Chapter 82: Looking for a Famous Master This Time
At this moment, a knock on the door sounded.
Jester put the documents wet with coffee on the windowsill one by one and let the sunlight dry them. When he heard the knock on the door, Jester, who had not completely calmed down his mood, said a little unhappy.
“The door is not locked.”
Then Mark Seney pushed the door open and entered.
He saw the manuscript paper scattered everywhere on the ground at first sight, and then a look of confusion appeared on his face.
Bent down and picked up a few chapters of manuscript papers, Mark Seney glanced a few times, with the slow handwriting on it.
After a moment of a glance, a smile appeared on his face. He looked at Jester, who was still angry and said, "What? Isn't satisfied with the novel?"
“It’s more than just dissatisfaction!”
Jester was still a little angry. He pointed at the manuscripts that were still on the ground and were stepped on by him, and scolded angrily, "This writer is simply cheating money! I have already told him that he should create according to our main plot and allow free play, but the theme cannot be changed. But he directly changed this novel into his own novel, and directly destroyed the theme we set."
While speaking, Jester walked into the manuscripts again, bent down and searched for them, and picked up one of them.
"Look." He handed the manuscript to Mark Seney and said bluntly, "He also explained to me why he had to change the main line, because he thought that writing this would be more artistic."
Mark Seney took the manuscript handed over by Jester, which was written by the author for why he wanted to modify the main line.
"The protagonist in me wants to use the next one and continues to use it. He wrote it all for me and told me that it is artistic?" Jester cursed constantly, "And the plot I can't tolerate is that after the protagonist's fighter plane crashes, the protagonist's brother thought his friend died, so he could use the excuse of comforting his friend's girlfriend who thought he was 'dead'. And after his friend returns, he can still take it for granted that this is what he deserves."
Mark Seney, a native American, actually thinks that there is nothing wrong with this NTR plot. Instead, he doesn't understand why Jester cannot accept this plot, but he doesn't want to say it directly. After all, this is a game designed by Jester himself from beginning to end. Just like his "Avengers", he naturally cannot allow others to point fingers at his works.
But before he could think of anything to comfort Jester, Jester directly sentenced the writer to the fate of the novel "Dawn".
"I want to change people." Jester said firmly this time. He said seriously. "The background of my game is an absurd world of alien life, and borrowed the gimmick of the US-Soviet Contest. This is to tell readers, or our players that the main body of our work is war and contest, and the theme of the work that serves our game must also be war, not other shit."
Mark Seney agrees with this.
"So..." Jester nodded after seeing Mark Seney hear him, so he continued, "It's like this writer putting a good war plot without writing, and writing some bloody emotional dramas that readers who pay attention to this kind of books don't care about, it's simply putting the cart before the horse."
"But..." Mark Seney shrugged after hearing this, and he asked curiously, "Do you have any other candidates?"
"Not yet." Jester squirted for a long time, and his anger was almost gone. Anyway, he decided not to let the writer of the literary genius participate in the compilation of his game plot novels, and there was no need to be angry about him anymore. "I'm not very familiar with this aspect. You happen to be here. Do you know that this kind of novel is good? This time we won't look for those who are not famous. We look for famous artists, and money is not a problem."
"Famous artist?"
Hearing Jester's words, Mark Seney frowned. He really liked reading this kind of books. If you want to say that the author is the most suitable for this kind of plot... He thought about it for dozens of seconds, and then his eyes suddenly lit up, and he really thought of one.
In fact, this writer has just become famous. The novel he just published happened to be the best-selling book selected by the New York Times in these issues. He happened to buy one a few days ago. He has not finished reading it yet, but it is very good. Whether it is the plot of the story, the character portrayal, the author's prediction of the international situation, the mastery of various military operations and military information, in the eyes of Mark Seney, he feels unaware of the harshness.
It also made him a completely fan of the author.
"Wait first, I'll get you a book." Mark Seney said a little faster, and then turned around and left the room without waiting for Jester's answer.
Jester was a little strange. He didn't know what Mark Seney meant by "take a book".
A minute later, the door of Jester's office was pushed open again. Mark Seney hurried in with a book in his hand. He walked to Jester, handed the book to Jester, and then said enthusiastically, "How do you look at this book? I think the author of this book is very suitable for your plot novel."
Jester looked down and saw that the cover of the book was a blood-red background with a pattern of airplanes and submarines on it, and the title of the book was located at the bottom of the cover.
"The-Hunt-for-Red-October..." Jester whispered and found the book a little familiar. It seemed that he had heard of it before. Then he glanced at the author's name again. When he saw the word "Tom-Clancy", he suddenly realized that he knew who the author of this book was.
The name of this book is translated into Chinese as "Hunting the Red October". Jester has never read this book, but it does not prevent him from knowing the author of this book, because the author of this book is too famous in the field of military novels, and the game with his name as a prefix has also produced many classics.
Such as "Rainbow Six" and "Eagle Shooting the Sky".
Tom Clancy is a well-deserved legend in terms of game scripts.
Moreover, although he had never read this book, he had seen movies adapted from this book.
"Tom Clancy?" Although Jester knew who Mark Seney was talking about, he still spoke to Mark Seney.
Then Mark Seney nodded with certainty, and he even looked at Jester with some surprise: "Have you heard his name too? Have you read this book too?"
"I haven't. I just read a few issues of the newspaper, and the reviews of his work are very high... Do you remember when I went to Chicago before? There was an issue of the Chicago Tribune that contained a commentary article by Stephen Hunter. He almost blew the novel to the sky, saying that Tom Clancy directly created a brand new novel genre or something."
Jester shook his head and explained. He took the book "Hunting the Red October" handed to him by Mark Seney, and looked at the passages inside quickly. In fact, this would not tell how good an author is. However, Jester, who is clear about Tom Clancy's level, naturally does not need to judge whether he can write his game plot novel with just a few glances.
This is undoubtedly because Tom Clancy is undisputed, and in the next thirty years, the best military novel writer, even no one.
And most importantly, he himself is not resistant to participating in the creation of the game.
So, Jester just pretended to read for ten minutes before closing the book. He smiled and said to Mark Seney: "It's very good, very professional military novels. I think his style is very suitable for "Dawn". After saying that, Jester felt that he still couldn't accurately express his meaning.
So he added: "I mean, he is the best candidate for writing "Dawn".
Then Jester changed his voice and asked in confusion: "The question now is whether we can convince him to write plot novels for our games. After all, he is not a famous writer and can be jealous of money. Moreover, I heard that he has his own company, and he is just a hobby to write novels, so it is still difficult for us to impress him with money."
This time, Mark Seney touched his chin, thought for a while, and then smiled. He said, "I don't think the problem is big. "Hunting the Red October" is his first book. Although it is a best-selling, he is just a new writer now, and he is also a staunch anti-Soviet element. The theme of your game is also in the Black Soviet Union. This is an ideological agreement with him. As long as we give him greater right to create independently and the price is higher, I don't think the problem will be big."
"That's good." Jester breathed a sigh of relief. He frowned and thought for a while, and then said to Mark Seney: "It was the most suitable for me to invite him to participate in the creation, but I will go to the mainland to set up our production factory, which will take about ten days to half a month. After I come back, I will rush to the UK to prepare for the establishment of a European branch, so I can't separate myself."
After hearing Jester's words, Mark Seney could only nod his head. He did not hesitate at all and said directly: "This is no problem. The development of "Avengers" is very smooth. I have been very relaxed recently. I will go on your behalf once, but you have to tell me how much you can give Tom Clancy the right to modify it."
"this……"
Jester thought about it and knew that his plot writing skills were not very strong, while Tom Clancy was one of the masters.
So he just thought for a moment and made his own decision.
"As long as the background and framework remain unchanged, all other contents can be played by himself, but there are two points: one, the main characters in it cannot die, at least they cannot die all, and two, this must be a military novel."
Mark Senny nodded and signaled that he understood.
Chapter completed!