Approaching the opening of GDC, Mars Entertainment, as the biggest hit to win the annual award this time, and Jester himself, are naturally the focus of attention.

The fame of this newspaper is still not small, although it is not as good as "GAME", the first journal in the game industry that publishes across Europe, America and Asia, but in the era when the journal has not declined, this magazine called "Game Art" still has close to 100,000 copies sold, which is a very good number, you know, even the circulation of "GAME" in North America is only 400,000 copies.

This time "Game Art" is not a special introduction to Jester.

Because this year's GDC has added a new award, in addition to the well-known highlight Game of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award, a Best Contribution Award has also been added, which is awarded to some game companies or teams that have made the greatest contributions to the development of video games, and the two favorites of the first edition this year are Atari and Mars Entertainment.

However, now Atari has been acquired by Vizhen, and it is just a small company under Vizhen, and one or two games are developed a year, which are basically forgotten by new players in this era, so this time Mars Entertainment has the highest voice.

And this time, "Game Art" gave a comprehensive introduction and interview to Mars Entertainment.

Of course, the interview with Jester, and Jester's thoughts on his new game, is of course at the top of the list.

"Twelve Years of Travel: From Obscurity to Legend of the Times."

This is the big title on the cover of this issue of "Game Art", and behind this title, there are some characters of Mars Entertainment's classic games, and it can be clearly seen who is talking about from obscurity to legend of the times.

At the beginning of this journal is an article about Jester.

First of all, he made a very violent hype about Jester, and basically blew Jester as the god of games, of course. In fact, Jester's status in the video game world is similar to this.

“…… Jester. Lee is Time Magazine's Person of the Year again this year, not because of the revival of the dying American video game industry, as he did many years ago, but because of the rapid growth of his personal wealth in the past few years, and this year he is 31 years old, the youngest person in the world to reach a personal fortune of 5 billion......"

The magazine sold very well after its release, because Mars entertainment was a hot topic during this time.

"Mars Entertainment changed everything."

In the body of this magazine, Jester's editors were blown on the preceding preface. It was unceremoniously added their praise to Mars Entertainment, of course, Mars Entertainment also deserves such a title, they were born in '84, and this year's '96 has gone through a total of 16 years, and they are indeed under the leadership of Jester, who really changed the entire video game.

They've even made a radical change in video game development for everyone.

In particular, Jester started promoting esports a decade ago. After a decade of development, at last year's Mars Entertainment World Grand Prix, the ratings of TV programs completely surpassed those of the NBA's flagship battles of the same era - of course, basketball ratings in the United States were not very high. But after all, this is already a very big step forward for esports.

It can even be described as Armstrong's words after the moon landing, although it is only a trivial matter, but for the cause of esports. It's a milestone event.

Inside the magazine, Game Art continues to boast about Mars Entertainment, as if it would be a shame not to give them the first GDC Greatest Contribution Award this year.

"It doesn't matter where you stand. This claim is difficult to argue. If you are a gamer, then the games you have played in the past ten years have almost certainly borrowed some elements from the games of Mars Entertainment, if you are a game designer, then you or your friends who work with must have played Mars Entertainment or Jester's games, and absorbed inspiration from them, even if you don't care about games, but the video game culture represented by Mars Entertainment has become a very common phenomenon in the world......"

"These statements, few people will disagree, this is a company that has been established for 12 years, from dozens of employees at the beginning, to nearly 9,000 employees all over the world, although their sales figures have never been announced, but after speculation, their annual profits, even more than the total box office revenue of the entire Hollywood in a year, more importantly, their own movies with game characters as the theme, the box office figures are very good......

"We interviewed the members of a mysterious team in Mars Entertainment 'Mars Son' before, and many media magazines have introduced this team many times, this is an art team established by one of the most elite artists and screenwriters in Mars Entertainment, and only the best one can become a member of it."

"And this time we interviewed the youngest member of the Martian Child, Chris Brown. Mason. ”

"At the time, Chris. Mason was only nineteen years old when he joined Blizzard Entertainment, and Mason hilariously described his state at the time - he was probably a 'stupid kid who loves to draw and make things', and he didn't even think that he would work in video games in the future, but he was bored and submitted a resume to Mars Entertainment, and they took a fancy to me......"

As a dynamic, creative, rebellious teenager, Mason thought he would be moving from industry to industry in pursuit of his dreams, whether it's movies or comics, and maybe a little bit of gaming. He described to us that what attracted him to the game was the creativity it showed, and he said that it was crazy that there were all sorts of things that attracted him to do it in that era, and that there were no rules and regulations about what type of game would be successful...... Show your imagination in different games. Design a character full of fantasy tension, when the character you designed is recognized, that feeling, the insight is great! ”

“…… Of course, I know the Children of Mars, and this team is so famous in our group of artists, many of whom can be said to be my idols...... I just wanted to get an autographed sketch of my idol, but I never imagined that I would have the opportunity to join them and fight alongside them! To know. There are hundreds of artists in the entire Martian entertainment, and if you count the painters in Europe and Japan, there may be thousands of artists, but the members of the Martian Children are less than thirty......"

"To be exact, I only have twenty-seven children of Mars, which is the best team of artists in the industry, and when I was told that my abilities were recognized by the members of the 'Children of Mars'. I almost went crazy with joy when I was a part of them......"

It is said that this time Mason, a young man who is only 23 years old, will be the art director of Jester's new game, and he is also very excited about Mason. He had previously been in charge of the art work for Diablo, and it was because of his outstanding performance in Diablo that he was recognized by the 'Children of Mars' and became one of them......"

"For this kind of thing that will be the art director of Jester's new game. Mason was also a little excited, although he also knew that the pressure he was going to face was very high, after all. This is Jester's game, and the best people in Mars's games have been in charge of the art work, although he is only one of the three art directors this time, but according to Mason, all three art directors have the same powers......"

"Of course, we editors were curious about how three art directors with the same authority could unify their style, but based on what Jester has always done, there must be a reason why he did it......"

There are a lot of interviews with people inside Mars Entertainment, especially some artists or programmers who don't usually accept interviews very much, in this issue of "Game Art", of course, basically the interviews are basically confirmed, and they will participate in Jester's new game, which can be regarded as taking advantage of the opening of a GDC to do a full range of publicity and advertising for their new games.

However, at the end of the article, the editors of "Game Art" were also a little dissatisfied, because although they interviewed a circle of people from Mars Entertainment, they still didn't ask what type of Jester's new game was, what kind of gameplay it was, and even the name of the game, they didn't ask, which also made them complain that Mars Entertainment was too careful.

Anyway, Jester said that it would be released after GDC.

Why do you have to hide it now, and even show your name publicly.

Jester's interview is mainly about his development of this year's GDC awards, of course, Jester is a very confident person, he basically has no hesitation about the game "Hero" sweeping GDC, he is noncommittal about his lifetime achievement award, he said that this is someone else's recognition of the workers in this industry, and Jester said a very intriguing thing about whether his company will win the Greatest Contribution Award.

"I think the companies that can be nominated this time are all very great+ including Nintendo, Atari, and of course my own Mars Entertainment, all of which have made great efforts to develop the entire video game, but for us, whether we can win this award is not the most important thing, and we don't need to rely on this award to prove ourselves."

"Actually, what we've been doing all the time is no different from what we did 12 years ago."

"Despite the size we have now, and the money we have now countless times larger than it was back then, I firmly remember that for 12 years, my original intention was to create what I love with passion and fight for what I believe in."

"And what is our faith?"

"Twelve years ago, at the moment of the creation of Mars Entertainment, it was decided to make the best game possible."

Jester's words were still emotional, and then he talked a little bit about his new game, and of course, more to answer some of the questions that many players had about the game.

During the GDC period, Jester would meet with some friends who didn't see each other very often, such as some designers from other game companies, some friends who had worked with him before - Mars Entertainment has never been a dictatorial company, he will not restrict the flow of personnel, in fact, the outstanding industry talents cultivated by Mars Entertainment are the most sought-after in the industry, and many game companies often come to Mars Entertainment to poach.

Jester didn't do much to stop this, and he didn't come up with any overly harsh contracts to restrict employees, such as industry prohibitions.

It has also been raised in internal meetings, but Jester's statement is very simple, he thinks that if a person wants to leave your company, there can only be two situations, one is that he is not happy in your company - he is wronged or cannot see his future, and the second is that you do not give enough money.

In both cases, it is reasonable for an employee to ask to leave.

There is absolutely no need for an industry ban on them.

Mars Entertainment is not such a courageless company, we can succeed not by limiting our opponents, but we have the strongest strength in the entire industry, we have the strongest creative team, the most powerful technical team, and the art team.

Jester also used this to convince many people in the company, and it is precisely because of the extremely free atmosphere of Mars Entertainment that it also attracts those outstanding talents to join.

Although there is an outflow of talent within the company from time to time.

However, some elites from other companies will also come to Mars Entertainment from time to time to apply.

"What do you think Jester's new game will be?"

On the day before the GDC conference began, on the official community of Mars Entertainment, the official staff suddenly announced such a physical post, which is a post with a prize answer, as long as you can reply before the GDC conference starts tomorrow, and the player who answers the closest will have the opportunity to visit the Mars Entertainment headquarters and participate in the development of Jester's new game. (To be continued......)