The Bee Conference Center stands on a high platform, and the spliced exterior wall reflects the sky and clouds, shining brightly.

There was a red carpet at the door, flower baskets, and spectators of all colors entered it in groups of threes and twos, passing through the security check.

These are all guests from all over the world who came to the opening ceremony of the Bee Game Developers Conference (BDC). In addition to the outstanding developer representatives specially invited by Bee, there are also domestic and foreign developers who took the initiative to come, as well as media reporters who heard the news.

Deliberately bypassing the flower-packed main entrance, the balance bike carrying Atletico Madrid drove straight to the side door and handed him over to the indoor transport system. With the new balance bike at their feet, Atletico stepped onto the platform and moved quickly towards Lecture Hall 1.

The time for the opening ceremony has not yet arrived, and the guests who arrived first are busy with their own things, some people look up at the environment, some people pick up their mobile phones to pass the time, and some people greet new friends. The whispers of thousands of people converged and merged, creating an annoying humming sound in Alicia's ears, reminding her of the wheat fields in the countryside she had once seen. When the autumn breeze rises, the spring wheat finally matures, and the domestic sparrows, sparrows, pigeons and other herbivorous birds gather in the fields to seize the time to replenish food and prepare for the winter.

Looking down at the phone screen, she nodded slightly, "It's right here!"

With her right hand forced, pulling her roommate, who was a little stunned, Alicia moved sideways towards the position she had just been assigned to them.

Large meetings usually have a special usher, who is responsible for guiding the guests to sit from the middle, so as not to affect the picture effect by sitting themselves. Although Bee did not prepare a usher, it arranged an indoor navigation map with a seat selection function for everyone, and the effect was the same.

Sitting in the seat, Emmayo was a little stunned, looked at the phone screen, and then looked at the sign on the table, and finally couldn't hide her doubts, took off the headphones, pulled her roommate's arm and asked, "How did they do it? It shouldn't be GPS, right? Could it be that BDS?"

"How is it possible?" Alicia heard and put down the headset in her hand, "There is no satellite signal here, and the bees may have installed something like an indoor navigation and positioning base station in the hall, and with special equipment, it is not difficult to improve the positioning accuracy." ”

"Oh!" Emma nodded slightly, no longer dwelling on the question. Putting on her headphones again, she turned on the bee translation, entered the room password, and waited for the conference to officially begin.

Thanks to the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, Bee has caught up in the field of multilingual machine translation, and the quality of the translation is on par with industry giants such as Google and Facebook, and it is still surpassing in speech recognition and speech synthesis. Bee Translation is a one-stop translation platform specially built by integrating related technologies, with a variety of functions such as photo translation, face-to-face interpretation, word translation, web page translation, and multi-country conferences.

The Bee Conference Center does not have a dedicated simultaneous interpretation system, and the simultaneous interpretation service is contracted by the interpreters who are proficient in 60 languages.

Seeing that she didn't talk about sex, Alicia didn't say much, put on her headphones to open the app, and then leaned back in her chair, quietly looking at the changing blue sky and white clouds overhead. Although it's just a manually reproduced mirror, the resolution and brightness are not satisfactory, the lack of victory is in the area and the atmosphere is sufficient, and the content is also synchronized with the sky outside the building, which is not bad to pass the time.

Without making her wait too long, the opening ceremony began quickly.

On the "blue sky" overhead, a swarm of small bees flew at some point, and there were many of them, gathering together like clouds. The swarm of bees scattered and gathered, constantly changing shapes, and finally turned into a large bee flying with wings spread, and rushed towards the direction of the rostrum.

Everyone's attention shifted to the other side, focusing on the host.

Wearing a blue lapel T-shirt, a white knee-length skirt, and a pair of sneakers, she didn't look like she was hosting an international conference.

The guests were even more over-the-top than she was, and looking at the audience, colorful island-style printed dresses could be seen everywhere, making people wonder if they were stepping on lazy and loose beach slippers.

Of course, all this is the result of the deliberate efforts of the organizers, and if they had not been notified earlier, everyone would not have been able to dress so "neatly". Anyway, BDC is not a serious meeting, and the relaxed atmosphere is conducive to opening up and deepening communication, and it is also easier to inspire inspiration, and naturally there are no taboos.

On the rostrum, the host looked ahead and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, first of all, please allow me to welcome you on behalf of Bee Games!"

Her voice was fully captured by the headset and sent to the simultaneous interpretation system, which was then quickly recognized and translated, appearing on the mobile phones and computer screens of more than 2,000 people on the scene in the form of voice and synchronized subtitles.

In addition to AI simultaneous interpretation, Bee also arranged four professional translators on site to be responsible for the translation of English, French, German and Japanese, and users who master these four languages can switch between AI translators and professional translators at will, or even let them appear at the same time to compare their differences and shortcomings.

That's exactly what Alicia did, with instant translated subtitles for both "Xiao Yi - English" and "Expert - English" on her phone screen, and the voice in her headphones constantly switching between the two.

There are still differences, although they are far superior to their peers, bees still can't completely eradicate the rigidity of synthetic speech, resulting in Xiaoyi's voice being a little stiff and lacking in change, which is not as natural as the human voice. As for the content of the translation, as a foreigner, Alicia said that she couldn't see who was good and who was bad, and the meaning was not much different, and she could understand it smoothly.

The biggest advantage of Xiaoyi is not that it is accurate and fast, but that it is proficient in 60 foreign languages, including Swedish. So after listening to the English translation for a while, she clicked on the screen and switched to the Swedish channel. Although Sweden is the best speaker of English among non-English-speaking countries, and there are countless young people who can watch Hollywood movies without barriers and receive instruction in English, a foreign language is a foreign language after all, and it is natural to choose your mother tongue in the same situation.

In contrast, Emma, a Norwegian girl next to her, is a little depressed, Norway has a population of only 5 million, resulting in a small Norwegian basic disk, not in the list of 60 major languages, Xiaoyi currently does not have it in the list of languages, can only choose one from Swedish, Finnish, English and other foreign languages as a replacement.

Fortunately, the quality of the translation is not bad, and she was not allowed to listen to the book in a daze.

On the podium, action game expert Jordan Mechner, an industry veteran who has just won the GDC Pioneer Award, is talking. We will tell you how to organically integrate technological innovation and action games to create a fun, exciting and engaging interactive experience.

Since it was still the time of the opening ceremony, he just talked in general terms and did not explain the details in depth, but the audience still listened attentively, which is the treatment that the industry leaders should have.

In 1989, Jordan's Broderhund Software developed the action game Prince of Persia for Apple II. computers. Despite the console's poor performance, with the processor MOS6502 clocking at only 1MHz, he and his colleagues created a powerful 2D scrolling engine and ingenious levels. The powerful and interesting gameplay made the Prince of Persia famous, and even today, more than 20 years later, there are still fans who will not forget it.

Seeing the fortune, Ubisoft of France acquired the "Prince" in the account, and then found Jordan, the soul of the character, and the two sides cooperated to create a number of classic sequels, which completely established the status of the "Prince of Persia" series in the eyes of action fans.

Bee Games specially invited the father of "Prince of Persia", not only because the other party had just won the award and the reason why his popularity had rebounded, but also because of the meaning of cultivating feelings to lay the foundation for subsequent cooperation.

This is evident from Jordan's later position as a speaker, who is none other than his old colleague Patrice Desilets, who worked on the follow-up to Prince of Persia and led the development of Assassin's Creed 1/2.

This dude served Ubisoft for 13 years, but was poached by the American publisher THQ and joined THQ's Montreal studio. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because of the miscalculation of the economic situation, the lavishly spent THQ capital chain broke, and in 2013 it went bankrupt, its assets and employees were sold off, and its studio was bought by Ubisoft, and people had to return to Ubisoft's account.

However, the feud between the two sides did not end there, and the former rebel was soon expelled from Ubisoft and became part of the army of unemployed. Fortunately, there is no endless road, Bee Games entered North America, brandished money to recruit troops and horses, and won allies, Patrice found Bee Games Vancouver Studio, and set up his own studio with the latter's venture capital, relying on the name of the producer of the Assassin's Creed series, he has launched several "Assassin Style" mobile games and even PT stand-alone, and his life is happy.

The bee game sent him to play with the idea of buying horse bones and seducing old colleagues.

As for the relationship between Beegame and Ubisoft, it will not be affected too much. As Europe's largest game publisher, Ubisoft France has five boats on its feet and sells games on all four console platforms: PS, Xbox, ii, and PT, as well as on PC. The cooperation between "French Potato" and Bee Games is completely out of the question, Ubisoft needs to expand the sales of the game, and Bee Games needs classic masterpieces to retain players. Compared with hundreds of millions of cooperation, recruiting abandoned generals and abducting the elderly is nothing, this is the norm in the industry, and everyone has long been used to it.

In fact, Ubisoft is also happy to see it happen to a certain extent. As far as the series of games is concerned, well-known producers are brands that attract fans, but they are also a burden that hinders innovation, and to a certain extent, they will have conflicts with the company.

Of course, the best-case scenario is intrapreneurship, with venture capital to set up a new mountain.

This was the case with the next speaker to be called up.

This is also a legend, but it is Will-Wright who single-handedly created many classic games such as SimCity and The Sims, and became the first GDC Lifetime Achievement Award winner.

After making Spore, which is about the evolution of space creatures, Will left EA and used his old club's venture capital to start StupidFunClub, a company specializing in children's toys, hoping to change the gaming industry in other directions.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long for Apple to release the classic iPhone4 smartphone and iPad tablet, which quickly entered thousands of households and became the favorite of many children. In front of smartphones and tablets, not only handheld game consoles have lost the favor of children, but traditional toys are no longer popular, so manufacturers have to take the initiative to cater to the launch of various interactive toys with built-in NFC chips and even motion sensors that can interact with video games.

The development of his new career did not go well, and Will Wright gradually faded out of the player's sight, but his influence remained. This can be seen in the enthusiastic and sustained applause that echoed in the lecture hall. It is no exaggeration to say that the group of people in the audience grew up playing his games, and this glasses uncle deserves this courtesy.

Speaking of which, Will and Atletico still have a lot in common, because they are both big fans of simulation sandbox games, the former has led the production of many simulation masterpieces, and the latter also has a lot of excellent works.

But in terms of specific ideas, the two sides are at odds with each other, standing on the podium, Will unceremoniously opened his mouth to criticize Atletico.

"I believe that games are first and foremost entertainment related to imagination, and we should not exclude players from games and only let them see the same world and fixed plot. Happily, more and more developers are realizing this, and there are more and more sandbox simulation games with open worlds and enough freedom, and even phenomenal products like Minecraft have appeared. However, some people have bucked the trend and launched many so-called 'sandbox games', but they have not been stingy in giving players the right to play freely, but have drawn a series of rules for players to follow. ”

There was laughter from the small stage, and many people looked at the front row where Atletico Madrid was located, which was obviously talking about the sandbox of bees.

Will argues that rules should serve entertainment, while Bees pays more attention to the self-consistency and rationality of the world, putting too many resources on environment creation, and making products like "world simulators" more than games, and the existence of player characters is dispensable. Some players have tried it in "The Monkey King", and they don't do anything when they enter the game, the game world can still develop normally, and even the main plot may be triggered by NPCs, so that players are completely reduced to spectators.

Of course, everyone laughs and laughs, and there is no irony in it, and the ability to evolve on its own is the signature feature of the "Bee Sandbox", which is also loved by many players, and there is no superiority or inferiority.

(End of chapter)

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