Standing on this giant cruise ship with a length of 360 meters, a width of 58 meters, and a height of 56 meters, Ye Xiaobai, who had just arrived, was shocked for a while in a daze.

"This ship is called the Game Island, and it has all the facilities in it, and in the future, you will work on this ship." Tianming said to everyone.

Everyone looked around in shock, and some people laughed and jumped excitedly, as if they were even more surprised than asking them to develop a virtual game.

"I'm working for the most tyrant in the world!"

"Am I dreaming? We've come to a new world? Or rather, we're in a virtual game, but it's too high, isn't it? ”

"Cruises, sea views, high salaries, virtual games, if a CCTV reporter comes to interview me at this time, are you happy? I must have replied that I am very happy. ”

"Boss, I want to work for you for the rest of my life! I'll develop whatever game you ask me to develop, and I'll tell you secretly, I'm very researched about adult games. One muttered to himself.

Tianming waited for these people to be a little familiar with the surrounding environment, and after their excited spirits calmed down, they then let people take them into the cruise ship and live in the suites inside.

The 60-square-metre suite is equipped with a king-size bed, a toilet with bathroom, table, chairs, mattresses, bedding and other daily necessities.

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After settling in, Tianming had them called together and went to the work area for a meeting.

The work area is located on the third and fourth levels of the cabin (counted from top to bottom) and occupies two full floors. Moreover, the space on these two floors is an all-access space, in addition to the toilet and elevator corridor, the area of the first floor work area is more than 14,000 square meters, and desks are placed in such a large venue. Put the computer and accommodate 1,000 people to work at the same time, and it seems very empty.

Two floors, that's two thousand. All the people brought by Tianming can work inside.

Looking at the densely packed heads below, Tianming crossed his waist, raised his voice, and said to them: "In the future, you will work here, eat, drink, live and have fun." All these problems are solved for you! The rest system is one day off for every four days of work, and one day off for every four days of work. The salary is guaranteed to be 100,000 yuan a month, there are bonuses, benefits and vacations, as long as you do a good job, in the future, you can live a life of flying a plane and living in a mansion! ”

The response was enthusiastic.

"Boss, we'll do a good job!" One person made a trumpet with both hands.

"Boss, I'll just have one day off a month. Don't take four days off and one day off. A workaholic said.

"Boss, you don't need the plane mansion, and when the game is developed, can you give me a set of top-level equipment?" A game maniac.

Another person's eyes lit up: "Boss." Can you give me a piece of land in the game? I want to be the master in the game. ”

"Boss, hurry up and bring the computer, I can't wait to start making games."

As we chatted, the conversation turned to work.

There are now only tables and chairs in the work area. The computers and servers haven't been brought here yet, they're empty, so they can't help but be in a hurry.

Tianming said: "Don't worry about work. You get used to it for two days, and after two days, those things will be moved over soon, and the day after tomorrow at the earliest, you will be able to start working. ”

To develop a dotted game, it is not just about connecting the computer and the server, Tianming needs to build a supercomputer first, build a development environment in it, and then jointly network and develop the game.

So, it took two days for Tianming to produce a whole bunch of CPU, GPU, 3D hard drives, and other things like that, and with the assistance of hardware experts, to assemble a supercomputer.

The name of the supercomputer is "Virtual Tour No. 1", and the framework used is similar to "Edge of the Battlefield", consisting of 3600 16-core CPUs, 4800 GPUs, 5200 128G memory sticks and 2860 2PB 3D hard disks, with a maximum floating point operation speed of 10,000 trillion times, a total of 5720PB of hard disk storage space, and an area of 180,000 square kilometers if you want to build a game map.

If you make two games at the same time, and one game accounts for half of the resources, the map area of each game can be divided into 90,000 square kilometers, which is a bit small.

Of course, that's just relatively small, compared to any online game outside, the map area of 90,000 square kilometers still completely blows them up.

Tianming was still too small, so he said to Ye Xiaobai: "The supercomputer takes up too much space, and it consumes more power, so you can only put one on the Game Island, but don't worry, as long as the game you make is big enough, I will build another game island cruise ship and put the virtual tour No. 2 supercomputer on it, so that the resources will not be so tight." ”

Ye Xiaobai hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no need, boss, it's enough for the two games to share a supercomputer, and the game map of 180,000 square kilometers is enough to make two games, and there is no need to make another one." ”

"Well, the supercomputer has been assembled, and the next thing to install is the programmer's work computer, you call dozens of people to come and help me assemble these computers."

Tianming took out more than 2,000 desktops from the ability space and placed them in two work areas.

These desktops were ordered according to the requirements of the highest hardware standards, and each cost more than 100,000 yuan, but Tianming still felt that the performance was not too advanced, so he took another batch of 16-core CPUs and 4TB solid-state drives, and let people take out the original CPUs and hard disks in the chassis, and put the CPUs and solid-state drives he made into them.

In the afternoon, more than 2,000 computers were basically assembled and placed, and after installing the operating system, they could be used normally.

All the game developers also gathered in the work area, sat on the leather swivel chair in the office card slot, touched the crystal-plated gold shell of the 28-inch LCD monitor, and then looked at the gorgeous titanium alloy main chassis under their feet.

"16-core 5nm CPU, two 128GB DDR4 memory modules, 4TB solid-state drive, 30,000 yuan to buy a sapphire AMD graphics card, this configuration of the computer, is it really a work computer for us?" One man's eyes widened in disbelief.

"I used to work for an IT company, and the computer was still configured 10 years ago. The operating system can only use XP, and I can't even run the development software for work, so I stayed there for three days and then ran away. ”

"I took a look, and it seems that all of us will work with computers of this configuration in the future, including non-major developers, more than 2,000 units, how much is it worth?"

"Someone just told me that the server we use to develop games is not a normal server. It's a supercomputer. ”

"I'm rubbing, I bought a supercomputer for us to develop games, this is too exaggerated, right? You don't do that abroad, do you? ”

"To make a good sword, you must first have a good piece of iron. The companies I used to go to didn't even provide a good computer, how could I develop a good game? I was a little surprised here, the conditions provided by the boss were so good that we had to work hard. Develop a game with sincerity to repay the boss! ”

"Yes, we really came to the right place, and those who can come but don't come will regret it very much in the future."

The equipment is all set. The next step is to assign tasks.

The two games, one Xianxia type and one Warcraft type, are divided into two groups: Xianxia and Warcraft.

The leader of the Xianxia group is the foreman. The leader of the Warcraft team, Ye Xiaobai.

1884 people, excluding testers who can be shared, the remaining 1826 core development members. Faced with a choice, join the Xianxia group or join the Warcraft group.

Xianxia games may have more "chivalrous" elements, swords, pills, herbs, internal strength, cheats, and sects, and there are many games of this type in China.

Warcraft games may have more "beast" components, hunters, warlocks, orcs, dwarves, priests, camps, these keywords are very large, and they currently occupy the mainstream position in the market.

These two types of games, if they want to be built in the virtual world, the former is more difficult to develop than the latter, because Xianxia is not a martial arts, and whether it can be achieved or not, if the player character reaches the level of "Yuan Baby" and "Out of the Body", the ability is too demonic, will a skill be released, and the map of the entire server will be broken?

How to master this degree is a big problem.

Warcraft type games,There's no such concern.,No matter how powerful the boss is.,The scope of the impact is just a copy.,No matter how strong the skill,There's an upper limit to the lethality.,It can be fully counted.。 The potential of each race and faction is also relatively balanced, with a variety of gameplay and a focus on teamwork. There are many systems that can be used for reference.

Even, if Blizzard is willing to cooperate, they can even move World of Warcraft into the virtual space as a whole, which can save a lot of development time, as long as they agree.

The developers were quick to make their choice.

Xianxia group: 618 people

Warcraft group: 1208 people

Tianming frowned slightly, and said to everyone: "There are too few people in the Xianxia group, only half of the Warcraft group. From the Warcraft group to the Xianxia group, it is better to maintain the development progress of the two games. ”

Foreman Jun hurriedly stood up and said: "No need boss, 600 people are enough, when I developed "Fairy Sword" before, the team never exceeded 300 people, and now there are 600 people willing to join me and support me, I feel very happy and grateful, thank you for your support!" ”

He bowed to the crowd.

Gong Changjun is a person with a strong personality, and many employees who have worked with him like him very much as a gentle and honest leader, easy-going, immodest, easy to get close to, and even many players like him because of the games he developed.

"Gong Changjun, I haven't done a Xianxia game, but I joined the Xianxia group because of you, and I support you!"

"Gong Changjun, I have made three "Fairy Sword" with you, who will I join if I don't join you?"

"Gongchangjun, I believe you will definitely be able to take us to make a classic Xianxia game!"

“……”

Gong Changjun felt that his eyes were a little hot, and his eyes were moist, and he could only bow to these supporters who were full of expectations, and frequently bowed to express his gratitude.

The people in the Warcraft group were also infected by this atmosphere, and they were full of fighting spirit, and they said to Ye Xiaobai, Yunfei, Liu Kun and others one by one: You must make a good game, and you must not lag behind the Xianxia group.

"Morale is available, morale is available." Seeing them gearing up one by one, Tianming also nodded with satisfaction.

After being divided into groups, these people worked overtime that day, installing software, setting up the environment, and assigning tasks...... With high spirits, he initially entered the working state.

…… (To be continued......)