Game Development Giant

Although the game is completed, it is only a semi-finished game based on IBM5150. According to the later development process, this is only an alpha version.

So what Jester has to do is far from over.

He rummaged around his room looking at electronic components scattered everywhere, hoping to piece together an arcade motherboard that could run America Cube.

At this time, he heard a voice coming from the living room outside the door.

Jester subconsciously looked up at the clock on the wall. The time displayed on it was twelve thirty.

It's been a whole morning so quickly...

In the morning, when Jester looked in the mirror in the bathroom and wanted to confirm who he was, he looked at the time. It was just after seven o'clock at that time. Unexpectedly, he didn't realize the loss of time when he was making a game. For him, It's almost just time to smoke a cigarette or drink a cup of tea.

According to the memory of this body, Jester's mother should still be looking after the supermarket at this time, and his father rarely comes home at noon.

Out of curiosity, Jester opened the bedroom door and walked into the living room.

Jester's father was sitting on the sofa, talking to a young man who looked about the same age as himself, had blond hair, wore a pair of glasses, and looked a little quiet and shy.

Seeing Jester come out of the room, Jester's father also stood up with a smile on his face.

Hi, Jess, let me introduce to you. This is my colleague, Mark Saini. He is an excellent game designer. He is only one year older than you, but he has already made marble-madness. (Rolling Ball Table, a famous Atari arcade game) is such an excellent game! Don't you like playing it very much?

Jester's father enthusiastically introduced the young man next to him to Jester, and the young man also greeted Jester warmly.

Jace, can I call you that? I heard that you are a student at the University of California? So we have some connections! I am from the University of Southern California! Although Mark Saini looks shy, he is not actually. As such, he is a very talkative, sunny, and fun-loving person.

The first time he met Jester, he made a harmless joke.

Because as we all know, the University of Southern California, which is opposite UCLA, is a mortal enemy of them. The two sides once played a 50-0 score in a National College Football League clash.

The winner was USC.

From then on, the two sides fought almost to the death.

But Jester didn't feel anything about it because he wasn't actually a UCLA student at all.

But when he heard the name, he still stood there in surprise. Looking at the unusually young face in front of him, in his memory, the photo he had seen thirty years later still looked a lot different. Very similar, the same eyes, seemingly full of passion, confidence and wisdom.

Is this Mark Seney? It’s Mark Saini!

Although Jester dominated all models before his rebirth, he was still essentially a genuine cable dog. He firmly believed that Sony was the best and retired to ensure safety.

Yes, Jester was indeed a die-hard Nintendo fan like many others before. After all, he grew up playing Nintendo games. But later on, when other manufacturers released high-definition games, Nintendo still used mosaics. He couldn't bear it anymore when the screen was just trying to make a fool of himself to earn the hard-earned money of die-hard fans.

The full screen gameplay of Grass Mud Horse.

It is simply an unforgivable crime for Nintendo to occupy a cesspool and not take advantage of it. It is a public enemy of the industry. Could any Nintendo fan never think that if the PM were in the hands of Sony, wouldn't they be able to play PM with a sky-shattering screen?

No conscientious player will refuse the high-definition version of pm. In other words, any player who refuses the high-definition version of pm is a player without conscience.

If you insist on playing mosaic, you deserve to be left alone because you have no IQ.

How could a qualified cable dog not know about Mark Saney!

Idol!

Any large game company will have their soul characters, just like Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo, Hiroyuki Suzuki and Sega, and such a character in Sony games is Mark Cerny.

A true soul figure who led the rise of Sony Games.

This is a truly great god, and it is no exaggeration to call him a legend.

Jester fell into memories, and he remembered information about Mark Saini. At this time, he had just left college and was actually designing arcade games at Atari. However, it may have been after the impact of Atari on the American game industry. Due to the recession, he will go to Japan next year to join Sega.

Yes, now he is just a designer of a small Atari arcade game, but in the future, he will become the person in charge of the Sega Sonic project. It was he who designed the classic pink hedgehog. , Sonic's girlfriend Amy, later served as the global vice president of Universal Entertainment, and finally joined Sony Games and became the soul of Sony Games.

Moreover, he is very good at promoting new people.

Later, the two founders of the famous Naughty Dog called him their spiritual mentor. They could even say an unceremonious saying that without Mark Saini, there would be no Naughty Dog. \u003cHe has also made countless illustrious achievements for Sony.

Just look at these thunderous names!

Uncharted series, God of War series, Crash Bandicoot series, Ratchet and Clank series, plus The Last of Us... There won't be any Sony first-party games with the best game graphics in the world.

Of course, he is not most famous for these, nor for his Seni theory on game design that has been adopted as a creed by countless designers, nor for the Lifetime Achievement Award he received from the International Game Developers Association (GDC). The Oscars and Nobels of gaming.

Instead, his hero Kutaragi Ken, a Sony hero, resigned due to mistakes in ps3 development. Sony games were on the verge of loss and failure. He accepted a job as a software engineer who had never experienced hardware development. A new job, that is, ps4 chief architect.

This looks quite a bit like the wind rustling and the water cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone.

For sec and even Sony as a whole, as the last remaining flagship, ps4 cannot allow any failure, otherwise this may be a fatal blow to this behemoth.

But just after Mark Saini was appointed, almost everyone at the time thought Sony was crazy. It was crazy to let a person who wrote software work on hardware.

Even if the person who wrote the software is already famous.

But it was Mark Saini who made everyone understand what it means to be called upon to do something in danger and to be an unparalleled national hero!

Ten months after the release of ps4, total sales exceeded 10 million!

This is even without any first-party masterpieces being released.

Their rival, Microsoft's Xbox, has sold just over five million.

Big win!

It was such a character who appeared vividly before his eyes.

How can you make a cable dog not excited?

What? Aren't you excited? Because you are not a dog.

me…

For a moment, Jester was even too excited to speak.

Seeing Jester's appearance, Jester's father smiled and said to Mark Saini: Mark, I told you, my son is your fan, and his favorite game is yours. !”

Yes, I like your game very much, very very much! Jester couldn't control himself, and said in a tone that could be said to be eager and unreasonable.

He was not lying, but what he liked was not the arcade games he was making now, but the masterpieces he would make in the future.

Thank you.

Obviously, as a young man who has just turned 20 this year and has not even passed his 20th birthday yet, Mark Saini is far from being as calm and relaxed as he will be when he is praised by others after he becomes a big player in the industry.

He is also a young man who longs to be recognized. He is just a small designer with a dream to design games at Atari.

So he was also very happy, the smile on his face became even brighter, and he kept saying thank you.

At this time, Jester's father's voice rang again.

By the way, Jace, what have you been doing in your room just now? I see you haven't come out all morning.

After hearing his father's question, even though he had no real contact with this father, he knew through the memory of the owner of this body, and Jester also knew that his father loved him very much.

Moreover, what he is going to do next requires his father's help to succeed.

Although you know a little hardware knowledge, it may not be a big problem to assemble one or two usable arcade machines by yourself, but making a real commercial arcade machine is far from that simple.

And his father was a very good arcade engineer. Many of Atari's best-selling arcade machines were designed by his father.

It's nothing, I just suddenly had an inspiration and wrote a new game. It's a completely unprecedented game!

Jester deliberately spoke in a calm tone, even though he was extremely excited. After all, this was the beginning of the huge dream in his mind.

A game you made?

Jester's father had a suspicious look on his face. Although he knew that his son was very good at programming, he also knew that his son lacked the wild imagination that a game designer must have.

He believed his son had the technical ability to write a game, but he had less faith in his creative ability.

Maybe it's just an imitation of some game. Jester's father thought to himself. He didn't take it seriously. He dealt with games every day and knew that designing a brand new game was not as simple as it seemed.

I wrote it. Jester said affirmatively, with a deliberately dissatisfied look on his face, which seemed to be annoyance to his father's suspicious tone.

At this time, Mark Saini spoke at the right time.

Then can you allow me to take a look at this game you made?

certainly!

Jester smiled and agreed. This is what he was waiting for. Although he has not applied for a patent, he is not afraid that Mark Saini will plagiarize his idea for this game. First of all, he has his own father as a witness, and secondly Second, the Mark Saini he knew was not such a villain.

What's the name of the game? What type.

When Jester led the two of them to his room, his father asked casually.

Jester did not look back, but replied with a slightly excited tone: American Cube, I call him American Cube! What type? I think it is the puzzle type.