Game Development Giant

At this time, Richard Garrett extremely regretted his short-sightedness.

After all, if this new game of my own loses to Jester's Foreign Requiem in the selection of Game of the Year or RPG Game of the Year, then do I really have to kiss the donkey's butt in public?

When he thought of this, Richard Garrett shuddered.

Moreover, there is another question in Richard Garrett's mind, that is, what kind of game is Planeta Requiem, and why does this game attract so many people, so much media, and even What about the compliments from a few of my friends who never praise the game?

This idea was like a reptile, constantly growing its teeth and claws in Richard Garrett's heart.

Affected by many such disorganized thoughts, Richard Garrett finally made a decision that he would never have made before, that is, to go to the Mars Entertainment Carnival in person to experience this game. game.

However, Richard Garrett did not want to be secretive.

He is not such a person.

He wants to go openly.

Jester left the Anaheim Convention Center after having lunch. He was busy with work and could not spend the whole day at the carnival venue.

Mars Entertainment Headquarters did have an important matter that he needed to deal with.

Previously, during last year's carnival, Jester wanted to start planning to build his own battle network.

However, he thought of this matter too simply at the time. The current bad network conditions cannot be solved through network technology at all. He wants to allow players to play Age of Empires through network connections from all over the United States. From the current point of view, online battles are not a problem that can be solved perfectly.

However, after Jester and his subordinates understood this truth.

They had wasted almost four months.

Of course, it cannot be said to be a waste. At least a prototype skeleton of Battle.net has been built. However, if Battle.net's plan does not succeed in the end, then this prototype of the skeleton will be of little use.

Everyone who was originally involved in this project felt that this plan would be aborted.

To be fair, Jester's Battle.net plan was indeed an extraordinary creative idea in their minds, but it was too early to come up with this idea. After all, the network construction in the United States is still in progress. Maybe in another three years, it will be very feasible to carry out this plan, but now, we can only despair.

However, Jester soon gave his rectification plan.

The Battle.net plan is still going on, but this time it is not supporting games with big data exchanges like Age of Empires, but switching to supporting card and board games.

In fact, Jester learned that he wanted to create an RTS game that could support Age of Empires now. After even wishing to support FPS online battles such as Quake, he thought about the rectification plan in his own memory, and finally, he was really within the range of his own memory. Found an example that can be used as a reference.

Many people may remember that when the domestic Internet just started, there was a Lianzhong World.

In Lianzhong World, the largest source of users is playing chess and card games. Of course, this is not the first successful application of the Internet, a new thing created by the people of Lianzhong World. This is also the successful experience that Shanzhai has had.

In Jester's memory.

In 1991, Sierra Company established the world's first service platform specifically for online games - the-sierra-work. Later, this platform was renamed imagination-work. In 1996, it was acquired by AOL Hua for a large sum of money. At that time, for the convenience of description, this the-sierra-work platform was temporarily called American Lianzhong, which provided an online platform for Shell, chess, or some other chess online battle function.

And it was a huge success.

Bill Gates has admitted that he was a loyal user of the American Lianzhong at that time. He liked to play bridge games on the American Lianzhong game platform when he had nothing to do.

When Jester told his Mars Battle.net development team that they should transform in this direction, these people were also extremely excited, because with their technology, it was feasible to evaluate Jester's proposal. Unlike Jester's previous plan, which was completely whimsical.

Therefore, a Battle.net platform that initially only supported bridge, Texas Hold'em and chess was built earlier this year.

After that came a long period of internal testing.

The testers were all die-hard fans of Mars Entertainment, as well as some specially invited by Jester.

For example, Bill Gates was invited by Jester to participate in this test. According to Mars Entertainment's internal statistics, since Bill Gates participated in this invitation, he has logged into the Mars Battle Network almost every day. , played several games, and Bill Gates' favorite game is bridge.

Of course, everyone who participated in this test signed a very strict confidentiality clause, and they were prohibited from revealing anything about the Mars Battle Network to the outside world.

Until the opening of the carnival.

The Mars Battle Network has been running for almost half a year. There have been several minor accidents in the process, but they were not major and they were all resolved smoothly.

Originally, in the internal meeting, there was indeed a plan to announce the Battle.net information during the carnival and conduct a public test of Battle.net, but after careful consideration, Jester rejected the proposal.

Because Jester knows that if they want to provide such a network support service covering the entire United States, they may be the first company, and it can be said that no one knows the problems here. If they don’t test it as thoroughly as possible before If so, it is very likely that it will bring a very poor testing experience to the players.

Therefore, Jester asked the Battle.net support team to conduct another stress test on the Battle.net system.

Moreover, this time's stress test is much more severe than the previous ones, and all situations that can be encountered must be fully taken into account.

Sure enough, just now, the Battle.net system that was undergoing a stress test crashed.

Therefore, Jester had to rush back to the company headquarters to deal with the matter.

After arriving at the company, Jester realized that the situation he encountered this time was not just a simple crash of the Battle.net system caused by a stress test. This crash of the Battle.net system triggered another very serious incident. That is, the Battle.net database also crashed.

After learning about the seriousness of this incident, Jester immediately contacted the technical teams of Oracle and HP.

Because Jester had reached an agreement with Ellison before, Jester was already one of Oracle's major shareholders. Therefore, after receiving Jester's call, Ellison also immediately called Oracle's technical team was sent to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment to help them handle this matter, but HP's efficiency was not so high.

The reply Jester received was that their server technical team would not be able to arrive until tomorrow at the earliest.

This left Jester to only worry inside the headquarters.

Fortunately, the current Battle.net system is just an internal test, and if something goes wrong it is not a big deal. If something like this happens after it is really opened to the outside world, it will be difficult to handle.

Just when Jester was worried about this matter, one of his assistants reported something very different to him. To be precise, it was a very unexpected phone call.

The caller was Richard Garrett.

Although when he heard his assistant say Richard Garrett's name, Jester was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly figured out the purpose of the other person's initiative to call. Doubt, at this time, the other party gave him this call just to persuade him. It is very likely that he has already tried his own game in person.

In fact, all Jester said at that time were some angry words.

He is not a child. He can remember a trivial thing for a lifetime. In fact, he had already forgotten about the so-called kissing the donkey's butt if he lost.

After asking his assistant to transfer Richard Garrett's call to his office.

Jester answered the phone and greeted Richard Garrett in a very gentle tone. Richard Garrett also apologized for the unreasonable words he said before. Of course, Jester Ste also accepted it graciously.

In fact, even if your game really beats Richard Garrett's game in GDC's selection of the best games, so what?

Do I really want to lead a donkey to the scene and let Richard Garrett kiss the donkey's butt in full view of everyone?

What a joke.

In this way, Richard Garrett would have completely lost his face and lost all face as a human being, but what kind of image should he have? Words such as being narrow-minded, sinister and vicious, without courage, and having no tolerance for others will be added to one's head. How can such a self lead the entire video game industry in the future?

When he heard that Richard Garrett wanted to go to the carnival to experience Planet Requiem in person, Jester immediately agreed and immediately sent people to Virgin Entertainment to give Richard Garrett. Garrett sent two invitations to the carnival. (To be continued...)