Chapter Twenty-Three: Handheld

Vanke DreamWorks has been idle since the end of "Happy Ghost", and the number of employees has increased from 2 to 5, and it is still a standard leather bag company.

Fang Wanshan's two people who had nothing to do greeted the two old men first, and then pulled Zhong Chuhong into the small conference room, without any accidents, Wang Jing and Wu Ma also followed, and after everyone sat down, Fang Wanshan said:

""Happy Ghost" is a success, and it is the success of everyone's efforts. But in the second half of the year, I plan to return to another movie. But I don't have a script, do you have anything good. ”

Fang Wanshan actually had two in his hand, and he didn't think about it, but he suddenly thought that those two scripts were not very suitable. One is the prepared horror film "Death is Coming", but Fang Wanshan thought that although Wang Jing was a multi-talented, he had never heard of a horror film, and besides, he was so young now that he could do it, Fang Wanshan seriously doubted it;

Originally, Fang Wanshan mainly wanted to ask Wang Jing, but he didn't expect Wuma to reply first, only to see Wuma answer first:

"I happen to have a "Salted Fish Reborn" here, which is an action movie. ”

Fang Wanshan, the name of the movie, was a little impressed, but he didn't know what it said at all, who was the leading actor at the box office, so he asked Wu Ma who he planned to shoot with.

Seeing Fang Wanshan asking, Wu Ma smiled and said:

"It's not confirmed yet, this script was given to me by Huang Baiming last night, you need to ask him what it is, but I heard that he is the most popular action movie now. ”

After hearing this, Fang Wanshan heard that the name of the movie should not be too bad, so he was silent and said:

"Then you contact Huang Baiming, we also have a very pleasant cooperation, the investment is controlled between 100-150, you are in charge. ”

Fang Wanshan also found out just now that when Wu Ma was talking, Wang Jing also had something to say, and after hearing that Fang Wanshan was sure to invest, his expression darkened. Fang Wanshan then turned his head and asked Wang Jing:

"Fatty, look at the way you looked just now, you also have a script over there, say it and take a look. ”

Fang Wanshan got along well with Wang Jing during this time, although he was almost 6 years older than Fang Wanshan, but Fang Wanshan and him were generally very casual, often neither big nor small. Wang Jing didn't care about Fang Wanshan calling himself fat, he got used to it, a little hope rose in his heart, and hurriedly said:

"I do have a script here, and it's about gambling movies. ”

When Fang Wanshan heard the gambling film, he naturally thought of the God of Gamblers, but the God of Gamblers should not be so early, Fang Wanshan said with questions:

"Is there a script, I'll take a look. ”

Wang Jing's face turned red all of a sudden, and she replied unnaturally:

"I didn't bring the script today, or I'll tell you about it now. ”

Fang Wanshan pretended not to see it and agreed with Wang Jing's statement.

Wang Jing introduced the plot, which is probably a story that happened in the Republic of China era, a gangster Thousand Kings Luo Sihai accepted the government's secret order and united with Xiao Qianwang Lei Li to find a list of Japanese military spies hidden by the Japanese Qianba, and the movie title Wang Jing is tentatively set as a thousand kings.

Fang Wanshan had never heard of this movie at all, but he didn't want to hit Wang Jing's accumulation, so after asking about the approximate cost of about 1 million, he also decided to invest, and the actor was in charge of everything.

After Vanke DreamWorks decided on the next stage, Fang Wanshan left Zhong Chuhong and went to the electronics factory. Fang Wanshan doesn't remember how long he hasn't been to the electronics factory, this time, the main thing is that Fang Wanshan is ready to start doing his old job. How popular and profitable video games are in the future, practitioner Fang Wanshan knows, and now this time period can start to start.

Video games have long existed, the history of video game development is 1958, generally recognized as the world's first video game, Atari, the ancestor of video games in 1972, was founded, Atari then created a brilliant arcade industry, creating an immortal legend. Not only that, but Atari was the first manufacturer of home game consoles to succeed. In 1978, the game market was basically Japanese, European and American markets, and Atari was the only hegemon in this market, and all games were published on his platform.

However, Fang Wanshan knew that the era of handheld machines would come when the arcade was played immediately, and after the computer age, computer games were even more popular all over the world, and now Fang Wanshan needed to be laid out.

I didn't look for my second brother Fang Qiang in the office, and I didn't know where to go, Fang Wanshan found his cousin Lu Shu, who has been helping with research and development in Wanda Electronics Factory since graduation, and Fang Wanshan did not treat him badly and gave him 5% equity.

Cousin Lu Shu is learning electronic circuits,It has a lot to do with hardware,Fang Wanshan doesn't know too much about this,So I first asked for advice on the arcade,Technical problems in handheld design,In fact, it's a microcomputer,There's nothing wrong with the processor,I asked about the current software language,Compare it to the ancient era,A lot of Fang Wanshan seems to think that this should be the world of compilation。 Unexpectedly, Lu Shu's answer surprised Fang Wanshan, now there is a relatively advanced C language, and later Fang Wanshan learned that this c is very different from the Objective-C that he was familiar with in later generations.

After hearing that Lu Shu knew this, Fang Wanshan was ready to let him be responsible for helping recruit some talents who knew how to program after graduating from the University of Science and Technology, Fang Wanshan wrote his own game plan for them to develop, but unfortunately Lu Shu said that he could help design the handheld, arcade machine, but he didn't know much about software, in fact, he was modest, this ancient era was basically software and hardware were not separated, and finally after Fang Qiang came back, the three of them decided to make a small handheld game first after discussion.

Handheld project team was formally established,Fang Wanshan provides two small game planning cases,Later generations Fang Wanshan himself has brought a lot of game project teams,Now a few simple small game planning cases don't need to be done in one day,The project leader is Lu Shu,The person in charge of the development game department is Lu Fei,Lu Fei almost graduated this year,Learn electronic engineering,Listen to his brother Lu Shu said that he is more inclined to programming,Or a good hand inside。

The two small games Fang Wanshan was lazy, a Tetris, but now it is not called that, Fang Wanshan directly changed it to a Chinese madman, and he didn't explain anything to them, and the other is a little powder. A classic of the classics of handhelds.

Fang Wanshan spent about a week discussing the prototype of the handheld with Lu Shu, basically Fang Wanshan was copying the classic key settings of later generations, the combination of the cross key and the AB key, the curved body type, yes, Fang Wanshan began to get the original 10 yuan children's puzzle handheld on the bad street.

The main reason for this is that the game department has just started, there are too few people in Xiangjiang who understand the console, and the hardware is even more troublesome, it is very good to be able to figure out the top 8 now, Fang Wanshan himself is not so high, so do it simple first.

Fang Wanshan still wanted to be simple, and the simple prototype of the handheld was drawn by himself and shown to Lu Shu, but two weeks later, Lu Shu gave Fang Wanshan something, which made Fang Wanshan have a headache. What is this?,The LCD screen is an LCD screen,But how to design it as a front rectangle,The width is enough,The length is at least half thinner,The picture is also a fixed single frame switch。 The cross button looks like it, but no matter how you press it, it doesn't feel like it's responding, but it's very smooth in the middle. I don't see the SD card that can expand the game, but it's just a junior handheld with a fixed mode.

After reading the prototype of the handheld, Fang Wanshan really discussed some details, some user experience problems, many things in the past Fang Wanshan was left alone, rarely staring, because there are prototypes, and I have also told them some of the feelings they want, but many times they are from a technical background, and many things may be difficult to reach the standard that Fang Wanshan said, so they lowered the area according to their own ideas. After Fang Wanshan spent a whole month and finally got the prototype he wanted, the entrance examination for Xiangjiang Secondary 5 began.

The Xiangjiang Entrance Examination took a long time, and Fang Wanshan hated wasting such a waste of time, although it was just a passing scene for him. During the period when Fang Wanshan was busy with the hand-held project, Wang Jing's movie was also prepared, the starring roles were originally set to be Xie Xian and Wang Yu, Wang Yu Fang Wanshan didn't know him, Xie Xian's old immortal Fang Wanshan was very annoying, so he asked Wang Jing to be replaced, and finally he was busy for more than a month to settle down the autumn official.

Qiu Guan has no opinion on playing Fang Wanshan, although he has nothing to do on the big screen, but Fang Wanshan doesn't care about this, Fang Wanshan believes that with Wang Jing's ability and the relationship between Qiu Guan and Wang's father and son, these performance problems should be handled very well, originally Fang Wanshan saw that this script does not have very high requirements for actors, and it is enough to be responsible for playing handsome.

During the filming, Fang Wanshan also gave Wang Jing a lot of opinions on the casino scene, Fang Wanshan thought to himself that with so many element bonuses, this one should not hit the street.

Wu Ma and Huang Baiming's other "Zombie Turnover" is a bit difficult to deliver, the leading actors want to find the Hong family's class, Fang Wanshan has no preference for that Hong fat man, so it doesn't matter who will be the starring role. However, he himself is now the contracted director of Golden Harvest, and he is filming "Miscellaneous Boys", and the schedule is difficult to coordinate. In the end, it was Wuma who relied on his previous relationship to save face, so that this big brother who was very righteous in the rivers and lakes promised to squeeze out time in June.

The postponement of the filming of "Zombie Turnover" allowed Wang Xiaopang to get abundant funds, and Fang Wanshan spent most of his time here after the exam, because it was Zhong Chuhong who starred in the heroine. Zhong Chuhong plays Zhang Xiaoyong in this movie, ostensibly Zhang Lie's daughter, but actually Zhang Lie's ace killer, strong in martial arts, using beauty tricks to deal with Lei Li, and was later killed by Luo Sihai.

This movie is very old-fashioned in Fang Wanshan's view, the fight scenes are redundant gambling scenes, the fight action design is Yuan Xiangren, Fang Wanshan just feels that his face is very familiar, in fact, he is very famous in Xiangjiang, that is, the old beggar of Stephen Chow's kung fu, but unfortunately Fang Wanshan doesn't know him, thinking that he is not famous, so he has repeatedly asked for shamelessness to join the request that he can't be so blunt, but how to design it can't be said, fortunately, Yuan Xiangren still respects him as a boss, so he tried it on the side, which made Qiu Guan suffer.

Qiu Guan himself is very handsome, and now he is super hot on small TV, and Fang Wanshan has always appreciated it as a TVB fan. But when the crew was filming, many of them made Wang Jing shout cut because of him, Zhong Chuhong, a newcomer, was better than him, Wang Jing often said that he didn't just have a posture, but also a little more facial emotion, these Fang Wanshan didn't understand, and he didn't have the idea of intervening. Qiu Guanren is actually very easy-going, and a young fat man is not a little angry when he talks about himself like this.

After Fang Wanshan's main course examination was completed, Vanke DreamWorks' new drama "The King of a Thousand Kings" was also completed, and the post-production Fang Wanshan did not participate, because he himself had not seen it and had no reference in his mind, and he didn't know how to get it at all. The prototype of the handheld project is also basically in line with Fang Wanshan's requirements, the only drawback is that it is a little more expensive, the cost alone needs more than 70 Hong Kong dollars, and the main cost is concentrated in the chip processor and LCD screen.

The game development team also finished developing a small game, and Fang Wanshan complained in his heart after playing "Chinese Crazy Demon". This is completely a demo, and the plan made by myself can be said to be very clear, the shape, deformation, movement, and fall of the cube are all time reaction signs. But what is this now, the deformation and displacement do not fall, the displacement is all square, the acceleration and fall and the fall at a uniform speed, etc.

Fortunately, this is a very simple little game, and it took Fang Wanshan less than two days to get it right. But Fang Wanshan found that there was still a lack of a real product manager to keep an eye on and a real player to experience, so when the next project was developed, our student Zhou Xingxing became the leader of the product team, and the rest of the members were part-time students in the alumni association.

Zhou Xingxing is also taking the entrance examination this year, with his results are even more hopeless, as a senior member and veteran, he has the qualifications to let Fang Wanshan send him to study abroad, but according to Zhou Xingxing's classmate, he is not that material, he has never applied, since changing Panlong, he is now dedicated to being a literary and artistic youth, writing something by himself all day long and mailing it to the newspaper.

After "Panlong" was serialized, Fang Wanshan did not agree to the request of the publishing house, and now it has been more than two years, and there are still books without formal copyright, and now the pirated copies are selling up, but Fang Wanshan does not lack that money at all, so he will let it go and not pursue these.

Zhou Xingxing was actually very reluctant to be the leader of this product team at first, but it was difficult for him to refuse Fang Wanshan's request. After Zhou Xingxing experienced the game, he instantly became an Internet addict teenager, basically that day he rarely left his handheld, and a day later the project held a meeting, and the handheld that was originally in Fang Wanshan's eyes was returned to the handheld, and he complained about a lot of problems, all of which were very constructive, but Fang Wanshan found that his expression was a little not so in place.

The handheld project began to officially enter the right track in May 1979, and the expected release time in Fang Wanshan was early July, which was the golden time for students to be free during the summer vacation. However, the plan could not keep up with the changes, and in front of the game-atheticist Zhou Xingxing, the game project was delayed, and finally it was launched at the beginning of the school year in September 1979.

During this period, Wang Jing's "The King of a Thousand Kings" was also released in June, and this time it was arranged to be screened at Shaw Brothers, and Wang Tianlin personally found Run Run Shaw to come to face. This screening time was 21 days before the painting, with a total box office of 6.081 million, beating Jackie Chan's "Laughing Fist Monster Move" to rank first in the year, another movie with a box office of more than 5 million, and this time it was the first of the year, although in 1979, so the Xiangjiang movies were relatively low, and Wang Jing and Vanke DreamWorks began to be in the limelight in the film circle, and many insiders began to know about DreamWorks.

Sammo Hung also joined the filming of "Zombie Turnover" in early June, and Fang Wanshan often brought Zhong Chuhong over to visit the class in order to have a good relationship with the bigwigs in the circle. But Fang Wanshan didn't pay attention to these, the old problem recurred, and often gave them some small advice, but Sammo Hung was not Yuan Xiangren, and he almost fell off the stall and left a few times, and in the end, it was Wu Ma and Huang Baiming who helped persuade him to come down.