Chapter 63: Redwood City Headquarters
Electronic Arts is headquartered in Redwood City.
Redwood City is located in California, and is also in the Bay Area, which was originally a small town in the west with a focus on mahogany, but after the development of Silicon Valley, it has also become one of the high-tech industry clusters.
Magic Cow had never been to the United States before, and he rarely even did airplanes, although he was inspired to make "God is Crazy" and "Black and White" about God's perspective, and it was true that he came from when he was on a plane.
Almost all the planes were not quiet, and with the rumbling noise, the planes rose into the air little by little.
From the top of the building, many scenes that have become accustomed to the ground appear fresh in the air.
Even, it can give people a strange feeling that they are the masters of the world, the commanders of the world.
Unlike other countries, the United States did not initially form itself from thirteen colonies. And at the time of the independence of the thirteen colonies, they were still very weak.
The largest city at that time was not the same as the largest city in the future.
Therefore, it is a wonderful thing to find that many of the state capitals in the United States are economically underdeveloped.
After all, if a place wants to be built, it is often the geographical factor that is more important.
The reason why New York is New York is because it is located in Ruhaikou.
It's like why China's Shang (Meow) Sea must be developed, because it is at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Here, goods from the ocean are transported upstream, through the river, to a city with a river.
When the United States was first established, the choice of capital cities was not very scientific, and the natural economic development of the later scientific places was better, and gradually far surpassed the state capitals.
The San Francisco Bay Area is a great place to be, with the exception of the gold rush of a hundred years ago, and now it's becoming a high-tech hub.
This is where the third information revolution takes place.
Wealthy residents also have the money to dress up the city beautifully.
Magic Niu said that he wanted to visit the headquarters of Electronic Arts, and Electronic Arts naturally did not refuse to do so.
In fact, Electronic Arts has been trying to acquire outside game production companies and game production studios in the past two years.
Because in the last two years, the requirements for game production technology have become higher and higher.
Just like a video game like ball games, players are gradually demanding gameplay experience.
They didn't know whether the game was good or bad, but now they are also questioning the games of Electronic Arts.
This is naturally a good thing for Wanhu to do.
Although Wanhu is headquartered in China, it has a large number of professional game production personnel from Yuben.
The difference between me and Americans making games is that I am better at exaggeration than pursuing truth.
Things like "the sense of impact" and "you can modify the position when jumping in the air" are commonplace in this game, and players feel that they are "real" and "comfortable", but is this really "real"?
Not.
If it's going to be exactly like the real world, then American video games are much more like that.
However, hitting someone without a sense of blow is like hitting a piece of paper, what can I do?
There's no way, there's no way to fix it.
Unlike in reality, humans have a sense of touch, and humans can perceive the world through tactile feedback.
When a fist hits someone in the face, the hand hurts.
However, video games are different.
When Takahashi studied the differences between the Japanese and American video games, he agreed with the line he himself took.
There is nothing wrong with saying that my exaggeration is an exaggeration of art.
The "sense of impact" can even be said to be an extension of the sense of touch, and when the eye sees the character who is not fighting, it seems as if it has been hit with his own hands.
The Magic Cow himself didn't have much research on these things.
Because the games he makes are not action games, and there are no fist-to-flesh shots.
This is actually a kind of trickery.
Since you can't do it well, it's better not to do it.
The headquarters of Electronic Arts in the United States is still beautiful in the eyes of Magic Bull.
The building, which was built in the early nineties, is entirely made of huge blue glass that sparkles in the sun.
Of course, one of the not so good consequences of using this kind of glass is that the indoor temperature is relatively high, and to solve this temperature, you need to keep turning on the air conditioner.
But what does this mean to deep-pocketed Americans?
You know, California is a water-scarce region, but in this area, whose lawn is not green?
You know, the water consumption of the lawn can be described as terrifying.
"Hello, are you the head of the British Bullfrog Studio? My name is Anton. Said an Electronic Arts employee wearing a suit and a badge.
Different companies have different corporate cultures, and it is said that some Internet companies now do not need to wear formal clothes.
However, Electronic Arts is still old-fashioned, and if you want to work here, you have to wear a suit and leather shoes like an investment bank employee on Wall Street.
"Well, I am. Magic Cow said.
Judging by the self-introduction of the person opposite, judging by his name, he should have thought that he was from the Russian region.
It's like white people look at yellow people, but the difference is actually very large.
In fact, the same is true for white people, such as Anton, who looks very Russian.
However, there is no Russian accent in his accent.
Maybe it's just Russian ancestry, and he himself doesn't know how many generations of immigrants he has.
"I'm here to see what your company's headquarters looks like, what your usual work is like, and if you can adapt to it if our studio is merged here. Magic Cow said straight to the point.
He doesn't like to be false with others, he does what he has, and solves problems when he has them.
Don't look at the games he makes are humorous and funny, but in real life, he is a very serious person.
Well, there is another Englishman who bears some resemblance to him.
This Englishman's name is also known to many, and that person is Mr. Bean.
Actually, the British have all kinds of people.
Why do everyone think that the British are gentlemen?
Actually, it's just a stereotype.
What is a person's character, whether he understands politeness or not, in fact, should not be divided from the country but from his class.
It is impossible to expect a man who is about to starve to death to say that he does not understand the courtesy.
"Are you worried about this? I don't have to worry about it at all. So far, we have acquired more than 20 studios from Duoda, and we have enjoyed working with them. Anton said.