Game Development Giant

Rob Pardo invited some of his usual friends to have a meal to celebrate.

He also shared with his friends that he had been invited by Jian Nianhua, and everyone also heartily congratulated him.

During the meal, a friend of Rob Pardo asked Modi what his expression was when he knew about this incident, and Rob Pardo answered truthfully, but the friend who asked was With a disdainful sneer, he casually mentioned something about Modi, which caused everyone to burst into laughter.

In order to guess the meaning of rts, Rob Pardo actually held an Oxford dictionary and flipped through the pages every day, looking for words that might be related. This also made Modi quite strange, but at that time Rob Pardo .Pardo did not hide anything from others. When someone asked him, he answered truthfully.

In addition, there were many people in the school who wanted to guess RTS at that time, so he didn't attract much attention. He was just very serious, but others just smiled and passed by.

But Modi is different. After he knew it, he often talked about it when others talked about how Rob Pardo would sit and walk every day holding the thick Oxford dictionary to read in order to guess the meaning of rts. Putting in a dismissive tone, he said, "If he can figure it out, I'll walk on my hands!"

After finishing speaking, he would also use an exaggerated low voice to show his ridicule towards Rob Pardo.

In fact, Rob Pardo didn't know where he offended the other party. When he and Modi met for the first time, he wanted to invite the other party to play games together, but he was rejected unceremoniously by the other party, and He also said some not-so-nice things.

From now on, every time Rob Pardo was talking to his friends about what games were fun, whenever he was met by Modi, he would always come out and make fun of him. Later, this happened more often, and the relationship between Rob Pardo and the other party deteriorated.

"You didn't ask him how he walked on his hands?"

After Rob Pardo's friend finished talking about the previous Modi's deeds, someone immediately followed up and asked, but Rob Pardo just smiled: "No, I want to invite him to come too." Eat, but he felt that I was showing off and humiliating him in front of him, so he went to the bedroom alone very unhappy."

As the saying goes, misfortunes never come alone, and blessings never come alone.

But this time, Rob Pardo was unexpectedly lucky. Just a week after he received the invitation letter and tickets to the Mars Carnival, he once again received a letter from Mars Entertainment. The letter this time was the same as last time, and the packaging was also extremely gorgeous.

And when he opened this envelope, which was one size larger than the last envelope that contained the invitation letter and tickets, he saw a brand new invitation letter that was very ornately decorated. However, this invitation letter was different from the previous one. The invitation to the carnival he received was entirely different.

Not only in terms of appearance, but also in terms of the feel in his hand, the invitation this time gave him a much heavier feeling.

In short, in Rob Pardo's opinion, it was just the price of such an invitation. I'm afraid it won't be that cheap - and when he opened the invitation and saw the contents, he immediately understood why the invitation was like this.

Because this turned out to be an invitation letter specially prepared for him by Jester to have dinner together.

The invitation mentioned the place for dinner, which is a very high-end restaurant in Los Angeles. I heard that it was rated three stars in the Michelin report just released this year. This was all told by the girls in the class. They once said that their biggest dream was. Just somewhere to go for a dream dinner.

As for the reason why Jester invited him to dinner, it was also very simple. It was because he not only guessed the accurate meaning of rts in the letter sent to Mars Entertainment. Moreover, based on my own understanding, I wrote an article of more than 10,000 words about how real-time strategy games should be realistic.

Jester thinks this article is great, and many of the views in it coincide with his thoughts.

Therefore, Jester became interested in the person who could write this letter, but it was just an interest. Originally, Jester did not have enough time. After all, a person of his level would spend every minute. Time is extremely precious, and it is impossible to take out a special time to have dinner with someone who is only slightly interested.

However, after all the recent affairs were settled, while Jester was sorting out some information about the development of "Age of Empires", he once again saw this letter from Rob Pardo. Because I was too tired, I didn’t pay much attention to the signature of this letter, but this time I felt much more relaxed. After all, the development of the game has basically ended, and I can be sure that there will be no problem in completing the trial version before the carnival. So when he saw the name Rob Pardo, he was suddenly startled.

Because Rob Pardo is a very deep name in his memory.

He was one of the later ace designers of Blizzard, and was called the soul of Blizzard by many people in the industry. Within Blizzard, his colleagues liked to call him all-the-best. Needless to say, there is one It is certain that Rob Pardo is the best RTS game designer in the world where Jester was - "StarCraft: Brood War" and "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos" And the lead designer of "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne" can attest to the truth of this statement.

From this letter, which is still a little green about the design of RTS games, Jester can see that the person writing this letter has a talent for this type of game that is difficult for others to match.

You know, he just came up with so many design ideas for this type of game from the three-letter abbreviation of rts, and there are even many, which are indeed very outstanding ideas. With this, he can He said that none of the people under him who have just participated in the development of "Age of Empires" can have the talent of Rob Pardo in this area.

Therefore, when Jester found out that the person who wrote the letter was the all-the-best of Blizzard in the future, he immediately made a decision. He called his assistant and checked what he had done in the days before the carnival. After planning the itinerary, I saw that I still had some free time, so I decided to hold a private dinner to reward Rob Pardo for this letter.

This matter did not arouse any dissent within the company, because most people who have participated in the development of "Age of Empires" have read this letter from Rob Pardo, and they all think that the person who wrote this letter is talented. , they did learn a lot from this letter during the development of "Age of Empires".

Some people even suggested to Jester that they also wanted to have a meal together.

However, Jester refused. Jester just said that after he met Rob Pardo, he would naturally introduce him to everyone. If the other party agreed, he would also decide to recruit him. Mars Entertainment, come and participate in the development of the next RTS game.

Because this game type has not been tested by the market, but in Mars Entertainment's internal tests, the popularity of this game has reached an incredible level.

For example, if Jester went out and walked around the company now, he would be able to catch at least dozens of people engaged in online battles in Age of Empires.

This is still during working hours, not break time.

Even sometimes, while eating in the restaurant, Jester could hear many of his subordinates talking about how to train Teutonic warriors as quickly as possible. For example, someone was discussing how to use a catapult. Is it faster to demolish the castle or artillery to demolish the castle faster? Another example is the debate about who is the strongest cavalry between the Rangers and the Templars... these things.

Jester has no doubt about the popularity of real-time strategy games in this era. It was around this time, or to be precise, "Dune 2" that came out a little later started a RTS revolution. Game craze.

When Rob Pardo read the invitation and saw the description on the invitation, which was to thank him for his great contribution to the development of "Age of Empires", Jace When Te decided to give him a reward, he once again felt as if he was dreaming.

Having dinner with Jester, his idol, the greatest game designer in the world and the number one idol of young entrepreneurs in the United States, and one of the 30 richest people in the United States selected by Forbes magazine last year, is just an ordinary person. For ordinary college students, this is like a dream.

You know, he is only nineteen years old this year. Although he is now in his third year of high school, this is because he went to school early.

Anyway, Rob Pardo couldn't control his excitement.

After it took him more than an hour to calm down the excitement in his heart, he suddenly thought, wasn't this a prank deliberately done by someone? Couldn't it be fake? After all, many people knew about his letter to Mars Entertainment, and I had never heard of Jester having dinner with anyone before.

Thinking of this, Rob Pardo suddenly felt a little scared. What if it was fake?

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it and directly called Mars Entertainment. He asked it himself to make sure it couldn't be a lie. (To be continued...)