"Sid Meier." Carly's tone was flat, and that was for sure, because she certainly didn't know how great the name in her mouth would be in the future.

After getting Carly's sure answer, Jester calmed down, he is now the owner of a large holding company, with a game development company, a display chip research and development company, a comic company, and a one-third of the shares of a future computer giant, in other words, he is now a successful person with a net worth of 100 million, not a small person.

A little-known small game company, although he really wants to get it, although his future will be great, but now they are not, this kind of thing, it is not appropriate to go in person.

So he said to Carly on the other end of the phone: "You send this company's games here, I'll take a closer look, if it's really good, I think I can let Mars Entertainment buy them, and we do need one or two companies that specialize in computer games to expand our comprehensiveness." ”

Hanging up, Jester thought about it carefully, and it didn't seem that there was a department dedicated to acquisitions in his Mars Entertainment.

Except for some administrative staff who do chores, only R&D personnel remain.

But it doesn't matter, his game company doesn't live entirely on acquisitions like EA, except for very heavyweight studios, and he doesn't care much about the rest.

He called Adam Edgar directly and told him about his intention to buy Microprose outright.

Adam Edgar was still very surprised by this, after all, he had played a few games from this company, and they were not too good, but their makers were very thoughtful, but he didn't think that just by relying on these games that were not good, he would have to buy them, but he had seen what kind of games his boss's game company was developing.

Compared with the several games that his boss is making, the few games made by this company called Microprose are simply intriguing and incomparable.

He didn't understand why his boss was buying such a small company.

"Huh." Hearing Adam Edgar's doubts, Jester just smiled noncommittally, he just said lightly, "Just do what I say, there are some things you don't need to know." ”

A game that can be passed down to the world is not something that you know such an idea, and you have the technical ability to complete it, and every such masterpiece has infiltrated the spiritual connotation of the maker, and their thoughts have become one with their work.

Sid Meier's dream was to become a taxonomist before he became a game designer, and he had been perfecting the idea for many years before making Civilization, and then he showed his taxonomic abilities in this great game that surpassed most taxonomists.

Why is Sid Meier's Civilization the best in the genre? Even if there isn't a comparable work of its kind? Because this game is full of Sid Meier's unique understanding of games, his game philosophy, he thinks that a good game should be like this, or rather, it is the game of his dreams.

Some games may not be much different from the original one, but some games, they are full of a strong personal style of a people, if you change the people, although they are still those materials, but the taste is completely different.

You can't even imagine what the game would have been like if it had been reframed, can you imagine Civilization not having the prefix Sid Meier in front of it?

I can't anyway, Jester thought.

There are not many people with such games, but there are definitely a lot of them, and each one, each one, can be called a legend.

"Civilization" is one with Sid Meier, "Metal Solid" is the second with Hideo Kojima, "God is Crazy" is the third with Molineux, "Ninja Dragon Sword" and Sulfuric Face is the fourth, and of course many more.

"Okay then." Adam Edgar could only agree with some depression.

At the end of the call with Adam Edgar, Jester suddenly remembered that he hadn't sent the Apple computer he wanted to the Carmack kid, and that he really needed him to help him make a few computer games to get his hands on at his new publishing company.

It's not that he can't do computer games, but he really doesn't have time, his entire team is in full swing on research and development tasks, and even if a game is simple, it will take at least two or three days from drawing, soundtrack, writing code to DEBUG, plus post-beautification processing, five or six days is less.

Oh time! Jester couldn't help but sigh again.

It doesn't have to be too difficult to give a game to Carmack, but it must be interesting, and it's best to be like Minesweeper and get more and more addicted to it, and once you get started, you can't stop at all.

After thinking about it, Jester really remembered one.

It's a game that only released in 2014, and it's simple, but it's very playable.

Pulling a piece of paper from the table, Jester writes a word at the beginning, which is also the name of the game, Threes.

The Chinese name of this game is "Little 3 Legend", which is basically a game of the same period as the sadistic masterpiece "Pixel Bird", although not as famous as "Pixel Bird", but it is also a very puzzle fun and addictive game, and there are countless players who are hooked on him.

Jester is one of them.

The most important thing is that this small game has a very high quality, which is very suitable for a genius boy like Carmack.

Its gameplay can be both simple and complex, singular and ever-changing, and if you have a good mathematical mind, you can theoretically continue the game indefinitely until you don't want to play.

It's really a weapon to kill time.

With that in mind, Jester drew a 4X4 matrix on a piece of paper and wrote down the simple rules of the game below.

In this 4X4 matrix, there will be five random numbers at the beginning, these numbers will only be a small multiple of one, two, three or three, the player can move any of these five numbers, the range is a grid up and down, left and right, note that when moving a number, it will also move the number of the entire matrix, not just a single one, of course, provided that the other numbers have space for them to move.

Whenever the player moves a number, a new number will appear in the opposite position of the number the player moved, for example, if the player moves a number to the left, the new number will appear on the right, and if the player moves a number up, the new number will appear below.

In the same way, the new numbers can only be one, two, three.

The rule is to merge, but not at random, but only one with two or multiple of three and three, that is, only one with two into three, then three with three into six, six with six into twelve, twelve with twelve into twenty-four...... By analogy, three and six cannot be merged, and of course, all other mergers are not allowed.

As in "American Cubes", the top of this matrix will also indicate what the next number will be, of course, the point system will definitely not run.

When all sixteen squares of this 4X4 matrix are filled with numbers, then the game is over.

While writing the rules, Jester also drew a detailed matrix diagram in case Carmack couldn't read what he meant.

After writing all the rules, settings and gameplay of "Little 3 Legends", Jester was still a little unsatisfied, and he thought of a similar gameplay developed later based on the gameplay of "Little 3 Legends", but the rules were simpler, more fun, and more refreshing.

《1024》。

Then, Jester kept writing and continued to write down the gameplay and rules of "1024" and its advanced version "2048", "4096", but the difference with the original version is that he merged these three games into one, but divided into three difficulties, the beginner version is "1024", the advanced version is "2048", and the master version is "4096".

In fact, Jester liked Cheng dù of "2048" more than the grandfather of this kind of game, "Little 3 Legends", nothing more than that, because he was simpler.

After writing seven or eight pages of paper, Jester stopped writing, and then combed through it from beginning to end, correcting the areas that were not very rigorous and easy to cause ambiguity, and then supplemented the instructions in some unclear places, and then he wrote what he wanted to say to Carmack at the bottom of this game sketch.

Of course, he must have praised him for his good completion of "Minesweeper", and then said that Apple's latest computer will be sent to you with this letter, and finally encouraged the other party, and of course, there is also the above small task that you need to complete seriously.

Of course, the rewards are the same as those in Minesweeper, and are worth any item or cash on an Apple computer.

After writing it, Jester took out an envelope from a drawer on one side, wrote Carmak's address on it, then put the letter in the envelope, sealed it, and finally picked up the phone and called an employee who did chores, asking him to come and pick up a letter from him, and by the way, buy a brand new Apple computer, and send a courier to the address on the envelope.

After waiting for a few minutes, his staff took the letter away, Jester continued to play "Thunderbolt" in the system that made him feel a kind of masochistic pleasure, this time he insisted for more than an hour, in order to be able to check the details of the game in the level design many times, Jester deliberately died several times, and also recorded some places on paper that could be referenced, and drew a few sketches of the setting.

In fact, after countless death exercises, Jester has also grasped the reason why this game is called more important to dodge bullets than to fight jets, at least much stronger than when he first played it.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Jester was ready to go to Los Angeles.

Hayao Nakayama sent an invitation to him a few days before he came, to hold a banquet on the night of his arrival, mainly to invite some business friends, and the invited are the senior executives of some multinational groups, either directors of companies such as GE and MOTO, or the heads of American branches such as Panasonic and Sony.

It was a kindness from Hayato Nakayama to him.

We at SEGA are very sincere about our cooperation.

Jester wasn't very interested in that, and what he was most annoyed about was this kind of socializing, even though it was of a high level.

Even if he didn't like it, Jester couldn't help it, otherwise it would be too rude.

Jester has never participated in this kind of banquet in his previous life or this life, and he is not very familiar with it, but he at least knows from the movies and television dramas he has watched that attending this kind of banquet is at least to wear a dress, like Zuckerberg, who can wear slippers to attend formal occasions, Jester looks very envious, but he can't do it, after all, people are different from people.

Jester's soul is a Chinese who has received more than ten years of traditional Chinese education, and in his eyes, this kind of behavior of not caring about other people's eyes is free, but it is also rude, at least this behavior is extremely disrespectful to the inviting party.

Jester couldn't do that.

The dress is Armani's, I bought it in a specialty store the other day, it's not a handmade zuò, first of all, I don't have enough time, and secondly, Jester is not interested in it, so I just chose a fitting one and it's done.

The banquet will be held at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Baussie Hotel in Los Angeles.

Just as Jester changed into a brand new evening gown and was about to drive his Mustang muscle car to Los Angeles, it occurred to him that it would be more appropriate to bring a female companion to such a banquet.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the girl he met in the bookstore, more than a month has passed, I don't know if she has finished reading the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life"?

Of course, he was just thinking about it, although Jester knew the girl's name, information, and according to the resources he currently had, it was enough to find the girl, but Jester felt that it was not good after all, and invited a girl who only had one side to a dinner party for no reason, which was brainless in Jester's mind.

And the other party is still a traditional girl from the mainland, so I definitely won't agree to such an excessive, unreasonable request.

Jester thought so, so who to look for?

Then Jester thought about the people he could think about, and found that the owner of his body turned out to be a complete otaku, usually going to the gym to exercise in addition to studying programming, and as a man who had experienced a full American high school career, he was still a virgin.

I know a lot of female classmates, and there are many female classmates who have teased themselves in various ways, but they are not interested in it, it seems that in the cognition of their own body, it is much more interesting to deal with those cold codes than to deal with those passionate and beautiful women with various styles.

It's a terrible thing.

Jester thought angrily, but he seemed to have forgotten about it, and before he was reborn, he was just an otaku like this one.

Everyone is the eldest brother and doesn't laugh at the second brother.

It's not hard to find those female classmates for Jester now, but Jester has no interest in having too intimate sex with a woman he hasn't been in contact with.

Jester is still very introverted in nature.

At this time, Jester suddenly thought of a candidate, and after thinking about it, it seemed that she was the most suitable, and then Jester dialed Carly's phone without hesitation.

"What? You let me be your female companion and go to a dinner party with you? After listening to Jester's words, Carly actually laughed exaggeratedly, she really couldn't imagine that a little boy who was so good in her eyes, a young and already billionaire, would not be able to find a female companion.

A little annoyed by Carly's words, Jester said a little angrily, "Do you want to help!" ”

"Haha." Listening to Jester's words, this time Carly's laughter on the other end of the phone was a little louder.

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