For Guo Ziwen, today is definitely the most stressful and busy day since he started working at Penguin.
Originally, he was supposed to be at home with his wife and children warming up on the kang, enjoying a warm and comfortable weekend, but last night Future Technology suddenly announced that its own Huanxing Intelligent Engine was officially launched, and it quickly aroused heated discussions across the Internet and was featured on major website platforms.
Although domestic game engines have never been favored by the public, this time it is a product of an unknown company.
But as the leading company in the domestic gaming industry, they must pay attention.
Otherwise, we cannot always keep abreast of the latest technological trends, and we may be overtaken by those competitors.
So as the technical director of the game business, he was called up by his boss late at night to test the actual performance of the so-called Phantom Star engine and to obtain detailed data as soon as possible.
Faced with this sudden change, I will definitely have to spend the weekend at the company.
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Shenzhen City.
Penguin headquarters building.
In the morning, Guo Ziwen was somewhat excited and unbelievable, and came to the chairman's office to report with the test data of the Magic Star engine.
After lightly knocking on the door and hearing a response from inside, Guo Ziwen pushed the door open and entered, and immediately two figures came into view.
It is Ma Teng, chairman of Penguin Holdings, and Zhang Tiandong, president of gaming business.
"Xiao Guo, you're here at the right time. What are the performance test results of the Phantom Star engine?"
Zhang Tiandong, who was standing by his desk, saw his subordinate coming in and quickly asked.
He looked very anxious.
In fact, Zhang Tiandong didn't know much about future technology before. When the people below reported the situation of the Magic Star Engine to him, he even scoffed at it.
I thought it was someone who made this rubbish with passion and loss of money. It would not get any value except touching myself.
After all, with the resources of those small companies, no matter how they compare with the increasingly mature engine licensing market abroad, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses in the end.
As for why these leading companies don’t develop engines.
Can't it be done?
Obviously not.
Mainly, who would do thankless things when they have the time and energy to pursue more profitable projects.
But Zhang Tiandong never thought that he would sometimes make mistakes.
After learning more about the recently popular avatar Xingtong and the product launch of Future Technology, he always felt that things were not as simple as imagined.
With a keen sense of profit, he immediately sent people to collect detailed information on future technology.
And asked Guo Ziwen to lead people to test the performance of the Magic Star engine.
Because as long as the Fantasy Star engine is really a big step ahead of the current engine market as shown in the data given in the press conference, then the game industry will inevitably experience another blowout, and then his influence as the president in the company will also increase.
This is not the case.
After reporting the situation to the chairman and learning that Ma Teng had rushed back to the company headquarters temporarily, he immediately came to the office.
"Chairman, Mr. Zhang, this is the data analysis I tested overnight."
Hearing this, Guo Ziwen did not dare to hesitate and quickly handed the paper document in his hand to Zhang Tiandong.
"It's incredible."
"It's hard to imagine that this could be developed by such an unknown company."
"The data actually exceeds that of the top foreign game engines." Zhang Tiandong flipped through a few pages, and even though he was excited, he did not forget to let Ma Teng, who was sitting on the boss's chair, take a look: "Director Ma, take a look."
"The world will indeed be dominated by young people from now on, it won't be easy."
"It's really not easy."
"Xu Lei has made such great achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, and has also applied it to software development. He is bound to lead the development of many industries in the future."
After Ma Teng carefully read the analysis document, he was full of praise for Xu Lei and his future technology.
I almost wish I could treat him as a member of my company.
As soon as he finished speaking, Guo Ziwen couldn't help but add: "Dong Ma, the intelligent module and other general functions of this Magic Star engine have achieved unimaginable effects. If we use it to develop our games, the production cycle can be shortened from the original
Two years reduced to a few months.”
"Director Ma, I suggest that we immediately send a professional team to Binjiang City to discuss investment matters with the other party." After hearing this, Zhang Tiandong quickly agreed.
For Penguin, in addition to having a huge variety of resources, the biggest advantage is that it is rich.
Therefore, after discovering a good company, the usual approach is to directly spend money on it and obtain a certain share of the company through investment.
If Penguin successfully becomes a shareholder of Future Technology, there will be no need to pay royalties when developing games using the Magic Star engine.
You must know that 20% of game sales does not sound significant, but it is quite painful to convert into actual figures.
For example, the total global revenue of their popular Game of Thrones game is close to 20 billion, and 20% of it would be 3 to 4 billion.
However, Ma Teng rarely shook his head and rejected Zhang Tiandong's proposal.
"People who have not been baptized by society are often the most difficult to deal with."
"Judging from the information collected, both Meixiu Technology and Ali's Damo Academy have had contact with Future Technology, but both ended in failure."
"Now that they have developed the Phantom Star Engine, I'm afraid they won't accept the intervention of external capital."
"Then what should we do? Do we really accept the 20% standard of game sales given by the other party?" Zhang Tiandong asked tentatively.
In response to this, Ma Teng paused for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "The performance of the Phantom Star engine far exceeds the level of foreign engines, breaking the foreign industry monopoly. It is understandable that the charging model is slightly higher than that of overseas companies, but it is only 100%.
Twenty is indeed too greedy.”
"It is not easy for domestic games to wait for such an opportunity. We cannot let blind confidence in future technology destroy the market."
Until he said this, Ma Teng seemed to have made some decision, and immediately told Zhang Tiandong: "Go and contact 1Myou Perfect Juren. I want to discuss the future development of the industry with them."
"It's Chairman Ma, I'll do it right away."
Perhaps because he had been working around Ma Teng for a long time, Zhang Tiandong quickly reacted and vaguely guessed the company's next move, so he quickly answered.
After saying that, he and Guo Ziwen immediately left the office.
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at the same time.
In addition to domestic game companies starting to hold emergency meetings on the Phantom Star Engine, many animation companies have also taken action.
Different from game development, they simply use the Phantom Star engine to model, render and create animations through motion capture, and only need to pay an annual fee to purchase the genuine version.
The production cost of each episode will be significantly reduced compared to before, and it may even be possible to update it every day in the future, so I am naturally very concerned about this.
Among these related companies, Bizhan also held an impromptu meeting to further cooperate with Future Technology.