Video Game Empire

Li Xuan is sitting in the special car provided by the company and heading to the exhibition hall of the Akihabara Electronics Fair. He looked at Zhong Chuhong next to him, who was playing Gobang with a GameBoy handheld, and had the urge to cover his face and couldn't bear to watch it.

"You stinky chess basket, I really can't stand it anymore! No matter where the pieces are placed here or here, can't they form four pieces diagonally?"

"Yeah, do you understand without saying anything!" Zhong Chuhong's pretty face turned slightly red, her beautiful eyes rolled her eyes at Li Xuan, she quickly turned off the power switch of the game console, pulled out the game card, and replaced it with another called High Speed. road game.

The two games, Gobang and Expressway, are the creations of the staff of the game R&D department, and have nothing to do with Li Xuan. This is also the result Li Xuan wants to see the most. He does have countless classic games in his mind, but originality is the real cornerstone to support Dongfang Electronics' future **** of the game industry.

Li Xuan has spared no effort in investing in R&D and innovation. Hong Kong has only a population of 5 million, so there are two full-time universities, CUHK and HKU, which are far from being able to support Dongfang Electronics' thirst for professional electronics talents, especially R&D talents.

Therefore, Dongfang Electronics has long set its sights on Taipei, which has a population of 18 million and a complete university education system. At the beginning of the year, the company held its first job fair in Taipei, attracting a large number of fresh graduates from National Taiwan University, Tsinghua University, Chenghua University and other universities with high salaries to work in Hong Kong.

Taiwan is an important part of the computer and semiconductor industry in the future. Li Xuan plans to build a research and development center in Taipei next. Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. has two arcade machines, Hong Kong Cube and Tank War, and its profitability can be said to be against the sky. Therefore, the salary of Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. is one to two layers higher than that of the same company. Especially for R&D personnel, Li Xuan's treatment is even more generous.

In his vision, Dongfang Electronics will be a technologically innovative company, not a sweatshop, and the profit of the company will never be realized by squeezing the income of employees. Giving employees more favorable treatment can make everyone more sense of ownership, more loyal to the company, and more passionate about their work.

It is precisely because the treatment given by Dongfang Electronics is better than that of local enterprises in Taipei. Although they have to leave Taipei to work in Hong Kong, the position of Dongfang Electronics still attracts countless Taiwanese graduates. Xu Fengxiong, who graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University, stood out from the fierce competition and was the first batch of Taipei graduates recruited by Dongfang Electronics.

After Xu Fengxiong came to Hong Kong, he was assigned to the handheld project team. Gobang was a small game he wrote on the computer when he was in college. At that time, there were only Hong Kong Cube and Tank War, two games that had been confirmed to be transplanted from the arcade, and it was urgent to develop a batch of new games to enrich the playability of the game console. So Xu Fengxiong thought of modifying the backgammon program on the computer and transplanting it to the handheld. His proposal was supported by Du Wenqiang, who was personally in charge of the handheld development project.

When Li Xuan played the GameBoy version of Gobang for the first time, he personally tested it many times and found that the game program was very intelligent, and there were no obvious loopholes. Even if you meet a backgammon master, the game will only move according to the programmed program, and you will soon be defeated. But when encountering ordinary players like Zhong Chuhong, the game console can still go back and forth with the players, and there is no obvious balance imbalance.

Li Xuan paid special attention to this new employee who had just joined the company, but found that he actually corresponds to a famous person in his memory. In 1997, IBM developed a supercomputer called Deep Blue, which shocked the world in six games against the then chess champion Kasparov, winning two wins, three and one loss. And the maker of dark blue is Xu Fengxiong who was born in Taiwan-Taiwan.

No matter how hard the butterfly's wings are flapping, some people will still stubbornly follow the established historical trajectory. It seems that Xu Fengxiong has already formed an indissoluble bond with chess and artificial intelligence. Li Xuan was thinking about whether Dongfang Electronics would like to learn from IBM to get a supercomputer in the future, so as to make himself famous with the gimmick of the personal computer war.

Compared with Gobang, another game called "Highway" is not bad for playability. The player controls a taxi to keep avoiding various obstacles on the road. From time to time, passengers will wave to take a ride on the roadside on the left side of the screen. The player controls the direction to pick up the passengers and sends them to the destination on the right side of the road to get off.

The player has two chances to hit the roadblock, and the third time he hits the roadblock, the game is GameOver. Although the game screen is simple, the detailed design is full of sincerity. For example, when the player crashes, there will be a picture of the car overturning, and there will be passengers screaming. After driving again, the car will be obviously worn out than the new car. After the second crash, the car is even more worn out than the first, and the third crash ends the game, leaving only a pile of car wreckage.

In the middle of the game, an easter egg was specially added to give players some surprises. If you can successfully deliver the half-way passenger to the destination five times in a row, a lucky wheel will appear above the scoring column in the upper right corner of the screen. Players have a chance to get a lot of points, or one more chance to hit.

Seeing Zhong Chuhong enjoying playing with the GameBoy, Li Xuan also had a smile on the corner of his mouth. The company's game development department finally gradually formed the prototype of an excellent game company. His rebirth halo is not invincible, and the dozens of classic games in his head are simply not enough to support the entire huge game console market.

For example, the newly launched handheld GameBoy of Dongfang Electronics, the classic game Hong Kong cube that comes with random, can quickly gather the attention of a large number of players and give a good start to the promotion of handhelds.

But no matter how good a game is, there are times when you get bored. To maintain GameBoy's attractiveness to players~www.wuxiaspot.com~, Dongfang Electronics needs to continuously develop new games. And Li Xuan didn't have so much energy at all, nor so much creativity to support independently.

"Okay, Miss, stop playing, come to the venue!" Li Xuan stretched out his hand and flicked Zhong Chuhong's head.

"Why?" Zhong Chuhong raised her head dissatisfied, like a little girl addicted to games. But when she saw her boyfriend's aggrieved expression of being left out, she felt a little embarrassed, and quickly sent a kiss to express comfort.

"There are so many people here, it's so lively!" Zhong Chuhong sighed as she looked at the endless stream of visitors, "Where is the company's booth? Shall we go there first?"

"No, Ye Chengkang and the others will take charge over there. Our mission is to have fun!" Li Xuan shook his head and said with a smile.

GameBoy has already completed distribution in toy stores and stores all over Japan in advance, and it will be officially launched for sale today. The role of the Akihabara Electronics Show on Dongfang Electronics is not as important as the last Electronics Show in San Francisco Silicon Valley.

At that time, Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd. was in its infancy, and it was urgent to find agents through exhibitions. But now, the purpose of the company's participation in the exhibition is mainly to expand its popularity. Different goals naturally have different moods. Li Xuan took Zhong Chuhong's hand and strolled leisurely in the exhibition hall. Occasionally, they encountered interesting exhibits, and the two stopped from time to time to experience it.

The protagonists of the Akihabara Exhibition are all kinds of consumer electronics, color TVs, video recorders, cameras, washing machines, refrigerators, and new products from various companies. Japan's electronics industry has taken off since the 1960s and 1970s, and various electronic products are sold throughout the world.