What a game is to a producer, it is not a carrier of data, it is not a tool to deal with players, and it should not just be a job to maintain food and clothing.

Just as a movie is for a director, an album is for a singer, and a novel is for the author, but for any creator who has a pursuit, he is an expression, which is its core meaning.

After a person has been satisfied with the most basic physical and safety needs, he will find more recognition and respect from others, as well as self-realization.

Ye Shenxi came over in the era of not having enough to eat, and the respect and recognition of others also had after "Eternity" and "Immortal Dao", and his idea would no longer be like back then, just making independent games that some people play and some people download, and then make money-making network products to ensure the survival of himself and the company.

He actually wants more, and his ambitions don't stop there.

In fact, there were a lot of things he didn't say to Ding Yicheng, and there were a lot of ideas that he hadn't mentioned to others, and now was not the time when the two of them had their own thoughts for a while, and they had no interest in chatting.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the hall that interrupted the thinking of the two, and following the prestige, a young man in a suit and leather shoes chased after Maupassant, the head of Yubi Huangpu Company, a middle-aged man from the French headquarters, Ye Shenxi had also greeted him just now.

The young man spoke in English with a pleading tone: "Monsieur Maupassant, please take a look at our stuff again, it is really much better than before. ”

He didn't speak quickly, Ye Shenxi understood a little bit, and he didn't look like someone invited to the dinner.

Maupassant didn't shout to the security guards to disturb the other guests, but just led the young man to the door of the hall, opened the door and said politely: "Doug, I'm sorry that your engine doesn't meet our requirements, this is the conclusion we came to after discussion." ”

Doug cried with a sad face: "But we've really optimized ......"

Maupassant shook his head and said, "Doug, don't you understand? We need a multi-platform engine, and you only support PC, so we're unlikely to work together on that. And your engine is so simple that you can only make a simple online game at most, have you seen our Assassin's Faith? Yubi is going to do this kind of production, and no matter how much you change your engine, you can't make it. ”

"Alright, let's go, please don't disturb the dinner."

Doug wanted to say something, but couldn't. He himself knew that Maupassant was telling the truth, and his fingers clenched his notebook tightly, and he stood in the doorway for a moment, then left dejectedly.

"Please wait a minute." A man's voice came from behind him.

Doug turned around and saw two young Chinese men chasing out of the banquet hall, one in his twenties and the other in his thirties, who looked different from the other bigwigs attending the dinner, much younger. But Doug didn't dare to take it lightly, because the people who qualified to attend the dinner were all well-spoken figures in the Chinese gaming circle.

"Are you talking to me?" Doug gestured to himself and asked the young man who was speaking in English.

"Yes." Ye Shenxi could still understand the simple conversation, and also replied in English.

"Hello, I'm Nicholas Doug, can I do anything for you?" Doug held out his right hand.

Ye Shenxi also stretched out his hand to shake him: "Ye Shenxi." ”

"Can I take a look?" Ye Shenxi pointed to the notebook in Doug's hand, and Ding Yicheng behind him was confused, and he didn't know what this guy wanted to do.

Doug stupidly handed the notebook to Ye Shenxi, and Ye Shenxi shook his head again and again and said a word: "Engine." ”

This time, even Ding Yicheng next to him understood, worthy of being a highly educated talent, and translated it in fluent English: "He doesn't want to look at your notebook, he wants to see the engine you just said." ”

Doug suddenly realized, immediately changed to a smiling face, the loss just now was swept away, and beckoned the two to sit down on the bench at the edge of the garden: "Of course, of course, we have a presentation file!" ”

Then click on a batch file and turn the notebook to Ye Shenxi: "That's it." ”

The computer shows a forest, a river, and a sky, and it's a pure 3D scene with several characters repeating the same action in a clearing in the middle.

A little rough, Ye Shenxi controlled the camera to sweep the scene and characters, it is true that if purely from the picture, this quality is still too far from the requirements of Yubi's "Assassin Faith", but it is enough to make a MOBA game.

The key is that even if this is an HD2400 graphics card notebook, the frame rate has been maintained above 60FPS in the absolute mid-range configuration in 2007, which is enough to be close to the people.

While there are no complicated effects and a large number of units, that's something that can be optimized later.

Under Ding Yicheng's friendly translation, Ye Shenxi and Doug chatted a lot.

A game engine is not just an engine, it is a general term, it also includes different types of engines such as physics, collisions, rendering, and special effects, and these things, Doug's products already have.

Not only that, but it even has a relatively complete editor, plugin, explorer, and preview components integrated, in other words, it's mature and has a full toolchain that allows people to quickly get up and running and start developing games.

In fact, in another world, League of Legends, which began to be tested in the United States in 2009, uses Riot's own engine, which is very simple and has many limitations.

Although it is also a 3D game, its 3D setting is incomplete, and there is no "altitude" latitude on the engine at all.

So the whole map is a flat surface, just textured to give you the idea of highlands or rivers, and likewise, any ability to change the terrain will be very stiff.

Even some floating skills, such as Xiao Pao's rocket jump, are actually just a simple arc displacement on a plane that increases speed, and the movement of the feet is played during the displacement, and then the effect of jumping in the air is created by zooming in and out of the hero.

Also, "League of Legends" does not have a special effects engine, and all its special effects such as explosions, glows, and smoke are actually simple 2D animations, and it is impossible to have similar particle effects to express gorgeous skill effects.

For example, it doesn't support multi-unit operations at all, and the only way to control mirrored unit movement or normal attacks is through Ctrl key combinations.

Another example is that its graphical interface doesn't support terrain reduction at all, whereas in RotA you can eat trees or cut down trees.

The engine of "League of Legends" has many flaws, and it is just enough for a MOBA game in many places, but Doug's engine can make up for these and bring more possibilities to Ye Shenxi's new project.

He can do too much skill logic that can't be achieved in League of Legends.

After looking at the time, it was almost twelve o'clock unconsciously, and Doug was already a little drowsy, but he still kept a smile and asked, "Mr. Ye, are you interested in our products?" ”

Ye Shenxi shook his head: "No, I'm more interested in your team. ”