Chapter 561: Live Demonstration

"This is our experimental machine room. After receiving Miss Luo's investment, we restarted the machine's power supply experiment, and the progress is very smooth now."

In the corridor, Nikola said to the three people behind him through the glass.

In the laboratory, a group of workers were testing parameters in front of computers, while others were debugging machines, everyone serious and performing their own duties.

It looked quite authentic, Eric thought to himself, and then nodded slightly.

Luo Quan didn't say much the whole time because she knew nothing about this aspect. It is a taboo for a layman to guide an expert, so she just watched quietly.

"By the way, if the funds are sufficient, about how long will it take to be officially put into use?" Before the laboratory, Eric had already seen several departments of this company.

The equipment, personnel, and various technical data were very complete, and his friend told him that this was a company engaged in new energy development, and it looked like this technology was really quite thoughtful.

Since there was no problem with the technology, what he thought about was how to put it into production as soon as possible to seize the market.

Tesla had already taken the lead, but it was said that the product's quality control was quite substandard, with small accidents occurring frequently, so although the stock market had been rising, offline sales were a mess.

The reason why the stock market was so optimistic was mainly because there was only one such mature new energy vehicle company at present, so consumers had no choice, and capital also had no choice.

"At most one year!" Nikola's words were very certain. "The experiment has entered the final stage. Next is vehicle installation, debugging, and fault testing. Putting it into production actually doesn't take much time, after all, the modern industrial system is already quite mature.

However, Miss Luo mentioned before that she wanted to use new energy on ships. This is a very good idea, but the difficulty of realizing it is not low, and the scale of the current new energy engine is not enough to support a behemoth like a ship, so it needs to be modified and tested."

Eric, hearing Nikola's words, was first a little surprised, and then looked at his daughter with gratified eyes. This was clearly thinking for her new company.

"Don't worry about the ship part, take it one step at a time. Let's get the car done first before considering the ship."

The inspection was about done, and there were basically no major problems.

However, according to Nikola, the money was basically enough for now, so there was no need for a large investment for the time being.

This was exactly what Eric wanted. Although he had saved a lot of spare money over the years, it was basically used to operate that shipping company.

And although there were many manors and properties in the UK and the US, it would take some time to cash them out, so he couldn't come up with much money in a short time.

As for his father, he didn't plan to open his mouth to ask the old man for money again; it was better to handle some things himself.

"There's nothing to worry about regarding money. My new movie is about to be released, and there will be several hundred million in cash flow then," Luo Quan said to her father on the plane back.

She was quite confident about "The Silence of the Lambs."

Although this was not a commercial film in the traditional sense, with an excellent script and god-tier performances, the box office definitely wouldn't be bad, not to mention the three golden signboards of her, Leon, and Carilien.

When the three of them filmed a movie together, even an epic disaster would definitely make a fortune. This was the benefit of having a huge fan base.

"Several hundred million?" Eric was a little surprised to hear this number. "Is filming movies that profitable?"

Although he hadn't looked after the family business much, born into this family, it was impossible not to have learned how to do business.

He knew very clearly what the concept of several hundred million in liquid funds was. Even for those large companies with a market value of several billion US dollars, it was impossible to come up with several hundred million in cash at once without selling fixed assets.

And listening to his daughter's tone, it seemed that this number was nothing special.

"It is quite profitable. Just the box office of 'Rurouni Kenshin' earned me over 100 million US dollars, and that's not counting the subsequent peripheral output.

In addition, 'The Queen Who Wears Chanel' had an even higher total box office because it was released globally. It was precisely the income from these two movies that allowed me to gather the first investment fund," Luo Quan talked freely about her father's question.

For an artist of her level, making money was indeed a quite easy thing.

This was also the reason why she was relatively lazy. Many domestic crews offered hundreds of millions in salary to invite her to film, and if she had accepted them all, her assets would probably have doubled by now.

"No wonder." Eric now understood why his daughter didn't take money as money; it turned out it was obtained without any effort.

"Actually, besides movies, I'm also doing industry in gaming. If this project takes off, it can be eaten for ten or twenty years."

Luo Quan told her father about her game company plan again. Compared to movies, the development prospects of the gaming industry were also very huge.

Especially in China, just think about it, some low-quality skin-changing pay-to-win mobile games could earn so much money. If one day a high-quality mobile game comparable to console games appeared, wouldn't it earn tens of billions a year?

This was not to mention the even larger computer game market, which was completely in an uncultivated state, and there were basically no opponents to be found.

Listening to his daughter's highly confident vision for the future, Eric saw the prototype of a business empire in her words…………

September 23rd, this would be a day destined to be recorded in the history of gaming.

Luo Quan, who was slacking off at home, received a video sent to her by Li Jiang, which was a game demonstration of "Final Fantasy."

"The Silence of the Lambs" had been edited and sent for review, waiting for further notice.

However, with Caran's connection, it was estimated that the review department would open a convenient door.

It would be best if the movie wasn't made into an R-rated film, as that would somewhat affect the box office.

And during the few days waiting for the notice, Luo Quan basically livestreamed every day, under the guise of not letting fans feel lonely, but actually just slacking off.

And Luo Quan, who had been idle for so long, finally had something to do, which was the live demonstration sent by Li Jiang.

The scene in this video that was truly a live demonstration wasn't actually large, and the latter part was mostly CG made with Unreal Engine, but Li Jiang believed that after the game was completely finished, it could fully reach this picture, so he treated it as a live demonstration.

It was a bit like false advertising and drawing a big cake, but under the condition that the technical power could fully reach it, this wasn't fake at all.

According to Li Jiang, the game had now begun to enter the full-speed sprint stage.

With the script, character world settings, composition, and gameplay provided by Luo Quan, all they had to do was use Unreal Engine to shape these out.

Compared to creation, they were just doing the simplest technical work, just piling up materials, no need to use their brains.

And Unreal Engine was originally an engine characterized by fast output, so at the latest, by next year's New Year, the game could start Alpha testing.

And this live demonstration video was made to warm up the game.

There had been no movement for more than half a month, and the heat about "Final Fantasy" on the internet seemed to have subsided, which was not what they wanted to see.

"Good wine is not afraid of deep alleys" was an old saying. Now, if a work wants to be popular, who isn't promoting it for their life?

Therefore, the live demonstration video of "Final Fantasy" came into being.

After obtaining it, Luo Quan immediately uploaded it to the "Final Fantasy" account on Bilibili and Twitter, and then forwarded it using her own account.

Once the video was uploaded, it directly shocked the entire gaming world.

Before this, the picture quality of most games on the market was still biased towards comics.

Domestic and even Asian ones were Korean-style greasy style, while Western ones used American comic style.

Although technology had been advancing and modeling had become more and more refined, there was still a biggest problem with picture quality, which was that it wasn't realistic enough.

A game is ultimately just a game and cannot be compared with movies or even reality.

For a large group of true-love fans who consider games to be the ninth art of humanity, this was truly a great pity.

However, after the Frost Flower Engine was released, players saw hope, the hope of seeing the fake become real and using games to present reality.

But at that time, no one thought that the one to realize this hope the fastest would actually be China.

In this desert of standalone masterpieces, in this environment filled with piracy, skin-changing mobile games, and the whole nation being keen on MOBA and PUBG, a game with picture quality comparable to movies was actually born!

At the beginning of the video, the protagonist with golden hair and a big sword was simply walking in the slums, surrounded by metal full of oil and rust, and on the ground was dust and yellow soil.

Everything looked so real, no different from the real world.

The camera zoomed in and focused on the protagonist's face. The skin texture that was hard to distinguish between true and false, the distinct layers of hair, and the looming pores made a group of veteran players exclaim that they had never heard of such a thing.

And then a more shocking scene happened. As the camera shifted, the sunlight in the sky also changed. Until the two reached a suitable angle, the players saw circles of halos, as well as the colorful dispersion inside.

At this moment, I don't know how many people had goosebumps on their bodies.

Is this really a game? Is this really not a movie?

As if knowing that players would have such questions, a paragraph appeared above the video: Do you think this is just a fantasy?

The next second, the screen went black.

When it lit up again, it was a scene of the protagonist running on industrial pipes with a gloomy tone.

Surrounded by enemies rushing towards him, the protagonist swung the big sword in his hand at them. The powerful sense of impact and the gorgeous spark special effects could only be described as explosive.

Next, the scenes changed constantly, and the enemies faced were also changing constantly.

Fantasy, reality, beauty, magnificence, countless pictures impacted the players' vision and hearing. Even if it was just a video of less than eight minutes, the shock brought was no less than an animated blockbuster.

Just like the name of this game, this is a "Final Fantasy" dedicated to all players who love games.

The video ended quickly, ending with the protagonist looking up at the night sky, with the sky full of bright stars.

In the barrage, there were all words like "Must buy if released" and "Shocking."

In less than half an hour, the playback volume of the "Final Fantasy" live demonstration reached 3 million. The speed of this click growth could already be ranked in the top ten in Bilibili's history!

The comment with the most likes in the comment section was posted by Luo Quan:

This is the Final Fantasy that belongs to all of us. Now this fantasy is being made bit by bit. Here, you can experience real physics engines, real character emotions, and real light and shadow effects.

We will use the best technology to bring everyone an artistic feast belonging to games, and the only thing everyone needs to do is to prepare your equipment. You can look forward to the game as much as possible, I believe it will definitely not let you down!

This was Luo Quan's declaration to all players, and also a promise.

If this promise was somewhat powerless before this video was released,

but now the live demonstration was in front of them, and this quality could truly be called epoch-making. Everyone was no longer worried about the quality of this game, but worried about whether their machines could run this game.

Although Luo Quan said before that she would optimize the game as much as possible, striving to let nuclear display players also play smoothly, she didn't say what the specific configuration of the nuclear display was. There were also CPUs with nuclear displays sold on the market for four or five thousand.

(PS: Here, I will explain to book friends who don't understand. If a computer wants to play games, generally the CPU and graphics card are the two most important components. The better these two are, the smoother the game can be.

And the so-called nuclear display is the graphics card function that comes with the CPU. The performance is generally not as good as an independent graphics card, but the price is cheaper.)

Judging from the picture shown by this game now, it is estimated that if you want to get an excellent experience, a 2080ti might not be able to guarantee it.

It can only be said that it is fortunate that the price of Bitcoin has collapsed and the price of graphics cards has been adjusted, otherwise it would be impossible for everyone to buy a slightly better graphics card.

And just when the players on Bilibili were exclaiming "awesome" while worrying about equipment, there was also a huge shock on Twitter about this video.

Foreign players had relatively better conditions, and it could be said that they had been exposed to various 3A masterpieces since they were young. PS4 and even computers were not scarce equipment.

However, even growing up in such an environment, they had never seen such a battle.

This picture was really too outrageous, just like it was filmed with a camera. Currently, no game company had made a game comparable to it, not even a promotional video!

Although there was already the Frost Moon Flower Engine abroad, everyone was still in the exploration and plan planning stage, and most of them hadn't started work yet.

And here at Luo Quan's, even a live demonstration had been made.

This meant that she had completely walked at the forefront of the entire era. Regardless of the quality of this game, this would leave a heavy stroke in the history of gaming! ===== CHAPTER 562 =====