Game Development Giant

Jester didn't worry too much about today's sale event. He has experienced too many sale events. Although this sale event is a little more important than the previous ones, it is because of this that Jester can Position yourself better.

All my tasks have been completed before, now is not the time for me to worry about it.

Naturally, there will be personnel from the issuing company who will be responsible for this.

He suddenly remembered that he had not read some resumes for interviews recently. He happened to have more free time today, so he went to the personnel department to retrieve these files, came to his office, poured a cup of strong coffee, and drank it. While watching.

The reason why he attaches so much importance to these students who come for internships and insists on reviewing them himself is that he does not want to miss out on a talent.

Because he himself has had the experience of being an intern, he also knows what kind of recruitment attitude the HR department has towards interns. Therefore, he wants to show that he values ​​​​talents from the root. Therefore, He will personally review the files and conduct interviews in person.

Jester will generally not pay attention to some personal resumes that are not so distinctive, because in the game industry, whether you want to be a planner, an artist, or a programmer, you must be individual. Absolutely, and whether a person has something unique or not can be seen from his resume.

After all, there is no standard template resume in this era.

There are many people who want to intern at Mars Entertainment. This time, there are only two positions, and more than 300 people have submitted applications. Most of them are from prestigious schools that are not inferior to the Ivy League. Of course, there are also some students from ordinary schools. Apply.

At this point, Jester doesn't take it very seriously, because in the current Mars Entertainment. There are many people who did not graduate from prestigious schools, but still performed very well.

For example, Didier Samwise is now officially a member of Sons of Mars.

Sons of Mars is an organization proposed by Jester last year. It is composed of artists and story writers from all members of Mars Entertainment North America. Of course, not everyone is qualified to become Sons of Mars. Only those who work for Mars Only those who have made significant contributions to entertainment are eligible.

So far, the total number of positions in Mars Entertainment, excluding those in independent studios, has a team of nearly 200 people, but Sons of Mars. So far, there are only eight people, and Didier Samwise is the youngest.

He is still less than twenty years old. He was only a high school graduate before and never even went to college. However, he is very talented in art, especially his hand-painting ability. Almost no one within Mars Entertainment can match it.

Jester didn't feel bored as he kept looking at resume after resume. From time to time, people came to report real-time sales data to him, which were collected from the entire North American market. Moreover, this time, in order to satisfy North American players as much as possible, Jester was not released in Japan one day in advance, but three days after it was released in North America. It has just started to be released in Europe, and the release time in Japan is set for a week later, although Japanese players are somewhat dissatisfied. But for them, who are only a minority, these are insignificant to Mars Entertainment.

Already it has exceeded 200,000 units in just one morning?

Although he had expected it, Jester was quite surprised to hear this result. He himself did not expect that the sales would be so good.

A staff member of Mars Entertainment who came to report also nodded and said immediately: And one-third of them are new players, that is, they did not trade in old ones, but purchased our consoles directly. We were worried before Yes, speculation that new players may be dissatisfied with us may not be accurate.

Jester didn't say anything about this, he just nodded and let the other person go out.

Then, he involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief. Although he said he wasn't worried, he was still a little worried before hearing the good news.

Huh!?

Jester, who was looking at the large pile of resumes on the table, was suddenly startled. He picked up one of the large pile of resumes that he had placed next to him out of habit due to his unconditioned reflex and looked at it again. looked up.

This is an ordinary resume. Except for the fact that the school where the person who submitted the resume and Jester are both attending the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, other people can’t seem to find why Jester cares so much about this resume. s reason.

Only Jester himself knows how much success Mike Mowaimi, a junior majoring in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, who is currently submitting his internship resume to his company, will achieve in the gaming field in the future.

Just two years later, Mike Mowaimi and his college classmate Alan Adham founded a small game company called Silicon and Synapse in Los Angeles. At that time, the entire company had less than ten people in total. Later, because the name of the company was too convoluted and difficult to be remembered, in 1994 they planned to change the name of the game company to Chaos Studio.

But what is regrettable is that this name has already been registered by someone before, and the other party said that unless you are willing to pay 100,000 US dollars, it is impossible for them to give up the name of this company. In desperation, Silicon and Synapse These people at least gave up the name they liked very much.

Later, when Mike Mowaimi was flipping through the dictionary, he suddenly saw a word.

He thought this word was very cool, so he proposed to change the name of the company to the word he just saw, and everyone unanimously approved it.

And this word is Blizzard.

The first game to have the Blizzard logo on the game box was what later led them to glory, and it was also their first PC game-Warcraft.

When he saw the photo on his resume and compared it with the image in his memory, coupled with the same experience of studying electrical engineering at UCLA, it was enough for Jester to not make a mistake in judging the Mike he saw. .Mo Huai Mi, in his memory, founded Blizzard in the future, and served as Blizzard's president until Jester's time travel.

Then, Jester immediately picked up the phone on the table and called the Human Resources Department. He ordered the person who answered the phone in the Human Resources Department: You call a UCL student named Mike Mowaimi. Make a phone call and tell him that he is our intern candidate this time and tell him that if he is willing, he can come to us for an interview next Monday.

The sun was setting in the west, and the sky was gradually getting darker.

After leaving the EA headquarters at noon, a slightly depressed Mike Mowaimi has been waiting in line at the flagship store very close to the University of California, Los Angeles, but he has been waiting in line all afternoon and looks at the same store in front of him. The queue, which was more than ten meters long, made him feel a little anxious.

There are just too many people.

Moreover, Mike Mowaimi has not yet carried his old console. In fact, he doesn’t care about the fifty-dollar price difference. In his eyes, he might as well keep his old console as a collection. In fact, he doesn’t care about the fifty-dollar price difference. Yes, this was her original birthday gift. It was given to him by his ex-girlfriend. Unfortunately, he and his ex-girlfriend have broken up.

However, looking at the queue in front of him, he thought that except for a hot dog that was not too big in the morning, he had not eaten anything for a whole day. Now that he was feeling hungry, Mike Mowaimi simply stopped eating. If we continue to wait, we might as well wait in line earlier tomorrow. There might be even fewer people by then.

So, he left the queue and walked listlessly towards the school.

When he rushed back to the dormitory, his roommate Alan Adham was playing Quake enthusiastically on a local area network established by an unknown person. In this dormitory, all the dormitories were connected. On a local area network, and Quake is almost their favorite game. A battle map with up to ten people vs. ten people. As long as someone creates it, it will be filled up within ten minutes.

Seeing someone pushing the door in, Alan Adhan hurriedly turned his head and took a look. After seeing clearly that it was Mike Mowaimi, he controlled the character while frantically pulling the trigger to mince an enemy, and then Then he shouted to his roommate.

Someone called you before. It seemed to be your internship application, and a company wanted you to go for an interview, but I said you were not there at the time. They asked you to call this phone number when you come back... As he spoke, Allen Adhan threw a piece of paper towards Mike Mowaimi. This piece of paper had a series of numbers on it.

The extremely tired Mike Mowaimi took the piece of paper and fell on the bed without even looking at it.

Alan Adhan asked him about his interview with EA.

Mike Mowaimi told his story without any secret, but after hearing it, Alan Adham said that Mike Mowaimi was really stubborn, how could he interview at another game company? When I said that my favorite was another company.

And Mike Mowaimi was too lazy to argue. He casually picked up the piece of paper with a phone number written on it that Alan Adhan had given him just now and glanced at it. Then his eyes suddenly straightened.

It seems that I have seen this number there before!

Thinking of this, Mike Mowaimi immediately jumped up from the table as if on stimulants, came to the phone book, and looked up the phone number on this piece of paper. (To be continued...)