Restart the Gaming Era

Zhong Ming came to Yunuo Technology with the finished "Extreme Speed" demo.

The engineering machine for the driving simulator has been completed, and the most important task now is to make some experience adjustments to match the "Extreme Speed" demo.

For example, in the game "Extreme Speed", the speeding car will vibrate due to steering, airflow disturbance, etc., which must be displayed on the driving simulator, and the amplitude of the somatosensory vibrations in different situations must also be different.

Moreover, some control aspects must be repeatedly tuned according to the demo situation to ensure that players get the best gaming experience.

After some time, he came to the office of Yunuo Technology again. Zhong Ming found that Yunuo Technology was obviously overcrowded.

This growth in personnel is visible to the naked eye. From the beginning of the production of GS1 simulators, to the production of full-view displays, to somatosensory suits... Every time I come here, I can see that the number of employees at Yunuo Technology has increased.

Although Yunuo Technology is equivalent to OEM, it only integrates design + parts, and the products are directly handed over to the foundry for processing, but the various scientific research personnel, publicity and development, design and other teams are getting larger and larger. The demands of venues are definitely increasing.

"Teacher Zhong, you are here. Come over here, the driving simulator is on the 17th floor."

Lin Xiaoguang received Zhong Ming and took him to the 17th floor in the elevator.

"I moved a little while ago, but I couldn't help it. The original office space was not enough, so I rented a new workspace. Expanding too fast is also a worry." Lin Xiaoguang said with emotion.

When he was at Moya Technology, he had an office building at home, so he naturally would not have encountered such a problem.

Since the founding of Yunuo Technology, this technology company has expanded at an extremely fast rate. Every new device sold well. At the same time, the pressure to develop new devices has become increasingly intense and time has become increasingly urgent. As a subsidiary of Weiguang Interactive Entertainment, Yunuo Technology must also implement the idea of ​​not working overtime, so it is naturally open to recruiting people.

If more people are recruited, the space will naturally not be enough.

"The headquarters building of Weiguang Interactive Entertainment is already under planning. Several versions of the design plan have been published. Construction should start by the end of the month. Once the headquarters building is completed and moved directly there, there won't be so many things to do." Zhong Ming said .

Lin Xiaoguang nodded: "Yes, too."

Lin Xiaoguang naturally knew about the Weiguang Interactive Entertainment headquarters building.

The two people arrived on the 17th floor, and Zhong Ming saw him driving a simulator engineering machine.

Just like the design he gave, it is a big ball with a base, but it is still all silver now. Originally, it would have some paint on the outside, but it is an engineering machine after all, and there is no time to do all the bells and whistles.

According to the design, the big ball of the driving simulator is actually divided into two layers, the inner and outer layers, supported by suspension technology. The inner sphere, which is the cockpit where the player is located, is evenly stressed and can rotate freely. It's just that this double-layered structure inside and outside cannot be seen from the outside.

There is an opening on the side, and players can slip right through the opening. Through the opening, you can see the internal structure of the driving simulator, including the driving position, steering wheel, various instrument panels and control equipment. It's just that it hasn't been turned on yet, so the dashboard that was originally displayed on the screen is now gray and doesn't display anything.

"Teacher Zhong brought the latest demo, right? What is installed in the driving simulator now is still the original version of the demo used for debugging." Lin Xiaoguang said.

Zhong Ming nodded, connected his wristband to the GS1 host in the driving simulator, then transferred the latest version of "Extreme Speed" demo stored in the wristband and installed it.

The latest driving simulator also uses the same solution as the GS1 simulator. The simulator is separated from the host. The GS1 host has a special socket at the base of the simulator. Just plug it in and it will automatically connect.

Similarly, if players already have a GS1 X console, they only need to purchase an additional emulator device, which can save some money.

In order to cooperate with hardware testing, Zhong Ming provided an initial version of the game demo. Now that there is an updated version of the demo, the previous one can be replaced.

Soon, the installation was completed.

"Come on, Teacher Zhong, let's try it out." Lin Xiaoguang asked the staff next to him to adjust the equipment.

Zhong Ming got into the driving simulator and gently pressed the start button. The position of this button is consistent with that of many luxury flying cars. These luxury flying cars support starting and unlocking with fingerprints. The driving simulator does not require fingerprints to start. After all, this thing cannot be stolen if you leave it at home, so I just made the button as follows. Many luxury speed cars are the same.

The opening of the driving simulator is closed, the air circulation system starts to operate, and Zhong Ming can feel a slight breeze blowing. During driving, as the speed gradually increases, this feeling of blowing wind will continue to increase, simulating a sense of speed. Of course, the main purpose is to create a feeling, so as not to really blow the player's eyes away.

The surrounding large screens lit up, the instrument panel lit up, and the central control screen on the right lit up. Various display devices in the driving simulator were quickly activated, and the originally dark inner space instantly became brighter. .

The preparation screen soon appeared on the large wrap-around screen, entering the event called "Lijiang Race".

Because it is just a demo for testing, most of the content in the game is not available yet, there is only one track. "Lijiang" is the name of a fictional oriental modern micro-city in the game. It is located to the east of the island in the game and is dominated by Chinese-style buildings.

The large wrap-around screen simulates the feeling of looking out from a speeding car. Zhong Ming looks around and can see the speeding drivers competing with him. Of course, they are all intelligent AI.

The starting position of the speeding car is on the ground, but the road signs are in the air. It starts from a certain edge of the city and surrounds the entire Lijiang City.

When the countdown ended, the flag in the hands of the hot racing girl fell, and all the speeding cars ejected light blue tail flames at the same time, and started quickly towards the first road sign!

Zhong Ming's position was relatively far back. He was not in a hurry. He just started normally and followed the other speeding cars.

Gently pulling the steering wheel upward, the speeding car began to take off. The speeding car in front rose significantly faster. Zhong Ming saw the opportunity and got under the speeding car in front of him, successfully passing one.

Through the top screen of the large wrap-around screen, you can clearly see that your flying car is flying almost close to the bottom of the flying car, and you can even clearly see the light blue tail flame from the nozzle at the bottom of the flying car.

Different from the racing games in Zhong Ming's previous life, the racing games in the parallel world are more like flying an airplane. In addition to considering the four directions of front, back, left, and right, you also have to consider the two directions up and down. However, this also gives the driver more room to operate. Overtaking on the ground is almost only a corner overtaking, but in the speeding game, overtaking in both directions is possible.

Soon, speeding cars flew past the checkpoint and flew towards Lijiang City ahead.

At night, Lijiang City is brightly lit.

From the central control screen of the speed car, you can see the scene below the speed car. In the Lijiang City at night, many tourists are walking around, and many people raise their heads and look at the speed car speeding by in the sky.

In the night sky ahead, a huge airship floated by. The airship was shaped into the shape of a Chinese dragon, and it also simulated the twisting movements of the Chinese dragon's body when it flew.

"woo~ho!"

The intelligent AI racers screamed with excitement, driving their flying cars under the airship. Each flying car passed around the huge airship, and the visual effect was quite shocking.

Immediately afterwards, each speeding car passed more checkpoints, sometimes passing through the gap between two buildings; sometimes swooping down to the ground and passing through a square filled with tourists... During the entire speeding race, The scenery of Lijiang City is unobstructed.

When they were halfway through the flight, a group of flying cars flew around a tall building, and they could clearly see the garden on the roof of the tall building.

This is one of the monuments in the game. It is a garden modeled after the Humble Administrator's Garden, but it is built on the roof of a tall building. As you drive your car through checkpoints around tall buildings, you can clearly see many details inside the garden.

There are many more historic buildings like this, and they are distributed in every corner of the map in the game. Players will pass through these locations when participating in various racing and underground races.

Zhong Ming drove the speeding car skillfully, surpassing opponents one after another, and even had free time to check how the various auxiliary systems in the game were doing.

"Extreme Speed", like many racing simulation games, has an extremely rich auxiliary system, allowing players to experience the pleasure of this driving game to the maximum extent.

The most common one is the navigation line. When the player needs to corner and the speed is too fast, the navigation line will turn red, and the player needs to slow down at this time. As long as the average novice player runs honestly according to the navigation line, and cooperates with various driving system functions such as deceleration and assisted cornering, even if he slams on the accelerator the whole time, he can basically run a pretty good result.

For experts, it is naturally recommended to turn off these auxiliary functions to obtain the most realistic driving experience. The more auxiliary functions are turned off, the more rewards you will get after completing the course. This is a benefit for those big guys.

These settings can be adjusted directly on the central control screen. Generally, players have to pause the game before they can adjust it, but Zhongming does not need to, and can handle it by adjusting it while turning it on.

After testing all these auxiliary functions, Zhong Ming has silently reached the second place, and it is only a matter of time before he surpasses the first place.

As the flying car continued to swoop, lift, and flip, the cockpit where Zhong Ming was located was also constantly rolling.

The entire cockpit is nested inside the big ball through suspension technology, so whether it is diving, stretching or flipping, it is very smooth. Zhong Ming also deliberately used his flying car to scratch and collide with other flying cars. The vibrations from the simulator were also very timely and realistic.

On the second lap, a wanted icon suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of the big screen, and Zhong Ming also heard the sirens coming from behind him.

The night map of Lijiang City is an "underground racing" gameplay map. In "Underground Racing", the player's identity is an underground driver and it is not an officially organized competition. However, after completing this kind of racing, the monetary income is much more than that of regular racing activities.

Precisely because this was not an officially organized competition, the police car was quickly alerted.

Zhong Ming gently pressed a button, and the weapon system of the speed car was activated.

In this mode, the police car will try to stop all illegal racing speeding cars. If the speeding car does not use the weapon system to attack, the police car will not attack, but will only approach and then collide; if the speeding car uses the weapon system to attack the police car, then Police cars will also use their weapons systems to fight back.

As for whether to use it or not, it all depends on the player's personal choice.

Zhong Ming wanted to test whether the weapon system worked well, so of course he fired directly without hesitation.

He controlled the flying car and flicked its tail, passed the checkpoint, then made a sharp turn and flew past the edge of the building. Then his eyes were fixed on the police car chasing after him on the right, and his right thumb pressed the fire button on the steering wheel of the flying car.

"Da da da da da..."

The automatic machine guns on the top and right side of the flying car began to spit out tongues of fire. Bullets streaked through the night sky and hit the side of the police car intensively, causing the police car to lose its balance and fall downwards.

But soon, the police car stabilized in the air and caught up again.

All vehicles are bulletproof and will not crash immediately even if hit. As for the player's own speed car, the weapon system can be freely modified and upgraded. The automatic machine gun is only the most basic and primitive weapon system, and there will be more powerful weapons in the future.

Soon, other police cars began to fight back, and bullets from automatic machine guns also hit the outer shell of the Zhongming Speedster.

Zhong Ming also specially adjusted the angle of the flying car so that the jet's blow holes and some weak parts of the armor plate would not be hit by bullets, otherwise it would be easy to make a mistake and end up regretting it for eternity.

Bullets hit the flying car intensively, and the central control screen accurately displayed the location of the bullets, as well as an assessment of the damage to the flying car.

Rating: Mild.

That is to say, there is no serious problem and you can continue flying.

At the moment of being shot, a vibration simulating a bullet hit was also heard from the corresponding position of the simulator, and spread slightly to the entire simulator. At the same time, the bullet hit the armor plate, causing a crisp metallic sound, which also passed through The effect of surround sound was transmitted to Zhong Ming's ears.

"Okay, this is exciting."

While driving the car while ringing the bell, he observed the police car behind him through the rearview mirror and central control screen. He had to make evasive movements from time to time, otherwise he would be hit by bullets. At the same time, he was constantly aiming and counterattacking through the sight capture system. A police car was quickly hit, and could only land staggeringly with black smoke, and exited the chase.