Game Development Giant

Infrared communication is a technology that uses infrared communication transmission. This technology is not very advanced and has many shortcomings. However, in the previous experimental models of electronic pet machines, this transmission method is still extremely convenient. For infrared transmission The shortcomings of small angle and short transmission range have almost no impact when two people are very close to each other.

On the contrary, it is much better than communication lines.

Hearing the suggestion from the person in charge of the mobile phone, Jester also had an idea. He asked directly: Have you asked Mars Entertainment? Do they think it is feasible?

The top student from MIT smiled: Their infrared transmission information is not suitable for use on our current handheld phones, but this is not a big deal and can be solved through time.

After receiving an accurate reply, Jester nodded in agreement.

At the end of January, the news that Jester Holdings exchanged 20% of its shares with Samsung Corporation for 20% of its shares did not cause any uproar. Only some media reprinted the news from South Korea. It didn't cause any very heated discussion. After all, neither Samsung nor Jester Holdings are very famous. Mainly Jester Holdings. In the United States, due to Jester's status, more attention is paid to Mars Entertainment, which has the highest exposure, and Fengxing Publishing, which publishes Dreambox games. Even ATI Display Chip Company is often mentioned. , and now this company has become the largest graphics card supplier in the United States or the world.

The most important thing is that so far, there has not been a second image card dealer that can be regarded as a formal opponent of ati.

Some time ago, the New York Times also reported the stories of several entrepreneurs who invested in ATI with Jester's keen eyes, praising Jester's precise investment vision. At the same time, the article also revealed that Dell Computer, which is about to go public, In it, Jester also has some shares.

Everyone knows that the person who controls these companies that have been the most popular in recent years is Jester. But not many people know that, except for Dell Computer, which is controlled by Jester himself, all other investments are in an offshore company called Jester Holdings, and the person in charge of this company is Jester. itself.

Therefore, not many people know about Jester's alliance with Samsung Trading.

And most of those who know it are examining Jester's unexpected investment. How far can South Korea develop in the future? No one can guarantee this. How far can Samsung develop? No one can guarantee that either. However, although the companies under Jester Holdings are not listed companies, the total value of all these companies may exceed US$3 billion. Twenty percent is 600 million US dollars, which is a very huge asset.

And what about Korean trading companies? Their industries are basically all in South Korea. At least for now, except for the shipbuilding industry, their other industries lack sufficient global competitiveness. Moreover, they are now gradually moving their industry towards the high-precision electronics industry. In South Korea, which lacks basic technology accumulation, it is very difficult to achieve a breakthrough in this area.

If other large companies cooperate with South Korea and want to expand the Korean market, it can still be justified. So only Jester's company cannot be justified, because now that Jester has stopped, the game industry is in South Korea, where piracy is rampant. There is almost no place for survival, and the market in South Korea is really too small.

So, why did Jester enter into such a strategic alliance with Samsung?

Jester now. He is no longer a small figure. Every move he makes attracts the attention of countless interested people. Many investors on Wall Street, including Jester’s own partner Sandy Weir, have also suggested Jester several times to turn Mars Entertainment into a business. Financing and listing were all rejected by Jester. He did consider it at the beginning, but later he simply gave up on this idea.

Wanting to raise funds and go public is nothing more than wanting to obtain a large amount of funds for industrial expansion. However, Mars Entertainment currently has no shortage of funds at all, so it is obviously not right to sell shares that you know will rise ten or more times in the future. Sensible.

Thanks to Jester's several extremely precise investments, no one dares to underestimate this young man, the richest man in the United States under the age of thirty.

However, these people may never have thought that during the collapse of Southeast Asia's financial market in the mid-1990s, this seemingly weak Korean company would actually take the opportunity to obtain what they were most in need of, enough to carry out international operations. Competitive technology, thus out of control, growing into the world's top electronics company.

Even, further grow into the master of Korea.

Jester himself felt that his choice was not wrong, but he could not tell others directly. In fact, even so, his deal was enviable enough. You must know that although South Korea's Samsung The market value is similar to the market value revealed by Jester Holdings, but most of Samsung's industries are industries related to a country's national economy and people's livelihood.

In the eyes of many old-school entrepreneurs, this kind of enterprise is the cornerstone of enterprise stability.

Moreover, such opportunities are not always available, and whether such shares are worth anything depends on how the country develops in the future. At least for now, South Korea's shares are not very valuable.

What about the future? Who can tell?

Therefore, in the most recent issue of the Wall Street Journal, there was an article discussing the exchange of shares between Jester and South Korea's Samsung, but it did not cause much response. After all, people on Wall Street cannot afford the benefits. Early on, they didn’t want to discuss too much about a company that wasn’t listed and didn’t get loans, because it didn’t make sense to them.

All American Rally, which has lasted for more than a year, has also come to an end. In terms of hardware, with Jester's generous investment, the hardware department has been completely conquered. According to those who have studied at Sega, their achievements in this aspect are The level is even higher than Sega. After the hardware is not completed, it is necessary to combine the images, programs, scripts, bottom layers, etc. that were previously produced separately, to make it a runnable program.

During this period, a lot of time was needed for debugging. After all, this is not a pure cassette game, but an arcade machine that requires an external analog somatosensory device.

In order to ensure the quality of this game, Jester has also been staying at the headquarters of Mars Entertainment during this period.

And Yuji Naka, who had just finished the release of Phantasy Star and spent Christmas and New Year's Day in Japan, after giving his staff on the development team a month and a half of vacation, he himself flew directly to the United States to come. Help Jester complete the cg animation of his little game.

In fact, this game with a huge script does not use many CGs. All unnecessary CGs have been cut off by Jester in order to compress the capacity. Although there has been great progress in storage compared to before, but for game storage For this reason, this is still far from enough. Jester remembers that only about this year will the giant magnetoresistance effect be discovered by two European scientists, and this is also the key theory for the breakthrough of large-capacity disk storage.

When he met Naka Yuji, he was in Jester's own office. He did not go to pick him up in person. He originally planned to go. After all, this time he came to ask Naka Yuji for help as a friend, but things were too big. There are so many that I really can’t get away from them.

Any ideas for a new game?

Chatting with a game designer is definitely a good topic, and Naka Yuji is at the stage where the previous game has just been completed and the next game has not yet been formed. They are also eager to chat with like-minded people. Friends come to discuss their ideas, and for the game designers of Mars Entertainment, there is nothing they look forward to more than being able to discuss their ideas with Jester before formal development.

Naka Yuji is no exception.

Among all the Japanese employees of Mars Entertainment, he was the first to follow Jester. He was even the second official employee of the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment. At that time, he was just a high school graduate who had been fired by several companies. A small person, but under those circumstances, Tamahide Yoshiro, who had just left Sega at the time, recruited him to the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment, and immediately, Jester asked him to come to the U.S. headquarters for systematic training on how to make games. of learning.

In the first six months, he worked in the hardware department to develop the FC simulator. Later, he was taken by Jester to receive his experience in designing games. At that time, he was eager to acquire this knowledge. For Yuji Naka, this is a dream opportunity, and he also believes that if he had really entered Sega, he might only be a small coder who has accomplished nothing now, fixing mistakes every day. or error-free program.

There is no chance to turn the idea in my dream into a real game.

It was Jester who gave him this opportunity. His gratitude to Jester was beyond words. Therefore, when Jester said that he wanted to ask him to help create a small game that he secretly made, At that time, he agreed without saying a word.

When I heard Jester talking to me about what ideas I had for a new game.

Naka Yuji thought about it for a while. He actually likes games with simple designs but that can bring endless fun. Compared with complex RPGs like Fire Emblem, Dragon Quest and its own Phantasy Star, He prefers games like American Cube, the first game produced by Jester. Later, Jester completed the development plan and produced Balotelli's Adventures in Another World, which is simple, but A game that can bring endless happiness to people.

He felt that this simplest and purest game was what he yearned for the most. (.)