Game Development Giant

With this curiosity, Li Kewen dialed the number left by Mars Entertainment.

He was a little nervous at first. He was wondering if Mars Entertainment would find him because he cracked GAMEBOY and wrote a simulation program. However, he also had his own reasons. The reason why he cracked it was because he was in a certain game. There is a strange argument seen on foreign simulator forums. One cracker said that people in other countries are not skilled enough and can only use their simulators.

So at that time, Li Kewen was a little dissatisfied and tried to make a brand new GB simulator. Unexpectedly, it was even better.

Moreover, Li Kewen did not rely on this to make money. He just cracked it and shared it online. He felt that the spirit of the Internet was the spirit of sharing. Of course, he did not support pirated software. As a person who aspired to become a For someone who is a glorious programmer, he cannot be a supporter of piracy - including the console games he plays, they were all bought with money saved through frugality.

Just a few seconds after his call was dialed, the other end was connected.

I'm Li Kewen.

Just after Li Kewen blew himself up at home, an excited voice came from the other end of the phone - Ah... are you Mr. Li Kewen? I'm Zhang from Mars Entertainment...

Anyway, it started with a lot of boring polite words. This employee from Mars Entertainment named Zhang probably just graduated, so he was not very proficient in speaking and was stumbling. After waiting for two minutes, the voice of a middle-aged man changed. Afterwards, Li Kewen understood the meaning of the call.

What surprised him the most was that this new middle-aged man turned out to be Fu Zan, a designer from Mars Entertainment that he liked very much.

I'll call you Xiao Li. I've heard of your name for a long time. The new version of GB's emulator is really good. It's a very thoughtful thing... Fu Zan first talked to Li Kewen as if it were a family affair. They talked about his simulator, but even Li Kewen felt a little embarrassed about the feeling of having the person involved talk about how you cracked his stuff in front of you.

That... I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to...

Although Li Kewen did deliberately crack it, in front of others and being his favorite designer, of course he had to say this: ...I'll call you Brother Fu. I like your games very much, especially Sword and Demon Sealing Record is really, really not inferior to the international level!

Fu Zan was naturally modest.

Then he came to the key point of calling Li Kewen this time: Xiao Li, I'm giving you this call this time. It's because we want to invite you to visit our company, and a big shot in our company wants to meet you. , let’s talk about something with you, he is very optimistic about your talent and thinks that you will become a truly outstanding designer one day.”

Fu Zan's sudden words made Li Kewen a little confused.

Because this is so sudden.

Basically without any warning, Fu Zan suddenly sent out this invitation to Li Kewen, which made Li Kewen surprised, excited, and a little overwhelmed.

He immediately thought about Fu Zan's words carefully. I finally figured it out. Maybe it was a senior executive of Mars Entertainment who was interested in his simulator and wanted to meet him? But Fu Zan is the highest-ranking person in Mars Entertainment, so who is Fu Zan’s higher-ranking person? He thought that the earliest console emulator was actually completed by Mars Entertainment.

But it was just a demonstration work. Yuji Naka used the first generation of Dreambox to simulate Nintendo's FC to prove that the performance of Dreambox was completely ahead of Nintendo's FC.

Of course, such a thing is impossible to put on sale.

Although Nintendo sued Mars Entertainment over this matter, it was because Mars Entertainment did not launch this thing and only made a demonstration. No profit was made from this, so the lawsuit was dropped.

Because of this allusion, Li Kewen immediately thought whether Naka Yuji wanted to meet him.

But he quickly rejected this idea. Because who is Naka Yuji? He is far away in Japan and must be developing some big project right now. How can he have time to meet him? But other than that, he really can’t think of anyone else who wants to meet him. , although he made a very good simulator. Even on foreign simulator forums it is very popular.

However, it is just their small circle of simulators.

His fame only goes so far.

It's Jester Lee.

Without Li Kewen asking, Fu Zan took the initiative to tell the name of the senior person in the company who wanted to meet Li Kewen. Li Kewen heard the name in his own random thoughts and guesses, and even after Fu Zan said The moment he heard the name, he thought he was hallucinating. Of course he knew who Jester Lee was.

But he never thought that such a person would have heard of his name, or even be interested in such a small person as himself and want to meet him.

You say……

Therefore, Li Kewen naturally asked another question involuntarily.

You heard me right. This time it was Jester who called me personally from the United States. He said he wanted to meet you and that he was very optimistic about your development in this industry...

But I haven't made any games, just a simulator?

Fu Zan's words still couldn't dispel Li Kewen's doubts.

In desperation, Fu Zan later said: Well, if you have time, come to our company headquarters. You should know the address, it is in the Imperial Capital...

After chatting casually for a few more words, Li Kewen hung up the phone. Seeing his worried look, his mother asked a few questions, but because Li Kewen's own head was a little messy now, it was just He shook his head and didn't answer, just said it was nothing.

Jester wants to see me?

Now Li Kewen's mind is full of this idea, and he can't get this idea out of his mind no matter what. Before receiving this call from Fu Zan, Li Kewen felt that such a thing would never happen - after all, What kind of person is Jester? The world's top rich man. He is not only the youth leader of North American youth, but also one of the top ten youth leaders voted by domestic youth.

The second place is all Bill Gates.

the most important is. As a gamer, it is impossible not to like Jester Lee, because almost all game types are closely related to this name.

If Li Kewen was asked who he most wanted to meet in Mars Entertainment. Maybe Jester is not ranked first, but he is definitely in the top three. Of course, the first one is definitely John Carmack, as a programmer. Naturally, I admire the legendary God of Programmers.

Moreover, Carmack's free spirit is also very attractive to many programmers, or those who consider themselves geeks.

Although many things were not discussed in detail in the previous phone call, this matter should not be fake, because he dialed the phone number, and the number was indeed the phone number of the Z country branch of Mars Entertainment that he knew, and Fu Zan's voice He knows it too. At a previous player gathering, he had heard Fu Zan talk about how he entered Mars Entertainment.

He even said that when Jester came to the country to work, he took the initiative to consult with him.

When Fu Zan said this, there was always a look of pride on his face. Of course, for Li Kewen, he was also extremely eager for such a scene - if he could be captured by Jester, a famous figure in the gaming industry It would be great to meet the legendary figure in person, and it does not require him to allow himself to work in Mars Entertainment. Even if he meets him once, he can be known among his friends for a long time.

Li Kewen suddenly thought of this. He didn't know if he told his friends that he wanted to meet Jester. If there is even a chance to have dinner, I don’t know what their expressions will be.

Maybe they would say they are bragging?

But who cares?

Because of Fu Zan's phone call, Li Kewen is not in the mood to play the Monster Hunter he just got, although he had previously thought of just having fun when he got home without eating. However, because of Fu Zan's call, Li Kewen's mood was completely diverted to other places, leaving him in no mood to play games now.

What he wants to do most now is to share his fun with his friends.

In fact, in this era, console gamers like him are relatively rare. Because the price of consoles and games is very high in this era. When a person's salary is only a few hundred yuan, few families are willing to buy a machine for their children that costs several thousand yuan and can only play. Games for consoles.

Social software at this time is far less developed than it will be in the future.

Most netizens communicate through forums. Several of Li Kewen's friends met on a domestic simulator forum. They are all people who really like games, so they can chat more openly.

When Li Kewen told his friend that Jester would come to China in a while, and that Fu Zan had just called him personally to tell him that Jester wanted to meet him, it was just as Jester expected. , several of his friends really said that he was bragging. No matter how Li Kewen explained, they would not believe it at all.

Because this is originally impossible.

However, a friend of his whose online name is SARA said that he was on the official forum of Mars Entertainment during this period, and he did see that Jester did say that he would go to Country Z to deal with some matters during this period, and wait until he comes back. , will devote themselves wholeheartedly to game development.

None of his friends believed him when they saw him, and Li Kewen had no choice.

He could only say this: Do they have someone from the Imperial City? If you have time tomorrow, you can go with him to the domestic headquarters of Mars Entertainment. Fu Zan said he would let me visit!

After hearing what Li Kewen said, his friends no longer thought that this was a joke by their friends, so their tone became serious: Kevin, is everything you said true? Jester really Want to meet you?

Although it was through text, Li Kewen could still see his friend's inner surprise when he typed this text from this sentence.

What Fu Zan said on the phone just now, he said that I can visit his place when I have time, and said that Jester would like to meet me when he comes to China in a few days... It's because of this that I am not in the mood to play games now. No, you know, I just went to Marco's place this afternoon to get Monster Hunter, and I was ready to have a good time. I watched him play for a while at Marco's place, and I thought what was particularly innovative was that the monsters had no health. It showed that it was very exciting to play...but after I got home, I was not in the mood to play because of the phone call.

Speaking of the game Monster Hunter, Li Kewen's friends started talking.

Hell, Kevin, you got Monster Hunter. Big cities are good, but our store owner said it won't arrive until the end of the month!

This is enviable.

Haha, I played it last week. My brother just came back from the United States and brought it to me. I tell you this game is amazing. And my brother said that the domestic network is not good. If you play in the United States, United Hunting It’s more fun, and it’s not even a game anymore!”

This is showing off.

I wonder if it is possible to connect to the Internet in China? Is it true that the Internet is not working? I have successfully connected several times before. I have been in a team with foreigners. It is indeed at least ten times more interesting than alone, but the number of times I have connected is too few. Already...

This is complained about.

Li Kewen saw that everyone was discussing the game and no one heard him talk about his meeting with Jester, so he suddenly felt a little boring.

Therefore, he said he was going offline to play games and exited the forum.

But just when he was about to turn off the computer, he saw a private message from someone in his forum's private message. It was SARA. He said that if possible, he could visit the headquarters of Mars Entertainment with Li Kewen. He was particularly He wants to meet Fu Zan, because Fu Zan is his idol.

Li Kewen was very happy that someone believed what he just said, so he told what time and place to meet tomorrow.

SARA also said yes.

When he heard that Li Kewen had just finished the college entrance examination, SARA expressed surprise. He had never thought that a person who could make such an outstanding simulator alone was actually a high school student!

However, Li Kewen said that it was just an impulse at the time, and he didn't actually have any specific ideas before doing it.

Maybe half of it can be attributed to luck. (~^~)