Torchlight took a total of seven months to make, and of course, that's not counting the Vulture Studios' prep time.

In fact, as the game gets more and more refined, the production will only take longer. Chiba Games has a short in-house production game time and high quality. The point is that Chiba games have a universal stock library.

This material library is shared during the internal production process of Chiba Games. Some of them are accumulated from the time when they used to make games. And some of them are made by specialized modelers and artists and put in the material library.

It's also thanks to a big business like Chiba Games that I can afford to play this kind of game. The average small company can't afford this kind of material library.

However, as the game production exceeds the zero threshold, it is true that this material library is saving more and more time and money in the game production of Chiba Games.

Vulture Studios, as the second party of Chiba Games, was able to share a portion of the material library, which saved them a lot of experience.

Perhaps, many gamers have encountered this situation. It's often a company's game, and there are often "easter eggs" of the old work in the new work.

In fact, these inconsequential things are not easter eggs. It's just that when I made it, I was just lazy. Is it easy to put an existing model, or is it easy to make a new model? Of course it's clear.

Of course, most of the time, game companies don't use previous models so blatantly. Even if you use it, it will not be visible to the player.

Because, there are too many uses, and players know about it. It will be said that this company has no conscience.

In fact, the material in the Chiba game. Often a change of size, a way of placement. Change the color tone, and no player will recognize it.

Unless there are those tentacle-level and egg-sore players, go to a game package full of random codes, and find this material from it, only to know that this material has been used before.

Vulture Studios' cartoon-style "Torchlight" is indeed played by a lot of people. In particular, this game has also become popular in Japan.

You know, the Japanese in this era still prefer this cartoon style. Cute art style game.

Moreover, this game is different from the Japanese national games that are currently circulating in the market. It doesn't have so many dialogues, and it doesn't have so many plots, and if you don't agree with it, it's a fight. This refreshing style can be regarded as a breath of fresh air in the more protracted Japanese games.

Lin Yan's attention to this game ends here. He didn't pay much attention to the rest.

Because, "Evolution" is about to be launched.

Although it is said that the function is not limited much now, but. Evolution still has a cartoon-rendered style, because if you make the game in a realistic style, the game won't look so cute, but will become evil.

Finish this game. Lin Yan gave himself a vacation.

It's going to be a holiday, and he's not going to rest at home and get done. Instead, I took a train in Japan and went on a tour in Japan.

Look at the scenery along the way. Look at the people along the way. Outside of the Tokyo area, you will find the Japanese countryside in the broad sense of the word. The further you go to the edge. Just look at the more backward, the more rustic.

Lin Yan sometimes thinks that it would be nice if he lived in the countryside. However, while such an idea is good, it is not realistic. Because, living in the countryside is so inconvenient. It looks good, but if nothing else, it takes a few hours to carry water every day. Chopping wood will take another few hours. This person who is used to living in the city can't stand it.

Not to mention any supermarket snacks, none, none.

Lin Yan spent a total of two months on the train, and in these two months, "Evolution" did not receive too much evaluation in the world market, but it also did not receive too bad evaluation.

It's like an ordinary work in Lin Yan's life, and there are many people who buy it, but no one particularly likes this game.

Of course, if you really say it, there will always be die-hard fans.

After all, even the little butter, which is famous for its shoddy and curiosity, has been a diehard for ten years.

After Lin Yan came back, he started making new games. The new game is still a simulation game, and this time he wants to make "Simulated Railway" or "Railway Tycoon".

There will be some commercial elements in this game. However, the most important thing is to show the different flavors of each place. Lin Yan went on a trip this time, which can be said to be the preliminary preparation for the game, and he took a total of 500 rolls of photos. The customs and customs of each place were photographed in detail.

However, it is a pity that he traveled for a relatively short time, only two months. There was only one season of filming. If you want to add some season-changing elements to the game, you need fantasy.

However, these can also be done through relevant information inquiries.

The more difficult thing to do is that each scene requires four seasons of materials, and there may not be enough storage space. Simply, there are really a lot of talents in Chiba Games.

There was a bespectacled, chubby-looking little programmer who wrote a compression algorithm called "Firefox". It is completely acceptable to be able to reduce the texture by more than half while losing less than three percent. As a result, Railroad Tycoon Sim became the first game in the history of the game to have four seasons.

This is because this railway simulation is based on a map of Japan. And the change of the seasons is not the kind of simple change of the seasons.

When spring comes, cherry blossoms bloom all over Japan on the same day.

It's not like this, Hayashi pays attention to details in this regard, that is, the cherry blossoms in Japan are in full bloom, and they bloom with a line.

Although the seasons are similar in each place, there are always some differences. The weather forecast in Japan also predicts where the cherry blossoms will be in full bloom today.

It's these little details that make Simulated Railroad Tycoon seem so realistic. Of course, there are four seasons, and of course there are days and nights.

However, the special effects of ambient light cannot be handled well in the current function. So. The special effect of the morning sun and sunset of day and night, the sunset and sunset. It's harder to make. Even if I made it reluctantly, I didn't feel that way.

But. It's all inside Chiba games, and on the outside, games like this have received a lot of praise.

You know, SimCity is a game, although it is loved by many people, but this city is just a city after all. There are no seasons either.

And "Simulated Railway Tycoon" has a larger scope, and the evolution of the picture is also very large. Something even more special. This game is released after the production is completed. It actually led to a tide of railway tourism.

There are many tour companies, all of which have developed a tourist route based on the journey carried out by Hayashi Yan.

And tourist attractions in various places are also very willing to cooperate with Chiba Games. Because of the very convenient relationship of the Internet. You can even buy souvenirs in-game and send them to you through the logistics system.

You know, online shopping is something that can only be easily done in countries like Japan that have very good infrastructure.

It's like some are relatively backward. The infrastructure is not called imperfect India or Africa, even if they want to engage in online shopping, the website can be created, but they do not have the real conditions.

So. To be able to have an online shopping platform, and in countries with developed online shopping, the infrastructure construction must not be bad. Even. It can be said that such a country. It is a country with a lot of potential.

In fact, Lin Yan only regarded this game as a memorial of his journey of more than two months. He even plans to go to other countries next year to do a train ride. I made the railroad of that country into a game.

But. Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes. Yuki Chiba didn't allow him to give himself such a long vacation.

However, there is a special person who goes to the four seasons to take the train and record the scenery along the train. Because, the next generation of games is going to be American, so, those people stayed in the United States for a year and brought back a bunch of pictures of American railroads.

In this way, time flies quickly, and soon the new century has begun.

It's about to be two thousand and 00 years old.

This year, in the electronics industry, there was a crisis, called the Millennium Crisis, or the Millennium Bug Incident. This is because the previous timing system has one less person. Only the last two years of the Common Era have been recorded. For example, in 1998, the computer recorded it, and it was 98.

The two thousand years into one place, caused the data overflow, this is a lot of fun. Although this problem is actually relatively easy to solve.

However, there are already too many computers in this world that use this timing system. What's more, the financial system uses such computers.

This creates the problem that the global financial system will be paralyzed, and that will create a huge crisis. After all, the modern world is inseparable from financial services. Finance is like a black hole that is increasingly devouring people's lives and everything around them.

Lin Yan's previous "Money Future" is actually talking about such things, and then discussing whether people should sacrifice the future, consume in advance, and obtain the present of wealth. Or sacrifice the present to ensure the possibility of the future.

It stands to reason that Lin Yan is very unsupportive of taking out a loan to buy a house. Because, this is spending in advance. Take the consumption of the next few decades and spend it today.

Perhaps, in the short term, we will see a prosperous scene, but in the future, it will become a disaster.

There are more and more things to borrow, and then the daily salary may only be enough to repay the loan. You know, the things that are borrowed have already been consumed.

That is to say, new things, when produced, will not be consumed. If you think simply, if you can't consume what you produce, you won't have an economic crisis. Then, there is no money to pay salaries, and the next step is to be unable to repay the loan and go bankrupt.

Of course, financial products are developed for a good purpose. However, things are often overdone. It's a good thing to do a little bit, but if you do it, it's a bad thing.

Lin Yan plays video games every day and has a lot of fun. And in today's world, more and more people are playing video games.

In fact, with the peace of the world, there are more and more entertainment activities. Moreover, the popularity of the Internet has filled people's lives with all kinds of information.

Without guidance, no one knows what information is useful and what is not.

There are two dystopian books about two very different worlds, one is "19-8-4", this book is about the world is full of all kinds of horrors, and reading books means crime. The people living in "19-8-4" are living in a desert of knowledge.

Another dystopian book is called "Brave New World", which tells about the future world, not a desert of knowledge, but an ocean of knowledge.

All kinds of nutritious and non-nutritious. From talent shows, to video games, to fitness, all kinds of information fill a person's life.

made him lose his way in the torrent of knowledge. In the end, they were slaughtered like pigs.

This is the source of the so-called entertainment to death.

In fact, there are only a few people who do it like "19-8-4", and most people like "Brave New World-World" boil frogs in warm water.

Even, Lin Yan played an accomplice who added fuel to the fire. However, Lin Yan also often adds some thinking to the game, so that these players can understand some knowledge.

However, he didn't know if anyone cared.

After all, a peaceful world, everyone thinks that there will be peace forever.

Not only now, but hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago, every commoner in every dynasty thought like this.

"It's been peaceful for so long, and there won't be a problem."

However, often problems arise. And they didn't think there was a problem yet.

Games like "Simulated Railway Tycoon" are actually a game that sells feelings. Lin Yan wanted to make some powerful games. He can't do it, though.

It's like in the world right now, you can't speak ill of the Jews.

If you want to know the behavior of the Jews in history, you can actually look at the United States today. They use finance in the United States, crazy bloodsucking, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are robbing.

If so, can you stand such a group of people standing on your head and sucking your blood?

However, the Jews had money and could buy a good reputation. In all voices, the Jews seem to be the victims forever, they are industrious, hardworking, but forever persecuted, not even for their own country.

Then, if it weren't for their previous actions, wouldn't they have made others so hostile to them?

Look at their praise, and then look at what they have done in history, and a paradoxical picture will appear. It makes people think, are the Jews victims or perpetrators? (To be continued.) )