The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Ye Jiayi completed the negotiation with Activision and returned to China.

Arnold and a test team from Activision came to China with him.

This team will complete the testing of "Taiwu 2" in Shenghai, the headquarters of Dimension Entertainment.

"Taiwu 2" is now completed to a very high degree. The translations of the English, German, and Japanese versions have been completed. Only some supplementary designs for combat actions are left, which can be completed in half a month. All done. In fact, as far as the current degree of completion of "Taiwu 2" is concerned, it is enough to take it out.

Although, at the press conference, "Taiwu Painted Scroll 2" showed extremely high quality, at the time of the E3 exhibition later, at the media trial meeting in the Dimension Entertainment exhibition area, everyone who has experienced this game in person , have undoubtedly given this game a very high evaluation, but this thing, what others say, is better than what I personally experienced.

The team brought by Arnold is here to test the game.

In the contract between Dimension Entertainment and Activision, there is still a clause that the other party can stop the cooperation if they are not satisfied after testing the quality of the game.

However, all parties basically feel that this is just a formality, and it should not have much impact on the final result.

It is also impossible for Activision to just entertain Dimension after spending so much effort.

And so it is.

The team led by Arnold stayed in Shenghai for three days and played the beta version of "Taiwu Picture Scroll 2".

During the three days of playing, except for going out for a meal in the middle, this group of people almost spent the rest of the time in the game, and they would not go to the Bund if they were told.

It was originally a business trip, but after the test work, the group of people didn't want to leave.

"Mr. Arnold, let's test for another two days. My apprentice Tama actually poisoned me and stole my Hanyue Sword! I must catch him and clean up the house!"

One tester was very angry.

A person next to him gloated and said: "I told you when you accepted the apprentice, let you see his character, he is 'only me', there may be problems, if you don't listen, it depends on the apprentice's qualifications , are you at a loss now?"

Arnold couldn't laugh or cry beside him.

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No matter how reluctant they are, they have to go back.

In fact, the time for the entire announcement is still quite tight. Arnold and their entire Activision publicity department will have heavy tasks ahead.

Now, it's the end of June. It is estimated that in early July, "Taiwu Painting Volume 2" will complete all the debugging work and officially announce the completion of development. For the entire game, Dimension Entertainment claims that there are very few bugs, and there are no bugs that may directly affect the core functions of the game. This point, at least in Arnold's team, did not encounter a single bug in the test within three days.

In fact, this is quite a scary point. Even among the big factories, many very mature studios, it is difficult to prevent people from encountering a bug in the game they develop.

This also strengthened Arnold's grasp of the success of this work from the side.

According to the requirements of Dimension Entertainment, they want to have "Taiwu Painting Scroll 2" be launched simultaneously around the world in the first ten days of August.

If you strictly follow the plan, the time left for Activision is actually quite tight.

With less than two months left, they have to make a publicity plan, complete preparations for channel distribution, and place advertisements on various promotional channels...

Gotta hurry up.

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The time has advanced to the beginning of August, and "Taiwu 2" will be launched soon, but before that, for Dimension Entertainment, there is another important thing-"Martial Arts Master" is finished.

This film, which may have a total of 153 episodes and will be screened in two parts, took nearly a year and finally finished filming.

During the filming of the TV series, the relevant post-production work has been advancing simultaneously.

Thanks to the powerful functions of the 'dimension' system, in the case of having a large number of design drawings, it is possible to simultaneously import some captured live-action shots directly into the system for related special effects production.

At the beginning, the production of special effects in this area was relatively slow.

At that time, because the production of "Taiwu 2" was also at a critical time, Fan Zhe successively configured computer clusters with a total price of nearly 30 million. Most of the performance was swallowed up by the art needs of "Taiwu 2". up. Only a relatively small part remained outside, and the demand of "Martial Arts Master" still competed with "Amber" and "4.6 Billion Ensemble of Evolution".

But now, "Amber" and "4.6 Billion Ensemble" are all finished, and some of the remaining art resources of "Taiwu" are also completed in early July, and there is no other project that will compete with "Martial Arts Master" , As a result, the speed of the entire post-production process suddenly increased.

According to the latest forecast, it is estimated that the entire post-project will definitely be completed before October. If it is soon, maybe in October or November, I will be able to meet the audience on major platforms. It is estimated that when the first part is over, it should be around the Spring Festival to usher in the finale.

The world is actually pretty good.

At the same time, after the company's current manpower has been vacated, another project has officially started, which is another TV drama project, "The Emperor Ruzi".

However, compared to "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" and "Martial Arts Master", the special effects used in this drama are much less, but at the same time, its shooting time is also longer. It is estimated that this time next year may not be able to finish filming , No matter how you want to go online, you will have to go by the end of next year.

Calculated in this way, Dimension Entertainment has five consecutive projects this year, and two of them have been launched in the first half of the year. In the second half of the year, two particularly important projects, "Martial Arts Master" and "Taiwu 2" were concentrated.

If these two projects can meet expectations, the company's marketing this year will have a huge improvement compared to the previous two years!

It is conservatively estimated that it may reach about 3 billion. To be more optimistic, 4 billion or even higher is also possible.

The big head among them, of course, falls on "Taiwu 2".

Throughout the summer vacation in July, Activision's strong strength in the European and American world was also demonstrated.

In the major TV stations in the United States, Europe, Japan and other places, a large number of advertisements about "Taiwu 2" were placed intensively. Offline advertisements were posted in the subways of major cities, and even in some bustling streets, a large number of huge advertisements were also erected.

The investment of hundreds of millions of dollars in publicity is not in vain.

On August 8th, such an auspicious date in China, "Taiwu 2" is officially launched!