Chapter 44: Attention from the Giants
Compared with the media and major forums, there are relatively few comments from the industry, and industry insiders are relatively cautious compared to the fearlessness of the media.
But the industry's response is not at all slow to be media, it's just that they focus in a different way because they have different purposes.
Of course, this industry insider does not include Chen Ying, who has become an Internet celebrity, this "well-known" game producer who never misses any opportunity to rub hot spots for the first time fired at the future oasis in the tone of an industry insider.
Of course, she is not a fool, after consulting several technical backbones of Gunsan Studio, they all swore that there is absolutely no company in China with such technology, and Penguin can't do it.
After gaining confidence, Chen Ying let go of herself, bluntly saying that the people in the future oasis are a group of liars, and the conscience of domestic games depends on their own mountain studios and "Ten Thousand Immortals".
I have to say that this person has a special trait, and when other media questioned "The Lost Secret", most of the feedback they received was agreeable. But when it came to her, not long after she sent this message, she received comments and waited to be slapped in the face.
The rest of the industry did not rush to express their stance like her, but expressed their concern about the project.
Their first feeling was naturally distrust, but although Su Li was not a big man, at least he had a good work, and if he had a qualification, they would not treat this matter as a joke.
If it's a company that only makes page games.,Suddenly announced a project.,Say your next work is such a work.,Then it's estimated that it will only be used as a joke.,Commenting on the sentence "The materials these people bought this time are more expensive than before.,Willing to pay for it.。 ”
Although Su Li has only made one indie game, when he takes out these things,
This kind of attention was quickly implemented.
The day after the release of the game project of Future Oasis, Penguin held a meeting featuring Future Oasis and The Lost Realm. The level of the meeting was not high, and the relevant person in charge of the WG platform project team was the mainstay.
The WG platform is a project of Penguin, a digital publishing platform based on the Steam platform, which has been chosen by many domestic publishers of games.
"There's no doubt that if this video is real, then the game engine they use must be beyond the level of the entire industry."
The speaker was a technical person who was giving some presentations to the members of the meeting.
"First of all, there is a problem of model accuracy, and most of the existing game engines need to unify the accuracy of the model, that is, the pixel density of the model. In the case that the accuracy of the model is uniform, the current method of making is to paste different resolutions of the map according to the size of the model. ”
"4K textures perform well on large models, but they don't perform well on small models."
"But in the video, some of the small models also have 4K textures applied, and they perform well."
"Then there's a capacity issue. The bulk of the game's capacity is the art materials, and if a game uses all 4K textures, how big will the game end up be? 100G or 200G? I think it's much more than that. ”
"At present, the so-called 4K games on the market do not refer to games that completely use 4K textures, but refer to the game resolution, the standard 4K is rasterized, there are a total of 3840*2160 rasterization, that is, 4K rasterization accuracy, so that the final output picture can reach 4K resolution."
"Under the existing function, the rasterization accuracy of 4K is not a simple matter, and most of the 4K games on many consoles use interpolation technology to make 4K pictures through checkerboard rendering, which are not real 4K pictures."
"So many games can make so-called 4K graphics, but the actual graphics are completely incomparable to those in the video. This game screen is completely different from the current 4K game screen. ”
The technician explained the difference between the two, and then said: "The performance on the video means that not only the final picture output of this "Lost Secret Land" has reached a true 4K resolution, but the model texture in the game has also achieved full 4K texture, so that it has such an effect. ”
The technician looked at the crowd and said, "None of what I said above is actually the point. The most critical problem is that the game engines on the market nowadays, although they can support both 4K textures and 4K game screen resolution, but none of the engines can make games that can make mainstream machines run smoothly in 4K resolution under full 4K textures. ”
The person who presided over the meeting asked, "In other words, the Lost Secret Land of the Future Oasis is a hoax?" ”
The technician said noncommittally: "There is always a genius beyond imagination, and the existing engines on the market can't do it, which doesn't mean that the self-developed engine can't do it." They shouldn't be using commercially licensed commercial engines, maybe their self-developed engines really have this level. ”
He continued: "Alanson Doyle, a former member of the engine team of a project at AE, has several top papers in the field of computer graphics, and Carnegie Mellon's Phd, and it is not impossible to send a good thing if he really has something good in his hands. ”
A person in charge of the WG project department flipped through the information in his hand and said, "Yo, it's still an international team, which is rare." ”
Penguin Company did a survey on the background of Su Li and the members of the Future Oasis team, and I have to say that the big companies are still quite strong in this regard, of course, the members of the Future Oasis have nothing to hide, which is quite easy to check.
"If he really has something good in his hands, AE will let him go? If it is done with the company's resources, there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the follow-up. Someone asked curiously, after all, AE can be regarded as the industry leader, and the system in all aspects is quite perfect.
But with the presence of Alanson Doyle, what Oasis releases in the future is enough for them to pay attention to.
"All in all, there are some things that are not in our department's turn, but some work is still done quickly."
The host of the meeting looked at a person in charge next to him and said: "Contact them to discuss the domestic distribution of "The Lost Secret Land", Chinese monopoly, etc., and by the way, make a specific evaluation of this project and learn more information." ”
The person in charge nodded and said: "The company has made a lot of attempts in the direction of 3A in recent years, and we are not the only ones who are eyeing them. ”
"The current mobile market is already a red ocean, although the company's share has an absolute advantage, but the blue ocean area of domestic 3A, will definitely not sit idly by and watch someone have the opportunity to grow."
Penguin is not monolithic, and the competition between departments is quite fierce. In the direction of stand-alone masterpieces and domestic 3A, there are many tentative measures within Penguin. Compared with the already fierce competition in the mobile game market, they have turned their attention to this blue ocean and have made a lot of attempts.
After all, for giants like penguins, they are no longer satisfied with making a lot of money in one field, and the words "I want it all" are perfectly normal for them.
Now, their layout has long surpassed others, and they have turned their goal to the blue ocean of domestic stand-alone machines and domestic 3A. For penguins who are thirsty for excellent content, compared to mobile games with a limited lifespan, triple-A masterpieces with the ability to build large IPs are a direction they will never let go.