Zhong Ziyu said with a smile: "Uncle Guan told me one thing this morning, that is, you and Guan Yi, as well as Gao Xiaojie, who developed the script of Jin Yong's Legend of the Heroes and then continued the frontier game, the three of you seem to have discussed something, a web game?" Embedded interactive games? ”

Chen Xu looked at Guan Yi, who nodded and indicated that she was telling her father. So Chen Xu hummed and said, "That's right, but there are still some difficulties that have not been overcome." ”

"What's the difficulty?" Zhong Ziyu said: "Can you say it, let's discuss it together." Oh, I won't hide it from you, the community network I started is also a SNS platform, so I want to cooperate with you. ”

Chen Xu thought for a while and said, "It's good to be able to cooperate, but I'll talk about it first." Basically, I made a 3D model of the room when I was bored, and then I could set the size of the room and the beds in the room. Then Gao Xiaojie found out that this point can be separated, and he gets money and props like an online game upgrade, so he suggested changing it to a browser game. But later I found out that if this kind of game is to be made, because it is a full 3D modeling, the material library will be large, so I am afraid that it will be more troublesome as a browser game. ”

Zhong Ziyu listened very carefully, nodded and said, "That's right." To put it simply, a 3D modeling, a room needs to be about 1MB in size, if there is no direct call support from the client, just rely on network data transmission, then the player has to wait. What are you going to do? ”

Chen Xu spread out his hand with a helpless expression: "There are only two methods, one is to reduce the volume of the material, but this is too difficult, and it is not something that I can do at my level." And even if it is a master, if it is streamlined, it can only be reduced, which will not help much to the whole. The second is to use the client-side approach, but that doesn't make sense. This kind of online game, which requires the installation of a client, is different from the group we are targeting. ”

Zhong Ziyu also nodded: "It's true that your idea is good, but if you do it, it's too complicated." Let's sum it up. ”

To explain simply, there are few 3D browser games today, and it is because of the bandwidth problem. Web games do not require a client, all data operations are on the server, and players who want to see the content in web games must also download all of them through the Internet.

Let's take a simple example of data, like the images in a web game, each of which is only a few kbs or a dozen kb, so that the average internet speed can now be easily downloaded and seen by players.

However, if it is a 3D model, generally speaking, the size of a 3D model of a room is 1MB, and if you want to read the data of the room, you will need to read it for more than ten seconds at a general Internet speed. The more network material is called, the larger the data, and in this case, the higher the network speed requirements. It will cause ordinary netizens to take a long time just to read the data, and when they are injured, who will come to play this game?

Of course, if you use a client, it is a very simple thing - although Chen Xu's ability cannot be a client alone.

The data contained in the client is basically images and models of scenes, materials, and so on. And when playing a game, these scenes are extracted directly from the client in the user's computer, and the speed is a matter of a few tenths of a second.

So the size of a client depends on the content of the game, such as World of Warcraft, the 3D model inside is too big, so the volume of World of Warcraft is quite huge - and in fact, this is also Blizzard's helpless approach, because if the client is too large, it will take more than ten hours or even days and nights to download, which will hit the positive surname of a large number of players.

Chen Xu estimated that if it was really made into a client, the size of this game would be more than 100MB. But the problem is that using the client to play online games goes against Gao Xiaojie's previous proposal - borrowing chickens to lay eggs and reach a win-win situation with the SNS community.

If you want to promote an online game, you have to spend a lot of money. And it is still unknown how many people it can attract to play such a completely casual online game as a client. However, if it is loaded on the SNS community, it can quickly accumulate users with the help of the popularity of the community, and by word of mouth from users, players will quickly grow.

"Otherwise." Zhong Ziyu thought for a while and said, "How about making a 2D plane model?" That would make the library much smaller and easier to play. ”

"I've thought about that." Guan Yi said at this time: "But if it is 2D, the first choice cannot highlight the meaning of the 3D room, that is, it cannot allow the player to arrange the room in a three-dimensional way, which violates the first original intention." Of course, if it's just the surname of the game, it should be able to do very well, but there is still a problem......", Guan Yi said word by word: "If it's 2D, then you can't imitate others to plagiarize." What we want to do is a game that others can't copy, and only such a game can be competitive. ”

Chen Xu hadn't thought of this question either, he glanced at Guan Yi in surprise, and felt that this woman's idea was too far. But as everyone knows, Guan Yi grew up in such a business family since she was a child, and she has learned a lot of things, so in terms of business planning, her vision is much farther than Chen Xu and others.

Guan Yi continued: "China's copyright issues have always been a headache. And if you really want to be more serious, no one knows who is copying whom. It's like the popular Lianliankan game in the past two years, this game has taken the entire Internet by storm, and almost all white-collar workers are playing it. But soon, countless Lianliankan came out, and even QQ games came out Lianliankan this battle game. In addition, the SNS community, your community network, and the school intranet, etc., to put it bluntly, are all learning from the successful templates of others. Now, Gao Xiaojie has found that such a browser game can increase the internal communication of the SNS community and attract more people. So I believe that if we do this, others will immediately follow suit, and there is nothing brilliant about 2D games, and almost a talent in this area can do it, so what are our advantages? ”

Zhong Ziyu nodded and said with a smile: "It's better to take care of your consideration." But there are some things that can't be helped, and if the technical means can't be reached, then we can only make the game first and strive to seize the first batch of users. ”

Guan Yi thought for a while, nodded and said, "Probably only like this, Gao Xiaojie discussed it with me, if it really doesn't work, we can divide the game into several parts." It's like a World of Warcraft expansion, and things don't come out all at once. For example, at the beginning, we bought a house, and then sent the garden to plant things, and after others imitated it, we could launch the next upgrade as soon as possible, for example, we could buy a car...... However, in this case, the later computation is too high, and the server side may be really needed. ”

"Actually, it's still technology," Zhong Ziyu thought for a while, "I remember that there was a demo back then, which was made by a very powerful hacker. The size is only a few tens of kb.,But after the demo is opened,There's really an incomparably gorgeous animation inside.,If you calculate it according to the popular bink format in the game now,,The size of that animation should be at least more than 100MB.,But it's compressed to only a few tens of kb.,This is God's technology.。 ”

When he said this, Chen Xu also remembered that there seemed to be such an animation, so he asked: "By the way, how did the animation come about?" It stands to reason that it can't be compressed into such a small size. That's a thousand-fold difference! ”

Zhong Ziyu smiled and said, "If I knew this kind of compression algorithm, I wouldn't be here a long time ago." But based on what I've learned and understood, I can talk about it. This kind of high-compression video is the work of a group of hackers when they participated in the competition. Throughout the work, the high level of the producer is everywhere. ”

Zhong Ziyu thought for a while, called a waiter, asked him to go to the room and bring his laptop, and then said, "I have a video like this in my computer, you can watch it when you take it out." ”

Several people waited for a while, and after the waiter brought the computer, Zhong Ziyu opened a video, which was the winning video of the demo competition, called Ghost Castle.

The video is an exe file, and the size is 64KB. After the video was running, soon, a full-screen display of the shape of a 3D castle appeared on the screen, and with the music, the perspective kept moving and changing, and gradually passed through many places in the castle, with blood-colored glass, monsters locked in cages, deep corridors, etc...... It lasted five or six minutes before the video ended. And several people watching the video couldn't help but have cold sweat on their foreheads.

Such a video, is it really only 64k?

(To be continued)