Game Development Giant

You asked Jester if he wanted to invest in Samsung Electronics?

This is nonsense and only fools would think so.

Of course he knows how great a company Samsung Electronics will be in the future. Yes, the adjective Jester used is great, and being able to participate in it now is definitely a hugely profitable deal.

But this is impossible.

Because a company may give up its shares only under three circumstances. First, when the company is a start-up, it needs a large amount of funds to further develop the company. The problem is that Samsung is not short of money. Second, it needs to open up new markets, so it may give up part of its shares. To achieve a win-win situation with the market, the third type is the most important customer of this company. In order to maintain this relationship, it is necessary to exchange shares to gain the other party's right to speak.

And now Jester doesn't account for any of the three.

What? You said 10 million orders? This has not been officially signed yet, and even if it is signed, Li Jianxi is not optimistic about the future of the video game market as Jester said. What's more, there is such a desolate scene in the American video game market as a reference. It is really impossible to let Li Jianxi or Samsung Electronics, which he represents, recognizes that Jester will become its long-term and stable customer.

Unless Jester can prove it.

Under such circumstances, if Jester rashly proposed to buy shares, he would only be rejected by Li Jianxi without hesitation.

Therefore, even though Jester coveted Samsung Electronics, which was still a baby, he had to hide his thoughts for the time being.

But Jester felt that it was not far away from him realizing this idea.

At this time, an employee from the hardware R\u0026D department quickly walked into Jester's office. He was holding a test sheet in his hand and had no expression on his face.

Seeing him come in, Jester didn't say anything special, but Li Jianxi's face became obviously nervous.

After this short conversation, Li Jianxi also knew that the 10 million chips Jester said was not a lie, so he attached great importance to this contract, even though he knew that his own memory chips would never be of high quality. There were no questions, but he still couldn't help but appear nervous.

After all, this is the first time that semiconductor products produced by Samsung Electronics have entered the US market. For Li Jianxi, this is a battle that can only be successful and cannot be failed.

"Boss, the test results are out. Although they are not as good as Fujitsu's similar models, they are almost the same and can be used." The employee's tone was very excited. He also knew that the memory chip with this specification was the one he had just tested. The company's products are much cheaper than Fujitsu's.

Hearing these words, Li Jianxi on the side also breathed a sigh of relief.

Jester smiled, took the test sheet and glanced at it, then stood up and stretched out his hand to Li Jianxi.

“A pleasure to work with.”

"It's a pleasure to cooperate." Li Jianxi stretched out his hand and shook hands with Jester, with an obviously relaxed smile on his face. For him, although the trip to the United States was not smooth, he was finally able to live up to his mission.

At lunch time, although some details of the contract have not been discussed clearly, it is necessary to eat. Originally, Jester wanted to entertain Li Jianxi and his party, but the Koreans obviously wanted to finalize the contract as soon as possible, so they politely declined. Just ask Jester to send them fast food like Mars Entertainment. After dinner, they will continue to negotiate the contract details and strive to negotiate a formal contract within one day.

Then, Li Jianxi also said goodbye. He also needed to discuss it with his team.

Jester didn't stay either.

In a game development company, the indispensable food for developers is fast food, and working overtime is commonplace.

After Jester finished eating the pizza delivered by the fast food restaurant, he went to the R\u0026D department out of boredom. Because it was lunch time, most of the employees were eating the pizza provided by the company, and some people went to the first floor. Use the game console in the lounge area.

The raucous sounds of a group of people gathered around a table in the R\u0026D department caught Jester's attention.

He walked over and took a look curiously, and found that his employees were enthusiastically playing this unnamed tabletop game.

The game map is a rectangular piece of coated paper that covers most of the table. It is printed very well.

Jester looked at the game map and it looked familiar. He seemed to have seen it somewhere. Just when he couldn't help but think about it, Sean Dabbili, the director of the 'Original Point' development team, took two six-sided dice. After throwing it out, when the two dice stopped spinning, two numbers six appeared on them at the same time. Then, Sean Dabbili pushed the finger-sized little man he represented forward along the grid on the map. Twelve squares.

A small plastic house has been placed next to this grid.

At this time, Sean Dabbili had an ugly look on his face. He reluctantly took out one of what looked like some kind of banknotes from the pile in front of him and threw it to another person. In the hands of a young man with a happy face, wearing glasses and wearing jeans.

Then, Sean Dabbili controlled his little man again and continued to advance twelve squares. This time, there was no plastic house like the previous square next to the square.

This time, Sean Dabbili's face showed joy. He took out the largest denomination from the stack of banknote-like papers in front of him and put it aside, then put a small one with a different color from the previous one. The plastic house is placed next to this grid.

Then, the young man with glasses casually took the two dice from the table, shook them in his hand, and threw them out.

Seeing this scene, Jester slapped his head, and then he remembered why he was so familiar with this tabletop game.

Because he has played the PC version of this tabletop game.

To be precise, it is a game of this type made by a game company in Baodao. Of course, it is not authorized.

The game is called Monopoly.

"It's good to make a PC version of this game. It's not difficult to make, and it can be ported to home machines in the future." Jester thought thoughtfully, then he frowned and suddenly thought of , “But whose version of this game is in their hands now?”

"Monopoly" is a translation from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The original name of this game is "monopoly". The official Chinese translation name is "Real Estate Tycoon". Monopoly originally means monopoly, because "Real Estate Tycoon" is a game no matter how many people participate. As for the game There Can Be Only One Winner, the creator of this game originally wanted to use this game to satirize the evil of capitalism - winner takes all, and the meaning of monopoly also implies this.

But what I didn't expect was that this game became popular very quickly after its release, and became popular in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Jester only remembered that the inventor of this game was named Charles Darlow. He later sold the copyright of this tabletop game to Parker Brothers, and it was Parker Brothers who officially launched this tabletop game on the market. .

But now, decades have passed, Parker Brothers no longer exists, the copyright has been transferred several times, and it is unknown who has it.

At that time, companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan could ignore copyright and copy "Real Estate Tycoon", but they certainly couldn't do it. If they dared to do this, someone would immediately jump out and sue them.

At this time, the game ended, and the final winner was Sean Dabbili. He became the final winner, and then he showed off the game in his hand to the other players who were a little downcast. A big stack of game money.

"Sean, which company produced this game?" Jester took the opportunity to ask.

"Hasbro." Seeing his boss ask him this question, Sean Dabbili thought that his boss was also interested in this tabletop war game and wanted to buy one, so he started talking nonstop. , "I am a die-hard player of "Monopoly". I have been playing it since I was seven years old. Let me tell you, this game requires everyone to play together to have fun. The more people, the better. In the end, there will be more people around." A group of people watching..."

It's in the hands of Hasbro.

Hasbro is Hasbro, but they don’t have the Chinese name Hasbro yet.

Jester nodded and did not comment on the rest of the nonsense Sean Dabbili said. Instead, he smiled and said directly: "What do you think we make this game into a game that can be played on a computer? .”

"Made into a computer game?" Sean Dabbili was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face. He couldn't wait to say, "This is simply the best news in the world!"

Then the other people who had gathered around him to watch also cheered.

"What a great idea!" This was the thought of almost everyone present.

Some people who were still eating pizza were also attracted by the cheers. After knowing the reason for the cheers, the cheers in the R\u0026D department were louder than the first time again.

This also shows the influence of "monopoly" among Americans. It is indeed the most popular tabletop game in the United States, with many more fans than dnd. After all, it has a history of more than half a century. Well, the grandfathers of many people present even grew up playing this game.

Then Jester asked: "Do you know anyone from Hasbro? Can you discuss with them how we can get the copyright for this game?"

Sean Dabbili shook his head, but at this time a thin employee raised his hand and said: "Boss, I have a friend who works at Hasbro. I can contact him."

"Well, after we get the copyright of this game, we will start the project." Jester said with a smile.

This once again made the people present cheer.

Jester just smiled and said nothing when he saw such a scene. He did play a little bit of the "Monopoly" he made.

Although he had previously thought that he did not want to get involved in computer games prematurely, he had created a publishing company after all. This publishing company could not live by selling arcade baseboards before its own home console was released, so it first made a Jester believes that it is also necessary to create high-quality and fun computer games to gain popularity.

Moreover, in fact, the PC game publishing industry is not as unprofitable as Jester thought. He had previously asked an investigation company to investigate the situation of several companies in Xueleshan. Although the market for PC games is not large, it costs thousands of dollars a year. There are still sales figures of 10,000.

In fact, what Jester didn't know was that Xueleshan, which specializes in PC games, had sales of nearly one billion US dollars a year around 1990.

Then he asked about the progress of several games being developed.

The first thirty levels of "Snowman Brothers" have been completed. After getting started with the level design, the Origin R\u0026D team is working faster and faster. Basically, the official version can be produced within two months, and it is also produced for the national game tour. The 25-level version of "Snowman Brothers" has been basically completed. It will definitely not be released at the trial meeting in Chicago, but there should be no problem in launching it at the trial meeting in the next city.

As for "Dawn", the project has not yet been officially approved, and there are not enough manpower, so no special production has been carried out. However, there are still two artists working on the setting map of this game based on Jester's settings.

Jester also looked at it carefully, and he was quite satisfied with the production of the setting diagram.

The author of the game plot novel "Dawn" has also found a candidate. He is a second-rate writer who has published several science fiction books that were not very popular. After he heard that Mars Entertainment could offer 100,000 US dollars for this book, he stopped talking. I agreed without saying anything.

Even though he knew he would only get one percent of the royalties from the book.

Jester is also very satisfied with this. He does not have high quality requirements for this book. He only needs to write it according to the story and game plot outline he set. As long as it does not deviate from the game plot, it is allowed. The author gives a little free play. Anyway, he just wants to perfect a world view of his own.

The official versions of the three games "Bejeweled" have basically been completed, and the debugging process has been extremely smooth. After the contract with Sega is completed, the games can be sent directly to Japan for official production. With the designers released from the post-processing of these three games, "Dawn" can be started as a project and carry out some preliminary design work.

At this time, Cao Kairui walked towards Jester with a piece of drawing paper.

"Boss, look at the image you asked me to design before. I have been thinking about it for more than a week. With this plan, see if it meets the kind of kindness you said, making people feel amiable, and like a mark. An image that is easy to remember." Cao Kairui walked up to Jester and handed the drawing paper in his hand to Jester.

"oh?"

Jester glanced at Cao Kairui in surprise. He didn't expect that the other party actually came up with a design plan, so he reached out to take the drawing paper and quickly looked down.

Then, a look of surprise appeared on Jester's face for a moment.

Obviously, he is very satisfied with the image designed by Cao Kairui.

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