Chapter 231: Director Xu, who understands games
The game Xu Fei wants is not the go-karts and dance troupe seen in the expansion film Internet café, nor is it the 3A masterpiece and 3D masterpiece that appeared more than ten years later.
Because of its own games, it is to further squeeze the market share of toy manufacturers, mainly benchmarking 'electronic pet-Tuoma Gezi', 'electronic pet-Pokemon' and so on.
And the game elements are best conducive to the sales of mechanical Three Kingdoms, Quack Dynasty, and RGB toys.
Then, a palm-sized black and white screen game console, plus a character composed of pixels, and then implanted with a cultivation system and a shallow combat system, the difficulty of development and production is not even comparable to 'Devouring Heaven and Earth 2' and 'Heavy Loading Machine Soldiers'.
'The director of the factory is not mad, we are really good-tempered? ’
Xu Fei ended the call with Wan Tao, put on a mask, sunglasses, and a windbreaker to disguise himself from head to toe, so as not to be photographed by reporters and expose the disappearance of Director Xu.
Then he took the vicious dog and walked out of the workshop office and went straight to TEP Computer Services.
Today's Christmas Eve, but Daze follows the custom of Huangnigang, but it is not a festival for foreigners.
Therefore, there were no celebrations in the factory, and there were no Christmas trees or Santa Claus.
And the employees are still commuting to and from work step by step.
Moments later, we entered Office Building 7.
Most of Daze's enterprises have six brands.
For example, the No. 95 assembly workshop of the Daze Group, which issued the assembly task of 20,000 small Hongqi cars this week, the security personnel flipped the logo of the Daze Group at the entrance of the workshop and replaced it with the logo of the red flag.
If 20,000 iron-clad fuel-saving kings are issued next week, the security personnel will flip the red flag sign and replace it with the Tietong brand.
Other industries, such as agricultural machinery, toys, motors, light bulbs, glass, mechanical parts, etc., are also similar operations.
In this way, operating costs are greatly reduced, and there is no waste of resources caused by vacant workshops when there are no production tasks.
It is precisely because of this that six workshop offices are needed to avoid investors from inspecting and suddenly getting together and having nowhere to arrange.
But TEP Computer Services is different.
A brand, a business, an office building.
Because the company is responsible for so many projects.
Network engineering, information security, software development, enterprise website operation and maintenance, Daze industrial database management, digital media technology, etc.
It even includes, based on the base unit, the expanded intelligent control system, intelligent assistance system, and so on.
and the use of radar modules to counter the intrusion of the NSA.
Therefore, the personnel of TEP Computer Services are recruited after a rigorous audit.
At present, it has 3,000 regular employees and more than 8,000 related professional students.
It is also equipped with 1,000 analog computers that come with the basic production line, tens of thousands of desktops independently assembled from external accessories, 50 enterprise-level servers, and 3 Hongqi supercomputers comparable to the Dawning series with a peak computing speed of more than 100 billion times.
and a budget of up to 5 billion red bills per month.
An 'information company' of this scale, let alone in China, can be ranked first even if you look at the world.
With such strength, now I can't even get a game that investors want......
Xu Fei found the general manager's office and kicked open the door of the room.
"Here, I'll take a look at some of the games you've developed."
Wan Tao, who was typing on the keyboard, seemed to have been prepared for a long time, turned on the projector when he heard the words, got up and walked to the reception room, and looked at the curtain hanging on the wall.
Xu Fei looked at the picture and was slightly stunned, it turned out to be the fighting version of the Three Kingdoms that he bragged about on the Internet before, scaring the game manufacturer.
Exquisite graphics, highly realistic environmental variables, smooth movements, and a strong sense of punch to the flesh.
"Made?"
"It's going to take three years."
“……”
After Wan Tao moved from a technical person to an executive position, he had already fought with the NSA several times, and he had long known that TEP had not broken up.
As the descendant of Director Xu, he is the same as Huang Banblind, and he is mainly Xu Fei in everything he does.
"Factory director, three years later, let's go out and work alone, you continue to engage in production, I continue to engage in computers, and then we can win the first pot of gold with this game."
God goes out to work alone, it's my company or not.
Xu Fei looked at Wan Tao's serious face, and it was not easy to get angry for a while.
Anyway, this is also his own lineage.
He was silent for a moment, "This game will be put on first, and the main strategy of the Iron Sheet Company now is to completely defeat other toy manufacturers and achieve a real monopoly."
But Bandai and so on, with the electronic pet turnover, it is said that Tuoma Gezi, that is, pet eggs, has shipped 30 million sets, with sales of up to 60 billion yuan, compared with the RGB series that we are now focusing on, only strong and not weak.
Moreover, a black and white screen, a plastic shell, plus a set of software and circuit boards, combined together, can be sold dozens of times, or even hundreds of times the cost, and the profitability can be glimpsed one or two. ”
Wan Tao instantly understood what his factory director wanted, "However, we don't have pet toys." ”
"Have you ever played Heavy Loader?"
"You mean, to build a heavy machine three kingdoms?"
"No, it can only be said that the idea of borrowing from the heavy equipment and even devouring Heaven and Earth 2."
Xu Fei picked up the paper clip on the desk, replaced it with A4 paper, and then picked up the pencil to write and draw, "Look, let's set the world background first."
Recently, the destructive toys have been selling very well, far more than before, our story can take place in the 'last days', or, I don't know when, many terrible creatures suddenly appeared on the home planet, and some strange things.
The main purpose of the player is to survive, explore, rescue more humans, and discover the truth of the end times.
With the background, let's design a few more characters, teenagers, girls, uncles, ladies and so on.
After the player chooses the character, they start a big adventure, first fighting the ant monster, then the caterpillar, and then the decisive battle of the big white goose, and the hidden boos, the crazy Ah Huang. ”
"After a series of battles, the player obtains many parts, such as gears, clockwork, iron sheets, bearings, and so on."
"Collect these parts, and with the help of the all-purpose 'synthesis device', players can assemble simple mechanical items or mechanical tools, such as guns, cannons, grenades, pliers, wrenches, oil drums, fuel, energy blocks, and so on, as long as they are reasonable."
"And by combining these simple mechanical devices again, players can get complex mechanical devices, thrusters, mechanical legs, power shoes, balance wings, and even water purifiers and food processors."
"If you continue to synthesize, as long as you meet the requirements, you can also get motorcycles, chariots, and mechs."
"Different types of machinery produce different effects, such as motorcycles running fast, chariots fighting far, and mechanical generals can not only sprint, but also carry weapons, and can also fight."
"In addition, inside the mechanical general, there is a control room, which will be the player's 'home' in the future."
"You can adjust the layout, decorate and expand the capacity, and open up storage compartments to avoid the backpack being too heavy."
"At this point, the game has just begun, and players need to learn skills such as maintenance, martial arts, and mechanical enhancement to continuously enhance their abilities."
"We can also set a level to strengthen the mechanical warrior to level 100 and exchange it for the same customized version of the mechanical toy for free. Upgrade to the full level of 200 and redeem it for the next game console at half price, while keeping your data, and start a new journey to explore a more expansive post-apocalyptic world. ”
"In general, let's enlarge the background of the apocalyptic world infinitely, make the adventure process exciting, make the cultivation system endlessly fun, and dazzle the enhancement of the whole game, so that this game is simple and easy to use, and after in-depth understanding, it will be too complicated and addicted."
Wan Tao thought about it seriously, "Factory director, it's not difficult to make such a game, but you said, let's benchmark 'electronic pets'." A toy factory like Bandai, with the support of Sega and Nintendo, manufactures a set of black and white screen handhelds, the cost is extremely low, and our company does not have the ability to produce screens, chips, and memory particles. ”
"The production line will arrive soon, and I want to know when the game will be ready."
"There are material packs in the Three Kingdoms of Graphic Machinery.,The combat system is applied to Devouring Heaven and Earth 2.,And then slightly improved.,And then develop a set of cultivation systems.,It should be no problem to get a trial version within a week.。
"Well, at this point, the director of the factory can enlarge the move."
"What do you mean?"
"You see, with the electric version of the machinery of the Three Kingdoms, as well as the hot sale of RGB toys, the sales of button batteries began to rise, according to the statistics of our sales staff, only the sales of button batteries in our direct stores, in the past month, has exceeded 2 billion pieces, and the outside sales are ...... I'm afraid it will be higher, it is said that many battery factories have introduced button battery production lines. ”
"Oh my God, how much money is going to make here?"
"In Huaxia, a thumbnail-sized coin cell battery costs about 3~5 yuan. In Wajima, an average of 100 Japanese dollars and 2 billion pieces are 200 billion Japanese dollars, which is higher than the sales of toys. ”
After Xu Fei finished speaking, he said smugly: "Fortunately, the director of the factory had the foresight to let the laboratory that studies supercapacitors prepare a large number of button batteries in advance. ”
"And what's your ultimate?"
"We in the button battery this aspect, the money has been earned, the outside battery factory expansion, I believe that the price of the button battery will soon come down, at this time, we might as well launch" small capacitor ", charge for one second, you can play for five minutes."
"And then?"
"And then there's this game console equipped with 'post-apocalyptic machinery', making it into a power bank.
When the electric version of the mechanical Three Kingdoms and players who like RGB are distressed to spend money to buy batteries, they can enjoy the 'capacitor upgrade service' for 99 Japanese coins, and then take the opportunity to put on the 'power bank' to tell the world how environmentally friendly they are.
Players are definitely willing to replace the capacitor, and in order to ensure the battery life, they must also buy a 'power bank'.
Now the number of mechanical Three Kingdoms enthusiasts, and RGB enthusiasts, is in the hundreds.
Think about it, do we have a large number of console players in an instant? ”
Wan Tao was dumbfounded, "Can you still play like this?" ”
"No one knows more about games than our own factory." Xu Fei lifted Erlang's legs, very complacent. "In this way, the 'electronic pets' of Toy Manufacturers such as Bandai must not suffer a devastating blow in an instant?"
Wan Tao wrote down the plan and sighed: "You don't understand games, you understand business operations." ”
"I just know how to play!"
“……”
"Isn't it C++, I'll teach myself when I go back, and then I'll get you a game engine."
"Do you know what a game engine does?"
"Isn't it just the trunk of the tree, the loss map is equivalent to the leaves, the map package is equivalent to the branches, connect these in series to form a big tree, which is the so-called client, and then the big tree connects the earth through fibrous roots and absorbs nutrients, the roots of the tree are equivalent to the server, the earth is equivalent to the server, the nutrition is equivalent to the signal, and the trunk texture is equivalent to the network, it's as simple as that."
"You do know the game."
"It's pretty much the same, get the game done in a week, and design the console by the way."
"Okay, director."
Xu Fei got up and was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered some small games, "It's better to add some puzzle-solving games, such as mechanical poker similar to beast chess, and formulate a set of games similar to elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, dogs, cats, and rats, big eat small, and small can eat elephants." ”
Wan Tao's eyes lit up, "Then join the 'Cao Cao Run', set up points and points mall, and then bet by buying lottery tickets, win more, the more points, and then exchange some water, food, fuel, and so on needed in the end times from the points mall." ”
"Good advice!"
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Xu Fei and Wan Tao discussed again for a long time, then walked out of the office and walked to an elevator at the back of the office building.
Swipe the card to walk in, press -5, and the elevator will go down.
After more than ten seconds, he walked out again, and a steel-supported underground space appeared in front of him.
If you open a translucent page, a prompt will pop up every 10 meters in front of you: Cellar 311, Cellar 312, Cellar 313......
If you open the minimap, 10 kilometers to the north, there is an even larger underground space, where rows of non-standard capacity super oil drums are stored.
Xu Fei followed the signs, stepped on the conveyor belt, walked in the tunnel formed by the cellar, and walked for five minutes to the underground systems branch of TEP Computer Services.
Due to the attributes of the base, the self-building unit cannot exceed a height of 50 meters unless it is built upward.
In addition, the office building, which is like the camp module, can only be divided into six floors.
If you want to accommodate more people, one is to expand, and the other is to dig down.
Considering that the production workshop, dormitory building, staff activity center and other facilities occupy too much land, the Daze Industrial Office submitted a construction plan for the underground space to Dongshan Prefecture.
Director Liang came to take a look and filled in his name in the project leader.
According to the plan, -1, -2, 20~50 meters underground, belong to the commercial, and will be put into use before the Spring Festival next year.
-3, -4, -5, -6, 60~100 meters underground, belonging to the underground area of Daze industry, completed in the middle of 03, according to the project schedule, put into use in batches.
In addition, Daze Industry has launched an underground rail transit R&D project, which will connect the east, south, west and north gates of Daze Industrial Park in the future, and then connect to Daze Power Plant.
In general, the number of employees has come up, and as the world's first industrial complex, supporting facilities will definitely have to keep up.
Xu Fei thought about it and walked into the underground branch of TEP Computer Services.
Since it is not yet open to the public, there is no clerk at the front desk, and no one welcomes Director Xu.
This point needs to be improved.
Swipe the card into the hall, surrounded by glass partition rooms, and the door is hung with warning signs such as "idlers are not allowed to enter" and "anti-static dust-free microcomputer room".
Through the translucent metal glass, you can vaguely see many white coats wearing dust hats, busy inside.
Xu Fei didn't bother, he walked around, found a large area of vacant glass partition room, and called out a translucent page.
Currently, 500 million energy can be obtained per day.
But in October and November, the company mainly operated the airship project, and built a full 30 Kirovs, each of which required 1 billion energy, so there was no oil cake left in the kennel.
Entering December, if you can save it, you will save it, today on the 24th, 23 days x 500 million, and the existing energy is 11.5 billion.
Xu Fei originally planned to exchange for a peacekeeping elevator that can be lifted vertically, but after thinking about it carefully, he definitely can't sell it if he makes it, and it is easy to expose it for his own use, so it is far better to get the sixth-level basic production line out first and study complex electronic components.
According to the presentation.
The six-stage basic production line is different from the previous one, requiring 100 million energy per slotting.
For example, the PN junction production line that constitutes the LED lamp beads, the specification + a single color, and a slot.
If you want to form an LED display unit, you need to slot it separately, which will involve DPI (how many lamp beads per inch), IPI (a line composed of several lamp beads per inch), PPI (how many pixels per inch), such as 1024x768, representing 1024 lamp beads in a vertical row, 768 lamp beads in a horizontal row, and each lamp bead in a horizontal row represents IPI, 768 lines.
Therefore, to constitute a resolution of 1024x768, 786,400 lamp beads are required.
The 786,400 lamp beads are scattered in an area of 9 inches, 7 inches, or 5 inches, the smaller the area, the tighter the arrangement, the higher the energy consumption.
Therefore, based on its own scientific and technological progress, the production of 9-inch display units requires 10 billion slots, and 5-inch display units need 100 billion slots.
In the end, Xu Fei spent 1 billion energy to open a card slot to make a '480x720'pn knot panel, whose resolution is also known as 720p.
But with the display unit, it does not mean that you have a display, you also need a set of main control board, a set of inner frame, a set of circuit board and switching power supply, and an outdoor screen, and then carry out various adjustments to ensure that the color rendering is normal.
Xu Fei counted his own talents and found that there was no expert in this field, so he immediately called Raymond.
"Lao Lei, how about sending me a few talents to make displays?"
"Are you dreaming?"