Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 66

[Sixty-six.]

At the beginning of February, the headquarters of Digital Totem welcomed a group of overseas recruits to join the work of the online game development team.

With the addition of these people, the payroll of the staff of the online game development team became more and more terrifying.

Of course, the peculiar identities of the newly added personnel probably never existed before.

The first is the Religious Affairs Adviser of the Divine Chronicle, a bishop or something from the Vatican.

This person does not need the digital totem to pay the salary, and the Holy See provides a very high subsidy for the bishop who is out of the game.

Since China’s Christian affairs are independent of the Holy See, this is a very small number of genuine Holy See personnel stationed in China.

Speaking of it, it was because of the huge appeal of the demo clips about “The Divine Chronicle” and the closed test of “The Divine Chronicle” in the global it summit forum last year, which made the Holy See realize that preaching through games is also very interesting, maybe it is a very useful method.

At the beginning, the online game team of Digital Totem sent several groups to negotiate with some of the most famous churches in Europe to collect materials, especially the real-life collection of some famous cathedral bells.

This move of the digital totem soon reached the ears of the Holy See. After that, the Holy See, after learning about the “Sacred Chronicle” that the digital totem was developing, took the initiative to send personnel to give the “Sacred Chronicle” in the development of the digital totem to the Holy See. Advice for professional consultation with religious knowledge.

For this kind of free employees who are very useful, digital totems are naturally happy to accept them.

After all, no matter how strong the game planners and producers are, and how strong the ability to interpret the material, the field of religion is still difficult to enter.

In the development team of the “Declaration of Freedom”, we welcomed several experts in the history of the American Civil War from the National Geographic Society, including two experts in war history, one expert in military geography, and two experts who have done a lot of work in this area. photographer.

The strength of the “Declaration of Freedom” development team has been greatly enhanced with the addition of these five people.

Although the cooperation between the digital totem and the National Geographic Society requires a considerable price for the digital totem not to obtain the large amount of text and image data accumulated by the National Geographic Society, after these people joined, the entire development team showed professionalism, But it’s worth it.

These actions naturally attracted the attention of the media.

The most striking thing is that Digital Totem is actually developing 4 games with the same architecture and engine.

Although the branches in Japan are still being established and run-in, the production of an online game of the Warring States Period in Japan is already in full swing.

In China, even those professional online game production and operation companies may not have the courage to develop such large-scale development at the same time.

What’s more, the three games that have already started, each of which is a big production, put it in other companies, I am afraid that each game does not even have a prototype for a year and a half, and the digital totem is based on the powerful The advantages of capital and human resources have been piled up abruptly.

Of course, this is because digital totems have their fist products, which can quickly accumulate funds, and the development of online games does not have to worry about funding issues.

This is what most game developers cannot do. Once the game development of digital totem is completed and put into operation, it can in turn provide the company with a strong and stable capital flow.

Some insiders can only sigh that digital totems really do not use money as money.

Even so, digital totem still faces a problem, that is, the problem of new channels.

Although the original game companies are not as strong as digital totems in absolute strength, but after all, they are mixed in the circle, and the construction of sales channels is much stronger than the digital totems that start up.

Although Digital Totem is based on a group of senior gamers, the construction channel should have better results, but the actual feedback is not like this.

Lu Zhenyu was not familiar with these, so

he didn’t know what to do.

He is not omnipotent either.

He is very skilled in managing the production team and technical team, and he is still a fledgling kid in the market.

During this time, probably only Lei Tao was idle in the company.

As a sales and negotiation expert, it is natural to take care of this matter.

Lei Tao’s idea was quite different from that of Lu Zhenyu.

If Lu Zhenyu is always used to business expansion and more cooperation with business principles, then Lei Tao is omnipotent.

After all, Lu Zhenyu as a programmer and Lei Tao as a professional manager have completely different ideas.

It didn’t take much time for Lei Tao to figure out why there were such and such problems in channel construction.

Everything is inseparable from one word – industry barriers.

In any industry, every major innovation will be accompanied by the pride of some people and the disappointment of most people.

Perhaps online games are not a very qualified industry, but after seeing the ups and downs of the world, most people still have a feeling for the arrival of change.

Whether the mysterious and strong chemical effect formed by the combination of the digital totem’s honeycomb system and the brand-new graphics engine will sweep the entire Chinese online game market is hard to say. Operation is still unknown.

But in terms of players’ evaluation and expectation of “Rise”, no online game has ever received so many reviews. I don’t know how many people use the word “perfect” to describe their known “Rise”. “world.

The best way to kill Hercules is not to let him be born.

Many online game operators and developers in China are thinking this way. Although Ruixing, who came forward to block digital totems before, has been stunned, it is not in the field of pure online games, but in this industry, with These operators with many resources have united and set up an unspecified, but everyone tacit understanding.

Several channel providers who were negotiating with Digital Totem about future point card and peripheral product sales plans and share, were suddenly told that they had to re-discuss the distribution of benefits from the sales of game point cards in operation. Several The relatively small channel dealers were simply stopped from supplying, and some channel dealers who signed short-term agreements also increased the discount rate for receiving goods… If it was a family or two, these channel dealers would not be so good. But with so many operators coming together, the channel operators who are under the pressure of survival had to suspend or shelve the negotiation with the digital totem and go back to get the support of the big players who have established a firm foothold in the online game industry. .

Lei Tao was not surprised that this happened, the market is like this.

This time, it is very rare to use formal business methods to block quietly on the field.

Come to think of it, they should also realize that there is no chance to stab them in the back, and it would be good if the digital totem doesn’t stab them in the back.

Only by responding to commercial channels with commercial channels, everyone can play fair.

Anyway, no one has heard that the digital totem has overshadowed anyone.

Although Lei Tao knew, but there was no way to deal with it for a while.

The encirclement of many manufacturers is not so easy to break through.

Moreover, when Lu Zhenyu asked him to take care of this matter this time, he told him frankly that the company has spent a lot of money recently, and the budget for his ice-breaking operation was not much.

Lei Tao, who was scratching his head, wished he could “wrinkle his brows and make up his mind” like those smart people in ancient novels said, and conjured up all the evil spirits that stood in their way.

However, he doesn’t have many resources in his hands… “The landlord’s family has no surplus.” Lei Tao complained.

The only one who heard his complaint was a little injured sparrow he kept secretly in the office… No one would have thought that Lei Tao, who was always so cool, would have such a side.

He stayed in his office for 4 days, convinced that Lu Zhenyu would not give him any more funds, Lei Tao started to act, he put out a cigarette in the ashtray, and told the secretary and the department who were summoned. The man in Delhi instructed: “The big boss has no time to deal with this kind of hour recently. Let’s settle it. Instead, let those people know who is more capable than the other. Don’t build a broken temple and think it is a palace.”

Since “Rise” is far from reaching the point-of-sale time card, there is still plenty of time for this ice-breaking operation, and Lei Tao did not choose traditional channels to break the ice, but found a new way.

Through several well-known online literature websites, Lei Tao discovered a group of powerful and well-known themes of overhead warfare, especially works that overlapped with the span of “Rise”, and some participated in the “Rise” closed test. Fan fiction written by people who support their entry into Simplified Chinese publishing channels.

Although there is not much budget on hand, it is not very expensive to buy a book number and entrust a cultural company to operate the matter.

Lei Tao even chose one of the most popular novels on the Internet, bought out the author’s copyright, and wrote a continuation based on the existing story. The writing was good, especially the part that was written by the original author himself Those with better content will receive extremely generous rewards.

There are many things in the hands of digital totems that can be used as prizes, such as the portable version of “Zonghengjia”. The portable version of “Zonghengjia” is hailed as the most promising work of this year’s international if industrial design award.

And all participants will get game time of “Rise” at that time…

The activity cycle of this kind of literary creation is quite long, and together with the creation time and selection, it can take up to 3 months. At that time, no matter whether “Rise” can be listed, there will be a conclusion.

Lei Tao, who chose bookstores and publishing channels, unknowingly spread books with the most expansive Suzaku seal printed on digital totems into the hands of the majority of gamers.

Bookstores and newsstands are happy to sell these kinds of things.

And these books may be the channels for point card sales in the future.

… The execution cost of this channel is quite high, but after all, it is a path that can be passed.

For the rest, it depends on how the big guys play their cards.

And Lei Tao, who had been busy for a few days, began to rest and recuperate leisurely.

It was during this period that Lu Zhenyu’s spending speed reached a peak. A pair of technology import contracts were signed, and the money was quickly paid.

And the series of equipment introduced by Lu Zhenyu is enough to prove that the laboratory will have a big move.

The boys in the lab immediately opened their eyes wide to see what Lu Zhenyu took out of his hat.

Lv Zhenyu did not disappoint everyone. Lu Zhenyu, who had fully entered the laboratory to guide the work, made progress on most of the topics in less than a week.

Especially in terms of mechanical control, the first generation of free joint system has finally been made.

This joint system is not based on motion control as the Japanese research results, but on dynamic perception.

The manipulator made with the free joint system is equipped with 27 motion sensors based on inertial magnetic induction balls. Although there is still a considerable distance from the real motion perception, it can be regarded as a remarkable achievement.

In fact, the current free joint system is not free. At best, each joint has six directions, and each direction has a range of motion of up to 90 degrees. A series of joints can be connected in series, and the entire manipulator can perform quite complex operations. action.

For the background programming of this manipulator, Lu Zhenyu stayed up for two nights in the laboratory. He only had a glimpse of the motion control. Lu Zhenyu, who was not proficient at all, wrote an extremely complicated program to make the manipulator operate manually.

The program that combines the intelligent core is learning by subtraction.

By constantly trying various actions, it can determine which statements are effective and which ones are inefficient, and then automatically delete redundant statements.

Through such subtractive learning, the background control of the manipulator will become more and more streamlined, and the movements of the manipulator will become more and more flexible.

This subtraction learning mechanism was created by Lu Zhenyu under the watchful eye of many programmers in the laboratory.

Not to mention how shocking Lu Zhenyu’s typing speed was to those programmers, he was calm in the crowd watching, he just corrected a few typing mistakes and passed the debug, making the program run elegantly, so that these people may not have any thoughts in their minds. Programmers of any kind of literature remembered the 13-year-old Wang Bo’s pride in giving “The Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng” under the onlookers of a group of literati.

As for the subtraction learning mechanism, it is another considerable innovation.

Generally speaking, the learning of artificial intelligence is based on the accumulation and superposition of data, but this subtraction learning mechanism is to analyze its own program while accumulating, and continuously reduce the number of its own program statements, which is simply a miracle algorithms and ideas.

Naturally, in the minds of those who only admire technology in the laboratory, Mr. Lu has a higher status.

After finally completing the program, Lu Zhenyu returned to his office after watching the manipulator begin to perform normal movements, feedback and subtraction learning.

In the office, it was Chen Ning who was waiting for him with a remarkably lonely look in his seat.

The exhausted Lu Zhenyu’s face was full of red light. He rushed to Chen Ning, took Chen Ning’s hand, and said, “Come on, let’s go out for lunch and celebrate.”

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