Ye Xiaobai is not at the base these days, but came to Yingjing City with a large amount of money.

Yingjing, located in the middle of the east, west, north and south of country H, has a superior geographical environment and a large number of talents, so it is best to use this place as a gathering base for talents.

He first rented a suite in a five-star hotel and stayed for a week.

In the past week, he collected all kinds of information on the Internet, played dozens of domestic stand-alone or online games, screened the best, and finally locked the cooperation object on one company and four people.

……

Jingbei City, Pixel Technology Co., Ltd.

President Liu Kun and technical director Liu Yan are holding a meeting of leaders of various departments to discuss the acquisition.

Someone wants to buy a pixel company and offers a high price that is hard to refuse.

Pixel is a collective company, and when it was first founded in 02, there were only 11 partners, and in the most difficult time, even the money to keep the company running was borrowed from these 11 people.

After surviving the initial hardships, the company's first game "Sword and Demon Record" was successfully launched and achieved good results, with "Popular Software" giving a score of 90 points. In foreign countries, the performance is average, but because of the excellent performance of the game action system, GameSpot gave a good score of 6.3 points.

In the following 15 years, the pixel company made persistent efforts and successively launched a series of online games such as "Ancient Legends", "Sword OL", "Seeking Immortals", "Sword 2", "Sword 3", etc., among which "Sword 2" has the highest player evaluation, and the largest number of online users of the game has exceeded 10 million, with annual sales of 1 billion.

After "Sword 3" was released in March this year, it inherited the style of "2" and expressed its graphics, fighting, and plot. has made more in-depth optimization, the picture is smoother, the playability is better, and there are more players than "2", relying on "Sword 3", the net income of the pixel company this year exceeded 500 million, there should be no problem.

Planner Liu Yubin asked, "How much did that person offer?" ”

Liu Kun helped his glasses and said, "2.8 billion." This offer can be said to be not a lot, and it is only three or four years of turnover of our company, but the important thing is not this, but the game development technology they have. It's scary, I'll show you a video. ”

Open a video resource on the computer, and everyone sees the picture in the projector.

On a dirt road in the field, two swordsmen are standing opposite each other, their hands on the hilt of their swords, their eyebrows are cold, and the battle is about to break out.

Hey, it's not a game, it's supposed to be a movie, right?

"Rub!" Two sword lights lit up. The two swordsmen instantly activated and rushed towards each other, and after only three or five moves, a blood flower appeared on the shoulder of one of the swordsmen. Then a number popped up on the head: -15.

This should be a movie with post-production special effects, right?

Subsequently, they didn't think so.

Two panels suddenly appeared on the video, and on the panels, the two swordsmen's HP, agility, strength, body, true qi and other numbers were displayed. Then he switched the perspectives of several similar game design processes, including the sky, mountains, woods, meadows, soil, ...... Finally, a three-dimensional modeling model is presented.

After one of the swordsmen was killed, all panels and dotted lines disappeared. The video returns to a movie-like footage.

"W-This is really a game?" One was surprised.

"It's too real, even the expressions of the characters are so real, plus that kind of bloody fight, although there is no exaggerated skill effect, it is also called a masterpiece."

"I don't know what game development engine they're using? It's so exquisite, if we want to do this kind of picture effect, it will take at least ten years. ”

Liu Kun shook his head and said, "You have overlooked the most important point, this game is not a regular computer display game, have you just noticed the perspective of that character?" This angle of view is the full angle of view that the human eye can see, and even a multi-angle camera cannot do this. That said, it's a first-person virtual network game. ”

Virtual online games? Liu Kun made a discovery that shocked everyone.

In order to prove the authenticity of his words, Liu Kun found the video footage, paused, and everyone watched it carefully several times, and finally found that what Liu Kun said was right, it is true that this kind of scene can only be seen in the case of full perspective.

"Mr. Liu, their technical level is so high, why do they want to buy a low-tech company like us?" Technical Director Liu Yan asked.

"Mr. Liu, if it is acquired, it may be a part-time job for others in the future, and at that time, we may not be able to do the job we like." One executive voiced his concerns.

"I think that with their strength, not to mention acquiring us, it is no problem to acquire any game company with a technical level not lower than Pixel."

"The games developed by our company, although they make a lot of money, but the pain news company that acts as an agent for our games takes most of the profits, we have 500 million a year, it's good, they give 2.8 billion at once, which is equal to our company's income for 4 or 5 years, this may be promised."

"Mr. Liu, what do you mean?" An executive asked Liu Kundao.

Liu Kun smiled and said another news that shocked everyone: the person who wanted to buy Pixel Company was to develop a brand-new virtual online game with a simulation degree of more than 95% and introduce it to the civilian market. And this virtual online game may be the first in country H and the world's first virtual online game in the true sense!

That person bought the pixel company, but he only took a fancy to the company's technology research and development capabilities and their talent team. He plans to involve this team in the development of the virtual online game.

Everyone became excited and had a heated discussion.

"In the past few years, Mi Guo and Jerry have said that they have successfully developed virtual games, but they are only real in nature, and they can't be promoted on a large scale, and the virtual games shown by this person are far more advanced than them, and I think it is very likely to be made."

"If virtual online games can really be developed, no matter how rough the quality is, as long as they are developed, not to mention the pain news and Netbillion, even international game giants such as Blizzard, EA, and Sega will be beaten down by this game. Its epoch-making significance is unstoppable. ”

"Spending 2.8 billion at a time is just to recruit our talent team to develop games. This is even more exaggerated than taking 2.8 billion to make a game at a time. They may have been prepared. ”

Liu Kun clapped his hands and said: "I have decided to agree to this acquisition, suspend the follow-up development of "Sword 3", and wait for the order of the new leader to be issued." ”

Three days later, all the cash of 2.8 billion funds was transferred to the financial account of the pixel company, and the company's property rights were temporarily transferred to the name of a person named Ye Xiaobai.

……

Foreman Jun, whose real name is Zhang Yijun. Famous game planner and R&D director.

During the 7 years, he led the team to develop three classic RPG games that have been well received by the industry and players, such as "Sword and Fairy 3", "Sword and Fairy 3: Gaiden", and "Sword and Fairy 4", as well as the famous "Ancient Sword and Strange Tan" series, which was also produced under his leadership, and the response from players was very good.

A gold-medal person like him has a quality requirement for the game, to the point of excellence, and constantly seeks innovation and innovation. I wanted the games I developed to be better than the other, and he did it.

But at present, single-player games are not the mainstream of online games, and their market share is limited. Coupled with the continuous impact of sophisticated stand-alone games abroad. Although there are a large number of fans of the "Fairy Sword" and "Ancient Sword Strange Tan" series, and there are many players who like these two series of games, there is a huge technical gap at home and abroad. The proliferation of pirated and cracked games, which have a good reputation, but none of them make a lot of money.

Develop games. The key is investment, and the more investment, the better the quality of the game developed. He also said frankly many times: "In fact, our game graphics can be more refined and better, but with extreme financial pressure, we can only retreat to the next best thing and make the game first." ”

Although the game is well done, the foreman Jun himself is more miserable.

With extremely limited project funds, carrying the ardent expectations of countless players, not allowing the slightest carelessness and perfunctory, paying several times more effort and sweat than ordinary people, but taking a salary lower than the industry standard, but in exchange for the unwarranted accusations and scolding of those who use pirated players...... He and his team could not bear the unimaginable pressure.

So, after leaving Soft Star, Gong Changjun established his own company, Haicheng Candle Dragon.

In September 2014, Foreman Jun suddenly resigned from his position as general manager of Candle Dragon and vice president of GameBar, and no one knew why.

Taibend, Taibei City.

Zhang Yijun, who was washing clothes at home with children, suddenly beeped and beeped, and a stranger sent him an email.

Originally, he wanted to delete this email, but recently he has deleted three such emails, and the titles are more exaggerated than the other, what "New Virtual Online Game, Waiting for You to Join", "Gongchangjun, This Game Needs Your Assistance in Planning", "As long as you come, a million annual salary is at your fingertips"...... He received a lot of this kind of email, and when he saw the title, he deleted it.

"Foreman, please take a closer look at the video materials in the email."

After thinking about it, Zhang Yijun still opened the email, downloaded the video in the email, and began to watch it.

Half an hour later, he opened his mouth wide and was a little surprised in his heart: "Is this really a virtual online game?" ”

In the email, there is another paragraph: If you are interested in cooperating, please add this penguin number (4985***), and we will talk about it in detail.

didn't think much about it, Zhang Yijun added that person's penguin, and the two became friends.

Three days later, Zhang Yijun packed his bags and prepared to fly to Yingjing.

Before leaving, he said to his wife: "Wife, the child is more than three years old, and it is already very good to take care of it, and you should complete the rest of the task of taking care of the child, I will go to work." ”

His wife intimately straightened his collar and said to him gently: "I know you can't sit still at home, your career is not yet finished, let's go, don't stay up late and work overtime, you must take care of your body." ”

"Got it" Zhang Yijun nodded, and after getting in the car, he turned back to his wife and said loudly: "Wife, I will definitely make a game that will shock the world!" ”

"People in their forties are still like children." His wife smiled, feeling that he had the same fighting spirit and vitality as before.

…… (To be continued......)