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It turned out to be a bullfrog.

When I saw the content of this report, as well as the introduction about this company called Bullfrog, and the name of the 30-year-old producer of this game named Pete Molyneux, Jester knew he had found a treasure.

And it is a much better treasure than Ximou.

Peter Molyneux is a well-known name in the future gaming world. His status, especially in the minds of PC gamers and PC game designers, is almost as good as that of Sid May. Well, Sid Meier's greatness no longer needs any further description, and his greatness can also be imagined.

As for this game, there is no suspense. It must be the "God is Crazy" that shocked the whole world.

This is a work that is difficult to describe, but absolutely brilliant. From this work, you can see that Pete Molyneux has different ideas about game production than other people, and often a great artist, It is precisely people who have this kind of thinking circuit that is different from other people.

In fact, the reason why Jester knew about this game that made Peter Molyneux famous really had something to do with Westwood. This was an interview he had seen about a Westwood player before, and the host in it asked Founders of Ximou, when you were making "Dune 2", how did you come up with the idea of ​​making such a game? In fact, this issue was also the reason why many players argued about it later, because the fans of Ximudu like to say that Ximudu's "Dune 2" created a new game type, although Ximudu is not the most successful in this game type. The game company is not the game company that has made the greatest contribution to the success of this type of game. Even their RTS games are not the best RTS games. However, it is undisputed that they are the founders and initiators of the RTS game type.

It can even be said bluntly that without "Dune 2", there would be no subsequent Warcraft series, let alone the StarCraft series, which is known as the pinnacle of RTS.

But there are also many people who sneer at this statement. They believe that it is great for Ximu to create the "rts" game type, but at most they have concentrated a lot of ideas and creativity. Then these ideas were gathered together and evolved into this game type called real-time strategy. It is simply alarmist to say that without them there would be no real-time strategy. Even if there was no Ximu, then this game type would only appear for a while at most.

Because before this, many games have been giving many designers a lot of inspiration. Later, the program specifically asked the people in Ximou about this question, and the people in Ximou didn't take it seriously. They even said it with a smile. When they were making "Dune 2", they were indeed inspired by many games and came up with the idea of ​​making this game a real-time strategy game.

Under the reporter's repeated questioning, the people from Ximou did not hide it. A very generous admission.

The first game they were affected by was actually not a game, but just an operating system, the world's first civilian graphics operating system on Apple's Macintosh computer. The second game they were affected by was Sid Meier's "Civilization".

The third one they were talking about was "God Is Crazy" by Pete Molyneux.

According to the founder of Ximou. Analyzing these words answered by the main creators of "Dune 2", you will easily find that the characteristics shown in these three games, when combined, are exactly the most original real-time strategy game "Dune 2" .

When I first watched this video, Jester was just a person who was just interested in the history of many games, the history of game companies, and the history of game developers. At that time, he didn’t even know who Carmack was, so while watching After watching this video from Ximou, he followed the pictures of the three things that the designer of Ximou mentioned, let’s call them games.

Then I learned who Sid Meier and Pete Molyneux were.

Of course, Claudia unconditionally agrees with the release plan of the game called "God Is Crazy" mentioned in this report, even though it is only a PC game, and even Jester is specifically following the trend. The publisher issued an order to allocate more publicity resources to this game.

You know, Jester usually rarely directly participates in the promotion and distribution work of popular releases.

The release plan of each game has discussions and notes. Faced with Jester’s request, it is also very difficult for Fengxing Publishing because the distribution channels and resources are certain. If you want to occupy more, then It needs to be deducted from other places, but the game that was assigned before is naturally dissatisfied.

Although Jester is the big boss and no one dares to express dissatisfaction, Jester knows the status of the game "God Is Crazy" in the history of games, and knows that this game will definitely be enthusiastically sought after, and will even be favored by many designers. Consider it the Bible, but others don’t know it.

What they saw was that Jester was using his power for personal gain, and this game was the work of a little-known game studio that was acquired by their boss’s woman. After such a premise, they would think so. This is definitely It's their big boss who is using his power for personal gain.

Jester didn't think of this at first, and Fengxing Publishing didn't want to complain to Jester for such a trivial matter. However, Claudia was familiar with Fengxing Publishing's distribution regulations. After hearing Jester talk to What she said was that when he was preparing to intensify his efforts to promote the release of "God Is Crazy", he directly told Jester the above words.

And Jester himself does not want to destroy such a system, because if he takes the lead in destroying it, then if any senior group leader wants to use this as an excuse to seek personal gain with power, then he himself will not be able to say anything. After all, How can he condemn others when he himself does something wrong?

As the saying goes, if you have no time, you can kill people.

Therefore, Jester immediately called Fengxing Publishing again, explaining that they did not need to prepare special channel resources for "God Is Crazy", but directly from the promotional resources of his game "Quake" Take some of it and use it on "God is Crazy Too".

Because for the game "Quake", there is no need to pile up too many resources for publicity, because it is known to all players without publicity, and those media do not need special benefits, just I will actively rush to report news about this game.

Therefore, some trivial promotional methods have very little effect on this game.

But that's not the case with God Is Crazy.

Jester doesn't need to worry about the European hairstyle, because that is Claudia's responsibility. Presumably according to her character, she must be fully promoting this game that she is optimistic about. In North America, such a game was developed by an unknown person. A PC game, if it wasn’t heavily promoted, who would know what kind of game it is? Does anyone know what company Bullfrog is? Who knows who Pete Molyneux is?

It's not that the word-of-mouth effect that Hiroshi Yamauchi said has no effect on this game, but as he said himself, "Final Fantasy" that originally brought Square back to life relied on the word-of-mouth effect. It unexpectedly sold half a million copies. However, if it can get as many promotional resources as "Dragon Quest", maybe the first "Final Fantasy" will also be a million-level game. A game with a level of 1.5 million or even 2 million levels.

And Jester took the initiative to use publicity resources from his own game to promote this game, which is a manifestation of leading by example. If someone wants to imitate him in the future and also wants to increase publicity resources for xxx, then it will be popular The publisher doesn't want to offend the other party because of this trivial matter, so there is a saying. Even the big boss uses resources from his own channels for other games, so you just want to get the resources for free?

In this way, no one would dare to use power for personal gain.

Although Jester knew that maybe what he did would not have the wonderful effect he thought, but doing it himself was much better than not doing it.

After the carnival and before the end of the year, the two most important things for Mars Entertainment are the official release of "Quake" and the release of "Pocket Monsters" during New Year's Day. "Quake" shined at the carnival, making almost everyone Exclaimed, the real next-generation game has arrived, and Jester's propaganda about "Pokemon" sounds like it. He has been thinking about and perfecting a game for four or five years, and has only started to work on it now. , and also filled many players with expectations.

Because "Pokemon" is a game on Gameboy, because the "Pokemon" announced by Jester also caused many players who had not purchased Gameboy to buy it, in a short period of time, there was a sale of Gameboy on the market. peak.

The good news about Gameboy is not just that. In a recent survey conducted by ABC, when many parents and children were asked what Christmas gifts they were most looking forward to, Gameboy topped the list, even higher than Dreambox, which had been at the top of the list for the previous two years. Much higher.

As for the Transformers toys in third place, in terms of proportions, they are far behind the first two.