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Apollo broke out of the earth and is still traveling in space, but Catherine's Game Developers Conference has already started with excitement.

For Gates, the freshness this developer conference brought to him was obviously greater than the so-called "moon landing", so on the day of the opening ceremony, Gates invited Jobs to come with him.

"Ladies and gentlemen! What you are seeing now is the world's first multiplayer game played over the Internet. The name of this game is "Magic World". As the name of the game says, this game is

What is depicted is exactly a world.”

What is being introduced on stage now is the world's first online game.

"This game will be launched together with our instant messaging software QQ. This game uses the instant messaging function of QQ to allow our computers to truly play Internet games."

After all, it is her own product, so Catherine shamelessly adopted the strategy used by Tencent to use customer stickiness to expand the user base of her product.

And Catherine is much smarter than just a QQ.

In fact, Catherine’s QQ also relied on her own tricks to attract the first batch of users.

The entire Internet belongs to Catherine. Real-name authentication is required to access the Internet. After real-name authentication, you will have an ID. With this ID, Internet users can use QQ directly without registering. This is very convenient.

The instant messaging tool QQ is Catherine's trump card.

There is no product similar to this on the current Internet, and only Catherine's computer has such a powerful thing.

Of course, there is still a big difference between the QQ of today and the QQ of the future.

The first is that your system does not support multitasking very well. In other words, after opening the chat interface and then running other programs, there will be problems here. Of course, you have to have enough memory.

There is nothing to say about a flagship model that is large and has dual CPUs.

But as far as ordinary computers are concerned, although they now have a luxurious visual interface, the processing tasks are still similar to the original phienrx.

"Magic World" is a program integrated into QQ. Engineers cleverly combined the two software into one software, so it became the current "Magic World".

"This game is really great..."

As soon as Gates saw this game, he was fascinated by it.

Although the graphics are not very good, because the artists are all very outstanding talents, the graphics of this game are also very gorgeous - at least for this era, it is one of the best.

In fact, in terms of graphics alone, "Red Alert" is slightly inferior, because "Red Alert" needs to deal with a large number of units, so if the graphics are too good, it will not be too good for the system itself.

If we want to say a better game, it is the finale of the conference. "The entire game will have a huge map that we have not been able to see in previous games. For players, this is definitely a game with a high degree of freedom!"

"

What is shown on the screen now is a warrior fighting a monster.

Although this game is very simple, in order to fill up the 210MB capacity of the disc, the game engineers still tried every means to include many magic systems in the game, and the entire game alone is

map size

If converted into reality, it would be 100,000 square kilometers, which is already larger than half of the United Kingdom in reality.

Not only that, there are more than 100 cities and towns in total, which is absolutely unprecedented.

Of course, the current game players are mainly concentrated in a few cities. Although there are so many towns, this is only an online game after all, so when choosing, players must be concentrated.

The current "Magic World" is similar to the future synthesis of dnd and wow, but it is somewhat different because of the times. First of all, this is a 2D game. In fact, although it can have one screen, there are more

At that time, the screen only showed the player's behavior. Players could not directly control the characters like in later online games. They could only see what was actually happening in the game. The game mode was almost turn-based.

During the adventure, everyone can move freely, but when entering the battle, the game will become a chess game. Each player has a time sequence of actions. Whenever the player takes action, the game will

It will pause, and then let the players make their own responses within the specified time.

Although European and American audiences prefer real-time games, real-time games are not suitable for this game.

As the first game in the world to communicate through the Internet, this game is not good at processing network signals. There is generally delay in the game. Although the delay is not high, as a real-time game, this delay

It's enough to be fatal.

Moreover, in online games, what players can bring into most is their own image, rather than feeling like a strategist like in "Red Alert".

You are yourself. If your character is shoddy, it will be unacceptable to many people. There is another name for such people: "Picture Party".

Catherine is a graphics person, so for the sake of graphics and more stable game performance, the game can only settle for the second best and adopt this game mode that is slightly similar to Legend of Heroes G.

, "If our "Metal Slug" can also be made into an online game, it won't be worse than this game." Jobs over there didn't seem to be planning to admit defeat.

, "Eh? But what would it look like if "Metal Slug" was made into an online game?"

Although Metal Slug is good, Gates feels that side-scrolling games are not suitable for online games.

"We can form a team to pass the level. You can recruit 1 to 3 friends in the town and then enter the level." Jobs thought of a good idea.

, "The next game will be an epic masterpiece "The Age of Discovery"!

This is a game based on the geographical discoveries from the 15th to the 17th century, with the entire world as the stage. This game will be released on our Pentium computers and future nimbus game consoles!"

At this time, "The Age of Discovery" was already being introduced on the stage.

,"oh!"

At this time, the Blizzard company's logo began to appear in the painting, and then the game "Age of Discovery" entered.

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"This game uses Blizzard's most advanced technology. In the game, you can experience the career of a Columbus-style explorer, or you can experience the unrestrained life of a pirate, and you can even become the monarch of a country! Build a business

Roads, canals, there are many things we can do!”

This game has already been released, and it is here just to increase sales. However, the players who can come to the conference are all experienced players, and they all have a certain understanding of this game.

, "Maybe I can build a character named Bill Gates and let him kill Columbus? I wonder if we will discover America..."

Although it is a navigation game, in order to take care of the IQ of Americans, the game can easily navigate automatically.

In the American mind, the Soviet Union can be right next to the United States, Australia can be in South America, and Uncle Bin Laden can be a comatose president, so you know.

Amidst Gates's complaints, unknowingly, the finale has arrived.

"The following game will be released with nm when the Nimbus game console is released next year. This is our "Resident Evil"!"

At this time, the screen had turned into an extremely shocking picture.

, "This is... 3d?"

The graphics of the game are indeed very impressive, with a completely quasi-realistic background. Many people have been blown away by such scenes.

Although it adopts "pseudo-3D" technology, will the company's talents be stupid enough to tell this matter? In fact, Blizzard's request for this matter is that "no publicity will be published" and no publicity will be given.

I am a 3D technology user, and I do not advertise that I use multiple images and layers and angles between images to create a 3D feeling.

Everything can only be left to the audience and players to guess.

Gates and Jobs, on the other hand, had gone elsewhere at this time. They had been playing this game for several months and were tired of watching it...

At this time, the host began to introduce the game: "This game is a horror-themed adventure game with puzzle elements. In the game, you will play an in-depth investigation of the castle.

Police officer..."

At this time, images from the game began to appear on the large LED screen.

, "This game will be very different from our current games. In the game, players can play from a variety of game perspectives..."

At this time, the picture has changed from the original top view to a 45-degree squint.

"oh!"

Another exclamation.

"In nimbus game consoles, our Thunder graphics card will be sold as an expansion device, and our "Resident Evil" also requires a Thunder graphics card to run."

Not everyone needs a ps3, maybe they just need a little overlord who can play cards, so the cost-increasing Thunder graphics card must be separated.

Then, the host introduced the game.

However, the people present no longer care about this matter, because this game has conquered them just by relying on the graphics...

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