Game Development Giant

In the past few days, Jester, the capital, has come to know what it means to be crowded.

After these investment promotion bureaus in various provinces and cities in the mainland knew that Jester was one of the few wealthy Chinese businessmen who came to invest in China, they would send people to visit him almost every day. Fortunately, Jester was staying at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, and the security here was handled by the Central Security Bureau, so as long as they didn't want to see him, there was nothing they could do.

But since the bidding documents of the Ministry of Electronics Industry were issued, not only the people from various investment promotion bureaus, but also the state-owned manufacturers in various provinces and cities are like greedy cats that have smelled the fishy smell. They have tried every means to use their connections to see Jess. Special side.

The question is, is Jester that easy to meet?

For his own leisure, he did not even meet the people Yang Hailong had a relationship with.

Moreover, Jester is not responsible for this bidding meeting himself. He does not have the time to spend here. Originally, he planned to take a short tour of the capital to see the monuments of the capital of this era, but he asked various connections to come to him. There were too many people, and the capital was also their territory. As soon as he stepped out of the Diaoyutai, someone would immediately spread his whereabouts everywhere.

Therefore, he almost never left the house these days and stayed at Diaoyutai without leaving the door, so he could just enjoy the royal garden that was built hundreds of years ago.

Also think about what game you will play next.

In fact, Jester, who was always playing these short-level elimination games, masturbating, and crossing levels, felt a little bored. After all, he came from the era of high-fidelity graphics in 2014. At that time, The level of hardware is unimaginable even in this era. The current conditions are not enough, and it is impossible to make too large games.

However, some games with special gameplay may be able to be made, just to accumulate skills for the future.

When he made an overseas phone call back to the company last night, he asked about the progress of his father's 16-bit arcade baseboard. The research and development was going quite smoothly, although some performance indicators were still not comparable to several classic baseboards in his memory, but after all, The research and development time is still short, and there are still many areas that can be strengthened later.

The R\u0026D plan of the arcade R\u0026D department this time surprised Jester. They adopted a modular R\u0026D method this time, first making a low-performance 16-bit base board, and based on this, they gradually enhanced the performance of the module. To improve the performance of the substrate, this method may be a great method for some R\u0026D teams that have just started research and development but are not able to produce a substrate with excellent performance at one time.

The research and development of the initial model of the 16-bit substrate this time is nearing completion. According to his father, the finished product will be available in about two months.

Now that the sixteen-bit base board is available, many functions that were impossible to complete before can be added.

For example, sound card and stereo.

Jester was reading the newspaper some time ago and accidentally saw a news about a new company in Singapore. A young engineer named Shen Bowang produced the world's first dedicated sound card.

This news was very useful to him, so he wrote it down.

This also means that with an independent sound card, you can add stereo or even surround sound to your own 16-bit baseboard.

In this era, the sixteen-bit CPU is still powerful enough to allow its own substrate to process sound effects such as stereo or even surround sound. Based on this idea, Jester feels that it is completely possible to make a music rhythm game. In his In my memory, the historical dance machines appeared in the 1990s, and the arcade machines at that time were mainly based on 16-bit boards.

If you can make a dance machine, then making a rhythm game will naturally not be a problem.

Moreover, processing sound is much simpler than processing images. The biggest problem is that a large number of storage hard drives are needed to store enough music.

Today's hard drives are not cheap.

Sea-Gate's st412 model hard drive is only 10m in size, but its price is as high as one thousand US dollars. As for high-end products with a size of 20m, it is more than two thousand US dollars. Moreover, hard drives in this era are absolute luxuries. The 286 computer just released by Kangbo Company is currently the most advanced personal computer. The price is as high as four thousand US dollars. It also does not have a hard drive. Apple’s Macintosh graphical interface Neither does a computer.

Although the sound of music today does not need to be as realistic as that of later generations, if you want to store more than fifty pieces of music, you will need at least three 10m hard drives, and the cost of the hard drive alone is as high as three thousand US dollars.

So how much does the final arcade machine cost?

What Jester wants to make this time is a rhythm game similar to Namco's Taiko no Tatsujin in later generations. Of course, it would definitely not be as advanced as it could be made now, but in those days, Taiko no Tatsujin could be made on GBA. Rhythm Paradise, so now it won't be a big problem to make a similar rhythm game by yourself. Of course, it is definitely impossible to do as well as Rhythm Heaven. After all, GBA uses a 32-bit CPU, which has an insurmountable gap with the 16-bit CPU.

However, this is not twenty years later, when the concept of rhythm games had already become popular. Now, no one has realized that simple music rhythms can be made into extremely interesting games.

After all, this was an era when baseball games that were so original that they could sell millions of copies on FC.

This era is an era of racing and staking in the gaming industry. A creative lead is often more important than quality.

However, despite saying this, his understanding of hardware can only be said to be superficial. Whether it can be done or not, Jester is not sure. He will not know until he goes back and consults carefully, but when he thinks about it, it should be **Inseparable from ten.

The price problem is easy to solve. The worst thing you can do is set the price a little higher. According to the stupidity of Americans, even if it is just a piece of flying, as long as it can be boasted, then they are not afraid of trying it. As long as they were willing to try new things, he had nothing to fear.

Jester has great confidence in the appeal of rhythm games to Americans. After all, the horrific sales of Guitar Hero, which Activision later became famous for, have proven this countless times.

The question is, what about Leku?

Can’t it all depend on buying the copyright of the music from an American music company? Jester shook his head. This was definitely not possible. It would cost too much. But if he didn’t do this, how could he find at least dozens or even hundreds of songs with different difficulties to compose in a short period of time? Game library from the beginning?

This is a problem.

While Jester was sitting in the garden of Building 16 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse thinking about this problem, a waiter came to tell him that someone wanted to see him.

At first, Jester thought that it was those officials at all levels who came to him to get the opportunity to use the back door of the Investment Promotion Association, and he planned to just say no as usual, but then he thought that he had informed the waiter before, and all such continuous notifications He doesn't even need to report it.

So he asked about it, and then he found out that this time it was two officials from the Ministry of Culture who came to visit him for other reasons, not to attract investment from downstream manufacturers of his electronics factory.

After thinking for a while, Jester received the two officials from the Ministry of Culture in the living room of Building 16. To be precise, there was only one official, and the other one was a professor of alto.

After chatting for a while, Jester understood their purpose.

It turned out that the poem he recited at the banquet in the United States to welcome the Olympic delegation was spread back to the country when the delegation returned home. After hearing this, the alto professor thought it was a good poem. As a lyric, It also felt very good, so he came up with the idea of ​​​​composing a tune to this song.

If Jester didn't come to the mainland, it would have been fine. No one in the country would care about it anyway. However, Jester is a big capitalist who came to the mainland to invest. He is a Chinese businessman valued by the central government. Naturally, he cannot be blatantly violated now. Copyrighted.

That's why I had this visit.

Hearing this, Jester also understood that he personally didn't care about this matter. Anyway, he copied the lyrics from others. Since someone is willing to compose music for these lyrics, he is naturally willing. As for the money, he is willing to do it. Yes, he didn't believe that a current alto teacher could spend any money, so naturally he would be exempted from the need to promote his style.

After receiving a positive reply from Jester, the alto professor quickly expressed his thanks.

However, after meeting these two people from the mainland literary and art circles, Jester thought about his previous question about the large number of music libraries of different difficulties needed to really make a music rhythm game, so he regarded it as an unintentional intervention. Liu asked.

Two gentlemen, I actually have a favor that I want to ask you for. I want to acquire a large number of high-level songs in China that can be played at any level from easy to difficult, or anything in between. No. Do you know if you can think of a way? Jester said carefully. I'm afraid the other party didn't understand what he meant and found some songs for himself that were not suitable for rhythm game transformation, so he said this after , continued to add.

What I want is a song with a fast and strong rhythm. There is no need for a rhythm that is too slow.

After hearing Jester's words, the official from the Ministry of Culture glanced at the middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a beard and smiled.

The official smiled and said: Mr. Li, you have asked the right person. He is the Professor Hu in front of you. He doesn't do much else but composes a lot of music. His only hobby is also writing music. Since he I started composing music before I graduated. I have been a alto teacher for 20 years and I am still writing music. I just haven’t published it. There are thousands of pieces here and there, in various genres and with various difficulties. , there is no need to trouble others with the music you want, Professor Hu is enough to help you.

When Jester heard what the official said, he took a serious look at this man who had not said a word since he came to this living room, except for thanking him for letting him compose the lyrics for the song. Professor Hu.

To be honest, the other party's appearance was very ordinary, nothing surprising at all. He was wearing an old but clean Chinese tunic suit with short hair, which gave people a refreshing and dry feeling, but that was all.

Anyway, from Jester's perspective, he couldn't see that this middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance was actually a talented person who had written thousands of songs.

Seeing that Jester was silent, the official from the Ministry of Culture thought he was doubting the level of Professor Hu he was talking about, so he quickly explained: Mr. Li, this Professor Hu has a very high level of composition. He used to The Guzheng Playing and Singing written by him has been performed in Central and South China. For this reason, Guangming Daily wrote a whole page of reviews for this piece. Even in the domestic composition circle, Professor Hu is a well-deserved master.

This made Jester even more curious. He glanced at the Professor Hu in front of him again. He was not familiar with the music industry in his previous life. Not many people knew about it, let alone seen photos. He could I'm sure, it's just that I can't recognize this person's identity from his appearance.

So, he asked curiously: What is this Professor Hu's name?

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