Jester won the honor of Game of the Year again at the VGX Awards 10 days later, and it was also the first game in history to win the Game of the Year from GDC and VGX, two game selection bodies with completely different directions.

However, this incident is not the biggest news in the industry.

During this period of time, the biggest news in the industry is the resignation of Carmack from Mars Entertainment.

But since the last time Jester was interviewed, he expressed his attitude, hoping that Carmack would change his mind, and even if the other party left Mars Entertainment, he would not restrict the other party in the future work Except for the news, there is no relevant news coming out.

However, many game media learned from the inside that Jester did not agree to Carmack's resignation application, and, after participating in the VGX awards party, Jester immediately flew to Switzerland to find Carmack, who was on vacation in Switzerland, to persuade him again, hoping that the other party could give up the idea of resignation, after all, for Mars Entertainment, Carmack is a crucial figure.

In fact, Jester's analysis of FPS games, whether it is at GDC's awards party or on the player community forum of Mars Entertainment, is insightful, and many companies that develop FPS games feel like they are empowered after watching it, but the reason why these game companies still want to get the main reason why Carmack fell out with Jester because of the old-school FPS.

Not familiar with them, they think that old-school FPS still has a great future.

And it is completely Carmack's transcendent position in the field of 3D engines, why does Mars Entertainment's 3D games completely crush other game companies by a grade?

It's because of the engine that Carmack developed for them, but these game companies' invitations to Carmack are like a stone in the sea, even if Jester said that Carmack is not forbidden to develop games in other game companies after leaving his job, these game companies' invitations have not been responded to by Carmack.

This time. Carmack, who was on a ski vacation in Switzerland, was leisurely drinking coffee with Jester, who had just flown to Switzerland and had not yet reversed the jet lag, and the two of them were talking and laughing, not like there was any contradiction at all.

"When did you approve your resignation?"

Taking a sip of his coffee, Carmack asked Jester, who was sitting next to him, a little bored.

And Jester shook his head: "Don't worry, I still want to persuade you." I hope you lead the team to develop another engine, you know, the last engine you developed was more than a year ago, and although this engine is still the best at the moment, the other companies are not idle, and we are getting less and less ahead of them, so ......"

But before Jester could finish speaking, Carmack interrupted him.

"Don't say it."

His tone became a little resolute: "I told you before, about the development of the engine. I'm really losing interest in developing engines now, so it's probably not too appropriate, to be precise, I've never had an interest in developing 3D engines, I'm only interested in the technology itself, because the development of 3D engines can reflect my technology, so I'm obsessed with the development of 3D engines. ”

After a slight pause, Carmack continued.

"And I develop games, except that I personally love video games. The most important reason is that making this thing makes the engine I make look even more awesome. ”

Hear here. Jester could only sigh, in fact, even if Carmack didn't tell him this, he could know the other party's thoughts, after all, he was the one who had read the other party's future autobiography, and even Jester knew the other party better than Carmack himself.

Carmack continued: "That's why I don't want to continue in engine development right now. My skills didn't play an absolutely important role in the overall engine development, and now the team model is completely more efficient than my previous model, and I couldn't find fun in this development model, so I decided to quit the development of the new engine - actually. The current engine development team, with or without my strength, will not decline much, and my role in it is not so much the core as the leader. ”

Although Carmack said this firmly, Jester hesitated for a moment and continued: "I still hope that you can finish developing this engine before leaving, after all, I am also slow for a while, and the new project between us will not be implemented so quickly......

Hearing Jester's persuasion, Carmack also fell into deep thought, but it was only a moment later, and he still shook his head.

"Although the development of the new engine is going well, I estimate that it will be completed early next year, but I don't like such boring work, if the work does not bring me excitement and excitement, then don't do it, this is what you taught me at the time...... We don't have to rush our new projects, I've been working on new engines and new games for the past few years, and I'm working on new games as soon as I get a new engine, and then I'm still going to some amateur sports car parties during my vacation, and I'm really tired, so I'm going to take a break for a while. ”

Since Carmack had said so, Jester could only show understanding.

"However, John, I still have to ask your opinion, although I have talked to you a few times before, and you are very interested in this project, but you must know that VR or AR technology is also in a groping stage now, this may be a very boring industry that has been accumulated for ten years, are you really willing to engage in this project?"

"Huh."

After hearing Jester's words, John. Carmack smiled again.

"BOSS, you still don't know me well enough, I like the work that brings me passion, not what the work can bring me, and I'm very optimistic about what you described, the future prospects of VR or AR devices - in fact, if I didn't know that you secretly carried out the development of home somatosensory gaming equipment too late, I would have given up on the development of 3D engines, this time this kind of cross-era equipment came out. I don't want to miss ......."

As she spoke, Carmack waved her hand, signaling that Jester didn't need to think about him.

Jester could only smile wryly.

"The development of somatosensory devices is still in progress, and no one can say whether it can be on the next generation of hosts, after all, the difficulty of miniaturization is not only in technology, but also in cost. As for the future of VR equipment you are talking about...... I can only say that I am still 80% sure of the somatosensory, I really don't have much confidence in the prospect of VR equipment, I can only say that this is a development direction in the future, but how far it can develop, this is something that no one can say. ”

Jester shook his head as he explained to Carmack.

But Carmack didn't care too much, he just smiled: "I just said it casually, actually, I still said that." I'm only going to do ~ what I'm interested in, I'm very interested in the development of VR equipment now, and that's enough, and if you hadn't told me about VR equipment, I might have planned to quit my job and go to rockets by now, which is even more unlikely to have any achievements, but I still want to give it a try. ”

"Okay then."

on this. Jester could only nod, "I'll announce your departure when I get back." Moreover, I will prepare our new company as soon as possible, and the scale does not need to be too big at the beginning, just to do some experimental research and development, probably after the next generation of somatosensory consoles are launched, the research and development of our VR equipment can be on the right track......"

"That's fine."

Carmack nodded. There is no opinion on Jester's plan.

"But you don't have any plans to continue in the shooter? While a shift in the style of FPS games is inevitable, the audience for one type of game will never go away, and old-school FPS will always be appreciated, but there won't be so many people willing to accept this kind of game in the future, such as the experimental Team Fortress we're working on. I think this game will be able to absorb a large part of the old-school FPS game lovers. ”

"On top of that, you do have a lot of time."

Jester stood up and stretched, he had just stepped off the plane to meet Carmack, although it was his own private jet, he was exhausted from flying for more than ten hours, and there was still a time difference to adjust.

After chatting with Carmack for so long, he was also a little tired, and when he was about to take a break, he said this to Carmack, in fact, Jester also knew that this was a little useless, but he still hoped that Carmack would not give up game development so quickly, in terms of shooting game development, Carmack is still very popular, and in terms of the use of engines, no one in the entire game company can beat it.

"I do have a few more interesting ideas, but my mind is not on them now." "Actually, the biggest fun I had in shooting games during my time was the World Championship of Carnival's "Quake", and it was much more fun to watch others play games than to play them myself, or to make games. ”

"Hey."

Sighing, Jester could only say: "Then I'll go rest first, and I'll talk to you about VR equipment carefully tomorrow, this matter still needs to be discussed in the long run." ”

"I understand." Carmack also expressed understanding.

Three days later, Jester, who had flown back to Los Angeles from Switzerland, was immediately spotted by reporters waiting near the airport, and of course, they could not get close to Jester without Jester's permission, which was heavily guarded.

And Jester didn't stop being interviewed, it can be seen that Jester is in a hurry, and his complexion is not very good, I don't know if the conversation with Carmack in Switzerland is not going well or because of the fatigue caused by the long flight, within Mars Entertainment, there are also a lot of concerns about this matter, especially the FPS development team.

In the minds of these people, the carmack is almost a existence of faith.

None of them could accept Carmack leaving, or even working on game development at other game companies.

Even, there are many people, once it is confirmed that Carmack will leave Mars Entertainment and join other game companies for FPS game development, they will also leave Mars Entertainment and follow Jester.

When Jester returned to the company headquarters the day after he returned to Los Angeles, many people from the FPS development department banded together to ask about the final result of Carmack's resignation, and Jester hesitated for a moment to tell them the truth: "I verbally agreed to Carmack's resignation in Switzerland. ”

As soon as Jester's words came out, it immediately caused an uproar~ waves.

Many people had very disappointed looks on their faces.

"But ......"

Soon, Jester continued: "...... John didn't go to other game companies to develop games, and the reason for his resignation was not just because of the conflict over the concept of FPS game development, but because he was a little tired of this kind of game development life, and he wanted to change jobs, and this time my words were just an opportunity, and he would be back in a few days, and I would have a farewell party for him in the company. ”

Although Jester's words relieved many people, some people asked, "Can you tell me what John is going to do next?" Is it still related to games? ”

"I don't know too much about that."

Jester shook his head: "John didn't talk to me too much, he said that he would talk to me in detail when he came back, and this is also about John's confidentiality, I can't say too much, in short, according to my understanding, what John is going to do this time is very exciting." ”

This passage in the company's headquarters still went on and off in a short period of time.

It quickly spread throughout the industry.

Although Jester said a lot in this paragraph, the most critical news, for those other game companies, is that he has agreed to Carmack's departure, and the rest is to go through the program.

This couldn't be better news for these game companies.

Although they still haven't received a reply from Carmack, but now that Carmack has left Mars Entertainment, the chances of being able to dig each other have greatly increased, and the most important thing is to dig up each other, maybe they can also get a powerful FPS game development team!. (To be continued......)