Chapter 323: Those Things About the Dunes
Jester stayed in New York for four days before rushing back to California, although this trip was a little tired, but it finally narrowed the distance between their Samsung, although he was the second shareholder of Samsung, but he was for Samsung, or for Samsung, it seems to be just a slap in the face of symbolic storage for him, there is no way to effectively connect the two, in the eyes of outsiders, he seems to have nothing to do with Samsung at all
This is not what Jester wants, according to his current status, low-key, it no longer belongs to him.
Just when Jester had just returned to Costa Mesa, after reading the report on Carnival, he looked at the information about other companies' games released by his publishing company recently, and his popular publishing company is not only releasing its own games, nor just releasing games on Dreambox, many PC games are also released, of course, theoretically speaking, even if it is a FC or NES game, the popular release can be released without worry, but the problem is, Jester doesn't care, Nintendo cares.
So, at the moment, there hasn't been any FC game manufacturer who has come to them to release games.
"This company ......"
Just as Jester was reading this report, a game that had failed to sell came into his walkthrough, the company that made this game was not very famous, and even for Jester, he had never heard of it, but this game, he was indeed extremely familiar with it, this company was a French company, the name was cryo-interactive, the name didn't make much sense, Jester didn't even bother to look at it.
But the name of the game that followed this company deeply attracted his attention.
Dune!
This game, for any RTS lover, or a fan of Nishiki, should not be forgotten, this is the beginning of RTS. It was also the beginning of the glory of West Wood, of course, and now this game has nothing to do with West Wood.
As far as Jester knows, this game is changed from a very famous movie, this movie is called "Dune Magic Castle", and now the game adaptation rights of this movie are in the hands of Weizhen Entertainment, and this dryo-interactive from France is an OEM company of Weizhen Entertainment, many game companies, when they can't finish the resources in their hands, they will outsource it. As for the level of the outsourcing company, I will definitely do some research before, but sometimes the survey will not be so satisfactory.
For example, this time.
In fact, in France, this game production company, before the production of zuò was finished, Weizhen Entertainment found out that something was wrong, they found that this time the French company made it into a solidified idea, and the restoration of the plot was faithful to the point of jealousy, rigidity and inflexibility, and this is a turn-based battle flag adventure game without the slightest interest. Just as Weizhen was considering whether to terminate the contract, the French company obviously knew that something was wrong, and immediately traveled lightly and cut corners. Spent all the development funds and completed the game ahead of schedule.
So this hot potato fell into the hands of Weizhen Entertainment.
Throw it directly into the trash, Weizhen is still very reluctant, after all, a lot of development funds have been invested. But the release, it seems that it probably won't sell well, but it was at this time that Popular Entertainment wanted Vizhen to port several of their classic PC games to Dreambox. Wei Zhen also covets the Dreambox, which is far larger than the PC market.
But after all, this is a new challenge for them, although it doesn't cost much to port the game, but if it fails, it will still be a very big blow to these passionate designers of Weizhen, which will make them have an idea, we are really not suitable for developing games on home console platforms, which is also what Weizhen does not want to see.
Therefore, Wei Zhen put forward a request to Fengxing Publishing to help them release this turn-based war chess adventure game called "Dune".
Although the popular publishers also saw that this game had no future, but in order to win over Weizhen, a powerful game development company, they still agreed after thinking twice, and Jester read the report about this game, which was expected before, although it was a loss, but it was not much.
At this time, of course, Jester naturally recalled some memories of this game.
He is not a fan of West Wood, but he is full of respect for the game studio West Wood, not only because they have created a really great game genre, but also because of their talent, many people mention West Wood seems to think that they only have Dune II, only Command & Conquer, only Red Alert, in fact, they are doing Dune II and Command & Conquer between them and they have made a series of masterpieces.
But maybe because of the low sales, many people who are not fans of West Wood are not very familiar with their game series, in fact, if even in the future, 2015 players, if you don't care about the resolution, this game is definitely worth playing, you can say unceremoniously, this is a masterpiece, the name of this game is "The Legend of Kailadia".
Jester felt that he was thinking too far away, and immediately put his thoughts back.
There are too many memories of Ximutou, and all kinds of information and materials are filled in his mind, so he doesn't know how to sort out a clue for a while, but he can be sure that the current studio is still very small, almost not worth mentioning, although the three founders are very ambitious, but the sky does not follow people's wishes, at least so far, they have not had a game that has been established for more than three years.
Jester called and inquired, and after a while, he got the details of this company, the founder Jester was very familiar with it, so he just glanced at it, and he didn't care much about what he knew, but directly saw the belonging, fortunately, the current small game studio has not attracted anyone's attention, at least not the attention of Weizhen Entertainment.
In Jester's memory, it was only after the recent two-year production of "Magic Eye Killing Machine", a magical adventure game for DND, that it became famous before it was taken by Weizhen Entertainment, and now they are just countless members of a small studio who don't know if they can have tomorrow, who cares about them.
At that time, they joined Vizhen, they got the game copyright of "Dune Magic Castle", and then produced the world's first real RTS game, so that PC really entered a game era that belongs to PC, from beginning to end, real-time strategy, are exclusive to PC players, which is a great achievement worthy of pride, and even worthy of a hundred years of blowing by fans of Ximutou.
Even Blizzard, which later dominated the RTS industry, and Blizzard fans have to admit that if there was no West Wood's "Dune 2", then there would be no first work in the Warcraft series that made Blizzard take off later, "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans", it can be said that the beginning of Blizzard's legendary road has a lot to do with West Wood.
Of course, there are no absolutes, for example, Jester, a unique figure in the world of video games, is interested in this little-known little studio.
An assistant was dialed, and Jester gave the order directly.
"You guys go and contact this company called West Wood in Las Vegas, if you want to sell it...... Well, yes, a full acquisition. ”
With that, Jester hung up the phone, then let out a breath and stood up from his seat.
There are many, many memories of West Wood, and this is why he decided to buy them without saying a word after seeing the name, because he clearly knows the talent of this studio, and now they have been working on it for three or four years, and they have experience, technology, not to mention talent, and the next success is a matter of course.
If Jester is not wrong, the game "MONOCULUS Killing", Nishiki should already be in preparation.
In fact, there are many, many memories of Ximutou and their real-time strategy Jester, such as the classic soundtrack "Regional March", which makes Jester's blood boil every time he hears it.
Another example is the "Blue Alert" introduced by unscrupulous domestic manufacturers later, this Jester has the deepest memory, this is actually the work of a small studio called cypro-studios in Czechoslovakia, no technology and no ability, and the name of this game is called "State-of-War", but because it must be Ximutou's "Red Alert" is too hot in China, so countless manufacturers have translated this game into "Blue Alert" with great vision.
That's it.,The most ridiculous thing is still to come.,Later, the Czechoslovak company launched an expansion film.,And then the unscrupulous domestic manufacturers translated this expansion into "Blue Alert II", which is not the end, the most important thing is that later the game company came out with a real SOW2 again in 07 years, and then the domestic manufacturers introduced it again......
Translated as Blue Alert 3.
The most important thing is that the translators in China are still very consistent, and when a website later translated Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, they translated it as "Assassin's Creed 3: Brotherhood......
It's forgivable if a player makes this kind of mistake, after all, I don't know anything about the industry, but as a professional game website, I can still make such a low-level mistake, and it can really be modified with one word.
The great fallacy of the world! (To be continued......)