Chapter 015: Negotiations with Nintendo
Eat beans, a casual and cute classic game, Zhao Yongping controls the beans with his mouth open, and in the sound of sirens, he frantically escapes to avoid the pursuit of monsters, devouring small beans.
After playing two games, the chasing speed of the little monster became faster and faster, and after two lives were killed, Director Zhao changed the handle to Su Xiuyun, and the little girl was excited.
Ma Liang was the fastest, grabbed the second handle, and said attentively: "I'll play doubles with you!" ”
When he saw the options for 1player and 2player, he thought he could fight together.
Yang Yunqing coughed: "This version can only be played by one person at the same time." The main reason is that the time is too tight, the speed of Shen Gong is too fast, and I don't have time to debug the program......"
Shen Jun, who had just followed him, was confused, and the others were secretly laughing, did the debugging program have anything to do with Shen Jun's speed?
Although the Pac-Eat interface is simple, the game code is the same as Tetris to a certain extent, and the most difficult part is in the action algorithm of the smart computer.
Tetris has human-machine battles and human-machine cooperation, which involves very complex action algorithms.
Man-machine battle, the computer must have a complete set of landing algorithm design, man-machine cooperation, sometimes people deliberately take the first step, occupy the position of the computer prediction, then the computer must quickly execute the algorithm program, change to a better and better position, this kind of thing Yang Yun did not do less, when he was a child, he played man-machine cooperation, and his favorite thing was to block the way of the computer and see the computer make a fool.
It's the same with Pachim, there are five little monsters on the screen, Doudou is controlled by the player to walk on the full screen, the little monsters have to follow the player to chase and kill, and the trajectory must have a certain regularity, you can follow the player, outflanked.
If you don't have a perfect intelligent algorithm, you can't control five monsters at the same time, and then the playability is greatly reduced.
Yang Yun is not a computer expert, not even a programming expert, the Tetris program he initially came up with was only a single-player game, controlling the block drop by himself, and the program code was very simple.
Later, the model of human-computer confrontation and human-computer cooperation was jointly developed by him and Alexey, who was responsible for providing ideas, and Alexei was responsible for programming specific intelligent algorithms.
Alexey is gone now, and although the code is left, it will still take a little time for Yang Yun to thoroughly absorb and digest what has become his own.
So he said that this is what he meant by time constraints, but when other people heard it, they would only think that this was Yang Yun not forgetting to sarcastically mock Shen Jun, and they were all snickering.
Zhao Yongping withdrew from the crowd and stood behind with Yang Yun, pondering.
"This game is relatively simple!"
"Well, Director Zhao, casual games can be played by adults and children, so it can't be set up too hard, otherwise it will lose the meaning of leisure."
"Hmm...... That's what I said.,That's it.,This bean-eating game.,You modify and modify it.,Remove the alarm sound.,Listen to the diaphragm.,And then integrate it into the cassette.,I'll take it to the capital to apply for a patent.。 ”
"Haode, I'll arrange it. Director Zhao, can I go to the capital with you? ”
"Yes, your home is in the capital, you are from the state-owned 938 factory, okay, find me after sorting out the relevant documents!"
After the two agreed on the matter, Zhao Yongping stopped staying, he was very busy, and even Shen Jun came to his side to flatter, but he waved his hand impatiently, like chasing flies, which made Shen Jun feel inexplicable.
Yang Yun has confidence this time: "Xiao Su, please beautify the interface and try to be as cute as possible." Zhang Gong, you take the time to look at the source code of the game, point out how Xiao Su uses the code of the three primary colors, and I will help Zhu Gong and Pony deal with the cassette. ”
Everyone received the order, left Yang Yun's testing machine, and walked to their workbench.
As soon as Yang Yun looked up, he saw Shen Jun standing not far away in a daze, and slapped his forehead: "Oops! How did I forget Expert Shen! Expert Shen doesn't have Jihua now, right? As long as Director Zhao passes the instructions you wrote to improve the production line process, you can discuss with the Chief Ma of the production department to re-optimize the production line in the workshop and produce the host in advance! ”
Shen Junqi's face was blue and white, and he was a dignified expert from the University of Science and Technology of China, but he was forced to become a workshop technician alive!
"Humph!" Shen Jun took the documents and turned to leave, he decided, if Director Zhao didn't pass, then he would go directly to the group's President Huang! He's here to preside over the overall situation, not to be a petty worker!
"Section Chief Yang is so domineering!" Ma Liang leaned over and whispered.
The others were also very happy, and it seemed that no one wanted to see Shen Jun.
Yang Yun smiled: "You guys should hurry up, the speed of cassette integration should be accelerated, and this game program must be thoroughly understood." When the time comes, let's design a new game together, and write your names on the design list! ”
"Really?"
"Is it as classic as Tetris?"
"Great!"
"Long live Section Chief Yang!"
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Stepping on the land of the capital again, Yang Yun was in a trance, as if he was in a different world.
Zhao Yongping had a friend come to pick up the car, he was carrying a box of documents, like a baby, and never left his side.
Zhao Yongping can do it alone, Yang Yun said a place, and the driver was surprised: "Edward Building? It's all on the edge of the Second Ring Road, why are you going there in such a remote location? ”
Is the edge of the second ring still remote? Think about the later generations, buy a house and buy it to Hebei, which can be regarded as a great capital.
Yang Yun was powerless to complain: "My family lives there!" Director Zhao, after I'm done, I'll wait for you at the door of the patent office tomorrow, and I promise not to be late! ”
The Edward Building is a foreign-related building, and Yang Yun came here to find Alexey.
After four or five days of tug-of-war negotiations, Alexey and Nintendo almost entered a dead end, each side not giving in.
Nintendo believes that Alexey is a lion's mouth, and the patent fee for a game card is $5, which is a money-grabbing act.
Their GameBoy comes with a 2.6-inch LCD display with a resolution of 160*144, powered by dry batteries, and can play for at least 30 hours, with a high-profile machine, but it costs only $48.
The GameBoy is priced far less than the $100 price paid by Nintendo's own Famicom console, and all it wants is to grab the market at a low price, take the North American market share of handheld consoles, and then make a lot of money by selling other game software.
If Tetris takes $5 for a COPY, Nintendo won't have much profit.
You know, in Nintendo FC game software, any other game released by a third-party game developer must be released through them, and 60% of the game's profits are given to Nintendo, they have always been so strong, how can they be choked by a small Tetris?
They're the absolute bosses of the global video game scene! The overlord of the same thing! Even Sony, Sega, Nippon Electric, and even Philips had to pinch their noses and beg for mercy, what is the patent owner of an indie game? Dare to mention the $5 condition?
Alexey has set a $5 bottom line, but he also has a hard time.
The patent owners are him and Yang Yun, according to the agreement, 70% of the income belongs to Yang Yun, he only has 30%, if calculated according to 5 US dollars, he can get 1.5, Yang Yun 3.5, but if according to Nintendo's proposal, it is 100,000 US dollars to buy out the patent, he can get 30,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to 20,000 GameBoy sold 20,000 units.
Fools know that since Nintendo's Famicom was a huge success in the North American market, selling millions of units, the GameBoy is only ready to sell 20,000? If 1 million units are sold, the patent fee will be 5 million US dollars, and 1.5 million will be distributed to Alexey, which is more than 1.5 million or 30,000, and Alexey is very clear.
Both sides are very tough, one is a $5 copy, the other is a $100,000 full buyout, to be fair, both sides are not sincere, one diamond price, one cabbage price.
Fortunately, Alexei was a Soviet, and the Japanese didn't dare to act rashly, and they didn't dare to press too hard, but they were already anxious, and Nintendo's [100] [year] [celebration] [ceremony] was about to begin, and if they couldn't negotiate the Tetris patent, they couldn't hand it over to the headquarters.
If it were Yang Yun to negotiate with them, I am afraid that the Japanese would have disdained it a long time ago and used it directly for free, as for patents and lawsuits, let's wait for you to put an end to piracy in China!
Yang Yun did not enter the Edward Building, but found a contact person in a small restaurant nearby, a little girl with freckles on her face, the daughter of the restaurant owner, he only mentioned Alexey's name, and the little girl jumped up and ran towards the Edward Building.
It didn't take long for Alexei to hurry over, and like an underground party comrade, the two talked in the warehouse of the grocery store.
Yang Yun listened for a while and asked, "Do the Japanese know that I am coming?" ”
Alexei shook his head: "I walked very carefully. I come here every day to eat, and they probably won't follow me. ”
Yang Yun pondered for a long time and handed over a piece of paper: "OK!" After you go back, sign a contract with them like this, and say that we take a step back, and these conditions are our bottom line. ”
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PS: Happy New Year 2014 ~ I wish you all a new year, a new atmosphere, a new look, no failure in the study exam, and a smooth work to get a red envelope!
PS: The contract was sent last night, asking for the recommendation tickets and collections of book friends~
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