Chapter 544: USC's Invitation
"He doesn't bother to do that."
Jester naturally knows Yamauchi Pu very well, like this kind of deliberately pretending to be sick, he doesn't bother to do it at all, but before recruiting Miyamoto Shigeru, he didn't encounter the end of things that would evolve like this, if he knew......
If he knew, would Jester still do it?
Jester asked himself such a question in the depths of his heart, and then he wanted to come to a conclusion that he would not do, but he didn't want to be the other himself, and finally he came to the conclusion after several considerations and trade-offs, if even he knew that Yamauchi Pu would have a heart attack and even die because of the poaching of Miyamoto Shigeru.
He will definitely dig up Shigeru Miyamoto too.
After thinking of this, Jester suddenly became a little excited, he suddenly felt that he had become so cold-blooded now, this is the change of capital to himself? Jester didn't know.
"People change."
He shook his head helplessly, and looked at Mark beside him. "I'm not feeling well, so I'm going back to rest first," Saini said. ”
In the end, Shigeru Miyamoto did not choose to return to Japan.
And two days later, the news about Yamauchi's condition was finally clear, Yamauchi Pu was not in danger of life, but complications caused by heart disease, which caused a stroke, that is, cerebral hemorrhage, which means that the founder of the Nintendo game empire, Yamauchi Pu can only lie in the hospital bed in the future.
A week later, Nintendo's board of directors was re-elected, and Minoru Arakawa was elected president of Nintendo's board of directors.
As expected, the first thing Minoru Arakawa did when he was elected chairman of Nintendo was to make a move on Nintendo's game industry, especially the handheld console of the NS, which was completed before Yamauchi's accident. Immediately there was news that Nintendo intended to sell it in its entirety.
Moreover, the identity of the pick-up man also means something.
That's so.
Actually, Sony is really interested in this. This is because Sega is working on its own handheld console with a color screen, and because Sony has been focusing all its efforts on the development of the next generation of home game consoles. So, I didn't pay much attention to this, and of course I would be interested in this finished product from Nintendo.
Although it is not a color screen, compared to the current gameboy of Mars Entertainment, Nintendo's ND is not at all behind.
After consulting with his hardware experts, they all said that it is not difficult to make a palm computer with a color screen, but the difficulty is to ensure a small size. Small weight, as well as high battery life, this is the most difficult to guarantee, not that it can't be solved, but it's very difficult, and in a short period of time, it's difficult to solve.
Jester wasn't interested in Nintendo's handhelds, he was interested in Nintendo's developer team.
In particular, the Intelligence Development Headquarters, although Shigeru Miyamoto is the most famous in it, the Intelligence Development Headquarters has such a great reputation in later generations. How could it be the credit of just one Miyamoto Shigeru? It's just that Shigeru Miyamoto's light is too strong and covers up the others.
And after Miyamoto Shigeru knew Jester's intentions, he immediately volunteered and decided to go to Japan in person. Help Jester recruit his former colleagues.
At the same time, he also wanted to visit Yamauchi.
Time flies quickly, and Jester's life is basically a three-point line, except for eating and sleeping, almost all of the time is spent on game development, and Claudia also has a lot of opinions about this, because she is recently pregnant.
But Jester can't help it.
I had to take some time out to spend with my wife as much as possible, and in the future, it would be like living directly in the company at night all year round. Basically, it won't happen again.
Although there is no major event after the end of this E3 exhibition, but. When colleges and universities are on vacation and students are preparing to find internship jobs. Jester suddenly received a surprise phone call from the University of Southern California.
"What? Let me give a lecture? ”
Jester listened to the voice on the other end of the phone, and asked a rhetorical question in disbelief.
After receiving a definite answer from the other side, he was a little unsure at first, because this matter was indeed a bit too mysterious for him.
It can't be said to be fantasy, and if you think about it, it's a matter of course.
Now that the game industry continues to be hot, it is foreseeable that this will be a market with an output value of hundreds of billions in the future, that is to say, for game development professionals, major game developers, is very scarce, and now, in the whole United States, or the whole world, there is no formal college or university that offers such a course to teach students how to develop games.
This is not quite normal.
And now USC wants to open such a course in the school first, and plans to officially start the course next semester, and there are not many students enrolled, so they want to hire Jester to be the instructor of this game development course, and of course, they will also contact others.
Jester didn't immediately agree, he just said to think about it first.
Then he hung up.
In fact, in Jester's memory, USC did have a game development department in later generations, and it was very famous, it can be said that it was the first in the world, and when students took classes, they would have top game designers to teach them, so to speak, these people grew up under the influence of the top game designers.
Of course, after graduating from college, going to major game companies is also the first choice for these people.
As for why Jester knows so clearly, it's because one of his good friends, a girl who likes games very much, is a USC game design student, and his biggest dream is to create his own game, just like Hideo Kojima is to "Hidden Dragon Gurve" and Itagaki is to "Ninja Dragon".
Of course, Jester didn't laugh at him for being a little whimsical.
Jester doesn't know when USC's game design major opened, but in his original history, it shouldn't be the present, but as he got involved in the video game industry, it was like an efficient catalyst that catalyzed the rapid development of the industry like an author's express train.
Indirectly, it also affected the original history.
Of course, Jester didn't care much about the things that affected the change of history.
In fact, he is also very happy that USC can open such a discipline, and he is also very happy that Nen Gu invited him to give a lecture, but his time in the second half of the year is too tight, and there are two crucial games to develop, so although he wants to go, it seems that he is a little too late in time.
Soon, Mark. Saini arrived at Jester's office along with several other prominent Martian Entertainment makers.
"What, did you get an invitation from USC too?"
From the slight smile on their faces, Jester could tell the reason why they came to find themselves together, and when he saw them nodding, Jester didn't say anything.
"I personally approve of this matter, as long as you can't delay your work, you can naturally go."
Jester assured them with a smile.
After sending these people away, Mark . Seeing that Jester seemed a little sullen, Seni asked a little strangely, "What, do you think this thing is bad?" ”
"No, I'm very much in favor of it, and you know, there are very few people in the game industry now, and what they learn in college is difficult to apply to practice, and even many people still need to be taught hand-in-hand after entering the company."
Jester shook his head and said a few casual words.
And Mark. Saini, as a first-line developer, is naturally very clear about this, and he also nodded: "Yes, it used to be okay, a game can be made by three or two people, and the professional knowledge required is still relatively small, but now, especially after we started the development of 3D games, the professional knowledge required is too much, and it is too difficult to teach it by hand." ”
Saying, Mark. Only then did Saini realize that he had digressed.
So he continued to turn the subject back, and he asked in a very curious tone, "Then how do I think you are not very happy?" ”
"Hey."
Jester sighed: "I naturally support this matter, and I am also very interested in it, but I have too many things to do in the second half of this year, and I am afraid it will not take long to pull ......it out."
"Haha."
Unexpectedly, before Jester could finish speaking, Mark. Saini laughed first.
"I thought it was something! Actually, don't worry, I just asked, in fact, USC is very ambitious this time, they want to be a hit, so this time they invested a lot in this game development course, and invited a lot of people to teach, and the number of classes assigned to everyone is not much. ”
Saying, Mark. Saini smiled again.
"I also asked, what specific teaching materials they will use have not yet been decided, and it is said that they will have to discuss it with us."
Jester relaxed after hearing this: "That's because I'm overthinking." ”
After speaking, he picked up the phone and called the USC side again, saying that he agreed to their invitation, but he didn't expect the other party to be very happy, because Jester is a benchmark in the industry after all, and with it to give lectures, then when recruiting students, it will definitely be able to get a great publicity effect.
USC even invited Jester to give a lesson to game development students at their first class after the start of the school year. (To be continued) R466