The Smart Game Development Engine?
The name sounded a little ridiculous. Under different circumstances, that announcement would probably have been dismissed as nothing more than an advertising gimmick.
But here and now, countless people went wild.
Plenty of game companies already claimed that the NPCs in their games possessed independent intelligence, but that was really just empty boasting.
Could they actually think like humans? What a load of nonsense!
Yet everyone had already seen how intelligent Phantom Immortal Technology's Intelligent Core was. If every NPC in a game had that level of intelligence, how much fun would that game be?
Could artificial intelligence serve as the foundation for a game with 100% freedom? Even if it fell short of 100%, anything over 50% would still be incredible. Unlike current games, where players could only follow the paths laid out by the developers and eventually lost interest.
Penguin's gaming company reposted the group's announcement on its official Weibo account, and tens of thousands of comments instantly flooded in.
"Penguin veterans, lead the way!"
"If you can develop a game with 100% freedom, I'll sink my entire fortune into it. This post is my pledge!"
"Please ignore the idiot Upstairs! Still, a genuinely intelligent game is definitely worth looking forward to."
"I'm really looking forward to highly intelligent games with lots of freedom, but I'm even more excited about truly immersive virtual reality games."
"Upstairs is asking too much. Without mature brainwave technology, who the hell could make a virtual reality game? And immersive, at that? Could today's technology produce the game pods that only exist in science fiction?"
As the comments piled up, the discussion gradually went off topic.
But that also demonstrated one thing: people genuinely had high hopes for smart games.
By comparison, Sina Company's moves were much less