Say Yes To Making Bad Games, What the Hell is Titanfall?

  Chapter 110 Ghost, I found a treasure!

  The project approval plan has been finalized.

  All aspects of the company are also in full swing.

   In terms of project cost, Gu Sheng must have been spoiled by a boss like Shen Miaomiao, who always said 'the more the better'.

  The so-called learning is not easy, but learning bad is easy.

  From the very beginning, she was amazed by Shen Miaomiao's riches and magnanimity, and she frantically increased her budget.

  After that, I am used to crazy increase in cost budget.

   Now, without waiting for the boss to speak, he takes the initiative to ask for money, and his desire is dissatisfied.

   If you don’t understand rich money, understand rich money, and become rich money.

   What seemed like a long three-step walk, Gu Sheng only took one and a half years.

  Even now, Shen Miaomiao, who has always been lavish, felt a little frightened after seeing Gu Sheng stretching out his hand.

   It's not that she is afraid that the company will lose everything, but that she seems to be increasingly unable to meet Gu Sheng's cost needs.

   However, this situation will not last too long.

   After TTF successfully loses money, you will have money.

  At that time, the glory of the rich woman in the past will be recast again, and the figure will be eight or nine figures with a wave of hands.

  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 tried her best to squeeze out the wind of gold.

   Fortunately, the PUBG project is now in full swing, popular all over the country, and the income is stable and considerable.

  The final cost of the project is even higher than their previous budget, which is 170 million yuan. The estimated price is 198 yuan per copy, and the development cycle is estimated to be five to six months.

   On the day the project was officially launched, Shen Miaomiao hugged her fifty happily for a long time.

   "Fifty, fifty, this time we both made a fortune..."

  Shen Miaomiao laughed from ear to ear:

   "The cost of 170 million, even if we plan according to the worst case, let Lao Gu earn 100 million back,"

   "Then there is still 70 million yuan left that cannot be paid back,"

   "Seventy million, ten times is seven hundred million,"

   "Tsk tsk..."

  Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao felt relieved for a while.

   Once upon a time, I was a little weak chicken crying for a small treasury of 10 million.

   Just a few months passed.

  My own vision has been fully improved by 70 times, and I have already started to focus on the 700 million rebate project.

Knew it!

  If you lose your horse, you will know it is not a blessing.

   While PUBG earned.

  However, it also laid the economic foundation for her to lose more money now!

"Believe me!"

  Shen Miaomiaomei put it back on the desk neatly after a while, and patted:

   "This time, we will win!"

  …

  Lidong.

  It is advisable to travel, get married, go to office, build and break ground, and erect beams and columns.

  Funds are in place, and the Titanfall project officially started.

  The first thing to start work is neither to start the program, nor to start composition and modeling, nor even to create a new folder.

   Instead—

   "Now Mr. Ou has replaced the cameras on the entire floor with face recognition,"

  In the project department, everyone surrounded Gu Sheng, the backbone, and everyone was worried:

   "How do we work overtime?"

actually!

  For this project, they have plenty of time, and they no longer need to work overtime like they did in PUBG.

   But the problem is, work is such a thing, especially when you are doing a job you like, the time to get off work must not be too stuck.

  But the face recognition of the camera doesn't care about you.

  As long as you are still in the company from 17:00 to 9:00 a.m., even if you leave by a minute late, it is considered overtime.

   At that time, the snack coins will be gone.

To know!

  Now in the wind of gold, snack coins are the main currency circulating within the company!

  This thing can not only be used to catch dolls.

   Ask colleagues to help bring milk tea, smoke a box of cigarettes, or even trade fruit after meals, all of which can be used for snack coins!

Yes.

  Shen Miaomiao's outrageous anti-overtime mechanism at the beginning has played a role after all, and everyone can't do without snack coins now.

  I don't want to give up the snack coins, and I can't guarantee that I won't overtime the shift for a minute.

  So, how to work overtime while obtaining snack coins became the first problem for the Titanfall project team.

   Brainstorming everyone!

  Some said to black out the camera, some said to unplug the camera, and some people got inspiration from the movie and wanted to paste photos in front of the camera.

finally!

   After a series of intense discussions!

  Everyone unanimously agreed on the director's good idea—

  Create the angle of the camera up 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 rhythm is back on track.

   Reciprocate action group group activated again.

   And Shen Miaomiao's Porsche also frequently appeared in the group again.

  The project is quickly on track.

  Everyone is more serious about their work attitude than the previous PUBG project.

   And Gu Sheng also moved out of his office again, spending all day in the project department—

   "...Hey, that's right, this is what I want."

  Gu Sheng crossed his legs, smoked a cigarette, and nodded repeatedly as he looked at the level scene modeling renderings sent by the art team.

   But in the effect picture, there are many mountains in the distance, and the towering peaks soar into the clouds.

  Among the mountains, a group of huge signal towers stands among them, the mottled metallic luster exudes a thick and stern steel atmosphere against the setting sun.

   Between the signal towers, steel cable lines are criss-crossed.

  The huge signal tower and the mountains and clouds are set against each other, interweaving a wonderful and shocking scene.

  【My analysis shows that throwing is the only way】

  In Gu Sheng's mind, BT's cold and extremely reliable voice sounded.

  When the game is finished, I will personally experience what it feels like to be thrown out by you.

  Thinking of this, Gu Sheng couldn't help smiling, and pointed his thumb at Da Jiang next to him:

   "As expected of our art director, precise, efficient, awesome."

"Well…"

  Hearing Gu Sheng's praise, Da Jiang grinned in embarrassment:

   "Actually... this... is also thanks to our Junior Sister Jiang."

"Why-"

  Gu Sheng hastily made a stop gesture:

   "Don't let us, people have never called me Shige, and I am not someone's idol, don't pull me as a backstop."

   Once you say this!

   Dajiang's face turned red!

   "Ah no..."

   But the story is not over yet!

  Seeing the sound of footsteps, Jiang Shan walked over with brisk steps.

   First nodded to Gu Sheng and said hello: "Director Gu."

   Then he said softly to Dajiang: "Um...brother, I have a question that I don't quite understand. Do you have time..."

  Gu Sheng has goosebumps!

   Hurry up and kick the swivel chair under Dajiang's buttocks.

  Go you!

   "Hey? Hey?"

   Dajiang let out an exclamation, and flew away in his chair.

  Gu Sheng smiled and waved his hands.

   Stay away from me, you brothers and sisters hurry up and get tired of it.

   This way.

  Just kicked the river away, and the landside came again.

   "Old Gu, don't waste your time, two questions."

"speak."

   "The first thing, the setting of [Cause and Effect] level is really awesome, let me brag about it."

"Then?"

   "Second thing, I **** up with Cheerful for two hours, and I didn't think of how to make a seamless switch."

   "..."

  Gu Sheng knew that what Lu Bian was talking about was when the game entered the middle stage, when the protagonist got the new time-traveling equipment.

  In this creative level, the protagonist will master the ability to travel through time.

  By switching between different timelines in the same scene, avoid battles and solve puzzles to clear the level.

  The design of this level is very delicate and refreshing.

   Can be well known!

   Every game will go through the 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 decrease in graphics quality and even tearing of the screen.

  Lu Bian knows that if this level wants to achieve amazing effects, it must ensure that the player's picture is perfect after switching the timeline.

   "The performance of Yiyou x2 is not that great, and it can't reach the rendering speed of the frame rate,"

   Lu Bian said:

   "Crazy map cutting will inevitably cause the graphics to not load in time. 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 while:

   "Cutting the map causes the graphics to not load in time, so why don't we just cut the map?"

"ah?"

   Lu Bian was stunned:

   "Bro, do you know what you're talking about?"

  The theme of this level is to jump repeatedly between the two level maps. You said we don’t cut the map?

  What are we going to do without cutting the map, is it possible to really let players travel through time?

  With that technology, let’s make a hammer game?

  Seeing that Lu Bian didn't understand, Gu Sheng took out a cigarette, stuffed it into Lu Bian's mouth, and lit it for him again:

   "Think about what we did to the camera?"

Camera?

  Lu Bian didn't understand what Gu Sheng meant.

  In order to avoid being caught working overtime, they increased the camera angle?

  In this way, the camera will not be able to capture their face recognition.

  But this has nothing to do 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."

   "Awesome, what the hell! Awesome!" Lu Bian repeatedly exclaimed!

  He fully understood Gu Sheng's solution—

  As Gu Sheng said, since switching between the two maps requires rendering time, then we will make the original two maps together.

   Divide the "past" and "present" scenes into upper and lower layers, and place them together on a map, just like a two-story building.

   After that, move the Z axis of the main perspective to show the effect of time switching.

  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 presses the time travel watch.

Snapped!

  I'll throw it to the second floor for you. The switching speed is so fast that it's impossible to detect it with the naked eye.

  You press the watch again.

Snapped!

  I will stuff it back to the first floor for you.

   In this way, no matter how the player switches, they are actually jumping up and down in a map, and there will be no delay in graphics loading at all, let alone screen tearing.

   "Awesome, awesome, awesome..."

   Lu Bian was convinced, kicked the ground, and rolled away like a river.

  However, before the land edge rolls away for half a minute.

  Jiang Yun rolled over again: "Director Gu, can we make some changes to this place..."

   "Brother Sheng..."

  Gululu—

"lead…"

  Gululu—

   "Look here..."

   The swivel chair slides in the project department.

  Suddenly, the huge project department turned into a curling arena, and everyone seemed to be paralyzed, skating back and forth in the middle of the court.

  The progress of the project is also advancing by leaps and bounds in this rolling.

  …

  Here, the development of Titanfall is in full swing.

   On the other hand, media players from all walks of life are also very curious about the Golden Wind project called TTF, and there are many discussions.

  Yes, this time Gu Sheng did not choose to block the project completely, but just asked the employees to sign a technical information confidentiality agreement.

  Because he really needs to keep the project hot, and let more tap water help them promote it for free.

   After all, 170 million is still a bit stretched for this project.

  The money is basically only enough for them to carry out the development work of the main body of the project, and the proportion of publicity and distribution expenses is almost equivalent to nothing.

  Therefore, Gu Sheng cannot keep the game completely secret.

  He needs to use the gimmick of "mecha game" to arouse discussions in the market and increase the attention of the media and players.

   It turns out.

   His plan worked out pretty well.

  Since the establishment of the TTF project, there have been continuous speculations and reports from various media—

  "Informed sources broke the news that the **** masterpiece Golden Wind is developing is actually a mecha game? "

  《Find another way or give up on yourself? "

  "A well-known game reviewer said that the choice of the theme of Golden Wind is the biggest disaster in history"

   "Silent Counterattack? Is the selection of Golden Wind this time a silent protest against Yiyou? "

  《Fall or Continue to Shine? Rationally analyze the theme of this new work of Wind of Gold—"

   Reports came one after another.

   It can be seen from the vast majority of bad-mouthing voices that the status of mecha games in the game genre is indeed very embarrassing.

  Occasionally, there are a few media that don't sing bad words, but they only show mercy because of the wind of gold and Gu Sheng's face.

   "There is really no platform for mech games..."

  In the office, Shen Miaomiao slid the mouse, flipping through reports about them, the corners of her mouth couldn't stop rising.

  Look at the comments below—

  ‘This type is too outrageous, is brother Cheng in a daze? '

  ‘This is no longer an abstraction, the **** masterpiece is selected as a mech game, this is simply performance art’

  ‘It’s normal if it’s bad, if you pick the three old heavyweight FPS manufacturers, I’ll be bad too’

  'You boy, you can always give me some new tricks (Yunfei face)'

  ‘Don’t be so pessimistic, didn’t no one like horror games before, and the fear of ghosts still exploded? '

  ‘Comparing a mech game to a horror game? If you don't like horror games, you can't scold them so badly, right? '

  ‘Hahahahahahaha…’

'Indeed, horror games also had their heyday before phobia. Works like "Midnight Twelve", "Nie" and "Scary Mansion" were also No. of'

  ‘If you put it this way...it seems that there is no mech game at all...’

  ‘It’s just a cake theme’

  ‘The balance of this type is a big problem, and it is easy to enter the sage mode after enjoying it’

  ‘If the Golden Wind is not playing tricks, then it must be doing scientific research’

'indeed…'

  Ghost, picked up the treasure!

   Flipping through the comments, the smile on Shen Miaomiao's face grew brighter, her big eyes were shining brightly, emitting the light of gold coins.

   Gu Chengcheng does not deceive me, and the project team does not deceive me!

   This type of game is simply the abandonment of abandonment, the failure of failure.

  Looks like I can finally—

  …

   "Sit back and relax! Hahahahaha..."

at the same time.

  Shenzhou, Xunteng Technology Headquarters, Deputy General Manager Office.

  Ding Kai sat opposite Chen Guangde, the general manager of Xunteng Technology, clapped his hands and laughed, and then handed over the phone.

   "Mecha game, this is really... tsk tsk,"

  Ding Kai repeatedly shook his head and laughed:

   "This golden wind is really desperate for medical treatment,"

   "I feel that I have repeatedly succeeded in finding another way before, and I am getting more and more inflated. I dare to touch this type of game,"

   "I don't know whether they are overconfident or have lost their heads."

  Hearing this, I saw Chen Guangde on the opposite side also smiling.

  Although he is not as arrogant as Ding Kai, he still has the look of winning.

   After all, both of them have been practitioners in the game industry for many years.

  No one knows better than them what the weathervane in the circle is.

  Mech games, the genre that's been around for a long time... oh no, it's not even dead because it wasn't popular at all...

   If you want to stir up some waves, it will be overwhelming.

not to mention!

  Golden Wind's investment this time is only 200 million.

   Originally, 1v3 was an impossible task, but now he has added a pair of shackles to himself.

   "It seems that Yiyou really negotiated with Jin Zhifeng this time to have Tian Ji race horses, and Jin Zhifeng simply let himself go..."

  Chen Guangde smiled slightly and shook his head.

"well!"

  Speaking of this, Ding Kai seems to have some regrets:

   "It's a pity that Golden Wind was timid to fight on the spot, and came up with such a game theme that parents don't love and mother doesn't love,"

   "At first, I thought about avenging my shame and humiliating me by pressing the golden wind on the ground, but now it seems..."

   "Drink tea, drink tea,"

   Before Ding Kai could finish speaking, Chen Guangde interrupted him and pushed Xiao Bei over:

   "Let's not mention the regrettable things, and focus on the most important thing now."

  Chen Guangde had a smile on his face, but he had a certainty in his heart.

  Okay, you’re almost bragging. Before, 100 million people made 10 million people beat you like a **** melon. How can you still lick a critic’s face and talk nonsense?

   Wasn’t you the one who was hit by the second-generation Golden Wind FPS on the ground?

  How come the scar healed so quickly and the scar forgot the pain.

  This time, the reason why we are sure to win is because the volume of Golden Wind is insufficient and the cost is limited.

  The second is because we play three against one.

   If you can't win this fight, the three of you should fight each other, and I will go dig Gu Sheng.

   Return the shame...

   Let's drink your **** tea.

   Sighing in his heart, Chen Guangde picked up his 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 his teacup and flipping through the calendar, Chen Guangde nodded.

   Wait for this year to pass.

  The battle is about to officially start.

  (end of this chapter)