Number One Game Designer

"Little Lan?"

"What's the matter, boss?"

"Go to the person in charge of our VR lab and tell them that the name of the VR experiment has been changed to Genesis!"

"Clam?"

...

Anyway, at least the name shocked Dan, and he had promised to follow Fang Xi to Huaxia to see their laboratory in two days, so as to decide whether to stay or not.

Before Fang Xi left the fast food restaurant, he looked at the man who buried himself in codes on the table again and sighed:

"What a perfect 996 employee..."

"No, it feels like 997."

Because it was a sudden decision to come to Chicago, only Dillon knew about Ghost Car Studio, and Fang Xi didn't intend to disturb Ogg and the others. For me, "GTA" is also a series that I am looking forward to. It can bring unpredictable achievements to Hongyi.

And this series is almost predictable to be successful. Although Dillon is worried, Fang Xi is full of confidence: For young people, what is the most attractive game? Feel, story, plot characters, etc. are secondary, because you have to let people enter the game first to experience these.

The most indispensable thing in "GTA" is this kind of ability, an American city that can be reproduced, and it needs to be more "free". It is exciting to think about it. It is possible to see the "landscape" that cannot be seen in reality. , You can do things here that you can’t do in reality, which is tempting enough, let alone you can say to young people: “This game can drive at night to take care of the business of street girls.”

So Fang Xi was very relieved about this project in general. After saying goodbye to Di Lon and comforting this young man of Nordic descent who was a little older than himself, Fang Xi bought a ticket to Redwood City.

If there is one company in the United States that Fang Xi is interested in, then there is only one game company, and that is Electronic Arts.

The headquarters of this game giant is in Redwood City, with more than 8,000 employees. According to official data from the United States, there are less than 100,000 residents in Redwood City, which means that this city has nearly 50% of the households. Both have an inseparable relationship with EA.

Considering that this city is a standard "city-level county seat" in the United States, it can be said that there is nothing wrong with directly changing the name of "Redwood City" to "Electronics City" or "EA City".

And Fang Xi's development ideas are similar to EA's: Although big cities have better public resources and talent reserves, as long as the company is big enough in small cities, you can expand the scale of the company here and build a company that allows Where employees are more comfortable, EA does just that.

EA has a large industrial park in Redwood City. In this park, there are independent staff living areas, independent power supply and network facilities. This is simply a modern standard "city within a city". Residents of Redwood City only work Two types: direct work for EA, and indirect work for EA.

Although this city can be regarded as unknown in the United States, the headquarters built by EA with a huge investment is also very attractive to many people. Fang Xi's trip is just to "learn some experience".

On the plane, Xi also had a general understanding of the history of the city.

You can probably guess the history of Redwood City just by looking at its name. This is a city that started out relying on forestry resources. Here abounds in California's specialty: California mahogany. This is a California native tree that can grow up to 112 meters high. It is a good building material, especially suitable for making bathtubs. Therefore, in the last century or even the last century, people here lived fairly well. good.

It was not until later that better materials were used in buildings. On the other hand, many people also discovered that California mahogany is relatively rare in the world, so the Conservation Association was born naturally, and the building material dealers who originally gathered here also gradually dispersed. There were less than 50,000 people left, that is, at this time,

EA was founded. At that time, the toddler EA took a fancy to Redwood City. The land here was cheap, and it was not far from San Francisco. It was a good place to start a company.

So EA took root here, until today. And EA also has its own tourism project, which can be regarded as generating income for Hongmu City, and Fang Xi reported to this tour group.

But fortunately, at the beginning, Fang Xi was still worried that the people who signed up for this tour group were the kind of "sunset red" tour group. As a result, when we arrived at the location, we found that the average age was around 30 years old, and most of them were Americans.

A group of people gathered at the airport and waited for the bus to pick them up. According to the guide instructions sent to Fang Xi, this group is also a very simple tour group, and it can be completed in about a day.

That is, while waiting for the bus, a fat man beside Fang Xi stretched out his right hand to Fang Xi:

"Hello, I'm Andrew. Are you from the East? I've been here three times, but I don't seem to have seen any tourists from the East."

Fang Xi also stretched out his hand and shook it while looking at Andrew: Slightly bald, with a marked American bucket waist, his skin is terribly pale, but he looks quite sunny, and his age looks about thirty, maybe forty , some people in Europe and the United States are prematurely aging, Fang Xi is often uncertain.

"Yes, I'm DAN from China. I've played EA games before and I'm a little interested, so come and have a look."

"Ha! Sure enough, you are a player!" Andrew said happily: "I guess you must be a player like me, DAN, nice to meet you."

"But is the sun too bright this day? You're still wearing glasses."

Fang Xi laughed, adjusted his sunglasses and peaked cap, looked at the cloudy sky, and nodded brazenly: "That's right, it's a bit dazzling."

"What a weirdo." Andrew muttered, and then said, "Hey, which EA game have you played? "Diamond Kid" or "Magic Carpet"?"

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This journey is much more comfortable than Fang Xi imagined. There are not many people in Redwood City, so the driver drives slowly. The tour guide first took a group of people in the car to see the river surrounding Redwood City. In the early days, Redwood City still relied on trees. When living with resources, these rivers are the lifeblood of the city. They cut trees upstream and push the trunks to a reasonable downstream. Therefore, the river banks of Redwood City were basically sawmills in the past, but now the grass is desolate and no one is there. Remember what the sawmill was like back then.

After seeing the past, we need to look at the future. EA is naturally the best business card in Redwood City. It can be seen that EA did not want to overwhelm the guests in terms of urban planning. It asked for a piece of land in the suburbs at that time to build its headquarters. The land has the best power supply, banks, supermarkets and other resources, so people naturally gravitate towards it. In the end, Redwood City seems to have become a vassal of EA headquarters.

"What can we do? The Redwood City government has asked the state government for funds to repair the subway. It has been asking for more than ten years. Finally, EA built a simple subway for the convenience of their employees. As a result, the state government responded quickly:' Don’t you already have a subway?’ and dismissed the subway proposal.”

For the tour guide's self-deprecation, there is a cheerful air inside and outside the car.

Fang Xi was thoughtful, for a company to be able to make a small city rely on them is an honor in a certain sense.