Chapter 984: A New Horizon
After following the prompts on the page, Alicia turned to the side, "Emma, which one did you choose?"
"Wind Tunnel No. 1, with fewer queues, should be faster. β
"I'm number two," the Swedish girl gestured to the corner of the hall, holding her new friend's hand, "let's go sit there for a while!"
There is an electronic queuing system, and everyone does not need to queue up honestly, and they can get their own busy when they get the number. A few people left to wander outside, and most of them stayed, using the waiting hall as a mobile phone Internet cafΓ©, chatting, watching videos, and playing games, but fortunately, everyone honestly controlled the volume, but it was not too noisy.
Sitting down on the empty bench, Alicia turned to look at her, "How's it going?"
"What?" Emma asked with a frown, not knowing what the blonde chick was trying to say.
The confusion of her companion did not disturb the former's interest, she stretched out her hand to draw a circle with some excitement, "There is a saying in the East, how do you say it? Heroes have the same opinion, so many people have come to experience the wind tunnel, my choice is really right!"
Emma pursed her lips and pointed around her and said, "I think everyone has slept enough, and they all ran over after staying in the hotel and having nothing to do." There's air conditioning, there's ifi here, there's chairs, there's people, and then they're all here. β
Thinking of the mobile phone screen that she accidentally glimpsed along the way, Alicia had to admit that the other party was right, took out her mobile phone and said, "It makes sense, let's play the game too!"
When her eyes met the phone, Emma's eyes shrank, "Ash, your phone is not ordinary!"
"Of course," Alicia smiled and nodded, raising her phone in her hand, "How's that?
Emma's reaction was very direct and fast, she pounced forward, hugged the opponent's thin waist with both arms, buried her head between the opponent's chest and abdomen, and asked in a soft voice, "Artemisia Youhu?"
The blonde girl didn't react at first, but when she heard the three words clearly, she immediately laughed and said, "Wrong, wrong!
With only two siblings and two employees in the SnowRoom Studio, Alicia took on the burden of customer service and translation, learning and practicing foreign language skills in practice, and her Chinese level also increased, and she was able to master basic conversation. And the material for her to learn Chinese is all kinds of violent emojis marked with pinyin, and her brain has long been full of expression memes.
"As long as you can understand the meaning," Emma let go of her hands and sat up, blinked a pair of starry eyes, and looked at her new friend with envy: "I have long wanted to ask, does the igloo sell very well, make you make a lot of money, and can you afford such an expensive mobile phone?"
Everyone is in the same room, she has long noticed the phone in the other party's hand, and the rare rounded full-screen screen and ultra-thin side like a blade make her easily recognize the identity of this mobile phone. It is the strongest and most expensive mass-produced mobile phone Bee Crystal Carbon C4, in addition to the super performance that far surpasses its peers, it also has a high price starting at $5,000, which is far from being affordable for ordinary people.
"I didn't buy it myself," Alicia said proudly, shaking the phone in her hand, "This is my reward." Bee Mobile and GDC have reached a sponsorship agreement to sponsor each winner with a C4 mobile phone and the name of the award on the back!"
Carefully taking the phone and stroking the award pattern on the back, Emma read expectantly and wistfully: "2017GDCA, Best New Studio." If I can win such an award, I will have no regrets in this life!"
"Then come on, the opportunity is still very big! Now the GDC is not very discriminatory, and there is a great opportunity to play independently. β
Emma nodded thoughtfully, "Yes, this year's conference is probably the most Oscar-winning one, the best game went to Overwatch for the online game, the best screenplay, the best sound, the best creativity, and the best new studio were all awarded to the independent game, leaving only a best technical award for AAA's masterpieces, which is very artistic." β
Alicia pouted, "Who made them as technical and procedural as blockbuster movies in order to avoid risks? β
"Actually, I don't think that's bad, at least it's not easy to lose money," Emma muttered.
She is a veteran developer who has been involved in mobile game development since the era of Android 2.3, and has produced more than a dozen games of various kinds. In the past, there were few mobile games, and individual developers like her could still make money, but as mobile games entered the marketing era, the best-selling lists were all online games launched by large companies, and it became more and more difficult for individual works to get ahead, and many developers changed careers or defected to large companies.
Emma barely persevered until now, and also had the idea of changing careers and changing jobs, which coincided with the high-profile opening of free training classes by Bee Games, and she signed up for the first time when she felt sleepy and was given a pillow. Thanks to her status as a senior female developer, Emma successfully passed the review and received a plane ticket and invitation from Bee Games, and appeared here.
"Of course it's important to make money, you can't live without money," Alicia nodded in agreement, and then changed the conversation, "But the most important thing is fun, if you can't even impress yourself, how can players buy it?"
Emma naturally understands this truth, but the difficulty in the world lies in how to do it, sighing deeply, she said depressedly: "I'm also looking for it, looking for a good idea that can impress myself and the player, but it's too naughty, and I haven't caught it yet." β
"These things can't be rushed," Alicia took back her phone, and clicked on the scroll icon, "Play games with me, maybe inspiration will be there." β
"I hope so!" Emma put away her self-pity, took out her BP7, and also opened "Heroscroll" to enter the world of Baijiangtu. This fast-paced MOBA mobile game is the hottest game on the Bee platform, with one out of every three users addicted to it, and its popularity among young people is even higher, and it has almost become a standard on mobile phones.
Put the two mobile phones together,The picture performance is hugely different,It's like two games,C4Not only is the resolution complete,Bee 7,The interface iconγThe game characters look much more fine,It feels more like a boutique terminal gameγ
Seeing this, the Norwegian girl asked, "Ash, this is a special version of yours, right? My side is already of the highest quality, but it is still not as good as yours." β
"Well," the latter nodded, "this is a 4K-specific version that will allow you to get the most out of your machine." β
"By the way, remember to choose the High Demon World, let's use the forest druid and the source of the plague to ensure that we can kill the dead!"
"Why?" said Emma, as a member of the Yan Party, she didn't like the forest virtue that pierced the bark of the trees, and even less the source of the plague surrounded by flies, mosquitoes and rats.
"Because of this," Alicia opened a game of human machine in seconds, handing the phone to the other party.
Entering the game, the power of 4K resolution is immediately apparent, the characters are much smaller, but the field of view is much larger than usual. Emma instantly understood the other party's thoughts, the super large field of vision will also be limited by the fog of war, it just so happens that Sende can plant trees to open the field of vision, and the plague source can release insects to steal the field of vision, and they can make the most of this and lay a strategic advantage for their own side.
But she was still a little puzzled, "Is this still going to be like this?
The blonde girl shook her head calmly, "It's not cheating, as long as you don't open 4k in the ladder, there will be no problem." β
Ladder is competitive in nature, and even special skins are not used, so naturally there is no tolerance for resolution differences that undermine fairness. Matching battles don't have these scruples, and they don't mind that someone uses a 4K phone to "hang up".
Since the other party said so, Emma immediately put aside her worries, happily chose Sender, and chose "Friends of the Forest" at the beginning, and plunged headlong into the wild area to plant trees frantically. Alicia naturally chose the source of the plague, and the first skill chose the particularly obscene "Polluted Fly", which made the opposite hero pull weak in the dark and successfully got the first kill.
With the support of the bounty, the plague source equipment quickly took shape, and he and Sender roamed around, killing farts and heads, gradually dominating the game. In the end, he took three passers-by teammates to dismantle the opponent's base and successfully won the first victory of the day.
Lying down to win easily, Emma was very excited, and as soon as the game reopened, she immediately chose Sender, and at the same time was busy urging Ash to choose the source of the plague quickly.
If it weren't for the sudden "buzzing" vibration of the other party's mobile phone, she would have almost forgotten that there was such a thing as a wind tunnel.
Alicia's situation is similar to her, and it was only when she saw the notice that she remembered that she had also booked a wind tunnel experience program. Looking at the time, she quickly had an idea, and said while typing with both hands: "There's no time, let's push!"
The mid-push fight went well, although there were many casualties, and in the end the opponent's base was defeated. Not caring about cleaning up the mess, Alicia stood up and said quickly, "That's it for today!
Without waiting for Emma to speak, she opened her long legs and ran towards the door of the wind cave area.
Following the prompts on her phone, Alicia walked up the stairs to the preparation area on the second floor, where she quickly received a special flight suit with small nozzles and a special helmet with a headset module and a transparent visor.
By the time she had changed her clothes, three other experiencers had arrived and changed their clothes, all of them women. In order to speed up the speed, the Bee Wind Tunnel Center opened a one-to-four mode, allowing one coach to bring four students into the wind tunnel to experience the lowest difficulty of the wind tunnel suspension project.
Under the leadership of the female instructor, the four of them lay on the yoga mat and did some preparatory movements, and then they were led into the flight preparation room. It was a small room adjacent to the main air duct, and you could hear the rumbling sound of air currents when you stayed inside, but fortunately, everyone wore active noise cancelling earplugs, and the wind sound was effectively suppressed and did not interfere with the communication of the five people.
"The last group got off the plane smoothly," the coach suddenly said, interrupting everyone's small talk, "Everyone prepare, wait until the security check is completed, and then you can go in." Remember to listen to my command, and everyone hold the hands of the people next to them!"
Although you can see the outside with the help of a helmet camera, it is not your own eyes after all, and it is inevitable that there will be some unaccustomed to it, and the situation of hand-in-hand collective action will be much better, and the coach can also worry less.
The small door opened, and a group of five people walked into the wind tunnel room hand in hand. The wind blows from under your feet, and the tight trousers and sleeves shake wildly, and you can feel a slight lifting sensation. Everyone looked left and right, and the mood was very wonderful.
When everyone has adapted to the environment in the wind tunnel, the coach instructed them to take the next step, stretching out their legs and reaching out in turn to feel the stronger lifting force, and finally transitioning to the whole body flat and being pushed against the "ceiling".
The tunnel system also adopts a more energy-efficient circulating air duct design, but with two blocking nets stuffed into the air duct to separate the dedicated flight experience area. Although it has lost the name of a true circulating wind tunnel, it has the advantages of simplified structure and easy to use, which is more suitable for novices. In fact, Yanjing's wind tunnel also has a partition net, which is usually installed inside to ensure safety, and when necessary, someone is sent to remove it and open a ventilation duct for professional performers to pass through it.
Alicia was a little scared and worried at first, but quickly got used to it, tilting her head to look left and right, laughing and looking at each other with the camera. Seeing this scene, the coach also took advantage of the situation to start the third stage, guiding them to try to bend their arms and bow their waists, and reduce the "buoyancy" and height by reducing the cross-sectional area.
At the beginning, everyone was very unaccustomed to it, either lying down too flat and being blown on the "sky net", or standing too straight and falling back into the "ground net", making a lot of jokes, and also making the communication channel full of laughter. But just like learning to walk and swim, everyone gradually adapted to the rhythm, got the hang of it, and gradually got rid of the constraints and began to fly freely.
Because she was so focused on learning to fly, Alicia didn't notice the change in the screen in front of her. When she reacted, the flight room had disappeared, and in front of her were sparse white clouds, scattered birds, and the distant and vast land, and she and the people around her had become winged birdmen, soaring in the sky.
The virtual picture that appeared at the right time successfully ignited everyone's enthusiasm to cool down, and the coach lady also said in a timely manner, "Guess what, where are we now?"
Of course, the answer will not be "heavenly", and everyone has to look down closely, hoping to find clues from the topography. Alicia was also watching carefully, and soon her eyes were dazzled by the dense rooftops and roads, and she only knew that this was a large inland city, but she couldn't guess where it was. Fortunately, the gang came from all over the world, and soon someone recognized the target, "This is Paris, and the crooked river is the Seine!"
"That's right!" the coach confirmed her guess and pointed under his finger: "Guys, let's go down and have a look!"
It is indeed Paris underneath, but it is paradoxical. With the exception of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe and a few well-known hotels, none of the other unnamed buildings look like they are "Parisian origin".
"It's true that it's not the original," the coach replied to her question, "the ones with names are licensed, and the others are original models." β