Chapter 32: Lookout
Don't look at video games as novelty toys for entertainment. But, at the end of the day, it's a high-tech gadget that brings together all aspects of professional content.
Just as the level of a country's film represents the level of science and technology of a country to a certain extent, video games, like movies, are no longer small and people-oriented art professions, but industrially produced entertainment products.
The term "film industry" was already commonplace in the eighties of the twentieth century.
However, the term game industry has not been mentioned by many people in this era.
However, even if you don't mention it, these Chinese researchers and artists have also felt the strange difficulty of making video games.
"Lao Li, it's really a bit difficult to make an arcade machine. We've never had a project like this before. Not only should the computer level be good, the picture should also be good-looking, there are also requirements for music, and the most important thing is fun. I've found that I used to despise this stuff. I thought it was for children, but I didn't expect there to be so many ways in it. Sun Ming said chatteringly.
Although Lao Li didn't want to admit Sun Ming's point of view, he still had to admit that he was right. Making a video game is no small undertaking. It's easy to see flowers, but it's hard to embroider. Originally, I thought that these arcade machines shipped from abroad were not very powerful, but when I started making them myself, I realized that it was a pit step by step, and it was already a very powerful level to be able to achieve the game to their level.
"Hmm. Lao Li let out a low "um", and continued to calculate the random algorithm specially designed by the professor of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China.
And Sun Ming was sorting out the design drawings mailed by the (Harmony) Sea Art Studio. The characters of the dot matrix were drawn according to the design manuscript and the color palette available in the arcade. Movements after movements, jumping, running, and standing as if breathing, the different images seem to have a different kind of beauty in the design draft.
The remaining fixed slabs, the slabs that fold when one steps on them, the nail slabs that bleed when one steps on them, and the springs that bounce off them.
There is a drawing and a set of drawings.
For a country with a relatively backward level of technology, it wants to catch up with the advanced in a certain project. The most direct and effective way is to concentrate on doing great things.
This kind of working atmosphere of national cooperation in one place, Sun Ming has not been in contact with for many years. This time, he threw himself into this atmosphere, and he felt that his blood, which had been somewhat cool, began to boil again.
According to Takahashi's guidance, the stochastic algorithm finally adopted a "seed algorithm" with limited conditions.
"If you are brave, you will go down a hundred floors" Due to various considerations, a total of 10,000 map seeds were selected in the end.
Every time you start the game, you will take a value based on the clock set by the motherboard, and then throw it into the algorithm to calculate a corresponding seed.
There are 10,000 seeds, which means that there are 10,000 maps.
Unless this game is played seriously for half a year, it has a very good memory and can remember all the pictures. Otherwise, the backboard in the traditional game is almost completely ineffective in "If You Are Brave, Go Down a Hundred Floors".
Of course, if a tech nerd cracks the not-so-clever random algorithm in the arcade, then he still has a way to play the game through the backboard.
Otherwise, "If You Are Brave, You Will Go Down a Hundred Floors", it will be a game that is more pure than ever before, testing the ability to react instantly.
Moreover, another selling point of this game is the gameplay of two players playing pit teammates at the same time.
This kind of gameplay has not been so novel since the launch of "Bubble Bobble 2" and "Mario Bros.". But the first sight of the kill is over, and the core fun that comes from this mode still makes players want to stop.
"Lao Li, why do you say that Gao Qiao is so powerful. You said we're all doing it according to his train of thought now. I didn't encounter any big problems, and we even realized what he said. You said that he hadn't worked with us before, so how could he formulate such a suitable project according to our abilities?" Sun Ming converted these lattice drawings into code that would appear in the game one by one.
Lao Li still didn't have a long answer, and Sun Ming didn't care. I'm already happy to have a job.
In fact, the project "Downstairs" is not a purely foreign project.
This game project has a large number of departments and a wide range of contacts, although it does not reach the level of China's top projects. However, it has also attracted the attention of some leaders above.
One of the keys to the success of reform and opening up lies in the fact that China has enough talents from perspectives. Everyone who has received a junior high school education level or above is a valuable industrial population and a valuable asset.
Now in Asia, with the head of the goose, the four tigers as the body, and Southeast Asia as the tail of the goose, a huge economic system is brewing.
Although the book of the 80s was in full swing, it also faced many problems. For example, an aging population, a small local market, and so on.
In order for the giant wheel of development to continue to move forward, they must expand their capital outward.
South Korea, Taiwan (Harmony) Bay, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries are the strategic points of their capital expansion.
Countless factories have moved to Southeast Asia, and countless goods are sold in these countries.
Among them, countries such as South Korea even refuse to sell pure products in their own countries. Although it will not be like twenty years ago, in the sixties, with a foreign match, he was shot. But if you use something made in another country, you will still be in great trouble.
Therefore, if you want to enter the Korean market, such as game consoles, automobiles, and various daily necessities, you must have joint ventures with Korean companies.
Of course, this is not very friendly to the capitalists, but because of this attitude of not accepting advanced foreign products in its entirety and abandoning its own industrial production, South Korea has completed the country's take-off with the inflow of capital and technology from the United States after many years.
Of course, there are many companies that want to invest and build factories in China. Although China may be slightly poorer than Southeast Asia, it has an internal market of more than one billion and such a well-educated industrial population.
As well as a stable social environment and relatively complete infrastructure. All these have undoubtedly attracted the factory to invest in China.
However, there are worrying policy risks involved.
And now the 10,000 households that are engaged in games are the first to eat crabs and attract much attention.