GDC Overview: The past, present and future of the game

Beijing Time March 7 Evening News, the 25th session of the Game Developers Conference (Game Developers Conference, hereinafter referred to as "GDC") last week in San Francisco, the curtain, this conference provides us with a review of the game industry past, present and future opportunities.　　In the past: "The bean-eating man" for women to develop the "destruction of the Warrior" (Doom), "Eat Beans" (PAC) and "God also Crazy" (Populous) and other classic games are who, when, under what conditions developed? "Pac-Man" 1979, "Eat Bean Man," the creator Rock Guche (Toru Iwatani) hope to develop a girl also love to play the game. Rock Guche said: "There was no home entertainment system, must go to the public arcade to play, and there are boys in the world, the environment is dirty and smelly." I want to develop a very clean, very comfortable game. "The women like to eat sweets, which gives me inspiration," Guche said. "Eat peas" in the enemy looks like smooth smooth mouth of the snowball dessert, very cute. "God is crazy," designer Peter Morinhox Peter Molyneux, explains why moral choices play an important role in his subsequent games, such as black and White and Fables (fable). In the middle of the 80, a phone call from PC maker Commodore gave him Newks a job exporting baked beans to the Middle East. He said, "They are Commodore 64, this is the computer I use every day, so I was surprised to receive the call." After the meeting, Commodore promised to send out 10 Amiga consoles, saying, "We really want to see your products running on our machines."　　Molineux at this time, the original company's name and Commodore to find the network software development company name similar to, Commodore to himself as the latter. "They don't want to have baked beans on their machines," Molineux said. "This is the first moral question I've ever encountered: Should I lie or tell them the truth?" I chose to lie.　　But after porting a buddy's game to the Commodore platform, Molineux began to be confident in his own development game. "Destroyer" in early 1993, 20th Century Fox (20th Century Fox) wanted id software to develop an alien movie based game, when "the destroyer" was almost abandoned. "You know what," said John Romero, designer John Romello. I don't want to give up the game (Romero left the ID Software). "In a way, this is a tribute to the film," he said. "So we thought, don't let aliens attack the Star Wars, or let the demons of hell attack them, soCloser to the original. "Status: From Batman" to "battlefield" this year, there will be several popular games to launch, including "Batman: Forrest Gump" (Batman:arkham City) and "Battlefield 3" (Battlefield 3), the two games will be launched this fall, supporting the Xbox 360,　　PS3 and PC platform. "Batman: Forrest Gump" will inherit before the "Forrest Gump Cuckoo" game style, but the scene is more grand, the story happened in the previous 18 months, Batman will be heavily armed against the city of Forrest Gump villains. "Agam Madhouse" Development Studio Rocksteady Marketing Executive Dax Kein (Dax Ginn) said: "Forrest Gump Madhouse" mainly indoors, and "Forrest Gump City" scene will expand to the street. "At the same time, EA is about to launch Battlefield 3 to attract the calls of call of deriving players." Patrick Soderlund, senior vice president of EA Europe, said: "This is a game that we have long wanted to do, and now we have the right technology and we know how to do it," Patrick Sodrander. Sodrander also said that the participants had read the game preview after the praise. "This is a crazy, intense fighting and RPG game that has never been combined in a live action game before," said Schilling UBM, founder of the studio. "The future: into the mobile phone and tablet market even if Apple did not launch the ipad 2 while the GDC was held, mobile phone and mobile device games have sprung up."　　In addition to the ipad 2, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play mobile phone will also drive the development of mobile games. With the development of mobile game users, the corresponding equipment and the number of developers also increased. "The golden age of the gaming industry seems to be returning," said Chris Byatte, co-founder of mobile game Chillingo, Chris Baite. "Mobile gaming is still in its infancy, but the gaming industry is developing horizontally, and the current Xbox 360 game may run on tablets or mobile phones in the future," said Mark Shaun, vice president of game developer Games Mark Rein.　　"Epic Games's game not only supports devices like Apple's ipad, but will also support Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play." Peter Farmer, head of marketing for Sony Ericsson in North America, said: "Any features that are needed on high-end smartphones and Peter Famer are available on Xperia play." "In addition to epic Games, many gaming software technology companies have announced their support for Xperia play, and the U.S. Athletic Games Alliance (Major League Gaming) will use the phone in the April 1 contest this year," he said. (LeeMing)