Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 410: Golden Engine Alpha Test! Forehand and Backhand

Excellent!

Just as Lu Bian said!

This ti, Sarah gave Konik the absolute order to indefinitely delay the release of "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum" project!

What does indefinitely delayed an?

To put it bluntly, just don't release it!

After all, just the demo of the first chapter at the ga expo had already received overwhelming criticism. The market value they painstakingly raised plumted instantly, and it would continue to fall for a while!

Under these circumstances, the best approach was to scrap this controversial and negatively reviewed project, preventing it from further deterioration and infecting Vivendi itself.

"President Lu is right,"

Moriya shared the sa view:

"There's no other way, in this competition, they were really..."

Moriya carefully considered his words.

Then he shrugged: "Too bizarrely unlucky, ridiculously terrible."

Moriya really couldn't find any other words to describe CloudPower's "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum."

It was hard to imagine this was a ga created by carbon-based life forms.

Forget about comparing it to their recently released "My World."

In terms of playability, it wasn't even as good as the prank ga "Who's the Daddy" that Golden Wind made when they were first established.

Approaching it with the mindset of creating a serious 3S masterpiece, yet producing a prank work that was unsatisfactory in every aspect—this was truly the ultimate prank.

"But speaking of which, imdiately raising the white flag after just making contact is quite fitting for Vivendi, this capital investnt group with Gallic noble bloodlines."

Finally.

Moriya made a joke mocking the French.

Then he shook his head and smiled: "It's just a pity for such a great movie IP."

However.

At this point, Lu Bian beside him had a sudden flash of inspiration:

"Eh? Movie IP? Hiss—"

As he spoke.

Lu Bian looked at Gu Sheng, thoughtfully: "Sheng Ge, how about we take this opportunity to give them a demonstration?"

Exactly!

"Take this opportunity"!

Today, the four presidents of Golden Wind, led by Gu Sheng, had gathered precisely for this matter—

As February drew to a close.

Golden Wind's first truly dostic comrcial ga engine, "Golden Engine," which they independently invested in and developed, had reached a milestone.

As the saying goes, many hands make light work.

The developnt team composed of personnel seconded from a full seventeen companies could be said to combine the strengths of all.

Plus Golden Wind's traditional approach of never restricting budgets, the project progressed rapidly.

By early March, the Golden Engine Alpha version was expected to be released.

As an internal testing version, Golden Wind would definitely be the first to taste the crab, specifically creating a ga for the engine.

Not only to test the Alpha version's practicality and collect relevant test data, but also to provide early promotion for Golden Engine.

That's right.

The main topic of today's gathering was to decide on a ga that would provide data resources for Golden Engine's further developnt and refinent.

First.

The scale of this ga shouldn't be too large.

After all, the engine was still in its early stages and couldn't support very large-scale works.

Second, the ga type selection should align with the type of flagship title they plan to release after the engine is officially developed.

For example, if they want to release a wolf-type ga after the engine developnt is complete, then their Alpha version ga should be an action RPG.

And according to Gu Sheng's plan.

After the engine is completed, the flagship title he wants to release is a shooting ga—their old specialty.

So now, they also need to make an FPS ga.

But here's the problem—

There are countless forms of FPS gas, what specific type should they make?

Like Call of Duty, focusing on single-player story?

Or like APEX, with multiplayer online battles?

Or like Left 4 Dead, with multiplayer co-op?

In short, FPS ga types basically fall into these few categories; the key is which one they choose.

After so consideration, Gu Sheng finally settled on the "co-op multiplayer" option.

Not because he had a special fondness for such gas.

Mainly because if they made a single-player story ga, to present as much ga content as possible and increase player imrsion, the project would inevitably be large, which doesn't suit their current Alpha testing requirents.

As for multiplayer online battles, that would overlap with the type of flagship title Gu Sheng envisioned for the engine's official release.

So after careful consideration, only the "co-op multiplayer" format t their requirents.

Co-op multiplayer shooting ga.

There were many choices.

Borderlands? Killing Floor? Gears of War? Reach?

Reach wouldn't work—if Reach were to truly implent motion sensing, it would require larger investnt to present the tragic battle of Noble Team.

There were still many choices.

Just as the n were racking their brains, CloudPower's announcent was released, and through casual conversation about this matter, Lu Bian's words reminded Gu Sheng:

[How about we give them a demonstration?]

Demonstrate how to properly combine gas and movie derivatives?

Hiss—

Hearing this, Gu Sheng seed to grasp a thread of inspiration.

Sowhat interesting, but not very.

And just at that mont!

Shen Miaomiao, who had been attending city etings all morning, returned. Opening the door, she saw Gu Sheng and the others racking their brains in the smoke-filled office.

"Hmm..."

Shen Miaomiao, who had squeezed Gu Sheng off the sofa, sat in Gu Sheng's office chair. After hearing the situation report, she shook the bun on top of her head, thinking while kicking her legs and spinning in the office chair once, then turned her gaze to Lu Bian:

"President Lu's idea is sowhat interesting, care to elaborate?"

"This... actually I haven't really thought it through..."

Lu Bian had just said it casually:

"I was thinking that since CloudPower is being so wasteful, with such a great movie copyright but failing to make a good derivative,"

"If we follow up and show them the correct way to use IP, wouldn't that be quite... demonstrative?"

What a high-EQ way of putting it.

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao laughed inwardly.

High EQ: Has demonstrative significance.

Low EQ: Slapping them in the face.

"What does everyone think?" Shen Miaomiao nodded, looking at the others.

After a mont, Moriya slightly nodded and spoke:

"Taking on classic movie IPs to make gas is common practice in the gaming industry,"

"Basically, as long as you don't court death like CloudPower, coming up with so many 'innovative' ideas at once,"

"There will always be core fans among the massive movie audience willing to buy it."

Moriya was right.

Movie adaptation gas—such practices aren't rare in the gaming industry.

If they wanted to add insult to injury and throw more dirt on "The Lord of the Rings: Gollum's" grave, they could even try approaching Warner New Line Cinema again.

However, New Line Cinema might not license it to them.

After all, they just got stabbed hard by Gollum, probably haven't even wiped the blood clean yet.

Bringing up copyright licensing with New Line Cinema now would undoubtedly be pouring salt on the wound.

Of course.

There's more than just "The Lord of the Rings" among globally famous IPs.

Like Sherlock Hols, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, etc., all are suitable for ga adaptation.

"But the problem is..."

At this point, Da Jiang raised his hand:

"Such licensing can't be obtained for peanuts. I heard CloudPower paid hundreds of millions just for the Lord of the Rings licensing fee this ti. For us, isn't the cost a bit too high?"

"Right,"

Hearing this, Lu Bian slapped his forehead:

"I forgot, this is just an Alpha test, no need to spend that much money."

Eh? Don't!

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao's little hands rubbed together impatiently.

Don't say it's unnecessary!

Isn't it just copyright? Buy it!

We're not short of money now, why give up so easily?

Directly giving CloudPower a lesson, slapping them in the face—isn't that satisfying?

However!

Just as Shen Miaomiao was about to begin her brilliant money-spending sermon!

Gu Sheng spoke up:

"Indeed, the scale definition for this project should basically match 'Garden Warfare.' Spending hundreds of millions on licensing fees... unnecessary."

Damn it.

Shen Miaomiao hadn't even started her performance before Gu Sheng interrupted her casting.

No helping it, since Gu Sheng is the system lead.

So theoretically, if he's determined, even Shen Miaomiao as chairman can't force it.

But Shen Miaomiao didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Although recently, she had been busy following up on policy support etings with the city regarding the the park project, with almost no ti to care about engine developnt.

But from hearing the others' reports, she roughly understood the project selection problem they currently faced.

Clearly!

The current Golden Engine was still unstable, and gas made based on it had a certain probability of technical issues.

If the technical issues were minor, patching them up wouldn't be a big problem.

But if the technical issues were major, then CloudPower was their cautionary example.

So!

From a certain perspective.

The Alpha test project they were about to release now had the potential to lose money due to 'technical reasons.'

At that ti!

On a small scale, she could get rebates and happily incur losses.

On a large scale, she could provide backing for Old Gu and the entire Golden Engine, even using tenfold financial power to compensate for flaws appearing in the Alpha test.

Therefore, Shen Miaomiao wanted to maximize the cost budget for this test project as much as possible.

And the "copyright licensing purchase" proposed by Lu Bian was a very good money-burning thod.

Too bad Old Gu didn't agree.

Hmm...

Shen Miaomiao slightly furrowed her little brows.

Copyright... licensing... movie... ga... derivative... difficult...

Countless words flashed rapidly through her mind.

And when all these keywords connected together!

A brilliant idea suddenly appeared in her mind!

Slap!

She clapped her hands!

Startling the four n opposite, who all looked up with stunned expressions at Shen Miaomiao.

And now!

Shen Miaomiao already appeared confident, smiling slightly as she spoke:

"President Lu's ntion of movie derivatives was very inspiring,"

"And Old Gu's point about keeping costs reasonable also makes sense,"

"Then!"

"We might as well combine these two ideas and give CloudPower a—

"Front and backhand teaching."