Chapter 397 Undercurrent is surging! 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 the launch of 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"
"..."
Increasingly anxious!
The flames of this world war affecting the global game industry caused by the price adjustment of Fantasy have been ignited!
From the West to the East, all game manufacturers seem to have taken action.
Affected manufacturers, they devoted all their efforts to the research and development of self-developed engines.
Manufacturers such as Golden Wind, which are in the eye of the storm, have become the focus of global attention.
And manufacturers that have not been directly affected, such as Germanic Fafox, 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 that was vacated by the operation of Dream Mystery.
As for other business engines!
Naturally, gongs and drums were beaten, and the atmosphere was full of 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 game world war!
The German Cologne Game Show that 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, which is more than double the number of reservations to watch in previous years!
Those who discuss, those who enjoy themselves, those who express their opinions...
Perhaps for the world's game industry, this is an unprecedented world war.
But for the players, this is an unprecedented carnival of public opinion!
Especially Golden Wind and Yunwei!
Judging from the current situation, the focus of this Gamescom is already very clear.
"Minecraft" developed by Golden Wind Wuqing will compete with the super IP game spin-off "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!
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!
To know!
When Golden Wind fought against Comella for the first time, the total investment in "Escape" was nearly 19 million dollars!
At that time, Golden Wind had not yet absorbed Steel Chain Fingers, nor had it acquired Melancholy Blues, nor had it experienced multiple salary increases since then, so 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 is
Less than the "Escape" back then!
This is not driving in reverse, what is this?
So much so that there are voices in the market now pointing out - I think 20 million versus 328 million, no matter how weak Lord of the Rings Gollum is, a 20 million project can't be made successful, right?
If this was a war, this would be equivalent to 2,000 people fighting 32,800 people, an average of 1 to 16.
Don't call it a human being.
Even if sixteen pigs humped a man, they would probably kill him alive.
So even though the war hasn't 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 but laugh three times after seeing this public opinion situation. He was increasingly looking forward to burying the Golden Wind with his own hands at Gamescom, and then happily accepting the so-called "Golden Wind".
Priceless reputation IP!
However!
Don’t wait 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 this is..."
Dream, one of the new anchors of Mouse Channel.
Oh no, actually saying that he is a new anchor is a bit forced. 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 popularity of the game is not high, so naturally his popularity is not high either.
Until a few months ago!
Just when almost all live broadcast platforms are live broadcasting "Resident Evil 7" and subsequent DLC!
Due to personal preferences, Dream did not follow the crowd, but accidentally saw the game "Stardew Valley" and lived a pastoral life.
But who could have imagined it? It was this unintentional move that made him one of the first players to start playing Stardew Valley.
And some of his strategies for making money and gaining favorability quickly became popular in the gaming circle after the game became famous.
Even after that, when "Call of Duty" became popular, he still did not play it. He simply bought the game and then 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.
now.
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.
And today, with the release of the first promotional video for "Minecraft".
Dream, who has long been interested in this weird pixel style block game, naturally opened the official website of Golden Wind immediately 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 know, game promotional videos rarely use real people.
So it's not surprising that Dream was so surprised.
At this time, in the live broadcast room, all the water friends also lit up their eyes——
‘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 Golden Style is really going to go retro?’
‘Ghostphobia’
‘But the gap between the real person and the square person is too big. How is Golden Wind going to balance it?’
'It's quite interesting, let's see if there are any surprises...'
‘…’
And as the audience discusses!
Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk-
Suddenly, a rustling and muffled sound came from the ground at the feet of the man who was working overtime.
Next!
Bang!
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, it feels like the dimensional wall is broken and the pixel style invades the reality of cartoon magic!
"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... Alex, I'm working on architectural design drawings, what are you..."
"Hi-"
Hearing this, Alex waved her hand, then inserted the pixel shovel beside her and stretched out her hand:
"It's already time to get off work! Or...can you find inspiration in the world below?"
"The... world below?"
Steve was a little confused after hearing what Alex said.
He stretched out his hand and was about to ask, but at this moment, he saw Alex pulling him to the ground!
call--!!!
moment!
The camera's perspective passes through the dark dimensional wall, and 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!
now!
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—my fvking god!”
The breakthrough of the dimensional wall and the movement of the camera instantly filled the live broadcast room with surprise and cheers!
Dream even screamed repeatedly, marveling at the imagination of Golden Wind!
There is no doubt that such special shots are 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 make people marvel!
Plop!
With a bucket of falling water accurately poured on the soles of her feet, Alex successfully brought Steve to the green grass.
"Oh-oh my God-I'm gonna 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.
And 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: