Game Development Giant

Jester had dinner with his grandfather, Sandy Will and his uncle.

Very rich and authentic Sichuan flavor.

As Jester ate the familiar taste, he couldn't help but think of that country thousands of miles away.

Uncle Jester's craftsmanship is better than the previous one, and Sandy Weir was full of praise. He said directly that it was better than what your father did back then.

What surprised Jester was that what Sandy Weir ate was not improved Chinese food, but authentic Sichuan food. Even Jester discovered that this American's ability to eat spicy food was even better than his... …

As a Chinese, Jester felt a little ashamed for a moment.

Jester's uncle originally arranged a room for him in his own home, but Jester still refused. He said that he had already booked a hotel before coming.

However, when Jester was chatting with his grandfather, it seemed that his grandfather took the initiative to organize this West Coast Chinese gathering and it was not all for the Los Angeles Olympics.

His grandfather felt that his health was not as good as before recently. In addition, the country was currently engaged in reform and opening up, and overseas Chinese were welcome to return to the country to invest, so he had the idea of ​​​​returning to his roots.

Especially in Jester's memory, when his grandfather heard the tape of My Chinese Heart, he burst into tears and showed his true feelings.

Although his grandfather didn't tell him clearly, Jester also guessed that his grandfather might want to return to China.

After all, it was the home he had left for decades. No matter how good the United States was, it was not home to his grandfather.

This is also a normal thing. Jester’s grandfather left the motherland in early 1945. It has been a full 40 years now. Chinese people already have a love for the country, not to mention someone like Jester’s grandfather who once wanted to A person who sacrifices his life to save his country.

What Jester knew was that his grandfather had four gunshot wounds on his body, two of which were critical, and he almost narrowly escaped death.

Their feelings for their homeland are incomprehensible to many modern people.

Just like what Qu Yuan wrote at the end of Sorrow, birds fly back to their hometown, and foxes must be on the ground before they die.

Beasts are like this, how can humans be embarrassed?

It was a magnificent era!

Jester also thought about his motherland in this era. The exciting reform and opening up has begun for several years, and China's renaissance has begun, but no one can predict how turbulent this wave will be, like a tsunami that is half unstoppable. It would be a pity if you did not participate in the greatest rise of a great power in this century.

Besides, I really need to go to my motherland to solve one of my current major problems.

Insufficient production capacity.

The cost of building a factory in the United States is too high, and the labor cost alone is several times higher than in Japan, so this is not among Jester's considerations.

Moreover, now is the period when the United States is transforming from a manufacturing country to a financial country. Everyone is excited by the figures in the financial industry. It is definitely thankless to work in low-profit manufacturing at this time.

Moreover, Jester felt sick when he thought about the ugly faces of American labor unions in later generations after the subprime mortgage crisis and the collapse of the American Motor City.

Of course, the United States is a free and democratic country, and everyone has their right to make free choices.

Including their right to freely defend their stupidity.

Jester thought maliciously.

However, given the current situation in China, does it have the ability to produce 8-bit machines?

Jester didn't know. He didn't know much about the current situation in the country. Even in his previous life, he didn't specifically look up information in this area. If his grandfather returned to China this time, he would definitely go back and check it out.

Production lines are easy to get. Even if there are none in China, there should be many idle second-hand production lines here in the United States. They can be used with slight modifications, and even brand new ones don't cost much.

The most important ones are industrial workers.

In addition to large-scale recruitment and training, if you want to get industrial workers in electronics at this time, you can only poach the corners of state-owned enterprises.

As for the matter of state-owned enterprises holding on to connections and not releasing people, Jester wasn't too worried.

Now is not the time thirty years later when state-owned enterprises are regarded as their own sons. The foreign capital that returns to the country to invest now is supported by the government as its ancestors. Things such as three exemptions and five half cuts, five connections and seven flats can make foreign capitalists It’s such a surprise that it seems like the benefits of heaven. As long as you are willing to come, we are willing to give it to you. What’s more, you just want to steal workers from those state-owned enterprises? As long as high wages are offered, which worker would not flock to them? After an administrative order is issued, which state-owned enterprise dares not to release people?

For the current local leaders, if they can earn foreign exchange, they will not care about the life and death of those state-owned enterprises. Can you earn foreign exchange if they care about your life and death? cannot? If you can't, just get out.

As for your own production? That's your own problem. If I help you solve it, why do you, the factory director, still need it?

It can be said that whoever dares not to release people is hindering the country's modernization, hindering the country's investment, deviating from the clear instructions of the Party Central Committee, and preventing me from getting promoted and making a fortune. Whoever dares to stop me from making political achievements is a traitor and a traitor. Thief, I will put ten thousand feet on you without turning over.

However, what Jester wants to know most when he returns to China is not these things, but whether it is possible for foreign investors to build factories in China. This is what he is most concerned about.

He remembered that when it was first reformed, only joint ventures were allowed. But in the mid-1980s, the central government passed a document officially allowing wholly foreign-owned factories to build factories for the first time, but Jester couldn't remember exactly when. passed.

My impression is that it was either 1984 or 1985.

It was the establishment of this document that started the entry of a large amount of foreign capital, which was very rare before, because no one wanted to give away half of their profits for no reason.

Same goes for Jester.

This is not because he is too greedy. Jester will not hesitate to give up the benefits that must be given away, because he knows that temporary efforts will inevitably lead to greater returns in the future.

His company produces domestically, employs domestic workers, and sells its products overseas to earn foreign exchange. This is what the government wants to see. If it can do this, the government will be very satisfied.

But it is different from a joint venture with a domestic enterprise. As a foreign investor, he already enjoys super-national treatment. A joint venture with a state-owned enterprise will not make this treatment any better. Moreover, after the joint venture, he not only has to share his own profits, but also It is subject to constraints from domestic companies, so why should he give up his shares to form a joint venture with domestic companies?

Shaking m?

As for the benefits provided by those countries, three are exempted and five are reduced by half, five are connected and seven are flat, no tax is collected if it is not profitable, and super-national treatment is blablablabla, haha, if you have the ability and do not joint venture, you will not be given these benefits.

Are foreign investors begging for your money?

Who do you blame yourself for?

This is what capitalists do, they get amazing profits from you, and at the same time they scold you for being such a scumbag.

Especially when foreign capitalists came to China, they were surprised to find that trade unions were just decorations in a socialist country under the dictatorship of the working class? They don’t need to consider the interests of workers at all! This is simply a paradise for capitalists, with soil naturally suitable for capital expansion!

Of course, when you are having fun, you can't help but curse, sb.

And there is another thing. In the 1990s, inspired by the feast of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the gluttonous feast to share the greatest achievements of Taizu and the Prime Minister, the huge fruits of industrial construction in the 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China was about to begin. You are planning to go in and have a delicious meal, so how can you leave a loophole and make yourself a delicacy in the eyes of others?

As for cooperating with powerful people? That was after the southern tour in the 1990s, when the right-wing leaders were completely victorious. Now these young generation of powerful people in the country are just greedy but courageous rats, and they are not qualified to cooperate with them.

Besides, even if I gave them shares now, would they dare?

These people haven't realized it yet, times have changed.

Putting down these premature thoughts for the time being, Jester drove to the hotel he had booked, asked about his room at the front desk, took the key, and walked towards the elevator.

However, his speed was obviously a little slower. When he approached the elevator door, the elevator was already full of people and the elevator door was mostly closed.

Jester could only sigh and stopped in front of the elevator, waiting for the next one.

Huh!

But when Jester was walking towards the elevator, he happened to see a 16-page book that looked like a magazine lying on the ground with the back facing up.

Maybe someone dropped it accidentally.

Thinking like this, Jester bent down and picked up the magazine. It was a comic magazine. The name of the magazine was Mirage, produced by a comic company called Mirage-studio.

When he saw a picture on the cover, Jester's eyes suddenly lit up. \u003cles, translated into Chinese, is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Jester naturally knows how popular the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be in the future. This is one of the two most successful American cartoons in the 1980s, the other being Transformers. However, now the first four episodes of the Transformers animation have been produced, and the children Zhibao also launched their first batch of transforming toys.

This is not the key. The key is that Jester remembers very clearly that the beat-'em-up game on FC based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles once triggered a sales frenzy after its release, and the final sales volume ranked among the top ten in the entire FC game history.

And even excluding this game, the profits that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can generate are frighteningly high, whether it's comics, animation, hand toys, or movie copyrights.

This is a comic that can count money until your hands get cramps!

After missing out on Transformers, Jester didn't want to miss out on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he hadn't decided yet. The first one he wanted to make was an action-packed beat-'em-up game for his home console. Now he had decided. Choose Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

This is really a great subject, but just when the idea came up, Jester couldn't wait.

Jester flipped through the black and white version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the comic magazine. The story has just begun. The title seems to be only the fifth volume, and the publication date is also this month. It seems that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have just begun to be serialized. It didn't get popular.

But Jester didn't care much. Even if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic became popular, it wouldn't cost much if he wanted to buy the comic company.

Jester vaguely remembered that Fantasy Studio was a new company established in September of the year before they created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The two bosses of the company were the two authors of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He couldn't remember the rest clearly. , after all, he is neither an encyclopedia nor a die-hard Ninja Turtles fan.

But then again, how much is a new comics company worth?

It’s just drizzle to Jester now.

But now he has no time to inquire about the comic company, so he can only suppress the matter temporarily and deal with it when he returns to the company.

At this time, the elevator door also opened.

Jester followed the flow of people around him and walked into the elevator. After choosing his floor, the elevator started. He also took this time to start thinking about how to design Snowman Brothers.

His time was very tight and he could not wait until he returned to the company to start designing. He had to seize some free time to perfect the game.

In fact, the original Snowman Brothers were designed very successfully.

There are growth settings inside. The snowman can increase his abilities by taking potions. Some can speed up the movement, some can increase the size and power of the snowballs, and one can increase the range of the snowballs thrown. This setting It is very similar to the bullet-eating in Contra, but the original version has far less rich abilities than Contra. Jester remembers that there are only these three types.

Jester plans to strengthen this point and have at least five kinds.

The combat system of the game Snowman Brothers was considered novel even in the 1990s, not to mention now.

The snowman controlled by the player can seal the monsters by throwing snowballs, and then push the sealed monsters into big snowballs, knocking the other monsters away. The monsters that are killed will drop potion points or bread cakes. class stuff.

There is also a bonus mode. Every ten levels, there will be a chance to shake the money bag. Each time you shake a letter, if you collect the snow, you can be awarded a life.

This is also a setting that attracts players to continue playing, which is very good in this era.

The most critical point is that this game has a setting that is very suitable for arcade use, which is later called the snowman-style clearance mode.

If the player cannot clear the level within one minute, then a very awesome monster will appear. Jester called him Pumpkin Man when he was a child, and he will die if he touches it.

This setting increases the difficulty and playability.

Perfect for arcade machines.

Jester thought about it and realized that this game was already very good when it was designed. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't think of anything else he could add to this game.

With a ding, the floor he selected arrived.

Jester stepped out of the elevator and walked quickly to his room.

He wanted to play Snowman Brothers as soon as possible to see if there was anything he hadn't considered just now, and then finish writing the design text for this game as soon as possible.