Chapter 181: The Japanese team officially joins
The so-called total investment amount not only refers to the cost of filming, the salary of the actors, but also the cost of publicity, although Jester does not know much about the film industry, but he has also heard that the cost of post-publicity is even higher than the cost of shooting.
However, this time they don't need to choose too famous actors, but they don't worry too much about this aspect.
Overall, Jester feels that the verbal agreement reached with MGM is relatively satisfied, negotiation is an art of compromise, nothing is perfect, and there must be options that are not the best for him, but this is a compromise.
The next day Jester picked up Sandy. Will's call, which has actually been three days after Jester's meeting with the other party, the other party's reply also made Jester very excited, after careful consideration, he agreed to Jester's request, the specific commission is paid according to the rules of the industry, Jester has no slightest doubt about this.
And, Sandy. Will also came up with his own additional conditions, which were about the Commercial Credit Corporation.
That's why Jester took the initiative to name the Business Credit Corporation at the time, and Jester knew that the company was in Sandy. Will's eyes are a piece of fat that he sees every day but can't eat every day, and this time Jester is ready to play a big one, and he also handed this opportunity to Sandy. In Will's hands, according to Jester's kind of understanding of the other party, Sandy. It's impossible for Will not to be impressed.
Sandy. Will's additional conditions were not unexpected by Jester, and even more appropriately, it was completely expected, because he knew that for the current Sandy. Will's question about what he wanted most was the Commercial Credit Corporation.
Now Sandy. Will's own funds are not enough, and there is no way to buy the stock price of the commercial credit company when it is the lowest in the original history, because although the company has long been dissatisfied with this company, they still have the idea of wanting to sell it at a good price, and they are trying to maintain the stock price of the commercial credit company. It caused the commercial credit company to almost fall into the abyss in the end.
But this is Sandy. What Will didn't know, and what he was most worried about now was that someone like him, who could carefully investigate and see the hidden gold mountain in the business of the Commercial Credit Company, and thus buy it from the company, then he would lose the opportunity to make a comeback in what he thought was the best.
"If what you expected comes true, then I hope we can buy the Commercial Credit Company together, and I want to take a controlling stake." That's Sandy. Will's additional conditions, so to speak, played into Jester's arms, and naturally, he agreed to it without any doubt.
In order to allow the development team sent by Sega to devote themselves to research and development energetically, although Yu Suzuki expressed his dissatisfaction, he could only succumb to Jester's insistence, and he let the entire Sega team rest for three days - rest was an excuse for Jester, of course, it was not a deliberate embarrassment, but the apartment that Mars Entertainment rented for them had not yet been cleaned up.
But if Jester had told them the truth, the workaholic Japanese might have said they could travel from Los Angeles to Costa Mesa to Mars Entertainment's headquarters every day for work, and then return in the evening.
Although Jester likes to work overtime, and he wants his employees to like to work overtime as much as he does, he doesn't really want people from other companies to work overtime so hard, and in his opinion, before the game is officially developed, it is necessary to do the work to recuperate, and when the game really starts to develop, it is like a bomb countdown, it can't be stopped at all, and without good energy, a good game can't be completed.
And this time the game of making zuò requires research and development personnel, in addition to the program, whether it is art or planning, you must have an understanding of all kinds of cooking, and you don't need to know everything about it, but it can't be said that you don't even know what kind of Provencal risotto is a national dish, that's too much to say.
It's really ridiculous for such a person to do such a game.
Therefore, although these Sega Japanese led by Yu Suzuki have not been called by Jester to the Mars Entertainment Headquarters for formal development in the past three days, Jester has found more than a dozen chefs of various genres to teach these Japanese people, of course, this kind of class is not to teach them how to cook, but to teach them all kinds of cooking common sense, only when they themselves know the common sense of these cooking, can they design a game that meets Jester's original intention when he thought of this game.
Jester doesn't want players to play this game made by him when they say that this game is so bad that they don't even know that the standard weight of salmon pieces is 160 grams, or that they don't even know that there are 26 basic methods of Chinese cooking or Chinese cuisine.
Although this is just a game, but Jester is deeply influenced by the later generations of game dealers' requirements for details, which can be said to be very demanding, in Jester's eyes, details are a success or failure, although sometimes players do not pay much attention to details, but when inadvertently players find the details that the designer painstakingly designed when playing the game, that kind of heartfelt touch, players who have not experienced it, are completely incomprehensible.
And Jester knows that the famous game developers of later generations, whether it is the ace naughty dog of the Sony family, or the famous R star or the well-deserved overlord of PC games, Blizzard Entertainment, the pursuit of the details of the game, are all excellence, he once saw a sentence somewhere to evaluate the understanding of details of these game companies, which is very new to him.
It's like a Swiss watchmaker and a mirror grinder in Fukuoka, a craftsman's feeling.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Luo Hammer's feelings at all.
Three days later, when Yu Suzuki arrived at the Mars Entertainment headquarters on Costa Mesa with a dozen Sega employees, his first impression of Mars Entertainment, a giant in the entire world of games, was that it was small.
Originally, this was the headquarters of the company that Jester was able to do with his mother's supermarket, and it was still very large at the time, but now with the increase in the company's business and the increase in personnel, it seems a little crowded, so I think it is Seifer. Darkwater, the first independent studio to be independent from Mars Entertainment, is still in the headquarters, but it is actually in a writing building near the headquarters.
Faced with the embarrassment of not having enough space in the company, Jester has long had a solution, he has recently been looking for a suitable location, planning to break ground directly, build a large enough company headquarters, this proposal has been almost everyone in the company agreed, after all, everyone wants to work in a spacious place.
Jester admires the working atmosphere of some game companies in later generations, making games is playing, so the working environment should be relaxed, there is no requirement for employees to dress when they go to work, you can wear suits and leather shoes, you can also jeans and t-shirts, and even direct beach pants No one objected, but in Japan it is not possible, in formal large companies, no suit and leather shoes can even be banned from entry.
Therefore, when the team of Japanese in neat suits came to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment, they saw that there was basically no one in Mars Entertainment wearing formal clothes, and even the Japanese who had joined Mars Entertainment before were the same, which also surprised these people from Sega.
Of course, this is not the most surprising to them, what makes them feel even more incompatible with their cognition and three views, that is, in Mars Entertainment, there is almost no so-called long working hours is an authoritative statement, when they first came, Jester let them observe a discussion meeting next to them, Dabilee's team to discuss the establishment of a new game.
After the production of "Dawn" was completed, Sean. Dabilee and Sid. Mel, the two people who had a dispute over the style of the game later in the game, also completely separated, and after a half-month vacation, Sean. Dabilee was also out of vacation, so he had just returned from his vacation and immediately started talking about a new game that he couldn't wait for.
Sid. Mel doesn't need to be like Sean. Darbilee, because he had discussed his new game with Jester no less than five times before, which lasted for half a year, and for the next game to be made, Sid. Mel also has a deep understanding, so there is no more like Sean. It was so difficult for Darbili to make a decision.
This is the second time that Jester has participated in the discussion of the new game, and the first time Jester did not participate, but according to the employees who participated, the discussion process was very intense, even full of gunpowder. Dabilee still hasn't decided what his next game will be.
So, this time, by Sean. Dabilee invited Jester to also hold a discussion this time to see if he could use his own experience to give them some ideas.
In his eyes, these current game designers are already very mature designers, they don't need to do all the preparation work for them as they did at the beginning, and then let them cook according to the pot, and now they are fully qualified to choose their own ingredients and main ingredients to make a delicious meal.
In the eyes of these dozen or so people in Japan, this kind of fierce discussion, which ignores respect and inferiority, and anyone can speak freely to refute, is really too unruly and too rebellious in their eyes. R1152