Chapter 265: A Press Conference
The selection criteria for the carmack were very strict, and in the beginning, no one even wanted to participate.
Knowing that Jester joined Carmack's group in his name because of the development of the 3D game engine, it attracted the attention of some conceited technical bulls, but after interviewing Carmack alone, everyone was a five-body admirer of Carmack's technology.
However, in the end, Carmack only chose three helpers, which was very incomprehensible to Jester, who now needed to get the engine as much as possible, and wouldn't it be possible to speed up the development process by adding more manpower.
Therefore, when Jester questioned Carmack like this, Carmack looked at Jester with a layman's eye, and explained impatiently: "The engine developed this time is not complicated, it can only be said that it is my first attempt, it is just a pseudo-3D engine, and it is not a real 3D engine in essence, but it is a perspective and scale correction of the plane shape, such as turning a wall obliquely into a trapezoid, and then shrinking to indicate that the distance is farther, Then the occlusion is determined according to the depth (z-axis) at the per-pixel level, which slows down the progress rather than not needing too many people. ”
Jester wasn't an expert in programming, and since Carmack had said so, he didn't insist on it anymore, but told him again and again that he wanted to see the engine as good as he could.
And Carmack also assured that with three helpers, he could take half the time at the earliest, and no more than four weeks at the slowest time, which made Jester more satisfied to stop asking about the engine.
In fact, there have been a lot of things for Jester recently, and the official release location of his new somatosensory arcade machine is in New York, and it was also said in the previous promotion, which is the second large-scale simulation somatosensory game in the world since Sega's motorcycle box game became a big deal.
It doesn't matter if it's the second paragraph or not. And this publicity is the most important.
And at this press conference, in order to reflect the importance that Mars Entertainment attaches to this, Jester, who has not appeared at the press conference in person for a long time. I will also be there in person to be interviewed, and I will answer questions from fans at the scene.
Although such a conference Jester has not attended for a long time. And this time it was not he who introduced the product on the rostrum, and it was originally planned to let him explain on stage, but after Jester personally saw the plan of this press conference, he directly crossed out this item.
And he made it very clear that either he would not participate, or if he wanted to participate, he would cross out this item.
In the face of the boss's forcible use of his rights, the employees who organized this conference had no choice but to find a hardware developer from the development team. A software developer took the stage to explain the game's development process to fans and the press at the press conference.
After all, the delay time of this game is still very long, from the establishment of the project to the official release, there is almost a gap of more than a year, you know, even before, when Jester made Zuò "Fire Emblem", it was only used for about half a year.
So, something must have happened in between.
And the press conference obviously did not disappoint the media and fans who followed the news, and they heard a lot of information that they would not have seen in other publications.
And what is even more exciting for those present. It's a question to Jester.
You know, the last time Jester officially answered a question in front of the media was more than two years ago.
But Jester is now more than just the owner of a small company. It's a brilliant entrepreneur with a high international reputation, so there will be no more very harsh and unscrupulous questions like before.
After all, the money of capitalists is not eaten dry.
"Excuse me, what are your plans for the future? Are there any plans for the development of new games? The first person to be named asked one of the most wanted questions of the people present, and the questioner was not very old. It's around the age of twenty, and he dresses very casually. Most likely, a student.
Jester smiled when he heard this. Then he said: "Actually, you also knew at the press conference before.,When we were developing this somatosensory simulation arcade game,Halfway through,There was a little problem in the development of the hardware.,I'm just about making games and don't care much about the hardware.,The other employees went to other development groups to help except for the necessary.,And I was in a relatively idle situation at the time.,So I'm sneaking in the production of a very niche game.,It can only be said that it's self-entertainment.,Now the production has been completed. I'm doing the final post-processing in the company, and I'll meet you in no more than a month and a half. ”
As soon as this news was said by Jester, it immediately detonated the audience.
Both the media and fans were instantly excited, and for the media, Jester's games are undoubtedly the hottest news, even if there is only one title.
"Can you tell me what kind of game it is?"
Sure enough, the next one was named, and he couldn't wait to ask this question immediately, obviously this was not the question he had thought of before.
"Actually, even within our company, this game is considered a secret, and I don't know much, I don't want much else, this is not a mainstream game, as for the content, you will know when he releases, in short, in my prediction, the sales of this game will not be very high."
Jester replied with a faint smile.
Since he couldn't ask anything about this game from Jester's mouth, immediately, a smart questioner changed directions, and a questioner with a camera in his hand who should be a reporter was immediately clicked on, and he asked: "So, Mr. Li, since you have finished this game that you don't name, can you tell me about your next plan?" ”
At this time, it dawned on the people present that they were almost fooled by Jester's previous words, and at the beginning they asked him if he had any new plans, only to be immediately attracted by the so-called new game he brought out.
Being asked like this again, Jester could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, and seemed to sigh a little and said: "My next plan is to go out for a good trip......" As soon as he finished saying this, the reporters and fans in front of him instantly booed, obviously they all felt that Jester was perfunctory to them.
But what they didn't expect was that Jester suddenly spoke in one tone, and his tone became a little funny.
"But before I traveled, I had already figured out what game I was going to do next, and I can tell you that it was going to be a very special game, a PC game."
PC Games!
Jester's sentence can really be described as a stone to stir up a thousand waves, you know, the games on the PC are not the mainstream now, although Jester's popular publishing company also publishes PC games, but PC games are not their main promotion direction.
Hearing someone else asking, Jester repeated in a very sure tone: "Yes, I'm sure to tell you, my next game is a brand new game that runs on the PC platform, you've never seen before, he's going to add a very special, but it's bound to make people crazy how to play, I can tell you now, this kind of game, I call it FPS, it's an acronym for this kind of game, you can guess it, but I won't admit it if I guess right." ”
"Isn't it the same Alabo-style game that you demoted at the CES show a few years ago, when Dreambox was released?"
"It's not." Jester replied with a smile.
It was true that he broke his promise, and he shelved plans for a so-called powerful gaming computer that he wanted gamers to promise, but what company didn't have the kind of development plans that were often shelved? He's a lot.
Although many people wanted to dig out as much as possible what the brand new game was talking about in Jester's mouth, Jester was talking about him left and right, and he didn't say anything else about the new game he was going to make.
In the end, I finally gave up continuing to dig deeper on this issue, but Jester finally accepted an interview with the outside world, and these reporters wanted to ask a lot of questions, and since this question was blocked by Jester again, then they immediately changed to another question.
"Now that Sega's new sixteen-bit home game has been exposed, and Nintendo recently announced that they have officially started the development of their new home console, but Mars Entertainment has not made the slightest move in this regard recently, do you think that there is no need to update the home console at all?"
This question is actually very tricky to ask, if Jester said yes, then obviously, this is not pleasing to players, after all, players also know the truth that at least the better the game, the more exquisite the game, if he says no, then it will not please the player, because when Sega's new console was exposed, Nintendo announced the start of their development plan, there were countless fans of Mars Entertainment who were eager to know if Mars Entertainment had similar plans.
They don't want their favorite game company to be far behind at the beginning of the next era.
Jester didn't hesitate when he heard the question, and his answer followed almost the next moment the questioner's question ended.
"Actually, the reason why we haven't announced our similar development plan for next-generation home games is actually very simple, because we became the development team of our next-generation console on the day the Dreambox project was completed, and we have been working on the development of new consoles for many years." (To be continued) R655