When Zhang Lexing woke up from his sleep, he found a tall stewardess standing next to him, she saw Zhang Lexing wake up, bowed slightly, and said in a sweet voice: "Sir, our flight is about to land at Beijing Capital Airport, for your safety, we need to restore your seat to its original position, do you need me to serve you?"

Zhang Lexing sat up and shook his head: "No need, I'll come by myself." ”

"For your safety, please return the seat to its original position as soon as possible and fasten your seat belt. The stewardess took a step back, bowed slightly, pointed to the pager, and said respectfully, "If you have any needs, please feel free to call me." ”

With that, the stewardess turned and walked away. Zhang Lexing patted his face lightly to sober himself up, and then lifted the blanket covering his body and stood up, the plane was still flying very smoothly at this time, Zhang Lexing came to the bathroom and washed his face, so that he was completely sober. Back at the seat, Zhang Lexing pressed the pager, and the flight attendant appeared and took away the blanket, and then Zhang Lexing restored the seat to its original position and sat on it, then fastened his seat belt, and waited for the plane to land.

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When Zhang Lexing and his accompanying bodyguards walked out of the terminal, they saw Wang Mengyao waving there and the black Mercedes-Benz 400E not far from her. Getting closer, Wang Mengyao's voice came: "Boss, here and here." ”

Zhang Lexing smiled and waved to Wang Mengyao, and then dragged his luggage towards her. The group got into the car, and the car quickly started and drove away from the airport.

In the car, Wang Mengyao asked as always: "Boss, do you want to go back and rest first." ”

"No, I rested on the plane. Zhang Lexing waved his hand and said, "Let's go to the company first, I want to see the situation." ”

"Good boss. Wang Mengyao leaned forward and patted the driver's seat: "Brother Chen, go to the company." ”

"Has anything happened in the industry and in the company during this time?"

"Well, boss, during this time, many companies have submitted applications to the Dream Fund, and four companies have been approved, namely Precursor Software, Huiying Electronics, Hongda Software, and Xionglong Company, of which Precursor Software was officially established last week, and the office is located in the Baishiqiao area.

Kingsoft General Motors has posted a job advertisement for game developers in some computer industry media, intending to set up a game development studio.

Following the Guangzhou branch, Zhiguan established a Beijing branch on May 12 and set up a game development studio called Red Ant.

It is rumored that Jinpan Electronics will launch their first game in three months, the game is called "Condor Commando", and the game type is unknown.

Another professional game magazine was launched, and in June, the inaugural issue of Home Computers & Game Consoles was launched, and Mystery Manor (the game used for distribution experiments) was advertised in both Home Computers & Game Consoles and Video Game Software, and a total of 220 units have been sold so far.

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "Obsidian" project team because of the need to obtain technical support from Hong Kong, has gone to Shenzhen at the end of June, and is currently temporarily living in Jinshan General Motors, the development equipment is supported by Hong Kong, and the development is progressing smoothly, of which the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project team is expected to release a formal trial version in early November, and complete all the work in mid-January next year.

At the end of the first phase of training of Fengyun Game Academy, a total of 86 people met the company's contract standards, of which 82 people entered the company (10 of them were recommended to study abroad), 6 of the remaining 8 people were signed by Kingsoft GM, and two people who did not meet the standards went to unknown whereabouts.

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Zhang Lexing leaned on the saddle and closed his eyes slightly, listening to Wang Mengyao's report, while pondering in his heart: "Originally, there should only be three companies: Jinpan Electronics, Qiandao, and Jinshan, but I didn't expect that with the Dream Fund, there will be three more, it seems that the game development force in the future should be much stronger...... I didn't expect the sales of the game to be so poor now, and it seems that this low-cost game will lose money if it doesn't work...... The equipment problem is still very troublesome, otherwise there is no need to let the project team go so far to Shenzhen, I hope that the negotiation on Sister Xin's side can be smooth...... The two project teams are leaving, and the company's development strength is afraid that more than half of it will go, but fortunately, the game academy has added some new people to come in, and maybe it will no longer be a problem to persist in talent for a few more years. ”

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The car stopped downstairs in the Beihang Building, and Zhang Lexing and Wang Mengyao got off the car and walked to the elevator in the lobby. Coming to the elevator, Wang Mengyao pressed the up button, and after waiting for about a minute and a half, the elevator door opened. Walking into the elevator together, pressing the floor button on the eighth floor, the elevator door slowly closes, and begins to rise upward. Not long after, with a ding, the elevator stopped on the 8th floor, and the elevator doors opened again.

When he came to the company, Zhang Lexing went to the administration department first, planning to find out if there were any changes in Chu Jing's company's personnel, and by the way, take a look at the information of these people who have joined the company.

In the administration department, Chu Jing was the only one, and she was writing something at her desk. Zhang Le walked in and came to Chu Jing's desk, and was about to do something, when she had already raised her head.

"Lexing, you're back. Chu Jing showed a surprised expression: "Well, your flight is at this time, and with the time on the road, it seems that this time the plane is very punctual." ”

"yes, this flight was textbook-like, almost every second. By the way, there should be a lot of new people in the company during this time, what is the current situation of the company's human resources? ”

Chu Jing nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Well, at present, the total number of developers in the company has reached 210, including 42 planners, 98 programmers, 36 artists, 24 QAs, 10 music, and 50 alternate game testers. In terms of numbers, there has been a lot of development, but the number of newcomers is too large, and the overall strength needs to be improved......"

The problem of talent training is not something that can be solved overnight, except for a very small number of geniuses, it needs to be well trained, and it also requires sufficient experience accumulation. In fact, the creative workshop has been arranged accordingly, for example, the first project of newcomers is usually arranged to do some small projects with less difficulty, first accumulate a little preliminary experience, and then participate in regular projects to further accumulate, but unfortunately these take time, no matter how urgent you are, you can't just pull out the seedlings to help it. Zhang Lexing actually thought about whether there was a shortcut to take, in fact, this kind of problem is easy to solve if it is changed to a place like the United States or Japan where there are many developers, and you can't directly poach people if you don't have time to train yourself, but there are not many qualified game developers in the mainland's shallow game foundation, even if it is a few years or more than ten years, Zhang Lexing has not much to dig even if he wants to, and Zhang Lexing is not willing to do this kind of thing of fishing for the best of his ability, if he doesn't cultivate, who will support the mainland game industry in the future.

Chu Jing's voice came over again: "...... The company's biggest problem at present is in terms of revenue, in the past two years, it can almost be said that there is only input and no output, and the gross income obtained from game sales so far is only 22,000 yuan, excluding the corresponding costs, game sales are still at a loss. At present, the most important problem to be solved is the source of income, if this problem is not solved, it will only lose more and more, with the current salary base, the salary and the year-end bonus will be more than 7 million a year, if you add other expenses will definitely exceed 8 million, and then continue to recruit people, this cost will only get higher and higher. Lexing, I'm afraid I have to think of a way, although the company's funds are still abundant, but long-term losses are not a good phenomenon. ”

"It doesn't matter, it's still an accumulation period, and it's normal to lose money, and when the developers grow up and the projects open more and more, they will slowly turn losses into profits. You don't have to worry about money, there are still a lot of reserve funds. ”

"Lexing, since that's the case, then I won't say much, you have to control it yourself, after all, it's all your money. ”

"It's okay, I can stand it. By the way, you can show me the information of the new people who joined the company. ”

"Okay. Chu Jing got up and came to the filing cabinet next to him, took out three folders, and handed them to Zhang Lexing: "The new employees are here, you take your time." ”

Zhang Lexing took the folder, found an empty desk and sat down, and then spread out the folder and looked at it slowly. There were a lot of people, and Zhang Lexing didn't have the energy to look carefully one by one, so he flipped through it a little, but didn't find a particularly prominent one, so he gave up. Closing the folder and returning it to Chu Jing, Zhang Lexing left the administration department, ready to go and see what the 3D engine made by Ken Silverman's people look like.

Ken Silverman's gang is no longer the first three guns, and many more people have been added one after another, and now it is a team of twenty-two people, except for five artists, the rest are programmers. When Zhang Lexing arrived at Ken Silverman and the others' private office, most of them were working hard to write code, and the few who could tell from their computer screens that they were testing something, the office reverberated with the sound of keyboard taps and mouse clicks.

Ken Silverman sat in front of his computer, stared at the screen for a moment, opened his mouth and yawned, picked up the cup next to the monitor with his right hand, shook it, and looked at it again. "It's empty again," he muttered, and was about to get up, when suddenly a hand reached over and grabbed his cup.

After letting go of his hand, Ken Silverman confessed: "Brew me a cup of coffee, remember not to add sugar." ”

Five minutes later, a cup of coffee was brought to Ken Silverman's table, he took a sip of it, nodded and said, "Well, that's what it tastes like." Then he remembered that he should be thanked, so he stood up and turned to see who his colleague was making his coffee, but he was taken aback by the one he saw.

"Boss, you ......" Ken Silverman said a little stammering, "was it ...... just now?"

"It's okay, just a cup of coffee. Zhang Lexing spread his hands, then came to Ken Silverman's desk and asked, "By the way, how is the 3D engine you are studying?"

An excited look flashed across Ken Silverman's face, and after listening to Zhang Lexing's question, he immediately replied: "Well, the 3D engine has a preliminary result at present, this is an engine that we call Build, strictly speaking, it is not a real 3D engine, it is actually a 3D effect simulated by texturing technology similar to DOOM, but it is not the same as DOOM Compared to the big improvement, the character has actions such as jumping and squatting, the more detailed texture realizes the effect of 360-degree surround view, and the character is no longer confined to the ground through the design of flying props, and when entering the water, the character can also swim......"

"Look, boss, what's running on that computer is a validation game made with this engine. Ken Silverman said, pointing to the screen of the other computer.

Zhang Lexing leaned over and looked at it for a while, feeling very familiar, of course, it didn't mean that the game screen was familiar, but the style of the game seemed to be very similar to a certain game he had played. In fact, the design of this verification game is very simple, coming and going is to walk around a city, and doing things is a bit similar to "Wolf3D", except that the enemy character is replaced by a small man wearing yellow clothes and a Rendanhu on his nose, dragging a long rifle to haunt all corners of the city, and there will be enemies on horseback in some open areas, the number of enemies is large, and the protagonist's equipment is not ambiguous, there are pistols, rifles, and Submachine guns and machine guns can be used, as well as ghost head broadswords, plus a slightly more sci-fi individual bazooka, which is enough to blast enemies to slag. For historical reasons, flying items do not appear in this verification game, but if you enter a password, a jetpack will still appear on the protagonist. It was this jetpack that made Zhang Lexing feel extremely familiar, nostalgic for the days when he flew away to chase and fight alien monsters.

After watching the verification game for a while, Zhang Lexing felt that something was wrong: "I remember that when you first applied, you planned to make a real 3D engine, and I also gave you a lot of suggestions, why is it shrinking so much now." ”

Sighing, Ken Silverman said with a sad face: "Boss, in fact, we are also working on the real 3D engine, but the progress is relatively slow. We originally planned to add polygonal models, animations and particle effects, and then listened to your suggestion, and we included real-time light and shadow, skeletal animation system, model animation system, physics effects, collision detection, rendering engine, etc. into the scope of the design, but in this way, the configuration requirements for the computer have skyrocketed, especially the three most expensive resources of real-time light and shadow, physical effects, and rendering engines. In view of this, we have to get a pseudo-3D engine first, so that we can also use it to make some games first, and the real 3D engine can also have more time to improve, but unfortunately the best PCs now have a very big gap, I hope that after a while there will be faster, better performance of the PC out. ”

Ken Silverman said that Zhang Lexing can understand, not to mention the current Pentium 75, that is, in a few years Ben 3, Ben 4 may not be able to deal with the more and more complex needs of the 3D engine, if it is not for the emergence of 3D acceleration card, I am afraid that the PC game dream will stay in 2D or no complex light and shadow, no fine rendering of simple 3D, it seems that I have a good understanding of Ken · Silverman is a bit aggressive, it's not something he can solve right now, it's going to have to be done with computer technology.

Looking at the simple 2.5D picture on the computer screen and the 3D picture on another computer that can't even be called a "moving" picture, Zhang Lexing can't help but miss the combination of dual-core buckle meat + GeForce8800GTX, and his heart is full of great resentment towards the current computer.

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