Chapter Twenty-Five: An Extraordinary 89 Years
Shortly after the Spring Festival in 89, the software designers trained through the "Software Development Plan" in these years supplemented several companies established by Zhang Lexing, and the wealthy personnel also established a company specializing in software outsourcing under the capital of Zhang Lexing, and has begun to try to undertake some software outsourcing business from the United States. It's a pity that Zhang Lexing has been busy guiding the development of Kylin's Windows 3.0 operating system, and he can't find time to come back and can't catch up with the company's founding ceremony. But in early March, Zhang Lexing had to leave the United States because Wang Bin was getting married.
Wang Bin's wedding day is set on a meaningful day, March 12, Arbor Day. Wang Bin has helped Zhang Lexing a lot in the past few years, and everyone's relationship has been good, and now it is such an important moment to get married, of course I can't be absent. Two days in advance, Zhang Lexing took a plane to Beijing. In order to celebrate Wang Bin's wedding, Zhang Lexing also specially bought a relatively rare portable video camera in China as a gift, and by the way, it can also help Wang Bin keep the most important moments in his life. On the day of the wedding, Zhang Lexing found out that Wang Bin's bride was the shy ponytail girl Chu Jing back then. Standing at the happy and peaceful wedding scene, Zhang Lexing didn't know why, some not very good rumors he had heard in the past two days appeared in his mind, and a trace of gloom appeared in his heart very inappropriately.
After attending the wedding, followed by the big day of Rising Sun Software, after a year of grinding of Kylin 3.0 operating system and the exchange of Eastern and Western cultures over the years, the development team led by Chief Engineer Yan finally came up with their own results - the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of Kylin 4.0 operating system, and the Chinese Traditional version will be available in two months. In order to celebrate this important moment, Glorious Sun Software held a grand launch ceremony, inviting many industry professionals to participate. Since he is already in Beijing, and it is the first time that Rising Sun Software has engaged in the first software launch, as the company's investor, Zhang Lexing certainly has to join in the fun. The venue was very lively, and the biggest gain of this trip to Zhang Lexing was to see many industry celebrities who were thunderous in later generations, but at this time, most of them were still struggling, but Zhang Lexing was able to establish some interpersonal relationships, maybe when they could be used.
After meeting the future celebrities, Zhang Lexing is going to Kyoto, Japan again, and another year's spring heart party will be held. In fact, Zhang Lexing doesn't have to participate every time, but it is said that this time Nintendo will announce more information about the new console, Zhang Lexing hopes to experience it up close, and there is no way to find someone else to replace it, so he can only go in person.
The same ANA Hotel, the same large conference room, but this time the person who presided over the meeting was replaced by Masayuki Uemura of the second development department, and it seems that Nintendo is focusing on the new console this time. Seeing that the venue was almost full and the time was about the same, Uemura began to introduce some information about Nintendo's new console.
“…… Two image processors will be used, which can support special effects such as zoom, swirl, mosaic, translucency, window, raster, etc. ”
“…… The new console will support at least four controllers, and there may be four-player co-op games in the future......"
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"After careful testing, it was found that the backward compatibility function that was originally planned to be added was not stable, and it was decided to abandon this feature in order to ensure the quality of Nintendo's products. ”
The developers were embarrassed and didn't know whether they were happy or dissatisfied, but it was always a disappointing decision for the players.
After a brief introduction to the performance indicators of the new host, Uemura motioned to the staff next to him to start showing the development screen of the new host. This is a "Mario World" in the early stages of development and "Zelda" from our company, with bigger game characters, richer game colors, and more beautiful game soundtracks, which make developers greedy to watch, and it can be regarded as making Nintendo hook the soul again.
During this time, Nintendo's life was very good, under the suppression of intensive blockbusters, Sega's sales in the Japanese market were dismal, Nintendo's own new console development was also progressing smoothly, and seeing that everything seemed to be going according to his own plan, Yamauchi was in a pretty good mood.
Zhang Lexing went around Kyoto and mastered some information about Nintendo's new console, and by the way, he also brought back good news to Tianzhiyuan - "FC Cube", which has only been on the market for half a year, has achieved sales of more than two million copies, and with the help of the hot-selling product Tianzhiyuan has also become a well-known company in the industry from the previous obscurity.
When Zhang Lexing came to No. 16 Meiwu Road, Fuzhou with this good news, all the developers of Tianzhiyuan were extremely excited, and even the players in the store were lively. In order to celebrate this good news, Zhang Lexing arranged for Fu Zan to find a better hotel and set up a few tables of banquets for everyone to have a good meal.
After dinner, Zhang Lexing returned to No. 16 Meiwu Road, sat in Fu Zan's office and planned to rest for a while, at this time Fu Zan walked over slowly, with a strange expression on his face, as if he wanted to say something and stopped.
"Old man, do you have something to look for me?"
"Boss, I have an idea, and you don't blame me. ”
"Say, it's fine. ”
"Well, recently, some shopping malls on the market have begun to sell FC game consoles, but they are all English or Japanese game cartridges, so we want to make our own games, Chinese games." Probably afraid that Zhang Lexing would not agree, Fu Zan said cautiously, "If we want to make a few discs first, we will use the burning equipment to make it ourselves, and it shouldn't take much money." ”
"Your idea is still very good, and I will support it. "The development team can think of making an original Chinese game, Zhang Lexing is still very pleased, of course he will encourage.
Hearing Zhang Lexing's words of approval, Fu Zan's face suddenly showed joy.
"But,Your current development staff is still too small.,Because in addition to making your own games in the future,,I'll also give you a job of sinicizing the game.,It's a long-term job.。 In addition to technical personnel, it is also necessary to recruit some people who have a good understanding of English and Japanese. Another important question is, do you have any good ideas for the game you want to make?"
Fu Zan picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water, and said calmly: "I still thought about the simple idea. Some time ago, we studied an ancient book "Romance of the Gods", and found that the content in it is very suitable for adaptation into role-playing games, and various magic weapons in it can be made into props in the game, and the player's attack can be a physical attack or a larger range of physical attacks or a larger range of spell attacks, and the plot is also very rich, and you can do two or three episodes according to the length of the book. ”
Zhang Lexing remembers that there really was a game like this on the FC game console, but unfortunately he didn't play it, so he couldn't use it for reference, but fortunately, Zhang Lexing played a lot of other games, at least he could communicate in terms of plot arrangement, dialogue design, and character image.
At the end of the conversation, Zhang Lexing suddenly had an interesting idea in his head, and said it casually: "Actually, your perspective can be a little broader, not only to make an ordinary role-playing game, you can also try to add some other content." For example, there are a lot of formations introduced in the novel, you can introduce this into the game, different formations are designed with different functions, both to enhance themselves, or to weaken the enemy, and even to consider designing large formations in some scenes, players need to find certain items or complete certain puzzles to break out of the formation, which introduces the element of decryption. ”
Fu Zan listened very carefully, and from time to time he wrote down the main points with a pen, and it seemed that Zhang Lexing's thoughts were still very inspiring to him.
Before leaving, Zhang Lexing patted him on the shoulder and encouraged: "Old Fu, do a good job, I believe you will definitely be able to make the best Chinese game." ”
Although the mouth is encouraging, but Zhang Lexing understands in his heart that the sales of Chinese FC games in the next few years will not be much better, and it is a big deal to have a sales of more than 100,000 to thank God, which cannot be compared with the development of the international market at all, fortunately, Nintendo's new console is also coming out, and then Tianzhiyuan can have new room to play, and there is no need to worry about engaging in original Chinese FC games will drag down the company's development.
After leaving Fuzhou, Zhang Lexing went to Beijing again, this time to find talents to manage the electronics factory. Since Cao Xinyu presided over the Shanghai Research Institute, the research team led by her has made rapid progress, designing an integrated learning machine in a short period of time, and creatively designing a number of small expansion slots, which suddenly gives the learning machine a strong expansion ability. Zhang Lexing feels that it is not far from a more perfect learning and finished product, and it is time to consider establishing a learning machine production plant. According to the address provided by Wang Bin, Zhang Lexing made a trip to the Department of Economics of Chinese University, and after a lot of words, he finally said that Duan Yongping agreed to go to the factory in Shenzhen to have a look. It is still a factory that produces game consoles, but according to Zhang Lexing's plan, the production line will be gradually adjusted to make learning machines, and in order to reduce costs, Zhang Lexing will also find a way to introduce a new production line using VLSI technology.
In order to prepare enough software for the upcoming learning machine, Zhang Lexing also invested in the establishment of a Yulefang Software Development Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, and the office address is not far from the learning machine research institute, so that it is convenient to grasp the progress of learning machine research and development in a timely manner to ensure that software development can keep up.
During these days of running around, I also heard and saw a lot of chaos on the way. The last tragedy in his memory often comes to mind, in order to prevent this from happening, Zhang Lexing also thought of some ways, but unfortunately it was not safe. No, how can people believe that they are not related to their relatives and have no evidence, and they can't go to the door to tell people that they are the people of the future......
After much hesitation, Zhang Lexing finally adopted a relatively safe method - writing anonymous letters. The letter was sent out, whether it could work or not, Zhang Lexing didn't have any bottom in his heart.
The subsequent process seems to confirm Zhang Lexing's worries, and the tide of history seems to have come unstoppable. An old man who had already come down left everyone, but he didn't think about it, but it caused an uproar, and the beginning of the mourning activities slowly developed into an uncontrollable turbulence, and some chaos began to appear in many cities. After the incident, Zhang Lexing knew that trouble was coming, and many of the plans that had begun had to be interrupted. For the sake of safety, Zhang Lexing found an excuse to engage in technical exchanges and transferred most of the staff in Beijing to Shenzhen, and found a building near the Shenzhen Jinshan Company to settle down, leaving only a small number of security personnel in Beijing to watch the house, hoping to leave more seeds for future development.
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