Looking at Will. Jester also kept nodding his head at the first meeting between the two four years ago, when he and the other party met for the first time and the first employees of Mars Entertainment he founded, he said that the idea about SimCity was that he saw Will. Wright's whim, because the game is Will. Wright's famous work.

Because he followed himself, in this world, Will. Wright didn't set up his own game company, nor did he make the empire trilogy series that made him famous, but it was precisely because he followed Jester that he was able to make the "Balotelli" series, which was much better than his original empire trilogy, and with the sales of 15 million copies of the current "Sheriff Balotelli's Otherworldly Adventure", which is almost impossible to see, it is enough for him to go down in history.

In fact, this simulation game that Jester once mentioned, even he almost forgot about it, and he didn't expect that Will. Wright was still impressed.

"You did it yourself?" After carefully reading the last page of the project, Jester looked up at the boy who was not a few years older than himself sitting in front of him. Wright is a standard otaku who doesn't seem to be very interested in anything other than making games, and he doesn't even have any interest in letting him go out and open a studio on his own, he just wants to make games silently at Mars Entertainment.

Hearing Jester's question, Will. Wright nodded, his voice was not loud, but firm: "Yes, since you talked about this idea at that time, I have become very interested, you know, I studied architecture, so I often think about these issues when making games, such as how to make game maps to be more interesting." I also found it interesting to design maps and buildings, so I had the idea of gradually perfecting the sim city game you mentioned. ”

Jester showed a look of appreciation on his face, and clapped his hands while smiling: "To be honest, I didn't expect your project to be completed in such detail, and you have added so many functions to this game to be made, and the system is also relatively complicated. And, most importantly, our game doesn't have enough power to support the huge computation required for your game, and in the later stages of your game, the computational requirements will be very large, and you have really decided not to develop this game on our console platform anymore? ”

At the end of his speech, Jester's tone became stern.

Because of Mars Entertainment's internal regulations, the rewards for the development team are related to the sales of a game, and the higher the sales. Naturally, the higher the reward, and the higher the profit. A part of it will be allocated to the development team as a reward according to the regulations, and then the reward will be distributed according to the contribution value of the game to the game.

And as we all know, developing games on home consoles. The sales volume will be the most, and the rewards you can get will be the most, so. When developing games for console platforms, the members of the development team are also the most motivated.

Now Will. Wright's game, just from the requirements of the game and the way the game operates, is obviously not designed for the home console platform, but for the PC.

"I've actually thought it through."

Faced with Jester's question, Will. Wright nodded without thinking, he smiled indifferently, and continued, "Actually, before starting this project, I thought a lot, and at the beginning, I really wanted to use the home machine as a platform for design, because I participated in the Dreambox research and development process, and I was very clear about the hardware functions of the Dreambox, so I was able to give all the hardware functions to the table when I was designing. Our Dreambox is really good among all the current home game consoles, because we have two PPUs for image processing, but our CPU is no different from other home consoles, the same one. ”

As he spoke, Will. Wright looked up at Jester, and saw that Jester was also listening carefully, he was also very excited, so he said even harder: "So, when our machine is processed and some graphics are processed, the ppu can be responsible for most of the image processing, and the cpu only needs to be calculated, but the game I want to design is not very demanding for the picture, but it has high requirements for computing, so the more I design, the more I find, There's no way to accomplish my idea with our dreambox. ”

After hearing this, Jace nodded, and he seemed to think of something, so he took the initiative to ask, "Have you told your subordinates?" ”

"Yes."

Will. Wright immediately nodded, and he didn't deny it, continuing: "After I found out about this problem, I realized that I had to change my thinking, either change the platform or streamline the content of the game, but changing platforms is such an important thing and it is in everyone's interest, so I had a discussion with my developers. ”

Saying, Will. Wright also smiled bitterly: "Boss, you know, like the production of a game of this scale, it is often more than half a year, plus the time for testing and modifying the release vacation, it may be ten months later, if it is a game made of the home console platform, then naturally everyone is happy, because the sales of the home console platform are high, which can give us the greatest benefits, and the disagreement has arisen like this, for this game, my subordinates have no objection, but in the end, it is to simplify the amount of computing of the game and make the game simple." The pressure and requirements of the CPU are reduced or on changing platforms to make this game as perfect as possible. ”

Speaking of which, Will. Wright stopped talking, he looked at Jester with some hesitation, he didn't know whether to say the following words, and Jester also found that the other party was difficult to speak, so Jester took the initiative to say: "Isn't it to make the game simple, and the people who continue to develop on the home console platform account for the majority?" ”

"Yes." Will. Wright nodded, his expression a little bitter.

In fact, he himself is a perfectionist, and one of his favorite words from Jester is that we want to make the best games, and this sentence is also their belief in Mars Entertainment, and Jester himself is undoubtedly implementing this criterion, so to speak, every game made by Jester, although the genre is different, but it can be called the best in each genre.

Even the vast majority of his games have opened up new design ideas in a new game genre, which has benefited countless misguided game developers, including Will. Wright himself.

However, what he didn't expect was that there were some people in the development team he personally led who would forget this belief, and they felt that in order to get the most benefits, even if the game was not the best, it didn't matter.

Will. Wright is not dead-eyed, and he doesn't believe that everyone thinks the same as him, but when his development team was just formed, he believed that with him, there were some people who loved the game and recognized their boss's game, but he didn't expect that after so many years, there were less than one-third of the people with such simple thoughts back then.

In the face of this oppression, which is almost the same as negotiation, Will . . Wright couldn't make up his mind, on one side was his idea of the game, and on the other side, his partners who had struggled with him.

Jester listened quietly, and then he stood up.

"Will, do you know why we're getting bigger and bigger?" Jester's voice was not loud, but it was heard in Will. Wright's ears were clear.

Almost without hesitation, Will. "It's because we always make good games," Wright said. ”

Jester shook his head at this answer, apparently disapproving of it.

And Will. Wright also wondered why his boss didn't approve of his answer, which in his opinion was the most correct.

"To be precise, we have a strong head start, of course, this head start is obtained by our excellent games, we have the world's largest market dominance, which means that even if we make a relatively bad game, we can also make a lot of profits, and then, in the process of our development, some people are no longer like making the best games in the first article, so I set up an independent studio system, self-financing, let some people who want to fight for profits, let them go out independently, only let them be responsible for their own profits and losses, in order to get the maximum profit, and the most attentive development of the game. ”

Then, Jester looked at Will. Wright, he smiled: "Actually, this is nothing at all, at the beginning of a great plan, the motivation to support people to keep moving forward must be faith, only firm, great, bright faith, can support people to keep going, because at this time there is nothing but faith, but when this plan reaps results, faith alone is not so effective, at this time, you need to reasonably distribute the ambition of these people." ”

Hearing Jester say that, Will. Wright nodded as if he didn't understand, then shook his head again. (To be continued......) R1292