After announcing on July 5th that the China Game Developers Conference 2022 would be held online, the CGDC Committee announced on July 12th a list of some of the guest speakers who will be presenting at the conference. This time, CGDC, known for its famous guest speakers, has invited three professionals with rich experience in game development, engine development and hardware development, respectively, to share their stories with attendees.
The game that made most players cry
As the lead developer of the wonderful and touching indie game To the Moon, released in 2011, Kan Gao is still developing sequels in the game series eleven years later. As one of the guest speakers at CGDC 2022, Kan Gao wants to share how to maintain the narrative independence of each story while making the whole series of games’ logic self-consistent. Kan Gao will also share how the Chinese indie game market has changed during the past decade and how he has adapted to these changes and improved his own game development process.
With the establishment of its overseas game publishing company and the upcoming Unreal V engine open-world games, Tencent has certainly been at the forefront of game development. This time at CGDC, Tencent’s chief engineer Guanrong Lian will share his team’s latest technology, using GAUSS-F, to reduce power consumption and increase frame rate on mobile devices. Lian stated that the graphic quality, level design and the size of mobile games right now are limited by the hardware of phones. As a result, making better games within the limited GPU computing power has become the goal of every mobile game development studio. Lian believes that his team’s new tech will overcome this difficulty and bring more exciting games to players.
Ray tracing vs. Path tracing
Nan Lin, content technology director from Nvidia China, will share in this CGDC how Nvidia's path tracing technology used in film post-production is applied to games. As one of the most expensive effects in film production, path tracing can simulate the most physically realistic lighting effects, and Nan Lin will detail how NVIDIA is applying this technology and exploring ways to lower the costs and apply it to the game development process.
Source: YXZZD