As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 147 Magic Plant Implantation
The games made by Tencent are not very good, except for one thing that is top-notch, which is the krypton cheating technique.

It's absolutely top-notch. Basically, once you get into it, you can't help but spend money on it.

(When I was in primary school, I spent two thousand playing QQ Three Kingdoms)

However, Tencent’s influence and connections in the gaming industry are far greater than their ability to make games.

Whether it is Tencent's cooperation with Nintendo to sell Nintendo Switch in China, or Tencent's cooperation with Sony in various fields.

Tencent even invested in Ubisoft as early as 17, and acquired 5% of Ubisoft's shares at a high price that year.

The role that Tencent can play in the gaming industry is something that even Ke Chuang Biotechnology cannot match.

After identifying brain-computer VR as the most important strategic plan in recent years, especially after seeing the brain-computer VR samples, the top management of Tencent became more determined in this regard.

Tencent is not only developing brain-computer connected VR games internally, but is also contacting major game manufacturers in the hope of moving their games to VR.

"The Legend of Zelda" released a concept video as early as the year before last, showing a VR version of the mod with both first-person and second-person VR perspectives.

After seeing the brain-computer connection VR, Nintendo representatives quickly decided to postpone the release date again and reworked their almost-finished VR version of "The Legend of Zelda" to adapt it to brain-computer connection VR.

Li Wanqing said excitedly: "That's great. I believe everyone will work harder in the afternoon after hearing this good news, and strive to optimize the brain-computer connection VR for better results."

Optimization work can be done all the time before the release. Even after the release, you can continue to optimize.

Hardware equipment cannot have only one generation, it must be updated every year.

Sony's Xperia has very few buyers, but it is updated every year.

Electronic devices are updated slowly and have no sense of presence, just like online literature.

Zheng Li recalled that when she was chatting with Li Miaomiao two days ago, the other party mentioned that Tencent invited her to participate in an internal evaluation.

"Mark from Tencent is the president of their interactive entertainment business group. Forget it, I guess you don't know what the business group means. He is the biggest boss of their gaming line. Yesterday he asked me if I wanted to take a look at their internal evaluation." Li Miaomiao said.

Zheng Li: "Go if you are interested."

When Ren Yu was negotiating with Ke Chuang Biotechnology on brain-computer VR cooperation, he met Li Miaomiao many times.

He was deeply impressed by Li Miaomiao's youth and her ability to get straight to the heart of the matter during negotiations.

Because Li Miaomiao is young, Ren Yu wonders whether she would be interested in games.

It just so happened that Tencent was organizing a brain-computer connected VR game selection event. Tencent always holds very interesting activities like this.

Therefore, Ren Yu took the opportunity to ask Li Miaomiao if she was interested in participating, which in a sense was also a way of building a network.

As a giant in China whose profits are second only to Tencent, Kechuang Biotechnology’s monopoly position in its own industry is even stronger than that of Tencent.

Li Miaomiao, as the vice president of Ke Chuang Bio, has worked with Ren Yu for so many years, so he naturally knows the benefits of building a good relationship with each other.

Sometimes the amount of information contained in a casual remark from the other person can be very beneficial.

Li Miaomiao liked to play King of Glory when she was in high school. She thought she could play it to her heart’s content in college, which would at least be better than playing for one hour a week in high school.

Unexpectedly, she started working before finishing her freshman year, and the intensity of the work was even higher than the most tiring job she had imagined.

Not to mention playing King of Glory, I don’t even have time to watch KPL.

"I plan to go and take a look. I'm going to Pengcheng next week. There's a meeting I need to attend there, so I might as well go there." Li Miaomiao replied.

"Also, we haven't found a suitable candidate for the chief engineer of the brain-computer connection chip yet. There is a very suitable candidate in Pengcheng, but he is unwilling to come to Gusu. I will go to meet him on this trip."

Suzhou's semiconductor industry is very strong. It can be said that it is the city with the strongest semiconductor industry in China except for Shenhai.

Therefore, Ke Chuang Bio's brain-computer connection chip production base is directly located in Gusu, where both production line equipment and workers can meet the needs well.

It’s just that it’s hard to find a chief engineer, especially since Kechuang Biotechnology will develop in the direction of AI chips in the future, and it’s hard to poach talents at this level.

With the reputation of Ke Chuang Bio, there are definitely many people willing to come, but it is like this for high-end positions: the companies that are willing to come don’t look down on them, and the people that companies want are unwilling to come.

Because changing jobs means starting all over again, especially if it involves changing cities, and even your social circle has to be rebuilt from scratch.

Zheng Li: "By the way, you can check Tencent's VR game plan to see if there is a game with this style. I'll send you the picture."

"Hold on."

The picture shows a very strange tree. The tree looks like a human-like creature trying to embrace the air, and flowers can be vaguely seen on the branches of the tree.

The flowers look equally weird.

After reading it, Li Miaomiao was speechless and said, "Did you draw it yourself or did you find it on the Internet?"

"Looks like I'm feeling a bit chilly."

“This style is basically impossible to put into a game, unless it is a dark game.”

"The problem is that dark games are not Tencent's style." Zheng Li: "Have you heard of Cthulhu?"

In fact, this was a magical plant when Zheng Li was in the Mage Alliance.

Most magical plants have been genetically modified, but a few have been passed down from ancient times.

As for whether it had been modified by ancient magicians, Zheng Li was not sure. Probably not, because these kinds of random changes might affect the effect.

The products of genetic modification have lost their intended effects and have not been passed down.

His mention of Cthulhu was just an attempt at an excuse.

Li Miaomiao nodded: "Yes, I know. Cthulhu was mentioned in the novel I read during the summer after the college entrance examination. Cthulhu is a fear that was part of human instinct in the past, and it was embodied through words."

"With the widespread popularity of cameras and mobile communication devices in recent years, it is difficult for us to have an intuitive feeling of the nature of Cthulhu."

The development of science and technology has resulted in many concepts in history that we cannot understand.

Zheng Li interrupted, "I drew this myself. It's a plant that I imagined to be close to the Cthulhu mythology system."

"I have drawn more than one of these. Can you help me see if Tencent's VR game plan has this type of painting style? If so, you can ask if the plants I drew can be added."

"It can be used as a background, it doesn't have to play a role."

Zheng Li has been studying magical plants recently. He suspected that there were magical plants on Blue Star that humans had not discovered, or that similar plants had existed in history.

However, he did not find any trace of the magical plant through the existing information on the Internet.

At the same time, he could not treat this as a public matter and ask the client to look it up.

Just when he heard Li Miaomiao mention VR game development, Zheng thought that he could put magical plants into a VR game with the same style.

After the game became popular, Zheng Li anonymously posted a bounty on the dark web, saying that he had always felt that the magical plants in a VR game looked familiar and that he had seen them somewhere before. If anyone could find them, he would give a certain amount of BTC as a reward.

Li Miaomiao seemed to be meeting Zheng Li for the first time: "You still have this hobby?"

"Why have I never heard that you can draw before?"

"To be honest, the painting is quite distinctive, and I can even say it's good, but it just makes people feel uncomfortable."

"The plants you draw don't seem to exist on the Blue Planet."

"But I can help you keep an eye out. Don't get your hopes up too high."

"Gootech will not make this type of game. If you really want your drawings to be used as game backgrounds, you might as well start your own game company."

"Since there is so much money on the company's books, it doesn't seem like a waste of time to set up a company that specializes in VR games."

"This also belongs to the horizontal development around the main business."

Zheng Li refused: "It's not necessary. If there is one, let's see if we can push it forward. There's no need to be so deliberate."

There is still a big difference between the game produced by Tencent and the one specially made by Kechuang Biotechnology.

Li Miaomiao: "Okay, I will definitely keep an eye out for you."

"Hello, judges. The background of our game plan is a series of strange events that happened in the capital during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. The ultimate goal is to prevent the Wanggongchang explosion."

“This game is a fantasy transformation based on real history, with the plot as a supplement and the battle as the main focus, striving to bring players a shocking enough experience.”

“In order to avoid giving players the impression that we are copying Sekiro, we have deliberately carried out our own art design, incorporating the unique style of ancient Chinese architecture.”

For this type of game, once the graphics are dark and eerie, it is easy to be considered as a copy of the art style of soul-like games.

Chen Ran and his team tried their best to use their imagination in the painting style and various designs, hoping to make it feel eerie but not like "Sekiro" or "Dark Souls".

Li Miaomiao also watched the previous games with great interest, but she was just a special guest. When Ren Yu asked her opinion, she just said it was not bad, very good, and worthy of Tencent.

It was not until this plan came up that Li Miaomiao realized that this style was very similar to the plants Zheng Li showed her.

Chen Ran continued on the stage: "Next, let me show you a simple demo we have made recently."

In fact, it is just the characters running under some buildings, and most of the space is blank.

However, to achieve this level of completeness in just one month, you can tell that it took a lot of hard work.

The judges with lower positions spoke first, and Ren Yu gave a summary speech at the end.

“Your design is very complete, but why doesn’t the demo show the combat effect?
In fact, the biggest highlight of your plan should be the battle mode. The background, plot, and pictures are not the core elements.

There was a Cthulhu Souls-style ARPG game in China with a Ming Dynasty background. If you choose this background, the negative impression of the previous game will have a serious impact on the game you want to make. Have you considered this?"

(End of this chapter)