Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

"what happened?"

As soon as Zhu Youxing walked out of the office, he saw several game development team employees arguing fiercely.

"President, I'm sorry we didn't mean to disturb you." An employee said a little nervously.

"Let's talk about what's going on first, and why are you arguing?"

"This... we may have encountered some trouble."

"Tell me in detail."

"The composer we hired some time ago... ran away."

Zhu Youxing was stunned: "Run away?"

The employee nodded: "Well, it literally ran away..."

"what happened?"

"Because he felt that his work was insulted, but we didn't disrespect him at all, we just hoped that he could learn some assembly language, so that he could make music in the game, but after he studied for a while, he thought it was humiliating him and resigned."

Matsuhashi, who was in charge of personnel management next to these employees, was there, and after the others finished speaking, she said, "President, it's not just one composer who wants to leave, it's three or four that we just invited. composers want to go."

Zhu Youxing thought for a moment, and immediately realized what he said, "It's also because of programming and composing music?"

"Yeah, they've never written music on a console before, and at first they just thought they just had to figure out how to make music and our console would play it, but then they figured out they had to learn a bit before they could compose music. programming language, so they all backed down.”

Zhu Youxing shook his head: "It's my negligence, I didn't consider this kind of thing, how many composers want to leave now?"

Matsuhashi replied: "We have hired a total of five composers now, and each game development team has one, but now except for the fifth game development team, the others want to leave."

The one from the fifth game development team... By the way, it happened to be the one recommended by Minoru Matsuhashi, that somewhat down-and-out composer.

I'm afraid this guy won't be able to leave even if he really wants to, at least here can give him a chance to make money by composing music, and he can only do odd jobs to make ends meet elsewhere.

The other composers themselves were not considered to be short of money, but because they really gave a lot, and out of curiosity about new industries, they came here to test the waters.

Now it seems normal for these people to choose to leave after encountering difficulties.

In the early game production of the red and white machine, the game was made using a programming language called assembly language, which is a fairly early programming language.

And wanting to create music on the red and white machine, that is, the iconic 8BIT music is not simply adding a score.

You have to write code according to the programmer's thinking, and treat the code as a musical score, so that the machine can recognize these things.

Red and white machines simply don't recognize the kind of music score in human society.

But in the SFC game machine, the performance has achieved a qualitative leap, and the sound effect has also skyrocketed, which is much more pleasing to the ear than the 8BIT music.

But in a 16-bit chip, it is still necessary to use assembly language to make music.

And using assembly language to make music on a 16-bit console is a little more complicated than that of a red and white machine, after all, the music effect has been greatly improved.

These are some inherent defects of this chip, and it is not impossible to improve it, but it is very difficult and requires a huge investment in research and development, specifically to develop a machine that can assist in music production.

In the previous SFC era, Nintendo did develop a device that could quickly make game music.

But I don't know how much the research cost of that thing is. Zhu Youxing only knows that it is very expensive.

Only large game companies such as Card Watch, Konami, and EA can afford it.

It is not cost-effective for smaller game companies and studios to buy this.

Therefore, Zhuyouxing did not consider this matter at the beginning, thinking that the 16-bit game console is also a transition. It is estimated that a game console with better performance will be released again in three or four years at the latest, and in one or two years at the earliest. Need to spend too much money on this.

But now there is trouble.

Those composers didn't want to learn assembly language at all.

In their eyes, programming language is like a bible. They are composers, not mathematicians. If they have the time to learn assembly language, they don't know how much music they can create. Why waste time here?

Composer is very important, and in 16-bit game consoles, the improvement of picture quality and sound quality is the most significant.

He went to help write the main music of some games, such as the crystal overture, which is no problem, but he can't even write some background music in the game himself, right? Then how could I be too busy.

After the birth of 16-bit game consoles, the game industry has already begun to have a clear division of labor.

Those who make music will do music, those who make animation will do animation, and those who write programs will write programs.

It seems that I am still walking too fast, and I have accelerated the development of video games, so that the world does not have too many stable development periods. This may be some kind of hidden danger, and I have to be more vigilant.

"Is there only one person who wants to leave now? Or do the other three want to leave now?" Zhu Youxing asked.

"The other three have this idea. No one started it before, and now some people want to leave. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the other three to stay. But the president, I can assure you that my friend's brother will never be so easy. leave."

Zhu Youxing nodded: "I see, where are those three people now? You call them together, and I will talk to them in person. By the way, try to call the one who is about to leave. If you really don't want to come, let it go. "

Zhu Youxing intends to try it himself to see if he can keep him.

Now these four composers are the most suitable candidates after several screenings.

Their respective genres are suitable for video games. If they all leave, it will be a loss. Zhu Youxing still intends to save it as much as possible.

"Then I'll call them here."

Everyone left, and Zhu Youxing walked delicately to the room where the usual temporary meeting was held.

Speaking of which, the building seems a bit small now.

With the expansion of the company's scale, the number of employees under his command has reached nearly two hundred.

More than half of them are developers, and the others are marketing, public relations, legal affairs, finance, etc.

The customer service personnel were outsourced and did not occupy the company's space, otherwise the current three-story office building would definitely not be enough.

It seems that after a period of time, I can seriously consider finding a new office location.

While Zhu Youxing was thinking, several people came in one after another.