Game Development Giant

Carmack's selection criteria were very strict, and at the beginning, no one even wanted to participate.

I know that Jester used his name to join Carmack's group because the development of the 3D game engine attracted the attention of some arrogant technical experts. However, everyone who interviewed Carmack individually was... The admiration for Carmack's technology.

But in the end, Carmack only chose three helpers, which Jester didn't understand. He needed to get the engine as soon as possible. Wouldn't adding more manpower speed up the research and development process?

Therefore, when Jester questioned Carmack in this way, Carmack looked at Jester with an amateurish look and explained impatiently: The engine developed this time is not complicated. I can only say It is my first attempt. It is just a pseudo-3D engine. It is not a real 3D engine in nature. It just performs perspective and scaling corrections on plane graphics, such as tilting a wall to become a trapezoid, and then reducing the distance to express it. Farther away, and then making occlusion judgments based on depth at the per-pixel level. It doesn’t require too many people. Too many people will slow down the progress.” Carmack also promised this time that after having three helpers, he The time needed for / long / wind / .c.ne can be increased by half at the fastest, and no more than four weeks at the slowest. Only then did Jester stop inquiring about the engine with satisfaction.

In fact, Jester has been busy with a lot of things recently. His brand new somatosensory arcade will be officially released in New York. It was also mentioned in the previous promotion that this was after the success of Sega’s motorcycle frame game. The second large-scale simulation somatosensory game.

It doesn’t matter whether it is the second model or not, but promoting it like this is the most important.

In this press conference, in order to reflect the importance that Mars Entertainment attaches to this. Jester, who has not appeared at the press conference in person for a long time, will also go to the scene in person to be interviewed and answer questions from fans at the scene.

Although Jester has not participated in such a press conference for a long time, and it was not him who introduced the product on the podium this time. The original plan was to let him explain on the stage, but Jester watched this press conference in person. After planning the project, I directly crossed out this item. Faced with the boss's forcible use of their rights, the employees who organized this press conference had no choice. We could only find a hardware developer from the development team, and a software developer went on stage to introduce the development process of this game to the fans and the media who came to the press conference.

After all, the delay of this game is still very long. It took more than a year from the project establishment to the official release. You know, even when Jester was making Fire Emblem before, But it only lasted about half a year.

So, something must have happened in between.

And press conference. Obviously, the media and fans who paid attention to the news were not disappointed. They heard a lot of information that they would never have seen in other publications.

What was even more anticipated by those present was the question to Jester.

You know, the last time Jester formally faced the media to answer questions. It would have been more than two years ago.

But now Jester is no longer just the owner of a small company, but an outstanding entrepreneur with a high international reputation, so there will no longer be inquiries like before. Very demanding and imprecise questions arise.

After all, capitalists don’t live by their money.

Excuse me, what are your plans next? Do you have any development plans for new games? The first person whose name was called. He asked one of the questions that everyone present wanted to know the most. The questioner was not old, but around twenty years old. He was dressed casually and was probably a student.

After Jester heard this question, he also smiled, and then said: Actually, you all knew at the press conference before that when we were developing this motion simulation arcade game, halfway through, the hardware There was a problem in the development of the game. I only focused on making games and didn’t care much about the hardware. Other employees left only the necessary ones and went to other development teams to help. But I was relatively free at the time. So I am secretly making a quite niche game, which can only be said to be for my own entertainment. The production has now been completed, and I am doing the final post-processing in the company. I will see you in less than a month and a half. Alright.

As soon as this news was revealed by Jester, it immediately shocked the audience.

Both the media and the fans were instantly excited. For the media, the games made by Jester were undoubtedly the hottest news, even if there was only one title.

Can you tell me what game it is?

Sure enough, the next person's name was called, and he immediately asked this question impatiently. Obviously this was not the question he had thought of before.

Actually, this game is considered a secret even within our company, and we don't know much about it. I don't want much else. This is not a mainstream game. As for the content, you will wait until it is released. You know, in short, in my prediction, the sales volume of this game will not be very high.

Jester still answered with a faint smile.

Since Jester couldn't ask anything about this game, a smart questioner immediately changed direction. A questioner with a camera in his hand, who should be a reporter, was immediately clicked. Then, he asked: So, Mr. Li, since you have finished this game that you didn't name, can you tell me your next plan?

At this time, everyone present suddenly realized that they were almost fooled by Jester's previous words. They asked him if he had any new plans at the beginning, but they were immediately attracted by the so-called new game he brought out. look.

Being asked like this again, Jester could only shrug helplessly, and said with a sigh: My next plan is to go on a good trip... As soon as he finished speaking, the person in front of him The reporters and fans immediately booed. Apparently they all felt that Jester was perfunctory with them.

But what they didn't expect was that Jester suddenly changed his tone and his tone became a little teasing.

But before traveling, I have already thought about what game I want to play next. I can reveal that it will be a very special game, a PC game.

PC games!

Jester’s words really stirred up waves with one stone. You must know that games on PC are not the mainstream now. Although Jester’s Fengxing Publishing Company also publishes PC games, PC games are not their main promotion direction.

Hearing someone else asking, Jester repeated it in a very sure tone: Yes, I am very sure to tell you that my next game will be one that runs on the PC platform. You have never I have seen a brand new game, he will add a very special, but will definitely make people crazy gameplay, I can tell you now, this type of game, I call it fps, this is this type of game You can guess the abbreviation of , but I won’t admit it if you guess it right.”…

Is it the Alabo-style game that you demonstrated at the CES show where Dreambox was released a few years ago?

No. Jester replied with a smile.

That incident was indeed a renegade of his promise. The so-called powerful gaming computer plan that he wanted to guarantee to players was shelved by him at that time. However, what company doesn't have such development plans that are often shelved? This is considered a small amount for him.

Although many people asked the next question to try their best to find out what this brand new game Jester was talking about, but Jester just ignored him and did not say anything else about his preparations. Information about new games produced.

In the end, Jester finally gave up further digging on this issue, but Jester finally accepted an interview with the outside world. There will definitely be a lot of questions that these reporters want to ask. Since this question has been asked by Jester again If the road is blocked, they will immediately change the problem to another one.

Now that Sega's new 16-bit home game has been exposed, and Nintendo has recently announced that they have officially started the development of their new home console, but Mars Entertainment has not made any moves in this regard recently, don't you think? Isn’t it necessary to upgrade home machines?”

This question is actually a very tricky question. If Jester says yes, then obviously this will not please the players. After all, players also know that at least the better the machine, the more beautiful the game will be. If he says no, then it will not please the players. It doesn’t please players, because when Sega’s new console was revealed and Nintendo announced the start of their development plan, there were countless Mars Entertainment fans eager to know if Mars Entertainment had a similar plan.

They don’t want their favorite game company to be too far behind others at the beginning of the next era.

After Jester heard this question, he did not show any hesitation. His answer came almost the moment after the question ended.

Actually, the reason why we have not publicly announced our development plan for a similar next-generation home game is actually very simple, because we became the development team for our next-generation console on the day the Dreambox project was completed. We have been working on the new console for many years.