Build a game empire from scratch

In the conference room of the CIA's Lin You countermeasure team, six members, five men and one woman, looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Lin You might be building mechas", they didn't believe it at all at first.

After all, they have the most intelligence.

When they first received the mission, after working hard for a while, all kinds of information and analysis about Lin You had already filled up three filing cabinets.

Afterwards, even if it became a mentality of fishing for the elderly, it still went to work on time every day to play games. California is adjacent to Mexico, and they have official technical and equipment support. The game experience is much better than that of ordinary players in America.

Combining the two, they can indeed say without humility: "We are the group that knows Lin You best in America!"

Based on this understanding, they were 80% sure at the beginning that the blueprint was not a real mecha.

Considering the ultra-low cost performance of large humanoid robots in war, coupled with the global mainstream peace thoughts, this certainty can even be increased to 90%.

Later, Daxia TV station's behavior of modifying the video made them puzzled.

Lin You's current trailer, which breaks the rules, hides the truth, and makes people more suspicious the more they think about it, further deepens their suspicions.

This led to an increase in the confidence level of [Lin Youzhen is developing a large mech] in their evaluation report from less than 10% at the beginning to 25%.

This is already a one in four chance.

It also means that according to the work process, they must cooperate with their superiors to formulate relevant plans.

This caused headaches for five people in the group of six.

The boss of the countermeasures team, the 41-year-old Burns was full of sadness: "How about we lower it by one percentage point and write 24% in the report?"

A difference of one percentage point is the difference between whether there will be an extra job.

Another team member immediately nodded in agreement: "I also think there is a problem with the previous analysis. There is no doubt that the development of large-scale mechs requires a large enough space. Lin You can't always do research and development in the second ring of Xiajing, right? I think 20% is a problem. Reasonable numbers."

The only woman in the group nodded expressionlessly while thinking about what to have for lunch: "Agreed."

Only Daniel, the youngest and most stubborn, disagreed: "No! I object!"

"25% is 25%, how can you just change it?"

This made several other people in the group subconsciously frown.

The oldest and most senior colleague in the group shook his head: "There is too little information and the conclusions are not rigorous enough. I don't think it's appropriate to make a fuss over a molehill."

"If we put up the report, causing a misjudgment, and set up a project to study large-scale mechs, and finally find that Lin You just made a game, then we need to take responsibility, and waste a lot of manpower and material resources. OK."

He didn't say to lower the confidence level, but his opinion is undoubtedly lowered, but he just used a more reasonable reason.

The team leader Burns said in a timely manner: "Let's lower it first, and then we will pay close attention to it. If necessary, we will report to the top as soon as possible, how about it?"

Daniel still hesitated, but seeing the displeased expressions of his colleagues, he finally reluctantly agreed.

*

At the same time, the employees in the Yunmeng office group were also quite surprised.

Just a minute after the trailer was released, Lin You's phone started beeping non-stop. When he opened it, it was full of excited questions from the employees——

"Boss, what are you doing?"

"You're playing games behind our backs again!"

"Isn't the miracle of developing a game in a week not enough? You also want to break this record? Do you have to be like this?"

——Looking at the introduction of the trailer, what new gameplay, it is clearly a new game! And it's a fun new game to watch!

This made them feel the difference in the world again.

In addition to expressing shock, there are also a large number of employees who actively apply for overtime:

"Boss, do you need our help?"

"I'm applying for remote overtime! Boss, give me a chance!"

"I'm really ashamed. I'm on vacation, but my boss is always busy. If this continues, I feel like I'm going to be eliminated by Yunmeng..."

...

The employees are enthusiastic.

But unfortunately, Lin You rejected all of them:

"I don't want to have enough fun during the holidays, but want to work overtime? Are you kidding me? Do you know how precious the holidays are?"

"Do you know how painful it is for people who cannot take vacations and are forced to take time off?"

I really don't know how to cherish it at all!

Outside the office group, in many small groups, employees are also passionately gossiping:

"For summer? I remember, the veteran super intern in our company seems to be called Xiao Xia?"

"The real version of "The Domineering President Falls in Love with Me"?"

"Good guy, I knocked!"

"Could it be a coincidence? Xiaoxia—I have no problem with Xiaoxia. I like her quite a bit, but to be honest, she's just average in appearance, right? Can the boss see him?"

"Guess what, just ask! I have several group chats with her, wait for my good news!"

...

The lively atmosphere lasted until very late.

*

The next morning, the princess' good morning text message went unanswered.

She pursed her lips, a little unhappy.

It's not because Lin You didn't respond to her text messages immediately, but because he thought that Lin You might stay up late and work overtime to develop the game in order to give her a gift, which is why he hasn't woken up yet.

This worried her a little.

But in fact, Lin You didn't stay up late and work overtime to play games.

He just stayed up late to finish the trailer.

——Strictly speaking, it is actually a "prediction scam", and many contents in it are not done well at all, and need to be improved today.

I went to bed too late, purely because I watched the touts in the diving watch group and on the Internet for too long.

After waking up, he first replied to Zhu Cixia's greeting message, then took a shower, and after eating the lunch sent by Yue Pengju, he started to implement all the contents in the trailer.

But not long after he started working, Xiaomeng patted his arm suddenly and said, "Master, sister princess is here!"

"Ah?" Lin You was a little surprised, "Shouldn't she be busy?"

The few days of the new year is supposed to be one of the busiest times of the year for Zhu Cixia. Yesterday she also said that she would attend several places today.

When Lin You opened the door, he found that Zhu Cixia was still dressed up, with Jian Xingde's coat on the outside, apparently just came down from a formal occasion.

"What's the matter, so anxious?" Lin You hurriedly pulled her into the warm room.

"I want to help! I don't want you to work too hard."

Seeing the sincere expression of the little princess, Lin You did not refuse again: "Okay, but before that, you have to drink some hot soup to warm up your body."

...

...

Half an hour later, Lin You brought Zhu Cixia into the virtual world again, and the three of them started working together.

And the princess really helped a lot—the animals are even cuter under her meticulous care.

This is very important.

Because in "Animal Party", players no longer wear leather jackets like the [Candy Track] gameplay, but really "become animals", which is one of the core fun of the game.

So in this game, "cute" is the primary productivity!

As for Lin You himself, he devoted all his energy to the most time-consuming sensory data.

But this time the pursuit is not "how to make it more real", but "just right unreal".

The tactility of cartoon-style animals must not be exactly the same as that of real animals——

If it is a long-haired animal, such as orange cat, corgi, panda, etc., it must feel more fluffy, soft, warm and lovely than the real one.

Those without long hair, such as dinosaurs, crocodiles, hippopotamuses, etc., must be soft and cute, not as rough and hard as the real skin.

The fine tuning of this part took the most time.

Fortunately, players should not be able to accept the feeling of being "all hairy", which saves Lin You the effort of writing the corresponding virtual senses - he has never experienced this stuff, so it must be a huge trouble to write it.

Fortunately, there is no need to actually do this, which saves a lot of time.

Apart from these, the rest of the scenes, props, etc., are not a problem with the "wish-making machine" of Xiaomeng.

The three of them performed their duties and cooperated with each other. The completion of the game continued to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Before the sky darkened, it reached a level where it could be tested.

happy vacation!

Please ignore the above sentence if there is no holiday.