John. Carmack is a smart man.

Moreover, he is also one of the smartest people in the world, and it didn't take long for him to know the meaning of Jester's words after listening to Jester's words.

"If that's the case......"

Carmack hesitated for a moment, as if he was thinking about what to say, but it wasn't very long, and he said: "If these game companies release their games on our Battle.net platform, we must not be free, if we just charge a very low fee or a commission similar to the name, if this base is large enough, it is not ......"

The latter words were not uttered by Carmack.

But Jester nodded, and said the rest of the words: "Yes, we just pass the guò kind of commission, we don't need to do anything, we only need to organize employees to travel around the world for ten months a year, and then come back from the trip and share the money." ”

Hearing Jester's teasing answer, John. Carmack couldn't help but laugh as well.

But after laughing, think about it carefully, if you can really do it like Jester described in the future, then it seems that Mars Entertainment really does it? Because of this kind of money, it is simply too easy to earn.

Jester smiled as well.

He wasn't joking, he was talking about what was really happening in his world.

Jester and Carmack didn't have a more in-depth discussion about Battle.net or a further game platform, after all, even in the United States, the Internet era has just begun, and even for many people, they don't know what the Internet is.

Even the world's first battle.net he envisioned. It will take four or five months to complete.

The next day.

Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo excitedly came to Jester's specially prepared development room, the area is not large, it used to be Jester's own lounge, but it was later abandoned, this time Jester was going to make "Rune Guardian", so Jester found this room again.

Let people clean up and put in the necessary machine and tools.

Jester was already in the room when the two of them arrived, and when they saw the two enter, Jester just glanced up. Then he pointed to the two positions opposite him, and did not speak, but both of them understood very well that this was the meaning of letting them sit down.

As soon as they sat down, they saw several sheets of paper that had been nailed together on the table in front of them.

The paper was densely covered with handwriting, all of which were about what kind of game they were going to develop and what they were going to do.

"You guys take a look at the things on it first, everyone's is different. If you understand everything, we will officially start our work, and if you don't understand, you can always ask me. In the last one is our schedule, and I've set it at 45 days, so we're still on a tight schedule. Within forty-five days, we had to come up with a demo version. ”

Jester spoke in a very flat tone, but whether it was Mike. Mo Huaimi or Rob. Pardo. He nodded solemnly.

They know that's how Jester works in style.

When he gives the task, as his subordinate, there is only the option of obedience, and if you disagree, then it's simple, leaving the development team of the Jester tie, it's that simple.

Mike. Mo Wymmy and Rob. Pardo read it very carefully, and Jester wrote it in great detail, and wrote it in a simple and easy way to understand what kind of game it was, for everyone's tasks, and for everyone to understand the content of the game.

So there is no difficulty for the two of them to read.

In fact, for Jester, this period of time should be the most relaxed for him, because in the era of Dreambox2, it is an era of lack of competition, in the original history, the competition of sixteen-bit machines, the most eye-catching is the battle of the century between Sega and Nintendo.

said that it was the war of the century, but in fact, Sega took advantage of the gap when Nintendo did not launch its own console, and they launched their own console in advance, which caught Nintendo off guard, and relied on Yuji Naka's whimsical "Sonic" to complete the counterattack on Nintendo in the United States and Europe.

It almost shook Nintendo's dominance of Mario in the two world's largest game consumption regions.

And Sonic has also become the totem of Sega.

But in fact, the reason why Sega was able to achieve such a brilliant victory made people feel that Nintendo was nothing more than that, so from another aspect, the reason why EA was instigated to create 3DO and also invested in the competition of consoles was just because, Nintendo was napping during this period of time.

Yes.

When Nintendo's Super Nintendo withdrew, it almost swept the entire army, and destroyed the advantage that Sega had spent three years hard to stabilize.

Especially the new Mario work "Super Mario World" on the Super Nintendo,It has reached the horror of the entire Super Nintendo player,One person has one,Later, until Sony's PS officially joined the battle group of the knife console,In fact, the process is very simple。

It was Sega that took advantage of the time difference between Nintendo and the lack of sixteen consoles to catch Nintendo off guard.

Then, after being recalled, Nintendo punched and kicked the ground with an old fist and beat him hard, and after that, Sega could only follow Nintendo's back and eat ashes.

There is one reason why this is so.

That is, all the gameplay that can be thought of by the sixteen-bit machine, in fact, in the eight-bit era, was thought out by the game developers, so, in the sixteen-bit machine, the work of the game developer is just to constantly strengthen those games that have been stored in the eight-bit machine.

And many gamers are actually not interested in such a game mode.

So. This is also in the era of sixteen-bit consoles, there has never been a landmark game like Mario, or similar to Mario, whether it is word-of-mouth, gameplay, sales, or inspiration for game developers.

It's not that game designers can't make games like this.

It's just that a lot of the wonderful ideas that are now designers are stuck behind in the current hardware. I can only look at the ocean and sigh.

For example, Hideo Kojima, who has long been hungry and thirsty, is one of the centers.

Meanwhile.

Many small and medium-sized game studios in the United States have seen Age of Empires sell more than three million copies in just two months, many of these studios are created by game enthusiasts, and their scale is small, and the games they develop can only sell a few thousand copies to small companies that have the distribution rights. can even sell tens of thousands of copies, for them, it is a great sales.

Of course, they know a lot about game studios. Just with a game, it received the favor of those big companies, and then it rose to prominence and was acquired. It became a real game maker company that could make the games they wanted to make.

For example, two high school students just made a skiing game, and Jester took a fancy to it and personally acquired Naughty Dog under Mars Entertainment.

The RPG adventure game that these two high school students recently made Zuò sold well on Dreambox 2. Judging from the sales announced by Mars Entertainment, the sales of this game, which has been on sale for four months, have exceeded 1.5 million copies.

However, in the eyes of these small studios who are still selling thousands of points, it is simply astronomical.

In Las Vegas, there is such a small game studio.

Brett. Sparrow and Louis. Kastone is the creator of West Wood, but the company has been wholly acquired by Virgin, and they don't make any particularly influential games.

On this day, when Brett arrived at the company, the first thing he did was turn on his computer and start running Age of Empires.

In just a few days, he was already deeply addicted to the game.

The company doesn't have many employees right now, and Louis. Kastone is just an investor, and in general, he rarely comes to the company, but Brett is the company's chief designer, and he needs to come in the morning to open the company, and while waiting for others to come, he will always open a game of Age of Empires to kill time.

Brett's level is very high, and in the company, in the battle of "Age of Empires", almost no one can be his opponent.

Therefore, even if it is the strongest computer, there is no difficulty for him, which is not the reason why Jester deliberately makes the computer too poor, but the games of this era do not allow the computer to have too high AI, because in this case, it will bring a lot of unnecessary burden to the computer.

When Brett manipulated his favorite Anglo-Saxons to destroy the last building of the last Germanic power, he was surrounded by several employees who had come to the company's West Wood.

These people are all very interested in "Age of Empires", and their level is good, but they are not as many as Brett played.

"It's a great game!"

Seeing that people were almost here, Brett also felt that it was time to start working, so he ended the game directly, but he still couldn't help but say this to everyone.

"yes, that's a great game!"

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