Chapter 132: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Three Watches)
Of all the ways to promote, the genre of game peripherals is cumbersome and special.
Pokemon's fanfiction, cards, and game peripherals, these Yang Yun are ready to be handed over to the professionals of Longteng Company to operate, but like anime movies, they can't be completed in a short time.
Yang Yun is not in a hurry at all, and the publicity is also to be done wave after wave, so that Pokemon Shijie will appear in the media news every interval, and it is enough to maintain a certain degree of popularity.
Now there is a particularly important matter to deal with, Yang Yun found Yang Zhan, the work of the Longteng strategic department has been stagnant, and a big move must be made next.
Yang Yun called Yang Zhan and said: "The strategic department has been established for a few months, but the task is a bit heavy, and I have been operating Sega stocks, which is contrary to my original intention of establishing this department. Now that SEGA has become my company, the next step is for the strategy department to take the initiative. ”
Yang Zhan nodded, a little excited: "Mr. Yang, where are you going!" To be able to successfully acquire Sega, I have blindly admired you! ”
Yang Yun laughed: "Your strategy department is responsible for the authorization of Pokemon's game peripherals, and I will find a professional team from Disney to give you, so that Pokemon's game peripherals can be sold to all Shijie, and the hearts of children and women around the world will be conquered!" Among them, there is a little elf named Pikachu, you have to focus on promoting it! ”
In the first version, the protagonists of the story are the wonderful frog seed, the little fire dragon and the Jenny turtle, and Pikachu is the substitute member numbered 25. This little yellow thing doesn't look like the most popular elf.
Yang Zhan also knew something about the game, and wondered: "Pikachu." That little yellow jerboa? Does anyone else like this? ”
"Hah!" Yang Yun waved his hand and did not argue. Facts speak louder than words, and implementation is the answer.
Yang Yun continued to arrange: "The main customers of Pokemon are in Japan, Europe and the United States, you discuss with Wang Zhe in Japan, find a suitable location in Tokyo, and create the world's largest Pokemon flagship store, all the peripheral goods are displayed, which will be of great help to enhance the image of our company!" ”
Yang Zhan nodded: "Mr. Yang, Japan's economy is now declining, and housing prices have plummeted. I don't think it's as good as buying a house, and if there is a suitable store in Ginza, Tokyo, I recommend that the company buy it permanently without being short of money. ”
Regarding getting involved in the real estate industry, Yang Yun is cautious, doing business, the two industries that it is best not to touch are real estate and the stock market virtual economy, even if he knows that the housing prices in the capital will rush to the sky after 20 years, Yang Yun has no intention of making this unconscionable money.
Yang Yun nodded at the table. After thinking for a while, he said: "Now the company still has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and it is better to wait for Pokemon to go public." Japan's economy is unpredictable, so you still have to be careful. However, if Longteng has good benefits this year, it has earned hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm going to give you an important task next year that will allow you to make a big splash in the financial markets. ”
Yang Zhan's eyes lit up: "Can you reveal it?" What is the approximate size? Is it our Chinese market? ”
Reveal? Yang Yun didn't dare to reveal that he had worked hard in the Japanese stock market crash. I almost put my own life into it, so I got a Sega. It's because he doesn't have enough money.
And next year when the Soviet Union collapses, he plans to take advantage of the fire to make a profit. Such appalling news, he didn't dare to talk nonsense, the first priority was to make money, and it was difficult to move an inch without money.
In order to make himself more assured, Yang Yun was ready to go to Japan again, and before leaving, he held a high-level meeting at the headquarters of Longteng Company.
Yang Yun looked around in the conference room, and suddenly found that it seemed to be a bad person, and asked, "Huimin, why didn't Da Liu and Ma Liang come?" ”
Fang Huimin said with a smile: "What I was notified just now, it should be something that is stopped." ”
Before the words fell, there was a dispute outside the door, and it was Ma Liang's loud voice, which seemed to be full of dissatisfaction with Liu Cixing.
Pushing the door in, Ma Liang was the first to see Zhao Yongping's black face, and he was so frightened that he immediately shut up, and could only say embarrassedly: "Everyone is here......"
"I'm waiting for you!" Yang Yun said, "Is there a new game idea?" I'll report on the matter later. Now I have something to announce. ”
The two of them hurriedly sat down, not daring to speak again.
Yang Yun was a little tired: "Fighting like this every day, I can't stand it even if I am an iron man." Now Pokemon is also about to be listed, Yongping, how to reward, don't be stingy, let the programmers fix up for a while, and the company will start a new project in July. ”
Zhao Yongping said in a deep voice: "A large part of the reason for the company's acquisition of Sega is to support national construction, so no matter how hard and tiring it is, everyone can understand." In addition, in order to build this animation and game industrial park, the company has been burdened with hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, and I want to suspend the distribution of incentives, and everyone will work together to get through the difficulties, and I believe that all employees of the company can understand. ”
Everyone seconded the proposal and said that they did not need a reward.
Yang Yun waved his hand: "No, if you do something and make a contribution, you should be rewarded!" If you want the horse to run, you must feed the horse full, although the company is in debt, but there is no problem in a short time, as long as you survive this year, the future is bright! I'm counting on the following game to beat Capcom, so don't make the programmers listless and drop the chain for me! ”
Since Yang Yun insisted, Zhao Yongping did not refuse, in the first half of the year, almost everyone ran before and after, it was this belief that supported and rewarded everyone, which was quite morale-boosting and enhancing the cohesion of the company.
Arrange the students of Longteng Animation Magazine to study in Japan and participate in the distribution of Longteng comic magazine in Chinese mainland, which is a necessary step to promote Pokemon in China, Yang Yun suggested, cooperate with several famous children's publishing houses in China, Fang Huimin agreed.
Zhao Yongping is responsible for the production lines of the Longteng factory, arranging the production of LED LCD screens for Taiwan-funded enterprises, coordinating various tedious matters for the construction of the animation and game industrial park, and dealing with government agencies.
Zuihou were Liu Cixing and Ma Liang, and after the others left, Yang Yun asked, "What game ideas are you arguing about?" ”
Ma Liang's eyebrows danced and said: "I have read Da Liu's manuscript, which is written about King Arthur and his knights of the round table, which is very good!" So I thought of another game and wanted to adapt this novel. ”
Yang Yun smiled dumbly, he asked Da Liu to study the legend of King Arthur in Europe, just for the arcade game of Warrior of the Round Table.
On the arcade, Longteng Company has only designed the two games of Contra Spirit and Famous General, Snowman Brothers and Electro Essence, and is still in the Fengyun Game Software Lab, which was forced to be suspended by Yang Yun because of Sega's affairs.
Yang Yun asked, "Did the Snowman Brothers make it?" ”
Ma Liang nodded: "It can be sold at any time." ”
"Excellent! Let's get out of this first, and then you can go back and let the Japanese side start selling. By the way, disgusting, disgusting, Capcom, them! Yang Yun smiled faintly: "King Arthur's game, I'll look at the manuscript first, I think, is it a try to publish a book first, and then adapt the game?" ”
The manuscripts of Liu Cixing's novels are incomplete, and most of them are material collections and detailed outlines.
If you really want to meet the standards of publication, you need a lot of revisions and improvements, especially to highlight the image of the hero.
The first is King Arthur himself, who is a legendary figure in history, and the legend is that a mythical god was personified, but this does not affect him to lead more than a hundred knights of the round table, break the reign of darkness, and unify the glorious image of the British Isles.
Liu Cixing's novels also hold this view, but it does not affect his lifelike King Arthur, flesh and blood, and the detailed description of the legend of the sword in the stone, which makes people involuntarily fall into the shijie of text construction.
The second person is King Arthur's first warrior, the queen's bodyguard Lancelot, who is a handsome and courteous boy in the game, strong in martial arts, brave and brave.
In the literature of the French writer, his love affair with Queen Arthur is talked about, which is perhaps only admired and aspired to by Europeans, and is completely different from the Asian way of thinking.
The third man, King Arthur's most loyal subordinate, Percival, the son of another tribal king, was of noble origin, brave and powerful, wielded a great axe, became King Arthur's right-hand man, and participated in the pursuit of the Holy Grail.
In Liu Cixing's novels, not only these three people are the most important characters, but there are also several other heroes, such as the hero who held the Holy Grail and participated in the conquest of France, and there are several heroes for Yang Yun to choose from.
In the end, after discussion among the three of them, Yang Yun chose King Arthur and his three knights, a total of four game characters.
Since you choose to let Liu Cixing do the background story, it can't be completely according to the original version of the real history, the protagonist King Arthur doesn't need to say much, Lancelot, who had a beautiful love affair with the queen, has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Percival, who holds the axe, has participated in the pursuit of the Holy Grail, and Zuihou has a Gawain who holds the Holy Grail with Lancelot, and it is these four people who are finally determined.
Liu Cixing sighed: "Mr. Yang, these heroes are all fictional, and after hundreds of years of circulation in Britain and France, there are huge benchmarks set by previous writers, and readers have almost accepted it, can we really change?" ”
Yang Yun said with a smile: "Literature is literature, everyone just needs to have a general impression, playing interesting games, who cares about those nitpicking details?" Ma Liang, let me tell you about the standards of arcade game design, so that you can see how a hot-selling, fun, game machine hall owner and players like the game, how to make it! (To be continued......)
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