Game Development Giant

The next day, Jester came to the company and first received a piece of news that made him extremely happy.

Several painters in his company, with the help of several programmers, finally produced a drawing software that was extremely crude in Jester's eyes, but extremely advanced for today's painters.

The person who designed this software was Cao Kairui, the young Chinese painter who designed the character of Sheriff Balotelli for Jester. His grandfather was a good friend of Jester’s grandfather, and he was also introduced by Jester’s grandfather. Come. For personal reasons, he likes to use drawing tools to draw on the computer. However, due to the scarcity of color rendering numbers of current computers, he encountered a lot of troubles and racked his brains when creating. Therefore, he came up with the idea of ​​why not make his own paintings? The idea of ​​making a software specifically for drawing.

As soon as his idea was proposed, he immediately received support from many young artists in Mars Entertainment who had the same hobbies.

And after Jester learned the news, he also specifically talked to these painters about his views on a specialized picture editing software. Yes, Jester gave these painters their original idea of ​​making a drawing software. The twist is that what you want to create is not just a drawing software, but also a picture processing software.

Jester also talked a lot about his specific design ideas for this software, and even proposed many functions that artists like Cao Kairui had not thought of.

Of course, this is all Jester's copying of the PS, the image-altering artifact he used in later generations.

These artists may be asked to draw original paintings, and the settings are not a big problem, but asking them to write programs is a bit overwhelming.

In fact, there are many coincidences in the emergence of PS in history.

If the inventor of this software was not only proficient in programming, but also proficient in computer painting, he would not have invented this software to complete his doctoral thesis. Even so, if he did not have someone who could understand this software If Zhizi's younger brother comes to help him promote it, then this software will only end up being gradually forgotten, and it will not become the most important software in the computer graphics world in future generations.

It is precisely because of this that Jester will specially allocate several programmers who are also interested in this to help, and even allocate funds to accelerate research and development.

He deeply knows how great the role this software will play for him after it comes out.

It can be said without mercy that this is a software that has changed the world.

Jester came to a small R\u0026D room in the R\u0026D department, which he had previously specially opened for people like Cao Kairui to develop this software. Cao Kairui had not given a name to the software they were developing before, but just set up a A code name to represent the program.

To be honest, not many people in the company except Jester paid much attention to this plan, even developers like Cao Kairui.

They just thought that after the development of this software, it would make their work more efficient, and they didn't think much about other things. After all, this is just a picture processing software. What this software can do, they can draw by hand. It can all be done.

Watching Cao Kairui demonstrating this newly released image editing and drawing software that has not yet been officially named on the computer, the look of surprise in Jester's eyes flashed away.

What he didn't expect was that this newly released software would be so complete.

You must know that when the real PS came out in history, it could only adjust the grayscale of the picture.

But the software in front of him already had many of the functions he mentioned before.

It even includes functions such as level, color balance, saturation, etc. Basically, as long as the current hardware conditions can be completed on the program, this software has added them. Jester watched carefully as Cao Kairui used other functions. After more than half an hour of operation, I felt relieved.

In his eyes, this is a program that is mature enough and ready for commercialization.

Have you given this software a name yet? So, after Cao Kairui's operation came to an end, Jester asked with a smile.

Cao Kairui first closed the program, then shook his head: There is only the research and development code name 'Wu Daozi', which I gave it, but there is no official name yet.

Then there was a strange look on his face, and he asked Jester with some confusion: Boss, this is just a tool software for our own use. There is no need to give it a name?

hehe.

Jester chuckled softly and squinted his eyes. He suddenly understood that Cao Kairui and other inventors of this software had not yet clearly realized the real value contained in this software, but this was exactly what he wanted. , he didn’t point it out, he just shook his head, denied Cao Kairui’s previous statement, then organized his words in his mind, and then said.

It's better to give it a name, and then put this program into the technical reserve department, so that the company can apply for a patent on this software, and then I'll see if I can sell this program. If the sales are good, I will use 10% of the total profit as a reward for our R\u0026D team. Of course, the specific distribution will be based on the degree of contribution to this software.

Jester's words also made Cao Kairui very happy. Although he didn't think this software would have much commercial prospects, his boss's words were obviously a recognition of their efforts during this period.

But he didn't notice, or he wouldn't pay attention at all. Jester said that he would reward 10% of the profits to 'our R\u0026D team', not you. Obviously he will also It is included, and he is talking about the group, not the members, which is intriguing.

If the employees who participated in this R\u0026D are still at Mars Entertainment, they will naturally receive this part of the reward. If they leave in the future, no matter what the reason is, then I'm sorry, you no longer belong to the R\u0026D team, why should I give you the reward.

And according to the contribution of this program, the one with the highest contribution is undoubtedly Cao Kairui, because he proposed the research and development plan for this program, and he also participated in the entire development, but the second place, if nothing else, Then it must be Jester himself, because almost all the functions in this program were proposed by him.

If Cao Kairui can get 50% of the reward, then Jester can get 40%, and the remaining people who participated in the research and development can only share the remaining 10%.

But despite this, even 10% will be a very generous reward in the future.

Jester knew that in the computer in front of him now, this small piece of software contained huge business opportunities.

It can even be said unceremoniously that this software created the rise of Adobe.

At this time, Jester couldn't help but think, if there was no PS, would Adobe still be able to develop to the heights it would be in later generations?

Jester just thought about it for a few seconds, and then shook his head slightly. He couldn't think of it.

A name? Let me think about it... Cao Kairui also frowned and began to think of the name of this software, but he said a few to himself, but he was rejected the moment he said it. .

Jester, who sounded a little impatient, had so much time to think of a name with him. He still had many things to deal with. For example, when he first came to the company, the receptionist at the front desk told him that the novel Dawn The first version of the manuscript has been sent, and he still needs to see if this first version of the novel can satisfy him.

So, Jester interrupted Cao Kairui's thinking directly.

It's just a name. You're still thinking about it so confusingly. Forget it, I'll reluctantly help you pick one. As Jester said, he pretended to frown, and then suddenly clapped his hands and said with He said in a surprised tone, What do you think of the name photoshop?

When he heard the name, Cao Kairui's eyes suddenly lit up. He found that the name fit so well with the software he designed.

He kept nodding his head and praised sincerely: As expected of the boss, this name is very good.

After saying that, he kept mumbling the compound word photoshop with a happy face. After just whispering it a few times, the smile on his face became even brighter.

Okay, that's it. You send the R\u0026D log of this software and other information to the technical reserve department. I have some things to do, so I'll take care of them first. Jester stood up and said a few words casually. sentence, we must prepare to leave.

Cao Kairui nodded to indicate that he understood, saying that he would send the information files of the software named photoshop before the afternoon.

Back in the office, Jester saw on his desk the original copy of the first edition of the novel Dawn that the receptionist had told him.

The sealed packaging bag has not been opened, and apparently no one else has seen it yet.

Jester called someone to deliver a cup of coffee, then he tore open the packaging bag and took out a thick pile of manuscript paper inside.

The person the company was looking for to write plot novels for the company's games was a young writer named Elvis. He had only published a few science fiction novels that did not sell well. Jester had briefly read through his works before. I can only say that the writing is plain and there is no problem in expressing the plot, so I gave him this task.

And he also promised that if his novel meets the standards, he will be paid a royalties of 100,000 US dollars, plus a portion of the share.

However, Jester was only reading seven or eight pages of this thick stack of novel manuscripts, and the eyebrows on his forehead were tightly furrowed into the character Sichuan, and they have never relaxed.

It wasn't until he turned over a dozen pages that Jester's expression finally changed from normal to livid.

Snapped!

Hearing a snapping sound, Jester threw the manuscript directly to the ground. The unbound manuscript paper instantly disintegrated in the air and scattered in all directions. And out of anger, he slapped the table hard again. There was a huge vibration, and the hot coffee that he had just brought in and that he had not drank spilled on the table, staining a large piece of documents.

Then Jester was sorting out the documents stained with coffee liquid with some annoyance, while his eyes were still staring at the original manuscript of the novel that he had discarded on the ground, and the more he thought about it, the more resentful he became.

He was still mumbling curses.

Did I spend a hundred thousand dollars to find someone to write this crap?

ps: I am not a clickbait.