Game Development Giant

Jester slept deeply, falling asleep almost as soon as his head touched the bed.

I don’t know how long I slept for. When I opened my eyes in a daze, Jester climbed out of bed. He immediately felt a burst of hunger. Jester remembered that he had eaten ANA’s in-flight meals on the plane because of the taste. It was indeed good, and he specifically asked for an extra portion, but now he felt extremely hungry, probably because he had slept for a long time.

He didn't change the clothes he was wearing when he came, and he didn't take off his watch. However, when he came in the United States, he had set it to the East 9th District time. He looked up and saw that it was already past four in the afternoon. When he saw this time Jester was still a little surprised. He couldn't have slept all day long, right? He remembered that it was just after five o'clock when he got off the plane.

When he came to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, Jester found that after sleeping in his clothes, his clothes were very wrinkled and his hair was unkempt. He hadn't shaved in almost two days, and it also appeared on his chin. A layer of fine fuzz appeared.

By the time he washed up and changed into dry clothes, it was already almost five o'clock.

Touching his clean-shaven chin, Jester also laughed at himself. They say women take a long time to wash up. In fact, it doesn't take a short time for a man to wash up and tidy up. His whole routine from bathing to shaving is almost an hour. How many hours? I ordered a meal using the phone in the room. The girl on the phone had a nice voice, but the Japanese pronunciation of English was a bit painful. It took Jester a long time to explain the situation to the Japanese girl, and Jester also learned from this girl. Here I got the news that during the day he was sleeping, a man named Tamahide Yoshiro came to see him several times.

That Mr. Tamahide Yoshiro said, when you wake up, please call him back.

Jester felt a little ashamed after hearing this. He was supposed to be responsible when he brought his subordinates to Japan, but he didn't expect that he would throw the stall to others as soon as he arrived, and he went to sleep without saying a word. Although it was true that he had not slept for more than a day, was really tired, and was affected by jet lag, Jester still felt a little sorry.

So, he immediately called Tamahide Yoshiro.

As soon as the connection was connected and he heard Jester's voice, Tamahideyoshiro smiled and asked: "Is the boss awake?"

Jester also chatted with him for a few words and asked about the people he brought from the United States. James Hawke's people were greatly praised by Tamahide Yoshiro after a night's rest. They went directly to the company the next day and began to take over the company's distribution business. In fact, the current Japanese branch only has distribution business. Although the R\u0026D team has posted recruitment advertisements and received a lot of resumes, most of them are people who have just graduated from school, or even have not graduated from school. There are very few young people and few senior people in the industry.

Some of them don't have a very good reputation in the industry. If you ask any company engaged in game development, they will make a disdainful comment, saying that they are just messing around.

There was nothing Jester could do about it. Now is the most glorious period of Japan's economy, and it is also the time when the Japanese are most advocating for their unique merit-based salary system and lifetime employment system. This method is indeed very applicable in a country with a strict hierarchy like Japan. The whole world is also studying the superiority of this management system.

However, this kind of Japanese-style management method cannot be used by Western white devils, even if it is only a continent separated from Japan by a water.

The current reform and opening up in mainland China is trying its best to learn from Japan, especially after Konosuke Matsushita, the Japanese business god, visited China and the "advanced" system of seniority sequence and lifetime employment was extradited back to the country. People in China have discovered that this is what they have been doing all these years.

Their state-owned enterprises are also managed according to this system. Why are they not as well managed as the Japanese?

While the Chinese people are still immersed in this confusion, Jester is still worried about this system. For the Japanese, this system is the cornerstone for them to achieve economic rise, economic transcendence, and create a golden decade from the ruins, so these people very much support this system.

Under such circumstances, it is still very difficult or even impossible for them to voluntarily resign and go to other companies. Many Japanese people prepare to stay in one company from the moment they graduate. Of course, this is not absolute. It's the vast majority.

It is not ruled out that some people will spend a lot of money to poach people from other companies. For example, when Capcom transitioned to game development, the designer of "1942", which is now a mess in the Japanese market, was Kenzo Tsujimoto. I don’t know how much effort it took to dig it out from the K club.

This is because Kenzo Tsujimoto previously rented arcade boards, machines, and sold related motor spare parts. He also had a good and long-term cooperation with Taito, one of the founding members of the Japan Arcade Association. He has accumulated a lot of money in the industry. How many connections do you need to dig people out of K Club?

Otherwise, according to K Club's status in the Japanese game industry, it would be easy to block a small company like Capcom, which only transitioned to game development in 1983. Obviously, in the end, Capcom was able to squeeze into the company that was originally Nintendo. Among the six software companies that FC develops games, they have the smallest qualifications among the six companies. When they joined the Nintendo camp, they didn’t even have any good works. From this, we can also know how powerful Tsujimoto Kenzo’s connections are. .

If I forcibly poach people from other Japanese game companies, it would be okay to poach people like Sakaguchi Hironobu who are just temporary employees. After all, poaching part-time university students who are not even formal employees is not considered poaching. The backbone of a gaming company will definitely offend a large number of people in the Japanese gaming industry.

The Japanese business community is very exclusive. They are not purely Japanese companies. If you don't follow their rules, you will definitely be boycotted by them.

In such a very conservative country, it is full of all kinds of bad habits. To be honest, even in the future, Jester will not like many Japanese customs. Of course, domestic Nisei like to regard such conservative customs as traditions. The problem Yes, is this the tradition of your ancestors?

It is impossible to explain such a complicated matter of recruitment in one or two sentences over the phone, so Jester and Tamahideyoshiro just chatted for a few words and stopped. Then Tamahideyoshiro asked when the welcome party was scheduled for the evening. , he was going to send a car to pick him up.

On the contrary, Jester asked in surprise: "Isn't the welcome party supposed to be yesterday? That's the schedule I read before coming here."

Then Tamahide Yoshiro explained helplessly: "You, the official host of the welcome party, don't even go and fall asleep. How do you want this welcome party to continue? I will bring these people you brought to mine." I went to the employees to introduce them to them. After the introduction, they found out where the promised big boss was? Didn’t come? Are you looking down on us? Do you think you are embarrassed? And I saw that the state of the dozens of people you brought yesterday was also No, when your assistant gave you the itinerary, didn’t you consider that someone who has just flown for more than ten hours and is jet-lagged is not suitable for this?"

Jester is also speechless, because he doesn't have any assistants at all. The two assistants he brought this time were temporarily transferred from the company's administration to help, so he made the schedule himself. , at this time he remembered that when he went to the UK before, he also made an itinerary at the beginning, but after he sent it to Claudia, the woman directly rejected it. After changing his itinerary, he sent it again. Come back.

Jester didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and everything went smoothly during his trip in the UK. In his opinion, this itinerary arrangement was just a simple matter. However, after hearing Yoshiro Tamahide say this, it seemed to be the same as what he had thought before. And Jester was embarrassed to say that he made his own itinerary.

He just said a few perfunctory words: "If the schedule is not suitable, you can arrange it for me. It may be that the new employee is not familiar with this and does not do well. I originally wanted to let him go, but because of his I didn’t come with you when something happened, so just think about it and forget about it.”

After hanging up the phone, Tamahide Yoshiro remembered that there was one more thing he had forgotten to mention, and while feeling a little annoyed, he dialed Jester's room again. (.)