PS: I accidentally passed the wrong chapter when I uploaded it yesterday.,I passed the 68 chapters in advance.,It's readjusted today.,Please forgive me!

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Zhang Lexing still prefers the "RealTown" project, and he will not ignore its development potential and the possibility of being related to Game 2.0 (player-created game content). However, before investing, he also needs to talk to the creative providers of the "RealTown" project to make sure that the "RealTown" project is the kind he wants, after all, there is no guarantee that there will be no misunderstanding between the two parties based on simple text and pictures.

The creative providers of the "RealTown" project apparently had this in mind, and at the end of the draft, they provided their contact information, which coincidentally included a local Hong Kong number, which means that it may not be long before Zhang Lexing meets the creators of the "RealTown" project. Sure enough, in the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Lexing met the initiators of the "RealTown" project, or the initiators, in the café downstairs from his company, because there were three people who came, a high-nosed foreigner with chestnut hair and a blue and white striped long-sleeved T-shirt, a man in a white shirt who looked sunny, and a young woman who looked like an OL in a simple and bright professional suit, a total of two men and one woman.

When Zhang Le walked over, the three of them obviously recognized it, and they all stood up to say hello, but what surprised him was that what popped out of the foreigner's mouth was actually a similar Mandarin: "Mr. Zhang, hello, my name is Andy Streeter, you can also call me Qiao Ansheng by my Chinese name, or simply call me Ah Sheng." ”

Zhang Lexing was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "Ah Sheng, your Mandarin is very good, it seems that the time to China should not be short." ”

"It's not short, I've spent many years in Beijing and Shanghai...... I have only been here in Hong Kong for the past two years. Andy Streeter said with a look of nostalgia on his face, as if he remembered something that impressed him.

Sunshine Man stood aside and introduced himself: "Mr. Zhang, hello, my name is Chen Kewen, I am Ah Sheng's partner, and I was ...... in Shanghai before I came to Hong Kong."

The OL girl also introduced herself at this time: "Mr. Zhang, hello, my name is Ye Yutong, and I am also Ah Sheng's partner, a native of Hong Kong......"

After a few pleasantries, the two sides sat down, ordered a few more cups of coffee, and began to get into today's topic. Zhang Lexing first said straight to the point: "Several, I have read the draft game idea you submitted, and I think your ideas are still very innovative, but I still have some questions about the description of some places, so I hope you can communicate in person, so as not to have any misunderstandings and affect future cooperation." ”

"Yes, Mr. Zhang, what you said makes a lot of sense. Andy Streeter nodded repeatedly, "I don't know what you're talking about?"

Chen Kewen and Ye Yutong also nodded in unison, and their eyes turned to Zhang Lexing, looking forward to his statement. Zhang Lexing took a sip of the coffee in front of him, then put down the cup and said, "First of all, I need to determine the future development direction of your creative draft, whether it is to go to a specific game, or to the technical aspect of virtual reality?"

After the three of them looked at each other, Chen Kewen explained: "Mr. Zhang, our idea is to develop the game engine, and if conditions permit, we will transform 'RealTown' into a general virtual world building system as much as possible......"

Maybe it was because he was talking about the scope of his profession, Chen Kewen seemed a little excited, and talked endlessly, and Zhang Lexing could still understand the words such as world system, human modeling, action design, artificial intelligence, and emotional simulation that popped out of his mouth, but the more detailed description that followed was a little dizzy, in short, it was a lot of professional-sounding words "piled up".

Zhang Lexing had no choice but to cough lightly a few times, and then interjected and asked: "I roughly understand that your research direction should be the general construction engine of the virtual world, which should belong to the technical level of virtual reality." ”

Ye Yutong nodded, smiled and said, "Yes, Mr. Zhang, that's what we mean." ”

"Well," Zhang Lexing bowed slightly, and continued to ask, "So do you have any goals for this 'RealTown' project, such as what kind of effect can be achieved in the short term or in three or five years, what kind of effect can be achieved in the medium term, and what kind of effect will be achieved in the long term?"

This time, it was Andy Streeter who came forward to explain, he took out a pre-prepared document and handed it over, Zhang Lexing took the information and looked at it, it was written on the forecast chart of the research status of the 'RealTown' project. According to this chart, their short-term (three to five years) goal is to simulate a near-real town on a computer with a performance equivalent to two R-4502A processors (250MHz, 6.2GFLOPS), with an area of no more than 0.6 square kilometers (calculated according to the real environment), with no less than 5 households and 20 people, and no more than 5 family pets, through "virtual multi-threading technology" Realize the intelligent and emotional simulation of people and pets, and try to expand the scope of simulation to wild animals and plants within the town, focusing on the construction of the data flow model and external interactive access interface of the small town world. The medium-term simulation targets are in two directions, one is a larger town that can evolve all the way to the city level, and the other is a multi-town coexistence, focusing on data exchange between small towns. The long-term goal is to develop towards a larger-scale world simulation, and eventually reach the planetary level of virtuality.

After reading this chart, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but be silent for a while, sure enough, the virtual world close to nature is not so easy to get, in fact, this can also be understood, after all, in the original 2008, not to mention the online game, the most successful virtual world in China, even the most technologically advanced stand-alone game can not achieve a complete simulation of the real world, whether it is for development funds or technical reasons, the game always needs to make certain trade-offs, even the "Sims" series.

Zhang Lexing sighed slightly in his heart and asked, "What is the form of this external interactive access interface you mentioned? Is it the AI simulator described in the draft idea, which communicates with the people in the town through the perspective of the simulator?"

"yes, Mr. Zhang, this should be the best part of our creativity. Think about it," Andy Streeter said, gesturing his hands. When the town grows to a certain range, you walk into the town as an outsider, you can feel the calm and idyllic atmosphere of the town, you can talk to the residents of the town, understand their simple life, you can try to take care of the cats and dogs in the town, and establish a close relationship with them, and all this will not disappear with your departure, when you come next time, the people in the town may have taken the initiative to call your name, and the cats and dogs will automatically run up and rub your shoes with their heads......"

"Admittedly, the scenarios you describe are fascinating, especially for people living in big cities, but from an investor's point of view, it's not easy for your research project to be translated into a final product, and you're probably not too sure when you'll get to where you're describing. Zhang Lexing paid attention to the expressions of the three as he spoke, when he said the first half of the sentence, the mood of the three people seemed very high, but when he said the words behind "but", the three of them were obviously deflated, and it was even more difficult to hide the disappointment on their faces.

"But ......" When Zhang Lexing's mouth spit out another turning word, the three of them suddenly perked up, and their eyes were full of expectation, and they looked at him together.

“…… Well, I'd like you to do your own research while helping me with something else, and if you agree, I can help you with the necessary equipment and funding for your research. ”

The three of them looked at each other for a moment, and after a little hesitation, Andy Streeter opened his mouth and asked, "Mr. Zhang, can you first tell us about the project you want to study? If it is within our ability, there will naturally be no problem, but if it exceeds our ability, then I am afraid it will be ......."

"I think you guys should be able to, to put it simply, what I need is a common data exchange module between virtual worlds. Zhang Lexing explained.

"Universal data exchange module between virtual worlds?" the three repeated in unison.

"yes, a universal data exchange module between virtual worlds. Zhang Lexing nodded and explained in detail: "Take the town you envision as an example, suppose there are two towns at the same time, we enable an AI simulator to arrive at the first town and have some changes (change of costumes, increase of character attributes, etc.), and then go to another town, but the two towns are a little different in the description of the world, for example, the former town is an idyllic town that exists in real society, which is very calm and quiet, and there is nothing different about it." The latter town is a magical type, with various non-human creatures such as elves, dwarves, orcs, etc., or it is simply an alien planetary world, completely unrelated to the real town. In this extreme case, the exchange of data between the two towns, especially the travel between the two towns by our AI simulators, must be controlled and converted, otherwise all the strange problems will arise. I don't know what I'm talking about, do you understand what's going on?"

After speaking, Zhang Lexing picked up the coffee and tasted it slowly, waiting for the response in front of him, and the three of them nodded and pondered. After a while, when Zhang Lexing was about to finish drinking the coffee in his cup, Chen Kewen seemed to understand and said, "Mr. Zhang, I roughly understand what you mean." You want to establish a relatively general level of data exchange, when a character shuttles between different virtual worlds, the data exchange level will filter out irrelevant data, and fill in the required data, for example, an AI simulator first got a fireball magic scroll in the magic age, and then then traveled to a similar environment in the real world, then the fireball magic scroll is an item that should not exist, if it is not processed to directly transmit the data from the magic age to the real society, then when lucky, the fireball magic scroll may become something else, but when you're unlucky (e.g. the Fireball Magic Scroll's data bits just take up key system data bits), it can lead to the collapse of the entire virtual world. Therefore, in the process of data transmission into the real society, it must be processed by the data exchange layer to filter out the data that may cause accidents, and fill in the things that are in the real society but not in the magical society......"

Zhang Lexing nodded, what Chen Kewen said was indeed what he thought, of course, strictly speaking, this thing should not only be used to develop games, nor even those MMORPG online games that will be very common in the future, but a kind of composite game platform he conceived, a kind of "game" that he called "the world".

The so-called "Great World" is actually a game world composed of many virtual worlds of different sizes, and in the center is the first world known as the "Safety Island", which is a virtual world hosted by cloud computing and where all players log in. Here, players can train their game characters (avatars) in a certain career direction just like they would in The Sims.

Each class has its own way of playing, for example, if you are in politics, you can become the mayor of your city (supported by more than two-thirds of the citizens, including player citizens and NPC citizens), and then plan the direction of the player's city in a way similar to SimCity, and make various laws (such as setting the threshold for citizenship, such as adjusting the tax rate of different companies, such as whether to allow the legalization of a certain industry, etc.).

Another example is to become an entrepreneur, you can start from a roadside stall and develop into a large enterprise with a strong influence in the entire city, like "Business Tycoon", or even expand its influence to other cities. As a sports player, such as a football player, you can work out the attributes of your game character when you have nothing to do, and then find a way to start from an amateur club, and then rely on your wonderful performance to attract the attention of scouts from professional clubs, and finally land in a professional club and become a professional athlete.

Most of the games in the first world are relatively casual and entertaining, and the competition is only between cities, or the most cruel is the commercial competition with each other, but it is not a large collection of simulation games such as "Financial Empire", "Theme Hospital", "Pro Evolution Soccer", "NBA2K", "Golf", "Infinite Flight", and even a little more "CM0304", "Basketball Manager", "Chinese Football King" and other games, but "the world" The more exciting part is actually in the other side worlds.

According to Zhang Lexing's conception, the subsidiary world of "Daqian World" should be divided into two categories, one is the "mode world" produced by an authorized professional game development company, which belongs to the category with better production effects, which can be very conventional online games, or even stand-alone games that support multiplayer mode (running on a Yungui computing platform similar to OnLive technology), but they must have a "general game data exchange interface", that is, the "general data exchange module between virtual worlds" mentioned aboveWith the support of this interface or module, players can enter different "mode worlds" through the teleportation window of the first world, and can play like ordinary stand-alone games, and after winning the game, the results can also be fed back to the first world, for example, in the "mode world" can get a reward for a special item.

The other type is the world that players DIY out of themselves, which can be very complex or very simple, it can be a romantic pink beach, or a small house, if players have energy, they can make a complete game world by themselves, or even hang in the first world, just like the starting point Chinese novel, according to the player's trial after the subscription to get income, as if players can also operate their own game.

This is also the direction of the future development of the game industry that Zhang Lexing guesses, the wind of entertainment niche will eventually blow into the game industry, after all, people's needs are actually strange, even if it is the same person, in different periods and different moods, maybe they will make different choices, maybe you will feel that "stealing vegetables" is very enjoyable today, but maybe you will feel bored when you get up tomorrow morning. At that time, it may be more and more difficult for large game companies to make games that enough people like, but some small and medium-sized game development studios with relatively small scale and strong planning and art capabilities, and even some cattle, can survive better, because the people they need to meet even only need one-thousandth or even one-ten-thousandth of a large company, just like an online novel that is about to become popular.

Perhaps at that time, the most famous in the market are large game platforms like "Starting Point Chinese", and the well-known game "writers" who shine on these platforms, when technical obstacles are due to cloud computing, virtualization technology, The maturity of virtual control technology and so on has been swept away, and perhaps it will usher in the era of a blowout in the number of games, perhaps many people's daily work is to find a way to conceive their next game, how to attract more subscribers, and even become a new way for Chinese people to work and earn money from foreigners, after all, games are sometimes very borderless, which can be seen from Chen Xinghan's "Cloud" and "Floating World".

And in Zhang Lexing's view, perhaps only under this system can a game like "Infinite Horror" appear, and it is possible to create that weird main god light ball to meet the conditions for multiple entries into the perverted world. Of course, Zhang Lexing's main purpose is not to develop a game like "Infinite Horror", but to occupy this market in advance, and such a large game platform circle is not only computer users, but even TV game users (through DreamBox128 or its subsequent upgraded game consoles), film and television entertainment users, etc., this may be his biggest ambition ever.

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