Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 464: When You're Hot, Everyone Around You Is Good

《SNG Demo Rating 9.9! Called "Artwork-Level Masterpiece"!》

《Industry Alliance Sparks Widespread Discussion, Aurora Gas Praises Golden Wind's GDC Speech》

《SLGars Forum Player Average Score 9.8! GW's Another Great Innovation!》

《Continuing Battlefield Winds' Popularity, Golden Wind's New Dark Souls Ignites Player Market!》

《Regarding Golden Wind's Invitation as Keynote Speaker, CloudPower Has Made No Comnt, CEO Konik Refuses Interview》

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The demo version wasn't particularly large in scale.

Although the difficulty was quite substantial, and the first-ti addition of the stamina bar brought considerable trouble to players already accustod to Sekiro.

But given the demo's limited scope, by the next day, reviews about the Dark Souls demo were everywhere.

The overall score reached 9.8.

Although this ti, Dark Souls didn't have Sekiro's groundbreaking level of innovation that could define a new ga genre.

Compared to Sekiro, whether in artistic or technical aspects, Dark Souls was superior.

The "industry alliance" praised by dia combined Golden Engine with Phoenix, complenting each other's strengths to create the world's top-tier visual performance.

Plus Gu Sheng's personal direction and the national symphony orchestra's full cooperation.

This elevated the work, already filled with obscure and profound beauty, to artwork-level expression.

Such performance not only drew dia attention to Golden Wind but also caught the eye of many industry peers.

"Impressive work, very stunning, I'm looking forward to its official release..."

The next day, GDC continued with great enthusiasm.

During lunch, Maher, the chief art director of Polish Aurora Gas, actively approached Golden Wind.

"You flatter us too much, Mr. Maher,"

Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao smiled politely:

"We're also progressing through exploration step by step, and still need to learn from international giants like your company."

Since Gu Sheng ca to GDC not only as keynote speaker but also as host for the entire five-day offline conference sessions.

He attended lunches and dinners with organizers and conference project teams, not participating in inter-company exchanges.

The task of friendly communication with other companies naturally fell to Shen Miaomiao.

But fortunately!

Today's Shen Miaomiao was no longer the industry-ignorant mascot from her first ga exchange festival who only stood beside Gu Sheng pretending to be mute.

After all these years, through constant exposure, while she still didn't understand the ga industry as thoroughly as Gu Sheng, she was no longer completely clueless.

Moreover, the other party was an internationally renowned major company like Aurora Gas.

As an Eastern European ga company, Aurora Gas had diligently cultivated the ga industry, with representative works across PC, mobile platforms, and motion-sensing platforms.

Their scale, while not matching CloudPower's dominance over the Western hemisphere's ga industry, was comparable to Kora's.

In so ways, Aurora Gas was even more impressive than Kora.

Because everyone knew Kora's massive scale didn't solely co from the ga industry.

As a "comprehensive ga company" like CloudPower, Kora had multiple economic pillars.

Not to ntion others, just pachinko alone brought Kora enormous annual revenue.

In comparison, Aurora Gas was much purer.

While they dabbled in related peripheral industries, overall proportions were low and couldn't be considered pillar revenue projects.

As for pachinko-level "pillar economy," that was completely absent.

aning!

Aurora Gas' current scale was almost purely achieved through twenty-eight years of dedicated cultivation and accumulation in the ga industry since their studio's founding.

A company devoted to gas could match Kora's scale despite Kora having multiple economic pillars.

This sufficiently demonstrated Aurora Gas' purity and strength.

Thank goodness.

Shen Miaomiao sincerely thanked Mr. Gu in her heart for his usual explanations, giving her so understanding of this previously unfamiliar company, preventing her from acting like a clueless fool.

"...Not at all, we don't deserve such praise,"

Hearing Shen Miaomiao's modesty, Aurora's director Maher repeatedly waved his hand:

"Your company's innovation and pioneering capabilities in the ga industry are industry-recognized,"

"Speaking of which, many of our gas have borrowed from Mr. Sam's ideas to so extent,"

"Even if it's learning, we're learning from each other, progressing together,"

"Just as Sam ntioned in yesterday's speech—"

""Industry exchange and integration, sharing market opportunities, pursuing cooperative developnt,""

"This is the mainstream direction for future collaborative developnt in the ga industry."

At this point!

Maher seed to make another pointed remark:

"Industry blockade is undesirable, and facts have proven that stubborn blockades will et unprecedented failure."

Ah—!

Shen Miaomiao nodded repeatedly!

This comrade's ideological awareness is quite high!

This young man knows how to speak!

Giving Maher an approving look, Shen Miaomiao smiled:

"Aurora Gas truly lives up to being an industry leader. With insightful vision like Mr. Maher's, I believe you'll grow even stronger in the future."

Although at this point, Shen Miaomiao clearly understood Maher's approach definitely had purpose.

But since you support now.

Then at this mont, you are my friend.

Moreover, business has always been like this.

Everyone cos for profit, everyone goes for profit.

Only mutually beneficial parties can sit together.

Although people say there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests,

Right now, what Golden Wind needs precisely is friends based on shared interests.

After all, since their alliance with Phoenix, the counterattack against CloudPower and Kora, even Vivendi Group, had begun.

Only by uniting with more internationally influential renowned companies can they gain greater advantage in future international competition.

"May your kind words co true,"

Maher laughed heartily at this, repeatedly thanking Shen Miaomiao, then changed the subject:

"Speaking of which, your company's alliance with Phoenix truly gave the ga industry a surprise,"

"Even from our professional perspective, Dark Souls' stunning expressiveness,"

"Is inseparable from engine support."

"Indeed," Shen Miaomiao also nodded in agreent: "To so extent, our complentary strengths with Phoenix achieved this ga's artistic style, or rather..."

At this point!

Shen Miaomiao paused.

Organizing her thoughts slightly, she said aningfully:

"To so extent, it can now better realize multiple art style creations, further enhancing players' imrsion,"

"From the motion-sensing pod perspective, stronger imrsion absolutely gives gas greater market competitiveness,"

"Don't you agree, Mr. Maher?"

Hearing this.

Maher's eyes lit up.

Exchanging glances with Shen Miaomiao, both understood everything without words.

Exactly!

As Shen Miaomiao suspected, Maher's approach to Golden Wind wasn't just to express praise and admiration!

Battlefield Winds' success showed people Golden Engine's potential.

Then Dark Souls' appearance amazed everyone with the ga quality presented by Golden Engine and Phoenix's combination.

Under such circumstances, Aurora Gas naturally turned their attention to Golden Engine.

Admittedly.

As one of the world's major companies, Aurora Gas had their own self-developed engine.

But now, with the rapid progress of motion-sensing ga industry, their self-developed engine was sowhat struggling with ga industrial performance realization.

After all, "self-developed engine" technical capability, without alternative approaches, could hardly catch up with mainstream "comrcial engines."

Even Golden Wind, with their strong montum in recent years and never-lacking project funds, had to admit this.

Was Golden Engine's developnt scale not massive back then?

120 million dollars cost, two-thousand-person team, half of Huaguo's ga circle collaborating in developnt.

What was the final result like?

If Sam hadn't taken an alternative approach, focusing breakthrough efforts on physical destruction effects.

Then undoubtedly, this grandly developed engine absolutely couldn't be ntioned in the sa breath as Illusion Engine.

Even Gu Sheng himself had to admit that even catching up with current Illusion 5 would take Golden Engine several more years.

By the ti they potentially caught up with Illusion 5, Illusion might have already entered the next engine era.

Thus!

This made Golden Wind's alliance with Phoenix seem even more brilliant.

Clearly.

Golden Wind knew their disadvantages, knew that if they focused solely on Golden Engine's independent developnt, forget comparing with Illusion 5.

Whether Golden Engine could tily et their increasingly higher ga technical requirents was unknown.

So!

They decided to overtake on the curve!

Technology requires ti accumulation?

Then I'll use money to buy ti!

Directly take the industry alliance path, using others' long-accumulated experience to compensate for my current shortcomings!

This ant current Golden Engine was no longer purely an engine, but had beco a platform!

It was like a massive puzzle baseboard, constantly filling and perfecting itself with ready-made pieces!

Maher found it difficult to define what kind of engine Golden Engine actually was.

Current engines roughly divided into three categories—free engines, comrcial engines, self-developed engines.

Was it a free engine?

Clearly not.

Although initially claid as jointly developed by Huaguo's entire ga industry.

Actually from start to finish, all developnt costs were paid by Golden Wind, so Golden Wind naturally owned all copyrights, providing it to other Huaguo manufacturers at charged rates.

Only manufacturers who participated in developnt enjoyed preferential pricing.

Then was it a comrcial engine?

Seed not either.

Because theoretically, comrcial engine developnt companies typically didn't involve themselves in ga project developnt.

And comrcial engines had a major characteristic—besides serving the ga industry, they also served construction, design, film and television industries.

But Golden Engine served only the ga industry, all upgrades served ga performance exclusively.

But saying this, it seed like a self-developed engine?

Weirdly, it wasn't that either!

Because self-developed engines were typically tools for specific manufacturers' own use.

Developed, upgraded, and used by ga companies themselves.

Completely closed, never sold externally or charged usage fees.

So!

What type of engine tool was Golden Engine exactly?

Maher didn't know.

If forced to define it, he could only say Golden Engine was a "self-developed comrcial engine template exclusively serving the ga industry"!

Exactly!

It couldn't even be narrowly defined as an "engine"!

But a comprehensive "template"!

Because the industry alliance with Phoenix had transford its fundantal nature!

Who knew how ambitious Golden Wind's plans were!

This was an unprecedented business developnt model in the engine industry!

And such model made Aurora Gas sll new developnt opportunities.

Although they struggled to define Golden Engine's business developnt model.

Undoubtedly, its potential was absolutely unprecedented.

This thing was a patchwork monster.

Who knew how terrifying ultimate-form Golden Engine would be if they soday stitched together the entire engine industry.

So.

They wanted to strike first.

After all, ready examples were right before them!

Could you imagine how happy those manufacturers were who decided to participate in Golden Engine's developnt during initial planning?

What they enjoyed now was "near third-tier engine internal base pricing, simultaneously enjoying Golden Engine and Phoenix Engine dual technical support" service!

What was this equivalent to?

This equivalent to paying budget motel single room price, but staying in five-star presidential suite!

And they had this treatnt only because they helped out at the construction site when developers built the motel!

Although opportunity waits for no one.

Current Golden Wind had passed their most difficult tis, and would never again offer such preferential policies exclusive to founding manufacturers to more companies.

But for Aurora Gas, if they couldn't enjoy third-tier pricing, letting them enjoy second-tier pricing would work too!

Although we're not providing help in tis of need.

But adding flowers to the brocade still counts as flowers.

"Industry alliance enhances market competitiveness,"

Maher nodded repeatedly:

"Actually, this is what I wanted to say too."

Hearing this.

Shen Miaomiao raised her hand, signaling Maher to continue.

Maher organized his thoughts and said:

"Your company's alliance with Phoenix can be said to have pioneered new collaborative developnt approaches in the ga industry,"

"And this GDC's Dark Souls is the best demonstration of collaborative developnt results,"

"You must have seen already, yesterday our official tweet including CEO's personal tweet absolutely affird and supported your company's new approaches, models, and visions,"

"This isn't just our attitude, but also contains our practical expectations for new industry alliance developnt models..."

Listening to Maher's words, Shen Miaomiao couldn't help sighing inwardly—people were right—

When you're weak, you encounter the most bad people; when you're hot, everyone around you is good.

Thinking back to when they were still weak, ridicule, disdain, mockery, and doubt filled the air.

Looking now.

One phrase "cooperative collaborative developnt" spoken, within less than 24 hours, attracted support and cooperation requests from internationally renowned first-tier major companies.

Shen Miaomiao signaled Chu Qingzhou beside her to record the following content, as she started feeling sowhat confused.

Maher noticed Shen Miaomiao's limited understanding of industry expertise, and tried to explain cooperation requests using more accessible language.

As everyone knows.

Ga engines, as software fraworks assisting electronic ga design and developnt, include multiple subsystem tools like graphics rendering, physics simulation, sound, input, artificial intelligence, etc.

They help developers create ga scenes, characters, animations, sound effects, etc., realizing ga functions and effects.

Typically, an engine includes multiple components like "rendering engine," "physics engine," "sound engine," "input engine," "output engine," "augnted reality," "AI engine," "network interconnection frawork," etc.

Maher imdiately brought out "physics engine" and "AI engine" as the two major components.

These two didn't require much discussion or explanation.

Because Golden Wind had already achieved first-class level in these two aspects, even arguably globally unique.

And with Phoenix's addition, the "rendering engine" mainly responsible for rendering ga scenes including graphics rendering, lighting, shadows, special effects, etc., needed little elaboration.

In visual effect presentation and rendering quality, if Phoenix claid second place, no one dared claim first.

Thus, among the main components, only five items remained: "sound engine," "augnted reality," "network interconnection frawork," "input engine," and "output engine."

Maher introduced:

"The sound engine is our Aurora self-developed engine's greatest advantage."

Sound, as an easily overlooked component during gaplay, often seems less noticeable.

But actually, it's the most indispensable part of a complete ga.

After all, in gas as virtual reality, the most intuitive forms of expression are "seeing" and "hearing."

However.

Since people's perception of "hearing" isn't particularly sharp, or requirents typically not that high.

Sound engines have always been rather insignificant among various ga engines.

Not many people paid attention, not many researched.

But Aurora Gas was different—

They were the first company releasing rhythm gas in motion-sensing pod gas.

Similar to Beat Saber from Gu Sheng's previous life.

Simple block-cutting chanics following rhythm, supplented by 3D surround panoramic sound music effects, caused quite a stir upon release, with sales crushing various shooters/racers/sports gas, boldly winning that year's TIGA (The International Ga Awards) Ga of the Year, still the only rhythm ga ever winning TIGA Ga of the Year.

Even now, although Aurora Gas no longer focused solely on rhythm gas, turning to RPG, FPS, and sports gas.

But in ga sound effect presentation, they remained uniquely top-tier.

"Gas cannot do without the assistance of sound,"

"Especially in motion-sensing gas, the more subtle sound presentation, the more it enhances players' gaming experience,"

"In this aspect, I believe our experience can provide strong support for Golden Engine's further enrichnt."

Hmm....

Hearing this.

Shen Miaomiao's little brain started working.

According to Maher, this cooperation, they hoped to adopt Golden Engine's initial cooperation model between Golden Wind and various Huaguo manufacturers—rcenary mode—Golden Wind hiring Aurora Gas' self-developed engine team for technical engine upgrades, giving Aurora Gas relatively reasonable engine licensing pricing.

Quite reasonable.

Fair and square, mutually beneficial.

You share technology with , I give you discounted licensing.

Sounded pretty good.

But the problem was—

Sound upgrade?

Wow.

Shen Miaomiao grimaced inwardly.

Sounded like a pretty useless improvent.

Although Maher described it wonderfully, based on her gaming experience, this thing seed completely unimportant.

Unless so company's boss had money burning a hole in their pocket.

Otherwise, this truly useless, or minimal improvent, really seed unnecessary.

So!

Who had money burning uncomfortably?

Hey hey hey! !

Shen Miaomiao smacked her little lips.

What a sucker's deal!

This equivalent to throwing money down the drain!

Moreover, due to system restrictions, single engine upgrade wasn't enough to establish a project. After engine upgrade completion, she'd have to spend more money releasing a ga.

Two sums of money spent, gaining a ga without significant technical improvent.

Hoho!

Shen Miaomiao clapped inwardly.

Thank you Vivendi, thank you Konik, thank you Illusion Engine.

Without your blockade, no Golden Engine ergence, no my 1.8 billion, no guaranteed profit-return Dark Souls, no more money-draining opportunities.

Playing like this, forget getting rid of Vivendi's pursuit.

Reverse acquisition, just around the corner!

Decided!

Thinking this!

Shen Miaomiao had no reason for hesitation, decided on the spot!

How could she refuse delivered profit returns!

This money, I Shen Miaomiao will lose it!