Chapter 397: Undercurrent! Welcome to my world!
《Golden Wind announces that the engine has officially entered the development stage》
“Yunwei’s next-generation somatosensory masterpiece “Lord of the Rings: Gollum” announced its participation in this Cologne exhibition”
“Comela revealed that the current merger and acquisition is progressing smoothly, and the merger and acquisition is expected to be completed before Gamescom”
“According to joint statistics from SNG and Twitch, the number of viewers of this year’s Gamescom online live broadcast has exceeded 32 million”
《Tianlang, a well-known studio under Xundo, announced that it has reached a cooperation with the Polish Ziao engine and will completely abandon the Fantasy series engine》
《President of Germanic game manufacturer Farfox issued a document announcing plans to develop and upgrade a business engine》
Getting increasingly anxious!
The flames of the world war caused by the price adjustment of Fantasy and affecting the global game industry have been ignited!
From the West to the East, all game manufacturers seem to have taken action.
Manufacturers who were affected have devoted themselves to the research and development of self-developed engines.
Manufacturers that are in the eye of the storm, such as Golden Wind, have become the focus of global attention.
Manufacturers that have not been directly affected, such as Germanic Farfox, Polish Aurora Games, etc., are also in danger.
Not only has it further stepped up the upgrade of its self-developed engine.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, they began to try to open the self-developed engine for commercial use, trying to seize part of the market vacated by the operation of Fantasy and Mystery.
As for other business engines!
Of course, gongs and drums are beating, and there is great joy!
Everyone rushed to tell each other, celebrating the drop in Dream Engine's stock price, and mercilessly spent their own money to encourage public opinion and step on Dream Engine's head again!
Of course!
In addition, as the focus of this world war in the game circle!
The German Cologne Game Show, which will be held at the end of February, has naturally become the thing that players are most concerned about!
More than 32 million viewers have made reservations to watch, more than double the number of reservations in previous years!
Those who discuss, those who enjoy the melons, those who express their opinions...
Perhaps for the world game industry, this is an unprecedented world war.
But for the players, this is an unprecedented carnival of public opinion!
Especially the Golden Wind and Cloud Power!
Judging from the current situation, the focus of this Gamescom is already very clear.
The "Minecraft" developed by Golden Wind Wuqing will compete with the super IP game spin-off "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum" created by Yunwei with huge investment.
One is a block pixel game with a total investment of only 20 million yuan!
One is a next-generation 3S-level masterpiece whose copyright licensing fee alone has exceeded 100 million!
Which one is better and which one is worse seems to be clear at a glance.
After all, to put it bluntly, the current golden trend is reversing the course of its own development history.
An investment of $20 million!
You need to know!
At that time, Golden Wind fought against Comella for the first time, and the "Escape" launched had a total investment of nearly 19 million U.S. dollars!
At that time, Golden Wind had not yet absorbed Steel Chain Fingers, nor had it acquired Melancholy Blues, nor had they experienced multiple salary increases since then, so the personnel costs were far less than they are now.
That is to say!
Times have changed!
Although the labor costs of Golden Wind have increased nowadays, in fact, the production team members of this game created by Golden Experience Studio are still the same people, and even to a certain extent, their investment in outsourcing costs, Less than in "Escape" back then!
This is not driving in reverse, what is it?
So much so that there are voices in the market now pointing out - I think 20 million versus 328 million, no matter how thin the Lord of the Rings Gollum is, a 20 million project can't be done, right?
If this was a war, this would be equivalent to 2,000 people fighting 32,800 people, an average of 16 to 1.
Don’t call it a human being.
Even if sixteen pigs were to go after a man, they would probably kill him alive.
So even though the war has not started yet, many melon-eating players have already predicted that Golden Wind is likely to suffer the biggest Waterloo in history.
As an opponent, Kaunik couldn't help laughing three times after seeing this kind of public opinion situation. He was increasingly looking forward to burying the Golden Wind with his own hands at Gamescom, and then happily receiving the so-called Priceless reputation IP!
However!
Not even waiting for Cornick’s grinning mouth to make a sound!
The emergence of a piece of news instantly reversed the extremely unfavorable situation for Golden Wind—
【Golden Wind V: "What are you doing?" 》】
What are you doing?
This is a very common question in daily life.
At the same time, it is also the title of the first promotional video of "Minecraft"...
…
“So—?”
Looking at the title of this strange promotional video, Dream made a black question mark face expression:
“What a strange name is this…”
Dream, one of the new anchors of Mouse Channel.
Oh no, actually saying that he is a new anchor is a bit reluctant. After all, he has been live broadcasting on Mouse Channel for nearly four years.
It’s just that Dream has always been tepid before, because the games he broadcasts are usually more casual and relaxing games.
The game is not very popular, so its popularity is naturally not high either.
Until a few months ago!
Just when almost all live broadcast platforms are live broadcasting "Resident Evil 7" and subsequent DLC!
Because of personal preferences, dream did not follow the crowd, but accidentally saw the game "Stardew Valley" and lived a pastoral life.
But who would have imagined it? It was this unintentional move that made him one of the first players to start playing Stardew Valley.
Even after that, when "Call of Duty" became popular, he still didn't play it. He simply bought the game and left it in the warehouse to eat dust. After Fury Flame released Oka, he gloriously became a He is a truck driver and even formed a combined transport fleet with his good friend George to run long distances every day.
Today.
Dream has become a major game anchor with 7.6 million fans by virtue of his personal gaming preferences and live broadcast style, as well as the excellent live broadcast results combined with his good friend George.
Today, with the release of the first promotional video of "Minecraft". Dream, who has long been interested in this weird pixel-style block game, naturally opened the official website of Golden Wind and watched this promotional video—
Ding…dong…
As the piano music flows like a gurgling stream, the picture gradually emerges.
In the empty office, the faint sound of a clock ticking could be heard.
And a man wearing a sky blue shirt, who was still working overtime at this time, was working at his desk, writing and drawing on the tablet computer, and seemed to be making drawings.
…What???”
Seeing this, Dream couldn't help but let out a soft cry!
“This is actually a... live-action promotional video? Oh my gosh, the last time I saw a live-action promotional video for a game was Golden Wind’s “Phobia”!”
You should know that real people are rarely used in game promotional videos.
So it’s not surprising that Dream was so surprised.
At this time in the live broadcast room, all the water friends’ eyes lit up—
‘Sure enough, there is new work, it is worthy of the golden wind’
‘It’s a pity it’s not Sam and Mia’
‘LOOOOOOL’
‘So the Golden Wind is really going to go retro? ’
‘Ghostphobia’
‘But the gap between the real person and the square person is too big, how do we plan to balance the golden wind?'
‘It’s quite interesting, let’s see if there are any surprises...’
‘…’
And with the discussion of the audience!
Tuk tuk tuk tuk—
Suddenly, a rustling and muffled sound came from the ground at the feet of the overtime man.
Follow up!
Pop!
With a slight cracking sound, two floor tiles at the man's feet were broken. Then, a girl in a green shirt with blond hair and braids poked her head out, holding a hand. Using the pixel style shovel gives a sense of cartoon magic as the dimensional wall is broken and the pixel style invades reality!
“Hey! Steve! What are you doing?”
The girl leaned half of her body out of the ground, tilted her head and asked the man who was still working at the desk.
“Ah...ah! Ah?”
Steve was surprised at the girl who suddenly poked her head out from the floor tiles:
"Uh...Hi...Alyx, I'm working on an architectural design, what are you..."
Hearing this, Alex waved her hand, then inserted the pixel shovel beside her and stretched out her hand:
“It’s time to get off work! Or...can you find inspiration in the world below?”
“The world below?”
Hearing what Alex said, Steve was a little confused.
He stretched out his hand and was about to ask, but at this moment, he saw Alex pulling him to the ground!
Hush—! !
In an instant!
The camera's perspective passes through the dark dimensional wall. As the two people scream, a new pixel-style world suddenly appears in front of them!
The floating clouds in the sky are squares with sharp edges, the scattered hills on the ground are squares, and even the sun in the distant skyline is a huge square!
At this moment!
They are falling from the sky!
And when the screaming Steve turned his head to look, he saw that Alex beside him had turned into a cute square girl!
“Woooooooooow—!!”
“Ohhhhh—myfvkinggod!”
The breakthrough in the dimensional wall caused a sudden cheer in the live broadcast room!
dream even screamed repeatedly, marveling at the imagination of the golden wind!
There is no doubt that this special shot is really amazing!
From the three-dimensional real world, through a time hole dug with a pixel shovel, you can instantly travel to the pixel-style block world!
The tension and expressiveness of this kind of picture can’t help but make people marvel!
Plop!
As a bucket of fallen water was accurately poured on the soles of her feet, Alex successfully took Steve to land on the green grass.
“Oh—oh my God—I’m going to throw up—”
Steve used his rough rectangular arms to soothe his frightened little heart, and turned his head to look around at this wonderful world.
You can see that there are hills all around, and tall and short oak trees grow naturally on the wild land.
Without exception, everything here is a square composed of pixels.
Even the oak crown is made up of green cubes.
“Wow—”
Steve couldn’t help but be stunned by the wonderful world in front of him:
“Where is this?”
At this moment, Alex, who was walking in front, turned around and made a gesture to Steve to follow me:
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“My world.”
(End of this chapter)