"Sony has also announced that they will not stop there."

Jester laughed and talked to Mark. Saini said that this time Nintendo's break with Sony was beyond everyone's expectations, as long as it was in the video game circle, people who knew a little about it were discussing this matter with their familiar companions.

Even in the middle of the night, Maka, who is also working overtime. Saini came to Jester's office with two cups of coffee, put one in front of Jester, tired from work, he also wanted to talk to Jester about the breakup between Sony and Nintendo. Saini came in and stretched as well, he had been working on the framework of the RTS game he had been thinking about for a long time, and there was a lot to consider.

After much thought, he gave up on his idea of borrowing the worldview of StarCraft or Warcraft, only temporarily, because he felt that the first time he made a Zuòrts game, no matter how experienced and powerful his team was, it was impossible to do his best when facing a genre that he had never been exposed to and was completely unfamiliar with.

For Jester, who was a former avid of RTS games, he couldn't bear to destroy the two most magnificent monuments in the history of these two RTS games in his mind, so he chose a theme that was easiest to grasp.

History.

And the game borrowed from it is, of course, "Age of Empires".

Even, for this game, Jester also specially brought in Sid, who was making final fixes and debugs for "Civilization". Mel, this Sid. Mel has been crafting the game for nearly two years, and Jester has a very strong interest, and this "Civilization" is far richer than the first "Civilization" he remembers, whether it is in terms of system, gameplay, or game production time.

This game, so to speak. It's almost Sid. Mel's brainchild.

And Sid. Mel is grateful to Jester for allowing him to spend two years to make a game that can only be released on PC, and because of the relationship between the game type and gameplay, the sales are bound to not be too high, and even, in these two years of development time, no matter how much development funds he applies for, how much technical support he applies, Jester should also approve. I didn't even interfere with how I made the game.

For Sid. For Mel, making this game is extremely difficult, and even halfway through the production of zuò, he even gave birth to the idea that he would not be able to complete this kind of game at all, if it weren't for the fact that Mars Entertainment has invested a lot of research and development funds for his game, if it weren't for Jester's kind of weight and trust in himself, he might have stopped doing it a long time ago.

In the end, it took two years of hard work to make this game come out. Sid. Mel has played his game countless times, although for some technical reasons, many of his ideas about this game have not been completely perfectly reflected in the game, but. Just the completed part, I am already very satisfied.

It could even be said that he made a game that would shock him.

When Sid. Mel receives a call from Jester. It's said that there is a game that needs to help with the setting, although Civilization is still in the last and most important debug. Mel didn't even hesitate. Rushed straight from Los Angeles to Costa Mesa, and since setting up a studio after breaking away from Mars Entertainment a few years ago, Sid Ander. Mel spends all his time in his Los Angeles studio at his Los Angeles level, where he spends all his time focusing on the development of the game.

Actually, for Sid. As an American company, even if it is an emerging game development company that takes overtime as the norm, the development process of up to two years without holidays, almost as many as 300 days of overtime every year, and overtime until after ten o'clock at Christmas. Mel's team has been able to go from the beginning of its formation to the fact that "Civilization" has basically been completed, and it still maintains a personnel retention rate of nearly 90% or more.

It's very rare, even unceremoniously to say, Sid. Mel's charisma, powerful and convincing.

The sketch Jester was looking at was Sid. Mel had just handed him in the afternoon, Sid. It took Mel three days to complete, and during those three days, he barely closed his eyes, and the intensity of the work, at the time of Jester's inquiry, Sid Brown. Mel said that he had become accustomed to it, and that he had done so more than once in the two years he had been working on Civilization.

These are according to Jester's requirements, listing some characteristics of various civilizations in history, architectural styles, units that can be gamified, etc., etc., because of the design experience of "Civilization", so for Sid. For Mel, it doesn't take a lot of mental effort to make such a manuscript, in fact, it's almost all his accumulation of "Civilization".

And Jester isn't worried that his players will think that his Age of Empires is Sid. After all, "Civilization" is just a strategy game, while "Age of Empires" is a real-time strategy that has not yet appeared at this time - one is turn-based, the other is real-time, and even the core gameplay is different, how can it be considered a remake.

Jester looked at Mark who came to his room. Saini said that sentence with a smile, then picked up the steaming coffee, took a sip slightly, and felt that the aroma was overflowing, and it didn't seem to be the ordinary coffee he prepared for the employees in the rest room.

And Mark. Saini said with a smile: "It was brought back by Lisa when she went to South America, authentic Blue Mountain coffee." "Lisa is Mark. Saini's girlfriend, the two of them are engaged and are preparing to get married next year.

"I don't think it's a good thing to happen to Sony this time."

Jester said with a deep groan.

"Isn't it a good thing?" Hearing Jester say that, Mark. Saini was a little puzzled, because in his opinion, this is a good thing for them in any way, although they don't take Nintendo's strength into account, but after all, this is a next-generation replacement war, and no one can predict what the future battle will be, and it is a good thing for them to be able to reduce an opponent.

"Hmm." Jester nodded, thinking about how to talk to Mark. Saini explained.

After thinking for a while, Jester took another sip of coffee before continuing: "First of all, first, Nintendo may not withdraw from this next-generation competition, and second, I think that this time Nintendo's falling out with Sony has helped Sony a big favor, so that Sony has the most appropriate excuse to fully enter the game industry, their internal excuse. ”

"Why?" Mark. Saini frowned and thought for a while, as if he couldn't think of how to refute Jester's two statements, and of course he probably didn't bother to answer these two points of view that could only be regarded as brain supplements, so he just said this very simply.

And Jester wasn't annoyed, he knew that Mark. Saini was just joking, he pointed to his head, and then smiled lightly, "It's just a hunch." ”

"I don't think you need to take it personally."

It seems that Mark. Saini didn't care about Jester's worries at all, he laughed and said: "Whether Nintendo can continue to participate in this next-generation battle, I don't think it's a difficult thing for us, at least from our current market research, even Sega's MD console, which is now in the momentum of the next-generation console, is far behind us in terms of research, not to mention Nintendo, and ......."

Saying, Mark. Saini paused slightly, he also took a sip of coffee, moistened his lips, and continued: "Moreover, even if the research does not explain a qiē, then a company that is far behind the second place in the research, I don't think there is any need to take it too seriously." ”

These words, Mark. Saini said it lightly, and Jester was noncommittal.

"Besides......"

It seems that Mark. Before Saini finished speaking, he saw that Jester did not match what he said earlier, thinking that what he said had not moved the other party, so he continued: "Besides, even if Sony really wants to enter this industry, it is not too scary, it is not four or five years ago, the game industry that has just experienced the impact of Atari is not the same as it is now, what about Sony?" As you can see in the results of PC-E, NEC is more wealthy than Sony, and they also have the help of game developers like Namco and Hudson, who are extremely capable of development, but in the end, they didn't even make a wave? ”

Jester pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak.

For Jester's state of mind at this time Mark. Saini is still a little dissatisfied, he really doesn't know what Jester is worried about, in his opinion, this time Nintendo will take off a layer of skin even if it doesn't die, and as for Sony, even if they really roll up their sleeves and go on their own, what about making games, not just making game consoles, maybe in the development of game consoles, they may really not be as strong as Sony in hardware technology, but games are not just hardware. (To be continued......) R527