Game Development Giant

Jester benefited a lot from this brainstorming-like discussion.

What he saw was a group of designers with independent ideas of their own, not just followers of his own. This was what he was most afraid of before.

Fortunately, his employees did not let him down.

His previous Snowman Brothers was a still-image game. Although it was released around 1990, its technical content did not make any breakthrough compared to what it is now.

But his current setting of Dawn is a vertical scrolling air combat shooting, and scrolling games are the most high-end type of games in this era, and their status is similar to those RPGs with super-large sandbox maps in later generations.

And even Atari didn't produce many games of this type back then, let alone designers who had participated in the production of this type of games.

Most of the people in Mars Entertainment who have participated in the production of scroll-based games are in Mark Cerney's design team and are working on what they call a great game that has never been done before.

I don’t know if they dare to say such big words after seeing their own set of Dawn.

Jester was actually thinking slightly maliciously.

In fact, Jester strongly agrees with this point, because the technology of scroll games is universal. The current situation of Mars Entertainment is that instead of spreading out the elites to start several scroll games at the same time, it is better to concentrate the elites to make the first one. In this process, the first technical accumulation of a game of the same type can be completed.

Don’t underestimate the accumulation of technology when developing games. This is a very valuable asset. For example, Jester knows about the technology library platform established by ea. Their global studios will put any new technologies on this platform when developing games. , when other studios need to use this technology or engine when making games, they can just use it directly without developing it themselves, avoiding duplication and waste.

Another example is the news that Jester saw just before his rebirth. Blizzard had just announced the cancellation of the Titan project, which had invested more than 50 million US dollars. They said that the game did not meet expectations, but many critics said that despite Blizzard's investment in this project It cost at least 50 million US dollars, but Blizzard did not gain anything. They obtained some new technologies during the research and development process, which was enough to make up for part of this loss.

And EA's idea of ​​a global technology library is indeed to Jester's liking.

Throwing the complete set of settings that had been sprayed in many places to the group of eager designers and letting them work together to continue improving, Jester returned to his office. He had just received news that someone A fax was sent to him. The address of the fax was his grandfather, but the sender was not.

The sender surprised Jester. The other party first apologized and did not ask Jester before sending the fax. Instead, they directly asked Jester's grandfather for help. However, they were also worried about asking Jester directly. Will refuse.

Although the other party knew about Jester's attitude towards them from Jester's grandfather, they still had their own considerations, so they sent a document to Jester so that he could dispel his biggest concerns. .

Although presumptuous, it still shows his sincerity.

When Jester got the document, he just glanced at it and understood what the other party meant.

The party sending the fax was the Consulate General of the Mainland in Los Angeles, and the content was only a very simple manuscript of the meeting contents.

This was a resolution made at the second session of the Sixth National People's Congress held on May 15 this year. It discussed and established the issue that Jester was most concerned about before. Is it now allowed to invest in mainland China as a sole proprietorship? .

There were many issues discussed throughout the meeting. Perhaps the Consulate General was afraid that Jester would be annoyed and drew a line with a red pen at the bottom of one of the paragraphs to indicate that there is something you want to know about.

Then, Jester saw what he wanted to see most on this document.

Mainland China allows foreign capital to independently build factories and invest.

“In these port cities, foreign investors who invest in factories can enjoy more preferential treatment in terms of taxation in accordance with regulations, relax the approval authority for construction projects using foreign capital and the introduction of technology, simplify the entry and exit procedures for foreign businessmen, allow foreign businessmen to set up wholly-owned enterprises, and appropriately extend the extension of joint ventures. During the joint venture period of the enterprise, products that indeed provide advanced technology are allowed to be partially sold in the domestic market...

At the bottom of the document, the signature is the Second Session of the Sixth National People's Congress.

This is a signal. Jester thought this way. This was a signal that mainland China proactively released to itself after learning about its investment intentions. It was a signal of goodwill. They didn't say anything, they just sent a meeting. By reading the manuscript, you can dispel your previous doubts.

Maybe they also consulted their grandfathers about the scale of their investment, otherwise they would not be so active.

After all, your investment plan may not mean much in a country with a lot of money in the future, but now when foreign capital reserves are so pitifully small, it is indeed precious and must be won.

In particular, the political attitude he expressed at the last Chinese gathering was obviously recognized by some people in the country.

It is much better to take advantage of these patriotic Chinese than to take advantage of those who support the island.

It's all about cutting flesh anyway, so it's always less painful for the former type of person.

Faced with the goodwill from the mainland, Jester naturally could not remain indifferent. He immediately dialed his grandfather's phone number.

The old man has gone back to San Francisco and will not return to Los Angeles until around the time the Olympics opens. Jester's uncle said when the call was connected.

I don't have anything else to do. I just want grandpa to help me make arrangements. I want to talk to... Before Jester could speak, he heard his uncle's laughter coming from the other side of the phone.

The old man was right. He said that after you receive the fax, you will definitely be tempted to call and want to contact the people over there. However, the old man has already prepared it. His investment group has also gathered many people. There will be a gathering next month in San Francisco. A business counselor there will also attend to explain the current investment environment and welfare in mainland China to the Chinese people there. However, the specific time has not been determined yet. Anyway, it will be early next month. I can’t run away, I’ll give you news when the time is set.”

After getting the exact news, Jester chatted with his uncle for a few more words, asked how his grandfather was doing these days, and hung up the phone.

This also allowed him to let go of his worries for the time being.

Jester had nothing to do in the afternoon. Just as he continued to play Thunderbolt with a masochistic mentality, he received a call from Carly Terry, discussing the issue of releasing third-party games.

Jester didn't care about this. He specially used the game distribution rights of Mars Entertainment to establish a distribution company. This was his inner ambition to create a first-party and third-party distribution company.

Jester knows how profitable third-party publishers will be in the future, so leaving a distribution channel but not publishing third-party games is stupid in Jester's eyes.

Even in Jester's vision, in the future, he can publish Sega and Sony games through his own popular publishing company - as long as they agree.

He didn't know if this would work. No one had done it in the previous world. It was either a third-party publisher, like EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, or a first-party publisher, like Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo.

If he had not taken the distribution rights out of Mars Entertainment, then he would have set up a third-party distribution company while also building a first-party distribution network in Mars Entertainment, which would have been too serious a waste of resources.

That's why Jester took a slap on the head and took out the distribution rights of Mars Entertainment alone.

Game companies specialize in making games, and publishing companies specialize in publishing.

Of course we want to publish third-party games. Jester said to Carly, but now there are no third-party games except PC games.

Carly on the other end of the phone smiled after hearing this, and she said to Jester: Recently, the company received a game from a small company, and I hope we can help publish it. It is a PC game, and Adam has seen it. He said that the game was good, but he said that we usually can’t get it. Generally, small companies like this will submit games everywhere, not only to newly established publishing companies like ours, but also to some large ones. Like Snow Mountain and Virgin, our company has just been established and has not yet established a distribution network. It is inferior to Activision and EA, which were also established recently. Even if we really want to distribute, as long as there are other companies to choose, they will not will choose us.”

Jester didn't take it seriously after hearing this. The top PC games in this era only sold 10,000 copies. In his eyes, this is just small money. It's not yet the time for PC games to develop on a large scale. If he can get it, it's his. To train the team, it doesn't matter if you don't get it. The most important thing for his publishing company now is to prepare for the trial meeting in Chicago in half a month. This cannot be missed.

So he just said nonchalantly to Carly on the phone: It doesn't matter, it's just a PC game. As he spoke, Jester just asked a little curiously, What game is it?

The game is called Ace Fighter, a company called Microprose. They have made a game called First Flight before. The quality is very average, but Adam said the producer has great ideas. Carly rummaged through the table , obviously looking for information about this game, and then explained to Jester.

Jester's body visibly shook when he heard Carly say microprose, because this company is so famous in later generations.

Not only is the producer of this company very thoughtful as Adam Edgar said, the founder of this company and the producer of this game has a status in the history of world video games that is simply like a monument. .

He is considered a titan in the gaming industry and a mythical figure in the video game industry. He is known as the godfather of video games. When video games were only considered children's toys and something to play with to lose one's ambition, his works actually entered the market in a majestic way. In university classes, professors even ask their students to play this game to experience the progress of human civilization.

This game is Civilization. Speaking of which, anyone who knows even a little bit about video games knows who the founder of this small company called microprose is.

Yes, he is Sid Meier.

What's the name of the producer? After calming down, Jester asked the question he was most concerned about right now just to be sure.

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