Chapter Forty-Nine: One Man's Exhibition
Tokyo Game Show Day 3, 9:15 a.m.......
Yamaki Guanghui looked around and squeezed forward in the crowd, since yesterday afternoon, I don't know how to do it, the number of people who came to the Tokyo video game show suddenly increased a lot, not only did he have to queue up for trial games, but he also had to queue up to get materials and surroundings, and even had to queue up to go to the toilet, which made him depressed, but he couldn't help but come. Finally squeezed out of the crowd, the space around him was a little more spacious, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he turned around and accidentally collided with someone.
"I'm so sorry, are you okay!" Yamaki Guanghui apologized again and again while reaching out to help, but who knew that it was his old friend Kobayashi Yuji who appeared in front of him, and he asked in surprise: "Kobayashi-kun, I didn't expect to meet you again today, what a coincidence." โ
Seeing that it was an acquaintance, the dissatisfaction on Kobayashi Yuji's face immediately disappeared, and was replaced by a bright smile: "What a coincidence, Yamaki-kun, here again today." โ
"Hehe, it's okay, Kobayashi-kun, I'm just here to walk around. Yamaki Guanghui answered very easily on the surface, but he was vigilant in his heart, he saw Kobayashi Yuji once when he came yesterday, but he didn't expect to see it again today, he couldn't help but secretly speculate about Kobayashi's intention: "Could it be that you came to the booth of Blue Bird Co., Ltd. to compete for the opportunity to try it out?"
"Yes, it's a coincidence, Yamaki-kun, I'm here to walk around. Yuji Kobayashi also answered very easily, but whether he thought so in his heart, only he knew.
The two tacitly smiled at each other, and then at the same time "ran" towards the booth of Blue Bird Co., Ltd., and at first they could really run two steps, but as the distance of the Blue Bird Co., Ltd. booth became closer and closer, the density of people in the aisle was gradually increasing, and finally the two of them could not squeeze forward at all, and they couldn't go back at this time, because they had been blocked by latecomers, so the two had to look at each other, smiled awkwardly, and lined up honestly.
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After queuing for almost an hour, Lin Xin finally waited for the opportunity to try the game, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and secretly glad that he had listened to his friend's words and came to line up early, otherwise, with the length and width of the line behind him, he didn't think about any chance in three or four hours.
Standing in the Makuhari Exhibition Hall, the largest game exhibition in Asia, Lin Xin's heart couldn't help but feel a trance when there were some Japanese words in his ears. In fact, in August last year, he was still working on games in a small office in Beijing, when he was a member of the game development team of Shangyang Electronics.
Lin Xin still remembers the situation when he joined Shangyang Electronics two years ago, when he jumped from other companies as a planner and part-time programmer, and the first game he got started with was "Fire Civilization". As soon as he joined the development team of "Fire Civilization", Lin Xin felt what is called crazy development, I don't know if it was stimulated by "Blood Lion", anyway, a large number of people under the leadership of their boss Wu Gang, every day can be said to be busy day and night, the planners are constantly writing scripts that may be used in the game, perfecting the plot story, the artists are constantly depicting the scene, setting the characters, and the programmers are learning while trying to use the latest technology to build the 3D world in the game.
Lin Xin, as a planner, after a short period of adaptation, is also busy helping colleagues add enough dialogue content to the script every day, just like several people writing a novel together, the main planner sets the general situation of each scene, and then several planners try to play different roles to join the appropriate dialogue. As a part-time programmer, he needs to study the technical manuals provided by Intel or the experiences written by his colleagues, and learn how to use the special design of the Pentium III to optimize the game code as soon as possible, especially how to speed up the 3D depiction and processing of the game through the special code of the Pentium III.
In short, a week after Lin Xin joined the "Fire Civilization" development team, he began to work for a long time and a large load, in addition to eating and sleeping every day, the rest of the time was basically sitting in front of the computer doing different work, at the beginning he also thought about whether it was overtime, and then the whole person was left with a bunch of code that was constantly fighting and a dialogue window with different tones, and every day he only knew that he was mechanically doing things ordered from above, and even sometimes he forgot to wash and other things when he was busy. Lin Xin's highest record is that he once worked for five days in a row, with no more than ten hours of rest in between, and he ate fried cakes called in, and he sat in front of the computer while eating and was busy with one hand, as for washing, he had completely forgotten about it, and it was the hottest month in Beijing.
But this muddled has been until last year, but it didn't make a game that can run, but the enthusiasm of the development team has gradually been exhausted, and in order to reduce the development cost has always been a low salary, so the contradictions between the team members and between the team members and the leader gradually sharpened, and some people began to leave constantly. By August last year, Lin Xin's passion when he first joined Shangyang Electronics had completely worn out, and he felt that "Fire Civilization" was not the game he wanted to make at all, so he also began to retreat.
Lin Xin, who wanted to change the environment, finally chose to study abroad, and his first choice was a Japanese university with a certain foundation in Japanese, and after a period of preparation, he was successfully admitted to the University of Tokyo to study urban planning. After getting the visa, Lin Xin came to Tokyo in mid-March this year, in fact, he could have come back a little later, but he didn't want to miss the spring Tokyo Game Show in March, so he advanced it a little earlier.
Before leaving Beijing, Lin Xin also received an email from a former colleague, according to that person, the development team of "Fire Civilization" was almost completely disintegrated in the end, leaving only three artists plus two planning, as well as an unformed 3D engine and a script that does not look like a game script.
"Hey, I said you don't play or not, if you don't play, give up your seat. โ
A sudden voice pulled Lin Xin back from his memories, and when he came to his senses, he found that there was a staff member of Blue Bird Co., Ltd. standing in front of him with an unkind face, still holding a game controller in his hand, and there were countless murderous auras attacking him behind him at this time. Lin Xin then remembered that he was waiting in line to play the game, and the situation in front of him was obvious without saying, it was already his turn, but if he didn't pick up the controller immediately, I believe that more than a hundred people would definitely be happy to take his place. Lin Xin smiled embarrassedly at everyone, then "snatched" the game controller from the staff and sat down in front of the trial table.
Accompanied by the black "X" Logo, a crisp boot music sounded, and then the black background of the TV screen in front of Lin Xin slowly appeared on the black background of the "PARASITEEVEII ใใฉใตใคใยทใคใด2" text, as well as a huge cyan "PE" and ring logo. Lin Xin casually pressed the "Start" button on the handle, and the moonlit city gradually appeared from the screen, a huge explosion sounded, and the protagonist Aya Brea appeared with sharp eyes......
The twenty-minute trial period passed in a blink of an eye, and Lin Xin had just figured out the situation of the game, and he had to get up before he had time to show his might, otherwise the players behind him would riot. Although the gameplay of the demo version is very short, it has changed drastically compared to the previous game on the PS console, the combat system has been changed from the semi-real time system of the previous game to an action shooter mode similar to "Resident Evil", and the high-level system of the previous game has also been canceled, replaced by unique equipment and some power-enhancing items, and the tension during the battle has also been greatly enhanced. This point was very good in Lin Xin's trial game just now, and the hearty game experience gave him the taste of eating ice cream in summer and drinking hot coffee in winter, as if even the pores of his whole body were comfortable.
Leaving the game's trial table, Lin Xin stood in front of the booth and wanted to leave, but he couldn't leave now because he still had a task to complete. This visit to the Tokyo Game Show is partly his own interest, and on the other hand, it is also to help his friends. Lin Xin has a friend who works as an editor of the famous video game magazine "Video Game Software" in China, and when he heard that he would go to Tokyo, Japan in March, and he was going to see the Tokyo Game Fair, he asked him to write an article such as "Tokyo Game Show Travelogue" by the way.
Lin Xin now has a brochure about the overview of the Tokyo Game Show, in fact, as long as he finds a few more newspapers covering the Tokyo Game Show, he can get an article out of it, but with his serious personality, plus he is doing a favor to his friends, he is not willing to copy it casually to make up the number, and at the moment he is only trying to play a game, and even the booth of Blue Bird Co., Ltd. has not yet come to remember to read clearly, and it is definitely not enough to write a visit with content. So Lin Xin plans to continue her visit, starting from the booth of Blue Bird Co., Ltd. in front of her, and take a good look at the Makuhari Messe, take a look at those popular games, see those beautiful ShowGirls, and take some wonderful photos by the way, after all, having pictures and truth is king.
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Time passed slowly, and on the evening of the end of the spring Tokyo Game Show, Neverland, located near the Strait of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean, was still a sunny landscape. Under the parasol, Chen Zishan was lying on a beach chair with her back up, enjoying the warm sea breeze, while Zhang Lexing was sitting on a chair next to her, holding a bottle of sunscreen and about to wipe it off her own reach.
Zhang Lexing unscrewed the cap of the bottle, poured a little oil into the palm of his right hand, and then wiped it off Chen Zishan's bare back. Apply pressure to a small area along the back and then pat it with your fingertips to spread evenly to every inch of exposed skin on your back.
After wiping his back, Zhang Lexing was about to move to another position, when a rapid chirp suddenly came from the coffee table next to the beach chair, Chen Zishan reached out and grabbed it to see, it turned out to be Zhang Lexing's PalmIII handheld computer.
"Le Xing, the contact time you agreed on is up, you go get busy first!" Chen Zishan said sideways.
Zhang Lexing shook the sunscreen in his hand: "Shanshan, you haven't finished wiping your body yet, or let them wait." โ
Chen Zishan shook her head and said with a smile: "It's okay, you go first, I'll wait for you to come back." โ
"Okay, then you can rest for a while. Zhang Lexing put down the sunscreen in his hand, wiped his hands with a towel, stood up and waved to the two female bodyguards standing aside. The two walked over and stood on both sides of Chen Zishan's beach chair, and Zhang Lexing walked away with confidence.
Back to the white mansion in the center of Neverland, Zhang Lexing first came to the bathroom to wash his hands, and then came to the workshop on the right side of the 2nd floor, turned on the video equipment with satellite connection, and as soon as the screen lit up, he saw Xu Yeming with a smile on his face.
"How's the situation over there?" asked Zhang Lexing.
"In addition to our own direct game development company, we have persuaded more than 90 other game developers to join our DreamBox128 console, and it is initially expected that more than 130 games will be completed in development this year and next, including many blockbusters such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest...... Let's do a survey, just one of the big games of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest can attract more than 5 million Japanese gamers to buy the DreamBox128 console, so as long as there are enough games on the market, the sales of the DreamBox128 console in Japan will definitely not be a problem in the future......"
"So are there any questions now?" Zhang Lexing asked again.
"Sony Computer Entertainment, Sega, and Nintendo have noticed our DreamBox 128 console and have sent someone to investigate the background of Bluebird, and I'm sure they'll soon find out about Aonotori's relationship with us. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment is sending people to contact those game developers, and even offered more favorable terms than before in an attempt to win them over, and some developers have defected...... But the situation is still under our control, boss, don't worry!"
"Very good, then you should pay more attention to the movements of these three main opponents, be careful of their secret movements, and wait until the DreamBox128 console is launched, I believe that with the games we have mastered, we will be able to lay a good foundation, as long as we take the lead in the first two years, we don't have to worry about them in the future." โ
"Yes, boss, I'll take care of it. Xu Yeming nodded and said, "Boss, what do you think of the handheld computer you gave you when you got married?"
"Well, it feels good, but the game that comes with it is too simple, and it's not interesting to play for two days. But I've got some good game ideas in mind, and I'll send them to the system in two days, so you can arrange for someone to deal with them. As for the opinions on the use of the handheld itself, I will also write an email and send it directly. โ
"Boss, I'm sorry, but you still have to work for the company during your honeymoon. โ
"It's okay, anyway, I have free time every day. Okay, contact me again if you have any situation. โ
"Okay, boss. Xu Yeming waved his hand, and the video signal was cut off......
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