Rebirth 1984: Starting from the development of Hanka

Chapter 75 RB Borderless Game
HSBC loaned Wujiang $1 million on the second day, and it was a low-interest loan.

The trip to Hong Kong is almost complete.As for the matter of emigrating to Hong Kong, after careful consideration, Zhao Ye felt that it was not necessary for the time being.

Therefore, Zhao Ye and his party quickly took a plane to RB.

Before Zhao Ye came to RB, the Wujiang RB branch had followed Zhao Ye's instructions and started recruiting a large number of game developers, game artists, game planners, programmers, audio programmers, etc.

At the same time, Wujiang Company also sent a group of employees from the mainland to RB to learn game production from these RB employees.

RB people have very rich experience in developing games, as the saying goes, "learn from barbarians to learn skills from barbarians to control barbarians".

If the Chinese game industry wants to catch up with RB, it must first learn from RB.

A few hours later, the Boeing passenger plane arrived at RB Tokyo Airport.

At this time, the sky was cloudless and the breeze was not dry.

Zhao Ye looked at the high-rise buildings in the distance and the boarding stairs under his feet. He raised his head slightly, as if he had set foot on this land with the attitude of a conqueror.

Xue Yu, the general manager of RB Wujiang Company, had brought several executives of the company to greet him outside the airport, and an employee held up a striking sign that said "Warmly welcome the leaders of Wujiang Headquarters".

The people in the branch office receive the people in the head office, the lower the key, the better.

Zhao Ye didn't want the RB media to report that he came to RB. Of course, the RB media might not all know him.

"Boss, hello, welcome to RB!"

"Manager Xue, hello!"

"Boss, our car is parked outside. There are too many people here and it's a bit messy. Let's leave here first."

"it is good."

The group left the airport quickly, and then went to the hotel near the branch office.

On the way to the hotel, Xue Yu introduced the situation of RB Wujiang Company to Zhao Ye.

"Boss, according to your instructions, we have recently started to recruit game developers on a large scale. We have recruited 65 people in total, including 5 artists, 4 game planners, 50 programmers, and 3 audio engineers..."

"These people have been in contact with game development before and have a wealth of experience."

"Well, good job! But we still need to continue to recruit people. Right now, Nintendo is the only one, and many third-party game developers are only following the lead of Nintendo. We want to break the game, we can only rely on our own games from the beginning! Wait until our game When the consoles sell well, there should be third-party game developers who are willing to come to our game console platform to develop games!"

Xue Yu nodded.

But in his heart, he is actually not optimistic about this game console project.

As the general manager of the branch stationed in RB for a long time, he knows more about Nintendo than others.

Nintendo's FC home game console has almost monopolized the RB game console market, and almost all third-party game developers have to rely on it.However, Nintendo made a stupid move this year, which gave Xue Yu a glimmer of hope for his company to break the situation.

Just in February of this year, Nintendo developed FD, namely FC Disk Drive, which is an accessory of FC and uses floppy disks as the media. To buy games, you only need to take the floppy disk to the vending machine in the retail store and download it.This solves the problem of low capacity and high price of early game cards, and the floppy disk can be rewritable, which further reduces the game cost of players.

At this time, Nintendo proposed that if the game company releases the game on FD, Nintendo will automatically obtain half of the intellectual property rights as a joint publisher!

Good guy, do you agree with this "overlord treaty"?Many third-party game businesses have to grit their teeth and admit it.

However, Nintendo made a wrong calculation this time. Although there are many soft persimmons, there are also many tough guys.Konami, Capcom and other major game companies are just trying to make a few games to pretend to deal with Nintendo. They don’t have the energy they had when they joined FC. Don’t let them make cassettes. I’ll go back and make arcade machines, aren’t you Do you want to boast that your game is awesome?Do it yourself, I won't wait for you!

Based on this situation, once the Borderless game console becomes popular, these major game manufacturers may consider switching to another game console platform for development.

Take a night off.

The next morning.

Zhao Ye and his team rushed to RB Wujiang Branch.Here, Xue Yu introduced the executives of the company to Zhao Ye one by one.

Since most of the employees in the branch are RBs, Zhao Ye just nodded and smiled at everyone, and said a few words of encouragement, such as "Thanks for your hard work" and "Keep working hard". This is what Zhao Ye said last night. I learned it temporarily from Li Aoyun.

"Call the game developers together!" Zhao Ye finally ordered Xue Yu.

"Okay, boss."

Xue Yu responded, and quickly went to gather the game developers, and then went to the conference room for a meeting.

After a while, the meeting room was overcrowded, and some people had no seats and had to stand aside.

Zhao Ye walked to the front, and Li Aoyun followed behind, and she was needed to do translation work later.

It is said that Li Aoyun has an aunt who used to be an RB diplomat, and later returned to China to develop.Li Aoyun's Japanese was taught by her aunt.The reason why Li Aoyun's Japanese level is so high has nothing to do with her aunt, it can only be said that it is exactly the same...

Zhao Ye looked around and nodded inwardly.

RB has 65 employees and 15 mainland employees.

There are eighty people in total.

In this era, the cost of developing games is not high, and many classic games can be handled by one person.For more complicated games, a few or a dozen players are enough.

For a more complex game, I am afraid there is no need for that. After all, the storage medium capacity is limited, and you can develop a large game for me, and it will not be used.

Before Zhao Ye came to RB, he had already thought about what kind of game he would develop, but he didn't immediately reveal his game plan.

He looked at the crowd and said, "First of all, I'm here, and everyone is welcome to join Borderless Games. Then, before the meeting officially starts, everyone can talk freely. Has anyone thought of a good game idea? You can bring it up now for everyone to join in." For reference. Once selected, you can serve as the team leader of the game project."

After Zhao Ye finished speaking, the conference room suddenly became noisy.

The reason why they are in the game development industry is because most people love this industry.Game creativity, simply don't need too much...

Soon someone stood up and expressed their game ideas loudly.

Immediately afterwards, more and more people expressed their game ideas.

Zhao Ye sat in the first place, did not speak, smiled, and listened quietly. Whenever he heard a good game idea, he would cast a glance of approval to the other party.

However, most people's thinking is relatively mediocre.

Occasionally, there are brilliant things, but because the idea is too wild and unconstrained, and the game development is difficult, Zhao Ye rejects it in his heart.

After they finished discussing, Zhao Ye couldn't help sighing in his heart, geniuses like Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's ace designer, are indeed rare.

Forget it, come by yourself.

PS: In 1985, "Super Mario Bros." was about to be released, and the protagonist couldn't cut Hu, woo woo, what a pity.Do you have any suggestions for which game to develop for the main character?

(End of this chapter)