Say Yes To Making Bad Games, What the Hell is Titanfall?

The project plan has been finalized.

All aspects of the company are also in full swing.

In terms of project cost, Gu Sheng was probably spoiled by a boss like Shen Miaomiao, who always said 'the more the better'.

The so-called learning well is not easy, but learning bad is easy.

From the very beginning, she was amazed by Shen Miaomiao's richness and crazily increasing her budget.

After that, I am used to crazy increase in cost budget.

And now, without waiting for the boss to speak, he takes the initiative to ask for money, wanting to be dissatisfied.

If you don't understand the local rich, understand the local rich, and become the local rich.

The seemingly long three-step walk took Gu Sheng only one and a half years.

Even up to now, Shen Miaomiao, who has always been lavish, felt a little frightened after seeing Gu Sheng stretching out his hand.

It's not that she is afraid that the company will lose all its money, but that she seems to be increasingly unable to meet Gu Sheng's cost needs.

However, this situation will not last too long.

After TTF successfully loses money, you will have money.

At that time, they will be able to recast the glory of the rich woman in the past, and they will be in eight or nine figures with a wave of hands.

And for the realization of this goal, in this investment, Shen Miaomiao also tried her best to cooperate with Gu Sheng, cater to Gu Sheng, satisfy Gu Sheng, and try her best to squeeze out the wind of gold.

Fortunately, the PUBG project is now in full swing, popular all over the country, and the income is stable and considerable.

The final cost of the project is even higher than their previous budget, which is 170 million yuan. The estimated price is 198 yuan per copy, and the development cycle is estimated to be five to six months.

On the day when the project was officially launched, Shen Miaomiao was happily holding her fifty for a long time.

"Fifty, fifty, this time we both have made a fortune..."

Shen Miaomiao laughed from ear to ear:

"The cost of 170 million, even if we plan according to the worst case, let Lao Gu earn 100 million back,"

"Then there is still 70 million yuan left that cannot be paid back,"

"Seventy million, ten times is seven hundred million,"

"Tsk tsk..."

Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao felt relieved for a while.

Once upon a time, I was a little weak chicken crying for a small coffer of 10 million.

Just a few months passed.

My own vision has been improved seventy times, and I have already started to focus on the 700 million rebate project.

Knew it!

If you lose your horse, you will know it is not a blessing.

Although PUBG earned.

However, it also laid the economic foundation for her to lose even more money now!

"Believe me!"

After a while, Shen Miaomiao put the fifty ends on the desk again and patted:

"This time, we will win!"

...

beginning of winter.

It is advisable to travel, get married, go to office, build and break ground, and erect beams and columns.

With the funds in place, the Titanfall project officially started.

The first thing to do when starting work is neither to start the program, nor to start composition and modeling, nor even to create a new folder.

but—

"Now Mr. Ou has replaced the cameras on the entire floor with face recognition,"

In the project department, everyone surrounded Gu Sheng, the backbone, and everyone was worried:

"How do we work overtime?"

actually!

For this project, they have plenty of time, and they don't need to work overtime like they did in PUBG.

But the problem is, work is such a thing, especially when you are doing a job you like, the time to get off work is definitely not too stuck.

But the face recognition of the camera doesn't care about you.

As long as you are still in the company from 17:00 to 9:00 a.m., even if you leave a minute late, it is considered overtime.

At that time, the snack coins will be gone.

To know!

Now in the wind of gold, snack coins are the main currency in the company's internal circulation!

This thing can not only be used to catch dolls.

Snack coins can be used to ask colleagues to help bring milk tea, rub a box of cigarettes, or even trade fruit after meals!

Yes.

Shen Miaomiao's outrageous anti-overtime mechanism at the beginning has played a role after all, and everyone can't do without snack coins now.

I don't want to give up the snack coins, and I can't guarantee that I won't overtime the shift for a minute.

Ever since, how to work overtime while obtaining snack coins has become the first problem of the Titanfall project team.

Everyone brainstorming!

Some said to hack the camera, some said to unplug the camera, and some people got inspiration from the movie and wanted to paste photos in front of the camera.

finally!

After a series of heated discussions!

Everyone unanimously agreed with the director's good idea——

Turn the camera angle up a bit.

High-end hacking methods are often presented in the simplest way.

that's all!

The biggest problem that troubled the project team was solved.

The pace of work is back on track.

The Reciprocal Action Group is activated again.

And Shen Miaomiao's Porsche also frequently appeared in the group again.

The project is quickly on track.

Everyone is more serious about their work attitude than the previous PUBG project.

And Gu Sheng also moved out of his office again, spending all day in the project department——

"...Hey, that's right, this is what I want."

Gu Sheng crossed his legs, smoked a cigarette, looked at the renderings of the level scene modeling passed by the art team, and nodded repeatedly.

However, on the effect map, there are many mountains in the distance, and the towering peaks soar into the clouds.

And among the mountains, a group of huge signal towers stands among them, the mottled metallic luster exudes a thick and stern steel atmosphere against the setting sun.

Between the signal towers, steel cable lines criss-cross.

The huge signal tower and the mountains and clouds set off each other, interweaving a wonderful and shocking scene.

[My analysis shows that throwing is the only way]

In Gu Sheng's mind, BT's cold and extremely reliable voice sounded.

When the game is finished, I will experience for myself what it feels like to be thrown out by you.

Thinking of this, Gu Sheng couldn't help smiling, and pointed his thumb at Da Jiang next to him:

"As expected of our art director, precise, efficient, awesome."

"Well……"

Hearing Gu Sheng's praise, Da Jiang grinned in embarrassment:

"Actually... this... is also thanks to our Junior Sister Jiang."

"Why--"

Gu Sheng hurriedly made a stop gesture:

"Don't be ours, people have never called me Shige, and I'm not their idol, don't pull me as a backstop."

Once you say this!

Da Jiang's face turned red!

"Ah no..."

But the story is not over yet!

Seeing the sound of footsteps, Jiang Shan walked over with brisk steps.

He nodded to Gu Sheng first and said hello: "Director Gu."

Then he said softly to Dajiang: "That...brother, I have a question that I don't quite understand. Do you have time..."

Gu Sheng's goosebumps came up!

Quickly kick the swivel chair under Dajiang's buttocks.

go you!

"Hey? Hey?"

Da Jiang exclaimed, and flew away with his chair.

Gu Sheng smiled and waved his hands.

Stay away from me, you brothers and sisters hurry up and get tired of it.

here.

Only after kicking the river away, Lu Bian came again.

"Old Gu, don't waste your time, two questions."

"speak."

"The first thing, the setting of [Cause and Effect] is really awesome, let me brag about it."

"Then?"

"Second thing, I've been researching it with Cheerful for two fucking hours, and I haven't figured out how to do it seamlessly."

"..."

Gu Sheng knew that what Lu Bian was talking about was when the game entered the middle stage, when the protagonist got the new time-travel equipment.

In this creative level, the protagonist will master the ability to travel through time.

By switching between different timelines in the same scene, you can avoid battles and solve puzzles to clear the level.

The design of this level is very delicate and refreshing.

But everyone knows!

When every game cuts the map, it will go through the graphics loading process, which is inevitable.

Such frequent map switching will inevitably increase the rendering load of the game screen, resulting in a decrease in graphics quality and even tearing of the screen.

Lu Bian knew that if this level wanted to achieve amazing results, it was necessary to ensure that the player's picture after switching the timeline was perfect.

"The performance of Yiyou x2 is not that great, and it can't reach the rendering speed of the frame rate,"

Lu Bian said:

"Crazy map cutting will inevitably cause the graphics to not load in time. The best we can do is to ensure that the screen does not tear,"

"Is there anything you can do?"

Gu Sheng thought for a while:

"Cutting the map causes the graphics to not load in time, so why don't we just cut the map?"

"ah?"

Lu Bian was stunned:

"Bro, do you know what you're talking about?"

The theme of this level is to jump repeatedly between the two level maps. You said we don't cut the map?

What are we going to do without cutting the map, is it possible to really allow players to travel through time?

With that technology, let's make a hammer game?

Seeing that Lu Bian didn't understand, Gu Sheng took out a cigarette, stuffed it into Lu Bian's mouth, and lit it for him again:

"Think about what we did to the camera?"

Camera?

Lu Bian didn't understand what Gu Sheng meant.

In order to avoid being caught working overtime, they adjusted the camera angle up?

In this way, the camera will not be able to capture their face recognition.

But this has nothing to do with the scene...

wait? !

"Fuck!"

Lu Bian seemed to suddenly understand what Gu Sheng meant:

"Z axis???"

Gu Sheng shrugged: "High-end optimization methods are often presented in the simplest way."

"Awesome! Awesome!" Lu Bian repeatedly exclaimed!

He fully understood Gu Sheng's solution——

As Gu Sheng said, since the switching between the two maps requires rendering time, then we put the original two maps together.

The two scenes of "past" and "present" are divided into upper and lower layers, and placed together on a map, just like a two-story building.

After that, by moving the Z axis of the main perspective, the effect of time switching is presented.

In this way, when the player walks into this two-story building, the scenes on the first and second floors have actually been loaded synchronously.

The final effect is that the player presses the time-space shuttle watch.

Snapped!

I'll throw it to the second floor for you. The switching speed is so fast that it's impossible to detect it with the naked eye.

You press the watch again.

Snapped!

I'll push you back to the first floor.

In this way, no matter how the player switches, they are actually jumping up and down in a map, and there will be no delay in graphics loading at all, let alone screen tearing.

"Awesome, awesome, awesome..."

Convinced, Lu Bian kicked his foot on the ground and rolled away like a river.

However, before Lu Bian rolled away for half a minute.

Jiang Yun rolled over again: "Director Gu, can we make some changes to this place..."

"Brother Sheng..."

Gululu——

"lead……"

Gululu——

"Look here..."

The swivel chair slides in the project department.

For a while, the huge project department turned into a curling court, and everyone seemed to be paralyzed, skating back and forth in the middle of the court.

The progress of the project is also advancing by leaps and bounds in this rolling again and again.

...

Here, development on Titanfall is in full swing.

On the other hand, media players from all walks of life are also very curious about the project called TTF, Golden Wind, and there are many discussions.

Yes, this time Gu Sheng did not choose to completely block the project, but just asked the employees to sign a technical information confidentiality agreement.

Because he really needs to keep the project hot and let more tap water help them promote it for free.

After all, 170 million is still a bit stretched for this project.

The money is basically only enough for them to carry out the development work of the main body of the project, and the proportion of publicity and distribution expenses is almost equivalent to nothing.

Therefore, Gu Sheng cannot keep the game completely secret.

He needs to use the gimmick of "mecha game" to arouse discussions in the market and attract the attention of the media and players.

It turns out.

His plan worked out pretty well.

Since the establishment of the TTF project, there have been continuous speculations and reports from various media——

"Informed sources broke the news that the escort masterpiece that Golden Wind is developing is actually a mecha game? "

"Finding a New Way or Giving Up on Yourself? "

"A well-known game reviewer said that the choice of the theme of Golden Wind can be called the biggest disaster in history"

"Silent Counterattack? Is the selection of Golden Wind this time a silent protest against Yiyou? "

"Fall or Keep Shining? Rationally analyze the theme of this new work of Wind of Gold——"

Report after report came one after another.

It can be seen from the vast majority of bad-mouthing voices that the status of mech games in the game genre is indeed very embarrassing.

Occasionally, there are a few media that don't sing bad words, but they only show mercy because of the wind of gold and Gu Sheng's face.

"There really isn't even a platform for mech games..."

In the office, Shen Miaomiao flicked the mouse and flipped through the reports about them, the corners of her mouth couldn't stop rising.

Check out the comments below -

'This type is too outrageous, is Brother Sheng out of his mind? '

"This is no longer an abstraction. The escort masterpiece is chosen as a mech game. This is simply performance art."

‘It’s normal if it’s bad, if you pick the three old heavyweight FPS manufacturers, I’m going to be bad too’

'You boy, you can always come up with something new for me (Yunfei face)'

‘Don’t be so pessimistic, horror games weren’t favored by anyone before, isn’t the fear of ghosts just like that? '

‘Comparing mech games to horror games? If you don't like horror games, you can't scold them so badly, right? '

'Hahahahahahaha...'

'Indeed, horror games also had their heyday before phobia. Works such as "Midnight Twelve", "Nie" and "Scary Mansion" were also No. of'

‘If you put it this way...it seems that mecha games have no works that can be sold at all...'

'It's just a cake theme'

'The balance of this type is a big problem, and it is easy to enter the sage mode after enjoying it'

"If the Golden Wind is not playing tricks, then it must be doing scientific research"

'indeed……'

Ghost, found a treasure!

Flipping through the comments, the smile on Shen Miaomiao's face became brighter, her big eyes were shining brightly, emitting the light of gold coins.

Gu Chengcheng does not deceive me, and the project team sincerely does not deceive me!

This type of game is simply an abandoned child, a failure among failures.

Looks like I can finally—

...

"Sit back and relax! Hahahahaha..."

at the same time.

Shenzhou, Xunteng Technology Headquarters, Deputy General Manager Office.

Ding Kai sat opposite Chen Guangde, the general manager of Xunteng Technology, clapped his hands and laughed, and then handed over the phone.

"Mecha game, this is really... tsk tsk tsk,"

Ding Kai repeatedly shook his head and laughed:

"This wind of gold is really desperate for medical treatment,"

"I feel that I have repeatedly succeeded in finding another way before, and I am getting more and more inflated. I dare to touch this type of game,"

"I don't know whether they are overconfident, or they are dizzy."

Hearing this, Chen Guangde on the opposite side was also smiling.

Although not as arrogant and arrogant as Ding Kai, he still had the look of winning.

After all, both of them have been practitioners in the game industry for many years.

No one knows better than them what the weather vane in the circle is.

Mech games, the genre that's been around for a long time... oh no, it's not even dead, because it never was popular at all...

If you want to stir up some waves, your power will reach the sky.

not to mention!

The investment of Golden Wind this time is only 200 million.

Originally, 1v3 was an impossible task, but now he has added a pair of shackles to himself.

"It seems that Yiyou really negotiated with Golden Wind this time about Tian Ji's horse race, and Golden Wind simply let himself go..."

Chen Guangde smiled slightly and shook his head.

"well!"

Speaking of this, Ding Kai seemed to be somewhat regretful:

"It's a pity that Golden Wind was timid on the spot and came up with such a game theme that parents don't love and mother doesn't love,"

"At first, I was thinking of avenging my past shame and humiliating me by pressing the Golden Wind to the ground, but now it seems..."

"Drink tea, drink tea,"

Before Ding Kai could finish speaking, Chen Guangde interrupted him and pushed Xiao Bei over:

"Let's not mention the regrettable things, and focus on the most important thing now."

There was a smile on Chen Guangde's face, and there was a certainty in his heart.

Okay, you are about to hold back your braggadocio, before 100 million people beat 10 million people like fucking melons, how can you still lick a critic's face and talk nonsense?

Wasn't you the one who was smashed to the ground by the second-generation Golden Wind FPS?

How come the scar healed so quickly and the pain was forgotten.

This time, the reason why we are sure of winning is because the volume of Golden Wind is insufficient and the cost is limited.

The second is because we play three against one.

If you can't win this fight, the three of you should just fan each other out, and I'll turn around and go dig Gu Sheng.

It's a shame...

Drink your fucking tea.

With a sneer in his heart, Chen Guangde picked up his teacup and took a sip slowly.

Now that the weather is getting colder and colder, it is still very comfortable to drink a sip of hot tea.

Putting down his teacup and flipping through the calendar, Chen Guangde nodded.

Wait until this year is over.

The battle is about to officially start.