Game Development Giant

"My computer is broken." Mo Huaimi's classmate suddenly looked sad and said a little depressed while pedaling the car.

Mo Huaimi just smiled indifferently, took over his classmate's words and said: "Nothing, go to my house to play first. I heard that "City of Fierce Battle" is a two-person cooperative game. Let's wait for a while. Play for a while, and I’ll go to your house to fix it for you.”

"Okay!" Mo Huai Mi's classmate also smiled a little after hearing this. He knew that Mo Huai Mi had very high computer skills, so repairing his computer was no problem.

Arriving at Mo Huaimi's home and entering his bedroom, a Compaq computer was placed on the desk.

Mo Huaimi, who had been impatient for a long time, took a "game" magazine from his classmate and quickly tore open the plastic bag. Without reading the magazine, he directly picked up the magazine with "Guild Wars" on it. I flipped through the floppy disk of "City demo" stickers.

"Hey! Don't tell me, the game floppy disk I gave you is also very well made."

Mo Huaimi said to his classmate with some surprise, and then without any hesitation, he directly inserted the floppy disk in his hand into the computer's floppy drive.

With a hum of reading, the system loaded the game. After the installation was completed, a strange electronic sound sounded, and a distant scene depicting a city with only ruins appeared on the computer screen. , and at this time, the game music also became solemn and tragic, and then the screen changed, and the picture on the screen was changed to a tank with the Soviet flag printed on the turret.

Then, under this picture, lines of writing appeared, introducing the background and pre-plot of this game.

"Oh! This plot is so exciting! We have to turn the tide!" Mo Huaimi couldn't help but show a look of excitement on his face after reading the text that appeared on the screen introducing the plot.

Mo Huaimi's classmate didn't look at the screen. Instead, he took the "game" magazine that Mo Huaimi had torn open the plastic bag. He opened the catalog and glanced at it quickly, and then quickly turned to the introduction to "The Battle of Fierce Battles". City" page.

"Look, this game is indeed as rumored. Two people can play it together." Mo Huaimi's classmate looked surprised. He pointed to a paragraph in the game introduction in the magazine. This paragraph explained How to play this game with two players, both 1p and 2p require those button operations.

Then, after the previous pictures and text introducing the game plot ended, the game selection interface finally appeared on the screen.

The background is a picture of a dilapidated city ruins, and then the name of the game, City of Guild Wars, is written above the picture.

Of course, below the name, there is a word demo in a font that is a few sizes smaller.

"Choose a two-player game." Mo Huaimi's classmate shouted anxiously.

"Yeah." Mo Huaimi nodded.

Then, the two entered the first level of "City of Fierce Battle".

In fact, the first few levels of "City of Battle" are not difficult, but as the number of levels progresses and the enemy AI increases, if neither player can cooperate and just play by themselves, and both of them are interested in this game, If you are not familiar with the game, it will be easy...

"Oh! **! I told you before, telling you not to be so forward and just keep your side! Why didn't you listen? This is the second time!" Because the tank controlled by his classmate was too forward, and then replied Unable to get help in time, an enemy tank suddenly emerged from the grass on one side and blasted away the headquarters with three rounds. Looking at the word game-over that appeared on the screen, Mo Huaimi roared in anger.

"Hehe!" His classmate just laughed, spread his hands, and argued, "I saw a five-star on it. If I eat another one, I can open the concrete!"

"Open the concrete?" Mo Huaimi had a look of surprise on his face when he heard his classmate's excuse. He had eaten a few five-stars before, so why didn't he realize that he could still open the concrete? It's just that the rate of fire and power are a little higher. It can hit heavy tanks with two shots.

Can that concrete still be knocked down?

Seeing the confused look on Mo Huaimi's face, his classmate immediately took the "Game" magazine that he had thrown aside and reopened the article he had read before that introduced "City of Fierce Battle". It read The function of some props, for example, the supplementary description of the five-pointed star states that if you can eat five five-pointed stars in a row in the same round, your tank cannon will have the power to destroy concrete...

"Can it still be like this? As expected of Jester, the game he made is incredible! This game is simply perfect!" Mo Huaimi read the article from the beginning, and then there was a look of surprise on his face, while he was operating The computer said in a warning tone, "Let's do it again. This time we have to cooperate well. Don't rush in so blindly like before. This is a game that requires IQ!"

After a pause, Mo Huaimi straightened his face and continued: "To punish you for the two mistakes you made before, you can't eat any of the five-pointed stars in this level."

"This is impossible!" Mo Huaimi's classmate roared. Faced with such an unequal treaty, it was absolutely impossible for him to agree.

Just like countless people like Mo Huaimi and his classmates, after buying the magazine, they immediately rushed to their computers and began to play "City of Battle" eagerly throughout California, the West, the Central and even the East. There are countless more.

Without exception, they are all fans of Mars Entertainment.

While these people were attracted by "City of Battle", in Los Angeles, in the newly established "Game" magazine, Adrian was nervously waiting for specific sales data.

An hour and a half after his first batch of magazines was delivered, the operator in charge of adjusting the goods received the first call asking for more stock, and then the calls for more stock came in like a storm.

At first it was a thousand copies, then two thousand copies, then ten thousand copies, twenty thousand copies, and finally...

"All 100,000 copies have been sent out!"

Before ten o'clock, an employee hurried to Adrian's office. He had a look of disbelief on his face and shouted with great excitement.

In his eyes, this was simply an incredible miracle! It is simply incredible that a new magazine sold 100,000 copies in half a day, and there were countless calls urging them to continue shipping.

"They asked us to print more!" The employee kept talking. Seeing his editor-in-chief, he was still in a state of shock and had not recovered, so he spoke very quickly and suggested, "Editor-in-Chief, We want to print more! Looking at this sales method, we need to print at least 50,000 more copies, and we can even print 100,000 more copies!"

After hearing the suggestions from his employees, Adrian recovered from the shock. He first clenched his fists hard, and then waved them hard.

The look on his face was as excited as the employee who suggested that he print more copies immediately. Although he had expected that 100,000 copies would not be enough to sell, he did not expect that in just one morning, he would print more copies. All the 100,000 copies printed for the first time were sold. You know, this is not a newspaper, this is a periodical. Generally speaking, the first three days after a magazine comes out are the best sales period. If you follow this sales method , not to mention printing another 100,000 copies, even printing another 150,000 copies, it is very likely that 250,000 copies will be sold.

However, before, Jester only allowed 200,000 copies of game floppy disks to be copied, so now he can only print an additional 100,000 copies at most. If there are more copies, he will not have any game floppy disks to send.

He knows that those who are rushing to buy magazines now are all looking for the "City of Battle" game floppy disk from Mars Entertainment. If their magazine does not have this game, then they will buy their own magazine which they do not have. of famous magazines.

Originally, Adrian thought that even if "Game" became popular thanks to the fame of Mars Entertainment, it would not be able to sell 200,000 copies. However, he did not expect that the 100,000 copies of the first edition would actually be sold. Didn't make it through the morning.

Then, he nodded without hesitation and said to the employee who was still waiting for his reply: "Call Clement immediately and ask them to print an additional 100,000 copies!"

When the employee heard Adrian's reply, he immediately nodded, turned around and left quickly.

Adrian thought about it for a moment. Looking at the sales speed of the first 100,000 copies, and after the word-of-mouth spread of "City of War" among players, he felt that the sales of 200,000 copies might also be very fast. Sold out, so he needs more Battlefield floppy disks.

While thinking about it, he called Jester, but the beep from the other end of the phone reminded him that the other party was on the phone.

Helpless, he could only hang up the phone and call again later.

Jester was indeed talking to someone.

On the phone, Adam Edgar told him that the British woman who wanted to cooperate with them was here again. This woman seemed to be a fan of Jester games. She liked the games produced by Jester very much. She even has three different Pokemon pet machines that are only sold in Japan. She sincerely expressed that she wanted to discuss cooperation with Jester.

Moreover, Jester also learned from Adam Edgar that this woman's family was very powerful in Britain and was an old aristocratic family. The elders of the family followed Lord Nelson in the great naval battle that established Britain's world hegemony in modern times. .

Regarding cooperation in Europe, Jester has indeed considered it. After all, Europe is not his home court.

Jester doesn't have the energy to expand distribution channels to Europe now. This is why he gave the European distribution rights of the arcade versions of his four games to Sega before. Doesn't he know that he will publish them himself? Earn more?

Of course he knows, but knowing is one thing, being able to do it is another.

Now his Japanese branch has just been established, and it is just a game company. Fengxing Publishing is currently busy setting up logistics centers with states as the core and flagship stores with the central cities of each state as the core across the United States. There is no time at all. Go to Japan to set up distribution channels.

Moreover, just setting up a complete and large distribution channel in the United States will cost a lot of money and take a lot of time.

Judging from the current progress, it would be great if Fengxing Publishing can complete the establishment of distribution channels covering the United States, including Canada, when its home console is officially launched.

He bit off more than he could chew, and he couldn't even take care of Japan for the time being, let alone Europe.

Therefore, Jester became somewhat interested in this British woman who said she wanted to cooperate with him in gaming in Europe.

He knows that one cannot eat the cake alone, and finding a powerful partner in the UK would not be a good thing for future development.

So, he said to Adam Edgar over the phone: "Then inform her that I will treat her to a meal tonight, and I will go to Los Angeles later. You choose the location. Since she is a British noble, you can choose A higher style, don’t let people think that we despise her.”

Adam Edgar also nodded in agreement.

Jester had just finished his phone call with Adam Edgar and was about to make another call to inquire about the sales of the first issue of "Game" when his phone rang.

I picked up the phone and heard that it was Adrian.

"Boss, one hundred thousand copies, all sold out!" As soon as he put the receiver to his ear, Adrian's uncontrollably excited and even somewhat incoherent voice came from the other side of the receiver.

Hearing this voice, Jester could imagine Adrian's excitement at this moment.

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