Chapter 41 First make a world view setting
After the interview, Storm Jester didn't have the heart to pay attention to this information. He had a lot of things to do. In addition to dealing with some trivial matters of the company, he also designed a brand new game to prepare to welcome the visit of Sega's head, Shikao Nakayama, etc.
However, this episode of "Chicago Morning" is not broadcast immediately, but will be a few days later, but the bets between him and others on the show still spread like wildfire.
The white man named Henry Stuart was not a family member of the irrelevant TV station staff. He was a TV series director with a little fame. That day, he went to AM TV station to handle some work matters. While waiting, he saw that there was a recording of the program, so he went to watch it and passed the time.
Moreover, he had a criminal record of being accused of racial discrimination. During a TV series filming, he was sentenced to half a year in prison for suspected racial discrimination against a black actor.
This time he was once again involved in a new racial discrimination incident, and his previous dark history was once again revealed.
The senior executives of ABC were also very concerned about this, thinking that this matter was a good hype gimmick. After ending all cooperation with Henry Stuart to show their own position, they began to build momentum for this program that was about to become a social hot topic.
Originally, this episode was only broadcast on ABC's television networks covering the whole of the United States, and selected more than 20 TV stations. However, after this incident, ABC immediately made a decision to increase the total number of TV stations broadcast to more than 120. This is basically more than 90% of ABC's franchise stations.
Things linked to racial discrimination can always attract the most common attention in the United States, and people of color are particularly sensitive to this.
In particular, the person who was insulted was a focus person who sold $100 million in sales just after completing a game.
It is regarded by many as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates second.
A UCLA spokesperson also stood up to support Jester, stating that Jester was a student with excellent grades in the school and had never had any bad records. After receiving Jester's permission, he announced his transcript of the last semester last semester, all A.
Jester also took advantage of this popularity and spent $5 million without hesitation to buy ABC a full half month of prime time advertisements, preparing to broadcast the day when the Chicago trial party began.
The content of the advertisement is not a game that directly promotes Mars Entertainment, but an activity - the game tour across the United States!
This is also the product of Jester's imagination.
Mars Entertainment will conduct a tour of the United States after the Chicago trial, and has initially selected twenty large cities. Jester also promises that it will be held in the United States trial, and announced some levels of one of the two large games being developed by Mars Entertainment for players to experience.
This is a game of the next era! This is how Jester described it to players in the advertisement.
Although many people are waiting to watch Jester's jokes with him about Mars Entertainment, he still gained a lot of fans with "American Cube". From the system in his body, it can be seen that the total number of fans of the game "American Cube" has exceeded 2 million, while the total number of fans of Mars Entertainment is close to 500,000, and his own fans are slightly fewer, only more than 100,000.
These people are also looking forward to the new game of Jester and his Mars Entertainment.
Jester believes that as long as this advertisement is broadcast, his promotional activity will definitely trigger a craze.
Of course, the next-generation game that Jester said was preparing to launch next is "Snowman Brothers".
The first two levels of "Snowman Brothers" have been initially produced. Although this is only a small step for a game with more than 80 levels, in fact, the beginning of formal production also means that all the initial settings have been completed. You only need to program the settings step by step according to the prepared settings.
The production of the first level is the slowest, because just getting started, after getting proficient in the level production, the production speed will increase rapidly.
The trial version that Jester intends to release is about twenty to thirty levels, so time is enough.
Moreover, after thinking about it over and over again, Jester decided to use the low-end 8-bit substrate that has been developed as a platform for carrying, because the imaginary enemy of this game is "Donkey Kong", and the picture quality only needs a qualitative improvement compared to "Donkey Kong" three years ago, and it does not require the terrifying color processing capability of the high-end dual PPU version that is still in the design.
This American tour trial was just an idea that Jester had come up with when he recalled some hype and publicity activities in later generations. He also handed over the specific operating methods to Carly Tyre, who had arrived in Los Angeles.
In this regard, he could still do it, but the specific details were not something he could do.
On the day Jester returned to California, the Fengxing Issuing Company, which was completely controlled by Jester Holdings, was officially established. The company name is a very simple word, Popular.
This is also the concept of the establishment of this company, and its own products are the most popular.
The company name was proposed by Carly Terry, and then obtained the company's only two employees plus Jester's unanimous votes.
And Jester also discovered that Adam Edgar, who had a little disdain for him to let a woman be the CEO, was completely impressed by Carly Tyri's talent.
Even the other Margaret Whitman, who was as old as him and was only twenty-six years old, surprised Adam Edgar. His capable style of acting made him completely unable to understand that the other person was a woman.
"Where did you find such talent? Or a woman?"
Adam Edgar has outstanding abilities. He is a top student who graduated from Georgia Tech, one of the three major American polytechnicians, who is as famous as MIT. He has served as vice president of a trading company at a young age and has managed the entire company in an orderly manner. He is extremely arrogant about his abilities. This time he met Jester and just found it casually. He originally thought that the two women who were just making up the numbers were so outstanding, which really surprised him.
"The Lord said: You cannot say it." Jester could only fool him into this. Of course, he could not tell the truth to the other party.
However, the biggest problem with Fengxing’s is that the funds are insufficient. The 35 million US dollars that Jester took away from Mars Entertainment’s profit dividends was simply investing a few things and spending more than 18 million. In addition, he still needs to spend nearly 5 million to invest in the animation of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for the remaining 17 million miles.
Therefore, the establishment of Fengxing Issuing Company was only 10 million yuan this time, and even of this ten million, Jester has already spent 5 million yuan to purchase ABC's advertising broadcast time.
Where, the initial fund of at least 10 million US dollars that had originally agreed to be at least 5 million is now in front of Carly Terry.
Five million US dollars is not enough to establish a distribution network aimed at building a nationwide distribution network, and it is basically a drop in the bucket.
Moreover, the trial tour of the United States this time will definitely cost a lot of money.
So, Carly was still a little angry.
Faced with Carly's scepticism, Jester, who knew he was a little in the wrong, could only guarantee that Fengxing Issuing Company and Mars Entertainment would each bear half of the cost of the tour trial, and that he would add at least $8 million in follow-up funds within one month.
Carly Tyri gave up after receiving Jester's promise.
The sales trend of "American Square" is almost the same as what Jester had expected before. After selling 15,000 units in the first month, starting from the second month, orders fell like a ten-meter jump. In the past ten days, only more than a thousand units were received.
Then, after hearing the news, some media began to swear by Mars Entertainment, and Jester scoffed at this.
These people know nothing about video games at all.
This is not that the popularity of "American Cubes" has passed, nor is the market already saturated. It is not that fewer than 10,000 units have been produced in spot stock, so how can it be so easy to saturate.
According to Donkey Kong's experience, the saturation of an arcade machine in the US market is about 60,000.
But because the price of "American Cube" is more than twice that of "Donkey Kong", the sales volume will inevitably be far inferior.
But this is far from saturation.
However, it was somewhat beyond Jester's expectation to receive an order of 1,000 units again in about ten days. He had previously predicted that "American Cubes" would be able to sell about 20,000 units by the end of the year. From this perspective, it is still very likely that the sales volume of more than 25,000 units by the end of the year will be more than 25,000 units.
This also gave Jester a little surprise, after all, the number of 5,000 units is equivalent to sales of 30 million US dollars.
After all these trivial matters came to an end, Jester also had some free time.
In Chicago, he was considering a vertical scroll flying air combat game in order to seize the market for this type of game with Namco and Capcom.
Thinking of the two games that were about to become their opponents, Jester actually felt extremely excited.
There is nothing more fulfilling than shooting down a legend with your own hands.
In his memory, although Namco and Capcom were the first to develop this type of game, the leader of this type of game was PSIKYO, a game company that has not yet been born, translated into Chinese as Caijing.
This is a game production company founded in 1992. It is different from comprehensive game companies such as Namco or Capcom. This company specializes in the development of a type of game, namely flying shooting games, thus developing the gameplay of this type of game to its peak.
Among the arcade games that Jester played before his rebirth, there are two most unforgettable flying shooting games.
Because it was in the 1990s that he played arcades, he had not had much contact with "Iron Plate Array" and "1942" the founder of the two vertical scroll flying shooting games that were rampant in the 1980s.
His real first time playing these two legendary games was the one he did on the PC emulator later.
Because there were few of these two games in the arcade hall of his era.
His favorite two vertical scroll flying shooting games have been heard by many arcade game enthusiasts, and even those who have played arcades as children.
One is the famous "Thunder and Lightning" released by Seibu-Kaihatsu (developed by Seibu) in 1990s. This game is very difficult and is likely to be the most difficult flying shooting game that most people can play in arcade halls.
"Thunder and Lightning" is also the first time that all players know that the fun of air combat games is not about hitting planes, but about dodging bullets.
Jester remembers that when he went to the arcade hall when he was a child, every time someone went to play "Thunder" and could pass the level with one's life, it would attract a large number of players' attention.
Such a person is an absolute master in his eyes, who can't pass the first level, and he always casts his eyes with envious jealousy and hatred at his back.
The second model may not be as famous as "Thunder and Lightning". When it was born, it had basically entered the era of fighting games dominated by the Qing Dynasty. The S** game had almost no foothold, but when Jester played this game for the first time, he was still attracted by the smooth operation, gorgeous explosion scenes and gorgeous colors.
This game is the culmination of the scroll air combat game in Jester's eyes, and is also Ai Kyo's famous work "Striker 1945".
Jester knew that whether it was "Thunderbolt" or "Striker 1945", these two games were works that paid tribute to Capcom's "1942". When he built the S** game that was full of ideas in his mind, he was built based on these two games.
He didn't care about this. Since he wanted to be a bayonet in the same type of games as Namco and Capcom this time, he was not afraid of some similarities in the settings. This would also allow players to compare the advantages and disadvantages of several similar games.
However, then again, there are some similarities in the settings, but it is not the same. In Jester's opinion, the other things he is planning to make are difficult to connect with "1942" except for the 1940s that happened on Earth.
As for "Iron Plate"? This game has no specific background settings at all.
Today's players have not as many requirements for a game as it is in future generations, as long as it is fun.
But Jester doesn't think so. He, from later generations, deeply knew how important the world view of a game plays a game's subsequent development.
Some games are not suitable for a huge worldview, such as the few he made before, but some games are very suitable, such as the fighting clear version called "Avengers" that Mark Seni is working on, and the product that he has now opened up his mind.
This game is also the first time that he did not completely plagiarize, so he also wanted to make the world view setting of this game as perfect as possible.
He first referred to the background of "Starcraft" and set up a powerful alien race, Xel'Naga. This race discovered Earth, a planet suitable for living creatures, just ended in 1945. In order to occupy this planet, they released a corrupt seed to come to Earth.
This seed corrupted some human military generals who were not determined enough. These people betrayed humans and formed a military organization called NAGA. The purpose of this military organization exists to complete the arrival of their master, the Sarnaga people.
To complete the arrival of the Sarnagar people, terrible energy is needed, so conquering the world became NAGA's first mission.
With the support of some technologies that surpassed this era in the Sarnagars, NAGA, which drove black technology, won victory at the beginning, while the countries that were fighting each other collapsed completely.
Finally, when human freedom power was about to fail completely, countries finally abandoned prejudice and formed the last resistance organization - the Earth Resistance Army.
Of course, in order to please American players, Jester set the main body of NAGA as the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the most corrupted by the Sarnagars, and Moscow also became the base camp of NAGA.
The core and leader of the Earth Rebel Army must be the unscrupulous self in the eyes of Americans.
This is the initial background setting that Jester made. For specific stories under this background, he will naturally find special writers to write a few novels. Such novels do not need to be written very well, they only need to be able to write a high-quality story clearly. This is originally a peripheral for the promotion of this game.
Yes, Jester's plan is to sell the background novels of this game after it became popular. Will the sales be very good? Jester dare not guarantee it, but he knew that under the influence of the game he was preparing to develop, the sales will definitely not be bad.
This is also the marketing strategy of some large game companies in later generations, such as Blizzard.
Then, the specific gameplay settings of this game.
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