Game Development Giant

Jester didn't have the time to pay attention to the turmoil after the interview. He still had a lot to do. In addition to dealing with some trivial matters in the company, he also had to design new games and prepare to meet the head of Sega. The visit of Hayao Nakayama and so on.

However, this episode of "Chicago Morning" will not be broadcast immediately, but will be broadcast a few days later, but the story of him betting against others on the show still spread like wildfire.

The white man named Henry Stuart was not a family member of an insignificant TV station staff member. He was a somewhat famous TV series director. He went to AM TV station that day to handle some work matters and was waiting. When I saw a program being recorded, I went to watch it to pass the time.

Moreover, he had a previous record of being accused of racial discrimination. Once again during the filming of a TV series, he was suspected of racially degrading a black actor and was sentenced to half a year in prison.

This time he was once again involved in a new racial discrimination incident, and his previous black history was once again revealed.

The top management of abc was also very concerned about this and felt that this matter was a good publicity stunt. After they terminated all cooperation with Henry Stuart for the first time to mark their departure, they began to This time, the program is about to become a hot topic in society.

Originally, this program was only broadcast on more than 20 TV stations on ABC's TV network covering the United States. However, after this incident, ABC immediately made a decision to increase the number of TV stations it will broadcast to more than 120 TV stations. , which is basically more than 90% of abc's franchised TV stations.

Things related to racial discrimination always attract the most widespread attention in the United States, and people of color are particularly sensitive to this.

The person who was especially insulted was a person who had just achieved sales of 100 million US dollars with just one game.

Considered by many to be Steve Jobs, followed by Bill Gates.

A spokesman for UCL also stood up to support Jester, stating that Jester was an excellent student in school and had never had any bad records. He also publicly announced his enrollment with Jester's permission. Semester transcript, all A's.

Jester also took advantage of the popularity and spent five million US dollars to buy a full half-month of prime time advertising from ABC without hesitation, preparing to broadcast it on the day of the Chicago trial.

The content of the advertisement is not a direct promotion of Mars Entertainment’s games, but an event—a game tour across the United States!

This is also the product of Jester's imagination.

Mars Entertainment will conduct a trial tour across the United States after the trial meeting in Chicago, and has initially selected twenty large cities. Jester also promised that two projects currently under development by Mars Entertainment will be announced during the trial in the United States. Some levels of one of the largest games are available for players to experience.

This is a next-generation game! This is how Jester describes it to the players in the advertisement.

Although many people are waiting to see the joke between Jester and his Mars Entertainment, he still has a lot of fans with "American Cube". It can be seen from the system in his body that "American Cube" The total number of fans of this game has exceeded 2 million, and the total number of fans of Mars Entertainment is close to 500,000. His own fans are slightly less, only a few hundred thousand.

These people are also looking forward to the new game from Jester and his Mars Entertainment.

Jester believes that as soon as this ad is aired, his promotional campaign will definitely trigger a craze.

Of course, the next-generation game that Jester is planning to launch next is "Snow Brothers".

The first two levels of "Snowman Brothers" have been preliminarily produced. Although for a game with more than 80 levels, this is only the beginning of a long journey, but in fact, the start of formal production also represents the initial stage of development. All the settings have been completed, you just need to follow the set procedures step by step.

The production of the front level is the slowest because you have just started. Once you become proficient in level production, the production speed will increase rapidly.

The trial version that Jester plans to release will only have about 20 to 30 levels, so there is enough time.

Moreover, after much consideration, Jester decided to use the already developed low-end version of the 8-bit baseboard as the mounting platform, because the imaginary enemy of this game is "Donkey Kong", and the picture quality only needs to be better than that of "Donkey Kong". It is enough that the "Donkey Kong" three years ago had a qualitative improvement, and it does not need the terrible color processing capabilities of the dual-PPU high-end version that is still under design.

This national tour trial was just an idea that Jester came up with after thinking of some of the hype and publicity activities of later generations. He also handed over the specific operation methods to Carly Terry, who had already arrived in Los Angeles.

In this aspect, let him imagine that he can still do it, but the specific details are not what he can do.

On the same day that Jester returned to California, Popular Publishing Company, which was fully controlled by Jester Holdings, was officially established. The company's name is a very simple word, popular.

This is also the philosophy behind the establishment of this company, and its products are the most popular.

The name of the company was proposed by Carly Tyree and was unanimously approved by the company's only two employees plus Jester.

And Jester also discovered that Adam Edgar, who was originally slightly disdainful of him letting a woman serve as CEO, was actually completely impressed by Carly Terry's talent.

Even Margaret Whitman, who was the same age as him and was also only 26 years old, surprised Adam Edgar. The other party's capable style made him completely unable to realize that the other party was a person. A female.

"Where did you find such a talent? Or a woman?"

Adam Edgar's ability is very outstanding. He is a top student who graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the three major institutes of technology in the United States, which is as famous as MIT. He served as the vice president of a trading company at a young age and managed the entire company. He was extremely arrogant about his abilities. This time he met Jester, whom he had just randomly found. He was really surprised that the abilities of the two women who he thought were just making up the numbers were so outstanding.

"The Lord says: Don't tell." Jester could only make fun of it, and of course he couldn't tell the other party.

But the biggest problem of Fengxing Entertainment now is insufficient funds. The 35 million US dollars that Jester took from Mars Entertainment's profit dividends just spent more than 18 million US dollars on a few simple investments, and Of the remaining 17 million, he still needs to spend close to 5 million to invest in the animation of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

Therefore, the Fengxing Distribution Company was founded with only 10 million funds this time, and of the 10 million, Jester had already spent 5 million to buy ABC's advertising broadcast time.

However, the initially agreed-upon initial capital of at least 10 million U.S. dollars is now only 5 million dollars before Carly Terry.

Five million US dollars is completely insufficient to establish a distribution network that aims to cover the United States. It is basically a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, this nationwide trial tour will definitely cost a lot of money.

Therefore, Carly was still a little angry.

Facing Carly's questioning, Jester, who knew that he was somewhat in the wrong, could only promise that Fengxing Publishing Company and Mars Entertainment would each bear half of the cost of the national tour trial, and he would add at least eight million within a month. USD follow-on funding.

After getting Jester's assurance, Carly Terry gave up.

The sales trend of "American Cube" is not much different from Jester's previous expectations. After selling 15,000 units in the first month, starting from the second month, orders dropped like a ten-meter platform. In the past few days, we have only received orders for more than a thousand units.

Then, after some media heard about the news, they began to badmouth Mars Entertainment and scorned Jester.

These people don't know anything about video games.

This is not because the popular trend of "American Cube" has passed, nor is it that the market is saturated. With less than 10,000 units produced in stock, it is not so easy to be saturated.

According to the experience of "Donkey Kong", the saturation number of an arcade machine in the US market is about 60,000 units.

But because the price of "American Cube" is more than twice that of "Donkey Kong", the sales volume will definitely be far behind.

But this is far from saturation.

However, being able to receive another order of 1,000 units in about ten days was somewhat beyond Jester's expectations. He had previously predicted that "American Cube" would be able to produce about 20,000 units by the end of the year. Looking at it this way, the sales volume by the end of the year will exceed Twenty-five thousand units is still very possible.

This also gave Jester a little surprise. After all, the number of 5,000 units is equivalent to sales of 30 million US dollars.

After all these trivial matters came to an end, Jester had a rare moment of free time.

In Chicago, he was considering a vertical scrolling flight combat game in order to compete with Namco and Capcom in the market for this type of game.

Thinking of the two games that would become his rivals actually made Jester feel extremely excited.

There's nothing more rewarding than taking down a legend with your own hands.

In his memory, although Namco and Capcom were the first to develop this type of game, the leader of this type of game later was a game company that has not yet been born - psikyo, translated into Chinese It's called Caijing.

This is a game production company founded in 1992. It is different from integrated game companies such as Namco or Capcom. This company specializes in the development of one type of game, which is flight shooting games. The gameplay of this type of game has reached its peak.

Among the arcade games that Jester played before his rebirth, the two most unforgettable flying shooting games were.

Because he only played arcades in the 1990s, he didn’t have much contact with the two vertical-scrolling flight shooting games that were popular in arcades in the 1980s, “Iron Formation” and “1942.”

The first time he actually played these two legendary games was later on a PC emulator.

Because these two games were rarely available in arcades of his time.

His two favorite vertical-scrolling flying shooters have been heard by many arcade game enthusiasts, even those who only played arcades as children.

One is the famous "Thunderbolt" released by Seibu-kaihatsu (developed by Seibu) in 1990. This game is very difficult. It is probably the most difficult flight that most people can play in an arcade. shooting game.

"Thunder" is also the first time for all players to know that the fun of an air combat game is not about masturbating, but the essence of dodging bullets.

Jester remembers that when he went to the arcade as a child, every time someone played "Thunderbolt" and could pass the level in one life, it would attract a lot of spontaneous attention from players.

Such a person is an absolute master in the eyes of a handicap like Jester who can't pass the first level, and he will cast envious, jealous and hateful glances at his back every time.

The second game may not be as famous as "Thunderbolt". When it was born, it had basically entered the era when fighting games dominated the mainstream, and beat-em-up games were barely surviving. S** games had almost no foothold, but this game Jess When I played it for the first time, I was still attracted by the smooth operation, gorgeous explosion scenes and bright colors.

This game is the master of vertical scrolling air combat games in Jester's eyes, and it is also Chae Kyung's famous work "Strider 1945".

Jester knows that whether it is "Thunderbolt" or "Strike 1945", both games are tributes to Capcom's "1942", and he is building this imaginative s** in his mind. The game was built based on these two games.

He didn't take it too seriously. Since he wanted to compete with Namco and Capcom in the same type of game this time, of course he wasn't afraid of having some similarities in settings. This would also be better. Let players compare the pros and cons of several games of the same type.

But then again, saying that the settings are somewhat similar is not necessarily the case. In Jester's view, apart from the fact that the imaginative game he is planning to make takes place in the 1940s on earth, it is difficult to have any connection with "1942".

As for "Iron Platoon"? There is no specific background setting for this game at all.

Today's players don't have as many requirements for a game as later generations, as long as it's fun.

But Jester doesn’t think so. His profound world view of the next game from later generations plays an important role in the subsequent development of a game.

Some games are not suitable for building a huge world view, such as the several games he has made before, but some games are very suitable, such as the fighting game called "Avengers" that Mark Cerny is making, and his current game. This is a product of great imagination.

This game is also his first game that is not completely plagiarized, so he also wants to make the world view of this game as perfect as possible.

He first referred to the background of "StarCraft" and set up a powerful alien race called the xel'naga. This race discovered the earth, a planet suitable for biological survival, in 1945 just after World War II. , in order to occupy this planet, they released a corrupt seed and came to the earth.

This seed corrupted some human military generals who were not strong-willed enough. These people betrayed humanity and formed a military organization called naga. The purpose of this military organization's existence is to complete the advent of their masters, the Xel'Naga.

To complete the advent of the Xel'Naga people, terrible energy is needed, so conquering the world has become the naga's first task.

With the support of the Xel'Naga people's technology that was beyond this era, the Nagas who were driving black technology were victorious at first, but the countries fighting each other collapsed completely.

Finally, when the power of human freedom was about to completely fail, all countries finally abandoned their prejudices and formed the last resistance organization-the Earth Resistance Army.

Of course, in order to please American players, Jester set the main body of naga to be the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the most corrupted by the Xel'Naga people, and Moscow has also become the headquarters of naga.

The core and leader of the Earth Resistance is definitely still himself in the eyes of Americans.

This is the initial big background setting made by Jester. Specifically, he will find a special writer to write a few novels for the specific short story under this big background. Such novels do not need to be well written, just It only needs to be able to write a high-quality story clearly. This is originally a peripheral made for the promotion of this game.

That's right, Jester's plan is to take advantage of the situation and release the background novel of this game after it becomes a hit. Jester can't guarantee whether the sales will be very good, but he knows that after he Under the influence of this game that is being developed, sales will definitely not be bad.

This is also the marketing strategy of some large game companies in later generations, such as Blizzard.

Then, there are the specific gameplay settings of this game.

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