Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Lin's Tea Restaurant.

Upstairs in the room where the Lin family lived, while taking a rest from dry mouth, Lin Baicheng was typing code on the computer to develop his game.

This IBM computer was bought by Lin Baicheng for nearly 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. There was no way, computers in this era were very expensive, not to mention that Lin Baicheng specially bought a computer with higher performance.

It's all about making games.

When Lin Baicheng was preparing to make a game, he thought about which game would be better. He even thought about it for several days.

Lin Baicheng, who came from fifty years later, has too many classic games in his mind, and it seems that any game he sells can become a hit.

However, thinking about the performance of computers in this era, the funds he had, and the difficulty of independent research and development, Lin Baicheng gave up one game after another, leaving only a few options.

Tetris is an extremely classic casual game. Lin Baicheng remembers that it was invented by Russians in the 1980s.

The gameplay of this game is very simple.

Various tiles of different shapes composed of small squares gradually fall down from the top of the screen. Players adjust the position and direction of the tiles so that they form one or more complete pieces at the bottom of the screen. These complete bars will disappear immediately to make room for the newly fallen tiles. At the same time, players will receive corresponding score rewards. The blocks that have not been eliminated will continue to pile up. Once they reach the top of the screen, the player loses and the game ends.

The gameplay may be simple, but it's classic and has longevity.

In fact, Tetris is not very suitable for arcades. It is more suitable for video games, red and white consoles, palm-sized portable game consoles and computers. However, Lin Baicheng decided to develop it because he only remembered that this game was Russian. It was developed in the 1980s, but he didn't remember the specific year.

It is now 1977. If the Russians developed it in 1980, there would only be a few years left, so Lin Baicheng decided to develop it first and seize the pit before proceeding.

Furthermore, Tetris is just not that suitable for arcades. It doesn’t mean that it won’t be fun in arcades. Its gameplay itself has not changed.

Of course, when Lin Baicheng develops the game, he will definitely not call it Tetris. The name Xiangjiang Cube is more suitable for it. In fact, Lin Baicheng thought about using a name like "Chinese Cube", but considering that Hong Kong in this era was still British, and Western countries were not friendly to China, in order to avoid being offended, he finally did not dare to use this name.

In fact, at the beginning, Lin Baicheng even thought about developing gambling games, which are fruit machines, poker machines and other gambling arcade machines that were very popular in China in the 1990s. I believe that people who like to play arcade games will never forget the Bao Qingtian gaming arcade. The song "There is a Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng, who can tell the loyal and the traitor with an unselfish face" can be heard in the store all day long.

Gaming arcade games are very simple to develop, and they were popular in China in the 1990s. I believe they will be popular in this era as well.

However, Lin Baicheng finally gave up for two reasons. First, Lin Baicheng has other choices, and there is no need to ruin the reputation of himself and the company by developing gambling games; second, he does not want to deal with those who play illegal games, at least for now, it is best for him not to deal with those people, because he has no money and no power. , if someone is not good enough, they will be swallowed to pieces with no bones left.

The risks and benefits were out of proportion, and there were other options, so Lin Baicheng put the gambling game behind him.

After about half an hour of coding, and when his throat has almost rested, Lin Baicheng will continue to tell the plot, and the scribe will write out the content.

At the end of a day, the novel can still be written about 20,000 words, but now there are only more than 100,000 words left in the novel. It will only take a few days to finish, and then Lin Baicheng can concentrate on developing the game.

In the evening, my sister Lin Shufang came back from get off work at the factory.

When she first took over the financial work, because Lin Shufang was not a professional, she didn't know how to start. Fortunately, she always remembered one thing, that is, to manage money well, so she didn't make a big mistake.

Things got much better in the afternoon. Liu Yihui directly recruited a professional accountant from outside to help Lin Shufang. Lin Shufang only knew how to do financial work with the help of a professional accountant.

Lin Baicheng listened to her talk about how he was not used to today's work, felt that he could not do it, etc. After she finished speaking, he was naturally relieved and said that not everyone can do it at the beginning, and that he still needs his sister to help him. Looking at the money, I hope she won't give up.

Of course, Lin Shufang would not give up just like that. She was just worried that she would not do well and cause losses to her brother.

In the next few days, Lin Baicheng did not go to the factory. Even though he learned from Liu Yihui's call that Wu Jianjun had hired security guards, he did not go. He decided to finish the novel in one go and then focus on the production of the game. .

After a few days, Lin Shufang adapted to financial work with the help of professional accountants, and found that financial work is actually not that difficult. As long as the accounts are managed well, there will be no big mistakes, and small mistakes can be corrected with little impact.

After a few days at the arcade factory that was renamed Galaxy Game Company, the employees found that the new owner of the factory had little impact on them. On the contrary, each of them received 5% more wages, which was a benefit.

Only the management knows that the factory no longer assembles arcade machines. After a while, it will produce games developed by the boss himself. If the games produced cannot be sold by then, the factory will definitely be affected, and whether it can still exist will have to be fought. A question mark.

July 16, 1977 was a beautiful and sunny day.

Lin Baicheng's novel "Wind and Cloud Dominates the World" has finally been completed. The total number of words is more than 1.9 million. The exact number cannot be known until the newspaper or publishing company counts it.

I started writing this book in early February, and it took nearly half a year to finally finish it. Thanks to Lin Baicheng hiring a professional scribe, he wrote about 20,000 words every day, which was about 600,000 words in a month.

Although the novel is finished, Lin Baicheng will not give it all to Xingxing Daily and Haohan Publishing House immediately, but will give them a part according to the corresponding progress of the novel serialization.

But for Lin Baicheng, the most important thing is that after finishing the novel, he can finally develop the game wholeheartedly, let the factory make the game, and start selling the game to make money.

Lin Baicheng has high hopes for the game. Not to mention that it will become popular all over the world immediately, but as long as it opens up sales, he will definitely make more money than writing novels.

In the game industry, the market is improving every year, and it is a blue ocean within a blue ocean.

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