After cutting off the video connection, Zhang Lexing returned to the beach again, continued the unfinished work between them, and rubbed and patted Chen Zishan's body hard. After basking in the sun for a while, after a simple lunch on a beach chair, because the sun was too strong, the two returned to the white mansion in the heart of Neverland, Chen Zishan planned to go for a midday beauty sleep, and Zhang Lexing was ready to fulfill his promise to write down some game ideas that came up after trying out the color screen handheld as a wedding gift.

In fact, Zhang Lexing doesn't think about it much, and some of them are not suitable because of copyright relations or other reasons, so what he wrote down in the Word document is a limited part, including some such as "Pokemon" series that need to continue to be carried forward, some such as "Dragon Quest", "Fire Emblem" and other sequels, some such as "Dragon Ball" and other can continue to be adapted, some such as "GB Block", "Gold Digging" Old games that can be renovated (commonly known as fried cold rice), and some mini-games such as "Diamond Love".

However, the first thing that Zhang Lexing thought of when he played the color screen handheld was not these games, but another "Made in Wario" that is more suitable for handheld entertainment, commonly known as the "five-second king". "Made in Wario" was originally supposed to be a collection of mini-games created by Nintendo with an obscene uncle Wario as the main character, and it was intended to be simple and light-hearted. The game uses the handheld arrow keys and a limited number of buttons to cope with some bizarre gameplay, including eating bananas, cutting meat, skipping rope, skateboarding, and more. At the start of each mini-game, the player must try as quickly as possible to understand and find the key points on how to complete the objective, and successfully complete the tasks specified in the mini-game before the end of the 5-second countdown. After beating all the mini-games in each level, there will also be a boss level game waiting for the player. Although they are all mini-games that can be completed in less than 5 seconds, they are not to be underestimated when actually played, because some games are quite a test of the player's brain reaction speed and imagination.

If Zhang Lexing is engaged in handhelds, the first thing he wants to do is this "Made in Wario", because he thinks that this simple, relaxed, and fast game style may be more suitable for the game environment of portable handhelds, after all, most of the portable handhelds are played in commuting, school, or on the way to travel, and it is obviously not suitable for playing games that require time to ponder the system and study the direction of upgrades. Of course, because of copyright, it is impossible for Zhang Lexing to directly use the name "Made in Wario", even if Yamauchi Pu nodded and agreed, he was not interested in making wedding dresses for others, and he now has a good choice, some time ago, the group's Shueisha's "Weekly Shonen Jump" was in "Rogue Kenshin" At the same time as the finale ushered in, a new manga began to be serialized, telling the story of a world called Naruto, where ninjas are the dream of every teenager, such as Naruto, who has been sealed with a nine-tailed demon fox in his body, and he has always dreamed of becoming the Hokage, the title of one of the five strongest ninjas in the world, and the leader of the Konoha Ninja Village.

This comic is called "Naruto", although it has just started to be serialized, and it is not clear what it can achieve for the time being, but Zhang Lexing remembers the future performance of "Naruto", which is not only popular in Japan, China and other Asian regions, but also has conquered comic fans in Europe and the United States, which can be said to be a set of manga with global influence. If you take the framework of "Naruto" and then put the mini-game mode of "Made in Wario", and change some of these mini-games into ninja training or something, Zhang Lexing believes that it will be able to achieve quite good results, and it will definitely exceed the 700,000 sets of "Made in Wario" on the first market, and even if you make a limited edition handheld and sell it in a bundle, maybe it can also drive the sales of portable handhelds. What's more perfect is that "Naruto" has just started to be serialized, and Zhang Lexing's portable handheld is still being studied, and when "Naruto" begins to exert its influence, it happens that the portable handheld can also be listed, and the two can completely promote each other and make progress together.

Of course, "Made in Wario" is famous for its many mini-games, claiming to have more than 200, and now Zhang Lexing wants to replace it with "Made in Naruto", even if the number of mini-games is not enough to make up 200, it can't be too far behind, but it's a pity that he racked his brains for several days and only came up with twelve or three, and the rest seems to be left to the future game creators to worry about it, anyway, he has written down the simple and bright design points of the game.

Speaking of "Made in Wario", Zhang Lexing also remembered another similar work "Rhythm Heaven", which is also a collection of mini-games, but the test is no longer the player's judgment and reaction to the picture, but the grasp of the rhythm of the music. What players need to do in the game is very simple, that is, follow the rhythm of the music, play the game by long press and short press, and choose the right key timing according to many changes such as variable speed beat, uneven beat, syncopation, rest, etc.

"Rhythm Heaven" focuses on mastering the rhythm of music, so you can even play games with your eyes closed after becoming proficient, such as on the way home by bus from work, you can rest with your eyes closed while experiencing the charm of rhythm, if you are not afraid of sitting and stopping. It is said that when the game was very popular, people often saw such a weirdo on the bus, holding a portable handheld in his hand, wearing headphones with a smirk on his face, his head like a chicken pecking rice, and his hands and feet twitching like a convulsion.

If Zhang Lexing wants to make such a game, he has some unique conditions, he has a large Universal Music Company under his hands, and there are also a large number of masters who write music for TV movies and games.

It is Zhang Lexing who also thought about the classic RPG game "Golden Sun", but this is no better than "Made in Wario", the complexity of the game script and system is not the same at all, and he can't recall too many details after so many years, if it is impossible to restore a classic with only a game name and a game plot that he can barely remember, so he had to give up helplessly. Anyway, when the time really comes to develop the game market for portable handhelds, it is natural that someone will do this work.

It took a few days to complete the Word document about the creativity of portable handheld games,And transcribed it all into the "game open management system" enabled at the beginning of the year,Naturally, there will be relevant personnel to follow up and deal with it in the follow-up,Then Zhang Lexing wrote down the feeling of using the color screen handheld during this period of time,And put forward some of his own ideas on the layout of the buttons、The shape of the handheld,Send it to the relevant departments of the Game Research Institute together for their reference。 Hopefully, after a while, they will be able to make a more perfect portable handheld so that they can have a certain advantage in the handheld market with Nintendo and Sony.

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Time slowly came to April, and Zhang Lexing and Chen Zishan finally returned to Hong Kong after their honeymoon. Unexpectedly, as soon as I got off the plane, I immediately received good news that the preparation of the cloud computing platform was all ready, and the construction work had started in Hong Kong and the United States at the same time.

One of the core parts of the cloud computing platform is a high-performance computer cluster, because the performance of a single server is insufficient, and the cost of a single server cannot be ignored for the pursuit of performance, so a large number of servers can only be used to form a computing cluster, such as Dongfang Shen Yun rendering "Titanic" for James Cameron In order to speed up the research work, the scale of the underground computing clusters in those research parks is also quite large, and the annual electricity cost for this is quite a huge amount, and the space occupied by the computing clusters is also a large overhead, and the scale expansion of the computing clusters has been limited, but these problems have been successfully solved with the research of blade servers.

The formal research on blade servers began about five years ago, and Zhang Lexing spent no less than 100 million US dollars a year on this, almost catching up with the consumption of research supercomputers, but unfortunately in the past few years, he has not even heard a sound of water, but fortunately, some of the achievements of blade servers have blossomed on other projects. Nearly five years later, the research team led by Chen Shiqing finally came up with a finished product, which can be put into commercial blade servers.

The successfully developed blade server adopts dual 64-bit central processing units based on MIPS technology architecture, and a memory system that can process data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal, which can make the system data transmission rate more than twice that of traditional memory. With the support of high-performance architecture system, the high-performance processor makes a blade board achieve more than ten times the performance of a single server in the past, that is to say, only one cabinet of blade servers can replace the 500 scale rendering matrix of Dongfang Shen Yun, and the problem of electricity cost and occupied area has a perfect solution since then, and building a higher-performance computing cluster is no longer out of reach.

The cloud computing platform only has high-performance servers is not enough, just like people have an empty body but no soul, so another core part of the "cloud operating system" is also essential. "Cloud operating system" actually started earlier, after the stock market crash in 87, Zhang Lexing, who burned a lot of money, threw money everywhere to open projects, including a parallel operating system research project that Michael Mahon participated in, which is the prototype of the current "cloud operating system". After more than 10 years of development, the project research and development team also moved from San Jose, California to Hong Kong, until 95 years, the research has preliminary results - the experimental "cloud operating system" running on ordinary networked computers, after years of testing and continuous improvement, especially after 97 years of actual combat testing, the "cloud operating system" is finally close to perfect, so there is now the official version of the "cloud operating system" codenamed "Warthog".

High-performance blade servers and close to the perfect "Warthog" operating system, has been under construction of the enterprise communication network, cloud computing needs everything has begun to take shape, so Oriental Industrial Group in Hong Kong, VisualSystem Group in the United States, has started the construction of cloud computing platform, ready from the Internet service, At the beginning of enterprise computing, the group's business will gradually be relocated to the cloud computing platform, and the computing power used for research work will be greatly improved after the high-performance blade servers are obtained in major research parks, and a pair of faster wings will be plugged into the research work.

Dongfang Industrial Group's actions first started with the research park in Dapu and the film rendering cluster of Dongfang Shen Yun, and as for the old computers that were eliminated, most of them also tried to digest them internally as much as possible. For example, EBay, a company that has been in development for many years and went public last year, is about to become a beneficiary of the cloud computing platform under construction because of its rapidly expanding transaction volume.

In addition, VisualSystem Group also intends to integrate companies that provide online game services, including Blizzard's Battle.net, Blue Dragon Network, which operates online games, and Xueleshan's online game platform, to use the strong support capabilities of the cloud computing platform and integrate the convenient communication of the ICQ platform to create a game publishing, online battles, player interaction, Game content organization and update and online game operation as one of the super network platform, to provide players with a variety of online game services including free and paid, currently within the group, the platform is tentatively named "Steam", and even a series of domain names including Steam have been prepared in advance, just waiting for the official launch of the cloud computing platform, the official launch of the Steam platform.

The birth of the Steam platform has the original suggestions from the Xueleshan network, of course, it is indispensable for Zhang Lexing to make corrections and improvements based on his own experience, and he has high expectations for the future of the Steam platform, not only hope that with the continuous improvement of the network infrastructure, the distribution of computer games can be transferred to the Steam platform, but also hope that after the DreamBox128 console is officially launched, it can also have its own channel on the Steam platform, providing a more convenient distribution platform for the games of the DreamBox128 console, especially those creative gamesHe even hopes to have a supporting fast payment system, so that players can easily buy the full version at a lower price after trying out a game, which may also provide a new development path for some creative game studios in China.

Of course, the most important thing to use the cloud computing platform is to use it in research work, whether it is Chen Zishan's Institute of Biology, or the PCB simulation of the Institute of Microelectronics, or the database visualization virtual retrieval, etc., can play a great role. More importantly, with the assistance of high-performance cloud computing platforms, it can continue to maintain a leading position in research work, and even use its more advanced high-performance computing platforms to accelerate the speed of development. Taking R&D and analysis as the guide and patented technology as the barrier, this is the future development path of the company in Zhang Lexing's vision.

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