Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 30

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The planning book that Lu Zhenyu threw out was equally astonishing in weight and thickness, so Digital Totem had to recruit and purchase equipment again.

With the minicomputer and blade server simulation in the laboratory, the possibility of server architecture change has been confirmed, and the next step is to build an actual architecture for more complex and detailed testing.

After this recruitment, together with the external staff recruited by several other projects, the Jieshi base is not as empty as it was at the beginning.

The 9-storey Building A is now the core of the digital totem. The 1st floor is the administration department, the 2nd floor is the sales department, the marketing department and the finance department, the 3rd floor is for linguists from all over the world, and the 4th floor is the voice platform. The derivative development team plus the customer service department, the 5th and 6th floors will all be assigned to the newly established online game development team, and historians and a few artists who have conducted material analysis and verification have begun to settle in.

The 7th and 8th floors are the core laboratories, most of these two floors are occupied by various computers and peripheral facilities, with only one office and one conference room.

On the 9th floor, in addition to two large meeting rooms and a reception room and bar, is the president’s office with a comfortable suite.

Due to the fact that the stall was spread out in a short period of time, Chen Ning, who was originally sent to help Lu Zhenyu deal with some chores and lack of technical content, finally couldn’t stand it, and urged Su Yunhai to dig up 6 senior staff. The secretary, plus an expert in each of the five areas of marketing, sales, finance, public relations and law, make up the luxurious president’s office.

The process of the whole company was organized more smoothly, and there was no backlog of small things due to the frequent absences of Chen Ning and Lu Zhenyu.

The 7-storey B building, the 1st floor is the auditorium and the student locker room, as well as a swimming pool, the 2nd floor is the staff canteen, the 3rd floor, the 4th floor and the 5th floor are empty, and the 6th floor is the comprehensive laboratory and library of Qilin College. The computer room, the 7th floor are classrooms, student activity rooms, teachers’ offices, etc… The Jieshi base is still spacious and comfortable. Compared with ordinary office buildings, everyone has ample space for activities.

It took a whole week for the temporary online game development team to read the planning book written by Xiaoyu, and then looked at each other for a long time. After a few short meetings, they came up with a preliminary budget and work routine. The entire development cycle It is 16 months, and it is expected that the internal test can be carried out around August 2007, and the budget of the entire project is as high as 840 million yuan.

After Lv Zhenyu, Chen Ning and the company’s executives discussed it for a long time, the budget was approved, and the first phase of 120 million arrived immediately.

The reason why Lu Zhenyu dared to invest such a large sum of money is because the graphics engine that Xiaoyu is developing is about to be completed, and the cost can be paid down, and according to Lu Zhenyu’s idea, this engine can be sold to the outside world.

Relative to the graphics engine, the new server architecture that is under stress testing adds a heavy weight to this development plan, because this technology is different from artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence can be used to develop products, but the technology itself cannot be transferred, but This server architecture does not have this problem at all.

On the one hand, this massively parallel computing server architecture is very suitable for online games, especially ultra-large-scale online games, and at the same time, this architecture is a relatively cheap solution for building supercomputers for scientific computing. Not as powerful as those specially developed supercomputers, but the stability and adaptability are not much different.

Working hard until the end of April, before the May Day holiday, Digital Totem held another press conference, officially announcing the development of a new generation of online game “Rise”. Do an internal test.

At the same time, Digital Totem announced that it has mastered the technology of massively parallel computing server architecture, and the development of online games will be carried out on the basis of this architecture,

and also announced some features of the graphics engine and online game production tool suite under development.

Perhaps it is because he is used to the frequent press conferences of digital totems, and this press conference did not make the reporters too excited.

Although online games are a money-making field, the figure of 800 million thrown into the digital totem is a bit of a hype value. After all, the others are very far away, and the internal test will not be until next year.

As for those server architectures, engines and development tools, they are too professional for most reporters to understand.

The online game development team is basically in charge of Lu Zhenyu himself. Except for a few people who have read the entire planning book, most of the people who come one after another need time to digest the planning book, even if it is only with them. Professional related section.

Lu Zhenyu is naturally inconvenient to lead the development team as the president. In front of the external employees and the grassroots employees who have just joined the company, he is the multimedia technology engineer of the Digital Totem Lab and the director of the online game development team.

For the first time, Lu Zhenyu started to use his business card, even though it only described part of his identity.

For those who joined this group, Lu Zhenyu is an existence that makes people look up.

The 7,700-page planning book was like a mountain in their hearts. It was a planning book with more than 10 million words.

How long does it take to just type?

Lv Zhenyu divided the whole group into several parts. The program development group was in charge of Zeng Gao, who basically worked in the laboratory and rarely came to the two floors below. The material organization and arrangement group was responsible for verifying and arranging what the game needed. Various materials, provide knowledge support to other groups, art development team, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com Before the engine is put into operation, you can use your own development tools, first determine the general art style, and carry out various art designs. It is decided that the art group is also the largest group at present, with a full 120 artists already in place.

At the first plenary meeting of the development team, more than 200 people from each group gathered in the auditorium to listen to Lu Zhenyu’s development ideas.

This is also a miserable job for Lu Zhenyu. He did read the entire planning book carefully. With his current memory, he can easily remember most of the details. However, with this strong sense of history, Xiaoyu is planning The depth and thickness of the medium pour is not so easy to grasp.

Therefore, Lu Zhenyu also said honestly: “…I don’t know what kind of online game such a plan can make. For the vast majority of players today, there is no doubt that this will be a brand new kind of game. Of course, no one can guarantee that they will like this experience. However, I believe that we can make a history. This history is not only the history described by the game “Rise”, but also the field of online games and computing technology. A piece of history. One of the things we have to do is to make this game real and heavy. Now players like nonsense, whatever. We can understand such preferences, but we cannot conform to such preferences. Nonsensical is a It’s a fun, and what we want to do is a career.”

(Guess the theme of the online game and guessed it~~~~ I don’t know what the prize is, how about giving 5 essences?)

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