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The death of the post-90s game development god Mao Nebula is heartbreaking.
He is hailed by Microsoft as the most valuable expert; he has published the threshold books that many people read, Journey to Dreams: Programming For Windows Games from Scratch and Introduction to OpenCV3 Programming; he is also a father of two children.
Yesterday, official information confirmed that Mao Xingyun, an employee of its Tianmei F1 studio, had jumped to his death on the morning of December 11.
People familiar with the matter said that Mao Xingyun is suspected of depression and has been hospitalized for some reasons this year for some physical reasons, which may be related to the unsuccessful development of his new AAA work.
Some say it's an idealistic tragedy; others say he's too romantic and doomed to depression.
"Light Ink Big Brother" after the 90s and 80s and 70s
Born in 1991, 30-year-old Mao Xingyun walked out of a life different from others.
In 2009, he was admitted to the "China-Ukraine Aerospace Joint Training Class" of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and after 2 years of undergraduate training, he successfully went to the Third and Fourth Year of the National Zhukovsky Aerospace University of Ukraine.
During his study abroad, he completed more than 1 million words of the book "Journey to Dreams: Windows Game Programming from Scratch". While he returned to China to pursue his master's degree, the book was published by Tsinghua University Press in 2013.
In 2015, Mao Xingyun published his second book, Introduction to OpenCV3 Programming. The two books he wrote are the enlightenment books of many people, and Mao Xingyun constantly encourages himself and readers to stick to their dreams.
According to Zhihu, Mao Xingyun was an employee of Tencent Tianmei F1 Studio and a leader of Tencent's game engine team (Lead Engine Programmer).
In October this year, Mao Xingyun also announced that Tencent Tianmei had set up "F1 Studio", focusing on AAA masterpieces. At that time, Mao Xingyun also openly recruited for the studio worldwide.
If there are many kinds of Internet celebrities, Mao Xingyun belongs to the "technical Internet celebrities".
He first wrote on a blog, and later became active in CSDN, China's largest IT community, with the ID "Light Ink", helping a large number of people who were confused about IT technology.
At a young age, he is often called "Shallow Ink Big Brother" by some post-80s, post-90s and even post-70s fans, and his blog visits have exceeded 1.7 million.
In December 2013, Mao Xingyun won the "2013 Top Ten Outstanding IT Blogs" award, becoming the only post-90s winner.
In April 2014, Mao received a congratulatory letter from Microsoft in the United States congratulating him on being the winner of this year's Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award, which was selected from tens of millions of technology professionals around the world.
Gifted, humble, and loving life
If you want to become a master in the field of graphics engines, there are countless mountains to climb, and enthusiasm and talent are indispensable.
In the field of graphics engine programming in China, there are very few people who can reach the level of Mao Nebula, who can clarify the goal and insist on tireless learning, and there are even fewer people who continue to output for the graphics engine field.
There are senior game industry experts who give this evaluation:
In general, mao nebula can have such a very good foundation (master's degree, study abroad), to reach Mao Nebula's qualifications in the game engine (from PC game DirectX to OpenGL mobile games) and the degree of ability (from basic graphics to various advanced sub-era lighting algorithms), in China a slap number, but if you look closely at Mao Xingyun's own qualifications and contributions to industry output (published books and articles), almost no one is right.
Nevertheless, his humble attitude has never changed.
The great god Mao Xingyun is gentle and humble, and has a special literary atmosphere. Talking to him is often like a spring breeze, there is no shelf at all, and the speech is slow and methodical.
Mao Nebula influenced a generation of game developers. He continues to dedicate and share knowledge, perhaps to cultivate the next generation of game developers, in order to be able to complete the dream of domestic AAA together.
The Mao Nebula God in life is also a very cute person.
Friends who know him tell what it was like in his life:
"If you think that Mao Xingyun is a bully who does not trim his head and reads hard, then you are wrong." The god is beautiful in appearance and has been praised by teacher Xuan of the China Southern Airlines Regiment for "handsome like a beautiful man".
"The god's clothing also pays attention to the quality of life. His electronic products are always the most advanced at the moment. His clothes are not exaggerated, not vulgar, look at his clothes like his people, warm as jade, very comfortable, very fresh, and there will always be something exquisite in the details."
"There are always some shadows in the body of the gods, spiritual beliefs, idols, concern for humanistic care, sincerity, and kindness."
"The big god loves small animals, and the little bear dog in the family is his dear brother (sister), and every month during the holidays, he will take it to the pet hospital for grooming, and he will be happy to dress it up beautifully." 」
"Daishin is a well-known chef in his profession, and on his days of studying in Ukraine with his classmates, his spicy chicken, slobby meat slices, and dried sautéed beef satisfy his and his classmates' appetites and soothe their thoughts away from home."
Prior to the accident, Mao was working on the translation of the book Real–Time Rendering 4th.
Based on his previous estimates, a Chinese translated version of the book will be available in the first half of 2022.
He also released a collection of references he used in the translation of Real-Time Rendering 4th on CSDN.
https://github.com/QianMo/Real-Time-Rendering-4th-Bibliography-Collection
Seeing this, no matter who it is, it is probably necessary to sigh, his contribution to the industry is really difficult to calculate, what kind of patience and energy to support him to complete such a troublesome and trivial thing.
There are only a few months left before the release of the chinese translation of "Real-Time Rendering 4th", and next year, there will be another "peerless martial art" in the domestic game production industry.
But at this moment, a very regrettable accident occurred.
I have a dream to revive domestic games
Mao Xingyun's dream is very pure.
In 2013, Mao Xingyun mentioned his original intention in writing the book "Journey to Dreams: Programming Windows Games from Scratch" in the preface to the book:
Many enthusiastic young people with game development dreams began to learn game programming when they swore to start learning game programming, but they were rejected by obscure game programming textbooks, touched a nose of ash, and lost their original dreams.
I think this is one of the reasons why the domestic game industry has been sluggish, and domestic games have been difficult to grow.
Inspired by this environment, this book, which I have devoted more than a year of hard work to, has emerged, and its original intention is to change this situation.
I hope that this book can help those who love game programming and have game development dreams, but are struggling to get started, so that they will take fewer detours.
May this book open a door for the rise of domestic games and domestic game engines to welcome a new dawn.
Talking about his future dreams, Mao Xingyun wrote the following paragraph:
I have a dream, one day, Journey to the West can be out of the ACT, fight the gods and kill the Buddha, that is definitely more than the "God of War" with feelings.
I have a dream that one day, Shanghai Beach can play a sandbox game, instead of playing "GTA" to feel the American dream, or playing "Bloody Rogue" to experience the "Chinese culture" forced to us by foreign companies.
I have a dream, one day, many AAA masterpieces do not need to be Chinese, because it is our own game, the dubbing is Chinese, and the culture is also Chinese.
I have a dream, one day in the future, domestic games can be like other industries in China, with a front-runner posture, facing the whole world, facing the whole universe, Instrument Yu Xuan Ang, raise eyebrows and breathe.
This will be a dream that we will accomplish together. Good news awaits us!
This passage of his is easily reminiscent of Martin Luther King's "I have a DREAM."
It is difficult not to sigh after reading it, the dream has not yet been realized, why did you leave first?
On his insistence, he once wrote,
"This sentence has always been written on the title page of my C++ notebook, and whenever I am confused about the road ahead, I will turn the title page and look at the faint handwriting of this text for a while, and then gradually relax. Today I leave it on my blog, hoping that it will also help my confused friends."
I hope that the ideals in his book will eventually be realized on this land.
The disillusionment of idealists? Netizen: It's a pity to know you in this way
The last question Mao Xingyun answered in Zhihu was: What is the most embarrassing thing you have ever done?
The most embarrassing thing he's had recently was the media translation of his position at Tencent as Lead Engine Programmer as "Chief Engine Programmer."
There have been more than 1400 messages under the answer to this question, most of which are friends in the technical circle in remembrance, have left messages: hope is not rumors, all the way to good, RIP may heaven have no oppression...
"Expressing condolences. A small part of the reason for Mao Xingyun's death is said to be related to the cutting of the AAA game project."
"Just 30, game development gods, high salaries, geniuses. Depression, jumping off buildings. While lamenting the departure of a genius, we have to face it: depression is getting younger and younger."
"The existence of a ceiling in the industry, saying that it is gone, it is too uncomfortable."
"I'm sorry I know you that way."
Maybe it was full of sixpence, and he just wanted to look up at the moonlight.
May he become the brightest star, looking forward to the successors of the relay, step by step to realize the AAA dream of domestic games.
Shallow ink god, all the way good.
Resources:
https://www.zhihu.com/question/506002000
https://github.com/QianMo
https://blog.csdn.net/poem_qianmo
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%AF%9B%E6%98%9F%E4%BA%91/14187860
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