Chapter 124: The Picture of the Next Era
After getting Jester's answer, although it wasn't what they wanted to hear the most, it was better than nothing, so the audience was quiet for a while. Obviously, in return, they also agreed to Jester's request, and without accidents, they would not continue to choke with him for the time being, so that his press conference could not go on normally.
Jester was also satisfied with this, he made a gesture to the staff behind him, and then several employees of Mars Entertainment pushed a computer that looked a little different to Jester's side.
And the audience in the audience once again had doubts, you don't demonstrate the game at the press conference of a good game console, why did you push a computer up, is it that Mars Entertainment is also ready to sell computers? Still is...... Will they launch a brand new computer game?
The moment Jester turned on the computer, many similar thoughts suddenly popped into the minds of countless players on the scene.
So is it a computer, a computer game, or both? Everyone is looking forward to it.
This computer was specially assembled by He Guoyuan, although the hardware used is not the best now, but it is also in the highest high-end level, such as 20M hard disk, 16-bit CPU, 16-bit graphics card, 17-inch monitor and so on.
However, due to the rush of time and the need to test hardware compatibility, the appearance of this computer has not been specially retouched, and even many circuit components are exposed, which is not so beautiful.
However, this was originally only used to demonstrate the graphics card, so Jester didn't care much about it, and when he discussed with He Guoyuan about the high-end computer brand they were going to launch, he basically reached a consensus, and the design and sales strategy was also very different from when he had this idea at the beginning, that is, the closedness proposed by Jester.
And under Jester's repeated persuasion, He Guoyuan also agreed to Jester's proposal.
As for why they put forward closedness, the reason is very simple, that is, because the target group of this high-end gaming computer they want to do will be very niche, because the price is too high, only true love will buy it, so that he can make the brand of this computer very high, and he doesn't care what other people think.
Then he can give these people a reason to buy their expensive computers: only with our computers, with our systems, can we play our computer games.
Of course, none of this can be said explicitly.
Now all he has to do is to let these fanatical players under the stage know that we have a graphics card that can be used to make a game.
However, it is still a short time, and it is obviously impossible for them to have their own operating system.
Operating systems, especially graphics operating systems, are still in their infancy, but it is not an overnight thing to do by yourself, so for the time being, you can only use IBM's compatible system to temporarily replace, after the signal of this computer is connected to the big screen behind, Jesterton guò commands entered DOS, and selected a startup program, but he did not press enter, but turned around and faced the audience.
With all the doubts, curiosity, anticipation, and all sorts of completely different looks, Jester began to explain what he was going to do.
"I know you're curious why I'm moving such a battered computer over for a demo instead of doing what you game companies or designers should do most — a demo of the first game on your own new home console, which was a waste of time, but now you're demoting, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?" As soon as Jester finished saying this, the audience, who had been a little indignant at his remark that they would not demo their new game at this press conference, suddenly laughed a little.
Jester smiled involuntarily as well, and he licked his lips again, which had been dry from talking for a long time, before continuing.
"The reason we didn't show our new game at the showcase was because we felt we should share more of our amazing products with you during this short showcase......" Jester just said this, and the players in the audience started to laugh, because Jester said this as if your new game wasn't a product that you can be surprised with, but this time after Jester smiled and made a gesture of pressing down with both hands to make everyone quiet, they all stopped laughing, They really wanted to see what Jester had to say.
"Don't get me wrong, our new game can naturally shock every player who likes us, I mean, we will set up a trial area for our new game at the next CES show, so the content that you can experience on the trial area is far better than the one I demo you here, after all, I blow this game to the sky while demonstrating, and you don't have an intuitive feeling. It is better to use the time saved to introduce the things or contents that you have not been able to experience at this exhibition for the time being. ”
Hearing that Jester's words made some sense, the audience waited quietly to see what Jester had in his eyes that would shock players more than showing his new game, and if he couldn't, then don't blame himself for not being able to get off the stage.
Jester just smiled confidently, clearly confident about what he was going to demonstrate.
"A few months ago, we were approached by ATI, the company that supplies our Dreambox, and said that we had just developed a new 16-bit graphics card with very good performance, and wanted us to make a computer game tailored to their graphics card, and I didn't think it was possible to make any decent games on the computer, and a lot of my colleagues at the time thought about it about me - After all, we are a big company, and we can't do the rough mosaic of the Atari era, we should make games that are exquisite, realistic, and can be really substituted into it at a glance, and I have the impression that the PC obviously can't do that. ”
"But after I took a look at the specific parameters of this graphics card they gave me, I went to the hardware department without saying a word, and then overnight I had people assemble a PC with the best parts that could carry this graphics card."
Jester's words are of course false, he was not in the company when ATI sent the graphics card, he knew that there was such a graphics card and returned to the company a few days later, Mark. Saini told him, but he also helped Mark. Seni completed the Carmack scrolling algorithm, which can successfully complete the smooth scrolling of the scroll on the PC, and this news has not been widely publicized even in the company. Outside of the R&D team of Saini's "Avengers", only a few people know about it.
But this does not prevent Jester from adapting himself, as long as the audience under the stage thinks that this is true, after all, is this true or false, who-care? What they care about is what you say this thing can do!
So, Jester continued to make up his story.
"Then, I spent a few days with a few colleagues designing a game level for this graphics card to see if its performance is as strong as ATI's blowing, and we can't wait for this, because as a game designer, I deeply know how the impact will be on the current game market when the graphics can be upgraded to the level described by the parameters of this graphics card."
"And this game was also an idea that I had for a long time, to make a game like a movie, but because of the limitations of the hardware, there were great difficulties at the beginning of the design, and I didn't want to weaken the effect I wanted to express in this game, so I didn't develop it, and this time, after seeing the specific parameters of this graphics card, I thought I should give it a try."
As he spoke, Jester pressed the enter button on his computer, and then on the big screen behind him, a delicate game loading screen appeared in the next moment, which was an extremely Arabic-style image - a young man holding a silver glittering Damascus scimitar, bare upper body, wearing a pair of Arabic-style pants, was making a knife swing and slashing motion.
The moment this picture appeared, the audience under the stage showed a look of disbelief at the first sight, their mouths wide, their eyes wide, and their faces full of consternation.
How can this picture be so exquisite, so colorful, it's almost the same as the cartoons you see on TV, and the previous arcade machines and game consoles can't be compared with this kind of picture at all!
But is this really what you can do in a game? Impossible!
This is everyone's question.
Then, Jester stood on the platform and could see that under the platform, someone immediately showed a suspicious look after being shocked, they had been playing video games for so many years, and they had never heard of the game's graphics being so detailed, so they couldn't help but be suspicious.
With this question in mind, they continued to look at it, and the loading screen soon ended, with a cool golden font written in fancy font on the screen, which was the name of the game.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
After Jester chose to start the game, he officially entered the game.
When they saw that the actual game screen was almost the same as the one they had seen when they loaded the game before, the same exquisite as a picture, the audience finally broke out uncontrollably once again with an earth-shattering shout, and this time the call was much more enthusiastic and excited than all the previous calls.
This is really crazy for these people, how can they possibly make the picture so good! RS