Game Development Giant

That's it. Jester saw the Sega development team led by Yu Suzuki at the first glance in the waiting hall. They were uniformly dressed in black suits and lined up neatly. In this era, it was impossible not to attract attention. .

Jester also greeted him immediately. It has been almost a year since he last met Suzuki Yu. Many things have changed drastically in the past year or so, such as the first time they met. At that time, Jester was just getting started, and Sega sold the North American company due to poor business in the North American market. Unexpectedly, after this year, Jester's Mars Entertainment was like a rocket, growing rapidly into Giants in the industry, like him and Nintendo, have grown from a little-known small game company to a rule-maker in the industry in just one or two years.

Sega, on the other hand, was busy and eager to get out of the North American business, as if it wanted to get out of this quagmire. If it hadn't been for Sun Xiong's persistence, I'm afraid Sega would not be in the current situation, although their new console The results are not good, but in the eyes of Nakayama Hayao, it is worth it. At least he has learned a lot from the success of Nintendo and Mars Entertainment. But judging from Jester's personal senses, the current Yu Suzuki is indeed much more energetic than the Yu Suzuki he met a year ago. When he saw the other person last year, although he had the same stern face and smile as now, , but he could still see a sense of depression and embarrassment in the face of the total failure of the North American industry from the other person's eyebrows, and now Yu Suzuki, although Sega still performs poorly in home consoles. But it may be because of the successful development of new arcade game consoles that made him radiant.

Just before he set off, Sega announced that they had just successfully developed it. The world's first motion-sensing arcade "hang-on", and the first motorcycle racing game installed on this system was announced. As soon as this news was released, it immediately caused an uproar in Japan. Manufacturers like Nintendo, which focus on the development of home console games, did not pay much attention to it. After all, Sega would never be able to introduce this technology to home consoles. . "Brother Suzuki, we meet again."

Arriving in front of Suzuki Yu, Jester took the initiative to extend his right hand, which flattered Suzuki Yu. He was a little surprised when he saw Jester personally leading the arcade, after all. According to Jester's current status in the gaming industry, he is not qualified to ask the other party to come in person, unless it is the president he respects most. Only Nakayama Hayao has this qualification.

It was fine if the other party came in person. He originally wanted to extend his hand to show his gesture and honor, but he really didn't expect that when Jester was still more than three steps away from him, He stretched out his hand towards him.

This made Yu Suzuki, who was accustomed to Japan, a country with strict hierarchies, a little inexplicably moved.

After the two shook hands and released, Suzuki Yu then bowed to the ground, which caught Jester off guard. He hurriedly helped Suzuki Yu up, and at the same time kept saying: "Why are you so polite? I have told you before. We are friends, so you can do it. How can I come to Taiwan? ?”…

Jester said a few words in succession, and Suzuki Yucai straightened up in embarrassment.

But soon, the look on his face became as solemn as the one Jester saw at first sight. Jester didn't care about it. He knew that the Japanese were like this, and he saw these ten people again. The Japanese team of several people all looked exhausted after a long-distance flight of more than ten hours. He himself had been on a plane from Los Angeles to Japan. He knew what it felt like. Coupled with the influence of jet lag, it was almost Said to be extremely exhausted physically and mentally.

Therefore, even though Jester seemed hesitant to speak when he saw Yu Suzuki, he still said directly to Yu Suzuki: "Brother Suzuki, although I also want to discuss games with you, I have to say that you The current state of your team is not suitable for this work. Therefore, the most important thing you should do at this time is to have a good sleep and recharge your batteries. After the time difference has been adjusted, we will talk about the game. Otherwise, it will be half the result with half the effort, and the gain will not be worth the loss.”

Hearing the firm tone of Jester's words, Suzuki Yuya swallowed his previous words about starting work immediately. He himself is a workaholic, and the people he brought this time are also workaholics, and can even do three things. He worked continuously for two days and two nights without rest, but he also thought that this was the chassis of Mars Entertainment after all, and he was only the deputy, and the other party was the designer who produced countless classic games, so he could only agree.

Jester also told him that his car and place to stay were ready. Before renting a suitable apartment for them, the group of them all arranged to stay in a four-star hotel in Los Angeles. In the hotel, Jester also asked He had prepared a sumptuous dinner. Originally, Jester had planned to pick them up in person, but he had some important things to deal with in the evening, so he could only leave temporarily after picking them up.

Suzuki Yu also expressed his understanding. He knew how busy people with Jester's status are usually. After all, no one's money comes from strong winds. He was flattered that Jester could spare time to pick up the plane. .

In fact, the things Jester has to deal with are both big and small.

Because the recent hot sales of several new games of Mars Entertainment have caused great repercussions across the United States, the Balotelli series is now regarded as a family treasure by Jester, and he will not consume this image easily. , especially when it comes to making movies, so some previous attempts by some film companies to obtain the film adaptation rights for "Chief Balotelli" were pushed back by Jester.

However, Jester does not value the game "" so much. Instead, he believes that this is the most suitable time to adapt it into a movie.

There is no other reason. He knows that once a beat-'em-up action game like "" is launched, it will inevitably become popular in a short period of time, just like in history, and many companies have the technical reserves to produce such games. , especially those Japanese companies, just need to break this layer of window paper, and soon, many excellent similar games will appear in no more than a year.

At that time, when a hundred flowers bloom, it will definitely not have as good a publicity and promotion effect as the current "" stands out from the crowd. Therefore, it is naturally the best to adapt it now.

More importantly, when Jester and Mark Saini designed the script for "", they took the plot rhythm of Hollywood movies into consideration. The content of the first part is very suitable for adaptation, and the kung fu craze caused by Bruce Lee is still there. Popular in Western society, once this movie is made, in addition to leveraging the kung fu craze brought by Bruce Lee, there is also the influence of "" in the eyes of game fans. As long as the quality of the movie is not too poor, you can make a lot of money. .

Why not do this kind of business?

Tonight, a film company wanted to discuss with them about "", but because "" is not his work, but the work of Mark Saini, so Jester asked Mark Saini to talk to the other party Discuss the matter and wait for him to pick up the plane before rushing over. However, even if Jester goes, it is just a gesture to represent Mars Entertainment's emphasis on this matter. The real right to make the decision, Jester The special was handed over to Mark Saini.

Because of both emotion and etiquette, he could not take the decision-making power on this matter from Mark Saini.

The place where Mark Saini was talking to the other party was in a relatively famous coffee shop in Los Angeles. When Jester arrived, they had been talking for about half an hour. Mark Saini had also explained to the film company before After learning about Jester's situation, the other party also expressed understanding of Jester's lateness.

After arriving, Jester first apologized, and then asked in a low voice how the conversation with the other party went. Mark Saini also explained the situation to Jester - basically there was no progress.

Although the scale of Mars Entertainment is not small now, if Jester really wants to make money from the Mars Entertainment industry, he may only need to put forward the idea of ​​​​financing, and he can easily get at least several hundred million US dollars, but the other party's This film company has a bigger background. Although it is about to decline now, it was indeed a well-deserved hegemon in the film industry before, especially before World War II.

There are countless classic films that have been filmed, such as "Ben-Hur" that Jester loved very much both in this era and before his rebirth. Another example is "Gone with the Wind", which is said to be the only two movies in the United States. One is Gone with the Wind from other movies.

In the United States, this time it was MGM that was negotiating with Jester and the others, which was not having an easy time.

Lauryn is a senior executive at MGM, and it was he who took a fancy to the copyright of "Game of Thrones", and to be on the safe side, he personally came to discuss the film adaptation with Mars Entertainment, the copyright holder of the game.

Unexpectedly, he encountered a problem as soon as he started negotiating.

It is a discussion about the ownership of the script adaptation rights.

In his eyes, this is a right that he must obtain, but the other party does not seem to want to give up this right.