Chapter Ninety-Seven: Preparing to Go to England
When Jester arrives at Clement Solitaire, he discovers a strange scene.
Because the new card game has just been designed, there are only a few samples, and the promotion has not yet begun, and Clement's previous sales staff are basically helping to expand the sales channels of "GAME" magazine, so the current Clement company is still relatively idle.
For example, there are many employees who openly gather to play this card game during working hours under the pretext of testing new products.
This made Jester a little crying and laughing, after all, no boss likes his employees to be unproductive during their work, but the problem is, trying out their company's new products is not unprofessional.
Jester didn't notify Clement before he came, so when he just walked into Qin Duanyu's studio, he saw a group of people gathered together and constantly shouting and playing the card game called "World Storm".
Instead of stopping them, Jester just watched quietly.
Although he doesn't like to do other things for his employees during working hours, a product that even his own employees don't like is doomed to have no future.
Halfway through the game, Clement's employees also noticed that Jester was watching with relish.
I was a little embarrassed immediately.
However, Jester only smiled when he saw it and said, "It's okay, you go on, just take this card game as the first evaluation, and write a review report after playing to see if this card game has a future." ”
After getting Jester's affirmative and accurate reply, these Clement Company employees also started playing again, but Jester felt that it seemed that he was here, and they were not as happy as when he first came in, so he had no choice but to nod to Qin Duanyu, who was not participating in the game and was just watching from the sidelines, and motioned for the other party to come out with him.
In the office, Jester sat opposite Qin Duanyu.
The two chatted about the period when they were designing the original art patterns of the cards, and Qin Duanyu also took out a large stack of manuscript paper from his studio, which was the original manuscript of some of the illustrations.
Jester was in China before, so he hadn't seen it, and this was the first time he had seen the original illustration of "World Storm".
Jester doesn't know much about European history, but only from the analysis of some of the characters he knows, Qin Duanyu's team has also studied the image of some European historical celebrities in the minds of ordinary people, at least he thinks that Charlemagne is very good.
While flipping through the original manuscript, Jester nodded, and suddenly, his movements stopped, and then Jester looked up at Qin Duanyu, who was sitting opposite him, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
He actually saw an illustration of Guan Yu's characters, with a long beard, a green hat, a red face, and a big knife, this image is too classic.
"Huh." Qin Duanyu only smiled when he saw Jester's expression, and he said simply, "It's just that I was a little tired of thinking when I painted these Europeans, so I drew a few pictures of celebrities in the history of the Celestial Empire to change my thinking, and I can also find a lot of inspiration, and I ......"
Jester saw that Qin Duanyu seemed to want to speak and stopped, so he smiled indifferently: "It's nothing, just say it directly." ”
"Actually, that's just a little bit of my opinion." Qin Duanyu frowned and thought for a while before he spoke, "Because I got your setting on the specific gameplay of this card game before, I thought it was quite interesting from the beginning, and it was very suitable for a group of people to play when they were partying, and I also felt that when I was drawing these character illustrations, it seemed that with the setting you made, it might be appropriate to make a card game with a similar background of the Three Kingdoms, so I drew a few images of the characters during the break." ”
Jester nodded, he didn't expect Qin Duanyu's vision as a painter to be so keen, he copied many places in the Three Kingdoms in later generations when he first made the setting of this card game, although the Three Kingdoms Kill has collapsed in the later stage, but at the beginning of the standard package, the quality is still not to be said.
However, he didn't mean to launch the Three Kingdoms version, because there would be no audience at all when the Three Kingdoms version was launched, and he also loved the Three Kingdoms, but he couldn't do things according to personal preferences.
"Well, I did refer to the Three Kingdoms in the setting of the Three Nations Pack at the beginning, but it doesn't matter how many factions there are, and that's not the core of this card game...... I don't have this plan to make the Three Kingdoms Pack, but I have plans to join the Dynasty Pack of the Celestial Empire when I have the card packs of the countries that continue to be added, but this will be said later, and the main task now is to make two packages in the United Kingdom, Elizabeth Pack and Victoria Pack, which is also a gimmick for me to promote this card game in Europe, especially in the UK. ”
Jester also explained.
Qin Duanyu also sighed and nodded in understanding, originally he didn't really plan to persuade Jester to really make a Three Kingdoms version that was exactly the same as the world, he just thought it might be interesting to make a Three Kingdoms version, and when he heard that Jester planned to join the Celestial Empire in the later stage, he was also a little satisfied.
After all, there is basically no market for the promotion of the Three Kingdoms background in Europe and the United States, and even the content of the Celestial Empire can only be done as a subsidiary part.
In fact, Jester has no intention of promoting the history of the Celestial Empire when he makes card packs, just because it is easy to earn fans money by constantly issuing card packs, and some fans just like to collect this kind of card, and continuous additions are also one of the biggest fun of card games.
These additional cards aren't of much use, though.
This time, I didn't go to Jester in the UK alone, but including the legal team and the marketing team, bringing together many people from Popular Publishing and Mars Entertainment, Adam Edgar also went with him, and Howard, the head of legal affairs of Jester Group.
Originally, Carly Terry was going to let Margaret Whitman lead the popular publishing team, but Adam Edgar took the initiative to take on the task.
The reason is simple, he wants to go to Wembley to see Queen in concert.
Before Jester went to the mainland to invest, but mainly to investigate, so he can go alone, and he doesn't need to bring a special team, and after this inspection is completed and a decision is made, he will really invest in the mainland before he will send his own team to the mainland.
But this time I went to the UK Jester not to test whether Europe is suitable for investment, he is to invest, as much as Kuài set up a European distribution company for him is imperative, after all, he plans to sell his own console around the world in the first quarter of 85, so a complete team is a must.
Of course, a dedicated charter flight is also a must.
After boarding the plane and waiting for the plane to take off, Jester felt that in the future, he would fly more and more cross-border flights or long-distance flights in the United States, so he needed to add a special business jet to the company?
But after just thinking about it, Jester put this idea out of his mind, now is not the time to waste money, he needs to spend too much money, hundreds of millions of dollars in income seems like a lot, but in front of his real plan, it is just a drop in the bucket.
For example, the R&D cost of a top-of-the-line arcade based version would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
But when his console goes on sale next year, the money won't be a problem for him.
After all, arcades account for only a small part of the entire video game industry, and the only real money in video games is home consoles.
It takes a full eleven hours to fly from Los Angeles to London, which is extremely long, so Jester put on an eye patch and went to sleep shortly after the plane took off, and he didn't have much appetite, after all, the American Airlines plane he chartered didn't have the treatment of an aged Moutai and a one-meter-long lobster like the Chinese Airlines.
While closing his eyes, Jester was thinking wildly, for some reason, he remembered that Adam Edgar said that Queen was going to play at Wembley Stadium, he liked Queen's songs very much in his previous life, and if he had time, he also planned to watch it, after all, it was less than seven years before the death of Queen's legendary lead singer, and their concert might be one less than one show.
And, of course, to see the game of the team he liked for more than ten years in his last life.
It's kind of making up for the regrets of the previous life.
PS: Ask for a recommendation ticket!!