that 3D is necessary to ensure the game effect. Acceleration card, since this is the case, Zhang Lexing simply asked the developers to make this game specially optimized for the EC6500 series chipset. Only when the Pentium MMX processor + EC6500 series chipset motherboard + 32M memory is used can the game be better. Most of the special effects can be enabled. If you want to fully enable the special effects, you even need to use the AN128 graphics card that is not yet on the market, and the memory needs to be increased to 64M.

In this way, for many mainland players, this game has become a bit out of reach. Except for a few fanatical players who are willing to change their computer motherboards for this game, only a very small number of them plan to collect it first, etc. In the future, those who have the conditions to play will pay out of their pockets.In the end, Fengyun Interactive can only be described as dismal in the market retail of "Adventure King". Including mail order, only 500 sets were sold in total. With the order of 3 sets from Lenovo Computer, they plan to use the motherboard of EC6500 series chipset to promote their home computer, and "Adventure King", which can fully demonstrate the performance of EC6500, has become the best choice for random software.

For many players who come to Fengyun Game Club, it doesn’t matter if they can’t play “Adventure King” on their own computers. Anyway, there are 20 computers on site where they can play for free. Demonstration - "Adventure King" game live demonstration.Zhao Wei was one of the lucky ones. With the advantage of arriving early, he got the first batch of numbers to get on the phone. After getting 3 hour of free trial time, he couldn't wait to sit in front of the computer and start the " "Adventure King", start your own adventure career.

Same as the introduction in the magazine, first there is a plot explained in the title: "...The Adventure King received a commission from a mysterious person to find a missing ancient jade slip. The Adventure King and his assistant launched an investigation and found that this jade slip is very It may have fallen into the hands of an RB man named Jiro Tanaka, who had a villa in the Japanese Concession in Shanghai. He suspected that the jade slips were hidden in that villa. His assistant brought back a message one day that Jiro Tanaka was going to the Japanese Army Command to attend the event at night. At a party, when the guards in the villa are the fewest, the opportunity for the adventure king has come..."

After the title, the King of Adventure appeared on the outer wall of the villa. Zhao Wei remembered the game operation guide he had read before, moved the mouse to look at the wall, and then pressed the Q button, and threw his flying claws to grab the wall. Flipping up along the wall, and then turning over from the top of the wall and falling lightly into the yard, the whole process was natural and smooth. If it wasn't for the defective 3D processing ability at this time, the spectators almost thought they were watching a movie.

Walking lightly along the path in the yard, avoiding two guards watching the night, the Adventure King came to a place not far from the villa.The lights were on on the first floor of the villa, and there were a few guards with guns standing there. Obviously, it was impossible to go in directly. The adventure king threw out the flying claw again, climbed up a big tree next to the villa, and then caught it with the flying claw. The guardrail on the third floor, climbed up to the balcony on the third floor along the rope...

Many players who did not receive their numbers or the time had not yet come could only choose to stand on the sidelines and watch the battle, or simply watch the live demonstration of the "Adventure King" game on the projection screen.Wu Yufei belonged to the group of people who came late and didn't get the number. He stood behind Zhao Wei and looked at it for a while. This game, which claims to surpass "Tomb Raider", did not disappoint him, although He definitely won't have the chance to play it on his computer for the time being, but it's worth seeing such a beautiful 3D action-adventure game.

But I don't know whether it's Zhao Wei's luck or the game flow is just like this. The Adventure King tossed around on the third floor for a while, but didn't see a guard coming up. He didn't let Wu Yufei see the legendary martial arts duel, so he simply Leave, walk to the side of the projection screen, and watch the live demonstration of the game.Here are the most exciting parts of the game, such as sneaking into the Japanese headquarters secretly, and the adventure king on the roof of the headquarters confronting the karate master blocking the way.

The climax of the whole demonstration comes from a part of the game that I don’t know which scene it came from. Under the silver-white full moon, on the huge platform on the top of the mountain, the adventure king will take turns to use the three-point hand of Hades, the tiger climbing the mountain, The classic moves in Bajiquan such as Yingmen Sanhe, Yingfeng Chaoyangshou, etc., successively faced Western boxing, RB sumo and aikido masters. The bloody battle process, accompanied by the passionate background music, the players who watched it were full of excitement , Some people even think about finding a master to learn from a master.

The high requirements of "Adventure King" on the configuration have determined the weak performance in the mainland market. Fortunately, this game is going to be exported from the very beginning, and it is based on the motherboard of the EC6500 series chipset or uses this motherboard. Computer bundled sales mainly.Chinese Kung Fu + Tomb Raider-like adventure decryption, this very gimmicky combination has successfully attracted the attention of many overseas players, and even many people have replaced their motherboards with ASUS KN97, or simply changed to a Pentium MMX computer with EC6500 chipset motherboard.

Many game magazines are also very optimistic about the quality of this game, thinking that this is not a follow-up work of "Tomb Raider", but a game with many innovations, its natural and smooth movements, appropriate depth of decryption process, and tight rhythm The CG cutscene movies of the game have been well received, and the author believes that the many Chinese elements contained in the game cater to everyone's psychology of being interested in China because of the return of Hong Kong.However, even though most of them were well received, "Adventure King" was named a "hardware killer" game by famous game magazines such as "PCGamer" because of its high configuration requirements. The most popular game among computer hardware vendors.

Although "Adventure King" was rated as a "hardware killer" game, Zhang Lexing was still not satisfied. Due to the current computer performance, the game still couldn't show the feeling of punching and punching in the movie. It looks decent, but when it comes to real fights, it often happens that a punch is stuck in the opponent's body.But Zhang Lexing also knows that the current technical level can only produce such an effect, and if he wants to make a big improvement, he may have to wait for the graphics card to evolve.The only thing that can be done at present is to work more on the engine to make the follow-up development easier, the character movements more natural and smooth, and the scenes more beautiful and wider.

Flying to the UK to negotiate the product development rights related to "Harry Potter" has already had preliminary results, and there is no big obstacle in signing the contract. What needs to be done now is the negotiation of the details of the contract between the two parties.Unexpectedly, the details of the British side have not yet been discussed, and another piece of good news came from the Kunpeng Group. After a long period of negotiation and negotiation, the American Marvel Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, was acquired by the Kunpeng Group at a price of 6.75 million U.S. dollars. In addition, Marvel Comics will have to assume an additional debt of approximately 3.32 million U.S. dollars.After the completion of this acquisition, Kunpeng Group has successfully established a Daxing animation group covering three continents in Asia, Europe and the United States, integrating animation production and distribution.This news is also of great significance to Zhang Lexing, because it means that a large number of animation characters such as "Fantastic Four", "Spiderman", "Hulk", "Iron Man" and "X-Men" have already belonged to him. Not only will it be much easier to make movies and develop games in the future, but it will also bring me a huge gold mine.

(End of this chapter)