A deep voice with a gentle expression.

He, coming from the darkness.

It seems to carry the light of "Civilization" passing by.

"Hi everyone, I'm Sid Meier. The middle-aged uncle had a slightly magnetic voice.

"For a long time, I've been thinking about what games mean to us. ”

"I started with Nintendo's consoles and went to Sega's arcade ......"

"I've also played shooting, role-playing, adventure, and so on......"

"The game is fun, but for me, it has always been difficult to find the true belonging of my heart, and in my heart, there has always been a voice telling myself that the game does not stop there. “

All of this, when Mr. Li Fangcheng arrived, all had the answer. ”

"He is the wisest and most forward-thinking wise man I have ever met, but after two days of communication, we had the prototype of this game, which is Civilization. ”

Sid Mayer looked at Li Fangcheng with a wry smile on his face and said with a smile.

"We've been thinking about where the game came from. ”

"So, we keep going back in time, counting backwards from era to era, until we reach the Stone Age, and we stop there. “

"As human beings, we still have to explore everything in this era, but back to the starting point, human diet and rest are not impossible to find. “

"So, we tried to give the game a starting point, and then let the players follow the beginning of human civilization in the game, so as to continue to grow and grow. From prehistory, step by step to the future. “

"We've been running around the world for more than two years, visiting hundreds of countries and collecting countless data. “

"Eventually, this game was made. ”

"This game is the only thing I want in my life. Personally, I'm grateful for the opportunity given by the Age of Miracles. ”

“……”

Sid Mayer's eloquent words, although there are many words, are not offensive.

Li Fangcheng looked at Sid Meier, who was talking and laughing on the stage, although he was embarrassed to be praised, but he was also very happy that he made this game.

This genius on the stage, this is what he spent a lot of effort to dig up!

Sid Meier, since childhood, has been a relatively introverted person.

He often likes to read books and think by himself, which is one of the reasons why he later preferred strategy games in his game career.

In fact, Sid Meier's school years really didn't have much to show off.

After all, there was no exposure to video games at that time.

Always obsessed with reading and computers, he became a programmer after graduating, but at the time he was working for General Instruments.

And Sid Meier's entry into the game industry actually has a very classic story.

At the time, he was very good friends with his colleague in the company, Bill Stilly.

Bill, a retired Air Force pilot, has always been fond of bragging about his exploits.

Once, on a trip to Las Vegas, the two entered the local arcade, and Bill was in the mood to play a flying game to prove his awesomeness.

But Sid Meier didn't believe his rhetoric.

In the end, the two decided to compete against the flying shooter "Red Baron" at the time.

At first, Bill relied on his excellent pilot experience to provoke Sid Meier with pride.

However, this time he was shocked!

Because he suddenly discovers that he can't beat Sid Meier's score in the game!

Unwilling to fail, he began to observe Sid Meier, and found that he had already seen the route of the enemy planes clearly, and was always able to make correct judgments in advance, which made Bill a little puzzled.

Instead, Sid Meier told him that the AI value of the computer design was too low, and he could easily predict what the enemy wanted to do......

This sentence immediately frustrated Bill, but what he didn't expect was that Sid Mayer also said that if he designed a game himself, it would only take two weeks to make a better game than this.

This sentence may be taken as a joke if it were put on other people, but Bill thinks that Sid Meier can really do it, so he decides to cooperate with Sid Meier to set up a game company.

And this company is the famous MicroProse company.

MP's first game was First Voyage, and although it didn't make MP stand out, it could only be regarded as Sid Meier's work to prove that he had the ability to make games.

But then in 1985, the game "Silent Ops" really made him and MP famous.

After becoming famous, Sid Meier became more obsessed with the production of games, and Bill tasted the sweetness and moved closer to the commercial direction.

Over the course of a few years, the cooperation between the two gradually became problematic.

A game that doesn't want to chase a commercial theme.

One thinks that games are tools to make money.

The different perspectives of the two people made the whole company turbulent.

Because the two of them are the bosses of this company, there is a disagreement, and naturally the people below are also cautious, and the whole company is as depressed as the eve of a storm.

Sid Meier was naturally very uncomfortable.

It stands to reason that this collaborator is his friend.

But the difference in pursuit made him confused.

At this time, the appearance of Li Fangcheng made him re-firm his path.

Gave up all game copyrights that were originally in MP Company.

I got together and left the MP company.

And in exchange, the Age of Wonders offered him a studio.

This studio, everything is built according to his wishes.

Find a group of like-minded game producers and research everything about the game together.

Every once in a while, I go all over the world.

In such a long time, it is only today that this game was made - "Civilization".

The emergence of the game Civilization can be said to be the world's first real masterpiece.

A complete worldview setting.

Complete system setup.

Complete character setting.

The full plot setting.

Measured from the three dimensions of realism, immersion and realism, this is a real masterpiece!

All the game producers present, except for the Age of Wonders banner.

There was a feeling of panic in everyone.

This game is just terrible!!

Brought the game back to the beginning, and started from scratch.

What the future will go is completely in the hands of the player.

Even, the master-level Yokoi Junhei, Miyamoto Shigeru, and Suzuki Yu all had a sense of powerlessness from their hearts.

Civilization is a game that, as top game producers, can naturally see its terrible potential through all this!

For the first time, they didn't have any quarrels, and it was a masterpiece well deserved!