Game Development Giant

When Jester saw Hu Weili again, the composer who was over forty years old was completely different from when he met him in mainland China. Although he was still a little reserved, this was the natural behavior of a subordinate after seeing his boss. Restricted, not like the inferiority complex revealed in the bones when he saw himself on the mainland.

"Are you getting used to life in the United States?" Jester did not ask about work matters as soon as they met. Instead, he was enthusiastic about the physical condition of Hu Weili, who was over forty years old.

When Hu Weili heard that his boss cared so much about him, he nodded gratefully and said, "I'm used to it."

The two exchanged a few more polite words before Jester brought the topic onto the right track.

He took out a large stack of blank manuscript paper from his desk and handed it to Hu Weili. When he saw Hu Weili holding the manuscript paper he handed over, he looked confused.

Then Jester smiled and said: "I hope you can improvise a few pieces of music. The backgrounds that need to be matched with these pieces of music have the following characteristics. The background of the first piece of music is a tense scene. The battle, the second section is a silent but boundless wilderness, and the third section is the celebration of the coronation of the throne." After hearing Jester's explanation, Hu Weili nodded with some enlightenment.

"You only need to write a simplified score. After writing it, we will immediately go to the just-built music studio to make your music and listen to it. By the way, the style has a bit of Western fantasy, similar to the expression of Western fantasy literature. That kind of style, it’s better to be more light and romantic.”

Jester finished speaking briefly and made a gesture to indicate that Hu Weili could improvise.

This creative method was actually a temporary idea that Jester heard from a story later. When Nolan completed the filming of "Interstellar" and asked Hans, the superb soundtrack master at the end of the season, to complete the post-production soundtrack, Nolan didn't even show Hans the script at the beginning, but only specified what style of music he wanted. He also talked about what kind of film this was, and then gave Hans a blank piece of paper at the end of the season. He didn’t use any instruments and just relied on his first sense to create.

Then, after thinking for a while, the master Hans Ji Mo was inspired and improvised a soundtrack. After it was produced, Nolan was overjoyed as soon as he heard it. Because that's what he wanted. Later, after Hans Jimo read the script and the rough cut of the master tape, he had a deeper understanding of the film, and then he completed a soundtrack that would go down in history.

As for Hans Ji Mo, the master needs no further introduction. Although he is mainly engaged in film scoring and is a master of film scoring, the several game scores he has completed are also highly praised by many players. .

The most famous one is the Oscar-level soundtrack in "Call of Duty 6". In Jester's mind, the height that this game's soundtrack can reach is unmatched by any other game.

so. Jester wanted to use this method to test whether Hu Weili could master a fantasy soundtrack with a strong Western fantasy style just based on his first impression. Hu Weili had never received any education in this area, and Jester was not sure whether he could do it or not.

If his soundtrack satisfies me, then I can let him be the composer of the soundtrack for "Fire Emblem" this time. If you can't do that, then you can only be a deputy.

While Hu Weili was frowning and concentrating on improvisation, Jester was not idle either. He was completing the script for "Fire Emblem".

An RPG game with huge content has a very large text capacity, and the plot of an epic RPG will never be inferior to an excellent novel, because the plot is the core of the RPG.

However, Jester is obviously not an excellent playwright. He has not shown talent in this area either in his previous life or this life, so he wrote several beginnings in a row and was not satisfied with it, even though he had played "The Flame of Fire". "Heraldry", but that was too long ago after all, and the plot in an RPG game is complicated and long, with many branches. After so many years, no matter how good Jester's memory is, it is impossible to remember all the details. .

Moreover, even if he could remember it, he didn't have the ability to complete the RPG plot script creation.

More than two hours passed quickly. When Hu Wei took a breath and put down his pen, indicating that his three pieces of music were almost completed and only needed to go to the music studio to make slight modifications, Jester had already scrapped ten pieces of the music. There were several pieces of manuscript paper. He crumpled these scrapped manuscript papers into a ball and threw them aside. What was spread out in front of Jester was still a piece of snow-white paper without a word on it.

Jester could only sigh. Although he really wanted to finish it by himself, he would not force it when he couldn't do it. After all, there are specialties in the art industry, and making games is not a one-person job.

After bringing Hu Weili to the soundtrack room, Jester waited quietly outside the soundproof glass of the soundtrack room. Through the thick soundproof glass, Jester could see Hu Weili constantly auditioning, and then facing the writing Good musical notations are constantly being revised, and this soundtrack studio has just been built not long ago. Although the equipment is not top-notch in the world and cannot be compared with those movie soundtrack studios, it has over a million-level soundtrack recording equipment, at least for American games. In the industry, no one can compare.

While waiting for the final production of Hu Weili's improvised music, Jester was still thinking about the script for "Fire Emblem", although he had already called Tamahide Yoshiro of the Japanese branch to start recruiting at the same time. , but an excellent playwright is very rare and cannot be recruited just by recruiting.

But it's useless to think about it now. Jester also decided to deal with the things at hand as soon as possible in the past few days, and then fly to Japan himself to see if he can find those famous playwrights whose names he knows. .

At least I can have preliminary contact with Enix and see if I can win them over from Nintendo's camp. As long as Enix can join me, I don't need to worry about the headache of DQ versus FF in the future. Problem, and after this, another legendary Japanese RPG producer Yuji Takui, who is as famous as Hironobu Sakaguchi, will also enter his own camp.

But Jester immediately shook his head, with a wry smile on his face. He knew that this was very unrealistic. With the relationship between Nintendo and Enix, it was impossible for them to instigate betrayal.

Jester felt very, very sad when he thought that such an outstanding producer as Yuji Tsui could not be included in his trap.

While he was thinking about this, Hu Weili finally completed the overall production of these three soundtracks.

Then, Hu Weili, who had completed the recording of these three soundtracks, knocked on the window in the recording room. Because the sound insulation material of this recording room was very strong, Jester did not hear the slightest sound of the window outside, but he saw it. Hu Weili's actions, so Jester instantly understood what he meant.

Jester quickly walked to the soundproof glass, picked up an earphone and put it on his head.

Then he made an OK gesture to Hu Weili in the recording studio, and Hu Weili nodded inside and pressed the play button.

To be honest, Jester is very much looking forward to Hu Weili's improvisation, because Hu Weili's reputation is so great in the history he knows. He is a true master, and he is good at almost everything. Creation of soundtracks in all styles.

But as soon as the music came to mind, and after just listening to it for a few seconds, Jester's eyebrows suddenly wrinkled.

It’s not that Hu Weili’s score is not good. Even a person like Jester who doesn’t know much about music theory can feel the quality of this score is very high from this short piece of improvised music. But before Jester The most worrying problem still occurred - the mismatch in style.

If such a piece of music was used for a similar scene in a movie or TV series, it might be okay, but if it was used in the game he wanted to make, Jester closed his eyes and carefully experienced it, and finally shook his head, at least It was an impromptu creation this time. Jester felt that Hu Weili was not suitable to be the soundtrack composer of "Fire Emblem".

It's not because of the level, but more because of the difference in style.

After thinking about it for a while, Jester didn't want to disappoint the other party too much. After all, this was the first time that the other party worked for a company he actually belonged to after being brought to the United States by him. Then Jester said: "Hu Sir, if we just look at the quality of these three soundtracks, they are all pretty good. However, it seems that your music style is still a bit too continental and a bit reserved in expression. It is not very suitable for what I am going to produce. The main style of this game.”

After hearing what Jester had just finished saying, Hu Weili's eyes, which were originally full of expectation, immediately showed disappointment.

Seeing the look in Hu Weili's pupils, Jester's tone suddenly changed.

"However, Mr. Hu, this is not a problem of your level, but because you do not understand the style and type of the game I want to make." Jester simply said what he had considered before, " But I don’t blame you, after all, you grew up in mainland China, so it’s normal that you don’t have enough control over the Western fantasy style.”

Even after hearing what Jester said, Hu Weili was still a little frustrated. (.)