"it's beautiful."

After comforting the woman and the child, Jester and Lee Kun-hee stood side by side, overlooking the entire Victoria Harbor from the huge floor-to-ceiling windows.

Jester, who had not spoken, sighed, then turned his gaze to Lee Kun-hee, who looked a little solemn.

The future head of the Samsung Empire frowned slightly. Obviously, his current situation is not as leisurely as it seems. At this time, he can still travel and relax. Something must have happened within the company.

However, if the other party didn't say it, Jester couldn't take the initiative to ask. It was too taboo to do this.

After a while, Lee Kun-hee withdrew her gaze that looked down at Victoria Harbor. He looked at Jester, with a look of hesitation on his face before asking: "Mr. Lee, you just came back from the mainland. I want to ask what you think about the mainland now."

"President Lee." After hearing this, Jester did not answer directly, but turned around and took a glass of red wine on the wine rack on one side, poured two glasses of red wine, handed it to Lee Kun-hee, and then he took a sip and said, "You are a wise man. I don't need to say anything else. You just need to know that in the mainland, it is an uncultivated market with a population of 800 million people. Even if one person only buys you one pound of sugar a year, it is a sales volume of 800 million jin of sugar. As a businessman, you should understand what this means."

After hearing this, Lee Kun-hee didn't speak, but nodded.

"Last week, I proposed to build a Samsung Electric Appliances factory in Tianjin at the company's board of directors. The news I asked before was that my brother was also interested in investing in the mainland. I thought there would be no big problem with the proposed approval this time, but..." Lee Kun-hee didn't finish speaking, a hint of anger flashed in his eyes, but even if he didn't need to finish speaking, Jester knew that Lee Kun-hee's brother definitely did not agree to his proposal.

The competition for the position of Samsung heir is almost the same as the party struggles in ancient times. No matter whether it is right or wrong, just ask about the butt.

With such a blatant and confrontation, I believe the situation of the Samsung founder is getting worse and worse. Jester thought, and said, "President Li, why are your father's recent illnesses going on."

Lee Kun-hee nodded, with a hint of worry in her words: "Yes, I just returned from the United States last month, and my father had a first aid because of poor breathing. I heard from the doctor that my father is already in advanced lung cancer. How long can he last depends on his own will."

"Don't worry." Jester knew that Lee Byung-chul died at the end of 1987, so even if he is critically ill now, there will be no danger.

"Then I'll lend you a good word." Lee Kun-hee nodded with a calm face, without saying too much.

Jester did have the intention to deepen cooperation with Samsung. When he thought of the game console manufacturing factory he was preparing to build, he immediately had an idea.

After carefully inquiring about Samsung Construction, Jester expressed his purpose.

"President Li, I am planning to build a large electronics industrial park in the mainland, mainly engaged in the production of game consoles, but the contractor has not yet confirmed that the prices of American construction companies you know are too high, and I can't take risks in the mainland's level, but I'm anxious to start production in a short period of time, so I want to ask, if you Samsung has been engaged in electronics manufacturing for so many years, if you are responsible for the construction of the first phase of the project, a large electronics industrial park with an annual output of 3 million units, how long will it take?"

Lee Kun-hee heard it and thought for a while, as if she was comparing it. After five minutes, he spoke: "Mr. Lee, we Samsung have not participated in such a huge project construction at one time. However, according to the experience of the Daetian Electrical Factory I commanded before, if the number of construction personnel can be guaranteed and the main project can be constructed at least half a year, and it will take one year to complete it."

After hearing this, Jester was silent for a while. In fact, he was still a little dissatisfied with the speed. He just wanted to continue asking a few questions, but unexpectedly, Lee Kun-hee spoke first.

"Actually, if Mr. Li is just a construction of a general manufacturing factory, except for a few dust-free workshops that may not be able to undertake construction in the mainland, in my understanding, there is no problem in the mainland, especially investors like you. The mainland's attitude towards your factory is done as a political task. If you use the construction unit in the mainland, you may be more efficient." As he said, Lee Kun-hee smiled on his face, he also took a sip of red wine, and then continued, "But in terms of design, you may need to find Japanese planners. Whether it is our Samsung or the mainland, you are a little helpless in the planning and design of such super-large industrial park projects. To be honest, Mr. Li, our Samsung large industrial parks are also designed by the Japanese."

"Thank you." Jester nodded and expressed his gratitude after hearing this.

When he left, Lee Kun-hee's three daughters were still clamoring for the latest three electronic pets that Jester had just released in the United States. They would cry when they were not given a gift. However, Jester now had no hands at all, so he had to promise him to send them to South Korea immediately after returning to the United States, and then gave up.

When Jester returned to Los Angeles, it was already fifteen days after he left. The mainland had just held a National Day parade for the 35th anniversary. Jester was originally invited, but because of the hasty schedule, he did not return to the capital to participate. Instead, his grandfather and his sister-in-law were lucky enough to participate in the ceremony. Jester did not feel any regret about this. After all, he had seen the last two military parades that were far more powerful than this one in later generations.

There are many things that need to be handled by yourself after this return.

The first release of Pokemon electronic pet machine in the United States has once again caused a sensation. This toy designed almost for lonely children has attracted a large number of children, especially girls at the first time, but also surprised their parents. This simulated electronic game that slowly develops a pet can not only help their children eliminate loneliness, but also increase their love.

Although Christmas is not yet, countless parents are still willing to spend money to buy one for their children, just like buying a kitten and puppy to raise, and the price of 99 US dollars is not too expensive.

In this way, the inventory of a total of one million units of the six styles prepared before was sold out in just over a dozen days. All over the United States are constantly asking for replenishment calls. Every day, hundreds of players go to the three flagship stores issued by Fengxing and direct sales stores across the United States to ask if there is any new goods delivered.

Even in some private transactions, the price of a Pokemon pet machine has been raised to $150, and there is still no market price.

Especially those Japanese buyers, as long as you have a brand new Pokemon pet machine, they will buy it without hesitation. Even if it has been unpacked and there are no obvious scratches or damage on the outside, they will not hesitate.

Because electronic pets are so popular in Japan nowadays.

"Some old customers who bought our arcades before have been calling us these days. They asked us to sell the abandoned version of "Avengers". They also said that this is the request of those players. Those players who have experienced the first two levels of "Avengers" in New York or our flagship store all said that they have lost any interest in other games. They dream of playing our "Avengers" now." Adam Edgar smiled and said about the release of the popular version during this period. He knew that Jester would come back today, so he rushed to Mars Entertainment to report to Jester.

"After the second issue of "GAME" was sold by the BOSS method you mentioned before, the sales volume not only did not decrease, but also increased a lot. The sales volume of our second issue has also reached 330,000 copies, and the users who pre-ordered our magazines for the whole year have also increased from 30,000 copies to 90,000 copies. Moreover, we received nearly 10,000 letters from players in the previous half month!" Adrian also got a lot of fun after finishing the second issue of "GAME". He was also very excited about the rising sales of magazines now. Recently, they have also been attracted by game manufacturers who are looking for them to advertise, and even game manufacturers want to spend money to ask them to write a soft article praising their games.

However, Adrian refused to write a soft article without hesitation. He agreed with what Jester said when discussing with him when he was discussing how to develop "GAME". At the beginning, reputation was much more important than profit. After the reputation improved, there would naturally be no lack of profit. Of course, if the game company's game is really excellent, Adrian would not object to writing a flattering article, but after trying out the trial version provided by the manufacturer, Adrian threw it directly into the trash can.

Then Jester listened to reports from several core R&D teams.

Seifer Daberwater, the Super Balotelli, which had previously completed the design based on the Super Horse Classic Edition, has changed the R&D process to a Western-style young designer. Especially after receiving the technical support of Mark Seni, their R&D team is already at the leading position in progress. The entire level design has been completed, and the programmatic process has been carried out halfway.

After playing the trial version of their previous levels, although there are still many bugs in some places, it is forgivable that there is no post-processing DEBUG version, but he still feels a little lacking in rhythm, or the experience of this R&D team, especially Seff Dabower as a producer, is still lacking.

Of course, there is also his own reason. He said before that he would check this work, but in fact, because he was too busy during this period, he did not follow up the whole process except for giving some opinions and experiences in the initial level setting.

This is also his mistake.

However, he felt that although this work was not good enough, for him, he used "Conra" as the standard for judging horizontal scroll shooting games. In fact, even in the previous world, in horizontal scroll shooting games, no game can reach the height of Conra.

If Jester was asked to design it, he felt that the core element of a horizontal scroll shooting game was the sense of rhythm.

The pace must be fast.

Just like Conra, you have to make players move at all times. Through various settings, whether it is enemies or mechanisms, you can't let players stop. You have to let them rush forward in one breath, and you will die if you don't move.

However, this game played by Jester did not give him such a sense of urgency. The character he controlled had a lot of free time completely in safety. In other words, the creator did not give the player enough pressure when designing levels, making the player nervous, making their palms sweat, and making the game more devoted.

Although he was not very satisfied with the Balotelli Sheriff Seifer Daberwater, Jester still did not show it. He praised the other party and praised the other party for doing a good job. In Jester's eyes, it was very difficult for an inexperienced newcomer to do this with some of his not-so-important helps.

An excellent game designer has been growing up through countless lessons. He now has many good game settings in his mind, but this is his. He has played these games and seen what these games look like. So when he first made it, he actually had a very, very specific image of this game.

However, even if Jester's plan is very detailed and specific, it is completely different from other designers in the eyes of himself, because no two people in this world have the same understanding.

Just like this time, Jester, referring to the level of the alloy warhead and Contra, designed many mechanisms for this "Sir Balotelli" that his company wants to do. In his opinion, these mechanisms are all aimed at speeding up the rhythm of this game, but in the eyes of Seff Daberwater, this is not the case. He is too concerned about the difficulty and concealment of these mechanisms.

The role of these mechanisms is indeed to make things difficult for players, but if Jester now rejects this game and starts researching and developing it from scratch, it is okay to completely refer to the rhythm of Conra?

Of course, but Jester won't do that.

In Jester's eyes, the growth of his employees is far more important than what he makes a classic game. There are more things in his mind about classic games, but excellent designers are not.

The reason why some designers can leave their reputation in history is that they have outstanding talents and far surpass their peers is that they have also struggled through setbacks again and again, and no one can succeed casually.

Jester can indeed tell Seifer Daberwater that you don't do it well, you should do it.

Indeed, Jester's prestige is unparalleled now, and his game design theory has also been cited as dogmatic by all designers in the company. However, every designer with outstanding talents will have his own pride and persistence. You cannot let such people agree with your philosophy without letting them fall.

And, most importantly, this "Seff Daberwater" by Sheriff Balotelli is not bad for this era, on the contrary, it is also very excellent.

At least these several levels have been completed, and my colleagues in the company have a lot of fun.

It was agreed that this was a very good game.

As for the development process of another game "Ballotelli's Adventures in Another World", which features Sheriff Balotelli as the protagonist, the development process is very slow, but this cannot be blamed on the team led by Will Wright. After all, Jester did not intend to launch an arcade version of this game, but directly made a home computer, but his home computer research and development has not yet ended. During this period, Will Wright and his team participated in the entire R&D process in the hardware R&D department, and deeply understood what kind of performance the Mars Entertainment home game consoles that will be launched in the future have.

But it cannot be said that there is no progress at all. During this month, Will Wright and his "Extreme" team made more detailed settings based on the original design plan provided by Jester, adding more diverse scenes, different images of bosses and monsters, and more interesting levels. Only three new levels were redesigned. Jester was still very satisfied after seeing it. He didn't know how it really did, but at least Will Wright's design revolves around the element of cartoons.

As for the development progress of "Dawn", the development progress of "Dawn" is not very fast.

Because the explosion special effects that Jester had asked before were too difficult to complete, it is impossible for the CPU to render particle effects at all, and it is also impossible to closely adhere to vector graphics technology. To complete the realistic explosion special effects that Jester had asked for and that realistic smoke and clouds, in this era, the only way is to hand-paint.

Jester doesn't want the abstract explosion of "Space Invaders", nor does he want the pixel effect of "Star Collision" that is like a red sky. What he wants is a realistic, explosive special effect full of fire and smoke. This is also the most difficult part of the game "Dawn".

Yes, Jester knew that more than two years later, the arcade game "Break the Fire Net" completed by Sega's soul designer Yu Suzuki was completed by completely hand-painted to complete the explosive effect that shocked gamers around the world. But the problem is that he doesn't know how Yu Suzuki completed it. He can't go to Sega to find Yu Suzuki now and ask him to help him complete the effect? ​​This is obviously impossible.

But fortunately there was Sid Meyer.

Sid Meyer is a fan of flying games. He has been committed to the development of flying games before he was acquired by Mars Entertainment.

Regarding an air combat game, it is impossible not to consider how to complete the explosion effect, so Sid Meer was considering a long time ago how to achieve the most realistic explosion effect. He has considered many technical methods, but the current hardware capabilities are limited, so it is impossible to complete some design effects. After thinking hard, Sid Meer thought about whether it can be done by hand-drawing to produce explosion special effects.

However, Sid Meyer later discovered that using hand-drawn methods to produce explosive special effects is indeed feasible, but because the workload is too large, his own company simply does not have the ability to complete his idea.

However, this time he joined Mars Entertainment and participated in the development of "Dawn", he had the opportunity to fulfill his original idea.

In fact, this technique is simple to say, but it is very complicated to do.

Use hand-drawn methods to draw all the images of the explosion effects in evolution, and then synthesize the effects of expansion and flash through later operations, and then display them on the screen through specific programs, which becomes a realistic explosion effect, firelight, smoke and clouds. All the elements of explosions are all available.

But the problem is that an explosion effect requires the painter to draw hundreds to thousands of evolutionary sketches. Although most of the explosion effects in the entire game are universal, there will always be several, or even dozens of places that require different explosion effects. There are nearly ten thousand sketches that require hand-painted. Even if Jace draws five painters, the task is still very heavy and scary. So far, only 50% have been completed.
Chapter completed!