At the VGX Awards Ceremony ten days later, Jester once again won the annual game honors, and it was also the first game in history to win the annual game selection agency with completely different selection directions of gdc and vgx. It can be said that although "Hao Hero", which was released for three months, became the biggest winner of the game released last year.

However, this incident is not the biggest news in the industry.

During this period, the biggest news in the industry was the resignation of Carmack from Mars Entertainment.

However, since Jester expressed his attitude in the last interview, he hoped that Carmack would change his mind, and even if the other party left Mars Entertainment, he would not restrict the other party from working in the future, and there was no relevant news.

However, many game media learned from the inside that Jester did not agree to Carmack's resignation application. Moreover, after attending the VGX awards ceremony, Jester immediately flew to Switzerland to find Carmack on vacation in Switzerland, hoping to persuade him again, hoping that the other party could give up the idea of ​​resigning. After all, Carmack is a crucial figure for Mars Entertainment.

In fact, Jester's analysis of FPS games is incisive, whether at the GDC awards ceremony or on the Mars Entertainment player community forum. Many companies that develop FPS games feel like they are enlightened after watching it. However, the main reason why these game companies still hope to get Carmack, who had fallen out of conservative FPS and Jester.

Not familiar with them, they feel that the conservative FPS is still promising.

And it is entirely Carmack's transcendent position in the field of 3D engines. Why does Mars Entertainment's 3D games completely crush other game companies?

It is because Carmack developed the engine for them, but these game companies' invitations to Carmack are like a slump. Even Jester said that it was not prohibited from going to other game companies to develop games after leaving. The invitations to these game companies did not receive Carmack's response.

At this time, Carmak, who was skiing in Switzerland, was drinking coffee with Jest, who had just flew to Switzerland and had not yet reversed the jet lag, and the two of them were chatting and laughing. It didn't seem to have any conflict at all.

"When will you approve your resignation application?"

After taking a sip of coffee, Carmack asked Jester, who was sitting beside him, bored.

Jester shook his head: "Don't worry, I still want to advise you. I hope you will lead the team to develop an engine. You know, the engine you last developed was more than a year ago. Although this engine is still the best at present, other companies are not idle. We will lead them less and less, so..."

But before Jester finished speaking, Carmack interrupted him.

"Don't say it."

His tone became a little firm: "I told you before. I have really lost interest in developing engines for engine development. It may not be appropriate to say that. To be precise, I have never been interested in developing 3D engines. The only thing I am interested in is the technology itself. Because the development of 3D engines can reflect my technology, I am obsessed with the development of 3D engines."

After a little pause, Carmack continued.

"The most important reason why I develop games besides my personal favorite video games is that making this thing can make the engine I make look even more awesome."

Hearing this, Jester could only sigh. In fact, even if Carmack didn't tell him this, he could still know the other party's thoughts. After all, he was a person who had read the other party's future autobiography, and Jester even knew the other party even more than Carmack himself.

Carmack continued: "And the reason why I don't want to continue to develop engines now is because of this. My technology cannot play an absolutely important role in the entire engine development. Now the efficiency of the team model has completely surpassed the previous development model. In this development model, I can't find any fun. So I decided to withdraw from the development of the new engine. In fact, the current engine development team will not lose much or not. My role in it is not as a leader than a core."

Although Carmack said this firmly, Jester hesitated for a moment and continued: "I still hope you can leave after developing this engine. After all, I have been slow for a while, and the new projects between us will not be implemented so quickly..."

Hearing Jester's advice, Carmack fell into deep thought, but after only a moment, he shook his head.

"Although the development of the new engine is very smooth, I guess it will be completed at the beginning of next year, but I don't like such boring work. If the work cannot bring myself to come and have a passion, then don't do it. This is what you taught me at that time... We don't need to hurry up with our new project. In recent years, I have been developing new engines and new games. After developing the new engine, I will develop new games immediately. After that, I will still attend some amateur sports car parties during the holidays. I am indeed a little tired, so I plan to take a break for a while."

Since Carmack said so, Jester can only express understanding.

"However, John, I still want to ask your opinion. Although I have talked to you a few times before and you are very interested in this plan, you should know that VR or A technology is also in a exploratory stage. This may be a very boring industry that has been accumulated over ten years. Are you really willing to engage in this project?"

"hehe."

After hearing Jester's words, John Carmack smiled again.

"Boss, you still don't know me enough. What I like is the work that can bring me passion, not what this work can bring me. For what you described, the future prospects of VR or A devices, I am very optimistic about it. In fact, if I hadn't known that you had secretly developed the home somatosensory game device too late. I planned to give up the development of the 3D engine at that time. This time, this time the advent of such a cross-age device, I would not want to miss it..."

As he said, Carmak waved his hand and signaled that Jester didn't need to consider his problems.

Jester could only smile bitterly at this.

"The development of somatosensory equipment is still in progress. No one can say whether it can be used for the next generation of hosts. After all, the difficulty of miniaturization is not only in technology, but also in cost. As for the future of the VR device you mentioned... I can only say that I am still 80% sure about somatosensory. I am really not sure about the prospects of the VR device. I can only say that this is a future development direction. But to what extent it can develop, this is something that no one can say."

Jester shook his head and explained to Carmack.

But Carmak didn't care much, and he just smiled: "I just said it casually, in fact, I still said the same thing, I will only do things that I am interested in. I am very interested in the development of VR devices, which is enough. Moreover, if you didn't talk about VR devices to me, I might have planned to quit my job and work as a Rockets, which would be even more unlikely to have any achievements. But I still want to try it."

"Oh well."

In response to this, Jester could only nod, "After I go back, I will announce to the public that you have resigned. Moreover, I will prepare for our new company as soon as possible. The scale of the initial scale does not need to be too large. I just do some experimental research and development. Perhaps after the next generation of somatosensory hosts are launched, the research and development of our VR equipment will be on track..."

"It's good."

Carmack nodded. He had no objection to Jester's plan.

"But you don't plan to continue shooting games? Although the style of fps games is inevitable, the audience of a type of game will never disappear. There will always be people who like old school fps, but there will not be so many people willing to accept this kind of game in the future. For example, the experimental "Legion Fortress" we are doing, I think this game can absorb a large number of old school fps game enthusiasts."

"The most important thing is that you have relatively free time."

Jester stood up and stretched. He came to see Carmak as soon as he got off the plane. Although it was his own private plane, he was exhausted after flying for more than ten hours, and the jet lag needed to be adjusted.

After chatting with Carmack for so long, he was a little tired. When he was about to go for a break, he said this to Carmack. In fact, Jester knew that this was of no help, but he still hoped that Carmack would not give up game development so quickly. Carmack is still very popular in shooting game development, and no one in the entire game company can match it in terms of engine use.

"I do have a few more interesting ideas, but my mind is no longer on it." Carmack declined. "In fact, the biggest fun that shooting games have given me during this period is the World Championships of "Thor Hammer" in Carnival. It is much more interesting to watch others play games than to play by myself, or to make games."

"Why."

Sighing, Jester could only say, "Then I'll go and rest first, and I'll talk to you carefully about the VR device tomorrow. This matter still needs long-term consideration."

"I understand." Carmack also expressed his understanding.

Three days later, Jester, who flew back to Los Angeles from Switzerland, was immediately discovered by reporters waiting near the airport. Of course, they could not get close to Jester, who had a tightly guarded interview without Jester's permission.

Jester did not stop and wanted to accept the interview. It can be seen that Jester looked hurried and looked not very good. I don’t know if the talks with Carmack in Switzerland were not going well or the fatigue caused by long flights. In Mars Entertainment, there are also many people who are concerned about this matter, especially the group of people in the FPS development team.

Carmack is almost the existence of faith in the minds of these people.

They also cannot accept Carmack leaving, or even go to other game companies to engage in game development.

There are even many people who, once they are confirmed that Carmack will leave Mars Entertainment and join other game companies to develop FPS games, will leave Mars Entertainment and follow Jester.

When Jester returned to Los Angeles and returned to the company headquarters the day after returning to the company, many people from the FPS development department united to ask about the final result of Carmack's resignation. After hesitating for a while, Jester still told them something that could be revealed: "I verbally agreed to Carmack's resignation application in Switzerland."

As soon as Jester's words came out, they immediately caused an uproar.

Many people showed a look of disappointment on their faces.

"but……"

Soon, Jester continued: "...John will not go to other game companies to develop games, and the reason for his resignation was not just because of the contradiction in the concept of fps game development, but because he was a little tired of this kind of life in developing games. He wanted to change a job. This time my words were just an opportunity. He would come back in a few days, and I would also hold a farewell party for him in the company."

Although Jester's words made many people feel relieved, someone asked: "Can you say what John is going to do next? Is it related to the game?"

"I don't know much about this."

Jester shook his head: "John didn't talk to me too much. He said he would talk to me in detail after he came back. Moreover, this is also related to John's secrets, so I can't say too much. In short, according to my understanding, what John is going to do this time is very exciting."

This passage in the company headquarters spread like wildfire in a very short period of time.

It quickly spread throughout the industry.

Although Jester said a lot, the most critical news is that for other game companies, he has agreed to Carmack's resignation, and the rest is just to go through the program.

This is really good news for these game companies.

Although they still did not receive a reply from Carmak, Carmak has left Mars Entertainment after all, and the chance of being able to dig the other party has increased greatly. The most important thing is to dig the other party, and maybe you can get a powerful fps game development team. To be continued.
Chapter completed!