Chapter 18: Insomnia and Inspiration
Chu Qiancheng was lying on the bed at home. Although he was extremely exhausted, he couldn't sleep. He forced himself not to think about anything about the open world of Xin Fei Leng Cui, but once he forced himself like this, he had never thought about anything else.
This situation happened when he first released "Breakthrough of the House", which was his first battle in the industry. At that time, he had insomnia for a full month.
Now he is about to start again. Because "New Edo City" is his first game of the inner world formed by the human brain. No one knows what it will develop into in the end.
Chu Qiancheng was lying on the bed for eye exercises. After eye exercises, he got up and did radio gymnastics. Then he pushed up, sat up, squatted, jumped up, sweated, took a shower, and lay on the bed again.
Confirmed, he had insomnia.
He got up from the bed, clicked on the major game review websites that he had never dared to open, and tried to find the game scores for "New Edo City", but not yet.
Even though these editors had already won the game before the pre-sale, in less than two or three months, even the strong open world of Shin Edo City cannot be fully played, let alone Shin Fei Leng Cui waiting for them.
Suddenly, on an international game review website, Chu Qiancheng found a game review of "New Edo City". This is a game editor who couldn't wait to publish after getting the game.
The title of the article is "The Disappointing New Year's Product Summary in New Edo City".
Chu Qiancheng's heart suddenly sank, but his spirit became excited. He clicked in and looked hungryly:
As a sequel to Kugu Town, Shin-Edo City completely abandoned the strong open world of the original work and returned to the old path of broadcasting games.
Even if the plot is exciting, players who have experienced the open world of Kuroko Town can no longer tolerate the single dimension of the line. We are no longer players three years ago, and the gaming industry is no longer the industry three years ago.
Chu Qiancheng created a whole new world, but he betrayed his own creation. He is the creator, but also the sabotager.
Chu Qiancheng looked at this article and pondered for a long time, then dragged the mouse to the upper right and clicked the fork.
In the environment where the Internet is racing against time, even if articles that experience games are generalized by a single thing, they have attracted the attention of the public and have huge traffic. Game review websites cannot give up on the grabbing of this part of traffic, which is why such articles appear.
Chu Qiancheng felt that the editor was pretending to be confused. He had already shown the pseudo-open world of Xin Fei Leng Cui during the B test, and he also had to complain about the linear plot at the beginning. This was clearly based on controversy to make a living.
However, this article also tells the fact that linear plots appear in the game in the future and will no longer be loved by players.
The super game he wants to create in the future must be a seamless and complete future world, including all four main cities, Twilight Zone, and Wild Kingdoms, and can extend to subspace and the entire universe.
This will be hell difficulty.
However, this also makes people look forward to it.
He found that he had completely lost his anxiety about "New Edo City", and his whole mind was immersed in his conception of future games. He opened his mind map and fanatically outlined the blueprint of the super game in his mind.
...
On Monday morning, Chu Qiancheng came to the Future Studio in high spirits.
Looking at his appearance, all the officials of the Administration felt enlightened. Could it be that they were wearing it again!
"Old Chu, congratulations. "New Edo City" has been on sale for less than three days, and it has sold 320 million yuan. It's a miracle!" Fuxin diligently handed the coffee to Chu Qiancheng's workbench.
"Yes, it's like dreaming. I can't believe it yet." Chu Qiancheng smiled and took the coffee. "I will talk to Mr. Qin about our year-end bonus issue. Thank you for your hard work over the years, so I must express it."
"Oh! You have money to buy a house!"
A group of people in the studio started to cheer. For some reason, Chu Qiancheng felt that these guys were not very enthusiastic about cheering. Could it be that they had already left the low-level fun and became real gamers?
This discovery surprised Chu Qiancheng and was both happy.
"Old Chu!" Chu Qiancheng saw a butt. He raised his head and realized that Guan Qing was sitting on his desk. This was his signature move. He didn't know that his problem was contagious.
"Xiao Guan, you are particularly excited today." Chu Qiancheng said keenly.
"Can you not be excited? The third day is 320 million copies, which means that one-quarter of the citizens have started playing our games, and the progress is rapid!" Guan Qing couldn't help but sigh.
"Progress? What progress?" Chu Qiancheng asked in confusion.
"Uh, of course it's our future super game plan." Guan Qing almost couldn't control his mouth. "Old Chu, the innovation in the sequel has allowed us to see the form of the future super game. Now the feedback from players is positive, which shows that there is great potential."
"It's only three days now, and not many people will definitely fight Xin Fei Leng Cui." Chu Qiancheng said with a smile, "But since you talk about super games, I..."
"Old Chu, did you go to bed yesterday? How did you feel when you wake up?" Qin Zhen's voice suddenly rang out from above his head.
Chu Qiancheng looked up and saw Qin Zhen’s nostrils, and was startled.
"I have had insomnia these days and haven't fallen asleep. Are you, too?" Chu Qiancheng said hurriedly.
"..." Qin Zhen glanced at Guan Qing.
"It turns out that I'm not asleep." Guan Qing scratched his head. Qin Zhen and Chu Qiancheng's vital signs have been monitored by Guan Qing and Xiaoling. They have not shown any special performance recently, which shows that they have not traveled through time.
"Don't worry, I no longer have the anxiety I had when the game was released. After a while, when this energy is completely over, I will fall asleep." Chu Qiancheng comforted them.
Guan Qing and Qin Zhen nodded at the same time. "You just said super game, do you have any specific ideas?" Guan Qing suddenly remembered.
Chu Qiancheng nodded with a smile, took out his mobile phone to connect to the three-dimensional screen operating table.
The people in the room who had been eavesdropping on their conversations had a familiar numb scalp: it came again. Then everyone's heart began to beat violently.
Everyone here has an enlightenment: the future will surely travel to the future world.
Each of them is silently preparing for this moment. And today, this thrilling and anticipated moment may be right in front of them.
Chu Qiancheng walked to the podium in front of the studio with his coffee and mobile phone, skillfully sat on it, and put the coffee beside him.
"Yesterday I saw a game review, which was about complaining about the linear plot at the beginning of our "New Edo City".
"Who? Which website? Do you want me to find a navy?" Qin Zhen widened his eyes sensitively.
"Mr. Qin, calm down." Chu Qiancheng smiled, "I mean, in the future, the strong open world will be the mainstream, and the broadcasting game has reached the end of life. We can no longer design linear plots to link various strong open worlds. The whole world must be integrated into one and become a seamless whole."
People watched him silently, listening with breath, and did not dare to let a word go. The room was silent.
Chu Qiancheng subconsciously glanced at Guan Qing, who was also staring at him with all his attention, without opening his mouth to remind him of the computing power and electricity that such a strong open world needs to consume.
"This strong open world covers the entire earth, including subspace and the universe. This will be a world that humans cannot create with the computing power and electricity produced by the earth's technology within a hundred years. However, the gaming industry has developed to this point, but it has created demand for such a strong open world."
"When humans have this need, then this strong open world already exists in theory." Chu Qiancheng pointed to his own head, "in our minds."
The pain like acupuncture hit the skin of all the management officers present. They could clearly feel the pulsation of the major arteries of the neck and neck, the numbness on their fingertips and the slight cramps on their shoulders.
Chu Qiancheng is finally going to involve the most critical area of linking with the future. His game is about to enter the future.
But, what would he do?
Everyone's heart was filled with extreme curiosity.
"When each of us has the same world in our minds, what we need to do is not to create such a world, but to create a way of connection, connect everyone's hearts, let them discover this world together, support this world together, and build this world together. Our future super game cannot be completed by ourselves..."
"...But if we can get the help of players and rely on the common wisdom of players, we will create a miracle unprecedented in the history of games. A true, strong open world, or a complete world connected to the Internet."
While Chu Qiancheng said, he drew a brain network diagram on the whiteboard behind the podium. All the players' brains relied on the dream machine network to form a giant network.
Each brain not only supports the operation of the inner world, but also constantly creates and uploads new content. At the center of the network, there is a goddess symbol representing Xiao Ling. She is responsible for sorting and classifying the new content created by humans and uniformly managing and planning according to her built-in logic.
Guan Qing looked at the ever-increasing whiteboard, and his body and mind were impacted by huge shock and ecstasy.
Chapter completed!