Video Game Empire

&nbameboy2's hardware design team didn't understand why Li Xuan asked to add an infrared communication device, but since the big boss gave an order, they naturally had to obey unconditionally.

Du Wenqiang's vision is obviously much higher than those of these designers. He immediately understood the meaning of adding a communication device to the handheld to be able to fight against each other. No matter how classic a game is, after playing it a hundred or a thousand times, there will always be times when you get bored.

But if the handheld can achieve joint battles, it can add a lot of new fun, such as face-to-face pk between friends. The desire to win among players is often the best way to increase user stickiness.

After all, people are gregarious animals and have the instinct to show off and conform to the crowd. The winners of those battles can get spiritual satisfaction from the victory, while the losers will be ashamed and courageous. This direct competition can greatly prolong everyone's enthusiasm for game consoles.

However, Du Wenqiang has a lot of doubts about the level of infrared communication technology made with four or five dollars. It is by no means an easy task to perfectly connect two handheld computers into a network.

However, as long as there is a research and development direction, even if the wireless connection method does not work, it can also be replaced by a wired connection. Just add one more data transmission interface on the handheld, and then connect the two handhelds with a data cable.

Du Wenqiang is not too worried about hardware problems, ↙↙, x. has a strong technical reserve in the company. What he is more interested in now is what is the content of the new game that Li Xuan is planning to plan?

In Li Xuan's memory, "Pokémon" or "Pokemon" is definitely the best-selling handheld game of all time. none of them. In another time and space, "Pokémon" is a huge IP with an output value of tens of billions of dollars. An industrial chain covering games, animation, toys, movies and many other fields has been formed.

As early as last year, Li Xuan started to organize a special team. to develop the Pokémon project. However, Li Xuan did not start with the game, but planned to start with cartoons and comics. (One more thing, recently, the word "ip" has been so popular in the media that big names like Feng Dao have to follow the fashion and ask others what ip means?

The so-called ip is the abbreviation of ialy in English, and the literal translation is the protection of intellectual property rights. Of course, a more appropriate understanding should be to extend an intellectual property to maximize profits and form a large industry. For example, one can be adapted into comics and movie scripts. Can be made into an online game. )

Since the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese have stopped celebrating the Lunar New Year (Lunar New Year), so this Spring Festival holiday, two good friends, Shigeru Miyamoto and Tomo Tajiri, did not return to Japan, but went to Singapore to play together for a few days.

On the second day after going to work after vacation, they were assigned a special task by the company president. Yesterday afternoon, the company's president suddenly handed him, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Ken Sugimori to the office, and then handed them a stack of documents, asking them to read them within a few days.

"Miyamoto-kun, what do you think the President meant yesterday? Are you planning to let us develop a new game?" Tajiri Tomo kicked the floor with his foot. The pulley of the seat is very flexible and slides to the position of Shigeru Miyamoto not far to the left.

Tajiri Zhi is still a young man who has just turned 20 years old. His character is a little less mature and a little more lively. Shigeru Miyamoto is more than ten years older than Tomomi Tajiri, but the two became friends without a generation gap. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto was in his fifties or sixties. Dressed and dressed like a young man in his twenties or thirties. He has a heart that is forever young and full of whimsy!

But Shigeru Miyamoto is now a little absent-minded. At this time, what he is most concerned about is the sales of the "Legend of Zelda" he developed after it goes on sale? three days left. "The Legend of Zelda" will be sold worldwide with the fc2 game console.

The Legend of Zelda is Shigeru Miyamoto's first game to be master-planned. If it can be an instant hit, it will be a big sale. As the main creator, Shigeru Miyamoto can not only gain huge honors, but also according to the reward and punishment incentive rules within the company. He will likely also receive a huge dividend.

"Maybe!" Shigeru Miyamoto replied listlessly.

"I think this project called "Pokémon" is very interesting. I liked collecting insect specimens very much when I was a child!" Tajiri Tomo did not notice Shigeru Miyamoto's strangeness, and said to himself.

"Oh!" Shigeru Miyamoto's answer was very perfunctory.

Tajiri Tomo finally noticed the other party's strangeness. He looked at his friend with a frowning look, and didn't know how to comfort him. Although Tajiri also participated in the entire production process of the "Legend of Zelda" game from head to toe.

But he always thought that this was Shigeru Miyamoto's game, and he just helped him to add some details. In fact, he is quite envious of the other party, and has the opportunity to independently host a creative group, and their game has also been optimistic about the company's top management, becoming one of the first major games for fc2 game consoles.

The competition within Dongfang Game Company is actually very fierce. No less than 100 new game development plans are submitted every month, and no more than 20 projects can finally be approved and filed. After removing the projects that should be cut off for various reasons during the development process, there will be no more than 10 games that can be finally produced.

Tajiri Tomoya has always hoped to have the opportunity to independently plan a game of his own. Because once the game is successful, the creator can not only become famous, but also reap huge practical benefits. For example, after the great success of "The King of Fighters", the game's creative team shared up to five million dollars in rewards.

This time, the company's president suddenly gave him these materials, which are said to be the creation materials of an animation, but Tajiri Zhi suddenly felt that he seemed to have caught something! He hadn't slept last night, and countless ideas emerged in his mind, so when he arrived at the company today, he couldn't wait to discuss with Shigeru Miyamoto about the various game ideas he thought about last night.

That's right, Tajiri Zhi guessed that the company must be preparing to turn this cartoon into a game. Otherwise, there is no need for Your Excellency President. Seriously let them study these materials.

Moreover, Tajiri felt that the plan for this project has just begun, and the company must not have determined the candidate for the main creator. Otherwise, I had an interview with them yesterday. will be the person in charge of the project. In Tajiri's view, this is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

The new headquarters of the Oriental Group. The Dongfang Building is still under intense construction. It is estimated that the top of the building will be completed in half a year, and it will be completed and opened before the end of next year. The main office address of Oriental Group is still the Gloucester Tower on Pedder Street in Central.

At first, the Oriental Group only rented the top five floors of the building, but with the continuous expansion of the company's scale, now the Gloucester Tower from the 20th floor to the 43rd floor is already the office area of ​​the Oriental Group.

There is a good pastry shop on the ground floor of the Gloucester Building. The pastry chef here is a French chef, and the mousse cakes made are very delicious.

"Li Sheng. I still think the gameboy's configuration is too backward. It is difficult to show the various lifelike baby shapes in "Pokémon" with its simple graphics! Instead, put this game on the fc2 platform. It's appropriate!" Du Wenqiang and Li Xuan drank coffee together in the west pastry room on the ground floor during the afternoon tea time.

"You have been making games for so many years and you still don't understand. The success of a game is determined not by the exquisiteness of the game's graphics, it can only be the icing on the cake! What really determines the success or failure of a game is whether its gameplay is interesting or not!"

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "The core of creativity for this new game I planned can be summed up in eight words. 'Collect, cultivate, add, exchange'. And only the gameboy handheld can play these eight words to the fullest. Extreme!"

Naturally, these eight characters were not created by Li Xuan himself, but the four elements of the "Pokémon" game summed up by Nintendo's Yamauchi in another life. And these four elements have deeply affected the development ideas of countless games later.

"Let's talk about the first point of collecting, which is an innate nature of people. Everyone has some so-called 'collection addiction' more or less. Some people like to collect insect specimens, and some people like to collect dolls and toys. Others like to collect stamps. The best thing to do is collect antiques!

One of the big selling points of this "Pokémon" is that players can collect a variety of Pokémon. According to my plan. In the first version of the game, there will be no less than 150 types of Pokémon. Fully give players different novel options.

In future follow-up versions, new Pokemon will be added continuously to keep players fresh! "Li Xuan said, he took out a gadget from his pocket and put it on the table, "Do you know what this thing is? "

"My family has been very obsessed with this kind of electronic pet recently. I accidentally starved it to death last time. After a whole day, she refused to talk to me in a fit of anger!" Du Wenqiang thought of his wife, who was already a mother, and was still keen on this kind of pet. Small gadgets, can not help but feel a little funny.

"I had dinner with Lao Han last time, and I heard him say that many female employees in the company almost have an electronic pet. The human resources department of the group even held a special meeting to discuss whether everyone should be banned from playing this thing during work hours!" Li Xuan also smiled. said.

This electronic pet is a newly popular electronic toy in Hong Kong recently. Its shape is only the size of an egg, and the central LCD screen can display the electronic pet the player is feeding. After the electronic pet is activated, players need to perform a series of tasks such as feeding, cleaning, training, and medical treatment.

And if the player forgets to feed, the electronic pet egg will give out a sound prompt, as if the pet is calling its owner. Pets can quickly get sick and even die if they are not fed on time.

The qq pets of later generations are actually the online version of this electronic pet. Li Xuan remembers that in another time and space, this electronic pet was first invented by the Japanese. But now it first appeared in Hong Kong, and it has a lot to do with Li Xuan.

The inventor of this electronic pet is a boy from the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute. His parents ran a small toy factory, including a sounding rag doll that was a replica of the Barbie doll. After this kind of doll is installed with a battery, it will make all kinds of baby milk sounds, such as wanting to eat when hungry, wanting to sleep when sleepy, etc.

Boys were inspired by this to invent an electronic pet that players need to feed and take care of like babies. And his initial entrepreneurial plan was recognized by the Oriental Entrepreneurship Incubation Park and received the first venture capital investment.

Now this entrepreneurial project has completed the initial incubation, and has received three rounds of venture capital. The first mature electronic pet product has been listed globally after receiving the channel support from Dongfang Commercial. And this kind of electronic pet is not only popular in Hong Kong, but also sells well in Japan, North America, Europe and other places.

Li Xuan feels that his greatest contribution to Hong Kong in the past few years is not to create a huge electronics group out of thin air, but to lead an atmosphere and environment for entrepreneurship in Hong Kong.

There is a saying that the master is in the folk, but most of the masters in the folk have no platform to show their superb skills, and in the end they can only disappear among the crowd. Why Silicon Valley has always been a leader in global innovation. The most important reason is that there is the most powerful venture capital in the world, which attracts a group of young people with entrepreneurial dreams to seek investment there.

In the past two or three years of economic turmoil in Hong Kong, the property market and stock market have been hit hard, so Li Xuan timely guided a large number of safe-haven capital to join the high-tech industry.

Among them, a large number of excellent projects such as electronic pets~www.readwn.com~ have given investors huge returns. Hong Kong is becoming the "Silicon Valley of the East", and many American venture capital companies have started to set up offices in Hong Kong to look for high-quality investment projects.

"In my opinion, although this kind of electronic pet can be all the rage, it has obvious shortcomings. The regular urging sound of electronic pets can easily affect the normal study and work of players. And after the initial enthusiasm and freshness subsided, The boring, one-size-fits-all care process can quickly turn players off!

But this model of pet development has great reference significance! Of course, in "Pokémon", a series of trivial matters such as feeding, cleaning, and medical treatment are naturally unnecessary. We will focus on the combat training of pets.

Players can train and fight the Pokémon they have collected anytime, anywhere, so as to gain experience and upgrade their pets. And only portable handhelds can make the most of the players' fragmented idle time! "Li Xuan explained.

This is also one of the important reasons why he firmly chose the handheld platform to develop "Pokémon"! (To be continued...)

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