Number One Game Designer

Fortunately, before Christmas, Fang Xi had already completed this simple trip around the world and returned to Beiyang City, a second-tier city in China, at the fringe of urban and rural areas.

In Hongyi's industrial park in the headquarters, Fang Xi opened a new studio last month amidst the curiosity of the employees in the headquarters. The listed name is "Jiufeng". Restarted work, but now there are still three or two big cats and small cats, and the only few people were also transferred by Fang Xiqiang. For the headquarters, the most important thing now is undoubtedly the assassin series of the "Holy Order" studio.

Now inside the Assassin Studio, it is also divided into two parts: the game and "Assassin: Chronicle". Not many people are responsible for the game part. The main framework of the assassin has entered the final part. Fang Xi has reviewed most of the content and is basically satisfied.

The work done by the chronicle part should be regarded as shaping the worldview, to be more precise, the team members in charge of this part need to thoroughly understand the history of China, and then add the active figures of assassins to it. CG, "Assassin Chronicles: Xuanwu Gate" is just one of them.

"Master, there is another invitation." Xiaolan put a letter on Fang Xi's desk.

There is no need to open it, Fang Xi can guess what it is for by looking at the logo on the envelope. The envelope does not look big, the paper is printed by itself, the color is simple, the surface of the envelope is wrapped in light blue color, and a light The Electronic Entertainment Expo logo is printed on the front, a letter from E3.

What? You said why there is no 3 in this string of English? E3 got its name because of the three letters starting with E in its English name.

Fang Xi looked at the envelope over and over again, and then opened it casually. Before opening the letter, he looked at Xiaolan's expectant expression, and said curiously:

"interested?"

Xiaolan nodded excitedly:

"This letter was sent to the company three days ago, but you were not around at the time, young master, so you didn't open it. In fact, everyone in the company is looking forward to the content here. After all, it is E3."

Fang Xi chuckled, unfolded the letter paper and glanced at it. Now he often needs to go abroad on business and deal with foreigners. Fang Xi's current English level is not bad.

"Then you can announce it. This is the invitation letter for next year's E3. We also have our own manufacturer day, although it is not independent and the biggest."

"Oh yeah~~~~"

Before Fang Xi finished speaking, Xiao Lan couldn't wait to run out to announce the news.

Shaking his head, Fang Xi turned his gaze back to the letter paper.

This is probably an intuitive manifestation of Hongyi's growing influence. Although "Eternity" was neither well received nor popular at the E3 exhibition half a year ago, it was only attracted by Hongyi's other products. But now it seems that this kind of heat, I don't know how E3 feels.

The invitation to next year's E3 directly allows Hongyi to officially have its own venue on the third day of E3, which can be regarded as half a theme day, which is also a strange rule in this world.

In this time and space, because the game industry is relatively not very prosperous, the three large-scale companies of Microsoft and Microsoft are considered giants in the game industry. Therefore, in the one-week themed exhibition of E3, the first three days belong to the three companies of Microsoft and Microsoft. , One day per family, there is often no difference in the order. The arrangement for this E3 is that the first day is still Microsoft. This is normal, after all, North America is the home field.

On the second day Sofa, they are the best hardware supporters in the game market at present. On the third day, Nintendo X Hongyi, which made Fang Xi very painful.

Even now Fang Xi wants to call directly: Are you trying to mess with me? Maliciously lead the two fans to confront each other, be careful and I will sue you!

But Fang Xi didn't wait for the call to go to the E3 organizer to scold the street, but instead received a call from Nintendo first.

"Mr. FANG? I heard that you have returned to China. You should have received the invitation letter for E3?"

The caller was one of the people who led the Hongyi inspection team last time.

Fang Xi still had some impressions.

"Yes, I also just found out that our Hongyi was forced into the third day and Nintendo was on the same day. I was thinking about whether to call E3 to protest."

"No, no, no." The person on the other end of the phone explained:

"This is actually our Nintendo initiative."

"?" This Fang Xi was really surprised: "I would like to hear the details."

"Everyone can see the influence of your company in the game industry now, but your company is actually not the protagonist of the manufacturer's day."

"Yes." This Fang Xi understands, is the so-called manufacturer's day really counted by influence? In fact, it is not, but because these three companies all have their own consoles. Having a console means having a complete set of channels, which is very different from just doing game development.

"It's good if you understand. In short, all parties have their own considerations. For the theme exhibition of E3 next year, we also hope that Hongyi can curb the momentum of Weisuo and Weisuo. We are very optimistic about the appeal of Hongyi's games. According to that traditional phrase, we, hope to perform a perfect finale with Hong Yi.”

Fang Xi was silent for a moment, digesting the news by himself:

"As long as the ending is exciting enough, the audience will forget the actors in front?"

The person over there chuckled: "That's the reason. In order to stop the two players from arguing, we need to issue a joint statement."

...

So the simple cooperation was negotiated. Fang Xi felt a little caught off guard by this. Although he said that he would have his own manufacturer day sooner or later when he went to E3 last time: but he also knew at the time that if he wanted to be a manufacturer, he must first have A game console with a good market share, but now, the Sofa family dominates, and Ren and Microsoft rely on some of their own exclusives to support them. In the final analysis, I am just a developer now, saying that I have my own theme day. It's just a joke.

What is in front of us now is an opportunity, but at the same time it may also be a constraint. If you choose A Ren for your game, you may have to give up the other two. In the last time and space, there was no shortage of full-platform hegemony, but there is still There has never been a cross-host launch at the same time, and even if different hosts have been launched successively, optimization is still a big problem-every host has a different architecture, and optimization for different architectures also requires a lot of cost. If a The game needs to be available on multiple host platforms, not to mention that it is unrealistic, the optimization of each host platform alone is enough to make people bald.

And now the choice in front of Fang Xi is, if you choose the Ren family, you have to give up the law enforcement. Is such a deal worthwhile?

But regardless of whether it was a good deal or not, Fang Xi knew that he had no time to worry about it now.

"Forget it, anyway, for now, Hongyi's main sales channel is still PC, and the mainframe can only be regarded as a bonus, don't care, don't care~"

As he spoke, Fang Xi shouted:

"Xiao Lan, come in quickly! We are going to issue a joint statement with other companies!"