Far away in the other part of the world, in California Asia, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, USA, a company called Silicon & Synapse came into Jiang Shaoyun's sight.

This is a super small game studio composed of three young men who have just graduated from college for a year, if it weren't for Yang Zhan, Hayakuo Nakayama, and some other people to help provide clues, Jiang Shaoyun would probably only have to wait until a year later to find them.

In an ordinary office building on the bayside of California, Silicon Valley, Jiang Shaoyun met with the company's president, Ed, vice president, Morem, and chief architect, Pierce.

In fact, there were three people in the company at the beginning, outsourcing software to EA, adapting "The Lord of the Rings 1", and making the game toolkit of "War Chess 2", and the only one that could get hold of it was a game with independent intellectual property rights - MD platform "Rock Racing", which is no different from hundreds of Sega platform game producers.

"This company is really small enough, it looks similar to a small domestic game company, and I don't know that Weishenme Yang always attaches so much importance to them!"

Jiang Shaoyun said to himself, but he still shook hands with several presidents very politely, smiled and followed the three into the office.

"Drink something?" A chubby guy asked next to him, this is Architect Pierce.

Jiang Shaoyun sat down, waved his hand and refused: "No need, everyone is young, time is precious, why don't you sit down and let's have a good chat about the game?" ”

Ed waved his hand and motioned for Pierce to close the door, and the four of them sat on the sofa without any particular attention, chatting according to Jiang Shaoyun's ideas.

"Rock 'n' Roll Racing is selling well on the MD platform, with 220,000 copies. Players have also received high reviews, I wonder if you are interested in releasing a sequel on the SS platform? Jiang Shaoyun asked. Give a good piece of advice.

Ed was calm: "Although 220,000 copies were sold, I didn't hide it. For the time being, we only got 40% of the profits, and more than $300,000 is not enough to support us to develop a sequel......"

Jiang Shaoyun laughed: "This is Sega's flexible regulations, I can help you get the remaining 60% in advance." There are no haode racing games on the SS platform, and our own Sonic is different from racing, so we still hope that Silicon & Synapse will continue to develop a sequel! ”

Ed and Morem glanced at each other, and said with some regret: "I'm sorry Mr. Jiang, our company is really understaffed, and there are only 8 people so far...... If you're going out of your way to persuade us not to just do the SFC version, I can promise you......"

Seeing that the other party misunderstood. Jiang Shaoyun hurriedly said: "No, I came to Silicon Valley to find a group of small companies with great potential to support in the form of project cooperation." If you know a lot about what Dragon has been doing in the big arcade industry for the past two years, you should know what I mean. ”

Ed and the others looked at each other, they really didn't understand what was going on.

Jiang Shaoyun also smiled bitterly in his heart, the task given to him by Yang Yun was very arduous, first, to find this company, but he couldn't let them know that he came to them on purpose. Second, convincing them to continue developing racing games, or other games for the SS platform, is to disrupt their current deployment anyway.

And Yang Yun has a third request. If you have the opportunity, don't hesitate to buy them!

Although Jiang Shaoyun didn't know that Weishenme was going to do this, he knew that Yang Yun must have his own reasons. This company certainly has potential that deserves to be cultivated vigorously!

"Well, let me explain. End of 1991. Longteng held the first batch of game companies in Chinese mainland to support Jihua and came up with 4 arcade games to cooperate with them. By 1992, all four companies had become medium-sized companies with annual sales of more than $50 million. The second batch of support Jihua started at the end of last year, and five new companies have won the quota, and I believe that by the end of this year, they will also have outstanding performance! ”

Noticing that the eyes of these young people were shining, Jiang Shaoyun secretly felt funny, believing that almost no one could resist this temptation.

Jiang Shaoyun continued: "But if the companies that support Longteng are all Chinese enterprises and do not meet the requirements of Longteng's internationalization, we will put the third batch of support jihua overseas, which is why I came to Silicon Valley." ”

Ed was not calm for a moment, and Morem was the same, what did they work so hard for? Isn't it just to become a famous production company in the game industry?

With a handful of support, they can achieve annual sales of more than $50 million in a year, can they refuse such a big temptation?

You know, they haven't even gotten 500,000 yuan in the past two years!

"So Mr. Jiang, can you explain to us in detail, what exactly is this support jihua?"

"Haode, no problem!"

Jiang Shaoyun smiled and set up these people.

Where is the third batch of support for Jihua in Longteng? At this time, he can say whatever he wants, as long as he can meet the requirements of full control, he can complete the task given to him by Yang Yun!

As a game brand with no core jishu, no big capitalist support, and no strong game, Silicon & Synapse is almost no different from countless obscure small game studios across the country, and is not qualified to negotiate with Longteng at all.

Jiang Shaoyun easily won the favor of Ed and the others, and also got a very beautiful promise - they agreed that Longteng would invest in the form of venture capital, up to 70%, but it was better to talk about this matter later, and give them a little time to discuss.

Back at the hotel, Jiang Shaoyun never went out again, and after finding a domestic daytime time, he dialed the transatlantic phone and contacted Yang Yun.

"Mr. Yang, they agreed to take a stake!"

"This is good news, finalize this matter as soon as possible! What was their most recent game development, Jihua? ”

"There's a DOS game that's being made called The Lost Vikings, and then two packages that we're making for other companies. In addition, it is said that a few days ago one of their senior programmers named Wyatt came up with a new idea for a real-time strategy game, which they are going to put on the agenda. ”

Here it comes! That's it!

Yang Yunxin followed and said: "They plan to make a real-time strategy game on PC? ”

Jiang Shaoyun said: "No, they want to learn from our "Saloman: Dune 1993" and make it into a home console game on the SS platform, and they have come up with some interesting new ideas that I think can be used as a reference." ”

What the?

Is Warcraft going to be an SS platformer? Yang Yun almost couldn't believe his ears!

But it's not impossible to calm down and think about it carefully!

Silicon & Synapse is the predecessor of Blizzard, Yang Yun didn't know what games Blizzard had done before Warcraft and Dark, but he knew that Blizzard must have been established after 1990, so he entrusted Yang Zhan to look for relevant clues in North America, and also checked candidates among Sega game suppliers through Hayao Nakayama.

A few months ago, Silicon & Synapse took the initiative to find Sega with "Rock 'n' Roll Racing" and released the MD version, which has sold 220,000 copies so far, which has been well received by players and has entered the attention of Longteng's top management.

After the elimination method, Yang Yun determined their true identities, so this was the matter of arranging Jiang Shaoyun to go to Los Angeles.

He knows the terrible strength of Blizzard, but he is not afraid of Blizzard, because he can also smash a second Blizzard out by throwing money.

What are the difficulties of Warcraft? No!

When Blizzard was making "Warcraft", the game it borrowed from was Ximutou's "Dune 2", but now Yang Yun has inserted a lever sideways and replaced Ximutou's status with Dune 1993 on the SS platform, so there will be the situation that Jiang Shaoyun just said, Wyatt, the father of Warcraft, is ready to develop "Warcraft" on the SS platform.

What is Yang Yun afraid of? Warcraft is a game that imitates his own, everyone is a real-time strategy game, everyone has an engine, and now that Blizzard has not started construction, Yang Yun has enough time to make it first!

But after defeating so many game production companies, Longteng fell into a strange circle, and many games basically had other people think of ideas in advance, such as Fairy Sword is Daewoo, Dune is Nishiki, and Heartbeat Memories is Konami.

At first, when Yang Yun made "Famous General", the almost identical content made Capcom vomit a mouthful of blood, and later "The King of Fighters" came out first, and Chunli and Sangilf in it made Capcom lose his fighting spirit.

The first time Capcom was defeated like this, and no one said anything.

The second time he used the same move to make a heartbeat memory, he defeated Konami, and no one said anything.

The third time I made Dune, it was still this trick, forcing Nishiki and Nintendo to a dead end, and there were already rumors in the game world.

There are rumors that Longteng maliciously controls the issuance of SGL1 and SGL2 licenses through Sega's quality management system, and once it finds that those who apply for SGL1 licenses are very creative, it deliberately makes things difficult for those game production companies, and then preemptively produces them themselves, and finally drives others to a dead end.

If Long Teng does this one after another, it will be too ugly to hear.

So when he was making the fairy sword next, Yang Yun took the initiative to find Daewoo, dug Yao Xian over in advance, and let the formation of the madman studio take place within Longteng himself, not in Daewoo.

And Daewoo's "Xuanyuan Sword" series, Yang Yun did not dig into the wall, let alone directly acquire Daewoo by throwing money.

This is the same reason that he has given power to the entire arcade market, and he wants to leave enough other small and medium-sized enterprises to grow with him.

Dragon Teng has opponents, Nintendo, Sony, EA, Ubisoft, these are all opponents of Yang Yun.

Longteng also needs partners, Sega, Bullfrog, Daewoo, and more than a dozen companies supported in China are all partners.

As for Blizzard, Yang Yun saluted first and then soldiers.

can cooperate, everyone works together, can't cooperate, I'm sorry, I'm trying to be misunderstood by Quan Shijie, and he also wants to nip Blizzard in the bud! (To be continued......)