Chapter 488: The CA company that developed Total War

Tuzorev was originally a master of making real-time strategy games, in his opinion, the biggest difficulty in this game is the model design of military units, as well as the handling of combat firepower and game balance, and there is really no difficulty in the rest, and a lot of content in Dune 1993 can be moved.

Dragon Teng has a set of real-time strategy game standard game engine "Guild Wars", Dune 1993 is the oldest version of "Guild Wars No. 1", after experiencing "God is also crazy 3", "Warcraft 1", as well as "Blood Lion 1" and "Blood Lion 2" After the follow-up in-depth research and development, after "Red Alert" is completed, there should be a technological breakthrough and upgrade to "Guild Wars No. 2".

"No problem! I'll be on Red Alert, and I'm not worried about time at all. Tuzorev readily agreed, without the slightest hesitation, and deliberately winked at Pete, as if to laugh at him.

Pete's face was a little unbearable, although it sounds like a simple real-time strategy game, but I believe that with Yang Yun's high standards and strict requirements, it is definitely not as simple as Dune 1993, and the online battle requires a very high number of jù exchange capabilities for the game, which is comparable to the difficulty of the FPS game he is responsible for.

"Okay, these two games are our top priority, and each group can pick and choose their members at will." Yang Yun looked at the two of them with a smile and said, "If there are not enough people in Paris, you can select people from the Beijing headquarters, select people from Shanghai, or recruit excellent game designers from Europe, such as Ubisoft or Sweden...... Other peer companies. ”

Yang Yun almost said the name of the unscrupulous company DICE in Sweden, and when the words came to his lips, he woke up and stopped the car.

Although the "Swedish" game is well done. The "Battlefield" series was developed, the Frost Engine was made, and several versions of Need for Speed were released after being acquired by EA, as well as "Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Wars", but it had no discipline, as evidenced by the "Flying Military Gate" incident.

DICE depends on the situation to buy over, if you can't buy, then preemptively do the "Battlefield" series, this masterpiece is worth selling, many Chinese in order to play Battlefield games. Had to go over the wall. Now that there is a dragon to free up his hand, of course, he will make a separate Chinese server, and Yang Yun has already made a plan.

"That's great, in fact, we bullfrogs after joining Longteng. I was contacted by many former friends. Hope to cooperate with Longteng. Produced as a game for SS or PC. I have a very good friend who is the head of the R&D department of The-Creative-Assembly in the UK, his name is Sam Ansell, and he is quite comprehensive in technology. I admire him, I wonder if I can recruit him over? ”

When Pete said this, he just wanted to tell Yang Yun that he really wanted to invite reinforcements from outside.

Tuzorev is also digging hollow out thoughts about his friends.

The European R&D center usually has some tasks of its own, this time the team to do a new project, in addition to the five Zhang Guoqiang brought by Yang Yun, can only be drawn from the hands of the original insufficient people, it is better to take this opportunity to expand the two groups, in the future to do the version that increases the plot, it still needs a lot of personnel to work, sooner or later it will be recruited, it is better to start now.

Hu Jun has no objections, Xiao Qing will not put forward ideas, their research and development people have ways to improve work efficiency, Chinese are the most good at reward mechanism and overtime bonuses, and the person in charge of personnel recruitment here is Xiao Liangyu, a very strong president.

Xiao Liangyu strictly controls the number of personnel, the company implements efficient and rigorous European and American management, and does a very good job of opening up sources and reducing expenditure, and the performance appraisal of the Paris R&D center ranks high in many branches of Longteng.

But this time it seems that recruitment is necessary, he also looked at Yang Yun and asked tentatively: "Mr. Yang, how many recruitment indicators can you give us this time?" ”

Yang Yun didn't seem to hear this, he whispered: "Creative...... Assembly…… CA…… I said how come it is so familiar! Pete, what's your friend's name? Sam Ansel? ”

Pee nodded and introduced: "He has really comprehensive technology, he has developed many TV games under the DOS interface before, and he has also done the Rugby World Cup, and they used to have a close relationship with EA, but if I invite him, he should be willing to come and help me!" ”

"Dig people! Mr. Xiao, at any cost, dig up all the technicians of this company for me! Yang Yun did not hesitate, he finally remembered what kind of company this was, the British company, which has a close relationship with EA and developed the Rugby World Cup, is not the company that later developed the "Total War" series of games, CA, then who is it?

Everyone was taken aback, Yang Yun's words were heavy, and he did not hesitate to pay a price, which is quite important!

Thinking of Yang Yun's every shot, every time and again, every acquired studio, every talent poached from other companies, since jumping ship into Longteng, will grow explosively, either to become the leader of a certain game branch, or to become the top R&D team of best-selling games, Yang Yun's vision has always been unique!

Could this company be as epoch-making as Distinctive?

Everyone's eyes are very hot, as if they have seen a rising star again!

"You don't have to look at me, Pete, that friend of yours, Sam Ansel, it's better to make an appointment to come and meet me today or tomorrow, you can talk to him on the phone now, just say I want to invite him to dinner and talk about the future of the game industry!" Yang Yun looked at Pete and encouraged him to go out and make a phone call at this time.

I've seen anxious, but I've never seen anxious like this, I only mentioned Sam's name a minute ago, and the next minute I decided to dig a corner at any cost, and even call immediately, is this person a genius who is rare in a hundred years?

Isn't there a need to inspect the technical level? Is it only necessary to sign up for words to make the decision to poach people?

Yang Yun pretended to be reserved and never explained, while others were shocked, treating Yang Yun as a god, and exclaimed in their hearts: "This is the spirit of a boss!" Sure enough, those who become big things are not informal, and Mr. Yang will go on it when he sees it! ”

In fact, things are not so complicated, with the support of the powerful platform of Longteng, as long as that person is not a fool and has a certain talent, plus Yang Yun personally clicked, most of them can succeed!

Pete soon returned, overjoyed: "Sam he agreed, he said he would bring a colleague over!" ”

Yang Yun waved his hand: "Dig together!" Not only can they poach the people in their technical department, but if they can, the core personnel of the game planner can be poached. Partnering with EA to develop the Rugby World Cup, hum, don't dig now, when will you wait? Will it have to wait until EA buys them? ”

Everyone laughed, this matter will be talked about later, Yang Yun once again emphasized the importance of these two games, and then went to their own work, Pete and Tuzolev began to hurry up to form their team, 40 days is too tight, they can't delay a minute.

In the evening, Pitt and Yang Yun went to the well-known restaurant on the Champs-Élysées to meet Sam Ansel and his colleagues from England, enjoy French dinner, chat about game life, and reach a cooperation agreement by the way to complete the poaching plan.

"This is Yang Yun, the CEO of our Longteng headquarters, and this is Sam Ansel. But Sam, is this really your colleague? After Pete introduced Yang Yun, he looked at the middle-aged man next to Sam and felt that he didn't look like an ordinary programmer.

Sam and Yang Yun shook hands and introduced with a smile: "This is Tim Ansel, the founder of our CA company, you should have thought of it, he is my uncle." ”

It turned out to be CA founder Tim Ansel......

Yang Yun looked at him with a smile, and quickly recalled the relevant information in his heart, fortunately, because of Sega, he had learned about the simple development history of CA when he was writing the report on the decline of Sega before he was reborn, and he was not too unfamiliar with the life history of this Tim Ansel.

In the real history of this company, the initial development was to cooperate with EA to develop rugby sports games, and after obtaining sufficient funds, it began to work on its own, "Total War" was made after going it alone, and CA has since been out of control and has become a world-renowned game production company, but it was later acquired by Sega Co., Ltd., and it has been silent and has no more masterpieces.

It turns out that you are not opposed to being acquired by Sega, so does it mean that I will have a psychological advantage when I negotiate with you? Yang Yun was very polite and relaxed and invited the two to sit down, the waiter came over, and the four of them each ordered a big meal and asked for two bottles of red wine, mainly to chat and talk.

After the waiter left with the menu, Tim Ansel was not reserved, and said directly: "Mr. Yang, Sam said that Pete intends to invite him to work in Longteng, but our Ansel family can't do without him, and CA can't do without him." But we at CA are more than happy to work with Dragon on the game, and I thought, how about Sam working with you in a different way? ”

For a while, the atmosphere on the scene was a little weird, and the other three people had different expressions, and no one opened their mouths to answer the topic.

Sam was very embarrassed, when he received a call from Pete, he was discussing game design with his uncle Tim, for the solicitation of Dragon, Tim meant to see the situation and then talk, and expressed his willingness to go to Paris together, but he didn't expect to abandon his colleague identity after meeting, and appeared directly as the founder of CA, and now he is also making conditions with Yang Yun, treating him Sam as a tradable commodity!

Pete is the same, he actually looks down on this person in his heart, CA is a small company, the whole company has more than 40 employees, has developed the EA-Sports series of rugby games, to put it mildly, it is the people of the hostile camp, and it is not explained to be trampled to death.

Now it's for the sake of Sam's long-term friendship with him, and he kindly invited them to come over to chat and talk, but he didn't hear Yang Yun's conditions, so he didn't say anything about his own conditions? CA's total assets are not yet $10 million, what qualifications are there to propose to Longteng?

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PS: Another alliance leader ╮ If you are well, it's a sunny day, you kill me, I didn't save the manuscript, what should I do...... I'm going to codeword...... T_T (To be continued......)