game trailblazer

Chapter 247 The Beginning of Online Games
All over the world, especially in the circles of overseas Chinese, the voices criticizing Indonesia are one after another. Relatively speaking, the country seems to be very calm, except for those who saw some related reports on the Internet at the beginning of the incident. The vast majority of people can be said to be ignorant of this matter, and they are still living a happy and simple life. Compared with the chaotic outside world, it may be considered a kind of happiness to a certain extent.

Life is still going on. The Simplified Chinese version of "Online Genesis", which was originally expected to be approved in June, was unexpectedly brought forward. Fortunately, Fengyun Interactive and the newly established Fengyun Network (whose shares are wholly owned by Chen Zishan) have already done so. In order to prepare, the corresponding server groups have been properly debugged, so that they are not caught off guard.Considering that the simplified Chinese version of "Online Genesis" has met the operating conditions, Fengyun Network decided to advance the launch date of the game server to May 6, and also released the corresponding version on the Chinese official website of "Online Genesis", which has been publicized to everyone. news, and arranged for the customer service staff to notify all users who pre-ordered the simplified Chinese version of "Network Genesis" by phone, and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

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After graduating from school, under the arrangement of his family, Li Wenbo entered a government agency and took up an iron rice bowl.As for his two college classmates, Wu Yufei joined a well-known BJ IT company to work, which is the company that often advertises on TV, saying that "humanity loses xx, what will the world be like", and he is extremely busy on weekdays , It is rare to see him once or twice a month.After Zhao Wei graduated, he actually went to Fengyun Game Academy for advanced studies, and said that after graduation, he would join the best game company in China. To be honest, Li Wenbo and Wu Yufei were shocked when they heard the news. The kid usually doesn't pay much attention to his studies, he is a guy who crams his feet before the exam, and is OK if he can pass [-] points, but he didn't expect that with such a big determination, he would actually embark on the road of developing games.

After he came to the government office, he had more leisure time, and Li Wenbo put more energy into the game. After all, he also had some income. Although it was not much, it was enough to buy one or two games every month. There is still some, and there is some extra income at the end of each year. For example, the PS game console he often plays recently was bought with a sum of money saved at the beginning of the year.In fact, Li Wenbo belongs to the PC category. Although he has played a lot of home game consoles in the past, almost none of the Nintendo Famicom and Super Nintendo, but he plays games on the PC platform the most. After all, there are more relatively complex simulation games on PCs.

The only exception is the PS game console, which has some games that cannot be played on the PC, such as the "Resident Evil" series, "Silent Hill" and "Pro Evolution Football", which is known as a domestic game.Especially "Pro Evolution Soccer", compared with the "FIFA" series on the PC, whether it is the authenticity of the game or the tactical arrangement, it feels much more fun, and the control feel of the game is even better. With the cooperation of the analog stick, players can flexibly make various actions on the field, which is not comparable to "FIFA" controlled by the keyboard.

On weekdays when he is free, Li Wenbo will practice two games of "Pro Evolution Soccer" at home, and sometimes colleagues from the work unit or former players will come to play one or two 1VS1 live football games. Unfortunately, There are not many people in the circle who like football games. Most of the time, he can only abuse the computer over and over again.But recently, his mind has not been on "Pro Evolution Football", or any new game on the PS game console, because "Online Genesis" is coming.

Li Wenbo has been paying attention since he saw the news about "Network Genesis" in the "Home Computer and Game Console" magazine last year. For no other reason, the name of the graphical Mud alone is worth exploring, otherwise How dare he call himself Doctor of Games?However, he didn't hold out much hope at first. As a group of people who went online earlier, he still knows what the domestic Internet looks like. If he wants to rely on that kind of snail-like speed to access the game server in the United States, it is absolutely impossible. It is a job that tests people's patience, and it is the kind with a connection failure rate as high as 99%.

However, at the end of the year's Fengyun Game Club's journal "Game Fengyun", Li Wenbo saw the same news that surprised him. Fengyun Interactive had signed a contract with the copyright owner of "Online Genesis", and the game was planned to be released in the middle of 1998. And it is the Simplified Chinese version that has been Sinicized, and the game server will be set up in China, and the places where the game server will be set up may include BJ, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places.Li Wenbo doesn't care about those in Shanghai and Guangzhou, but the words "BJ's game server" and "simplified Chinese version" still stimulate him, which means that he doesn't have to drive a kitten to squeeze the small intestines. "Information Superhighway", and there is no need to guess the E-text that is full of screens. Thinking of these, he couldn't help being excited.

In the following days, Li Wenbo could see news about the simplified Chinese version of "Online Genesis" from time to time. Sometimes it was a few pictures after Sinicization, sometimes it was the introduction of the game profession, and sometimes it was in the "Home Computer and Game Machine, "Game Fengyun" and other magazines, sometimes found on the Chinese official website of "Network Genesis", among which the most attractive, or the most attractive, is a paragraph published in the "Game Fengyun" package In the game trial video on the disc, there is a clip of a knight in black armor riding a horse and slowly walking out of the flames, which is even more shocking.

Time passed day by day, and the simplified Chinese version of "Online Genesis" was expected to be released on June 6. Li Wenbo couldn't hold back his excitement for a long time, and used his membership card to pre-order a set that will be released soon. The Simplified Chinese version of "Online Genesis", and then check the latest news on the official website every day, or hang up ICQ to chat with a group of prospective online game players who gather together through the Internet, and imagine the future of "Online Genesis" .

One late night in mid-May, Li Wenbo first opened the official website of "Online Genesis" as usual. While waiting for the page to be refreshed, he started ICQ, entered his account number and password, and waited for the login process. Switch the page of the official website again. The official website of "Online Genesis" has not been fully refreshed at this time, but there is an extra line of words on the top title bar than before, "The "Online Genesis" game server will be launched on May 5 ahead of schedule...", Li Wenbo was taken aback, Immediately he became excited, and hurriedly clicked on the chat room attached to ICQ, ready to share the good news with his players, but by the time he squeezed into the chat room, there would have been an uproar in the chat room. All kinds of fonts are sending similar words such as "Meet "Online Genesis" on May 5", and some people are discussing in full swing which career to develop after entering the game. Customers of carpenters and blacksmiths.Looking at the flood of words, Li Wenbo smiled self-deprecatingly, he understood who made him late.

After chatting casually in the chat room, Li Wenbo dug out the relevant materials of "Online Genesis" that he had accumulated before to quench his thirst, but there was always a feeling of emptiness in his heart, as if The feeling of wanting to do something but never getting it done.Li Wenbo closed the browser casually, intending to shut it down and go to sleep. Just when the mouse moved to the start button, a small ICQ window suddenly popped up in the lower right corner, with the words "Welcome to Lianzhong Game World", and his hand stopped. Yes, and then subconsciously moved the mouse to the small window and clicked, the closed browser popped up again, and then gradually opened a new website "Lianzhong Game World".Seeing the new website gradually opened, Li Wenbo's eyes slowly widened...

Maybe the ICQ Chinese server was chosen to go online in the early morning. After several months of hard work, "Ourgame World" finally chose the early morning of May 5th as the server launch time.Two weeks before this, Bao Yueqiao and others moved the debugged game server to the server area on the second floor of the creative workshop office building. An empty office was chosen on the first floor as their "branch", and they became neighbors with Octopus and Creative Yingxiang.

Before Bao Yueqiao and others moved in, a Nanjing company called Polaris heard from somewhere that Lianzhong was developing chess and card games. The tone is very friendly, but it carries a certain pride of the forerunner.This phone call made Bao Yueqiao and others very helpless, and they were a little dumbfounded, because they did not plan to follow the old way of Polaris selling finished games to ICP, but planned to operate them themselves. The business of the two companies is actually basically the same. Out of bounds.

After two weeks of "internal testing", "Our Game World" has gradually come to perfection. With the help of several employees borrowed from the creative workshop, the types of games have also been increased from the three initially planned to include Go, Seven types including Chinese Chess, Checkers, Upgrade, Arch Pig, etc.Time gradually came to the night of the 15th, and it was getting closer and closer to the official launch of "Lianzhong Game World". Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jing and Wang Jianhua stayed in the office nervously, watching the hands of the clock on the wall. Walking forward in seconds.

"Old Bao, did you say that someone will come to play at that time?" Jian Jing suddenly said something that was obviously lacking in confidence.

"It shouldn't be a problem. Didn't everyone have a good time during the LAN test in the past two weeks, didn't they?" Bao Yueqiao replied, but his words were more like giving himself firm confidence.

"The big guys came to play for us to test, and it doesn't cost any extra money to pass through the local area network. If you switch to the Internet, it's hard to say. Now the Internet fee is not cheap, and playing board games is not like receiving emails. It can be done in minutes." Wang Jianhua, who was lying on a camp bed with his eyes wide open, was also very unsure of what he said.

The eyes of the three of them swept to the wall clock on the wall again, and then they sighed at the same time...

At 5:15 on May 23th, the personnel on duty in the server area on the second basement floor connected the Internet line of "Lianzhong Game World" according to the predetermined plan, and the game server was opened. Then, according to the predetermined plan, the server connected to the Internet Necessary tests were performed.

At 5:16 on May 0th, the game server test was completed, and all the results were normal, and the "Lianzhong Game World" server was officially launched. Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jing and Wang Jianhua saw the results from the monitoring computer in the office. , were slightly relieved, and then the real test came.

At 5:16 on May 0, the official website of "Ourgame World" was officially launched. Five minutes later, the ICQ Chinese server pushed the advertisement window of "Ourgame World" to all users according to the scheduled time.So far, Bao Yueqiao, Jian Jing and Wang Jianhua have nothing to do, at least there is no need for all three of them to stay here, but no one wants to leave, and they all want to see with their own eyes whether the game they designed is acceptable or not. Users welcome.

"I thought of a problem. Our games require at least two people to play, and some even require four people. If there are only one or two people at a time, if they want to play and there are not enough people, then they can only wait. "Jian Jing, who was nervously staring at the background monitoring program, suddenly thought of a possibility. In order to avoid any adverse effects, he hurriedly said it.

"Well, this is indeed a problem." Bao Yueqiao touched his chin, his eyes suddenly lit up, and said, "This problem is easy to handle. We register three accounts by ourselves, and each of us looks at a table. In this way, when someone comes, immediately Then you can play."

"That's a good idea." Wang Jianhua sat up from the camp bed and agreed.

"Okay, let's do it!" Jian Jing also nodded.

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Li Wenbo briefly browsed the "Lianzhong Game World" website, and roughly understood that this is a chess and card game website. You need to download a game hall program, and then register an account to play.He glanced at the number of bytes of the program in the lobby, and it seemed that it was not too large, so he clicked the download link in the game lobby, started a download software called "Network Vampire", put it in the background to download slowly, and he Then, while downloading the software, go to the home page of the "Lianzhong Game World" website to register an account.Opening the registration page, Li Wenbo found that he could choose to re-register. ICQ users can also choose to directly activate the corresponding Lianzhong account with his own number. He thought about it for a while and chose to re-register. After finishing the account, after waiting for a few minutes, the Lianzhong game hall was finally downloaded.

Li Wenbo skillfully installed the Lianzhong game lobby, then activated it, entered the account number and password, logged into the lobby, and clicked the game "Gongzhu".Entering the game room, Li Wenbo wondered if he had come too early, except that there were only three people in him, and the names were also very interesting, "Jingtian 1", "Jingtian 2", and "Jingtian 3", it seemed to be Fortunately, those who came to line up can make a table of cards.Li Wenbo casually ordered the only table occupied, and started his journey of "arching pigs" on the Internet...

(End of this chapter)