Game Development Giant

"Come in and sit down, don't be so nervous."

Jester smiled at Ye Mingzhang, and then pointed to a place in front of him. After Ye Mingzhang took his seat cautiously, Jester took the initiative to pour him a cup of tea.

"This one wants me to give it to you..."

Jester pointed at Matsuno Taiji who was sitting next to him, but before he finished speaking, Ye Mingzhang's somewhat excited words rang out.

"No, no need. This is Mr. Matsuno Yasumi. He is my favorite designer. Your "Royal Knights" is also my favorite game. It is precisely because of the inspiration of your game that I have The idea of ​​​​"Knights of the Flame Dragon"..." Maybe he was too excited, and Ye Mingzhang's words were a bit messy, but fortunately there was no problem with his expression.

Jester and Matsuno Yasuya heard it clearly.

Matsuno Tai rarely encounters this kind of scene, so his expression is still a little embarrassed. After all, war and chess games are just niche games. Unlike Jester, you can meet him wherever you go. ardent fans.

"I asked you to come here this time because I want to talk about your game." As Jester said, he took out a document from one side and put it in front of Ye Mingzhang. This article did not belong to Ye Mingzhang. It's not unfamiliar, because this is what he wrote. It was the development plan for "Knights of the Flame Dragon" that he submitted for application before. When he saw this development plan, Ye Mingzhang couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart. mood.

Although I can’t confirm it yet.

However, Ye Mingzhang can be sure of one thing, that is, the two people in front of him are definitely not here to tell him that your game idea is terrible and we cannot meet your requirements.

Because if you want to say this, then there is no need to find yourself in person. Don’t even need to notify yourself.

Since it is not a game to deny yourself, then...

"It's an excellent game idea." This time it was Matsuno Yasumi who spoke. His eyes were full of affirmation and admiration. He spoke very quickly, "I really want to ask you, are you interested in coming to my place?" Work, the idea of ​​your game can be completed after you work at my place for a few years. By that time, you will definitely be able to complete it better."

Matsuno Yasuji's tone was very sincere, and Ye Mingzhang was also very moved.

But he hesitated for a moment. He still shook his head and rejected Matsuno Taimi's very tempting proposal.

"Although I really want to, I can only apologize. In fact, this game is not my fault alone. It was completed by me and several friends. We are all your fans and all like "Royal Knights" Group", so..."

After Matsuno Tai heard this, he had an undisguised look of regret on his face. He sighed: "That would be a pity..."

"Several people?"

Jester also asked at the same time, and then he continued: "Have you formed a studio together? Do you have any other works besides this game?"

Ye Mingzhang didn't know how to answer this question. He was afraid that if he answered truthfully, people would think he was a liar...

But after hesitating again and again, Ye Mingzhang answered truthfully: "No, we haven't set up a studio yet. We are just friends with the same hobbies who conceived a game together and participated in a game competition and won a I can have the opportunity to attend the GDC conference. Because I am the main designer of "Knights of the Flame Dragon", so they let me get this quota to come to the United States just to see if I can find someone who is the designer of "The Knights of the Flame Dragon". "Knights" interested investors..."

"That's it."

Hearing what Ye Mingzhang said, Jester was a little surprised. It seemed that the Hantang, which would be famous in later generations, had not yet been established.

"Let's make a long story short."

Jester looked at the time. He had a few important meetings to wait for a while, so he could only resolve this matter as soon as possible. He thought for a moment and said, "This plan of yours is very important." Yes, both Matsuno and I are very interested in this game. Now we have two proposals. The first is to let him go to crowdfunding, and he will receive a guaranteed investment from our incubator plan, even if the crowdfunding is unsuccessful. , we also guarantee that you will have enough funds to develop this game, of course, you need to pay part of the copyright, we will discuss these things later."

"Second, our Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment, well, will be reorganized into the Asia-Pacific branch soon. They will invest in your game and can help you set up a studio of your own to develop this game. For the game, however, we need fifty percent of the studio."

"You can think about it yourself, and of course, you can also refuse."

After hearing Jester's conditions, Ye Mingzhang took a deep breath without even thinking about it.

He really didn't expect that Jester would offer him such a generous offer, especially the second one... For countless independent game studios, this was simply a dream come true.

In order to confirm whether it was what he thought, Ye Mingzhang asked with a somewhat excited look: "If...if we choose the second one, then the studio we set up will be a studio directly under Mars Entertainment, and we will be able to enjoy those other What are the conditions and benefits that only the first-party studio of Mars Entertainment can enjoy?"

"hehe."

Jester glanced at Ye Mingzhang, and then chuckled.

"This is not possible, because there is a primary condition for becoming our first-party studio, which is that it must be controlled by us. Unless you are willing to give us 51% of the shares, otherwise, you Games produced by your studio cannot enjoy the treatment of our first-party games. Of course, because we, Mars Entertainment, hold a large share of shares in your studio, we still have some preferential treatment."

"this……"

After hearing Jester's answer, Ye Mingzhang hesitated a little, and realized that in fact, for a group of game producers, a free and unrestricted development environment is crucial.

Although Mars Entertainment's first-party preferential treatment is very attractive, it is almost a condition for a studio to nearly double its income with a game, but the right to independently develop games is also a requirement for them. It's hard to give up.

If it is controlled by others, then it will not be up to me to decide what games to develop in the future.

Suddenly, Ye Mingzhang was caught in a dilemma.

Jester naturally saw the hesitant look on Ye Mingzhang's face. He looked at his watch again. He didn't have much time, so he simply said directly: "Mr. Ye, you said this was done by several of your friends together. Game, then what kind of decision I want to make, you also need to discuss it together. Moreover, maybe you are not very familiar with Mars Entertainment’s requirements for first-party studios. You can ask Matsuno later, I I have something to do, so I’ll leave first.”

With that said, Jester stood up and stretched out a hand towards Ye Mingzhang.

Ye Mingzhang also stood up a little embarrassed, stretched out his hands and shook hands with Jester.

"Don't be embarrassed. Everyone should consider this kind of thing carefully. After you go back and discuss the results with your friends, you can directly contact our office in Wanwan."

Saying that, Jester smiled.

"I still have a small question. You haven't discussed setting up a job of your own before, have you?"

Hearing this very common little question from Jester, Ye Mingzhang did not doubt that he was there. He answered without thinking: "We must have discussed it, but we don't have much money, so we have been delaying it until now..."

"Have you ever thought about what name you would give if you were to set up a studio?" After Ye Mingzhang answered, Jester immediately asked again, this time in Chinese. , Ye Mingzhang was surprised. Although he knew that Jester was Chinese, he never knew that his words could be so good.

And Jester's Chinese also made Ye Mingzhang feel a little more friendly.

As soon as Jester finished speaking, he immediately replied in Chinese: "Why haven't you thought about it? I must have thought about it. In the end, we really came up with a name called Hantang."

"Hantang..."

Jester repeated the name, then nodded with a smile and said, "This is a good name."

After Jester left, Matsuno Yasushi had a lot of chats with Ye Mingzhang about the game. It has to be said that Ye Mingzhang’s thoughts are still relatively green now. Although the skeleton of "Knights of the Flame Dragon" is relatively well built, There were still many minor problems, and Matsuno Yasumi was patiently analyzing them one by one. Ye Mingzhang also benefited a lot.

"Actually, the boss told me before that he asked me if I would be interested in supervising this game if it became the first-party game of our Mars Entertainment. I thought it was the boss joking with me, so I He said, the other party doesn’t know yet whether he is willing or not..." As he said that, Matsuno Tai looked at Ye Mingzhang and his eyes became serious.

"But even though I only chatted with you for a while, I found that you are really talented in playing chess games. If you are willing, you did not agree to the boss's request in the end to become our first-party studio. , I am also willing to supervise this game, what do you think?"

After listening to Matsuno Yasuki's words, Ye Mingzhang's brain suddenly fell into a state of panic. (To be continued...)