The name Mao Xingyun is very unfamiliar to most people who don't know about game production. After the news of "Mao Xingyun jumping off the building" was exposed on the Internet in December 21, his deeds quickly began to spread on the Internet, and many bloggers began to popularize science for everyone.
Who is Mao Xingyun, behind this ordinary name carries the expectations of many post-70s, post-80s and even post-90s. He is a true IT genius, active on the Internet under the screen name "Qianmo", answering questions about game production and other knowledge for you.
Mao Xingyun threatened: "China should have its own 3A game masterpiece!" ”For this dream, he joined Tencent, the leader of the Chinese game industry at the time, and became the engine development team leader to lead the team to study his dream. He has a bright future, why did he jump to his death in the end?
When his colleagues recall Mao Xingyun, they will very modestly call him "Nebula God"."Nebula God is not the kind of engineering man in the stereotype, he pays attention to the quality of life, and his polite appearance is more like a liberal arts student. ”
Although Mao Xingyun's life is short, it is also very colorful, and his contribution to domestic games is indelible. Mao Xingyun is an out-and-out post-90s generation, who has developed an extraordinary love for computers since he was a child, and often plays some games on the Internet.
In that era when hobbies were not as good as reading, Mao Xingyun's parents showed extraordinary tolerance, they said: "You should stick to what you like." It is precisely with a pair of enlightened parents that Mao Xingyun can finally embark on the road of game production.
Although he likes to play games, his grades are not bad. In 09, he was admitted to Nanjing Aeronautical University with excellent college entrance examination results, he did not stop learning, and he was able to study abroad with excellent performance in school and broaden his horizons.
During his time abroad, Mao Xingyun's book "Game Production Starts from Scratch" began to be released. His book has provided corresponding advice to many novice programmers, and has also given more young people to understand the special industry of game programming.
On the Internet, Mao Xingyun borrowed his screen name "Qianmo" to help many people who also love game production, answer related questions with them, and put forward their own unique insights. Later, the account "Light Ink" gained a large number of fans, and Mao Xingyun also won the Top Ten Outstanding IT Blog Awards.
After returning to China, he became even more famous, and was recognized as an authoritative expert in the game production industry, when various domestic game companies threw olive branches to him. In the end, Mao Xingyun chose Tencent, which has an annual salary of one million, and officially became the leader of Tencent's engine group.
As he famously wrote in his blog for 13 years, he hopes that one day he will be able to make a game that rivals the triple A masterpieces of the United States. "I hope that one day, 3A masterpieces no longer need to be sinicized, because that's what we made, and domestic production will not fail! ”
With this dream, Mao Xingyun led his team to fight for 8 years. The Chinese people are also looking forward to whether the Nebula God will really make such a game, but what we waited for first was the tragedy of the fall of the stars.
After Mao Xingyun's death, the biggest repercussions were still those who were under the banner of parents. These people don't care about how big a loss Mao Xingyun is for domestic game production, all they care about is that the child is bewitched by the game and his grades have declined.
Mao Xingyun's Tencent company launched social games such as "Honor of Kings", which made many primary and secondary school students very addicted. However, Mao Xingyun, who made the game, actually jumped off the building and died, so that they seized the fire and began to make a big remark that "the game is not shallow".
These detractors of the deceased believe that games are viruses, and now even the developers are dead. It is true that Mao Xingyun's death has nothing to do with the game. They mistakenly linked Mao Xingyun's death to the game, and their initial focus was wrong.
Who is Mao Xingyun? The genius god in other people's mouths, graduated from an excellent master's degree from a famous university, and even became an employee of a large factory with an annual salary of one million. Isn't that what those people want to be like when they want to be children? It's ironic and ridiculous.
The reason why Mao Xingyun is a genius of computers is that he can't just design gamesMao Xingyun is the title of the world's most valuable expert recognized by Microsoft. This name alone is beyond the reach of 90% of the people in China.
Many ignorant whites are in the entry-level computer industry, and the textbooks they read are all from Mao Xingyun's pen. The opinions and opinions he published on the Internet in those years have added a lot of academic materials to the Internet, and he himself is a priceless treasure.
And the fall of such a priceless treasure, while most people regret it, all kinds of different voices are also quietly breeding. For example, as mentioned above, "the game harms others and harms himself", and another is Tencent's original sin theory.
Tencent was deeply sorry when it reported Mao Xingyun's death, but people with a heart found that Tencent was not as nostalgic and sorry as he said on the surface. After the evil capitalism excavated all the value of Mao Xingyun, excessive pressure caused him to jump off the building in depression.
It is said that someone went to study Mao Xingyun's itinerary and found that he was still working overtime in the company on Saturday, which undoubtedly gave them ironclad evidence to criticize all evil capitalism. However, taking a closer look at the current situation of the entire domestic game industry, we have to admit that Tencent is indeed a top-notch existence.
Not to mention that he has national-level influence and social software, let's just say that who won't suddenly have a timi in the family during the New Year's holidays? As a leading enterprise in China's game industry, Tencent's treatment is also unmatched by other companies.
The threshold for joining Tencent is extremely high, and many graduates are still eager for him. In TiMi Studio, Mao Xingyun's annual salary of one million is just his basic salary, and his salary of various dividends throughout the year is estimated to exceed 10 million yuan.
It is precisely because of Tencent's generous treatment of Mao Xingyun that he can quickly have his own small home in Shenzhen, where every inch of land is valuable, as well as a pair of children and a beautiful wife. Tencent's high salary supports Mao Xingyun to have his own comfortable and comfortable life, and inspires him to continue to work hard for the company.
You can say that capital is indeed very ruthless, but when you have the ability that capital looks at, your standard of living will also rise. Pointing the finger at Tencent's work pressure and criticizing capital for cannibalism is actually an alternative insult to Mao Xingyun.
After returning to China, Mao Xingyun was able to have today's life, and Tencent's generous salary played a crucial role. Mao Xingyun naturally shouldn't have jumped off the building in anger because he was squeezed by Tencent, so why did he be so desperate that he wanted to end himself by jumping off the building?
This goes back to Mao Xingyun's dream when he first stepped into the IT industry, he often doesn't look like a science and engineering boy, but people who have seen him think that he should be a romantic liberal arts student, and his dream is also very pure and simple, "to make domestic 3A masterpieces".
A triple-A game refers to a game with high quality, high investment and high volume, and it can be said that in the cognition of ordinary gamers, 3A games basically represent masterpieces. As one of the benchmarks in the world of single-player games, we are familiar with triple-A titles such as Call of Duty.
It is a common saying in the game industry that as long as the game is labeled as a triple-A, no matter what the theme is, you will definitely not lose money if you play it. The investment in triple-A games is very high, at least it has washed away a lot of low-quality bad games for you.
The world view created by the 3A world is very huge, and it can be said that each 3A game has its own set of world views waiting for you to discover, which is one of the reasons why countless players love 3A games. Secondly, he has also put effort into the sound effects of the fights to ensure that you have a full experience.
But despite the great acclaim for triple-A games, it's actually a niche game project that is aimed at people who love to play with computers. However, in today's fast-paced society, how many people are willing to spend time in front of the computer to play games?
In today's fast-paced society, it seems that those meal replacement software is the mainstream product. For example, short articles, people can quickly learn about the development trends around the world and some new news, as well as all kinds of celebrity gossip through fragmented time.
Mao Xingyun wants to make a 3A game, the production cycle is extremely long, he has been planning this project since he joined Tencent, and it took a total of 8 years to give a complete work. The amount of money spent during this period is immeasurable and uncertain.
Tencent's annual fund report shows that the domestic capital income fell by 7 percentage points, which may be due to the tightening of policies, but more because Tencent has focused on overseas markets. Tencent's focus is on opening up overseas markets, and it doesn't care much about domestic games.
What's more, the team led by Mao Xingyun has not caused any actual benefits to the company in the past 8 years. It can be said that the pressure on Mao Xingyun is huge, he was a high-spirited young man when he joined the company, but the reality gave him a huge mallet.
No one will always be waiting for him to discover, even if Mao Xingyun has had a lot of glory, it is not as important as he actually creates a little value for the company. Roughly as many people speculated, Mao Xingyun's project was axed by Tencent.
This is tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Mao Xingyun, who follows his dreams, in the face of dreams and money, as a commercial company, Tencent is tantamount to choosing the latter. Mao Xingyun himself can't accept that his works were killed on the spot, maybe his jump was due to the fact that he couldn't think about it for a while.
Without such an excellent game production expert as Mao Xingyunxing, it can be said that China's game industry will suffer a great setback. But in the future, whether China can make a domestic 3A masterpiece like Mao Xingyun imagined at the beginning, we still have to look forward to the efforts and dedication of those who come after us.