Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

This is also the Ubisoft-style game development that Zhu Youxing is familiar with.

According to Zhuyouxing, the biggest innovation of this French game company is that it has established an incredibly mature multi-studio collaborative work model.

This can be considered one of the answers to industrialization.

At the beginning of every Ubisoft game, there is a description like this: the game is created by a team of people from different countries, faiths and races, and it contains many expressions from different races.

This kind of multicultural exchange is a very good direction for development, and it was later adopted by Ubisoft as a standard template for ensuring consistent returns regardless of drought or flood.

The different roles within the five lecture halls are now doing similar things.

Everyone has the opportunity to contribute. They just need to put forward their ideas, and there will always be someone who listens carefully and then tries to find a way to make them happen.

Seeing the five teams working enthusiastically, Zhu Youxing knew that he didn't need to say anything more; they had already found their own direction.

At this moment, Tian Chong also vaguely felt as if he had grasped something.

However, it still felt somewhat vague and elusive, leaving him somewhat at a loss.

"Tian Chong! I've got a great idea!"

Meyer ran over happily from another hall, carrying several sheets of scrap paper with his writing and drawing on them.

Meyer chose to go to the programming hall for programmers, and then he never contacted Tian Chong again.

But Meyer first met Tian Chong here, so he really wanted to share the inspiration he had just come up with with Tian Chong.

"A good idea? What good idea?"

"Look, this is a stealth game, but according to Teacher Zhuyou's description of an open world, this game might not just be about assassinations. We can add more things. Now I have a piece of content that I think would be quite interesting, and that is horse racing!"

"race?"

“That’s right, that’s right, what do you think?” Meyer said with a look of anticipation.

"It seems like there haven't been any games with this kind of gameplay before, but I don't know if it's interesting."

"How about joining first? Since we already have horses, and it's in ancient times, horse racing is a natural thing to do, right? We can get some item rewards through horse racing."

"Hmm... I'm not quite sure either," Tian Chong said uncertainly.

"Also, besides horse racing, I have a few other ideas, such as fishing, which is also very interesting, isn't it? If it's an open and free world, wouldn't it be more interesting if there were more of these features? Fill the game with enough details."

Meyer talked incessantly to Tian Chong about his ideas and creativity, as if he had an endless supply of creative ideas.

"Aren't these features a bit too many? I've actually been worried that too much content in this game might lead to more and more problems during the game development," Tian Chong said with some concern.

"You don't need to worry about this at all."

Suddenly, Zhu Youxing's voice rang out.

Tian Chong was startled, but seeing Zhu Youxing walking over with a smile, he quickly said very respectfully, "Teacher Zhu You!"

Zhu Youxing walked over and first looked at Meyer, asking, "What's your name?"

“Teacher Zhuyou, my name is Mayer, and I’m a senior programmer! I just switched to game development, and I love games!” Mayer immediately straightened his chest and said.

He was just saying it casually; he only knew that the gaming industry was very popular recently, and the salary was much higher than his previous job.

However, during these two days of learning, he discovered that he had begun to develop a strong interest in game development, and was no longer simply looking for a job that paid more money.

Now, over time, he has also begun to develop his own desire to express himself.

In his previous company, he didn't receive this kind of treatment at all; he only had to be a cog in the machine and complete the company's tasks.

So now he wholeheartedly identifies with video games and has begun to admire Zhu Youxing, who led and pioneered the gaming industry.

“Mayer, your ideas are all very good. Whether these gameplay elements are fun or not can be put aside for now, but you have indeed achieved what I said about endlessly filling open-world games with game details. This direction is excellent, and I hope you can continue to work hard.”

This encouragement made Mayer very happy, and he immediately felt that everything he had done had been worthwhile.

Then Zhu Youxing looked at Tian Chong.

"Speaking of which, I seem to have a vague recollection of you. You seem to be... quite familiar with Aiko and the other two, right?"

Chapter 744 Acquaintances

744

When Zhu Youxing first met Tian Chong during this lecture, he didn't feel anything.

Then, when Zhu Youxing saw Tian Chong for the second time, he had a vague sense of familiarity.

Firstly, his appearance seemed somewhat familiar, but he was indeed very busy with work, and it was easy to forget people he wasn't familiar with, not to mention that it had been several years since he last saw Tian Chong.

However, Zhu Youxing eventually vaguely remembered Tian Chong. It seemed that when he first met Aiko and the other two, Tian Chong was one of them, and he had asked him for an autograph.

"Yes, Teacher Zhuyou, my name is Tian Chong! My father used to be a newspaper editor, but he has now resigned and become an independent economics writer for the video game industry. My father has even said that he has met you a few times!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Youxing was slightly surprised. So that's how it happened?

No wonder he felt that Tian Chong looked familiar. It seems that he had not only seen Tian Chong in person before, but also his father in many different ways.

At this moment, Zhu Youxing once again recalled a middle-aged man.

That was when Youxing Electronic Entertainment was just starting out, and the video game environment wasn't particularly good back then.

The television industry is frantically cracking down on video games, hoping to prosper the television industry by doing so.

Meanwhile, the newspapers affiliated with these television stations also followed the stations' lead in suppressing video games.

But at this time, only one major newspaper and one television station were exceptions.

That is the Nikkei newspaper and TV Tokyo.

TV Tokyo is an affiliated company of Nikkei. The biggest connection between him and Nikkei is that one of its executives is his angel investor, the only one who still holds independent shares, and an old acquaintance of his father.

As a senior executive at Nikkei, he was very open-minded about video games when it came to practical benefits. At the same time, an editor named Takyu in his newspaper was one of the few video game enthusiasts at the time.

Later, Zhu Youxing met this person several times, and he felt that this person had a good eye for talent.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Tianchong and that man are father and son.

Zhu Youxing said, "That really is fate."

Oda said, "Teacher Takeyu, I've always dreamed of becoming a top game developer like you. Do you think I can do it?"

"Well... you'll have to work hard yourself. I can't just tell you you can do it when I see you, but you have to work hard and prove that you can."

Zhu Youxing didn't intend to give this acquaintance any pep talk. Some people, no matter how hard they try, seem to never become the best. There's really nothing that can be done about it. Some are related to luck, and some are related to talent.

However, I've made a mental note of Tian Chongzhu Youxing; I might pay more attention to him if I have the chance in the future.

His purpose in coming here was not to catch up with Tian Chong. He looked at the two of them and said, "Just now, Tian Chong was worried that the game's content would be too large, which would cause the game's problems to increase exponentially. This concern is indeed necessary, but I can take this opportunity to tell you about the power of the Unreal Engine."

Zhu Youxing casually picked up the computer next to him and started operating it.

"You probably only used Unreal Engine as an editing tool and a relatively easy game production tool before, but I would rather call this engine the industrial mother machine of a video game factory, and an industrial mother machine can do a lot more."

"Meyer, you just said you wanted to add fishing and horse racing features to the Assassin's Creed game?"

"Yes, is that possible?"

"Of course, although it has little to do with the game itself, my initial idea was to create a sufficiently rich world. Even if players may never come across some of the game's features, the details are built up from these small bits of content."

At this moment, Zhu Youxing recalled a game he was very familiar with in his previous life: Red Dead Redemption.

This truly is a model of open-world games.

You can do many things you can imagine in it.

The Red Dead Redemption development team did indeed develop the game according to industrial standards while also increasing the game's depth.

This is also the direction that Zhuyouxing hopes to develop in the future.

"Actually, the fishing and horse racing systems are already built into the engine and can be used directly."

Under Zhu Youxing's control, the Unreal Engine seemed to possess magic, with its functions being invoked and incorporated into the already somewhat nascent game framework.

At the same time, other teams will also receive the same game framework and know that fishing and horse racing features will be added to it.

Tian Chong watched from the side, feeling as if a new world had been opened up for him.

He used to worry about this and that when he was thinking about game development, but now it seems that he really doesn't need to think so much. Whether it's fun or not, just add it to the game first, and then try to make the content fun, or delete it if it's not fun.

As for Mayer, his creativity has been greatly recognized, and now he feels bursting with inspiration and wants to go back to continue working on his new ideas.

Zhu Youxing patted Tian Chong, who was standing to the side in a daze, on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry about game performance or file size issues. These are not your concerns. All you need to consider is making the game fun enough. Because this era is no longer like the past, where you had to be stingy with file size when developing a game. That's probably the biggest advantage of this era."

Zhu Youxing then left, leaving Tian Chong alone to think.

Elsewhere, many developers have also truly witnessed the power of the Unreal Engine.

They were indeed not proficient enough in using it before. They always tried to use complicated methods to complete a few very simple gameplay functions, but in fact, Unreal Engine itself can already achieve this for you in a more convenient way.

Could it be that the games developed by Youxing Electronics Entertainment were also this easy to make? Is it possible to create a good game simply by mastering the various functions of the Unreal Engine?

No wonder Yuxing Electronic Entertainment can develop games so efficiently; the true power of the Unreal Engine is indeed beyond imagination.

While they were amazed, they also began to seriously study Unreal Engine. They had indeed underestimated Unreal Engine itself. It was like how an ordinary person could only use spreadsheet software to do some simple things in an eight-hour workday, while a master could compress the amount of work that others did in eight hours into one hour or even less. There was simply no comparison.

Chapter 745 The Soul of the Game

745

"Hurry up, hurry up, I can't wait to see the game footage!"

"Don't rush, we just imported the game into the development kit, didn't we?"

The seven days of development time passed quickly, and the basic framework of Assassin's Creed was finally completed thanks to the efforts of more than two thousand people.

Of course, it's inevitable that a lot of materials will be reused, but that's not important. These can all be finely edited and adjusted in post-production.

The time spent on such fine-tuning can be made up for by manpower. As long as there is a clear direction, the rest of the work will be much easier.

At this moment, what they are most eager to do is to see the results of their seven days of hard work.

Finally, the game was successfully launched, and the game they had been dreaming of was finally presented.

"Look! It's already started! It's already started!"

The game screen slowly lit up, and a long, melodious piece of music began to play.