Chapter 342: The ultimate move of the pit and death Wei soft system!
Original game characters, environments, buildings, game art style, etc. can indeed enhance the attractiveness and selling point of the game, but isn't the most important thing in a game the plot and gameplay?
What's wrong with the game's architecture, environment, and even characters being a little homogeneous? Again, this doesn't seriously affect the experience of the game.
Moreover, the most critical game protagonists, main supporting characters, and even buildings and other game development companies must model themselves, rather than adopt a homogeneous generic model.
So if this plan is successful, and finally add the "what you see is what you get" game development method, it will definitely cause an uproar in the global gaming industry!
At that time, the number of games in the Dawning smartphone system and the Dawning computer operating system will also usher in an explosive growth.
After all, if you can copy and paste the model directly into the game, it won't be too easy for a game developer to develop a game.
Maybe anyone can develop simple games like Subway Surfers, Plants vs. Zombies, Fruit Ninja, etc.!
Once it reaches such a level, then both the Dawning smartphone system and the Dawning computer system will be crowned gods!
Of course, this is not all good, because after the difficulty of game development and the cost of game development are greatly reduced, there will definitely be a lot of bad games, but there will always be good products when there are too many bad games.
There will always be games with good ideas that make people shine, and these games will also be a powerful weapon to support the hegemony of Dawning Games.
Therefore, although the cost of building a huge library of unreal 3D models is a little higher, it is a good thing to do now!
As for why you want to build a development team of up to 1,000 people here in Great Xia, instead of recruiting people overseas.
This is because the game developers on the side of Medi are still too laid-back, and their employees are treated too well.
Not to mention the high salary, but also strictly abide by the 8-hour work system and the weekend double rest system, and refuse to work overtime, how can this progress be fast.
The programming and game development circles in Daxia generally follow the 996 culture of going to work at 9 o'clock and leaving work at 9 o'clock, and then going to work 6 days a week every day.
Therefore, if you want to produce results quickly, it still has to be completed by the employees here in Daxia.
Of course, the local employees of Medi Country have not been dismissed, but most of the core developers have been retained.
However, their R&D task is not to improve the Unreal Engine 3, but to directly develop a stronger, next-generation Unreal Engine 4 game engine.
After all, they're the original Unreal Engine development team.
They have a much better understanding of Unreal Engine, the development of global game engines, and even future game engines than the development team here in Great Xia, and it is the best fit for them to develop the next generation of Unreal Engine 4.
Therefore, the original Unreal Engine development team on the side of Medico was tasked with developing the next generation of Unreal Engine 4 game engines.
Of course, in addition to recruiting 1000+ employees in Daxia, and then improving the Unreal Engine 3 game engine, expanding the Unreal 3D model library, the original Unreal Engine team went to develop the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.
Unreal Game Engine actually has some other movements, but they are all small internal actions that the outside world does not pay attention to.
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The other side.
When the world's major technology media reported that Sugon Technology spent $55 million to acquire Epic, Intel President Paul Odening also happened to see the news about this.
"Did you go and buy Unreal Engine? Heh, what can a little game engine do? ”
At this time, Paul Oudening put down the newspaper in his hand and said a word full of disdain.
He was dismissive of Sugon's $55 million acquisition of Epic.
Because there are many excellent game engines on the market today, such as the most optimized id tech engine on the surface, such as the frost engine that made "Medal of Honor" and "Call of Duty".
For example, the Creation engine of "The Elder Scrolls Online", such as the source engine of "Origin" and "Half-Life", such as the "Dead Engine" of "Dead Space".
Almost all of the 3D games on the market use original game engines developed by their own companies, and only those small game companies and individual developers like to use other people's game engines.
And such a small company and individual developers obviously can't make any fun 3D game masterpieces.
So Paul Oudening is very disdainful of Sugon Technology's behavior of spending $55 million to buy a game engine.
Of course, Intel's main business is the CPU business, and even if Paul Oudening has some ideas, he can only sigh with admiration, Intel will not take money to invest in any game engine.
On the other hand, Bill Gai Ci, the president of Visoft, and Paul Oudenain, the president of Intel, have different opinions.
Because for some reason, when he saw that the Dawning R&D Center spent a lot of money to acquire Epic, he felt faintly uneasy, and felt that Lin Chen was planning a game of chess.
However, the real hidden trick of Sugon Technology, that is, it will spend $40 million in the next year to improve the Unreal 3 game engine and then build an Unreal 3D model library, because it has not been disclosed to the public.
So although Bill Gai Ci felt a little uneasy inexplicably in his heart, he didn't know where the real threat was, and in this case, Wei Soft naturally had no way to help.
As for the acquisition of game engines, because Weisoft also operates the Xbox home game console business, it naturally has a number of excellent game engines.
In this case, there is no need for Wei Soft to follow the Dawning R&D Center to acquire any game engine company.
So after thinking about it for a while, Bill Gai Ci didn't find anything wrong, although he was a little uneasy, but in the end he could only let go of this matter.
In the following time, the big moves of the Dawning R&D Center have not stopped, but because these big moves are mainly in the field of semiconductor production equipment.
And because the field of semiconductor production equipment is an unpopular field that no one pays attention to, those big moves have not caused any major turmoil in the global technology circle.
Only occasionally in an inconspicuous corner of those technology media reports the news that Sugon Technology or Sugon R&D Center acquired a certain company, or reached a patent licensing cooperation with a certain company.
And these news obviously no one pays attention to, after all, semiconductor equipment is too profound, people don't know much about it at all, and the only semiconductor chip production equipment they know is just a lithography machine.
And time passed slowly.
In August, September, October, November and December 2004, more than five months passed peacefully.
In the blink of an eye, it was a new year, that is, 2005.
Around mid-January 2005, after the listing, Dawning Technology also announced the corresponding financial report, and also announced that it would carry out a year-end share dividend.
(End of chapter)