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After returning to Suhua from Ninghai, Meng Huo focused his work on "The Rebellious Lelouchi".

Alice didn't follow him back, because Shen Jie hadn't left Manga Island yet. Meng Huo was very busy during the day, because he had to return to Ninghai to start making "Wine of Eternal Life" in a few days. He wanted to make the work of "The Rebellious Lu Luxiu" more stable.

The night is relatively free. The March serial manuscript of "Soul of Chess" was drawn as early as last year, so Meng Huo didn't have to participate in Qin Ya's drawing in the studio. He rested for one night, and planned to go to the game the next night Department production to see.

After dinner, Meng Huo went out and pressed the elevator, but when the elevator opened, he found Shen Jie standing inside.

"Why, you want to go out?" Shen Jie asked in surprise, she hadn't seen Meng Huo for a while, and she finally found time to see him and say goodbye to him today, she didn't expect to meet Meng Huo and was about to go out by such a coincidence.

"Well, I have to go to the game department once." Meng Huo frowned: "Why didn't you tell me before you came, the employees in the game department are all working overtime waiting for me to go, so I can't go tonight."

Shen Jie didn't expect Meng Huo to go out, so she didn't notify in advance, but when she saw Meng Huo going out, she didn't stop her: "That's okay, take me with you, it's late at night, your past is not an important job, is it?" ?”

Meng Huo nodded, "I'm just going to take a look."

He felt that it was no big deal to take Shen Jie there, so he walked into the elevator and walked to the game production department with her. On the way, he also explained to Shen Jie the specific reason for going to the game production department this time.

This matter has to start from the Chinese New Year. "ad" ended a year ago, so the painters Meng Huo transferred from the game production department to help also retired, Meng Huo thought this way. After work, he had to give them a game to make.

The business of the game department has also been idle for a long time. Meng Huo also made some preparations for the new game during the holiday, but he was not fully prepared-because He Qian called him before it was ready and told him that he hoped that he would not launch a new game for the time being. game.

"Ah, I know about this." Shen Jie nodded when she heard this: "I was by your side at the time. I remember that she seemed to say that she had found some very good game designers and wanted to try to make a game by herself. game, right?"

"Yes." Meng Huo nodded. When He Qian transferred the artist away last year, she said that she wanted to make some games by herself. At that time, Meng Huo didn't pay much attention to it, but he didn't expect He Qian to be very enthusiastic about this matter, running around during the Chinese New Year holiday. He even succeeded in recruiting designers from several well-known game manufacturers.

With a designer, He Qian made a further request to Meng Huo,

It is to let him not rush to launch a new text adventure game, but hand over the artists of the game department to her-she can make good use of them.

Meng Huo was surprised that He Qian's project required the use of people from the entire department. It was not a simple game, but he was also very busy preparing materials for movies and animations. Seeing this situation, of course he was willing to let go.

In fact, he really hoped that the game department could develop other games independently when there were no text adventure games, so that he didn't have to watch Meng Huo for everything. Thereby reducing the burden, especially with "Wine of Eternal Life" and "The Magician at the Beginning of the Century", reducing the energy of developing new games also made Meng Huo feel relieved.

And after the annual leave. Meng Huo had been busy with other things, and now that he had time, he wanted to see what He Qian was up to. "Although I agree to let her develop new games." Meng Huo smiled at Shen Jie: "But not all games are acceptable, at least I have to go and see if she doesn't mess around."

That's what he said, but Meng Huo believed in He Qian, he was actually just curious. Shen Jie listened to him. I couldn't help being interested in the new game He Qian was developing: "I will take the initiative to ask Meng Huo to postpone the production of the text adventure game. What game is He Qian working on?"

She thought it would be a good game. It’s not a good game, so why insist on it——but after arriving at the game production department, Shen Jie was a little disappointed.

"Nothing, haven't you started working yet..." When He Qian introduced her new employee to Meng Huo, Shen Jie had already secretly scanned all the computer screens in the game department. These computer screens were full of code data And design drawings, there is no forming scene, it can be seen that the game has not been officially produced.

And Meng Huo soon noticed this too. When He Qian asked about the name of the new game, she answered very simply: "I don't know, we haven't started working on it yet!"

Meng Huo was taken aback: "Then what are you doing now?"

"Game engine!" He Qian said excitedly: "Although we haven't started making new games, we already have game ideas. We want to make a super-large, super-gorgeous and super-fun online game! But before that , we have to make the game engine well first.”

The so-called game engine is as crucial to a game as the engine of a vehicle. A successful engine can support a variety of operating platforms, including many systems: rendering engine (ie "renderer", including two-dimensional image engine and three-dimensional image engine), physics engine, collision detection system, sound effects, script engine, computer animation, artificial Intelligence, network engine and scene management, etc...

It can be said that the game engine is the lifeline of the game, and a successful engine can produce many different games-this is what He Qian is doing.

"Online games... Is the engine of online games so easy to make?" Meng Huo felt a little headache. In fact, he didn't know much about games, but he knew a little about game engines. An excellent online game engine took several years to make. It's so normal.

But how could he give He Qian such a long time?

"Teacher, you don't know now, the best engine is free." He Qian laughed: "How can I develop it from scratch? It is precisely because of the free engine that I come up with the idea of ​​making my own game. .”

She introduced to Meng Huo the most excellent game engine in China today, "Fantasy IV". and a win-win approach.

It says it's free, but it's not really free. "Fantasy IV" has the highest performance among all engines, and its optimization is also done quite well. It not only makes all the tools and source codes public, but also provides a complete ecosystem, and future updates will be free.

It has only one charging method, that is, when someone uses this engine to make a game, achieve commercialization and earn more than 50,000 RMB, they have to start paying 5% of the copyright fee one time at a time——slowly pay the full copyright fee Pay off.

This charging method is very user-friendly. If a game is not successful, there is no need to pay, but if it is successful, the game producer does not need to pay too much money at one time, just pay slowly.

Of course, the full copyright fee is much higher than other engines, but with low risk and good quality, He Qian was the first to choose this.

"So that's how it is..." Meng Huo roughly understood, but he was still a little puzzled: "If this is the case, can't the engine be used directly? Then what are you doing? What do you want the painters to do?"

"We are just making a new engine, but..." He Qian stretched out her voice mischievously, and then said: "Actually, it is wrong to say that we are making an engine, but we are indeed modifying the engine of 'Fantasy IV'. It's not very satisfying…”

She pulled a game designer by her side and introduced it to Meng Huo again. Only then did Meng Huo realize that this game designer was actually one of the developers of 'Fantasy 4', and there was another person like this.

With the two original developers of "Fantasy IV", He Qian boldly decided to modify the engine, and her dissatisfaction with the original engine was mainly in the graphics, and the modification was mainly in the graphics engine.

"Then you want the painters for..."

"Yes, just to help make this graphics engine." He Qian nodded: "All the engines of 'Fantasy 4' are great, but the graphics engine is a little different from what I imagined...Maybe you are spoiled by Mr. He Xi, I Want a better graphics engine for rendering."

It would take her several months to modify the engine alone, so she hoped that Meng Huo would give her these months.

"What about the game?" Meng Huo agreed, but he still didn't know the game information he wanted to know.

"I don't care about the game, I haven't thought about it yet." He Qian was a little embarrassed: "Although I have a preliminary idea, I want to make an online game, but the specific planning has not yet started. Let's get the engine done first. Then make your game, teacher. After we have an engine, we can slowly think of new games..."

He Qian already has a direction and knows what kind of engine is needed, but what kind of game it is is not something that can be figured out overnight. She is going to prepare slowly, but the premise is that the engine must be done first.

"Online games..." Meng Huo found that He Qian had a big heart, and it seemed that she planned to fight for a long time.

However, he was also thoughtful. An idea he had before, Meng Huo never thought it was possible, but looking at it now, it seems that it is not entirely true-"Can you explain this engine to me? Show me the effect..."

He asked He Qian for advice on the 'Fantasy Four' engine, and He Qian naturally explained it to him seriously. Meng Huo was unexpectedly interested, and even stayed in the game department for two hours. After two hours, he has fully understood the effect of this game engine and what kind of games it can make.

"This engine is good, just modify it according to your plan. If you don't have enough money, you can apply to me!" Meng Huo likes the 'Fantasy 4' engine very much, because he finds that it can make the top online game in his previous life, and it can realize his dream. A lot of thoughts, of course... He is very busy now, so he can only temporarily bury his thoughts in his heart. (to be continued)