Game Development Giant

"Sid Meier." Carly's tone was very flat, which was for sure, because she definitely didn't know how great the name in her mouth would be in the future.

After getting Carly's definite answer, Jester calmed down instead. He is now the controller of a large holding company, which owns a game development company, a display chip R\u0026D company, and a comic book company. The company also owns one-third of the shares of a future computer giant. In other words, he is now a successful man with a net worth of 100 million, and is no longer a small figure.

Although I really want to get a little-known game company, even though it will be great in the future, they are not there yet. It is inappropriate for me to go to this kind of thing in person.

So he said to Carly on the other end of the phone: "Send this company's games over and I'll take a closer look. If they're really good, I think I can let Mars Entertainment acquire them. We do now." We need one or two companies that specialize in computer games to expand our comprehensiveness."

After hanging up the phone, Jester thought about it carefully. It seemed that his Mars Entertainment did not have a department dedicated to acquisitions.

In addition to some administrative staff doing miscellaneous tasks, only R\u0026D staff are left.

But it doesn't matter. His game company doesn't rely entirely on acquisitions like EA. Unless they are very heavyweight studios, he doesn't care much about others.

He directly called Adam Edgar and told him his intention to directly acquire Microprose.

Adam Edgar was still very surprised by this. After all, he had played several games produced by this company, and they were not very good. However, their producers were very thoughtful, but he did not think that just relying on these few games would If a game that is not even considered outstanding can impress his boss, he will acquire the other party. He has seen what level of games his boss's game company is currently developing.

Compared with the several games that my boss is making, the ones made by this company called microprose are simply insignificant and cannot be compared to the same.

He didn't understand why his boss wanted to acquire such a small company.

"Haha." Hearing Adam Edgar's doubts, Jester just smiled without comment. He just said lightly, "Just do as I say. There are some things you don't need to know."

A game that can be passed down to the world is not something you can complete only if you know such an idea and have the technical ability to complete the idea. Every such masterpiece has the spiritual connotation of the producer infiltrated into it, and their thoughts have been closely related to the game. Their works become one.

Before Sid Meier became a game designer, his dream was to be a taxonomist. He had been refining this idea for many years before making Civilization, and then he created it in this great game. In the game, he showed his taxonomic ability that surpasses that of most taxonomists.

Why is Sid Meier's Civilization the best in the genre? Even if there is no similar work that can compare with it? Because this game is full of Sid Meier’s unique understanding of games and his game philosophy. He believes that an excellent game should be like this, or in other words, this is the game he dreams of.

Some games may be produced by another person and the difference may not be much different from the original ones, but some games are full of the strong personal style of one producer. If the producer is changed, although the materials are still the same, the taste will be completely different.

You can't even imagine what this game would be like if it had a different producer. Can you imagine "Civilization" without the prefix Sid Meier in front of it?

I can't do it anyway, Jester thought.

There are not many such games and such producers, but there are definitely many. Each and every one of them can be called a legend.

"Civilization" and Sid Meier are one, "Metal Gear" and Hideo Kojima are the second, "God Is Crazy" and Molyneux are the third, "Ninja Gaiden" and Vitriol The face is the fourth, of course there are many more.

"Okay." Adam Edgar could only agree with some depression.

After ending the call with Adam Edgar, Jester suddenly remembered that he hadn't sent the Apple computer he wanted to that boy in Carmack, and that he really needed him to help him make a few computer games to make his own. This new publishing company is practicing its hand.

It’s not that he can’t make computer games, but that he really doesn’t have time. His entire team is working intensively on research and development tasks, and no matter how simple a game is, the whole process from drawing, soundtrack, coding to debugging is at least as long as It takes two or three days, and with the subsequent beautification treatment, five or six days is also a short time.

Time! Jester couldn't help but sigh again.

The game for Carmack doesn't need to be too difficult, but it must be interesting. It's best to be something like Minesweeper that gets more and more addictive the more you play it, and once you get started, you can't stop at all.

After thinking about it, Jester really remembered one.

This is a game that was only released in 2014. The game is very simple, but very playable.

Taking out a piece of paper from the table, Jester wrote a word at the beginning, which is also the name of the game, "threes".

The Chinese name of this game is "Little 3 Legend". It is basically a game at the same time as the sadistic masterpiece "Pixel Bird". Although it is not as famous as "Pixel Bird", it is still a very fun and exciting puzzle game. An addictive game that has countless players hooked on it.

Jester is one of them.

The most important thing is that this low-level game is very high-level, which is very suitable for a talented boy like Carmack.

Its gameplay can be said to be both simple and complex, both single and ever-changing. If you have excellent mathematical thinking, you can theoretically play this game indefinitely until you no longer want to play.

It's really a time-killing weapon.

While thinking about it, Jester drew a 4x4 matrix on the paper, and then wrote the simple rules of the game below.

In this 4x4 matrix, five numbers will randomly appear at the beginning. These numbers will only be one, two, three or small multiples of three. Players can move any of these five numbers at will, ranging from up, down, left and right. A grid, please note that when moving a certain number, the entire matrix of numbers will also be moved, not just a single one. Of course, the premise is that other numbers have empty spaces for them to move.

Whenever the player moves a number, a new number will appear from the opposite position of the number the player moved. For example, if the player moves a number to the left, the new number will appear on the right. If the player moves upward, the new number will appear on the right. If you select a number, the new number will appear below.

Similarly, the new numbers that appear can only be one, two, and three.

The rule is to merge, but it is not a random merger, but only one and two can be merged, or three and multiples of three can be merged with each other. In other words, only one and two can be merged into three, and then three and three can be merged into six. , six and ** merge into twelve, twelve and twelve merge into twenty-four... and so on, three and six cannot be merged, of course, all other ways of merging are not allowed. .

Just like "American Cube", the top of this matrix will also prompt what the next number will be. Of course, the points system will definitely not work.

When all sixteen grids of this 4x4 matrix are filled with numbers, the game ends.

While writing the rules, Jester also drew a detailed matrix diagram in case Carmack couldn't understand what he meant.

After finishing all the rules, settings and gameplay of "Legend of Little 3", Jester still had some unfinished ideas. He also thought of a game developed by someone based on the gameplay of "Legend of Little 3" that was similar, but the rules were simpler. , it’s also a more fun and exciting game.

"1024".

Then, Jester kept writing and continued to write down the gameplay and rules of "1024" and its advanced versions "2048" and "4096". However, the difference from the original version is that he combined these three games It was merged into one version, but divided into three difficulties. The beginner version is "1024", the advanced version is "2048", and the master version is "4096".

In fact, Jester liked "2048" more than the grandmaster of this type of game, "Little 3 Legend", for no other reason than that it was simpler.

After writing seven or eight pages eloquently, Jester stopped writing without finishing, and then combed through it from beginning to end, revising the places where the previous writing was not very rigorous and easy to cause ambiguity, and then revised some of the things that were not clear enough. He added the description more completely, and then he wrote down what he wanted to tell Carmack at the bottom of the game setting draft.

Of course, I must have first praised him for his good work on "Mine Sweeper", then said that Apple's latest computer will be sent to you together with this letter, and finally encouraged him. Of course, there is also the following. Small tasks that require you to complete them carefully.

Of course, the rewards are the same as those in Minesweeper, any item equivalent to an Apple computer or cash.

After writing it, Jester took out an envelope from the drawer on one side, wrote Carmack's address on it, then put the letter into the envelope, sealed it, and finally picked up the phone and called a handyman The employee made a phone call and asked the other party to pick up a letter from him, buy a brand new Apple latest computer, and send a courier to the address on the envelope.

After waiting for a few minutes and his employee took the letter away, Jester continued to play "Thunder and Lightning" in the system, which made him feel a kind of masochistic pleasure. This time he persisted for more than an hour, in order to be able to play it multiple times. Looking at the details of the level design of this game, Jester died several times on purpose. He also recorded some reference points on paper and drew several sketches of the settings.

In fact, after countless deaths, Jester has also mastered the reason why this game is said to be that dodging bullets is much more important than masturbating. At least it is much better than when he first played it.

It looked like it was almost time, Jester was going to Los Angeles.

A few days before his arrival, Hayao Nakayama had invited him to hold a banquet on the night of his arrival. It was mainly for some business friends. The invitees were all senior executives of some multinational groups, or GE, Directors of companies like Moto, or heads of American branches like Panasonic and Sony, were originally not eligible to participate as Jester, but because he wanted to sign a contract with Sega this time, he was also invited. List.

It was considered a kindness shown by Hayao Nakayama to him.

We at Sega are very sincere in our cooperation.

Jester was not very interested in this. What bothered him the most was this kind of entertainment, although this time the level of entertainment was very high.

Even though he didn't like it, Jester couldn't help but go, otherwise it would be too rude.

Jester had never participated in this kind of banquet in his previous life or this life, and was not very familiar with it. However, he at least knew from the movies and TV dramas he had watched that you must at least wear a dress to attend this kind of banquet. Like Zach, Jester looked envious of Berg's ability to wear slippers to formal occasions, but he couldn't do it. After all, people are different.

Jester's soul is a Chinese who has received traditional Chinese education for more than ten years. In his eyes, this kind of behavior that does not care about other people's opinions is free and easy, but it is also rude. At least this kind of behavior is disrespectful to the inviting party. Extremely disrespectful.

Jester cannot do this.

The dress is from Armani. I bought it in a specialty store a few days ago. It is not handmade. First of all, there is not enough time. Secondly, Jester has no interest in it. I just choose something that suits me and that's it.

The banquet will be held at 7:30 this evening at the Bowery Hotel in Los Angeles.

Just as Jester put on a brand new evening dress and was about to drive his Mustang muscle car to Los Angeles, he suddenly thought, would it be more appropriate to bring a female companion to such a party?

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the girl he met in the bookstore. More than a month had passed, and he wondered if she had finished reading "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"?

Of course, he was just thinking about it. Although Jester knew the girl's name and information, and his current resources were enough to find the girl, Jester felt that this was not always a good idea, inviting him for no reason. A girl whom he only met once went to a dinner party, which made Jester feel stupid no matter how he thought about it.

Moreover, the other party is a traditional girl from mainland China, so she will definitely not agree to such an excessive and unreasonable request.

Jester thought so, then who should he look for?

Then Jester thought about the people he could think of, and discovered that the owner of his body was actually a complete otaku. In addition to studying programming, he usually went to the gym to work out. As a person who has experienced a complete American high school The man in his life actually treated him as a virgin.

I know a lot of female classmates, and there are quite a few female classmates who have teased me in various ways, but I am not interested in them at all. It seems that in the cognition of my body, there is no connection with those cold codes. It's much more interesting to deal with them than with those passionate and charming beauties.

What a waste of resources.

Jester thought angrily, but he seemed to have forgotten that before his rebirth, he was just an otaku similar to this one.

Everyone is the eldest brother and does not laugh at the second brother.

It is not difficult for Jester to find those female classmates now, but Jester has no interest in being too intimate with a woman he has never been in contact with.

In essence, Jester is still very introverted.

At this time, Jester suddenly thought of a candidate. After much thought, it seemed that she was the most suitable, and then Jester dialed Carly's number without hesitation.

"What? You want me to be your female companion and attend a dinner party with you?" After listening to Jester's words, Carly actually laughed a little exaggeratedly. She really couldn't imagine that a little boy was so outstanding in her eyes. , a rich man who is already worth billions at a young age can't find a female companion.

Being a little annoyed by what Carly said, Jester said angrily: "Are you going to help or not?"

"Haha." After listening to Jester's words, Carly's laughter on the other end of the phone got a little louder this time.

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