Restart the Gaming Era

I don't know whether it was because he felt the gaze or just turned his head, but Peng Liang turned his head and happened to meet Li Xin's eyes.

As a result, when Peng Liang saw the name tag on Li Xin's chest that read "Tianji Studio", he immediately turned his head away.

Li Xin was a little dumbfounded. Apparently this guy was still thinking about what happened on Weibo.

If it were someone else who was both Chinese and came to the developer conference, they should at least give a nod, and maybe there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future. As a result, Peng Liang was also very stubborn and just pretended not to know him.

Li Xin didn't think too much. He was not interested in the i review itself, so he just continued to listen to the explanation at the main venue.

This developer conference has a lot of activities. In addition to the main venue, there will be many introductions to the new features of the Alpha system. There will also be many speeches and activities afterwards. The event is divided into main venues and sub-venues. Companies and individuals participating in the Developer Conference can decide which activities to participate in based on their own needs.

It's just that the session now being held is the opening of the conference and the highlight. Although Jia Jia and the others can't understand it, they can only listen to it to the end.

Wei Yong looked at the column list of this conference on the bracelet and whispered to Jia Jia: "It seems that there will be an explanation and introduction of the bracelet game at the branch venue later. The company "Wind Chaser"."

Jia Jia nodded: "Well, we can go take a look later."

Finally, the explanation of the new features of the Alpha system is over, and we enter a short break. People in the main venue began to leave one after another. Some people got up and went to the branch venue to participate in activities, while others stayed and exchanged electronic business cards with people around them.

Most of the people who can come to this occasion are either peers or in different industries, but if there are potential cooperation opportunities, everyone will definitely not miss this excellent opportunity to expand their network.

There are also some Chinese manufacturers exchanging business cards with Western manufacturers. Both parties have translation headsets, so communication is not a big problem.

Jia Jia and the other three came to the branch venue, where there will be a lecture by the designer of "Wind Chaser" in a while.

"Storm Chaser" is a typical wristband game that Alpha Company has been promoting. It also combines motion capture technology, certain artistry and novel gameplay. With the popularity of Alpha wristbands, it has also set off a craze around the world.

Its status is somewhat similar to games such as "Fruit Ninja" and "Temple Run" when smartphones first appeared in Zhong Ming's previous life. Although the gameplay is not complicated and the profitability is not necessarily strong, it uses the technology of new devices. breakthrough, so it had a very wide impact around the world.

Although Jia Jia feels that the level of this game is not particularly high, he is not interested in other activities, so it is good to listen to this lecture.

The activities at the branch venue did not have restricted locations. The three of them found a seat and sat down casually, and roughly looked at the people present.

There are still people coming in one after another, most of them should be people working in the game industry, many of them are designers. However, Jia Jia basically didn’t recognize them. Most of them were Western faces, and they were all mobile game designers, so they were basically out of reach.

After waiting for a while, there were more and more people in the sub-venue. This time the "Storm Chaser" speech was much more popular than expected.

"Hey, the president of Alpha Company's Greater China Region will also be coming to this venue? No wonder there are so many people." Li Xin took another look at the column list and discovered the reason why the sub-venue was so popular.

Ge Wei, President of Alpha Greater China Region, will also be present at this branch meeting.

Ge Wei is directly responsible for all affairs of the entire Alpha Company in Greater China and reports directly to Alpha Company President William. She is undoubtedly a high-level powerful figure in Alpha Company and has strong influence in all aspects.

Not long after, the branch room was already full. A woman who looked to be in her thirties came to the branch room and sat in the front row.

Although Wei Yong had seen Ge Wei's information on the Internet before, he almost didn't recognize her because there was a big gap between the real person and the photo. Fortunately, everyone attending the conference had an identity tag on their chest, and the colors were different. Only then did Wei Yong realize that this was the Greater China President of Alpha Company.

This Ge Wei is of Chinese descent, but she grew up in the West and speaks very average Chinese. His personal ability is very strong, otherwise he would not be able to achieve such a high position in Alpha Company.

Soon, the experience exchange meeting for the designers of "Storm Chaser" began.

The designer of "Storm Chaser" spoke in detail on the stage about the opportunity for the birth of the game, the design concept, the difficulties encountered during development, feedback from players, etc. There was really a lot of interesting content.

Jia Jia thought that this might be specially arranged by Alpha Company. The fact that Ge Wei, the president of the Greater China Region, personally came to this branch venue could explain the problem.

Obviously, as the market share of Alpha bracelets continues to expand, they are paying more and more attention to the development of channels and software. Alpha Company has always attached great importance to the integration of software and hardware. The market share of the Alpha system has continued to increase, and the games in the Alpha store have also become an important part of Alpha Company's revenue.

This "Wind Chaser" experience exchange meeting can obviously also represent Alpha Company's attitude: encouraging more game companies to design games like "Wind Chaser" can achieve a win-win situation between game companies and Alpha channels. .

Soon, the "Storm Chaser" designer's speech ended, and there was a burst of warm applause from the audience.

After the designer answered a few questions, Ge Wei came to the stage and stated in English as the president of Alpha Greater China to all the designers and media present that Alpha Company attaches great importance to the ring game and hopes that more similar games will appear. For games like "Storm Chaser", the Alpha store will provide maximum support.

Many designers present looked at the designers of "Storm Chaser" with envy.

It was originally a little-known company, but just because it developed a mobile game, it rose to the top. Its revenue increased hundreds of times. It went from being unknown to almost everyone in the mobile game circle, and it was hard for others not to envy it.

Ge Wei answered a few more questions, and this experience exchange meeting was completely over.

The scene began to disperse, and Ge Wei planned to leave, but as soon as she reached the door, a Chinese man walked up with a smile on his face.

"Hello Mr. Ge, I am Peng Liang, CEO of i Evaluation. We have cooperated with your company's business department before..."

Peng Liang speaks fluent English and is quite humble.

Although both of them are nominally senior executives, Peng Liang still has a good idea of ​​the size of the Alpha bracelet and the size of the i review.

In fact, Peng Liang didn't do anything special. He was mainly talking about the influence of his own reviews in China, and then praised the Alpha bracelet and the like. For Peng Liang, it is also a very rare thing to meet the Greater China President of Alpha Company at this venue. Of course, he must try his best to get there. It would be best if he can exchange electronic business cards. Even if he can't, at least he will look familiar. .

Gerwig kept a polite smile and responded with words such as "fine", "interesting" and "wow" from time to time.

Jia Jia and Li Xin also saw this scene and were a little dumbfounded.

Li Xin whispered: "See, you are a typical keyboard warrior. He is like a local emperor who pointed out the country on Weibo, defying the sky and the earth, but when he got here, he instantly transformed into a refined and easy-going person."

Jia Jia smiled, and he saw it too.

In fact, this situation is normal. Peng Liang can indeed criticize heaven and earth on Weibo. He can criticize Zhong Ming. That is because there is no direct interest relationship between the two. A review media and a game developer are basically the same in the past and in the future. There can be no intersection. But the relationship between the evaluation media and the bracelet manufacturers is too close. Of course, not all evaluation media have such a close relationship with the bracelet manufacturers, but i Review obviously does not.

What's more, for a giant of the size of Alpha Company, it is possible to develop into a potential funder (or it is already a funder and no one knows about it). Peng Liang must maintain enough "politeness".

However, it was obvious that Ge Wei had a professional smile on her face, and she was probably a little impatient.

Moreover, many people like Peng Liang gathered around Ge Wei, including Chinese and Westerners. They probably all had the same idea as Peng Liang, and wanted to get in touch with Mr. Ge as much as possible, or at least become familiar with each other. .

Jia Jia and the three of them looked at the column list and prepared to leave the branch venue.

As a result, when she just passed by Peng Liang and Ge Wei, Ge Wei saw the identity tags on the chests of the three of them and said directly: "Please wait a moment!"

Jia Jia was stunned for a moment and realized that Ge Wei was actually coming towards her.

"Are you members of Tianji Studio?" Ge Wei asked in unskilled Chinese.

Jia Jia realized that she was indeed asking herself, nodded and said, "Yes, hello, Mr. Ge."

Ge Wei was very happy: "I'm really happy that you are here too. I like "City Guard War" very much. Do you have time? I want to chat with you alone."

Jia Jia nodded: "Of course."

Ge Wei turned around and said to everyone: "Sorry everyone, I have to excuse myself. If you have any questions, please contact the venue staff."

After Ge Wei finished speaking, she led Jia Jia and the three of them away directly.

Peng Liang and the others were all awkward and speechless.

gone?

Just leave like that? ? ?

Peng Liang was in bad shape. Forget it if it was another company, but it turned out to be Tianji Studio! Mobile game company! He was actually invited away by Ge Wei, President of Alpha Company's Greater China Region!

Peng Liang has been very unhappy since he had a little quarrel with Zhong Ming on Weibo last time. The key point is that Zhong Ming played a trick and put all the blame on Tianji Studio. Tianji Studio made another big move and kicked the ball away. On the contrary, Peng Liang's Weibo was trolled by many people.

In fact, Peng Liang looks down on Tianji Studio very much. He is just a mobile game maker. What an air!

Do you know what the future direction of technology development is?

Do you know what technology media is at the forefront?

I just made "City Guard Battle" like a child's house, and ended up being invited to Alpha Company's developer conference. It's really unreasonable!

As a result, the reality was difficult for Peng Liang to accept. Ge Wei, who had been talking in English before, actually started talking in Chinese, and even invited these three little brats from Tianji Studio to talk alone...

I'm so angry!

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Ge Wei led Jia Jia and the three of them to a reception room at the venue, obviously not wanting to be disturbed by other people.

Ge Wei can speak the few simple Chinese sentences before, but if the two of them want to communicate more deeply, they still need to use translation headphones.

"Mr. Jia, on behalf of Alpha Company, I would like to extend my heartfelt welcome to Tianji Studio. I really like playing the "City Guard War" you designed. This game seems simple, but it is very fun..."

Obviously, Ge Wei was very interested in the designer of "City Guard War". After confirming that Jia Jia was the chief designer of Tianji Studio, she asked several questions about "City Guard War".

It is normal for Ge Wei to attach great importance to Tianji Studio. Peng Liang doesn't understand why a mobile game developer has such a big name. It's actually very simple. Alpha has internally designated games and software services as a very important sector and is constantly increasing investment.

Although Alpha's main profit currently comes from selling bracelets, for Alpha, content products such as software and games will be the focus in the next period of time. Sooner or later, the sales of Alpha bracelets will slow down, and by then the revenue from content products will definitely increase steadily.

For Ge Wei, as the president of Greater China and a player of "City Guard War", of course she attaches great importance to Tianji Studio.

You know, "Storm Chaser", which was highly praised by Alpha Company, used visual capture technology and was always recommended in the Alpha store. However, in the end, it was still beaten by "City Guard" and lost its profitability. It doesn't look like they are on the same level at all.

Ge Wei asked a lot of questions about "City Guard War", and Jia Jia answered them one by one.

"I wonder if Tianji Studio has any new research and development plans recently? Please be sure to give priority to releasing them to the Alpha store." Ge Wei said with anticipation.

Jia Jia smiled: "There is a game under development recently, but it is still in the demo stage."

"Really? Can you let me try it out?" Ge Wei said in surprise, "It doesn't matter in the demo stage. I will understand some temporary art materials and bugs in the demo."

"Wei Yong, give me the bracelet for testing," Jia Jia said.

Wei Yong immediately took out the Alpha bracelet for testing and handed it to Jia Jia.

Jia Jia found the demo of "Auto Chess" on the bracelet, clicked to open the program and handed it to Ge Wei.

The game content of "Auto Chess" is actually not too much, and the main workload is on the chess model. However, Jia Jia has a large amount of art resources from Weiguang Studio and Tianji Studio. Many of the art resources can be used as replacement resources after modification, which can ensure that the game runs smoothly.

Because it is a demo, you will definitely not be able to match players, and you will have to play against the AI.

Ge Wei looked very surprised: "The degree of completion is already so high? Tianji Studio is indeed a company with fast development progress. I think your company's project management capabilities must be very strong."

The game development time of many Western studios is very long, and it is normal for a new game to be released every one or two years. Although Tianji Studio's "City Guard War" is not as popular as when it first came out, it is still popular. Ge Wei did not expect that the completion level of this new game would be so high.

Jia Jia said silently in his heart: "Is this pretty fast? Then you must not know how fast Weiguang Studio can produce games..."

"This game is called autochess? It's interesting." Ge Wei said.

She had also said "interesting" when talking to Peng Liang before, but that was a common perfunctory comment by Westerners.

But after seeing Auto Chess, Ge Wei really found it interesting!