Game Development Giant

"So, the last question." Jester clasped his hands together and leaned forward with a satisfied smile on his face. Obviously, he was very satisfied with the previous interview questions. Adrian Loken's professional knowledge and professional ability , in his opinion, there is no problem at all.

"Ed, if I asked you to take charge of a magazine, what would be your attitude towards these published games?" Jester said with a smile. He may be afraid that the other party would not understand what he meant, so he added Explained, "What I mean is, will you follow your own subjective judgment, or will you be affected by external pressure?"

"Haha." Adrian chuckled after hearing Jester's words. After the conversation just now, which seemed like a chat between friends, his sense of distance from Jester's idol has weakened a lot. In front of his eyes, , this person who is six years younger than him is like an optimistic big boy.

Of course, he is a very talented boy.

"Boss, although you haven't officially hired me yet, please allow me to call you this. In fact, my attitude towards this magazine is not important, but your attitude towards it is the most important." Adrian replied .

Jester didn't speak. He still looked at Adrian with a smile. After more than ten seconds of silence, he suddenly stood up and stretched out his hand to him again.

"Welcome to join the "game" magazine."

"It's an honor." Adrian also held Jester's hand for the first time.

Next, Adrian began to prepare for "Game". From recruitment to magazine content and layout, he was responsible for everything. Jester also provided him with a lot of inspiration based on the experience of some magazines he read in later generations, but some columns cannot be implemented yet, such as letters from readers.

However, Jester still agreed to select a few people from Mars Entertainment to do an exclusive interview. Many players who like Mars Entertainment will definitely be interested in this.

However, Jester is not interested in this kind of interview. He plans to let Mark Saini or Sean Dabbili be the candidate for this interview. After all, he himself is already known to many players, and Mars Entertainment The current results are not only due to him.

However, what interested Adrian the most was the trial version of the game called "City of Battle" that Jester talked about.

It is said that Jester made it specifically for the release of "game".

He couldn't wait to see what kind of surprise Jester, a person who was always full of fantastic ideas in game design, could bring him this time.

When following Jester to Mars Entertainment for an exclusive interview with Mark Saini or Sean Dabbili, Adrian was also lucky enough to play this game that Jester participated in the production of, even though it was just a trial run. In the playing version, the entire level process is only half of that of the full version, and even the game content is not a quarter of the content of the official version.

But when he cooperated with a Mars Entertainment employee to destroy tanks one after another, passed through level after level, and discovered that there were so many coordination and tactics hidden in such simple map elements, I couldn't help but be deeply attracted by this game.

Moreover, this sense of immersion in fighting the evil invaders to the death and turning the tide in order to defend his homeland also made Adrian's blood boil.

For a whole afternoon, he took the trouble to play this game over and over again. Even if no one played doubles with him, he still enjoyed playing it by himself.

If Jester hadn't called him to do an exclusive interview, Adrian might not have left the IBM PC compatible computer with the trial version of "City of War" installed. Well, in the spirit of keeping the good news from others, All IBM-compatible machines here at Jester are purchased from Dell.

Moreover, Dell's recent sales have been very good. It is said that sales in July have increased five times compared to June, with total sales reaching one million US dollars.

Of course, Qian Jester still ignored this.

"This game is simply perfect." Adrian said this the moment he saw Jester. There was a look of excitement on his face that could not be concealed, and he kept talking about "Guild Wars". "City" is a game that simply praises this game to nothing on earth or in heaven.

Although Jester was a little happy to hear this, he still couldn't laugh or cry.

He said directly to Adrian: "You will interview our game development director of Mars Entertainment in a while, Mark Cerny. Well, he is one year older than me and is very talented. And I will let him If you play it, Mark has just announced that he has scrapped the first two levels of a game that he is going to remake. Then you will find that the games you played before are like outdated news in front of this game. Worth mentioning.”

Adrian looked at Jester in surprise. You must know that the games he had played before in Jester's mouth included all the games he had made before.

And for the game "American Cube", Adrian almost never gets tired of playing it. He really can't believe that there is any game that can make him feel that the game "American Cube" can also become outdated.

Not even the "Snow Brothers" he played at the demo session.

Is this game more fun and better than "Snowman Brothers"?

"Haha." Jester just smiled softly when faced with Adrian's question. He did not immediately explain to him, but simply said, "No matter how fun "American Cube" is, it is just a sketch. It’s a game that doesn’t create a buzz, and you’ll see what I mean when you see the game Mark Saini is making.”

With this curiosity, Adrian met Mark Saini who still forced him to get off work overtime even though it was already time to get off work.

Jester was not by Adrian's side during the entire interview, and his current workload is also very heavy. He just received a call from Qin Shuyao, saying that the Olympic delegation had arrived in Los Angeles. Under the organization of the Los Angeles Consulate, they These international students from China are planning to unite with some overseas Chinese to hold a welcome party recently.

The location has been chosen, it is a three-star hotel owned by Grandpa Jester in Los Angeles. Grandpa Jester sponsored the use of the hotel free of charge. However, the organizers rejected Grandpa Jester’s proposal to sponsor more money. After all, this time Having one person sponsor the welcome party is always not a good look.

Although there were many enthusiastic Chinese donations, the funds were still not widely used, so Qin Shuyao thought of Jester, an American tycoon who was preparing to invest tens of millions of dollars in the country, so he came up with the idea of ​​beating Jester. The thoughts of a rich man.

Jester agreed immediately after hearing this. He first asked others about the approximate amount of donations and how much shortfall there was. Although he was not short of money, he couldn't stand out too much. He could give more than others. A little, but not too much. After getting Qin Shuyao's reply, it seemed that the difference was less than 10,000 US dollars. Jester directly said that he would make up for the shortfall.

Ten thousand US dollars is indeed nothing to Jester now, and it is not too much, nor is it too conspicuous.

This also made Qin Shuyao extremely happy, and she asked Jester to attend the welcome party.

Of course Jester agreed.

When Jester saw Adrian again, he was in the-king's R\u0026D room.

At this time, Adrian's exclusive interview with Mark Saini had ended, and then he proposed that he wanted to try out the game that Jester called an 'epoch-making' game that was being developed in secret.

Mark Saini had also received Jester's notice before, and he was only trying out the "Avengers" he had abandoned, which was made with the old engine. He planned to make the "Avengers" with the new engine more exquisite, adding More content, and even the combo system that he had always wanted to do before but had never been successful due to fluency issues, was also planned to be added this time, so he readily agreed to Adrian's request.

Therefore, Adrian saw the first two levels of "Avengers" that had been abandoned.

Then, Adrian was almost irresistible and was attracted by this fighting beat-'em-up game that created a new genre.

To be precise, obsessed.

The character he controls is 1p, who is also the male protagonist Patrick. In the setting, he is a fighting master who is proficient in Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai and French kickboxing. He is the champion of the unrestricted fighting competition. He has returned from participating in the competition in the Netherlands and is preparing to He traveled to Japan with his fiancée to celebrate his newly won championship, but when he returned home, he only found a messy room full of blood, and a blood-stained picture was nailed to the wall by a dagger with a special pattern on the handle. note.

The note was written by Patrick's fiancée, with a dazzling word written in blood, help.

Moreover, there was a bloody finger left on the table. This severed finger also had an engagement ring that Patrick gave to his fiancée.

Then, the furious Patrick found out based on the special pattern on the dagger that the person who kidnapped his fiancée was the leader of a huge criminal group in Sin City, so the game plot of finding his wife and finding his enemy for revenge became official. start.

There were only two characters originally set, but Mark Cerny added a third hidden character at Jester's suggestion. The third person needs to be selected using a special button method at the beginning of the game.

2p is the younger sister of the male protagonist’s fiancée. She is a student at a Chinese boxing martial arts gym. She has blond hair and is proficient in Wing Chun. The hidden figure is an Interpol who has been tracking this criminal group. She is proficient in boxing, judo and Israeli Krav Maga.

The original setting was to prepare for Jeet Kune Do, but after careful consideration, Mark Saini decided to set up three characters with completely different fighting styles. Because each character uses different moves, this way Make the entire game more in-depth.

Of course, in order to make each character's moves as realistic as possible, it would cost US$50,000 just to hire coaches who are proficient in various fighting styles to set up the moves.

Moreover, when Mark Cerny scrapped the first two levels of the completed "Avengers", the entire The-King R\u0026D team spent a full 200,000 US dollars in R\u0026D funds. This cost was even higher than other All R\u0026D personnel spend more than that combined.

When Adrian controlled Patrick to use a roundhouse kick to defeat the first level boss, a samurai holding a Japanese katana, he also saw Jace, who had been standing quietly beside him for a while. special.

He looked at Jester with even more shock at this time, and even his words became a little incoherent.

He really couldn't believe that a game that was so good in front of him, so good that he couldn't find any vocabulary to praise it, was actually just a discarded version.

He even forgot that he had described "City of Battle" as perfect not long ago.

But now in his opinion, compared with this game called "Avengers", although "Battle City" is a very good game, there is still a big gap.

"Boss, tell me, am I dreaming?"

Hearing Adrian's unreasonable words, Jester just smiled and said simply without explanation.

"You can write truthfully about "Avengers" reports, but don't reveal what type of game it is, and don't reveal the specific plot of the game. You just need to say that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been invested in this game. US dollars in research and development expenses were spent, but because it did not meet the designer's expectations, it was abandoned and redone. Even the abandoned version is, in my opinion, a sufficiently 'epoch-making' game, and it has almost reached this era. It’s the best and perfect. It’s really unimaginable how designers can improve such a perfect game.”

Adrian had no objection to this, because this game called "Avengers" gave him the same feeling as what Jester just said, so after hearing Jester's words, he didn't react at all. He agreed without hesitation.

Then, Jester continued.

"This game is not free for you to play. For example, if you want to create a rating system in a magazine, you can start from aspects such as graphics, music, plot, playability, etc., establish a rating system, and give this game Give the game a score, and then advertise it, announcing that at the next trial session in New York, this version of "Avengers" will be officially unveiled, and the first two levels will be open to participating players for trial play."

Seeing Adrian nodding and indicating that he had memorized everything, Jester stopped talking too much nonsense. He had discussed with Adrian many times how to do this magazine before, and there was no need to repeat it again, so He just added one last sentence.

"However, the core of the main hype for this first issue is the first PC game officially produced by Mars Entertainment. As long as we focus on this point, we will not worry about sales. We are a new magazine. What can attract those gamers is and only by extension. The trial floppy disk of "City of Guild Wars" was given as a gift."

Adrian was extremely confident about this, and he said with no doubt: "Boss, don't worry, the game quality of "City of Battle", even if it's just a trial version, is better than any other computer game at this stage. , and that’s not even a little bit better. Our magazine will definitely be a hit!”

"That's good." Jester nodded with satisfaction. The next thing about the magazine is Adrian's.

ps1: Please vote for recommendation! !

ps2: I made a big mistake because of memory problems. I remembered that the Los Angeles Olympics was held at the end of August, but when I checked the specific date today, I found that it was the end of July. This mistake cannot be made up for. , so I can only postpone the Los Angeles Olympic Games in this book. I really don’t know what to say about this. Before I started coding at night, when I saw this, I felt like I had eaten a fly. It's so uncomfortable, but it was my mistake and I apologize.

ps3: I saw some readers wrote 300,000 words in the book review area for just one game. I counted them myself, Cube, Yeti Brothers, Zuma, Bejeweled, Bubble Bobble, Fighting Beat, and Fighting. Airplane, Western Sheriff Edition Super Horse, Western Sheriff Edition Shooting Sideways, Minesweeper, Little 3 Legend, 2048, Battle City plus Pokemon Edition Tamagotchi, a total of fourteen completed and unfinished games Game over.