Hong Kong Island's wealthy era

Chapter 43 Game Development and Hilton Hotels

On February 2, Lei Liquan attended the working meeting of Taisheng Real Estate.

In the office, he saw the new temporary secretary Luo Yan (promoted from the office after Tian Yun left office) giving him the meeting agenda.

After the meeting started, Lei Liquan asked directly: "What is the sales situation of Tai Sing Garden and Tsuen Wan Landscape Garden project?"

Liu Xiaofenhui reported: "The second batch of 300 units in the first phase of Taisheng Garden was sold out within one week at HK$280 per square foot, with a return of more than HK$5000 million."

"The Tsuen Wan project has started sales. One batch of the first phase is available for pre-sale at an approximate price of HK$180 per square foot. It is very popular. It is expected that the price of the next batch will be raised."

Lei Liquan showed a satisfied expression and asked about the reconstruction status of the "Twin Towers", the former site of British American Tobacco Company. Construction work on the underground garage is currently underway.

Lei Liquan instructed: "From the projects that have already started selling, it can be seen that real estate has been warming up. We must look for new land reserves. You must keep an eye on the market land and old buildings."

He looked at everyone again and continued: "If there is any situation, we will report it immediately."

"Okay, Lei Sheng."

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Games have been a battleground for businesses since ancient times. From ancient Cuju, horse racing, chess, and various chess and cards to modern puppet toys, these are generally designed to meet people's spiritual needs.

When electronic technology developed from traditional transistors to integrated circuits, cutting-edge business talents had already discovered its role in promoting games. Atari was born many years ago, specializing in the development of electronic games.

Everyone knows about Apple's Steve Jobs, but what everyone doesn't know is that he was responsible for the development of the video game Arkanoid at Atari.

There is a long bar at the bottom of the game that can change the direction of the falling ball so that it can shoot down the blocks above it.

In fact, in the era of smartphones in later generations, many people have played similar games.

At present, Orange Company has completed the production of orders from Hutchison and Maple Leaf Country, and currently only maintains production with some small orders of dozens or even a few units.

For the subsequent development of Juji Company, Lei Liquan came up with a three-step plan for Juji Company in the near future.

The first mission of the Orange Company is the most famous game in history - I Rose Cube.

Lei Liquan doesn't know the origin of my Rose Cube, but now that it will be born in Xiangjiang, the name must be down to earth: Xiangjiang Cube.

The second project is that after the development of Xiangjiang Cube is completed, Snake will continue to be developed.As well as entering home consoles.

A more advanced and cutting-edge product 'CD' will also be developed in the future.

Although we talk about Luo Qi Cube and Snake, these two games are simple in design and have lower chip requirements, and the motherboard design will be much simpler.

But even so, this kind of thing cannot be solved by Lei Liquan, an outsider who knows nothing about electronic products.

Lei Liquan decided to form a game development team to be responsible for this area of ​​research and development.Through a headhunting company, Lei Liquan recruited a total of more than a dozen electronic engineers.

One of them is He Guoyuan, who graduated from the Electronic Engineering Department of Wanwan Chenggong University. He has several years of work experience and has worked as a quality control computer engineer, production management, material planning control, quality control, etc.

Lei Liquan felt that he was experienced and professional, so he appointed him as the vice president of Juzi Gong, responsible for the game development team.

In the conference room of the Jue Company, Lei Liquan held a research and development meeting.Lei Liquan smiled and said to He Guoyuan: "How are you? Do you know something about our company?"

Although the boss is relatively young, He Guoyuan is still more cautious and said: "It's almost the same. At present, it is mainly producing claw machines and preparing to develop arcade games."

"Yes, this is for you." Lei Liquan handed over a document.

He Guoyuan opened the file and took a look. It was a text summary of various gameplay and settings of the new game.

Lei Liquan said: "These are my requirements for the game. Your R&D team will first make this game according to my requirements, and then we will discuss other details together."

The document contained Lei Liquan's description and summary of the Rose Cube and Snake in the future based on his personal memory, but it was actually of little use and was more of a plan.

The inventor of the later Ross Cube created it to test computer performance. It is said that he completed the design in only 9 days.

Of course, now that it is developed in Xiangjiang, we can no longer call it Ross Cube, but Xiangjiang Cube.

Now there are more than a dozen people in the R&D team of Orange Company. In order to speed up the progress of R&D, Lei Liquan also spent more than 5 US dollars to introduce a small commercial computer from IBM in the United States.

The design of the game is not difficult. What is difficult is that it takes time to calculate the game logic.

Just like Xiangjiang cubes, in what order should the 7 different combinations fall from each other? It is too simple to keep a long bar or a field shape, and it is too complicated to keep a Z-shape or a T-shape, and the order in which they fall is not An order that may have been set in advance must be determined based on the block graphics combined by the following players.

So it is very important what the rules are every time it falls, which is a lot of operations, and a lot of experiments must be done to find the best algorithm.

Lei Liquan smiled and said: "The entire game needs to be developed by your team. This plan is for reference only, and you must hurry up. Don't let me go. It took a year or two to develop."

He Guoyuan nodded and said: "Okay, we will design the game according to the above requirements first, and then we will slowly improve it through continuous testing."

After He Guoyuan left, Lei Liquan communicated with Huo Haiqing, the orange factory director, for a long time.

First, Lei Liquan asked the factory to end the production of claw machines within one month.The second is to purchase an industrial building to prepare for mass production of arcade machines in the future.The third one is to register a patent for Xiangjiang Square.

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Not long after, Huo Haiqing spent HK$1200 million to acquire a five-story industrial building in Kwun Tong.

According to Huo Haiqing's report, the first to third floors of this industrial building have been rented out. Lei Liquan demanded that the tenants be moved out in the near future, regardless of the payment of liquidated damages.

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On Monday, Lei Liquan just entered the office of Lei Ji Holdings.Xu Wen came to report what he knew about Hilton hotels. This time they only sold two Asian hotels, but they had to be packaged and sold together. One was the Xiangjiang Hilton Hotel, and the other was the Hyatt Hotel in Bali, Indonesia, because they were Joint venture, the equity is concentrated in the hands of a company called Yonggao. The equity of the two hotels belongs to Yonggao Company. Yonggao Company and Hilton International offer a price of US$4000 million.

"4000 million US dollars?" Lei Liquan couldn't help being surprised when he heard it.

Yonggao Company only sells two of its hotels, and the price of a single hotel is as high as 2000 million US dollars.

Xu Wen explained: "The Hilton Hotel on Queen's Road includes land property rights. The real estate market in Xiangjiang is developing rapidly and has huge potential for future appreciation. Therefore, the asking price is high, but no matter how high it is, it is only about 1000 million US dollars. The most expensive one is the Bali Hotel in Indonesia. The hotel includes nine hectares of resort land, which are privately owned, and Wingco has estimated the price at approximately US$3000 million."

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