"Da Li, what do you say you would do if you bought an Apple computer?" Cao Changchang asked Da Li casually, holding a pen in his mouth, his eyes looking at the sky, looking at him in deep thought.

"How do I know?" Da Li didn't raise his eyelids, and was lying on the AppleII to program, "Anyway, I'll just play games and write programs." ”

Recently, Da Li and Changjiu have learned a few tricks, and they are fascinated by computer graphics, and they toss images on AppleII all day long.

Most people think that computer games are just a program, as long as you learn this language and that language well. As everyone knows, this is a misguide, probably they think that as long as they write a game of backgammon in C, or a recursive algorithm such as the Tower of Hanoi is displayed graphically, it is a game program.

Modern games have stunning graphics, and the technology used in them goes far beyond the realm of gaming, thanks to advances in computer graphics.

Whether it is the operating system of the graphical interface or CAD modeling, almost all of them belong to the field of computer graphics, but it is ridiculous that contemporary Chinese people only regard this technology as chicken ribs.

Cao Chang remembered that he had made a cameo appearance as a game programmer when he was in his dream, but he fell out with his boss after only half a year, which was a common thing in China at that time.

It was an impetuous era, all social resources were completely for commercial interests, and when the game industry developed, the Chinese people looked at it with red eyes, and capital followed in, hoping to reap money like sprinkling beans.

However, the industry has the basic laws of the industry, and it is not something that people can rush up with slogans.

Cao Changchang remembers clearly that when the Red Police were hot, he was invited by a friend to join a studio as a programmer to spend some money.

Rao is Cao joined for a long time with the mentality of eating with a mouthful, and he was still surprised by the simplicity of this team.

There are only a dozen people in total, half of the marketing personnel alone, and there are not many funds, only hundreds of thousands, almost all of them are in the marketing department, arrears of wages are commonplace, and almost all programmers and artists outside of the long-term are supported by enthusiasm.

I have to admit for a long time that the market planning of the boss behind the scenes has done a very good job, and even before the script came out, the public opinion offensive was overwhelming, and even the most powerful killer weapon was used - patriotism.

The posters that the artists hastily completed appeared on the pages of various magazines and newspapers, and against the backdrop of the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, the warriors with submachine guns in their hands became the expectations of fans of the game at that time.

As a result, almost no one talked about this product, and domestic players talked about it, and China's Red Alert was born.

Only for a long time I realized that I seemed to be in trouble, with no planning, no guidance, no funds, and God knows when it will be shipped.

The boss, who dreamed of making a fortune, saw the business opportunity and dragged a group of half-baked technicians to practice, which really made him admire his perseverance and courage for a long time.

It's just a long sad discovery that the progress of the entire program group can't keep up at all, and these programmers are more than passionate, and the technology is not at all.

After a long period of shock, I asked them if they had ever done a game program, and they replied that they did.

When I asked what game program I had done, I replied: RPG, I bought someone else's template and adapted it.

finally collapsed for a long time, and he was originally here to mess around, but he never thought that he would stray into the depths of a group of rookies.

I felt a little unbearable and found the boss for a long time and told me about my worries.

The boss was a simple person, and only asked: "They are just small workers, the question is whether you are sure of success?"

After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that as long as there was enough time, it would not be difficult to develop a real-time combat game: "There is no big problem with success, it is just ......"

"There's no problem with the funds, just open your mouth if you need anything, I just want the result. The boss looked at his watch again, "I know you're a master, so I'll leave this project to you." ”

The young man still couldn't pull his face and left directly, so he had to take the apprentices to work day and night.

If you don't have technical experience, you can teach them for a long time and let them learn by doing, and if you don't have development tools, you can simply write them yourself for a long time. After overcoming one difficulty after another, it is estimated that according to the current development progress, it can be completed in two years.

But time is running out, the most feared thing for a long time has finally come - the boss can't wait, he can't tolerate his money being invested in it for too long, in the boss's opinion, it should be fed a handful of rice chickens and an egg should be laid, how can there be no movement for two years?

"Four months! You only have four months!" the boss was angry, "you can't get anything to use for four months, just fuck me off, and I won't have any money." ”

How can he be so angry for a long time, if it weren't for the pity of looking at these little brothers, he would have been ruined a long time ago, and he could still mix here.

Cao Changjiu immediately packed up his things and left, and the boss's roar sounded behind him: "We would still do it without you! ”

Since then, Cao Changjiu has not been mixed in this industry, and as for the team, it really made a finished product four months later, which was a sensation.

The boss's early market is doing very well, and it is said that almost all game dealers across the country have entered a lot, and players across the country are queuing up for release.

Cao Chang remembered that he also specially bought a real-time combat game called Blood Lion, the packaging is very good, it is still a disc version, but it can't be installed, it's very simple, it requires a lot of memory and hard disk space.

It's hard to put it on, and the game screen is also miserable, and the guns in the hands of the soldiers are similar to burning sticks, and the AI is even more like a retarded mind.

Cao deleted the program after playing for ten minutes, and he found at least two dozen bugs, and the framework of the entire game was almost still at the stage of his own departure at that time, and there was no improvement at all, which was only a half-finished product.

Sure enough, just like the popularity of the release, the dealers' returns were as sensational, and the whole country was scolded, and the players who felt fooled and denounced the team in unison.

This is not an isolated case, and the people of the whole country are also impetuous.

Cao Changjiu found that he was distracted again, shaking his head, trying to come out of the illusion, and he was still very relieved to see Da Li drawing one box after another on the screen.

At least the basic skills of technicians in this era are still very solid, Cao Changchang thought.

"How's it going?" asked Cao Changjiu.

"It's almost done, let's see how it goes. Da Li finished writing the last few sentences of the program, and as soon as he pressed enter, an interface burst out on the screen, with four square areas on it, flashing the letters a, b, c, and d.

Da Li pressed the tab key, the B-word area was highlighted, Da Li's face was happy, his confidence increased, and he pressed the enter key again, the screen paused, and the B-word area suddenly expanded, and it seemed to stretch out a section down, divided into several banners, corresponding to 1, 2, 3, 4.

Da Li was overjoyed, and tried other letters, and the effect was the same as the first one.

"It's successful, I've done it, I'm done with this homework!" Da Li stretched his waist and shouted proudly.

"Cut, I didn't tell you how to do it, otherwise you won't be able to think of this drop-down menu for the rest of your life. Chang Chang seems to be disdainful, but in fact, he is also sighing in his heart, didn't it take him a long time to clear the key points? It seems that there is a big difference between someone to guide and to explore by yourself.

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