The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 558: Defeated opponents (asking for monthly tickets)
Game developers around the world are anxious.

This feeling of anxiety did not appear only after the [Animal Kingdom Speed ​​Race] began.

——Actually, it was much earlier than that.

This anxiety began to emerge as early as when DreamWorks released "Lord of War" at an outrageous speed.

This anxiety finally reached its peak after Xiao Meng announced that she would develop game content independently!
This results in a large number of peers and scientific researchers among the participants of the [Animal Kingdom Speed ​​Race].

——So many that it far exceeds all previous events and activities.

Game developers and experts in the field of artificial intelligence from all over the world came to sign up for the competition.

It is not to win the 800 million prize money of the competition, but to experience firsthand what kind of game content will be produced by independent development of artificial intelligence.

And use this to judge the prospects of your own industry.

Before the game started, quite a few people were actually praying in their hearts, hoping that the game Xiao Meng made would contain a lot of bugs.

Either it's not fun, or it's not reasonable.

The more flaws the better.

This will prevent too much impact on their work and career plans.

But unfortunately——

The result was not what they expected.

Before the competition was over, Xiao Meng had already received countless praises!
Even those who were expecting a "bad" game, looking at the excited expressions of the players around them and listening to their joyful laughter, clearly realized:
As long as there are no unexpected events later, this competition organized by Xiao Meng is likely to be a great success!

And Xiao Meng even managed to do this in just one day!
An Animal Kingdom, a bunch of chubby animals, and tracks designed based on the city of Sprawling Metropolis.

This amount of engineering...

Not to mention the virtual world, even if they just wanted to make it on a PC, it would take them more than half a year!

But how long did Xiao Meng take?
one day!
The more experienced the developer is, the more they can feel how big the gap is!
Therefore, the psychological impact will be stronger! ——
After the 9th checkpoint, a large amount of brightly colored gummy bears suddenly gushed out from the windows on both sides of the track, covering the entire track like a waterfall.

Players who were sprinting were hit by the candies one after another.

Falco Morris, senior director of software development at Softbox Game Box, was also knocked down by a bright yellow gummy bear that was bigger than him.

I didn't know when the ground was covered with normal-sized candies, so it didn't hurt when I fell.

He struggled to push away the huge piece of gummy bear that was pressing on him and got up from the ground.

Looking at the chewy and rolling gummy candies and the players who were laughing and not caring at all, Falco fell silent.

Even though his competitive owl companion kept jostling him with his head, he didn't continue.

At this moment, he felt weak all over.

He knew that during this period, the Soford headquarters had been trying to use the Soford game boxes to exchange for Dream Building shares.

It is said that the headquarters packed up the game box - along with all the hardware, software, even IP and employees, just in exchange for 1% of the shares of DreamCraft.

But it was still rejected mercilessly.

As an employee of Soford Game Box, he felt very humiliated at first.

But then I put myself in their shoes and realized: If I were to make the decision, I probably wouldn't change it either.

So all that is left is helplessness.

What’s even more frustrating is that his opinion on the matter doesn’t matter at all, and he has no ability to interfere in it.

After all, he was just a small director and completely insignificant in the entire Soford company system.

The only value is to be called by the senior management together with the leaders and asked:
If we can jointly develop a virtual game with DreamWorks, how long will the development cycle be, what are the expected sales, and how much profit can it bring in the future?
At that time, he and his leader said very boldly: "One year!"

In fact, they all felt that it could not be completed within this time.

But he was afraid that if he talked about it for longer, the top management would simply give up this option, so he intentionally kept the time very short.

Unfortunately, their small efforts did not create any waves.

Even at this moment, Falco's mentality has changed -

1 years?
If you really work for a year, the day lily will be cold!

What's the point of cooperating?
Change your career as soon as possible!

At the same time, Falco's leader came to a similar conclusion.

When the negotiation team approached him again and asked about the impact of "AI game development", he gave a straightforward conclusion:

"Traditional games have entered death mode, and the value of existing game development studios has plummeted. If you can sell them, do it as soon as possible. If you delay for a few more days, they will not be able to be sold at a high price!"
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The 12th checkpoint is the vertical marathon.

Players need to take their animal companions and climb a tall building up the stairs.

Okubo Yu, who had regained his youth through [Rejuvenation], had a squirrel sitting on his shoulder and walked briskly past Fang Shuo, who was sighing and pushing the zebra's butt up the stairs with both hands.

Climbing and celebrating:
Fortunately, it is just a 30-story building, not the famous alarm clock [Twin Towers] that sprawls across the city.

If you climb that mountain, you will definitely be exhausted!
After finally climbing to the top floor and activating the 13th checkpoint, this feeling of relief became more than ten times stronger.

The next section of the road is actually a vertical descent!

——Contestants need to jump from a 30-story rooftop!
Okubo Yu's face turned pale as he gave up his seat, sat aside, and stroked his heart to prepare himself mentally. He also watched the crazy players dragging their animal companions and jumping off the edge of the rooftop!

He saw a little girl of seven or eight years old holding a lamb, and her father holding her, jumping off the roof together.

A seal was also seen patting its belly happily, and was pushed down by the player.

He even saw Xu Meng using a rope to tie the goose's wings in circles.

It seemed that he was worried that the goose would fly around in the air and cause him to miss the cushion of air below.

……

He just looked at it for a long time.

Until Fang Shuo stuck out his tongue and pushed the zebra onto the roof exhausted.

Okubo Yu finally burst out laughing:

"Hahahaha, zebra!"

"Zebra jumps off the building!! Hahahaha!"

Amid the sudden burst of laughter, Okubo Yu reached a reconciliation with himself.

——He didn’t want to worry about the Rentian Game Console and Dream Building anymore.

Negotiate, wrestle, and confront with the dreamer?
Forget it!

Given the absolute gap in strength, it simply doesn't make any sense.

He decided to officially withdraw from the negotiations with Dream Building Games as soon as the game was over.

He is already a retired old man.

There is enough money in the bank account to last till death.

As for the future of Nintendo game consoles, let the young people worry about it themselves.

As soon as I think about it, I suddenly feel that the world is vast.

Okubo Yu suddenly felt that a 30-story building was nothing special!
He came to the edge of the roof and jumped down holding the squirrel!
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The 22nd checkpoint was actually an ordinary street.

Although there were still some cars and pedestrians, they were not driving very fast and did not look threatening.

Thomas Booker, founder, CEO and CTO of Edge Industries, is cautious.

——In addition to famous labels such as entrepreneur, engineer, dreamer, etc., Thomas Booker has another less recognized label: game expert.

In order to obtain this label, he even hired someone to forge it for him.

But it is true that he likes to play.

It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that he is a gaming expert, but there’s nothing wrong with saying that he is a bad player with a big addiction.

Coupled with his curiosity about artificial intelligence, he will certainly not miss this game!
Unfortunately, he has not played the game for longer than Xu Meng, and he does not have superpowers such as telekinesis, organ mutation, and high-level dragon soul.

Even though I tried my best, I was overwhelmed by Xiao Meng's endless tricks and my progress was only average.

But he didn't feel depressed.

Because he found Xu Meng appeared behind him!

"Hey, bro!" Thomas Booker waved and greeted Xu Meng in a familiar manner.

But before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly said "Fuck!!"

"?" Xu Meng was stunned.

Who is so brave?

Scold me to my face?!
The next second, he felt the ground shaking.

Thomas Booker no longer thought about making friends and chatting about satellite business.

He turned around and ran away!
Xu Mengze slowly turned around.

I saw a huge hamster with its paws on the roof of a convenience store on the street. Its head slowly lowered, casting a large shadow.

"Uh..." Xu Meng recognized this hamster.

"you're awake?"

The hamster answered his question with action——

"Ah!" She swallowed him into her mouth!

Xu Meng dodged forward, but failed to avoid it completely, and the lower half of his body was still bitten into the hamster's mouth.

Xu Meng pressed the hamster's mouth with her upper body and struggled desperately.

The big hamster held him in its mouth and shook its head hard!

Xu Meng was dizzy from the shaking, and saw only the players below running away in all directions.

Only its big goose brother stood by the hamster and angrily rushed forward to peck at its toes!
At this moment, Xu Meng made the next decision:
After the game is over, I must hold Xiao Meng down and spank her!!

There are so many people below, why are they staring at me and biting me? ?
On purpose? !
(End of this chapter)