Build a game empire from scratch

The success of the [Rehabilitation Teacher Project] was completely expected by Kong Xinsheng.

Even the date seemed to be different from his prediction, only less than a week earlier.

But for Lin You, it was somewhat unexpected.

The reason is simple: he hasn't read the daily operation report of Journey Prosthetics Company for a long time.

These are now Xiaomeng's work. After all, there are more and more Yunmeng servers, and Xiaomeng's computing power is getting richer and richer.

what does that mean?

It means that the work is not saturated!

Lin You bought big villas (referring to the server center) for Xiaomeng without stopping, and Xiaomeng helped manage the housekeeper, so it should be done with housework, right?

This led to no special circumstances, and he would not pay attention to this company at all.

The employees of Journey Prosthetics Company complained in private: "Yunmeng is the boss's own son, and we were picked up on the street."

Not only do they themselves make such complaints, but even netizens often make such complaints.

So much so that when he received a call from Kong Xinsheng and learned that the "Rehabilitation Teacher Project" was successful, Lin You was stunned for several seconds before he realized it.

It didn't matter that he was in a daze, it made the employees who pestered him trying to squeeze into the Chang'an project team panic.

Four consecutive batches of employees came to him to "call the shots", and the office was almost crowded.

The situation in Chang'an is really special. When Lin You organized people to travel to Chang'an, he did not clearly say, "This is all the members of the Chang'an development team."

These are the employees' own guesses and judgments.

Moreover, Yunmeng still has a variety of games in normal operation. Some positions and tasks must be filled by someone. Many people really want to go, but they really can't.

They need to continue to work and cannot travel, which they can accept.

But they can't join the Chang'an project team because of this, then they can't accept it!

At today's morning meeting, Lin You announced the [Virtual Chang'an] project to everyone, officially named "Chang'an", the team was confirmed, and the [Virtual Chang'an] urban construction team and the [Cold Weapon Combat Technology R\u0026D Team] were connected, and the development process officially started !

——Actually, Lin You thought of many names.

What about "Assassin's Creed Chang'an", "Chang'an Chaos", "The Wind Rises in Chang'an", "Cyber ​​Chang'an 0754", "Tianbao: Turning the Sky", "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"...

There are all kinds of serious, or cranky and playful names, and so on.

But in the end, when I think about how many things I plan to put into this game, as well as the twists and changes in the gameplay and theme behind the game, I feel that it is not appropriate to call it.

In the end, he simply cut out the complicated and simplified, and decided to use the simplest two words as the name of the game——

"Chang'an"!

This is the advantage of being the first mover, you can use the shortest name as the title, and you don't have to worry about no players to play.

Latecomers do not have this advantage.

After another ten years or so, this theme has been done badly, and the short game name may not be able to attract passer-by players anymore.

At that time, if someone wants to make a game with this theme, maybe they will call it "Reborn Chang'an, I can practice and add points", "I can't be a son-in-law, so I have to follow the Tao and cultivate immortality", "My mother-in-law is called Wu Zhao"...

It's pretty fun to think about.

But that's none of his business.

As for the work of this team, it will inevitably advance very quickly in the early stage.

After all, there is a ready-made Chang'an City as the base, as long as it is modified according to the plot and gameplay requirements, adding functions and details, it is much easier than developing from scratch.

In addition, the content of the first chapter is not complicated, it is to let players come to Chang'an for "tourism" and have a good time.

Everyone can make all the travel experiences of modern Chang'an, the fantasy of ancient Chang'an in their hearts, and things that don't exist at all but are awesome when you think about them, and stuff them into the game.

Lin You has already made it clear: It is not necessary to completely fit the history, and it is not required that all content can find historical basis. As long as your content can be embedded in Chang'an City, and the style is not abrupt, then there is no problem. Feel free to do it .

After all, what he has to do will only be outrageous than the employees.

For example, the plot of the game, on the one hand, he handed it over to the employees, on the other hand, he also planned to create a super long task line that would never happen in history——

【Princess Holiday】

Yes, the princess of the Tang Dynasty went home and traveled around Chang'an with the players.

Lin You thought it was very funny.

This was a sudden idea after wandering around Chang'an with the little princess Zhu Cixia for a week.

When the employees have almost done all kinds of lively scenes, the little princess will work with him to make this task line.

What Lin You didn't expect was that just after he announced that the "Chang'an" development team was confirmed, some employees raised their arms high, hoping to join the "Chang'an" project team.

Lin You's answer was: "The situation of each team is different, and the specific personnel allocation depends on the current work situation, so if you want to join the "Chang'an" project team, please apply to your supervisor."

After talking about Lin You, he continued to talk about the MR game (mixed reality game) development project with the theme of pet battles - "Pokemon".

This name was chosen because when the time comes to design pets, a large number of fierce beasts in "Shan Hai Jing" and monsters in ancient Chinese legends will be cute and made into the game.

The name "Pokemon" is really apt.

As for the Pokémon in Lin You's memory, the classic monsters popular in Izumo, etc., will be made as expansion packs in the follow-up.

The project didn't actually start from scratch.

When they went to Chang'an to have a good time last week, the preliminary preparations for this project had already started.

After the completion of "Minecraft", a small number of employees in this large team began to arrange vacations. After the completion of the modules of "Terraria" and "Witch", their work basically came to an end, except for a small number of employees who maintained the module platform. The rest is all right to do.

Only a small part of them went to Chang'an.

Most of the rest, except those scheduled for the holidays to rest, the rest are all in the early preparations for this game.

Lin You also transferred a technical team of [Bafang] audio-visual auxiliary equipment from the company "picked up on the street" to provide them with technical support.

However, technically, this game is not a big problem—it might not have been a big problem in the past. After all, it is not easy to allow the content of the virtual world to interact with the real world, and the integration of the two is just right, without any violations. matter.

Lin You took it for granted, it was because Xiaomeng was too powerful and supported by astonishing computing power, it was able to do real-time calculations non-stop.

This cannot be regarded as a conventional technical means.

However, with the [Bafang] headband being put into use on a large scale, the technical team of Journey Prosthetics has continuously improved software functions and developed various auxiliary plug-ins, and the technical difficulties in this regard have been passed unknowingly.

Even now many healthy users will buy [Bafang] headbands for travel, business trips, wayfinding, recording and other scenarios.

Especially the core pathfinding function, which is almost out of play now.

What penguins lead the way, dinosaurs lead the way, virtual handsome men and beautiful women lead the way... etc. are all primary functions.

Now they even plan to launch a year-long plan to record the scenery of the four seasons with users. After the recording is completed, you can see the snow in winter in spring, or hear the cicadas in midsummer in autumn.

Even in a short street of 50 meters, you can see different scenery throughout the year at the same time.

In short: great ambitions.

When Kong Xinsheng reported these R\u0026D plans, Lin You's first reaction was: Too much money was burned.

But Lin You changed his mind: It's good for them to do something, and they are still serious about research and development, not using the money they earn to buy a house or sell the stock market, so he nodded and agreed: "It's very interesting, come on."

Up to now, Journey’s prosthetic technology team’s technical accumulation in this area has coincidentally solved the most critical technical problems of mixed reality games.

It can be considered unintentional.

Now the remaining work of developing the game is only the game plot, pet design and combat system.

For the developers of Yunmeng, this is a good game.

The meeting ended in such a relaxed atmosphere.

Then Lin You started to be approached by the employees, and when they saw him, they said wrongedly: "Boss, you have to make the decision for us!"

When they asked what was going on, they said that the supervisor refused them to drop their current jobs and transfer to the "Chang'an" development team.

People like this came one after another, and every time they came, several people came together.

Obviously, the refusal of the executives did not make them completely give up.

Seeing this scene, Lin You was even more amazed at the attraction of the "Chang'an" project to the employees.

But of course Lin You wouldn't just run over to trouble Qin Songyun, Xiao Chun, Fan Rui, Jiang Feng, Yu Wenwen...etc.

He also tried to comfort the employees at first.

But when the fourth group of people came to find him, Lin You immediately changed his mind and planned to find a reason to escape.

And Kong Xinsheng just provided this reason.

After answering the phone, Lin You was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly got up, holding the phone anxiously, saying "Okay, I'll be right there!" and walked quickly to the door.

Before going out, I turned around and said to the employees who were about to fill the office: "There is an urgent matter at Journey Prosthetics, and I have to go there quickly. I understand everyone's feelings, but someone else should be responsible for other tasks, right?"

"Everyone work hard."

After speaking, before the employees could react, they slipped away, and even brought it to the door when they left.

The employees in an office inside looked at each other in blank dismay.