"So ......"

Jester had seen the new engine before, and apparently, Carmack had completed the fabrication of this engine.

Turning off the machine of the old algorithm engine running casually, Carmack smiled indifferently: "I was going to go directly to you and tell you that either you limit the maximum number of people connected to eight people, or this engine can't do it according to your requirements, but on the night I was going to find you at dawn the next day, I suddenly thought of a new method......"

Jester's level of programming is much worse than that of Carmack, and as Carmack speaks more and more detailed and profound in the 3D engine, he gradually becomes incomprehensible.

At the end of the day, it was almost Carmack who was talking about his innovation, a very new algorithm.

But in Jester's opinion, this algorithm is too far away from him.

He just needs to know that the 3D engine that Carmack has completed, the world's first game with a 3D engine named Unreal Engine I, is enough to complete the FPS game in his own mind.

Regarding the design idea of this game, Jester only told Carmack alone, and even the two assistants who developed the engine with Carmack, Jester did not say it, and Jester also solemnly warned Carmack several times that he must keep it secret about the new game he told him.

"Can we start developing the game right away?"

As the only person in the world other than Jester himself who knows what kind of game Jester is going to make, Carmack feels his blood boil when he thinks of the game mode that Jester told him, and what kind of e-sports does Jester talk about - playing video games can also be made as competitive as sports?

Although on this point I do not agree. But Carmack would continue to talk to him in private, because it was really refreshing in his opinion.

"That's right." At this time, Jester thought of one thing he had been thinking about when he arrived. It was also one thing he couldn't decide, he had the impression that Carmack was in the history he knew. He likes to hold such a large player gathering, so he wants to ask the other party's opinion, of course, the carmack of this world is just a hairy kid who has just graduated from high school and hasn't even gone to college.

Carmack could also see the doubt on Jester's face, and he was also waiting for Jester to say something.

It seemed to hesitate for a moment before Jester spoke, "I'm planning to hold a carnival at the end of October or November this year, a carnival that belongs only to us Martian entertainment players. ”

After hearing Jester say that. Carmack seemed to be stunned at first, and then his face instantly showed a look of surprise, he personally likes this kind of large-scale gathering very much, especially this kind of large gathering exclusive to players, after the surprise, he almost didn't think too much and couldn't wait to praise it: "I completely agree with this building, this is really a great building, carnival!" Mars Entertainment Carnival! ”

Jester was also very excited to see Carmack so supportive of his idea, in fact, he thought that if a Martian entertainment carnival was held at this time. It was expected to be a success, after all, he had Blizzard's memories of the carnival - when he first watched the documentary about Ten Years of Warcraft, the founder of Blizzard talked about the idea of holding a BlizzCon in the video.

It's actually quite simple. He wanted to share this joy with the players for the success of World of Warcraft, and at that time he was even worried about what would happen if the tickets didn't sell, what would happen if they didn't have enough supporters, in fact, their worries were completely unnecessary, and after they posted the news that they were going to hold a carnival on the World of Warcraft client at that time, in just an hour or two, the tickets they sold online were bought by enthusiastic players.

"This is something we didn't expect before." This is also the original words of the founder of Blizzard in that video.

It is precisely because of the unprecedented success of the first carnival. It was only then that Blizzard tasted the sweetness of this kind of prosperity in publicity and influence, and it was held again and again. Until the year Jester was reborn, there was only one vacancy. And the moment the carnival tickets for the year of his rebirth went on sale, the carnival tickets were sold out within five minutes.

Thinking of this, Jester is also more and more confident, after all, the influence of Mars Entertainment in this era is not comparable to Blizzard, as the largest game company in the world, it should do no worse than Blizzard back then.

However, Blizzard's carnival still has a lot to learn from him.

"I'm going to officially announce our game at the carnival at the end of the year, it's April, and we still have half a year until October, and to be honest, for the game we're going to make Zuò, such a little time may really not be enough." Jester said this to Carmack, who knew that Jester was going to make the game with Unreal I, so he nodded.

"And." Saying that, Jester paused slightly, and he continued, "I'm planning to hold our own game competition at our carnival, which is the e-sports I told you before, and I think only "Street Fighter" and "Tour of America Rally" meet my definition of e-sports, and the game we are going to make is also in line, but it is too late to hold a friendly match on the spot." ”

"Two games are a bit less." Carmack frowned, obviously, he felt that there were just a few games in the two games, and besides, there were so many games, why only two games matched, he couldn't figure it out.

Jester said to Carmack in this era before the emergence of e-sports, as for what kind of game he has seen in e-sports and how to play, then he will not ask this kind of question, not all games can be regarded as e-sports games, so for this question, Jester avoided answering, he continued to continue his previous topic.

"The bonus must be generous, otherwise, it may not attract enough players to participate, but it can't be too high, if it's too high, let the tournament be held directly, it's not very good to increase the amount of the bonus......" Regarding the bonus issue, Jester frowned and thought about it, first of all, if the prize money is low, it will definitely not attract people interested in participating, and it will not be able to promote his desire to promote the development of e-sports, if it is high, then it will not be conducive to the promotion of e-sports, after all, this is a gradual process.

Carmack didn't have much experience at this point, and he didn't have much to say, and Jester clearly didn't want to hear what he meant on this issue.

"Fifty thousand dollars for the champion."

After thinking for a long time, Jester said a bonus that is not high, but definitely not low, the 50,000 US dollars in this period can be completely different from the 50,000 US dollars in 20 years in terms of purchasing power, and the purchasing power of 50,000 US dollars now can even reach 70,000 or 80,000 or even 100,000 US dollars in 20 years.

Even after 20 years, the winner of a competition gets 100,000 US dollars, which is not less.

Moreover, this is only the champion, and with other terms, the prize money required for both competitions may be more than doubled.

The word-of-mouth of Final Fantasy II is useless, the kind of most gorgeous graphics in this era, so that everyone who likes RPGs can't put it down after seeing it, and can't even believe their eyes, although there are many fans of the Dragon Quest series, and there are many people who have never played a Dreambox face game, or after watching their friends buy Final Fantasy II, they immediately fell in love with this extremely good work.

The next day, the single-day sales of "Final Fantasy II" reached 200,000 units, and the Nintendo fan of Itagaki Companion Bus, after playing the game cassette of "Final Fantasy II" brought back by Itagaki Companion, although he didn't want to admit it, was still attracted by the gorgeous graphics of this game, the attraction of the system, and the grandeur of the plot, but he was used to touting Nintendo in front of his friends to belittle Mars entertainment, and it was not good to go to his friends every day to play this game.

So, on the third day, he also got up early and went directly to Tokyo in the car, bought a "Final Fantasy II" cassette, and by the way, bought a Dreambox for this purpose, of course, he also secretly rushed back, for fear of being seen by his two friends and being ridiculed by them, although he also knew that this ridicule was kind, but he didn't want it.

"Final Fantasy II" sales reached 250,000 units on the third day, 300,000 units on the fourth day, and even in this short four days, Dreambox sold 40,000 units, such a number, it simply made the Mars Entertainment Japan branch overjoyed, after the news reached the United States, Jester was also very excited, although the sales of these four days combined were not even as high as the sales of the first day of North American sales, but in Japan was able to sell so many home machines in a short period of time, It shows that this game has great potential, and it is very likely that this time it will rely on this game to greatly increase its Dreambox platform share in Japan.

And at this time, Nintendo and Enix, who saw "Final Fantasy II" so popular, finally couldn't sit still.

Because the release date of "Dragon Quest II" is imminent. (To be continued)