Chapter 747: Kazunori Yamauchi's Racing Race

After thinking about it for a long time, Jester suddenly felt that he was thinking too much.

Or rather, he's a little too greedy.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake is an irresistible event that cannot be predicted, and it would be unwise to use it to manipulate Nikkei futures.

As a capitalist, the greed for money is naturally a very important attribute, but distinguishing when to be greedy and when not to be greedy is a more important attribute than the greed for money.

The greed for money is only related to the amount of money, but the choice of trade-offs is directly related to life and death.

Once Jester figured this out, he decided to abandon his plan to make a lot of money from the collapse of the Nikkei caused by the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

After that, Jester didn't do much in Japan, just to see the two development groups.

I've been to the development team of Itagaki Companion before.,His development team is in Osaka.,That is, the location of Mars Entertainment Japan.,The next thing Jester is going to is Tokyo.,Yamauchi Kazunori's development team is here.,But when Jester went.,I just knew a news.,That is, John. Carmack also arrived in Japan yesterday and was a guest at Kazunori Yamauchi.

It is said that Kamaki Kamak took the initiative to contact him after knowing that he was interested in modifying his sports car, and don't forget, in addition to being a fan of game engines, Carmack is also a big fan of car engines, and he likes all the things that make him run faster.

So, this time, when Jester went to Kazunori Yamauchi's studio, he could still see Carmack.

Carmack is a person who is very easy to 'empathize', and if he loses interest in one thing, then he will devote himself to something else without hesitation.

So. Jester was also a little worried when he knew that Carmack had come to Japan's studio in Kazunori Yamauchi, and he was afraid that Carmack, like in the original history, would lose interest in 3D engine development and game production without warning, and would turn to the field of rocket research and launch, and waste the best ten years of his life.

Jester asked the people at Mars Entertainment Japan, and they didn't know why, but some people said that it seemed that Kazunori Yamauchi had organized an event with some car company. It seems to be some kind of racing competition......

Now Jester knew it in his heart.

It's not clear what happened, but it's probably not too difficult.

In general, Kazunori Yamauchi, a fan of racing, is going to have a racing race for his own studio insiders in order to develop a racing game for Dreambox3 that he is most satisfied with, probably because he didn't know where he knew that Carmack was also interested in racing, so he also sent him an invitation to Carmack.

And the reason why Carmack was invited, Jester was able to guess eight or nine without leaving ten.

Basically. Perhaps Kazunori Yamauchi might want Carmack to help him solve some technical problems, especially in engine development.

In fact, Kazunori Yamauchi's team has a good level in engine development, such as racing engines. It's not something you can develop if you want to, let's say, a new company and suddenly says it's going to make a racing game. No previous experience with similar racing games.

And the most important thing in a racing game is the engine.

A good racing game engine that is capable of giving gamers an unbeatable driving experience as well as other things. In racing games, you can only be behind the engine.

And the development of racing engines, the most important thing is the accumulation of experience, only from a racing game, a racing game to make, in the production of these games, constantly enhance their own racing engine, in this way, to make a racing game engine as perfect as possible, so, racing games are a very strange kind of games, almost all such games, his best one, think of not his first part.

Of course, there are also people like Sega, who Minoru Nakoshi was in charge of making "Sleepwalking in America" for the first time, but don't forget, Sega has accumulated a lot of technology in the development of arcade games.

And the current team of Kazunori Yamauchi is also like this, although they have not done racing games on home consoles, but they have a variety of arcade racing game development experience, and they have now accumulated a lot of technology and experience in the engine of racing games.

Maybe Kazunori Yamauchi wants his racing engine to be better, maybe he wants to add some difficult features to the engine and needs Carmack's help, so he will take the initiative to invite Carmack to participate in the racing competition in their studio - when Jester contacted Kazunori Yamauchi and told him that he would visit his studio, Kazunori Yamauchi was very excited to tell Jester that it was best for him to bring a sports car himself.

The reason is the same as Jester had guessed.

Kazunori Yamauchi was indeed organizing a race race inside his studio, and it was a coincidence that it was set for tomorrow, the day Jester had passed.

This matter is indeed a little negligent on the part of Jester himself, originally his idea of going to these studios was random, and there was no way to contact or arrange it in advance, and the time he arranged by himself was relatively tight, and the time he planned to stay in Japan was not too long, and there was still a lot of things in the United States waiting for him to go back and deal with.

And he and Li Fuzhen soaked in the hot springs in Hokkaido for a few days, and for reasons of secrecy, he did not inform the branch headquarters in Osaka about this matter.

Even the branch thought that he had only arrived in Japan the day before yesterday.

I just blew it for a day in Itagaki Companion's studio today.,I was going to blow it for half a day.,But because I was too involved when I blew it.,Plus the idea of a few new games by Itagaki Companion is really a little attractive.,Jester couldn't help but blow it for a while.,By the time I reacted.,It's already more than half of the afternoon.。

Therefore, the original plan was to go to Tokyo at noon, but I had to do it.

When I arrived in Tokyo, Kazunori Yamauchi came to pick him up in person. The car he drove was a Ferrari, and Jester didn't know much about the exact model.

When he was in college, he also often paid attention to some sports cars, and later, he didn't have the time to pay attention to these often, but judging from the car, it should be a new car, and. Jester also knows Ferrari's place in the sports car world.

Whether it is now or in the future, Ferrari will always be the first brother in the sports car industry, what Lamborghini, what Maserati is not on the same level as Ferrari, the difference is in the background, such as the earth-shattering Bugatti fat dragon blown in later generations, or Koenigsegg. Let's not talk about Ferrari Lafa, one of the three major supercars, but the unit price of Ferrari's antique car 250GTO is as high as 220 million yuan.

It is the most expensive sports car in the world.

Jester's entourage sat in the official car arranged by Yamauchi Kazunori, and Jester got directly into Yamauchi Kazunori's Ferrari. This was also requested by Kazunori Yamauchi, who strongly asked Jester to get into his car and let him feel how good a quasi-professional driver is, and Jester and Yamauchi Kazunori were not going to the studio in the city center.

Instead, they came to a suburban racing track.

Jester got out of Kazunori Yamauchi's car. His legs were a little floating, and if it weren't for the attention of the people next to him, Jester might have fallen to the ground all at once.

And then. Jester glanced at Kazunori Yamauchi's Ferrari with some fear, and swore that he would never ride in the other party's car again.

After arriving at the racetrack, Kazunori Yamauchi kept complaining to Jester, saying that if Jester hadn't let him slow down, he would have driven faster, and he also felt a little regretful that Jester didn't get his own sports car to compete.

Jester also saw Carmack, who was standing next to a white Ferrari in a race car outfit, and he had apparently seen Jester too, waving to Jester.

To be honest, this so-called racing race is not so much a racing race as a party.

This time, in addition to Yamauchi Kazunori and Carmack, a few people have prepared supercars, and most of the cars used by others are the sponsorship that Yamauchi Kazunori has brought after contacting Mitsubishi and Honda this time, specifically borrowing a few sports cars for temporary use, and the race is not a race, but a time trial, in which no one runs three laps, whichever is the best.

As for the prize, it is not precious, but it is more special, you can add an NPC with the same name and surname as the champion in the future "GT Racing", and the identity of this NPC is the car god in the game.

Carmack came here, but he also thought that Yamauchi Kazunori's event was good, quite interesting, plus, he had just solved several technical problems with the new engine of "Thor's Hammer", and was going to give himself a period of vacation, just when Yamauchi Kazunori invited, he came, and Yamauchi Kazunori also told him before, he said that he invited him to participate in this self-entertaining racing competition.

I also want him to help optimize the engine of their racing game, preferably by dealing with a few new features, such as the rain system.

These carmaks all agreed.

For Carmack, there is an inexplicable attraction for him to deal with problems that are difficult for others to deal with on top of the code.

"I think that a designer who makes a racing game must drive a racing car himself and feel it on the track, this kind of speeding feeling, only people with this kind of experience can make a really fun racing game." Jester was watching these employees of Kazunori Yamauchi's studio, and while he was driving a sports car sponsored by Mitsubishi Corporation on the track, Kazunori Yamauchi didn't know when he came to his side and said such a sentence.

Jester was noncommittal about Yamauchi Kazunori's words.

After all, he has not had such an experience, and he really has not had the development experience of such a high-fidelity racing game, and on the other hand, Kazunori Yamauchi, he is the best racing game designer in the world in the future, and the GT racing series he is responsible for, that is, "Gran Turismo", is the best racing game in the world, and there is not even one of them, with a total sales of more than 70 million copies, worthy of the name of the first game of its kind.

All the cars in the competition were Mitsubishi or Honda's sports cars, and it seems that Kazunori Yamauchi or Carmack, and a few others also brought supercars with better performance, but in the spirit of fairness, it is still based on the cars provided by Mitsubishi and Honda this time.

After that, of course, the few of them could use their cars for a new race.

However, whether it is a race or a timing has not yet been decided, and now, these people are more in favor of a race.

Jester had heard from Kazunori Yamauchi that when his studio was recruiting, there was a necessary restriction, which was that he had to be able to drive, and that he had to be very proficient in driving, and of course, he had to be interested in driving cars.

Because Kazunori Yamauchi said when he recruited them that before they officially developed the game, they would definitely have to experience the feeling of racing a car on a real track.

Carmack just finished his first lap, in fact, it is not the first lap, when he was familiar with the performance of the car before, he drove seven or eight laps, but the lap just now is the first lap of the official calculation of time, the result is not very ideal, only more than one minute and forty seconds, ranking third, but only eight people including Carmack have run before.

But Carmack wasn't too discouraged, and Jester could tell that he was still excited.

In fact, Jester is now a little worried, will Carmack suddenly resign after the current "Quake" engine development is completed, and start his other interest journey, after all, for the current Mars entertainment, in the development of the game engine, Carmack is a well-deserved number one person, and other people, even the most powerful, are absolutely impossible to compare with Carmack.

Of course, looking at the whole world, Carmack is still the leader in 3D engines.

So, Jester suddenly had an idea, should I talk to him about virtual reality now, if he can be interested in virtual reality, even if he loses his passion for 3D engines, he can also shift his energy to virtual reality equipment.

It's better than wasting energy on car engines and rockets, which in Jester's opinion is. (To be continued......)