According to Lu Media reports, on December 14, Tencent confirmed that Mao Xingyun had died unexpectedly on the morning of December 11. Tencent stated that out of respect for the wishes of the family and the deceased, it is temporarily unable to disclose more relevant information, and will follow up with follow-up work on the premise of fully respecting the wishes of the family.
According to Mao Xingyun’s personal information in Maimai, from June 2015 to February 2021, he worked at Tencent’s IEG Tianmei studio group as a game engine development engineer; since February this year, he has worked at Tencent Interactive Entertainment Tianmei. Studio group, as Lead Engine Programmer (engine group leader).
Public information shows that Mao Xingyun was born in 1991 and was admitted to the “China-Ukraine Joint Training Program of Aerospace” in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2009. After two years of undergraduate training, he went to Ukraine to study for the third and fourth year. During his study abroad, he completed the book “Dream Journey: Windows Game Programming from Zero” with more than 1 million words. The book was published by Tsinghua University Press in 2013 when he returned to China to pursue a master’s degree.
An IT employee of a major Internet company told The Paper that Mao Xingyun is well-known in the industry and is recognized as a top figure in the gaming circle. He is also a Zhihu Da V. On November 4, he also replied on Zhihu that the media’s translation of his title as “Chief Engine Programmer” was false and should be the “Engine Team Leader”. Previously, he had announced the establishment of Tianmei F1 studio on Zhihu, which will focus on original 3A, open world games, and release a global recruitment notice.
On social networking sites, Mao Xingyun was described by many colleagues and friends as “loving games and having an idealistic atmosphere”, and at the same time he was very humble. His previous “Introduction to OpenCV3 Programming” was also widely used by game programming enthusiasts. Quote and learn.
On December 13, some netizens broke the news on social media that two employees of Tencent Kexing Building jumped to their deaths. Among them is Mao Xingyun named “Most Valuable Professional” (Most Valuable Professional, MVP) by Microsoft.
The news of Mao Xingyun’s fall was quickly spread on Weibo, WeChat, Maimai, and Zhihu. A large number of netizens engaged in game programming paid close attention to the incident. A netizen posted a post on Zhihu asking “How do you think two employees of Tencent Kexing Building jumped?” The topic has been read nearly 100 million times.
A netizen posted an article, very shocked! Brother Mao has a shy and gentle personality, and has a great enthusiasm for graphics technology. His articles on Zhihu and csdn are very valuable reference learning materials. He did things very carefully. He said that he often stayed up for one or two months in order to write an essay, and repeated revisions as a thesis publication, in order to let Xiaobai understand, he changed and changed. I have dreams and strong self-driving power. I rely solely on self-study across majors. I have gnawed dozens of masterpieces of graphics since university. It can be said that he has mastered more algorithms than my team. I think if he went to ubisoft, R star, EA, Riot, he might already be on the main creator list of several masterpieces. But he has a dream of making a 3A game in China, so he chose Tencent. About a year ago, he said that he would finally form a 3A team. He was very motivated. He was digging around, posting job postings, and replying to messages about recruitment. For a while, I also said that the demo is coming out, and the picture quality is very high.
Some netizens lamented: “There is a ceiling-like existence in the industry. It’s too uncomfortable to say that if you don’t, it’s too uncomfortable.” “The father of two children chose to end his life, either because he was too stressed, or because he was too depressed for a long time. What a pity”.
“Last weekend, Tencent Kexing reported that two employees had jumped from the building. In addition to the mid-year jumping incident, there were at least three orders throughout the year. This Kexing Academy of Sciences is brightly lit even in the middle of the night, and the huge pressure has made many top students from prestigious schools not yet. He fell when he had time to hatch, and even jumped off the building on Saturday.”
“The surrounding environment of Shenzhen Kexing Science Park is an Internet-intensive labor-intensive area. It is congested and depressed. It takes half an hour to get in a car at 200 meters. You have to sweep the building to avoid pulling pants when you go to the toilet. It is said that performance evaluation is the last to be eliminated. Young people who have worked hard to study 985 overseas and return from studying abroad, thinking that they will enter a good socialist life, and unexpectedly greet them with 996 blessings. The huge pressure of forced rounds of 10% every six months, 100,000 employees will have Ten thousand will be eliminated.”
The project was cut and the ideal was shattered?
Some netizens broke the news that Mao Xingyun’s jump from the building was due to work pressure, and part of the reason was that the 3A game project did not meet the company’s progress goals, which caused the entire team to be hacked. After Mao Xingyun communicated with the company’s executives to no avail, he chose to jump off the building and ended his life.
According to Mao Xingyun’s colleagues, Mao Xingyun had been hospitalized for a period of time because of depression.
The news that Mao Xingyun jumped off the building caused an uproar on the Internet. Some netizens sighed on Zhihu that if Mao Xingyun chose to work for foreign companies such as ubisoft and EA, he might face life in another way.
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