To develop a popular work in a year requires cultivating a group of die-hard players, which is a great test for Chen Ran.
Chen Ran only had experience as a producer before and had no experience running a business.
The game is not only development, but also post-production and operation.
This is an unknown area for Chen Ran.
The game development is supported by the computing power and engine provided by Zheng Li, and the difficulty is not so difficult that it cannot be completed.
At least there is hope of completion, the only difference is whether the work is good or bad.
However, publishing, operating, and obtaining a version number are much more difficult than developing a game within a year.
For Zheng Li, investing in Chen Ran is another way for him to interfere in Blue Star society in different ways.
Kechuang Bio's intervention in Blue Star society is more of a material level.
As for the magic coin system, only senior executives knew about it before. After receiving a lot of exposure at the end of 23, the repercussions began to show up this year.
Orflix released a large number of fantasy works in the first quarter, among which the works with mages as the protagonists received enough attention as they expected.
But being able to break through the siege ultimately depends on the product, and popularity can only help you get the first batch of viewers.
HBO's fantasy masterpiece with Merlin as the protagonist and George R.R. Martin as the screenwriter has begun open casting in Hollywood.
As for why HBO dares to openly use Merlin as the protagonist, it is because their senior officials judge that Merlin is a camp that favors order and will not attack humans for no reason.
Moreover, the TV series they are going to shoot, Merlin, is an out-and-out positive character, without even a dark side.
A complete fantasy protagonist.
The task Zheng Li gave Chen Ran was for him to personally participate in the development of entertainment products.
From Zheng Li's heart, he also hopes to move some classic works of the Mage Alliance to Blue Star.
There are unexpected risks in using Kechuang Biotech to do this, so it is best to find another tool person in front of the stage.
Moreover, the story background given by Zheng Li is quite grand, even if Chen Ran's works are not very good.
Zheng Li can let BioCloud's primary artificial intelligence optimize the game screen.
It can win enough players with its grand story background and exquisite graphics.
Domestic players have a very strong desire to support domestic masterpieces.
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It was only after Luo Shu worked in a large factory that he realized why so many Chinese wanted to get involved in working in Silicon Valley.
There is little pressure, high income, and no other shortcomings except a lack of social interaction.
Go to the company to check in at ten o'clock every morning, observe today's data, and then pull out the abnormal data to read it and report it to the boss.
In the afternoon, we will observe the mission targets of our superiors, and the day's work is over.
This workload is not as good as the half-day workload when he went to the laboratory when he was a student in China.
"Luo, pay attention to observe the TEV gamma rays of the Crab Nebula today."
"The supernova remnant and pulse wind nebula located northeast of Zeta Tauri?"
"That's right, do some imaging processing after the observation. Remember to observe its Cherenkov radiation.
The results were processed with a flux of 1.8 x 10 to 0.7 tev above the -11th photon square centimeter/second. "
It's so easy to do things under Daniel, and he almost explains clearly what to do.
No need to think for yourself.
Luo Shu seriously doubted whether he would be able to find the same job if he returned to China if things continued like this.
"good."
"Also remember to do routine observations with the reflecting Schmidt telescope in the afternoon."
Luo Shu replied again: "No problem."
Apple has recruited many big names this quarter, and most of the astronomy professors at Berkeley have been poached.
So much so that Berkeley had to improve the pay for astronomy professors.
When big companies go to poach college talents, they simply don’t regard money as money.
Among them, Musk is the craziest. The magic coin mining department established by SpaceX has become an independent company.
The salaries offered to professors basically exceed one million yuan.
You must know that astronomy and mathematics are relatively poor subjects. The annual salary of an ordinary professor only ranges from 100,000 to 200,000 dollars.
Apple has formulated a new space observation strategy, which is to set its sights on deep space.
Observing targets that are too close and easy targets will most likely be poached.
In this case, it is better to start with a more difficult goal.
The Crab Nebula is 6,500 light-years away from Blue Star.
This is a new target for Apple, which suspects civilization exists in the Crab Nebula.
Although the Crab Nebula is an expanded supernova remnant, the high-density stellar remnants of pulsars rotate at a rate of 30 times per second.
They eject high-energy radiation primarily in the form of x-rays and gamma rays.
But the Crab Nebula has a very special structure. It is the only celestial structure discovered by humans with four magnetic poles.
At the same time, there is a neutron star inside it that releases a large number of high-energy particles like a cosmic generator, forming a high-energy particle storm.
Apple's team of astronomers set their sights on the Crab Nebula, suspecting that there is a civilization in this nebula that is much more technologically powerful than Blue Star.
The Crab Nebula's civilization created these strange sights.
The big guys pointed out the direction, and low-level errand runners like Luo Shu could only follow the instructions.
Although Luo Shu felt that there was little hope in his heart.
He flipped through this week's work records:
“Three x-ray bursts were observed from the direction of Cirrus x-1 and found to have all the characteristics of an i-type burst.
These bursts are estimated to be from cir x-1.
Therefore, cir x-1 is determined to be a neutron star rather than a black hole.
The properties of its burst, such as the ratio of the energy released between bursts to the energy released during the burst, and the blackbody radius, differ from earlier bursts of cir x-1.
In a manner more similar to -676 found in exo0748"
"..."
Luo Shu felt that he was useless and could only use some fixed tools to make observations and then write reports.
Fortunately, this era gave him the opportunity to get the Internet salary package in Silicon Valley. He never thought of choosing astronomy back then.
When Luo Shu chose astronomy, he was already ready to get old.
Luo Shu updated the work diary in his hand and prepared to start the day's work.
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"Are you sure you can find something here? Why do I feel like our efforts to find traces of magic are in vain?"
Herman regretted listening to Lawrence, because they walked a long way but found nothing, and his obviously red nose became even redder from exertion.
Lawrence, another white man, shook his head and said: "No one can guarantee that we can find traces of magic."
Gu is ashamed
Lawrence, who wore round-rimmed glasses, had a square face, so much so that he always felt that if he had a round face, he would have been admitted to Hogwarts when he was twelve years old.
Yes, they are freshmen at the University of Manchester, a school with a large number of Chinese students.
After Merlin's performance, Lawrence spent a long time searching in the library and declared that they should take the long vacation to look for traces of magic.
"But this is my most confident route!"
Herman touched his nose and asked: "I'm still curious. Too many people have tried to find the train route from Manchester to London, but no one has ever found any trace of magic."
The form of the crows Merlin summoned at the end of the Stockholm Concert Hall reminded all Blue Star people who had seen it of the Calling God Guard.
So much so that people think Rowling was inadvertently exposed to the magical society.
Reporters in England interviewed Rowling and obtained first-hand interview materials.
Among them, they focused on what Rowling once said in the media:
"In 1990, while Rowling was sitting on a train from Manchester to London that was four hours late, she saw a boy wearing round glasses flying by on a broomstick outside the window.
This gave her the inspiration for the Harry Potter story. "
This statement was widely publicized by the media again today, and the outside world agreed that maybe she had really seen it at that time.
Therefore, the media asked this question repeatedly in exclusive interviews, trying to get Rowling to recall more detailed details.
She also went from media outcast to media darling again.
Sometimes public opinion can be manipulated so powerfully.
However, because it was so long ago, Rowling’s statement about what happened more than 30 years ago has not changed from the original interview.
She really couldn't remember it clearly.
It is precisely because of this incident that many Internet celebrities in England tried to search for traces of magic along the train route from Manchester to London.
Lawrence adjusted his glasses, "No, no, no, too many people are focusing on the train line from Euston Station to Piccadilly Station."
"In their view, Rowling was destitute in 1990 and Euston to Piccadilly was the cheapest ticket."
"It only costs over fifty pounds, so everyone else spends too much effort on this route."
Euston Station is a railway station located at the back of central London, to the east of Regent's Park, very close to King's Cross Station.
Piccadilly Station is the only mainline railway station in Manchester city centre.
"But you have to remember that 30 years ago, there was an abandoned station in Manchester - Central Station."
"Central Station was listed as a Grade II listed building in the 1963 Census of Industrial Heritage."
"It was subsequently reopened after renovations, but its protection level was again raised one level in 1994 and it has since ceased to operate as a station."
"Railways in England sold it to private individuals and Manchester City Council bought it back and turned it into a city exhibition centre."
Hermann interrupted: "That means that somewhere between 1963 and 1994, Grand Central Station was in operation for a short period of time?"
Lawrence nodded and said: "To be precise, it was between 1987 and 1994, and it briefly ran for 7 years."
"Now it's called Manchester Central, but it used to be cheaper to get a ticket from Central Station to King's Cross in London."
"I went to the Railway Museum in Manchester to find the tickets from that year. From Central Station to King's Cross Station in London, the cheapest one only costs thirty pounds!"
"And I went to Manchester Center specifically to find the station staff at that time and asked about it."
“As Central Station was a Grade II listed building at the time, there was constant repair and maintenance work to be carried out.”
"So trains from Central Station to London were often delayed, and tickets would be cheaper than other stations."
Herman clapped his hands suddenly: "No wonder no one else can find any trace of magic, that's why!"
Many people in England tried to find traces of magic.
"Not Picadia Station but Central Station."
"And the train to London, the London side should also be King's Cross station."
Lawrence wiped the sweat from his forehead: "That's right."
"And because at that time, only King's Cross station was managed by London City Council, and Central Station was also managed by Manchester City Council at that time."
"So only King's Station in London can tolerate the regular delays experienced by Central Station."
In fact, British Railways was privatized in 1994. I believe you can understand that there are certain deviations in Blue Star's history in England.
"There were very few trains running from Central Station to other London stations back then."
Hermann applauded: "Beautiful reasoning."
"No wonder Platform Nine and Four Thirteen is at King's Station in London."
"Why didn't I think of that?"
Lawrence smiled and said: "I only thought of it by chance."
"I came across a book in the library about the history of railway architecture in the Manchester area."
"I took it out and looked at it carefully, and then contacted Harry Potter, and I found a lot of coincidences."
"When there are too many coincidences, they are no longer coincidences."
"Know that Manchester was the site of the earliest intercity trains."
"The winner of the city train competition that year was Stephenson, the father of modern trains."
"Stephenson's award-winning train is called: Rocket."
"The Rocket's starting point is Grand Central Station."
"Rocket and Firebolt, do you think they are very similar? And in Rowling's official setting, the speed of Firebolt is exactly 150 kilometers per hour."
"Similar to the speed of trains in 1990."
The English name of Firebolt is firebolt, and the English name of Rocket Train is rocket.
What Lawrence means here is that the meanings of the two are close.
"The Rocket served between Manchester and Liverpool."
"It was Grand Central Station where it was."
"Furthermore, a similar incident occurred on the Rocket when the Central Fire Bolt lost control."
"When it opened, it killed Liverpool MP William Huskisson."
After talking for a long time, Lawrence, who was already out of breath, was thirsty.
He took out a water bottle from his backpack.
Herman was fascinated: "Then what?"
Lawrence took a sip of water and said, "Then there are so many coincidences when compared with history."
"I think Central Station to King's Cross is the most likely route."
"I thought Rowling might know something, and she put the secrets in the books and tried to let us find out for ourselves."
"So what we're going to do today is re-route the line from Central Station to King's Cross."
"As for whether I can find anything specifically, I don't know."
"But this is the route where we are most likely to find something."
Over the years, many traces of the railway tracks have been covered by regrown vegetation.
Herman added: “It’s been a great adventure!”
