Huaxia, Shanghai market.

Headquarters of Hamiyou Group.

"Mr. Su, congratulations, I salute you for winning the 2021 Apple Game Awards."

"Mr. Su, he won all the awards in the game industry at a young age, he is really a model for my generation, come, let's toast him together."

"Mr. Su, in the future, our "Honkai" project team will have to ask you to help optimize it, you must drink this cup."

......

Su Chen was at the celebration banquet of the "Genshin Impact" game project, and he and his colleagues were pushing glasses and changing glasses, and most of the wine was paid to him.

He couldn't be happier today, as the game's chief technical development director, the company has just announced a reward of 50 million in cash and options.

For him, who earns tens of millions a year, these are just icing on the cake.

Most importantly, the last of the five heavyweight awards in the gaming industry, "Apple Store Game of the Year" was won by him.

He is 32 years old.

Become the youngest gamer in the world to win a grand slam in the game industry.

He believes that the new generation of game projects developed by himself, "World", will bring the game industry into a new era after it is launched.

World is a metaverse game.

As long as players enter the game pod, through the brain-computer interface, they can bring an immersive gaming experience, far more than the immersion of VR games, and it is expected to be launched in 2026.

Metaverse games are a virtual game world parallel to the real world, where people can study, work, make friends, shop, travel, and interconnect with the real world.

The entire project is top secret, and few of the high-level executives of Hamiyou know about it.

If "World" can be successfully launched, Su Chen will definitely wear the crown of being the first person in Chinese games.

As an orphan, he was able to get to where he is today, step by step, and only he knows the hardships.

It was countless days and nights of debugging code......

Have mixed feelings about.

Tilted his head and took a sip of the red wine in the glass, and after a while, he only felt dizzy and fell down on the dining table.

......

"Where is this?"

Su Chen slowly opened his eyes, looked left and right, and found himself sitting in front of a computer desk.

He is holding a bowl of fried pho in his hand.

An old-fashioned big-ass computer is lighting up the screen, and the ashtray next to it is full of cigarette butts and empty boxes of instant noodles, piled high.

He looked around, a small single room of seven or eight square meters, a simple wardrobe and a wooden bed, this should be a rental house.

On the computer desk, there is a piece of stationery, "Notice of dismissal".

The computer system is still XP, and at a glance, the time in the lower right corner is June 22, 2010, 10 o'clock in the morning.

In 2010?!

Pull back the closet and look in the mirror.

A handsome boy wearing a plaid shirt, about 1.82 meters, white and thin, stood in front of him.

A long memory hits me, isn't this what I just graduated from college looks like?

For Su Chen, who likes to watch what the Internet says, this kind of opening routine is too familiar to him, and he is probably reborn!

What？！

Su Chen almost looked up to the sky and roared, I don't want to be reborn!

Shouldn't all rebirth be those people, girlfriends ran away with the rich second generation, mothers speculated in stocks and jumped off buildings, father's company went bankrupt, wives cheated, and husbands came out of the closet?

How can a successful person like me be qualified to be born again?

After waiting for a long time, there was no "ding" in my head.

Wang Defa ......

Not even a system.

Su Chen picked up the red plum cigarette on the table and lit one depressedly.

The "Notice of Dismissal" glanced at it, and all the past came to mind.

It should be ...... now

21 years old, just graduated from Marina University, majoring in games and animation, and was looking for a job in Marina City.

Originally, I entered the internship of Fenglei Games, but after less than 1 month, I was fired by the chief programmer Sun Bin.

The reason is also very simple.

is to report to the general manager that Sun Bin's game technical framework has serious problems, which will cause the game installation package to be too large.

Sun Bin later kept wearing small shoes for himself, and fired himself under the pretext of not having a wolf fighting spirit.

What is the wolf fighting spirit?

It's 996, and I want you to work overtime.

Su Chen completed the tasks assigned by the company during working hours, and of course he did not stay to work overtime.

Come back to your senses.

Don't know how much money you still have?

I opened the online banking and checked it, and the balance was only 2800......

Although, with the game technology you have mastered, it is simply too easy to make a fortune in this era.

However, you still have to think of a way to start a business.

Buying stocks?

I don't usually read this information, and I don't know which one makes money and which one loses.

Buying a lottery ticket?

It's better to buy stocks.

Make a game?

A person can only do independent games, independent games, 10 years only the Apple Store can make money, Apple 4 mobile phones have not come out yet, until after October, there are a large number of users in Huaxia, the game is definitely to be done, and you have to wait for three months.

Do software?

That's fine.

In 2010, the mainstream of mobile phone systems should be Symbian, Android and Apple IOS.

No matter which operating system the mobile phone, the memory generally does not exceed 1GB, most of them are 256 trillion or 512 megabytes, and the requirements for mobile game memory are very demanding.

It's still the 3G era, and the size of the installation package is also a very critical factor affecting the download, and the smaller the traffic used for the download, the better.

Image lossless compression technology can perfectly solve this problem.

According to the technical framework that I have mastered now, I can reduce the installation package to at least 20% of the original size!

But this can only make quick money.

In another month or two, that is, in August of 10, a set of very easy image compression codes will appear in foreign code-sharing communities, which is not much worse than the technology they have mastered.

It's not much worse, it's all a polite statement, and the foreign code is only compressed to 50%.

There is still a 30% gap between Su Chen's skills, after all, he is a man who has won the Grand Slam of the five grand prizes in the game.

Technically, the game is perfect!

In terms of game themes, all the popular games are remembered!

As long as the hardware and software keep up, it is not impossible to rebuild Hamiyou and develop "Genshin Impact", and it is not impossible to restart the "World" metaverse game project.

It's just that at the moment, these are more difficult, even if the developed machines and software can keep up, the player's mobile phone can't be moved.

Stand-alone games, online games, VR games, metaverse ......

Adults don't make choices!

I want them all!

The game engine must also be developed.

To realize the ultimate goal of the metaverse game project, it is necessary to develop the engine.

When he was making "World", he and five other computer scientists worked together to develop the "SixGod" metaverse game engine of Hamiyou.

Six god-level computer scientists, so it is also called the "Six Gods" engine.

In 2010, although there were also foreign Unreal and U3D game engines, the version update speed was too slow, and I didn't want to spend 10 years waiting for Unreal Engine 5.

Moreover, as a Chinese, it is very unpleasant to write code in English.

Why do we have to code in English?!

Can't you write in Chinese?

If you don't let me write in Chinese, then I'll develop one, pure Chinese game engine!

Image lossless compression technology can be regarded as a part of the game engine, and it will be used in the future.