Polaris Game Company currently maintains around 20 project teams all year round, and the average development cycle for 3A masterpieces is about two years, which basically guarantees that almost 10 games will be released every year.
It can be seen from here that the Magic Light Intelligent Game Engine actually plays a great role in improving the efficiency of game development. Otherwise, it would be impossible to develop so many games with just over 10,000 people.
Although each work has about 500 developers on average, there are actually many auxiliary positions, not to mention administrative positions. There are hundreds of people in the screenwriting department.
Even with a full team of 500 people, it would be very difficult to develop a 3A work with such a small number of people, not to mention the current era, or the previous life. Moreover, the development cycle is only about two years, which further increases the difficulty.
Therefore, it is normal for these game developers to basically work overtime every day, because with such a small number of people, it is still a little stressful to use, and it is difficult to complete within this cycle without working overtime.
If the Galaxy Game Engine is used to produce 3A works, the time spent will be about 5 times that of now, and the Galaxy Game Engine is also the most advanced game engine outside.
This can well reflect how efficient the Magic Light Intelligent Game Engine is, but this efficiency is mainly reflected in the construction of the screen and the production of special effects, and these aspects often cost the most manpower and money.
Zhao Yi stood behind the developers and quietly watched how this game engine was developed. Only by understanding the production methods of current game engines can we better develop the next generation of game engines.
Therefore, Zhao Yi must have a comprehensive understanding of this game engine in advance. As it is now, he has basically looked at every research and development position at Polaris Game Company, and he has a preliminary understanding.
To gain a detailed understanding, you need to go back and try out this game engine yourself so that you can have a more comprehensive grasp and then develop a new intelligent game engine in a targeted manner.
According to Zhao Yi's observation, the Magic Light Intelligent Game Engine has done an excellent job in terms of graphics and special effects, and is also quite intelligent in this regard. Even if he were to optimize it, it would be able to double the efficiency at most. .
If he wants to go even higher, he can only really use primary artificial intelligence, but he has no such plan yet, so the efficiency optimization in this area has basically reached its peak.
So he plans to focus on other aspects and create a complete set of automated tools, starting from game originals and game scripts all the way to game delivery, forming a tool chain that can support each other.
In this way, the original painter only needs to complete the drawing according to the original painting software, and then it can be directly imported into the game engine to automatically generate various models according to the original painting style.
The script is also very simple. You only need to split the script and input it into a special tool software, and then automatically import it into the game engine. You can enrich the line library for each character and sort it according to the timeline.
This is nothing. The most important thing is that the new intelligent game engine should be able to automatically generate the entire game layout and task line based on the original painting and script, which will increase the efficiency by more than 10 times.
Of course, there may be some flaws in the game layout and task lines generated intelligently. This depends on whether the original paintings, settings, and scripts are detailed enough. The more detailed and perfect the automatically generated effect will be, the better it will be and the fewer flaws it will have.
Then developers only need to adjust according to the initial state of the game that has been generated. In this case, the production speed will be very fast. If developers are familiar with it, the overall efficiency will be increased by about 50 times.
This is a very terrifying efficiency improvement. Not to mention the 100,000 employees in the future, with the current number of 10,000 employees, Polaris Games can beat all game companies in the world.
In addition to game production, a set of automated testing scripts is also needed, because the efficiency of manual BUG testing is relatively low, which seriously delays the release time.
At present, Polaris Game Company mainly relies on manpower to complete game testing, which is not only inefficient, but also not comprehensive enough. Many hidden BUGs are difficult to find.
After walking around like this, Zhao Yi basically knew what he was doing, and he didn't pretend to say that these employees should not work overtime. With the current workload and work efficiency, it is basically impossible not to work overtime.
Only by fundamentally solving the problem and improving their work efficiency can we reduce their working time and reduce their work pressure on the premise of completing the tasks.
As for letting two people do the work of four people and paying three people's wages, Zhao Yi can't do it. His companies have also been clearly stated not to do this.
Although this obviously increased the salary of employees, it was actually a labor squeeze. He had already passed the stage of desperately chasing wealth, and there was no need to do so.
When wealth has reached his level, it is no longer a matter of thinking about how much money can be put into one's own pocket. Instead, one needs to consider how to reduce the workload of employees while increasing their salaries and making reasonable profits for themselves.
And this kind of consideration is not for a certain company, but for companies across the country. If you only consider one company, you can give very high treatment to the employees of Polaris Game Company and directly enter the high-paying ranks of developed countries.
But the significance of doing so is not great. It can only create a small group of rich people. It will not be of any benefit to the overall situation of our country and may even bring bad results.
Zhao Yi must focus on the overall situation, rather than just thinking about his own interests. Otherwise, with his current wealth, it will be very dangerous in the end, because no country wants to see the existence of such a profit-seeking super oligarch.
Therefore, although the salary he gives is much higher than the average salary in society, it is not extremely high. Take Polaris Game Company as an example. It has about 10,000 employees and an income of more than 80 billion yuan. How much salary should it give.
Because the income of some people far exceeds that of ordinary people, he is more willing to use this surplus value in other places to improve the living conditions of ordinary people, which can bring more stability to society.
And is the high value created by a single person really the value created by them? In fact, it is not the case. First, companies can only do this by providing capital, technology, and resource channels. In fact, the value created by employees' labor force is very limited.
In Zhao Yi's understanding, the value created between labor, capital and technology is increasing, which means that labor creates the lowest value, followed by capital, and technology the most.
Let’s take Polaris Game Company as an example. If these workers leave Polaris Game Company, they will be no different from employees of other ordinary game companies, and the value created will definitely not be so terrible.
This shows that the per capita value created simply by dividing revenue by the number of people is unreasonable and cannot reflect the true role of other factors in it.
The value created by capital lies in its ability to effectively organize production activities so that operations can proceed smoothly, and it also has a certain ability to resist market competition. Capital is not a decisive factor, but it is also indispensable.
The reason why technology is considered to be the most valuable in creating value is actually very simple. Even though Polaris Game Company is conquering cities and territories around the world, the surrounding factors of this achievement are all accumulated by technology.
Whether it's Polaris' game consoles that far exceed international standards or their own Phantom Smart game engine, it all illustrates the huge role technology plays in it.
Of course, according to normal logic, these technologies that are far beyond the world level are also developed by employees. It seems correct to say that these values are created by employees. This is the case under normal circumstances.
But in Zhao Yi's company, this algorithm is a bit problematic, because most of the key technologies are actually provided by him, and he is the largest high-tech source in his company system.
Without the many technologies he provided, these companies would not have been able to develop so fast, nor would they have been able to create such great value and form a large-scale enterprise group.
Of course, if these three are taken individually, they will not be able to obtain excess profits. Only by organic combination and each playing their own role can the best results be achieved.
Therefore, we must give employees reasonable remuneration instead of deducting profits from it. We need to make employees feel that their labor and contribution are equal, so that a balance can be achieved.
As for capital and technology, the relationship between the two is even more complicated. Strong capital may not necessarily lead to high technology, and high technology will not be able to play its due role without the involvement of capital.
The reason is very simple. The capital strength behind Tianxing Semiconductor's competitors is actually not weak, but they have invested such a large amount of capital, and they still cannot catch up with Tianxing Semiconductor in terms of technology.
This fully refutes the fact that capital is omnipotent. The role played by a genius in technology actually far exceeds the role of capital itself.
The reason why capital is able to obtain remuneration that far exceeds that of geniuses who provide technology is not because of how powerful the capital is, but because technology without the support of capital has more limited room for development. This is the result of unequal interdependence.
At present, the domestic capital market is basically in a state of shortage. Capital can obtain greater benefits by relying on its own market shortage status, because other factors require them.
However, with the development of the economy, the capital market will become increasingly full, and capital shortages will become less and less non-existent. It will become increasingly difficult for capital to obtain excess profits on its own.
At that time, the shortage of technology will be very prominent, and capital factors will take a back seat. Of course, labor resources will also take a back seat at that time.
In fact, in general, the relationship between the three is determined by their degree of scarcity, but there are also big differences, because technology, no matter what stage it is at, is always in the category of scarce resources.
Because there are limits to the role of capital and labor, it is easy to see bottlenecks, but technology has unlimited possibilities no matter what period it is, and there is basically no bottleneck problem.
Therefore, if society wants to become more and more developed in the future and not stagnate at a certain period, it must increasingly highlight the status of technology, because at that time, only technology can create greater value for society.
This is why Zhao Yi constantly allows employees of his companies to use their free time to enrich themselves, and at the same time, he himself does everything possible to promote free compulsory education and lifelong education.
Because with the development of our country's economy, it will gradually transform from a society where capital currently dominates to a society where knowledge and technology dominate.
And at that time, from the perspective of the national civilization, of course, the more knowledgeable and technical citizens the better, because these talents are the main force in creating value and the source of motivation for the continued development and advancement of the national civilization.
Therefore, Zhao Yi never despises the large number of talents in society, and he will not adopt policies that fool the people because he wants to maintain his dominant position. Doing so would appear to be narrow-minded, and will eventually bring bad consequences to himself.
Just like the "pacifier plan" implemented by Yingjiang in his previous life, although this seems to ensure that his own interests are always in his own hands, this may be the case in the short term, but in the long term, this approach is completely stupid.
They do this because they believe that the absolute advantage of capital will not change, because they are capitalists themselves and have absolute confidence in the capital they control.
This seemingly self-confidence actually reflects the lack of confidence of capital. Otherwise, why would we adopt a policy of obscuring the people? It is because we are afraid that many knowledgeable and technical talents will emerge and use technology to surpass them and harvest their capital.
That's why they need to implement the "pacifier plan" to make most ordinary people willing to be mediocre, so that capital can achieve the purpose of controlling knowledge and technology. This will feel "foolproof".
But these capitalists obviously only consider their own advantages in the current global order, but do not consider that the world is changing dynamically, and many things cannot be controlled by humans.
As the saying goes, "When humans think, God laughs." It is quite ridiculous and sad to try to use capital to control the laws of the world.
It is precisely because many things are beyond their expectations that their performance sometimes seems so absurd. Just like when they faced the rise of our country, let us see their "performance" and feel that their brain circuits are all broken. It's not the same as human structure.
Capital seems powerful, but in fact it is very fragile. Their strength is reflected in their ability to effectively organize the development of social production. Only by integrating capital into this can the unparalleled advantages of capital be brought into play.
Their vulnerability comes precisely from their ability to organize social production and development, making capital controllers feel that they are omnipotent, and therefore attempt to control the world through capital.
It is precisely with this clear understanding that although Zhao Yi has mastered a huge amount of capital, he has never expanded because of it. Instead, he has given full play to the role that capital should play and helped the country's economy develop rapidly.
And in the process of rapid economic development, we should be prepared to build a knowledge-based society instead of always staying in the capitalist stage.
Because not only excessive human resources will lead to involution, but too much capital will also lead to involution. In the end, not only will it become more and more difficult for capital to make profits, but society will also enter a period of turmoil, and everyone will have a hard time in the end. .
To prevent this from happening, we must be prepared to welcome the arrival of a knowledge-based society in the capitalist stage, so that the capitalist stage can smoothly transition to a knowledge-based society and realize the self-transformation of civilization.
Only by entering a knowledge-based society can sufficient human resources exert huge creativity instead of being a burden, and capital can also get the rewards it deserves from this huge social creativity.
Only when we enter a knowledge-based society can we touch the edge of communism. When the knowledge-based society develops to a certain stage and fully releases the productive forces, it will be possible to enter the stage of communism.
At that time, the world will no longer have obvious differences, the highly developed productive forces will be enough to meet the material life of the people, and the rich knowledge in the people's heads will allow their creativity to be unleashed unconsciously.
This is what communism says. People will consciously participate in creation within their own capabilities, rather than being forced to work based on survival needs. Only in this way can society go further and civilization can achieve great development.
At present, our country seems to still have a gap compared with capitalist society, but our country already has the basic conditions to grow into a knowledge-based society, and is the most likely to enter the stage of communist society.
Because although we use capital, we will never allow capital to develop disorderly and expand indefinitely. This naturally limits the bad nature of capital and keeps capital where it should always play its role.
Our country’s political rights do not come from capital, but from the people. This naturally allows the government and the people to have full trust and form a relationship of mutual dependence.
The establishment of this dependence relationship is not the socialist system we implement, but the social governance thinking that our country has been adhering to since ancient times. "Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it" is the embodiment of this idea.
But now, unlike the ancient imperial system, national security is tied together, which can avoid the serious consequences of leaders' self-aggrandizement, which will repeat in the historical cycle.
Of course, the decline of ancient dynasties was not just a matter of the emperor alone, but was the result of many irreconcilable contradictions. We will not give a detailed analysis here.
But it is undeniable that low productivity is one of the main reasons, and low productivity is actually the low level of science and technology.
Therefore, if we want our country to smoothly enter a higher level and avoid entering the historical cycle, it is particularly important to liberate and improve productivity. Then it is natural to raise science and technology to a higher level.
The impact that Zhao Yi can have is very limited, and he is not willing to get involved too much, but he can use capital and technology to guide our country's society to the stage of knowledge society as soon as possible, which greatly extends the cycle time.
When we reach the stage of knowledge society, the subsequent work will obviously be much easier to do. As long as we maintain a good balance between manpower, capital, government, science and technology, we can enter the stage of communism step by step.
Why must we emphasize the stage of communism? Because only by reaching the stage of communism can we effectively eliminate the harm caused by class contradictions and meet the needs of all aspects, at least materially.
As for spirituality, due to experiencing the baptism of the knowledge-based society, everyone's thinking will be significantly improved. Every individual has a civic spirit and scientific literacy, and his ideological level has also been raised to a stage compatible with communism.
As long as there is not too big a material gap and a social consensus can be reached ideologically, then this society will be in a stable stage, and only then can it form endogenous power and continue to push civilization forward, rather than Enter into the fate of the historical cycle.
The previous development of mankind has been a spiral development, and everyone knows how much resources and time have been wasted in it. Therefore, if we want civilization to gain long-term development and sustained power, we must try to avoid spiral development.
Fortunately, Zhao Yi has put our country on such a path through his own influence. As long as the interests of all parties are balanced to achieve the goal of social stability, everything will follow step by step.
Of course, there are ways to speed up the progress, such as Intelligent Milk, which is just one of them. There are also more drastic methods, but it is currently difficult to gain recognition from the government and society, so he did not do it. (End of chapter)