Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

HSBC provided a loan of US$1 million to Wujiang Group the next day, and it was a low-interest loan.

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

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

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

At the same time, Wujiang Group 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 game development. As the saying goes, "learn from the foreigners and develop skills to defeat the foreigners."

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, there were no clouds in the sky and the breeze was not dry.

Zhao Ye looked at the tall buildings in the distance and the boarding stairs at his feet. He raised his head slightly, as if he was stepping onto this land with the attitude of a conqueror.

Xue Yu, the general manager of Wujiang Group (RB Branch), had already led several company executives to greet him outside the airport. An employee held up an eye-catching sign that read "Warmly welcome the leaders of Wujiang Head Office."

When people from the branch receive people from the head office, the more low-key the better.

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

"Hello, boss, welcome to RB!"

"Hello, Manager Xue!"

"Boss, our car is parked outside. There are too many people here and it's a bit chaotic. Let's get out of here first."

"it is good."

The group left the airport quickly and headed to a hotel near the branch.

On the way to the hotel, Xue Yu introduced the situation of Wujiang Group (RB Branch) to Zhao Ye.

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

"These are people who have been exposed to game development before and have a wealth of experience."

"Well, good work! But we still need to continue to recruit people. Right now, Nintendo is the dominant player, and many third-party game developers are following Nintendo's lead. If we want to break through, we can only rely on our own games from the beginning! Wait until our games When the console sells well, there should be third-party game developers willing to develop games on our console platform!"

Xue Yu nodded.

But in his heart, he is actually a little optimistic about this game console project.

As a branch general manager who has been stationed at RB for a long time, he knows much more about Nintendo than anyone else.

Nintendo's FC home game console almost monopolizes the RB game console market, and almost all third-party game developers depend on it. However, Nintendo made a mistake this year, which gave Xue Yu a glimmer of hope for his company to break through.

Just in February this year, Nintendo developed FD, or FC disk drive, which is an accessory of FC and uses floppy disks as media. To purchase games, you only need to take the floppy disk to the vending machine in a retail store and download it. This solved the problem of low capacity and high price of early game cards, and the floppy disk could be erased and written repeatedly, further reducing the game cost for players.

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

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

However, Nintendo made a miscalculation 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 show off and deal with Nintendo. They don't have the same enthusiasm as when they joined FC - if they are not allowed to make cassettes, I will go back to making arcade machines. You are not. Are you bragging about the awesomeness of your own game? You can do it yourself, I won’t take care of you anymore!

Based on this situation, once the Wujiang game console becomes popular, these major game companies may consider changing to another game console platform for development.

Have a night's rest.

The next morning.

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

Since most of the employees in the branch are RB people, Zhao Ye just nodded and smiled to everyone, and briefly said a few words of encouragement, such as "Thank you for your hard work" and "Keep up the good work". This was what Zhao Ye said last night I learned it temporarily from Li Aojun.

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

"Okay, boss."

Xue Yu responded and hurriedly gathered the game developers and went to the conference room for a meeting.

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

Zhao Ye walked to the front, and Li Aojun followed behind. She would be needed for translation later.

It is said that Li Aojun has an aunt who was once a RB diplomat and later returned to China to develop. Li Aojun's Japanese was taught by her aunt. The reason why Li Aojun's Japanese level is so high cannot be said to have nothing to do with her aunt, it can only be said that it is exactly the same...

Zhao Ye looked around and nodded secretly in his heart.

RB has sixty-five employees and fifteen mainland employees.

There were eighty people in total.

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

For a more complex game, I'm afraid that won't be necessary. After all, the storage medium capacity is limited, and it won't be used if you develop a large game for me.

Before Zhao Ye came to RB, he had already thought about what game he wanted to develop, but he did not reveal his game planning plan immediately.

He looked at everyone and said: "First of all, I am here to welcome everyone to join the Borderless Game. Then, before the meeting officially begins, everyone can speak freely. If anyone has any good game ideas, you can now put them forward for everyone to join. 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 engaged in the game development industry is because most people love this industry. Game creativity, simply don’t need too much...

Soon someone came forward and expressed their game ideas loudly.

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

Zhao Ye sat in the first place, silent, smiling, listening quietly. Whenever he heard about a good game idea, he would cast a look of approval at the other person.

However, most people's ideas are still relatively mediocre.

There were occasional highlights, but because the idea was too far-fetched and the game development was difficult, Zhao Ye rejected it in his heart.

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

Forget it, just do it yourself.

PS: In 1985, "Super Mario Bros." was about to be released, and the protagonist couldn't cut off the characters. Oh wow, what a pity. Do you have any suggestions on which game the protagonist should develop?