Build a game empire from scratch

As soon as Lin You sat down in the office, he received an unexpected call.

"Missing Person" Liang Tian contacted him suddenly.

Lin You thought for a moment, when was the last time this person contacted him.

It can't be blamed that he doesn't pay attention to his employees. Ever since Liang Tian asked for leave a month ago to return to his hometown and launched a second attack on his previous dream, he has almost lost contact with him.

There is no way, he returned to his hometown, which is considered a second start in a sense, and opened a game experience store for himself, not a branch store for Yunmeng.

Naturally, there is no reason to report work in Yunmeng's office software.

"Hello?" Lin You answered the phone.

"Boss, I'm sorry!" Liang Tian opened his mouth to apologize.

"Ah?" Lin You was confused by Liang Tian, ​​"Why are you sorry for me?"

"My game experience store has opened."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Lin You was very surprised, "Could it be that you think that your dream has come true and you don't want to come back and do it?"

"No, of course not." Liang Tian quickly stated, "I am very willing to work in Yunmeng! I have no intention of leaving at all!"

"Then what are you apologizing for?"

"My experience store, Mirage's play price, exceeds the experience store." Liang Tian said with guilt.

"Because there are all consoles in the store from handhelds, arcade machines, home game consoles, VR, to Mirage. During the trial operation before, the one-size-fits-all time fee has been verified to be unfeasible, and the customers are very controversial."

"However, if different hosts are charged separately, there are a lot of equipment in the store, the floor area is not small, and the operation pressure is very high. Mirage cannot charge 10 yuan an hour like the experience store. Otherwise, VR equipment that is more backward than Mirage, there is no Qualification costs more than 30 yuan an hour, not to mention the fact that the next generation of game equipment is more backward than VR equipment, the controversy over pricing is too great.”

"In order to keep the store open, I can only set the price of Mirage to 45 yuan an hour."

Liang Tian, ​​as the general store manager of Yunmeng Experience Store, knew very well that Lin You had set the price to an astonishingly low level in order to benefit more people.

But he really couldn't bear the price, and the store would not be able to continue to open like that.

But Lin You comforted Liang Tian: "You can decide your own store, don't worry about the price of Yunmeng Experience Store."

He is very clear that morality and ideals can only be used to restrain himself.

If you use this thing to restrain others, it's purely full of food and meddling in other people's business.

So he just does what he thinks is right, but he doesn't ask others to be the same as himself.

After all, he also knows that he only has the qualification to be willful because of an unexpected gift.

"Don't feel burdened, come on!" Lin You comforted Liang Tian and hung up the phone.

At the same time, he wants to try more, whether he can play VR games in the virtual world.

And because of Liang Tian's phone call, he couldn't help thinking: "Maybe we can move all those other game devices into the virtual world?"

In that case, Liang Tian's experience store only needs to install Mirage, and customers can play all kinds of games.

The problem of charging is solved directly.

Of course, Liang Tian's small store is only the smallest impact, and the more critical impact is: this seems to be an opportunity, an opportunity to build a national, or even a global, unified game platform.

After all, if you want to build a unified platform, you must at least break through the barriers between different devices, right?

And Yunmeng's technology seems to be able to do it.

It's just that after Lin You thought about it, he found that the difficulty seemed a bit high——

If it is just to reproduce the hardware in the virtual world of handhelds, mobile phones, computers, home game consoles, and even VR devices, it is not difficult, and it can even be said to be simple.

But getting these hardware to run real-world games and software is a bit harder.

Mirage 2.0 host, the hardware used is just a mature product on the market, and its performance is not far superior to that of its peers.

In terms of performance alone, it is on par with the latest generation of VR hosts from NetDragon, Flying Fox, and Desert Island.

It is only because the construction technology of the virtual world is advanced enough, and the player's brain is also involved, that makes the mirage seem to have no limit.

But Lin You knows very well that there is a limit to the mirage.

If the entire Night City is converted into a format that the VR host can run, and the most advanced Flying Dragon III is downloaded, then the host of the VR device cannot be stored at all.

Even if you try your best to upgrade the storage, and at the same time delete the details of Night City, it will be directly paralyzed in the blink of an eye.

But the positions of the two are reversed, and the gap is not obvious——

Using Mirage to store the main body of "Blaze 3" can only put dozens of copies at most. If it is really going to run, it is even impossible to open it in double mode.

Because Mirage needs to simulate the running environment of the VR game first, and then use the simulated "virtual VR host" to run the game.

It's a bit like you build a computer in "Minecraft", and then use this computer to play Snake.

The computing power required to play Snake directly on the computer is completely different from that of you.

This is why, when players connect to the Internet in the virtual world, they need to jump through the personal panel, instead of finding a computer in the game and directly connecting to the external Internet.

As for directly cooperating with game companies, let them develop games on other devices that can run directly in the virtual world without any pressure, or even reset old games, based on the construction technology of virtual reality, and directly use the technical methods that are compatible with the virtual world?

Lin You just gave up after thinking for a while.

Because this involves the underlying technology of virtual world construction, it is very difficult!

——The few times before Lin You played games with Xiao Meng in the virtual world. After Lin You bought the game, he threw the game to Xiao Meng to crack, and then Xiao Meng completed the reset in the virtual world.

Otherwise, let him do it by himself, he doesn't want to waste that time at all.

Even now among Yunmeng's employees, Qin Songyun may be the only one who can do it, and it will take a lot of time.

Most Yunmeng employees still use the simple version of the development tools provided by Lin You.

Subsequent learning and improvement are mostly around this set of development tools, thinking about how to make this tool more efficient and easier to use.

So instead of teaching people how to start from scratch and learn the underlying technology, it is faster and easier for them to directly develop a "virtual reality upgrade" of a game.

Besides, with this energy, why not use it to train your own employees?

Of course, having said that, Lin You is also a person who knows how to live.

If the deluxe version is not available for the time being, we can go to the beggar version (cross out) the youth version first!

If you can't run the game directly, then I put the device aside and connect the wireless board.

Then connect the mirage and the device together, and use the mirage to control the host to play games. Isn't that all right?

In this way, the original device still runs the game, and the mirage only serves as an "input" and "output", which is equivalent to replacing the keyboard, handle, omnidirectional treadmill, and terminal display.

What's this?

This is cloud gaming!

The technical difficulty is greatly reduced!

Lin You immediately began to think about this kind of technology, what kind of hardware equipment and software authorization it needs to use, and whether it is necessary to go to the console manufacturer or game manufacturer to obtain authorization and discuss cooperation.

He's really interested in this.

But soon, Xiaomeng interrupted his contemplation: "Master~ NetDragon has released a preview of the actual phone!"

"Here we come." Lin You shook his head, intending to see Wanglong's movements first.

As for playing VR games with Mirage?

Tomorrow, I will use NetDragon's equipment to practice it!