Game Development Giant

The two nodded to each other, walked together, and chatted for a while. They did not directly talk about the game "Chief Balotelli", but the topic returned to this Christmas promotion. "I heard from the boss that we are only releasing a few small games for this Christmas promotion?" After all, Seve Dabowater is a newcomer to Mars Entertainment, and the distribution rights of Mars Entertainment are not in his own hands now, so he is not interested in it. Some of the information we know is far less detailed than that of Sean Dabbili, the veteran who was there when Mars Entertainment was first created.

Hearing Seve Dabowater's inquiry, Dabili nodded. He raised the Christmas gift special issue in his hand, which was a bonus publication from a nearby large shopping mall, and then he flipped through it. He turned to one of the pages and pointed to the other party: "These two PC games are both designed by Boss. Although they are both under the name of our Mars Entertainment, they are not produced by us."

The two games to be released on Christmas are the two Sudoku puzzle games that Jester had previously set up and asked Carmack to make. They are both sketches running on IBM-compatible machines. level game.

Upon hearing this, Cypher Dabowater glanced at the Christmas gift publication in Dabili's hand. There were two floppy disks for PCs where the other party was pointing. There were colorful stickers on the floppy disks. The names of the games were very weird. One was called "Three" and the other was called "2046". Just by looking at the names, Seifer ·Dabwater didn't see what these two games were like.

In fact, these two games are the result of Carmack's reply that Jester received half a month ago. After programming the code written by Carmack on the letter paper, he did a small-scale test in the company, but at that time Seve... Dabowater was currently making the final revisions to "Chief Balotelli" and was very busy, so he did not participate. However, he later heard from colleagues who had participated that these were two very interesting mini-games.

"It's a very good game. It was designed by the boss himself. Although it is smaller than "Block", it is very interesting and addictive to play. It is not inferior to the "Mine Sweeper" designed by the boss before. It just so happens that this Christmas our company will not have your game. There are no new games released other than "Chief Balotelli", so the boss uses these two to fill up the game." Dabbili explained with a smile.

The price of these two sketch puzzle PC games is indeed not high. The price of the two games is only 25 US dollars each, which is much lower than the average PC game price of 30 to 40 US dollars. Moreover, if two If you purchase two games at the same time, you can get a discount of five dollars. If you buy it at several flagship stores of Fengxing Publishing or chain franchise stores across the country, you can get another five dollars discount on the basis of forty-five dollars. Basically, if you buy them at the same time, you can get a discount of up to 20% off, which is a very cheap price for a new game.

"Game" magazine has written a long article to introduce these two games before. After all, it is Jester's magazine. Adrian is also very attentive when talking about it, and the playability of these two games is also very good. It is indeed worthy of a big boast. This random boast has also made many computer gamers very interested in these two Sudoku puzzle games that Mars Entertainment will release on Christmas.

After all, "Game" magazine evaluated these two games as games that only smart people can play.

In this day and age, whoever likes to play with computers doesn’t claim to be a smart person.

In fact, if you think about it, you will know, who would admit that he is a fool?

However, there are still a large number of fans of Mars Entertainment who are dissatisfied with Mars Entertainment's delay in the release date of "City of Battle". Many readers have written letters hoping that the magazine can forward their letters to Mars Entertainment and tell the designers of Mars Entertainment Don't go out of your way to do those messy things that you don't know what they are called. What they need to do most is what they promised players - to release "City of War" on Christmas.

But they made a mistake, they were liars and deceived the players' feelings.

Jester doesn't care about this. He knows this situation too well in later generations. These players are all jerks. Even if their favorite game company delays the purchase, they will only complain a few words. When their games are actually released, they will still buy, buy, buy, buy.

In fact, the official version of "City of Guild Wars" is indeed ready. If it really wants to be released on Christmas, there will be no problem. Jester just started working on this game a few months ago, and this is the plan.

But because next month is the CES exhibition, Jester thought that besides "City of War", he could not produce any other heavyweight PC games, so he postponed the official release date of this game. For more than a month, we are preparing to officially announce this game at the CES show, which is very different from the demo version.

Jester recently put down everything he was doing, and worked with Mark Cerny and his team that only produced "Avengers" to create a 16-bit ati-based graphics card with a graphics that far exceeds 8-bit brilliance. A demo level for a bit-machine. This level was designed by Jester based on "Prince of Persia". He wanted to fully demonstrate what a game's graphics can achieve under the processing of ATI's new 16-bit graphics card. The degree of gorgeousness.

Jedi's House had just opened for less than an hour, and there was already a queue in front of it. Dabili and Dabowater, who had been watching this direction from a distance, saw this scene again, and there were expressions on their faces. There were also happy faces, and Dabowater's smile was the most obvious. After all, the game that was officially released to players today was a game he designed himself.

"Congratulations." Dabili congratulated him.

Although Dabowater had a happy face, he still said sheepishly: "Maybe they are not satisfied after playing."

"It's simple. Let's go in and see if these players like your game. Then we'll know?" Dabbili smiled.

Jedi's House is the arcade where Jester first came to Los Angeles to promote. After making a fortune from Mars Entertainment's games, owner Jedi also moved the store to a more prosperous area and expanded the area. In addition to a large number of Mars Entertainment games, there are also many arcade machines from other game companies, but Mars Entertainment games are placed in the most conspicuous position in the arcade. This is also one of the obligations of Mars Entertainment arcade game franchise stores. one.

After the two of them walked into the interior of Jedi's House, they were also startled by the sight in front of them. Starting from the most conspicuous position, there was a whole row of thirty machines, all of which were "Chief Balotelli", but Even so, there was a long queue behind each machine. The queue for the machine closest to the gate was queued outside the arcade - that is what Dabili and Dabowater saw outside. That one.

And almost every player who is playing the game "Chief Balotelli" has a look of concern, staring closely at the screen, seeming to be completely addicted to the game, and the people queuing up behind are also constantly waiting. He cast his gaze at the arcade screen, with a look of longing in his eyes, wishing he was the one playing the game.

"This arcade will buy 30 machines at once? This is okay at the beginning. After a while, when the shipment volume increases, there won't be that many people playing this game, right?" Dabowater looked at it. Seeing this hot scene, he showed a hint of joy, but immediately he became confused again. As he spoke, he pointed to the other arcade machines next to him. There were all games from Mars Entertainment here, except "American Cube" and There are at most about ten units of "Snowman Brothers", and only seven or eight units of other games. Even so, not all of these arcade machines are occupied, and only about 80% of the machines are used.

Hearing Dabowater's words, Dabili smiled. He knew this aspect, so he opened his mouth to explain.

"The owners of these arcades are not stupid. Didn't you see the bulletin board where you can exchange game coins when you first entered the door? The game coins for playing "Chief Balotelli" are the most expensive, one game coin is three dollars. When the game is first released, there are the most people playing it, and only the arcades that have joined can get the goods first. Because of this kind of disguised monopoly, his business will definitely be very good during this period. After a while, , after the market gradually becomes saturated, he will just sell part of the extra machines he has here at a 30% discount. Anyway, during this period of time, he has already made a lot of money."

After hearing Dabili's explanation, Seve Dabowater nodded with some enlightenment.

And there is no need for them to continue watching. Judging from the response of this arcade, it is a foregone conclusion that this game will become popular.

In the following more than a month, as more and more arcade boards of "Chief Balotelli" were shipped, a wave of Balotelli fever gradually formed throughout the United States. And Sheriff Balotelli's affable, brave and decisive image has become popular throughout the United States beyond Jester's expectation, especially in the western United States, where the cowboy atmosphere is strongest.

Countless children were talking about the levels in "Chief Balotelli" when they were in school. In the end, did the police chief and his partner rescue his daughter, did they kill the bad guys, and was there any legend? The magical alien hidden level is said to contain Area 51 and Martians. Some people who can play to the end of the level are also bragging about how fun and exciting the last level is. Every time they talk about it, they always A large group of listeners gathered around.

Of course, there are countless people who have learned the Sheriff’s lines from the game, and even many real police officers have become fans of Sheriff Balotelli. Even the sales of the Western-style hat that Sheriff Balotelli wears in the game are showing signs of rising significantly in a short period of time.

Especially as Christmas is approaching, countless children are pestering their parents to ask for Sheriff Balotelli’s figurines as gifts this year, but unfortunately, Jester has not authorized this yet, so Sheriff Balotelli’s figurine is not easy to buy.

Tomorrow Jester will fly to Las Vegas with his team to participate in the 1985 CES show that will open in a few days. He has already received specific news that Nintendo will launch its new product It was scheduled for the morning after the opening of CES, and Nintendo did not hide this. This time they were going to announce their new game console that would be officially released in the United States soon.

However, what Nintendo said before was not a game console. They called it a home entertainment dispute, not a game console.

Jester sneered in response.

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