Game Development Giant

"Now, it would be ridiculous for a game designer to say he's never been influenced by Jester Lee. It's like a movie director saying he's never seen a Hitchcock movie. A writer has never read Shakespeare's plays. In the game world, Jester Lee is Hitchcock, Spielberg, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy. His designs are rooted in human nature Ideas will be more valuable than all current or future technologies and will last forever.”

This is the third time that Time Magazine has selected the gaming legend Jester Lee as Person of the Year. As for this legendary story, everything started from the starting point, the summer of 1984...

"My name is Jester Lee, a Chinese-American, nineteen years old, currently studying in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and just finished my sophomore year."

A young man with black hair, yellow skin, and black pupils was talking to himself in front of the mirror on the wall, his eyes full of confusion and disbelief.

Because only this young man knew that the person in the mirror in front of him was not himself.

His original name was Li Ming, a 22-year-old college student who was about to graduate in 2014. He clearly remembered that just the night before, he stayed up all night in the dormitory playing a game called " Game development giant.

Just as he was endlessly using the console he developed, punching Sony, kicking Microsoft, and selling tens of millions of masterpieces on a single platform to dominate the world's gaming industry, he accidentally fell asleep, but when he woke up, he found that the world had changed beyond recognition. .

He actually came to thirty years ago, in the barbaric era of video games, in the United States in 1984, and was reborn as a Chinese-American young man.

Moreover, he also inherited the other party's memory.

Doesn’t this sound outrageous? It's like an extremely cliche plot from a certain type of novel on a certain website?

Li Ming thought so too.

Even though they often read rebirth novels, when all this happened to them, Li Ming or Jester found it difficult to accept it.

It was too late for him to call this type of novel stupid.

Just when Li Ming, or should we call him Jester Li now, was recalling the memory of the original owner of this body in his mind.

In his mind, a clear buzzer sounded without warning.

It was similar to the beeping sound of the buzzer alarm when the computer was first turned on, followed by a mechanical voice without any emotion that echoed in his ears.

"The binding is successful...the host is qualified...the system is officially started...countdown...ten, nine, eight, seven..."

"What's this!"

The moment the sound sounded, Jester Lee turned his head and looked around in horror, trying to find the source of the sound, but the bathroom was empty. When he listened carefully to the source of the sound again, he unexpectedly discovered that this The voice rang directly in his brain.

"...two, one, zero...the countdown is over, welcome to get the game development giant system."

Then, the strange sound disappeared without a trace.

In front of Jester's eyes, columns of patterns appeared like a virtual screen in a science fiction movie.

This is an interface that cannot be called fancy, and is even a bit crude. There are only a few simple options on it, and there is a number zero at the top of the interface. In front of this number, the balance is displayed.

"Zero balance?"

Jester didn't know what this meant, or what it represented.

The other five options are R\u0026D, Training, Store, Tasks, and View.

Jester felt overwhelmed by what was happening in front of him, but driven by strong curiosity, he still reached out and pointed at the virtual screen in front of him.

When his hand just touched the first 'Research and Development' of the five options on the virtual screen, the option lit up for a moment, then returned to its previous dim state, and then a line of conspicuous writing appeared on the screen.

"Your current permissions are insufficient. Please unlock and view this option again."

At this time, Jester discovered that the appearance of the five options was not exactly the same. Except for the fourth task, the other four all showed a dark gray color, as if they were not activated, and only the task There was a faint light flashing on the item.

Sure enough, after Jester clicked on the gray options one by one, all of which prompted him to have insufficient permissions, he clicked on the 'Task' column that was still dimly lit.

Uh-huh!

The virtual interface in front of him suddenly changed, and all the previous options disappeared, except for the conspicuous balance zero in the top column of the screen.

What replaced it seemed to be a mission interface very similar to the one in the online game he played before.

There is a big golden question mark in front of the task.

And in front of the question mark, there is also the word "Unfinished" written.

"Task: Make your first game and successfully sell it to unlock the other four options, and the completion of the task will give the system owner different purchase points."

Behind this task, there is a note. By purchasing points, you can purchase all released or unreleased games and their design ideas, the source code of various powerful game engines, and advanced console architecture through this system. You can even improve your technical level through training, etc., etc., so that you can make better games...

After seeing this comment, an idea suddenly flashed through Jester's mind.

"Could this be the game development system in that game development giant's game? The wish I made before will not really come true... But this game is completely different from the game..."

Jester suddenly remembered that just when he was fascinated by playing that game simulation game, he even said brazenly that if he were allowed to go back to the pioneering era of video games, he would definitely be able to punch and kick any Nintendo. Big Sega, as for Sony and Microsoft, hey?

But I thought it was just a few casual remarks, but it really brought him to this era where he was unfamiliar with the place he was born in. This was too frivolous...

Having said that, Jester is still very familiar with this game from the game development giant.

He has cleared the level no less than 50 or 60 times, unlocked all achievements, played with almost all game types, and developed countless highly rated games. The highest sales volume of a single game has exceeded 60 million copies... But what is in front of him is This system that seemed to exist in his mind was very different from the game he played called Game Development Titan.

But after just a brief thought, Jester realized that many options in the game were not suitable in the real world.

For example, the game only provides four game themes at the beginning, and dozens or hundreds of other themes require players to use the research and development points obtained to unlock them.

But this does not exist in the real world. A game producer can create whatever themes he wants, and naturally there is no need to unlock them.

For another example, after each game is made, there is an option to summarize the game and generate a game report. This option allows players to summarize whether the type and theme of the completed game are suitable.

What are the advantages and disadvantages.

For example, war-oriented games are very suitable for pairing with simulation games, but they are not suitable for casual games.

For another example, through summary, you can also know whether the ratio of game functions that was previously developed when developing the game is appropriate.

For example, a casual game does not require any wonderful missions or complex artificial intelligence, but requires extremely high gameplay and powerful level design, while an adventure game requires a great mission system, and an This action game especially requires powerful artificial intelligence.

Like this, different games have different focuses.

These summaries in the game require the player to experiment game by game before he can draw conclusions, but in the real world, these things are ready-made because he has already known them and even knows them by heart.

After all, if you want to make an excellent game, it's impossible to do it without knowing these things.

Moreover, there are many differences between real-life games and in-game ones, so they must not be copied mechanically.

Therefore, these options that had no effect on reality and were even misleading were naturally deleted, and instead a few things that were not in the original game were added.

Such as purchases and tasks.

Oh, by the way, there is no hiring option in the real system. This is easy to think about, because in the real world, you can hire people directly.

The employment in the game... is it to directly hire a gangster who does not exist in this world?

After sorting out all the information, Li Ming or Jester Li accepted his fate. After all, he had come to this world.

Even if he wanted to go back, it might not be possible.

Moreover, in the mind of Li Ming, or Jester Lee, does he really yearn for this era? As a die-hard video game player, how could he not envy this era? Do you want to rise and grow with this era?

This is the pioneering period of video games! How fulfilling would it be to be able to personally participate in the construction and development of an emerging industry, and decades later, when the industry is perfected, to be worshiped by future generations?

Even, inexplicably, Jester felt a vague impulse and excitement.

As a die-hard game enthusiast, he knew that the golden age that all game fans yearned for was coming.

Countless classic games are coming.

Especially the masterpiece that will appear in the near future.

It is recognized by people inside and outside the industry as the only nuclear weapon in the gaming industry.

Witnessing its emergence and accompanying it to rule the world seemed a bit like a pilgrim's pilgrimage to Jester.

Maybe it's not an appropriate description, but for him, and for almost all avid gamers, that's it.

As of the moment when Jester traveled through time, the total sales of this series have accumulated to 525 million units, and a single game has sold 40 million units on a single platform, ranking first in the world's video game history, directly leading the second place by two times. , the direct sales value is more than 30 billion US dollars, and the indirect added value is at least three times more than this number.

In other words, in the thirty years since its birth, it has indirectly or directly generated more than 100 billion US dollars in benefits.

In particular, this game saved the world's gaming industry on the verge of collapse at the most difficult moment.

It just gives this game a legendary aura.

Greatness, immortality, and other beautiful words are not enough to describe the possibility of that game...

Do you think I'm bragging?

No, no, no, I am not exaggerating even a single letter. Every pinyin description of it here is the most appropriate and correct.

Because, this game is like this.

etc!

Jester's eyes suddenly widened. Only then did he realize that it was only June 1984. The former overlord Atari had just been on the verge of collapse in the Atari Impact incident. They had hidden valuable treasures in the desert of New Mexico. Billions of game cartridges, and the Overlord Hell, which no one can shake in the next ten years, has just released their home computer game console, the famous FC, which is less than a year away from the legendary game console known as the Famicom in China.

Although this game console is selling well in Japan, it has not yet sold one million units. It will take a full year and three months for the NES to be released in Europe and the United States.

And this extremely legendary game that established Nintendo and their FC’s dominance has not yet been released!

When he thought about the influence and money-making ability of that game, Jester Li's eyes instantly turned red.

There was a voice in his mind that kept shouting.

Get him!

Jester Li also clenched his fists fiercely.

His eyes were also inadvertently filled with a light called desire.

Since he was reborn and given that strange system of unknown power, why couldn't he enter this turbulent era in the gaming world and make the most of it?

why not?

We must capture him!

Must be sure and certain!

Because everyone who has played the game knows what that game represents in history!