Number One Game Designer

"Xiao Lan?"

"What's wrong, BOSS?"

"Go to the person in charge of our VR lab and tell them that the VR experiment is renamed Genesis!"

"clam?"

...

In any case, at least the name shocked Dan, and he had promised to follow Fang Xi to visit their laboratory in Huaxia two days later, in order to decide his final stay.

Before Fang Xi left the fast food restaurant, he looked at the man again and sighed with his head buried in the code on the table:

"What a perfect 996 employee..."

"No, I feel like 997."

Because it was a sudden decision to come to Chicago, only one Dillon at Ghost Car Studio knew about it. Fang Xi didn’t intend to disturb Ogg and the others. For himself, "GTA" is also a series that I am looking forward to. Once this series succeeds, it will Can bring unpredictable achievements to Hongyi.

And this series can almost be predicted to succeed. Although Ti Lung is worried, Fang Xi is confident: What is the most tempting game for young people? The feel, the story, the characters in the plot, etc. are all secondary, because you have to make people come to the game first to experience them.

The most indispensable thing in "GTA" is this ability. It is an American city that can be reproduced, and it needs to be more "free". It is exciting to think about it. Here you can see the "landscape" that you can't see in reality. It’s tempting to be able to do things that you can’t do in reality here, not to mention that you can say to young people: "This game can take care of the business of street girls by car at night."

Therefore, Fang Xi was generally relieved about the project. After leaving Dillon and comforting this guy of Nordic descent who was a little older than him, Fang Xi bought a ticket to Redwood City.

If there is one company in the United States that interests Fang Xi, then there is only one game company, and that is Electronic Arts.

The headquarters of this game giant is in Redwood City and it has more than 8,000 employees. According to official data from the United States, Redwood City has fewer than 100,000 residents, which means that this city has nearly 50% of households. Both have an inseparable relationship with EA.

Relating to the fact that this city is a standard "city-level county seat" in the United States, it can be said that there is nothing wrong with changing the name of "Redwood City" to "Electronic Arts City" or "EA City".

And Fang Xi’s development idea is similar to EA: Although big cities have better public resources and talent reserves, as long as the company is large enough in small cities, you can expand the scale of the company here and build a concession. In areas where employees are more comfortable, EA does just that.

EA has a large industrial park in Redwood City. In this park there is an independent residential area for employees, independent power supply and network facilities. This is simply a modern standard "city within a city". The residents of Redwood City do only work Two types: work directly for EA, and work for EA indirectly.

Although this city can be regarded as unknown in the United States, the headquarters that EA has spent a lot of money to build is also very attractive to many people. Fang Xi's trip is to come and "learn the classics."

Above the plane, Xi also probably learned about the history of the city.

You can guess the history of Redwood City by looking at its name. This is a city that started from forestry resources. It is rich in California's specialty: California redwood. This is a California specialty tree that can grow up to 112 meters high. It is a very good building material, especially suitable for bathtubs. So in the last century and even the last century, the people here were pretty good. Not bad.

Until later, there were better materials for construction. On the other hand, many people also discovered that California redwood is relatively rare in the world. So the Conservation Association was born naturally. The building materials merchants who originally gathered here have gradually dispersed. Less than 50,000 people were left behind. At this time, EA was established. At that time, the toddler EA took a fancy to Redwood City. The land price here is cheap and it is not far from San Francisco. It is a good place to start a company.

So EA took root here until today. And EA also has its own tourism project, which can be regarded as income-generating for Redwood City. Fang Xi reported this tour group.

But fortunately, at first, Fang Xi was worried about the kind of "sunset red" tour group who signed up for this tour group. When I arrived at the place, I found that the average age was around 30 years old, and most of them were Americans.

A group of people gathered at the airport and waited for the bus to pick them up. According to the guide sent to Fang Xi, this group is also a very simple tour group that can be completed in about a day.

Just as he was waiting for the bus, a fat man beside Fang Xi stretched out his right hand towards Fang Xi:

"Hello, this is Andrew, are you from the East? I have been here three times, and I haven't seen many tourists from the East."

Fang Xi also stretched out his hand and shook it while looking at Andrew: Slightly bald, the figure is marked with the waist of the American bucket, the skin is pale and terribly pale, but it looks quite sunny, and the age looks about 30, maybe 40. Some people in Europe and the United States are experiencing severe premature aging, and Fang Xi is often uncertain.

"Yes, I'm DAN from China, I've played EA games before and I'm a little interested, so come and see."

"Ha! It's really a player!" Andrew happily said: "I guess you must be a player like me, DAN, it's nice to meet you."

"But is the sun glaring in this weather? You are still wearing glasses."

Fang Xi laughed, helped her sunglasses and peaked cap, looked at the cloudy sky, and nodded brazenly: "Yes, it's a bit dazzling."

"What a weird guy." Andrew muttered, then said, "Hey, which EA game have you played? "Diamond Kid" or "Magic Carpet"?"

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This journey is much more comfortable than Fang Xi imagined. There are not many people in Redwood City, so the driver is also slow when driving. The tour guide first took a group of people in the car to watch the river that surrounds Redwood City. In the early days, Redwood City still relied on forests. When resources are living, these rivers are the lifeblood of the city. They cut trees upstream and pushed the trunks down to a reasonable level. Therefore, the river banks of Hongmu City before were basically sawmills, but now the grass is desolate and no one is there anymore. Remember what the sawmill looked like.

After seeing the past, we need to look at the future. EA is naturally the best business card in Redwood City. It can be seen that EA did not want to overwhelm the guests in terms of urban planning. It asked for a piece of land in the suburbs to build its headquarters. However, the time has passed because of the EA headquarters. The land has the best power supply, banks, supermarkets and other resources. People naturally lean towards it. In the end, Redwood City seems to have become a vassal of EA headquarters.

"What can we do? The Redwood City government requested funding from the state government to repair the subway. It has been more than ten years. Finally, EA built a simple subway for the convenience of its employees, but the state government hurriedly responded:' Don’t you already have a subway?’ Then the subway proposal was rejected."

For the tour guide's self-defeating, the inside and outside of the car was filled with cheerful air.

Fang Xi is thoughtful. It is a certain sense of glory for a company to make a small city live on them.