signingbooks #283 - First make a "Weird Small Country Simulator" to test the waters (2 in 1 request)
#283 - First make a "Weird Small Country Simulator" to test the waters (2 in 1 request)
On Bilibili, Baolie Network released a trailer for their new VR game, "Gunfight Girls 2: Exile."
At the beginning of the trailer, a white-haired girl in a white dress stands in the ruins, holding a potato flower.
Then, she is pounced on by a gun-wielding girl called a "Tactical Doll."
At the moment of the pounce, the trailer's camera cuts, and a bullet flies over their heads, accompanied by a harsh shooting sound and the sputtering of sparks.
In this instant, the entire process uses a VR first-person perspective, making the audience feel as if they are in the ruins, experiencing the tension and excitement of bullets whizzing by.
Next, a squad composed of other Tactical Doll girls appears on the screen.
They quickly deploy a defensive line, covering the white-clothed girl's retreat from the ruins. The atmosphere of the battlefield becomes increasingly tense as enemy gathering squads, armored assault squads, and armed helicopters appear one after another, triggering fierce battles.
The Tactical Doll girl, as the leader, wears a tight-fitting combat suit. She waves to signal her team members to spread out and quickly form a protective barrier.
Other team members occupy advantageous positions, vigilantly observing their surroundings. Under the presentation of VR technology, their movements are smooth and powerful, and every step appears extremely professional.
Next to a dilapidated ruin, a Tactical Doll holds a high-precision sniper rifle, her gaze solemnly scanning the distance. She breathes slowly, suddenly raises her hand, and aims at a lurking enemy in the distance. Instantly, a bullet whistles past, killing the lurking enemy.
At the same time, another Tactical Doll girl silently approaches the white-clothed girl, raises a miniature rocket launcher, and locks onto the enemy's armed helicopter in the air.
Her eyes gleam with light as she presses the trigger, and a rocket roars out, accurately hitting the helicopter's wing, causing a series of sparks.
The Tactical Doll girls seem as if they exist in reality. Their movements, expressions, and even the firmness in their eyes are realistically reproduced.
Bullets fly and explosions sound one after another, as if putting the audience in a real battlefield. The entire trailer smoothly demonstrates the immersive feeling brought by this VR game, making people look forward to a new gaming experience.
...
After the trailer was broadcast, players across the entire network went crazy:
"[Ecstatic] Ahhh, after watching the trailer, I can't wait to personally step into this exciting battlefield!"
"This picture is too realistic, it's simply immersive, VR technology is too powerful!"
"Indeed, this picture is a dimensional strike to other games currently on the market!"
"The cooperation of the Tactical Doll squad is simply the pinnacle of the art of war."
"Lightning is my wife!"
"98K is my wife!"
"My *ahem* has already told me to buy this game! I hope Longteng Group's supporting VR headset isn't too expensive."
"Before, I thought that Longteng Group's cross-border VR games, and forcibly pushing their own VR games, might not have good results, but it turns out they really have the money to push it."
"Now the pressure is on Liushi Group, and Youyi Company has to fight for it."
"The game's art is made like this, it's impossible for it to flop, right? I can't find any point where this game will flop in the future."
...
At this time, in Taoyuan Township Villa, the employees felt a lot of pressure when they saw the online discussion.
Recently, VR games can be said to be at the forefront of the game industry, and everyone wants to get involved.
At first, they thought that their competitors were only those big companies,
Unexpectedly, in just two weeks, hundreds of game companies have loudly announced that they will enter the VR game development field.
What makes everyone even more uneasy is that Taoyuan Township has no presence in the trailer video of "Gunfight Girls 2"!
Taoyuan Township has also released news that they will be developing a VR project, but when discussing the competitors of Gunfight Girls 2, it seems that the entire industry and player community have ignored Taoyuan Township.
Thinking about it, how could Taoyuan Township's current size support the resource consumption of VR hardware and game development at the same time?
Longteng Group has 300,000 employees worldwide, Liushi Group has 180,000 employees worldwide,
But Taoyuan Township only has 300 people, are you kidding me!
Let's first find a way to survive under the crush of the giants.
At this time, Liu Mengyuan, the company's vice president, noticed the subtle emotional changes of the employees,
She remembered her conversation with Lu Yu on the weekend, so she sent an email to all employees:
"Although our company's exploration of the new VR field has not received much attention recently,
But I hope that you can all remain calm and endure the loneliness.
Everyone, whether new or old employees, should learn from our President Lu, and learn his calmness!
As the company's old multi-layered cake, President Lu always looks leisurely on the surface, but he is always able to plan strategies and win from a thousand miles away!
Therefore, any company system formulated by President Lu is not as simple as it seems on the surface!
Everyone must understand President Lu's good intentions in launching the "Yoyaku Daily King Plan" and the "Werewolf Killing Plan."
Lu Yu wants to use such a relaxed method to let everyone adjust their working state,
Combining work and rest is for higher production enthusiasm!
Here, I would also like to quote President Lu's latest quote:
Some things should be left to nature. The more you want an answer, the more confused you become. The more you want to grab, the less you can grab. Haste makes waste. Maybe if you don't care about it, it will slowly become.
Please remember the original intention of deciding to devote yourself to the game industry!"
Seeing Liu Mengyuan's email, everyone's minds suddenly flashed, like a thunderbolt from the blue.
So that's how it is, we understand, we all understand!
The corners of everyone's eyes were slightly wet.
At first, they also felt that President Lu's introduction of so many welfare plans that hindered work seemed very illogical. From the results, it was because their pattern was too small!
If it weren't for President Liu's reminder, they would have almost missed the big event!
It's really worthy of being a couple who sleep in the same bed, we are not as good as them!
At this time, a system light curtain popped up in front of Lu Yu:
[All employees of Taoyuan Township feel happy and excited about your good intentions, Leisure Points +2600]
??????
Lu Yu was dumbfounded.
In order to prevent you little workaholics from misreading my various welfare plans again, I have insisted on not speaking.
What's wrong with you guys again?
However, after frowning and thinking for a moment, Lu Yu was immediately relieved.
Maybe these guys have finally figured it out after being bombarded with so many benefits in the company, and understand my good intentions?
Otherwise, he really couldn't think of anyone else who could stab him in the back.
Well, let's not worry about it for now, it's good to earn points anyway, it's great.
...
In the free studio group office area.
Mo Xiaoxuan, the head of the studio, finally made up his mind after seeing Liu Mengyuan's email on the computer, and came to Lu Yu's work station.
"President Lu, our free studio group also wants to start a new VR project, and would like to hear your opinion."
"Huh?" Lu Yu was stunned, "Why so suddenly?"
"Because... the studio has recently expanded, and the main development work of "Free Mouth Cannon Life" and "Funeral Simulation" have been completed. Currently, it is just some simple post-maintenance,
The project team's workload has dropped sharply, and the work saturation has dropped below 40%.
So, I want to ask, are there any new project opportunities?"
Lu Yu was stunned: "The work pressure has dropped sharply, isn't this a good thing?"
Originally, Lu Yu didn't want the employees of other project teams to start new projects. Wouldn't it be good for everyone to continue to be idle and fish, eat and drink spicy food at their workstations every day?
Besides, I have so many things like cat-stroking, afternoon tea, and the Yoyaku Daily King plan, and I have built so many leisure and entertainment facilities in the company,
Isn't it just to prevent you from being bored and starting to find work for yourselves?
So, Lu Yu firmly waved his hand:
"No need to start a project, it's good for you to continue to be salty like this. After all, old games also need constant maintenance."
"Eh?"
This time it was Mo Xiaoxuan's turn to be stunned.
To be honest, Mo Xiaoxuan felt that something would happen if he continued to be idle like this.
Although he is currently nominally a game producer, since returning from the New Year, he has basically only done one thing—
Cross-dressing as Milk Candy to encourage all the project team members in the company.
Originally, Mo Xiaoxuan also attached great importance to this sacred mission entrusted by President Lu, so in order to improve the effect of encouragement, he has been silently practicing makeup skills, and even intentionally maintaining his figure.
But as a result, he didn't expect that cross-dressing is addictive. Once is never enough, you can't stop at all!
And I don't know why, he obviously doesn't want to do this, but every time after cross-dressing, these cross-dressing skills become more and more proficient,
Even his face is becoming more and more beautiful, more and more like a girl. The eyes of the LSP under his command are almost pulling silk when they look at Milk Candy.
So he felt that it was necessary to find something serious to do, otherwise something would happen!
"In short, I have my own plans," Lu Yu said with a smile.
According to his subsequent leisure point cycle plan, select one of the company's studio groups to develop the games needed for this round of the cycle, and the rest of the studio groups will maintain the existing old games. There is no need to develop new games at all.
But as he was thinking this, the system suddenly popped up a prompt:
[Warning of passive slackness]
[Developing games is the company's reasonable main business. The system detects that the host deliberately prevents project initiation, which is a clearly unreasonable passive slackness behavior. Please correct it in time.]
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Good guy, I really overdid it.
Lu Yu rubbed his eyebrows and called Mo Xiaoxuan, who had just turned around and was about to leave, to stop:
"Well, I approve the project initiation."
?????????
Although he didn't understand why President Lu's thinking would make a 180-degree turn, Mo Xiaoxuan still looked surprised.
Lu Yu thought for a while and added:
"However, I have a few requirements,
First, you must ensure that the project team's workload is not saturated and does not exceed the bottom line stipulated by the company's "efficiency reduction and cost increase" system.
Second, you must control the project scale and cost, and make a small-scale VR game.
I think this way, your studio's product is best to do some early technical verification and paving the way for the Leisure Studio Group's "My Wife is the Savior" and the company's VR hardware.
As for... the subject matter of the project, I haven't thought about it yet, I'll tell you when I think about it."
...
After Mo Xiaoxuan left, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as he artificially controls the resource input of Mo Xiaoxuan's group, then there is no big problem.
None of the project team members have VR game development experience, so, it is nothing more than making some small-scale games that do not have the quality of a hit.
As a result, he just breathed a sigh of relief, and before his butt was hot, the system light curtain popped up in front of him again:
[Company employee Hua Wu, because the project development encountered obstacles, is feeling lost, and a critical hit occurred, Leisure Points -30]
Lu Yu was directly shocked. Good guy, how can this girl be like Mo Xiaoxuan, deducting points at every turn when she is feeling lost.
These are all my hard-earned money!
What a sin!
Lu Yu didn't want to neglect it, so he quickly went to the office area where the Leisure Studio Group was located to find Hua Wu to understand the situation.
Hua Wu was pale and almost cried:
"I'm sorry, President Lu, because I have no game development experience, I never thought that turning a brainstorm from a document into a game program would be such a complex and difficult thing."
Lu Yu thought, actually, when you wrote that project initiation document, I knew that the current situation was destined.
If you weren't completely inexperienced, I wouldn't have recruited you.
Just as Lu Yu was thinking about saying something comforting to fool her, the system suddenly prompted again:
[Employee Hua Wu is feeling lost, and a critical hit and a double hit occurred, Leisure Points -50]
Lu Yu was directly shocked. Good guy, you are even more ruthless than Mo Xiaoxuan when he first joined the company. Do you also have a cleave when deducting points?
Moreover, based on the system's underlying rule of diminishing marginal effects, the more unpleasant experiences employees have related to work, the more points are deducted.
This time, I can't fool her, Lu Yu asked:
"Cough, what difficulties have you encountered in the development of your project?"
Hua Wu began to pour out her grievances like a machine gun:
The big city world she envisioned requires realistic natural landscapes, including vegetation, terrain, and water bodies. Making these details requires a lot of graphics resources and rendering technology.
And to achieve the diversity and interaction of the scene ecosystem, highly complex program logic and graphics rendering technology are required.
Loading large-scale maps requires solving optimization and memory management problems to ensure smooth game operation while providing high-quality graphics details.
In addition, the game wants to achieve a dynamically changing sky, including sunrise, sunset, and starry sky, which requires advanced rendering technology and astronomical simulation. In addition, to achieve the dynamic transition of weather, including from sunny to cloudy, showers, etc., smooth weather change effects are required.
These are all technical problems at the VR development level.
...
Listening to Hua Wu's summary, Lu Yu sighed.
According to his experience in his previous life, it is easy to take too big a step and tear your crotch when starting such a large project.
We should have made one or two small-volume products in the early stage for technical verification.
In particular, it is necessary to verify the technical issues of scene development and environment simulation until a mature development pipeline is in place before a new project of this scale can be approved.
Wait!
Wasn't Mo Xiaoxuan's team just worried about not having a project to do?
Why not let Mo Xiaoxuan make a similar technical verification game!
This way, these two companies' big deduction accounts won't easily deduct points from me.
As for what to do if the game accidentally becomes a hit?
Lu Yu smiled slightly, confident.
Hehe, as long as it's under my real-time monitoring, through a series of clever manipulations, it's impossible for these two projects to become hits!
So, after Lu Yu comforted Hua Wu, he emailed Mo Xiaoxuan the technical issues that her project encountered and needed verification.
Mo Xiaoxuan read Lu Yu's email and thought: President Lu's requirements seem to require various large-scale wild environment verifications, isn't that just asking me to make a game that looks like it suits a man's temperament?
For example, using VR to experience real-time battlefield killings, wilderness survival, exposure to the elements, tension and excitement... and the like.
Thinking like this, Mo Xiaoxuan opened the BiliBili app on his phone listlessly.
He casually clicked on a video of a UP master he followed that was recommended by the system, and suddenly, a familiar voice came:
"Hello everyone, I am a new UP master, Johnny Khan."
He loves watching this UP master's series of videos about bizarre small countries, especially those about African benevolent rulers, and he watches each episode more than once.
While watching, Mo Xiaoxuan had a flash of inspiration!
That's right, the harsh African continent fits these requirements perfectly!
So, with a flood of ideas and inspiration, he quickly opened the document and began to write the project's preliminary conception and game concept slogan:
"Descend on the African continent and become a member of the Tongo universe.
Experience the shining moment of mankind!
Choose the role you want to play from the African benevolent rulers:
Do you want to be the benevolent model Bokassa?
Do you want to be the people's loving father, Duvalier?
Or the African saint, Boigny?
Or Qaddafi, who challenged the whole world?
Or Sankara and Compaoré, known as the African Che Guevara!
Use VR devices to experience the excellent matching mechanism in the African region, and experience the tense and exciting war, and the 'friendly physical exchanges' between the people and neighboring countries.
Bizarre Small Country Simulator, immediately brings the newly launched Tongo universe!
Real-time power management and strategic simulation, how to break out of a hellish start and unify the African continent?
Peach Garden Township exclusive production, please look forward to it!"