Chapter 13: New Games
Enter the website, this is a famous Hongguang technology company, specializing in the production of a full set of semiconductor equipment, not only can provide CPU chip production line, flash memory, LED, GPU, IGBT, LCD and other production lines can be provided, and even photon, quantum chip production is also provided, and it is a full set.
Using Baidu to investigate, it was found that this company is one of the top ten semiconductor equipment companies in China's semiconductor industry. The entire PCB production line in Guo Dongyue's factory is produced and provided by this company, including related technical support.
Click on the PCB page, this company can provide a full set of production lines with a monthly output of 10,000, 100,000, and 1 million, as well as a variety of complete PCB production processes.
And the price is not expensive, like a PCB board with a monthly production capacity of 100,000 yuan, including factory cleaning equipment, only 5 million yuan, and a monthly output of 100,000 only 800,000 yuan can be won in a full set.
Li Yixuan thought about it and felt that the monthly output of 10 yuan was 1.2 million yuan a year, such a large production line had a serious overproduction, and the current Foxconn could not receive so many orders, even if DreamWorks' arcade games sold well, the annual output would be 100,000 yuan.
There is a contrast to this. For example, RB's Sega company, before 2000, Sega was internationally recognized as the king of arcade machines, and the highest annual sales of arcade machines did not exceed 800,000 units, which was the result of 20 years of hard work.
The newly established Dream Factory obviously did not have this ability, and it was necessary to find a smaller production line.
With a monthly output of 10,000 motherboards, this seems to be too low.
Flip, continue to flip, and finally found one that satisfies him, with a monthly output of 3 yuan, which can be increased to 50,000 after the future expansion and upgrading.
It was this that Li Yixuan began to contact the other party.
Next, Li Yixuan was very busy, contacting, going to the other company's inspection, ordering, paying, buying robot engineers, and so on.
He also bought robot engineers, a total of 15, all of whom were highly simulated human beings, and it was impossible to distinguish the real from the fake.
The installment payment model adopted, the contract is 15 years, the down payment is prepaid for 5 years, and the regular payment is made every year thereafter.
There is no way that the price of this robot is too expensive, Li Yixuan can't spend all the money on them, there are many places to use the money in the future, and it is impossible to sell wine as soon as there is no money. Therefore, it is best to pay in installments.
At the same time, Li Yixuan also bought four scientific and technological intelligence robots in full. Buying them is mainly to prevent the recurrence of oolong incidents like PCB boards.
Although Li Yixuan spent a lot of time to understand the development of electronic technology in the 20th century, it was all in the general direction, but it was impossible for him to take care of all the technical details, so in order to prevent oolong incidents like PCB boards, he needed intelligence robots to check on him.
Four robots, one for North America and one for Europe. One is responsible for RB and the last one is responsible for general coordination. The republic was directly ignored by him, at this time the republic was comprehensively backward, especially in the electronic semiconductor industry, it was not worth it to take an intelligence robot to be in charge, and let the robot in charge of general coordination concurrently serve as well.
At the same time, I bought several robot bodyguards, which was also used in installment payment mode. In this way, there was a loss of 400 million yuan in the bank account. 90% of this money is spent on robots.
It took Li Yixuan nearly a month to take things one after another, and then open the door of time and space to return to Hong Kong in the 20th century.
At this time, Hong Kong time has entered September 77, and it has been 10 months since the release of "Tank Wars", although the game hall is very popular, but for all, there is no original freshness, in order to maintain the freshness of players, it is time to launch a new game.
This release is "Squirrel Wars", produced by RB Capcom, released on FC in 1990, and sold more than 10 million copies in total, making it the only super gold game in "Maria". Not to mention pirated ones.
It's a pity that Capcom didn't make good use of this super IP later, except for the second part, which was qualified in front of it, the sequel behind it was simply a mess, obviously a short-term behavior made for money, unlike Nintendo's "Mario", which was carefully polished and long-term planned as a gold signboard.
Squirrel Wars didn't have an arcade version, so many of the settings were set on home consoles and weren't arcade consoles. Therefore, it is necessary to modify him to meet the setting of the arcade.
Who decides what you need for the arcade? The most important thing is the points and time limits.
Points can be added to life, when the points reach a certain value, one life is added, and the upper life continues to be accumulated, and another life is added. The initial setting is 3 lives, and this setting is a successful experience that has been tested by the market later, and the more you add a life in the future, the higher the points. And the increase in life has a line, up to 6 lives, and then up, no matter how high your points are, life will never increase again. Actually,I can't increase it even if I want to.,6 lives.,By this time,It's already the end of the game.,See the tail king directly.,To be able to play to this point.,Only a very small number of masters can do it.。
Ordinary people need more than 32 coins on average to see the tail king, and about 45 coins to get through all of them.
This data is also the experience of various arcade game companies for many years. If there are too many coins, players will feel that the game dealer is black, want to make more money, and become disgusted, even if it is a fun game, it will hit the street. There are too few coins, and the owner of the game hall feels that he is losing money and is unwilling to buy. Therefore, to clear the customs level of 45 coins is a balance line accepted by both sides.
This is also the reason why many golden games that should have been big sellers in history ended up hitting the streets. It's not that the game is not well made, it's not that the publicity planning is not done well, and it's not that the timing of the release is wrong, but because the difficulty and interests between players and game hall operators are not balanced.
The second is the time limit, "Squirrel Wars" side-scrolling action game, every node, you must give a limit time, when the time is up, the program will force the line to move forward until the next plot node.
However,This debugging is much more complicated than the game difficulty setting.,It doesn't have a specific time value to do the reference.,The length of time is proportional to the number of monsters in each node.,At the same time, it's also proportional to the difficulty.,The shorter the time,The more monsters,The greater the difficulty.,And vice versa.。 It's a lot of experience as a game designer.
At present, there are no game developers in Hong Kong, and even if they do, there is no such experience, not only in Hong Kong, but also in the world.
Therefore, for such a debugging, Li Yixuan couldn't find anyone to help, so he could only come by himself, but out of the consideration of cultivating talents, he still recruited 5 young assistants to teach while debugging.
No way, although the 5 young people are all college graduates, their learning ability is not bad, they are very serious, and they love to study, but they are completely blank for game development, and many things and theories have to be taught by Li Yixuan step by step from scratch, and in the end, it took more than 3 months to complete the debugging of "Squirrel Wars", which made him tired.
He finally realized how hard it is to be a teacher, how tiring it is.