Chapter 740: The Heroine Who Saves Money
Among the many entities under the Bee Group, the shadow auxiliary company is definitely one that is easy to impress, because they have a retro and tall gantry crane factory, the smell of lubricating oil and insulating rubber in the air, and the staff who come and go are also wearing blue overalls and orange helmets.
In fact, these scenes can be seen in any machinery factory, and the reason why people feel strange is only because they are somewhat inconsistent with the high-tech attributes of the entire bee garden. After all, it's either an Internet company or a software company next door, and it's normal for painting styles to conflict, but fortunately we also have agricultural and military channels that don't match the same style.
As a company specializing in the production of electric amusement equipment and other automatic devices, these things are actually necessary, especially the safety helmet on the head. Although the helmet is useless in the stomach, and the thin one has no weight protection, Lin Jiwu still wears it honestly, otherwise the detection system at the entrance of the production area will not let it go.
From this point of view,Shadow is still very bee,It's also full of all kinds of fascination with automation equipment.,The only thing missing is just those electric balance cars.,The obstacle avoidance function of those small things is a little rudimentary.,Can't identify all kinds of heavy machinery here.,It's easy to have problems.。
Lin Jiwu naturally came over today on official business, and there was a customized product that needed to be accepted by him, the director of the studio.
The film auxiliary company cooperates with the film and television group companies to produce 4D theater equipment and film and television props equipment, cooperates with Bee Games to develop large-scale somatosensory arcade machines, and often contracts some personalized customized products. In short, as long as it has something to do with mechanics and electronics, you can basically come to them. The price guarantee is much cheaper than the tech maniacs and stockpilers at the Institute.
The only problem is that these so-called Gundam group technical masters are too interested in it, and although it is refreshing to receive orders, the delivery is a bit delayed.
The model that Lin Jiwu wanted to pick up was prepared for Chinajoy in the summer, and the reason why he placed the order several months in advance was naturally because he was afraid of their convulsive efficiency. However, he didn't expect people to finish it so quickly, so he had to give up the hot pot and music, and came over to see the situation.
In addition to launching "Crazy Soccer 3" this year to further improve the gameplay and become more formal, Blue Fireball Studio also produced a derivative game "Galaxy Ball Club" based on it, and they customized the movable life-size model of the heroine of this new game in the shadow.
In the "Crazy" series, players can freely modify the rules of the combined soccer game, thus completely subverting the form of the game, creating crazy and fun new gameplay such as sky soccer, underwater soccer, and even weightless soccer. These brain holes have gradually become mature after repeated modifications, and have accumulated a sufficient number of active players, and then they are naturally made into independent games and released separately, and the new sci-fi game "Galaxy" is extended on the basis of the concept of weightless football to test the waters.
The story is set 50 years later in the space age, human beings began to carry out experimental migration to outer space, and successively established seven experimental space cities with a scale of 100,000 people in the earth's orbit. The new living environment changed every aspect of the lives of the newcomers, including their means of entertainment, and then there was the space-age ball game Galaxy Ball, as well as the Seven Cities League, where the main story of the game is the process of each of the seven protagonists leading their teams to the top of the league.
The gameplay is roughly the same as football's set of hitting the ball into the goal, but the goal becomes a big horn with an outer diameter of 7 meters and an inner diameter of 5 meters, the position is moved from the ground to the air, and the game area has also become a spherical space with a diameter of the goal line, so the game can be carried out in a large cabin in the spaceport, or it can be moved to the open space outside the port, but the latter requires all members to wear spacesuits and carry jet propulsion devices, and there is no way to arrange spectators.
In addition, because of the existence of weightlessness in space, some rules have to be modified, handball is no longer prohibited but there are more 30-second and 10-second rules similar to basketball, and high-altitude balls are also explicitly punished, all in order to prevent the players on both sides from holding the ball and not attacking or kicking the game ball far away to delay time.
Because of the relationship between the air pack, the Galaxy ball game is a mixed game between men and women, after all, under the condition of equal power, the female team members have the advantage of small weight and fast acceleration, if they can use the auxiliary nozzles on their hands and feet, they can make themselves slippery and non-slippery, and the ball path is weird, the heroine of the game, the balloon star Cheng Wei is a good hand here, and she has also won the title of "Witch of Change".
However, Cheng Wei, who appeared in front of Lin Jiwu, was wearing a bloated space suit, and only the delicate face behind the glass mask proved her female identity. The movable model has been made and painted, just waiting for him to come and sign for it and pull it away.
"So this female astronaut was customized by you?" suddenly interjected Lin Chen, who happened to pass by, and the round astronaut shape aroused his interest, so he walked up to talk.
Big Sword on Hong Kong Island, where he used to work, has a lot of business relationships with Bee Games, so he naturally knows a lot of Bee Games employees, including this game producer who grew up as a network administrator and game tester in an Internet café.
"There's no way, the new game has limited funds, so I can only find ways to save more money," the other party said.
Sci-fi themes are very common in console games, especially in the "gun, car, ball" games that European and American manufacturers are keen on, and most of the shooting games are set in the future or near future. However, ball games in the future background are quite rare, and Blue Fireball is obviously a bit risky this time, and then it is natural to control expenses and try carefully to become an inevitable choice.
The purpose of letting the heroine Cheng Wei wear an outer space competition suit is to save money, so that the limited funds can be used on the depiction of that face during production, and other things such as hair, hands and feet, and torso can be cut corners, anyway, wrapped under the clothes, others can't see it. Thanks to the rich experience in the production of film and television props and 3D printing technology of the film auxiliary company, the heroine's small face is very beautiful and exquisite, which is not inferior to the professionally produced star wax figures, and those wild road country wax figures are incomparable.
"This is definitely the most cost-effective heroine and other figure in history, there is no one!" Listening to Lin Jiwu introduce the identity of the model in front of him, Lin Chen said half teasing and half proudly, he did it so delicately under the condition of a limited budget, he did have reason to be proud of the film auxiliary company.
While speaking, Lin Chen stretched out his right hand and planned to pat Cheng Wei's shoulder on the model, but he was embarrassed to find that the other party seemed to be a little taller than himself, so he had to flash to the side depressedly, so as not to cause more inferiority complex due to the height comparison.
Ordinary people living in space for a few months will grow a few centimeters tall because the intervertebral disc is elongated in a weightless environment, and the second generation of the air who grew up in a weightless environment will easily have a pair of long legs because weightlessness is conducive to the growth of leg bones. Blue Fireball's character designer also applied this rule to character design, creating a large number of male and female characters with legs from the neck down. Although the bloated shape of this outer space competition suit conceals her body curves, her height cannot be faked, coupled with the thickness of the space boots on her feet, Cheng Wei's altitude is enough to overlook a considerable number of adult men, and unfortunately, Erlin belongs to the part that is miserably despised.
Noticing Lin Chen's regression, Lin Jiwu laughed, but soon he couldn't laugh, and he also stepped forward and repeated the former's shoulder pat, and then he was depressed and found that he also needed to raise his hand and chin, so he couldn't help but take two steps back in embarrassment, and also avoided standing with Cheng Wei and becoming the object of comparison. It's just that this action is a little late, because Lin Chen has wittily taken out his mobile phone and taken a picture of his embarrassment.
"Brother Chen, delete it! I can't write two Lin characters with one stroke, we were one family five hundred years ago, why should we hurt each other?"
"If you can write a Lin character in one stroke, it's not impossible to help you delete the photo, the question is whether you can write it?"
Of course, Lin can't write a single stroke, and he doesn't even need to prove Euler's seven-bridge theorem, so Lin Jiwu had to look at the other party with eyes full of resentment: "Aren't everyone else saying that, how can you not play cards according to the routine?"
"Anla, Anla," Lin Chen smiled and deleted the photo, and at the same time gave the other party an idea, "Before you take it away, you can find someone to help stuff a hidden camera in the helmet, and wait for others to come over and look up at her, just enough to take a picture, I think that picture will be very interesting." ”
"It's quite interesting, but we have something more interesting," said Lin Jiwu and suddenly tapped on his mobile phone, and Cheng Wei's left hand turned to Lin Chen and spewed a large cloud of water vapor at him. It is said to be a movable model, but the only thing that can move "Cheng Wei" is this compression sprayer on the left forearm and wrist, which is naturally a money-saving pot. When the latter came over, he was using the Bluetooth pairing function to connect to the model's control system, and when Lin Chen reminded him of this, he remembered that the production team had prepared an easter egg for himself, but he didn't expect it to be such a function.
What was sprayed out was the purified water that was atomized by compressed air, but there wasn't much to look at it, and Lin Chen was a little far away, and he didn't get much on it, at most he just felt a chill on his face.
"It's not powerful, this fog!" Lin Jiwu expressed his disappointment at the spray function.
Lin Chen understood this, and pointed to the model's left hand, "Her arm looks thick, in fact, there is still a connection module in the air in the spacesuit, and the available space is not much, and the sprayer naturally can't be too big." ”
"But you guys, can you play it now? I'm interested in it. It feels like a space version of Quidditch, you didn't have Rowling's permission to make it what you are now, right?"
Quidditch is a famous magical Harry Potter fantasy. Roling's original ball game in which players need to chase three types of ball in the air on a flying broomstick, scoring 10 points for hitting the Quizleball into a circle, hitting two Bludgers to interfere with the opponent, and catching the nimble Golden Snitch can win with a golden ball, scoring 150 points and winning the game.
In the original books, Quidditch is a popular ball game in the wizarding world, with its own professional league and World Cup matches. In the real world, there are also a group of bear children who grew up reading Harry to see Hermione, trying to limit this fictional magical sport, and they even formed the so-called International Quidditch Association to promote the event. It's just that Muggles can't fly on ordinary people without magic, and everyone can only play grass Quidditch on their legs, and they can't find a magic ball that can fly, so they have to grab a volleyball and throw it at each other, which looks more like a bear child fight.
However, there is a group of more painful extreme enthusiasts who try to play the flying version of Quidditch when they descend at high altitude, and successfully realize the flight of people and balls, the scene is thrilling and exciting, but unfortunately the athletes can't move horizontally flexibly, it's still not enough to restore, and the cost of this game is too high. You need to overcome the psychological fear of falling from a height, and you also have to bear the high cost of training and flying, you must know that the entire United States has a population of 300 million, but only 350,000 people, 3 million people play skydiving every year, which shows that the threshold for this sport is very high.
Hearing Lin Chen mention Quidditch, Lin Jiwu shook his head, "We ran the Quidditch rules on the engine, but the effect was very bad, originally flying in the air requires players to pay attention to the six directions of up, down, left, right, front and back, Quidditch's 3 kinds of balls, 3 goals, and 14 players further distract people's attention, resulting in frequent collision accidents The experience is not good." ”
"It was a broom collision accident," Lin Chen added with an occupational illness, "If it were made into a VR somatosensory game, players can use their body tilt to control the direction of flight, and use their neck to control the viewing angle, which should be much better." ”
"We've also tried the VR solution, and it's only slightly better, from wrist fatigue to neck fatigue, which has also been clicked off. ”
"It's not like you didn't set it up, right?"
As he was talking, a low tire noise came, and the two quickly stopped the topic and moved aside, and then saw an electric forklift and a minivan driving one after the other, obviously the person in charge of transportation coming. In fact, with the distance between Yingfu and Bee You, it is completely possible to push it all the way with a forklift, but Lin Jiwu doesn't dare to make do with it like this, if the model has a bump, a finger or a hook on his clothes, his bonus this month will be in vain.
Fortunately, Kagesuke has prepared a special plastic transfer box for it, which only needs to be carefully put down in the box, fill the gap with shock-absorbing foam, and then cover the box and buckle it, so you don't have to worry about bumps during transportation.
Seeing that the model of Cheng Wei with the power turned off was loaded into a box, and then sent to the truck by a forklift to be fixed and pulled away, Lin Jiwu turned to Lin Chen and said, "Since Brother Chen, you are so interested, if you have time, come with me to the studio to have a look!"