A crystal clear stream flows through the bamboo forest, and the forest is filled with smoke and occasionally dotted with red flowers and green grass.

As the stream descends, a small market town appears in the low recess of the mountain, with classical wooden houses and blue bricks and red eaves, arranged in a staggered manner.

In the market town, the ancients dressed in green cloth and plain clothes carried farm tools on their shoulders, or carried burdens, or sat behind shops on the side of the street, selling goods along the street.

On the street, a white-clothed gentleman, holding a book in his left hand, with his right hand behind his back, his eyes were silent in the books, on top of a red building, a wooden window opened, and a beautiful woman in green saw the white-clothed scholar walking and reading a book, a trace of tenderness flashed in her eyes, and she looked at it infatuatedly. Then, a fat man walked up quickly, banged it, and closed the window.

In fact, the white-clothed gentleman who had been paying attention to the woman in the red mansion with the corner of his eye was slightly stunned, sighed, put down the book in his hand, and returned home.

A high-crowned Taoist priest in green clothes, with a long sword on his back, and a dusty hand, walked towards him, and when he saw the white-clothed priest, he stopped him and asked, "Is the son willing to cultivate immortals?" ”

The white-clothed scholar shook his head: "A certain person is willing to chase fame, wait until the title of the gold list, and marry the woman he likes." ”

The Taoist priest in Tsing Yi shook his head: "The worldly red dust is like a dream, I will give you a chance, you can live forever in the future, I don't know if you wish?" ”

The white-clothed man struggled in his heart, looked at the direction of the Red Mansion, and shook his head: "If you can't stay with the person you like, what's the use of having immortality?" ”

Looking at the back of the white-clothed scholar leaving, the Tsing Yi Taoist priest stroked the long beard on his chin, sighed and said: "If you descend to a different phase today, the demon beasts are raging in the world, and you are a mediocre mortal, I'm afraid you won't be at ease for a few days, but it's a pity that he has a Dao bone." ”

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"Yes, this video is not bad."

After watching the promotional video. Foreman-kun nodded, fully achieving the result he expected.

"The theme song of the game has also been made, do you want to go over and listen to it?"

"Go, of course."

The theme song of "Searching for Immortals Continent" "Searching for Dreams" was written by Gong Changjun himself, and the ancient poems and classical music all express an elegant and refined charm.

The orchestra that played "Searching for Dreams" is a very famous philharmonic orchestra in China, and the singer sings for the famous classical music diva Han Beina, and the voice is very magnetic, like a battle between soldiers and gold. Majestic.

Listening to the music intertwined with the sound of the flute, the piano and the drums, it was beautiful and beautiful, and unconsciously, a trace of crystal appeared in the corner of the foreman's eyes.

It's been twenty years, and it's not easy along the way, it's really not easy.

At the beginning, it was not as good as others in technology, and role-playing games were popular abroad. The picture is smooth and the striking effect is good. And the games he made are still at the turn-based level, relying only on a fairly attractive plot. Retains a portion of the players.

There are so many pirated copies in China that it is chilling, when each foreign game can sell hundreds of millions of yuan, like a Hollywood blockbuster. The game he developed was cracked by a piracy gang less than half a month after its release. The losses are incalculable, and the money earned from selling genuine and peripheral products every year can only barely maintain the company's operation.

The technical disadvantage and the proliferation of piracy are not the reasons why Gongchangjun does not do a good job in the game, on the contrary, for each game, he must be like his own child, carefully care for its growth, and there must be no perfunctory and slack, so that players who love it continue to love it.

"The Continent of Immortals is basically finished, and now it has entered the internal beta stage of game developers, and after the internal beta is over, the internal beta of players will be carried out, and after the internal beta of players is over, it can be promoted to the market and conducted public beta." The foreman said.

Tianming said excitedly: "In other words, "Seeking Immortal Continent" can immediately let players enter and play?!" ”

"Of course, boss, we have a lot of faith in this game. However, boss, Xiaobai's "Glory Continent" is also done, if the two games are promoted at the same time, I'm afraid that because of market competition, there will be a diversion of players, why don't you promote one of them first? Foreman Jun blinked and said.

Ye Xiaobai on the side was anxious, and pointed to the foreman and said, "Brother Xu, the foreman is a liar!" He said that their game is still a lot more unfinished, in fact, it is faster than we did, and now they are almost done with the game's developer closed beta, and we have just done the closed beta...... Brother Xu, don't bring such a deception, I still believe in him so much, Brother Xu, you have to make decisions for us! Can't let their game promote first! ”

Seeing that Ye Xiaobai looked like an honest person being deceived, the foreman and the others laughed, which made the entanglement on Ye Xiaobai's face even stronger, and he was angry and annoyed.

However, promoting two games at the same time will indeed have a greater impact on the market of the other game, and the promotion effect will naturally be poorer.

Tianming comforted Ye Xiaobai and said: "Xiaobai, Factory Jun's "Seeking Immortal Continent" has basically been completed, you still have some time left, or you wait a little longer, wait until we have completed the promotion of "Seeking Immortal Continent" first, after all, we have limited manpower and can't do two things at the same time." ”

"Brother Xu, when the promotion of "Seeking Immortal Continent" is completed, there will be no place for us in the market, the soup is gone, and our game is still a fart?" Ye Xiaobai rarely burst into a rude sentence.

"Impossible, Xiaobai," Foreman Jun stepped forward to comfort him: "Xiaobai, the game we make is not an ordinary online game, but a virtual online game, no one can play without a game helmet, as long as you let the boss control the game helmet in a certain number, it will still leave you a lot of market." ”

The difference between virtual online games and general online games is that the game cannot be played without a game headset as a client.

This produces two benefits: first, the number of gamers is the same as the game headsets sold by the game company, and second, it is impossible for any piracy gang to pirate the game, and there is no possibility of piracy.

It can also be said that the day of the birth of virtual online games is the time when pirated games are destroyed.

Tianming also comforted Ye Xiaobai with a few words, and promised that after the public beta of "Seeking Immortal Continent", the first batch of only 5 million helmets will be produced, and it will no longer be produced, and after the promotion of "Glory Continent", 5 million helmets will also be produced, ensuring that the number of game helmets sold by the two games is equal.

According to Tianming's meaning: "The big cake of virtual online games is all in our hands, and we can divide it as we want!" ”

Ye Xiaobai relieved himself, and then returned to the work area with everyone, and yelled at all the developers: "From today on, everyone will have to work overtime!" ”

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On November 5, 2018, Suyun City, High-tech Zone, Lanming Game Company was established, and the foreman led the first batch of more than 200 game development employees to enter a 21-storey office building.

On November 8th, the virtual game 2 supercomputer was successfully built, with a tenfold performance improvement over the virtual game 1, and the game map was expanded eight times, which can accommodate up to 30 million players online at the same time.

On November 10, in order to speed up the production of game helmets, Tianming produced 5 million game helmets at one time by using quantum replication.

On November 10, a video of the game's closed beta appeared on the Internet, attracting the attention of a large number of netizens.

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Xiao Tian, male, 23 years old, a game fanatic, "Dungeons and Warriors" level 120 god swordsman, "World of Warcraft" level 120 hardcore player, "League Heroes" has 9000 games of experience, motto: there are games, there are brothers, there are no sisters.

It's been almost a year since I graduated, Xiaotian hasn't gone out to look for a job, and he rarely goes out every day except for playing games at home.

Where Xiaotian lives now, it is a rental house with a monthly rent of 300, far away from his parents, relying on making zuò game explanation videos, he can earn 2,000 yuan a month, plus the country's unemployment benefits of 800 a month, he is living quite nourishingly.

"When this month's salary arrives, I will have 8,000 yuan in my hand, and when the time comes, I will sell the computer in my hand! Buy a high-configuration computer of about 10,000 yuan, and it will be much cooler to play games in the future. ”

There is a cool video network, a game community, which is a place where Xiaotian often visits, and this is also the place where he publishes videos of zuò.

Xiaotian is also a popular game podcast on Youku.com, and each commentary video can attract more than 20 million views, with an average subscription of about 3,000.

The subscription price of game videos is related to the length of time, generally a game video of about 15 minutes, the subscription price is 0.5 yuan, the video of Xiaotian system zuò is basically 15 minutes in length, 4 per month, multiplied by subscription3000, and the monthly income is 2000, which is the result of deducting half of the website and then deducting the cost of tax and system.

Looking at the game video click list, the top few are still those few girl podcasts with crisp voices, with an average click of more than one million, and the average subscription is more than 100,000, and the gap with their own subscriptions is like mud.

Xiao Tian smiled bitterly: "Brother only hates a daughter in this life." ”

Today's list isn't quite the same as usual, though.

The first place is the game video of the predecessor who has not reappeared in the rivers and lakes for a long time - the director of Ao Factory.

The number of views of the video has exceeded 5 million, and the title of the video is "Director Ao: The Closed Beta Documentary of the Virtual Reality Game "Seeking the Immortal Continent"

Xiao Tian's eyes bulged out: "Virtual reality game, how is this possible?" ”

With extreme curiosity, with a click of the mouse, Xiaotian clicked to watch.

"Hello everyone, I am Director Ao, and many friends have asked me where I went? Why didn't it bubble for so long, was it killed by a killer sent by a game company? Of course not, I'm not alive and well now? Okay, let's get to the point, first of all, I'm not a title party, last year I applied for a game tester position at a game company, and participated in the testing of a virtual reality game, the name of this game is called "Seeking the Immortal Continent" ......"

…… (To be continued......)