Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 86

[Eighty-six.]

Of course Ji Jun couldn’t persuade Lu Zhenyu, and later, his attempts to persuade Chen Ning also failed.

In fact, this is also to be expected. Ji Jun saw the powerful and mysterious power behind the frantic actions of this extreme justice organization, while Lu Zhenyu experienced the naked force of extreme justice.

Since the other party has already started to do it, no matter what, they can’t sit still.

God knows when there will be a second or third assassination.

Of course, Lu Zhenyu doesn’t have the ability to deal with this kind of extreme justice by himself now. He is an ordinary programmer, and at most, with the identity of a businessman and a scholar, he has no mood or time to organize an organization to deal with terrorism.

One thing that makes Lu Zhenyu interesting is that Ji Jun mentioned that this extreme justice advocates a kind of activity policy called “technological terrorism”. Their behavior of inciting others to carry out bombing and assassination activities makes use of psychology and related knowledge. To the extreme, by invading the aviation control system and modifying the radar system of the aircraft, the incident of two passenger planes colliding in the air is not something that ordinary terrorist organizations can do.

Since everyone is playing with technology, let’s try it out.

Lu Zhenyu thought so, and began to collect information through various channels, which became the main task of Bodhidharma.

At the beginning of September, Lv Zhenyu was busy with a few things. First of all, he was the second class of students of Kylin Academy. This time, 44 students including Zhai Jiaxiong passed the examination and entered Kylin Academy, which greatly exceeded the first class. Number of 27 students.

Digital Totem has already begun to formulate its own establishment of an academy equivalent to university-level education, so the non-exam-oriented education policy of Kylin Academy is nothing.

Although education is very popular, education is not more popular than ability.

And after a week of being with the family, it was finally time to work on their own.

This time, both Lu Zhenyu’s parents met Chen Ning, and Chen Ning, who was extremely well-behaved in front of the two parents, won the unanimous love of Lu Zhenyu’s parents.

In fact, before fully understanding Chen Ning, who can not like her?

She doesn’t like shopping, and she doesn’t have the flamboyant taste of ordinary young girls, and any clothes and accessories on her body are enough for ordinary girls to shop for months.

The top fashion has such a restrained taste.

Beautiful, elegant and restrained, with good upbringing, although it is not clear, but it must be a first-class family background, and she is also very good to Lu Zhenyu. It is no wonder that Lu Zhenyu’s parents do not like such a girl.

And now, Lu Zhenyu, on the one hand, likes this somewhat mysterious but attractive girl more and more, on the other hand, he is terrified of Chen Ning’s occasional murderous performance.

After sending all these distracting thoughts away, Lu Zhenyu ushered in the highlight of his work schedule in September, sending two consecutive games into the public beta.

First, in North America, on September 22, the 145th anniversary of the release of the “Declaration of the Emancipation of Black Slaves”, the “Declaration of Freedom”, which started the public beta test, and then the “Declaration of Freedom” that was scheduled to be put into public beta on the National Day on October 1. Rise”.

From the beginning of the project “Rise” until it finally entered the public beta stage, “Rise” has experienced far more ups and downs than ordinary online games, and “Rise” is represented by the use of the honeycomb system to build hundreds of thousands of people on the same server. Games, which use a new generation of graphics engines and development tools, have become the representative of advanced technology in the field of online digital entertainment.

Regarding the operation of “Rise”, both domestic and foreign, companies in this field are waiting to see where the “Declaration of Freedom”, which was first put into public beta, and “Rise”, which caused the greatest sensation, will become the standard for a new generation of online games. , or become the first Waterloo project of digital totem.

Although there is still a lot of interest in the online game industry,

There is also a lot of expectations for “Rise”, but now, the earliest established goal of raising funds with the online game circle has become irrelevant.

Success is gratifying, and defeat is also gratifying. This is Lu Zhenyu’s current attitude toward “Rise”, “Declaration of Freedom”, “Sacred Chronicle”, and “Fenglinhuoyuan” which is currently under development.

Raising funds?

In just a few months, the excess profits on the spider platform for setting an outrageous price were enough to even out the company’s other problems.

What’s more, the digital totem project has not made money yet.

However, is it really easy to achieve success and be happy to fail?

Since the launch of the Spider Platform, members of the online game group have felt that their core position in the future development of the company has been deeply shaken even though they are separated from each other.

Lu Zhenyu has not weakened his investment in the online game group and his own working time in the online game group. However, it is an indisputable fact that the attention of the online game group in the entire company has seriously declined.

“Do you really care that much about getting attention?” Lu Zhenyu was stunned when he suddenly encountered this question raised by a planner in mid-September at a preparation meeting for the final debugging of the public beta.

“No, but it’s always a bit of a sense of loss to suddenly drop from the company’s star department to an ordinary business department.” The planner said sullenly.

“Everyone thinks this way?” Lu Zhenyu asked.

Those present are all the veterans who have followed the “Rise” project from beginning to end. Except for those who were seconded to the “Declaration of Freedom” project team to debug in the United States, they are all here today, from technology to planning, programming, art, etc. Representatives of other departments are here.

If the problem of this sense of loss is serious enough to affect the morale of the entire team, it is very problematic.

“After all, everyone used to come from professional game companies. There are only games, and no one in the development department except the boss can buy it. … But now, it seems that our departments upstairs and downstairs are more important than us.” One The artist said so.

“This…I can’t do anything about it. After all, we are not a specialized game company, nor can we be an independent game company. However, haven’t we made the best online game works?” Lu Zhenyu encouraged.

“It seems, it seems, it’s better to say now, isn’t it a little earlier?” Another artist said a little nervously, this artist who has always worked very carefully and seriously, and has a good relationship with others.

“What are you afraid of? We have to dare to say this. The map of nearly 20 million square kilometers has been scaled down and made by us. Hundreds of thousands of NPCs, just running errands around historical celebrities and historical celebrities will not be the next division. When it comes to art style, the first set of effects engines are not enough, and the second set of engines that can perform quasi-style rendering is almost finished. Who can compare? Speaking of soundtracks, so far, which game is like We are like this, a professional symphony orchestra produces the whole process? The money we invest in the soundtrack is enough for some small companies to develop a game and then promote it in the later stage. When it comes to animation, our animations all reach film-level precision, which is comparable to Hollywood’s The effects in some movies are also comparable. Speaking of planning, in addition to our own works “Sacred Chronicle” and “Declaration of Freedom”, which are good in all aspects, what other works can you see now? There are so many in it. In historical events, when it comes to NPC dialogue, it almost catches up with the level of classic TV dramas and movie scripts, right? If you connect to the language platform and watch it there, you can treat it as a movie. With you guys, from start to finish, People who are so familiar with the game, now they are watching the history in the game environment, watching the things that really happened, and still cry, do you still doubt the appeal of this game?” Lu Zhenyu kept asking back, in his opinion, with For the current full version of “Rise”, if they are second, no one dares to be first.

“But, what if this game doesn’t sell well?” said a planner sitting next to Lu Zhenyu, pushing his glasses.

He is a member of the core planning team of Rising, responsible for the game’s skill system and career system.

“It doesn’t sell well? What are you afraid of? After the release of “Rise”, no matter how players react, how many people in the industry dare to say that their production strength is strong? How many people dare to say their art style, their The picture is good? How many people dare to say that their world view is set in detail? The important thing is, outside the industry, in everyone’s heart, how many people dare to say that online games are things that make people lose their minds? How many people dare to say that online games Is it something without culture?”

Lu Zhenyu’s series of rhetorical questions made everyone think for a while.

After being in the online game group for a long time, they haven’t had this kind of macro thinking for a long time.

“What if you don’t make money?” Lu Zhenyu continued, “Now, the company doesn’t have to rely on online games to make money, we have projects that make money. Taking “Rise” as the company’s contribution to society What about welfare donations? It can make those players wake up, make some brainy people start to think about something, and make some numb people wake up, who can do this kind of spiritual welfare? … We don’t need to make money, we have made the best game. After a few years, everyone may find that Rising is a big loss, but they must admit that Rising is definitely a good game.”

Lu Zhenyu is not worried “Rise” did not sell well. From the perspective of players’ pursuit of “Rise”, it has created a peculiar trend in China.

Moreover, the part of the players developed by “Rise” is even more incomparable to the user base of traditional online games.

Compared with traditional online games, a considerable part of the players of “Rise” are senior white-collar workers, young and middle-aged teachers in universities, graduate students, and lovers of history and traditional culture.

This trend has become more and more obvious with the opening of closed tests again and again. The rising player base is already on another level, and the traditional methods used to analyze the market capacity of online games are no longer applicable to “Rise”.

And Lu Zhenyu used a series of rhetorical questions and took a step back to make the creators of this near-perfect game even more alert.

On October 1, 2 hours before the public beta began, there were more than 600,000 registered users of “Rise”, including 440,000 in mainland China, and the rest were players outside China.

“Rise” is originally an open structure with multiple camp choices, and there are no geographical restrictions. What’s wrong with letting those foreigners play the first imperialist camp, or play legal businessmen and missionaries who are relatively close to China. it is good?

That can greatly enrich the cultural environment of the game.

With the arrival of the public beta time, in an instant, all the players who had been waiting in front of their computers for a long time filled all the servers.

Fortunately, the server farms built with the honeycomb system are powerful.

Like almost all online games, Digital Totem also compulsorily plays an intro animation the first time the game is run.

The version released today is a 2-minute clip specially made for the first day of the public beta.

In the whole game, the classic scenes in the most well-made more than 20 key scene animations were edited together, and the scenes flashed quickly.

The desolate eyes of those famous historical figures flickered on the screen again and again, and the new life and death in the screen stirred the nerves of the players.

The most peculiar thing about this animation is that the digital totem, which invested heavily in the production of the soundtrack, did not use the soundtrack of even a single note in this extremely critical opening animation. Terrible silence.

The only sound was a poem reciting: If I were a bird, / I should sing with a hoarse throat: / This land battered by the storm, UU reading www.sonicmtl.sonicmtl.

com / This river of grief and indignation that roams us forever, / This furious wind that blows endlessly, / And that tender dawn from the woods…/—and then I die, / even feathers rot in the ground.

/Why are there tears in my eyes?

/Because I love this land deeply…

This is “I Love This Land” by the famous poet Ai Qing.

The gloomy atmosphere of this poem will infect those players, making them a little serious and heavy, entering “Rise” and entering the era of the Opium War.

The voice of this recitation comes from the famous actor Li Moran who played Deng Shichang in “The First Sino-Japanese War”.

At the beginning, when making a series of promotional videos, a planner took the silent part of this animation to find this famous actor of virtue and art.

It was this animation with no sound that showed amazing visual effects, and moved Li Moran, agreeing to dub this animation, and did not take any money, saying that he wanted to do his best for such a good work.

Although there are many other clips produced at the same time, most of them have been used as promotional videos and trailers one after another. Only this animation with the effect of “listening to thunder in a silent place” has been treasured until now. Until Lu Zhenyu finally made a decision, he chose such an animation as the sound of the beginning of the game world.

“I love this land” is exactly the propaganda effect everyone wants to achieve.

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