Time passed, and many days passed in a flash. It's calm these days, and nothing special happens. Video game arcades are still as popular as ever, and if there's one difference from usual, it's that games have been released a lot less frequently, and for so many days, only one game called Butt Cars has been released.

Since the release of this game, it has caused controversy among many arcade players. The reason for the argument is that the game is so similar to Pac-Man.

Why? Because of this game, the player controls a red 4WD vehicle and searches for fruit in a maze-like map, and then four 4WD vehicles chase after it. However, there are differences. It's the map of this game, similar to the map of Bomberman. It is no longer limited to the size of the screen, but will move the perspective as the car moves.

There is also a different place, "Pac-Man" is that after eating the beaten energy beans, you can only eat the little ghost chasing it. And "Fart Car" can fart anytime and anywhere. The exhaust gas will trigger different effects depending on the fruit you have eaten before. There's slowdown, chaos, explosions, and more.

This game, among this group of game designers who are still groping for the path of gaming, has also caused some repercussions. Because, "Butt Car" uses a more advanced perspective lens application. The screen can be zoomed in to a certain extent, so that sometimes the screen provides a close-up of the car controlled by the player, and sometimes stretches to the whole picture. Allows players to see the panorama clearly.

Scaling is actually not difficult, but it is rare to control the timing of scaling. When to shrink and when to put it down, it must be just right and not make the player feel uncomfortable. You can't give a close-up when the player is being chased and intercepted by a hostile car, and you can't zoom out of the camera when you eat a key item. The former will make the player lose their judgment of the situation and die, while the latter will make the sense of accomplishment of eating the item drastically reduced.

Despite his relationship with the video game alliance, Lin Yan remains in a tense state. However, he still got the arcade baseboard for this "Butt Car", as well as the source code of the game. After all, he is still nominally the vice leader of the video game league in charge of the technical side.

After Lin Yan got the substrate, he sighed that they were really willing to invest hardware in the new game. The hardware of "Butt Car" is much better than Lin Yan's last "Bomberman" produced in the Video Game League. You must know that the substrate of "Bomberman" is still the most advanced substrate at that time. It's only been a long time, and they have made some breakthroughs in hardware.

However, Lin Yan didn't care too much about this. Because, if he makes such a game, he can make it. He didn't do it, in fact, he thought more about the overall hardware cost after the game was completed. His idea is more of a craftsman than a dreamer making video games.

What he prefers is to make video games that are inexpensive, can quickly spread the market, and have a certain amount of fun. Instead of engaging in those high-end games in this era. High-end often means expensive, and expensive means difficult to promote. This is contrary to Lin Yan's original intention.

However, once the hardware competition is opened, this Pandora's box is opened. All of this can't be stopped, because the early players just have a game that can bring them fun. And when they were first played, after raising their appetites. What they need is better graphics, more interesting gameplay, a greater sense of achievement, and so on, and so on.

For the video game industry, it is destined to be based on the player as the god and the player as the core. There are many, many players who like it, and a game can rise to the altar. No player likes it, and a game is not as good as the dust on the ground. In order to cater to the preferences of players, it is natural to start piecing for picture quality, hardware, and a lot of polygonal corners. Because, before the core gameplay is completely changed, we can only strive to do a good job in these details, so that players have more willingness to play. It's like "Butt Car", in every sense, it is a continuation of the legacy of the core gameplay of "Pac-Man".

Of course, plagiarizing the core gameplay is not plagiarism, and there is no risk of violating the law. Instead, there is a risk of plagiarizing the game's image. Although speaking of video game programs, now not patentable. Because, the patent office said that this thing is not just a pair of codes, and it has no practical meaning. However, it is possible to register the characters that are widely liked by players, as well as the game itself, as a trademark. Prevent infringement from being infringed.

For example, a candy factory has recently approached the Video Game League to discuss the licensing of candy for the image of Pac-Man.

The Video Game Alliance, which had not paid attention to the expansion of intellectual property rights before. After all, it's an emerging industry, and everyone is feeling the stones to cross the river. However, although this industry has no history, there is a history of similar industries, which can be used as a reference. That's the comic industry.

Since Osamu Tezuka developed the manga industry, the manga industry has gone through several stages. From the initial sale of only comics, to the later expansion of the copyright around comics. Candy for manga characters, stationery for manga characters, stickers for manga characters. Wait a minute......

The people of the video game league were shocked by the expansion of the copyright around the comic industry by linking it a little. Because, the income from surrounding copyright is too much, and it is beyond imagination. It can even reach several times, dozens of times, and hundreds of times the income of the comic body.

The people in the Video Game League are simply going crazy, because they seem to have a gold mine at their fingertips. However, they are still far from the gold mine. In addition to all the copyrights of "Butt Car", including "Pac-Man", they are all in Lin Yan's hands.

Lin Yan only authorized the game copyright of the game to the Video Game Alliance on an obligatory basis, and he held any other copyrights tightly in his hands.

In the face of money, no matter how big the contradiction was before, it is not a contradiction anymore. Lin Yan, who had not made a crown car for dozens of days, entered the headquarters building of the video game league. Once again, I got into the crown car and walked into the headquarters building of the video game league.

"Want to get other rights to the game from me?" Lin Yan sat in Baishi's office, his gaze crossed Baishi, and through the huge floor-to-ceiling window, he looked at the scenery of the endless traffic outside the window.

"That's it, Lin Yanjun, as the deputy leader of the Video Game Alliance, please grant all the copyrights of all the video games created by you to the Video Game Alliance. As the Vice-Leader of the Video Game League, you have this obligation. Bai Shi looked at Lin Yan, who could be called a young man in front of him, and said. He placed his hands and fingers crossed on the huge boss's table, leaning forward, clearly concerned about what he was talking about.

"I remember that my obligation was only to provide the video game rights to my game, which I licensed to the video game federation for free. I don't remember that I had an obligation to give the surrounding rights to the Video Game League. Lin Yan's expression was light, and he said slowly.

He is different from Shiraishi, in fact, he has long noticed the surrounding copyright things. He doesn't remember the game that was too early, he only remembers Ren Hell's game, called "Digimon", how it made a lot of money in the surrounding copyright.

Shiraishi looked at Lin Yan's attitude, and also regretted his decision to end the honeymoon period with Lin Yan so soon and want to kick him out of the video game alliance.

Although he regretted it a little, he still had to do it if he was asked to go back to dozens of days ago. Because, this is not his decision alone, but the decision of the directors of the joint board of directors of Dongli and Persimmon Family. The directors don't really know anything about video games and are not interested.

What they are interested in, only money, only banknotes. It doesn't matter if it's a video game, or any business. As long as it can bring them good returns, it is a good business.

If Lin Yan is older, there will be some background behind him. That wouldn't have been the case for him to be kicked out of the video game league so soon.

Lin Yan's thin background, but he accounted for 33% of the shares of the video game alliance, which made those directors feel very unhappy. Because, the current situation of the hot sales of video game arcades, and the future can be expected to be profitable. made them all red-eyed, they felt that let Lin Yan, a little kid with no background, occupy such a high stake and get such a high dividend. It's an unforgivable sin.

Because, shares represent dividends. If Lin Yan had the shares that could be compared to him, the benefits he bringed, and the corresponding hard power, they would not have done anything to him.

Shiraishi has also always disliked the directors of the group. Because he thinks that the directors of the group are a bunch of brutes who only run for money.

Yes, he used the word brute, which can only be used to curse people again, and has never been used to praise people to the end. These brutes who only run for money, although they like money very much, but the vast majority of them are indeed short-sighted and blind. They can give up for a period of time for the sake of the big sesame benefits in front of them, and they can get the benefits equivalent to the big watermelon.

It's not because they're stupid enough not to see the benefits. It's because the future is too variable, and they are not willing to risk the unknown and give up enough benefits. The immediate benefits can be held in your hands and put in your pocket, which is the most suitable and reassuring.

Hayashi is a victim of this situation, and Shiraishi, who doesn't like the directors, is the executor, the executioner who severed Hayashi's relationship with the video game alliance.

Nagasawa has not appeared in this matter. Maybe it's because of the community genes of the persimmon family, so that they still have a bit of the concept of courtesy, righteousness and shame in their bones. Even if you do something treacherous, you don't want to do it yourself.

"How can you say that. Lin Yanjun, aren't you also the owner of the video game alliance, in order to develop and grow your own home, it is natural to provide it with the conditions it needs. Only if the video game league is stronger and bigger, you can make more profits. Shiraishi leaned forward and said.

There's a lot of pressure on his shoulders, he's just an enforcer, and the video game league around the copyright thing, if not taken care of. Then the fault is all on him. For directors, what can be earned is not earned, it is a loss. Depending on the size of the lost interest, the directors will decide on the severity of the punishment for the executor. If the talks collapse completely, then Shiraishi may step down. Although Dongli Group, it is impossible to dismiss a regular employee. Doing so will make the whole society disgusted with Dongli and will not be conducive to Dongli's social image.

However, it is possible to throw Shiraishi in a place similar to the Nebula newspaper room. Drink tea and read the newspaper every day, and the day passes. Although it sounds like this, it's quite laid-back and relaxed. But for people who have ambitions and ideals and want to achieve a career, this will undoubtedly kill him.

Perhaps, you can quit your job and start over in another company. However, if Shiraishi resigns because of a mistake now, then Dongli will notify all companies in the same industry, and no company in the same industry will hire Shiraishi again. If he wants to leave his job and find a job, he can only change industries and start all over again.

A big reason why peers will cooperate with Dongli so much is because the board of directors is intertwined, you have me, I have you. Dongli's directors may also be directors in another company, and they are also directors in another company.

A small white stone made the directors unhappy and felt that they were making less money. Then these directors can make Shiraishi unhappy for a lifetime. The world of capital is so cruel and ruthless.

"Even if the video game league is my home, would a person who was supposed to be swept away love this home? Will give everything he has for this family? Lin Yan asked rhetorically.

Bai Shi was silent, as a businessman, his mouth is very good, not to mention iron teeth and copper teeth. However, he didn't know Lin Yan's answer to Lin Yan's question at the moment. To be honest, he also had some feelings of sadness in his heart. He also felt very insecure, and he didn't know if he would one day be swept away by the board of directors for what reason.

He is not like Lin Yan, who owns the original stake in the video game league, he has nothing. Only take the salary he deserves for this position. If he wants to be swept out of the house like this, how can he be so troublesome as dealing with Lin Yan, and he hasn't done it for so long.

At the same time, he is also a little worried about his future, if he can continue to do it in Dongli, will he eventually become a member of the board of directors. Become the one you once called a brute.

"Lin Yanjun, I hope you will remember the friendship of the past and help me." Shiraishi pleaded.

"Can't help." Lin Yan looked at the traffic outside the window and replied lightly. (To be continued.) )