Game Development Giant

An apology is naturally not just a phone call.

In fact, Richard Garrett found Jester to apologize to him later, or to be precise, after he played Planescape Torment himself.

Of course Jester, as he said before, he didn't take this matter to heart at all.

Although things on Battle.net were hectic at the beginning, everything was on track. After HP's server experts and Oracle's database repair experts arrived, everything went smoothly.

This is not a big fault in the first place, but I have never encountered it before. After gaining experience this time, if such a crash occurs in the future, Mars Entertainment's own support team will be able to complete it well. After this, After increasing the intensity of the stress test several times, Jester also had the idea of ​​​​formally launching the Mars Battle Network.

As for the time, Jester has two ideas. One is to serve it as a Christmas dinner and launch it at Christmas time.

The other is to gradually expand the scale of invitations to the test. After half a year, after next year's e3 war, the news will be announced at the e3 exhibition.

But if you want to come to Jester, it’s better to come as soon as possible.

After all, things about Battle.net are not considered secrets now. As long as you are a company in the industry, you will definitely know something if you want to inquire. Although everyone participating in the test has signed a confidentiality agreement, this is only for public information. Talking in private, although it is prohibited in the agreement, but if the people participating in the test really did it, you wouldn't know, right?

But Jester wanted to talk about this at the meeting.

the next day.

Sure enough, as Jester expected, before the carnival was over, Jester's speech at the opening ceremony of the carnival, which others thought was a bit crazy, immediately became the focus of everyone in the industry. .

This time, although Jester's reputation remains the same. There was even news that Richard Garrett personally came to apologize. You know, this is a secret that cannot be kept in the video game circle. However, Jester's arrogant idea is still Many people have raised questions.

After all, Jester's idea is too crazy.

Jester's idea has exceeded the limits of what current technology can accomplish.

It's natural to be disliked.

Soon, Game exclusively disclosed on their website the reason why Nakayama Hayao and Suzuki Yu were invited to participate in the Mars Entertainment Carnival, and. The article on the website also specifically stated that on the first day of the carnival, Nakayama Hayao and Suzuki Yu had already held several discussions with Jester Lee at the carnival. In the end, they both Accepted the other party's conditions and reached a formal cooperation agreement.

Of course, the article on the website does not explain what exactly it is.

But Game magazine said. They have conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Suzuki Yu, and all the ins and outs of this matter will be answered in the latest issue of Game magazine.

Although many people have speculated that the agreement reached by Jester and Hayao Nakayama must be related to the new game he is making. But what is the relationship and what kind of exchange of interests they have is unknown, so. During this period of time, any post on this issue in forums on the Internet will be discussed in various ways. Arguments and insults build a tall building.

When Kutaragi Ken, who was far away in Japan, learned that Nakayama Hayao and Jester had secretly reached a cooperation agreement, he was even more furious.

Because he contacted Nakayama Hayao when he first arrived in the United States and participated in the carnival. He was completely relieved after receiving the guarantee that Nakayama Hayao would never reach any private agreement with Jester.

He felt that with Nakayama Hayao's status in the industry, after all, when Nakayama Hayao was making game consoles, even Yamauchi Hiroshi was still selling water gun toys. Such a person would value his reputation most and would never deceive himself. Yes, but judging from the current situation, it is obvious that I was wrong.

Nakayama Hayao and Suzuki Yu returned on the day the carnival ended.

Originally, Jester wanted to let Suzuki Yu stay directly, because after the carnival, Jester would prepare for his open world game. The first preparation was the background of the historical period of Spring and Autumn Period. , characters, storylines, main lines and branches, etc. Some purely textual things. Of course, Jester can invite experts who are familiar with Asian history from prestigious schools such as Harvard, Yale or Duke.

However, the most suitable candidates are still in China.

Domestic experts on the costume culture of historical patriarchs did not have much to gain during this period, and their lives were still miserable. If you go back to China and find the government to help with this matter, you can do it at a lower price. into something better.

After all, just for the price of inviting a history professor from Duke University, you can find hundreds of better scholars in this field from China to help you complete the basic settings.

Of course, some foreign language talents are also needed to translate the settings completed by these experts into English.

And, be as honest and elegant as possible.

After all, the Spring and Autumn Period was an era when hundreds of schools of thought contended in the country and culture was extremely prosperous. Although whether foreigners can understand the meaning is not a matter of beauty, as long as you show this craftsmanship spirit of perfection in whatever you do, you will get I have a good impression, and there is no problem in improving the quality.

Europeans and Americans just like this mysterious Eastern culture that is difficult to understand no matter how much they study it.

This is true for Japanese culture, and it is also true for the culture of that country whose name I cannot name.

Another reason is that after all, almost 90 to 95 percent of the people who will make the game based on the settings completed by these domestic experts are European and American.

As for why it is 90 to 95 percent, it is because this time, Jester plans to let Fu Zan's domestic studio also participate in this game development work. After all, he needs some familiarity People with domestic culture are in the entire team. Of course, Jester had talked about this matter with Fu Zan before, and Fu Zan was naturally excited.

Moreover, Jester also has his own ideas, and can lead some people in China to participate in this most incredible project in the world of video games. Five or six years later, when this project is completed, these people will also After growing into roles that could sustain themselves in the industry, at that time, whether these people wanted to stay in the United States or return to their country, it was a no-brainer.

It can be regarded as leaving a seed for future domestic games.

If we want European and American players to gradually accept domestic culture in the same way that they accept some Japanese cultural elements in the future, this will not happen overnight, nor can it be achieved just by relying on one of its own games.

In this game of my own, the most I can do is to open this door. After that, the road behind this door will be a narrow path, a broad road, or just a cliff. Those are all unpredictable things and require the efforts of many people. .

You can never do it with your own strength alone.

It requires the efforts of many, many people. These things can only be done and cultivated by oneself. Twenty years later, if we want to let the group of gamers trained by ourselves in China who don’t even know what games are to make domestic games, It would be easier to ask Yao Zhuangxian to stop giving shit to players.

Before e3 was over, Fu Zan couldn't stay in Los Angeles and took the lead in returning to China to prepare for this matter.

Of course, Jester still has requirements for candidates. They must love video game development, be young, have high imagination, and be able to speak English. They do not need to be proficient in English, but they must at least have a foundation.

If this condition is met twenty years later, it really won’t be difficult.

However, in the 1990s, it can be said that this condition was very, very hard to find. Taking the condition that seems to be the easiest in the future to know a little English, at this time in China, such talents who understand foreign languages ​​are very rare. , although it is not as exaggerated as when it was first reformed. As long as you can speak English, apply for a job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and pass the political review, you can get a job.

However, now in China, almost all those who understand a little foreign language are college students who are the most favored students.

Only these people who have received the most elite education in the country have such a skill that, in the eyes of many people twenty years later, seems to be only an ordinary personal skill.

Just like in the old world of wow at level 60, a newly created character has the ultimate talent that can only be obtained at level 60. Although after the expansion pack is opened and the level limit is raised to 70, this 60 The ultimate talent of level 6 seems to be something that everyone has, but in the old world, the ultimate talent of level 60 was different.

The most important thing is that college graduates in this era are all assigned.

In other words, newly graduated college students don’t have to worry about finding a job at all. They can be assigned to public institutions such as the government and state-owned enterprises. It is difficult for these college students to go to a private company, even a top foreign company. .

Of course, Fu Zan still has an advantage.

That is the quota for going abroad.

In order to make it easier for Fu Zan to recruit talents in the country, Jester specially gave him a job. Every year, five people can be sent to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment in the United States to learn their full strength for a year.

The reason why Fu Zan was given such power was, of course, that Jester had an incomparable understanding of the mentality of domestic students in this era. (To be continued...)