Orange County, Newport Beach City.

As a city founded in 1906, the vast majority of people living here are white, with a six-mile coastline, which is a seaside resort that many people yearn for, and the inflow of people has also made it a shopping center for the main popular commodities in Southern California, plus the pleasant climate, beautiful scenery, and a little higher point can overlook the Pacific Ocean, so the real estate here is very expensive, with an average house price of more than one million, but even so, there are still many stars who have bought real estate here, such as the Oscar, selected by the American Film InstituteHumphrey Bogart, the No. 1 Greatest Actor of the Century, John Wayne, who was selected as one of America's Top 10 Idols, and Kobe Bryant, the future Lakers superstar, all live here.

Of course, if he wants to eat in this place, he can't afford to cut off both of Mohammi's kidneys.

You know, with Kobe's bald head, it will cost a thousand dollars to push it here, and if you give this money to the academician who 'the biggest mistake is to let you eat too much', then the other party can cut your hair seventy times.

The choice of this place is nothing more than the proximity to Irvine of Mohami and their company, and secondly, to eat at the seaside restaurant here, you can see Bai Huahua's body when you turn your head; As a world-famous mecca for body surfing, there are many people who come to visit it, and there are even more who roll along with the waves in bikinis......

"Wow...... I didn't expect you to be such a guy......"

When Mohami walked into the 180-degree sea view private room that Roland had ordered, the flowers and snow-white waves on the beach not far away immediately made his eyes widen, "When I stayed with you before, I really felt wrong?" ”

"I always thought you didn't like women!"

"Then you dared to stay with me before?"

Looking at the guy who looked surprised and pretended to be surprised, Roland asked with a smile.

"So I was reading all the time! It's good to protect yourself! ”

Mohami stretched out his hand and gestured, trying to imitate how he studied hard when he was with Roland.

However, before he could fully describe it, Roland leaned in with a wicked smile and trembling his eyebrows, "Really? Well? ”

The expression of 'I have a good embarrassment, do you want to take a look' made Mohami, who wanted to continue the joke, start, and before Roland could catch up, he said with a straight face: "Okay, I admit it, I confess that I have been reading books in the crew because there are no beautiful girls in the crew......"

The words like Sichuan opera's face changed made time in the private room stand still for a few seconds, and under the interaction of 'sincere' eyes and 'evil smile' eyes, the two of them laughed at the same time, "Oh, Mike, I didn't expect you guys to joke now." ”

"Hey, Roland, aren't you the same? Can you feel more comfortable when you become famous? If you hadn't answered me before, you would have laughed at the most and revealed my problem......"

"Really? Why don't I feel this way? ”

"Maybe it's because you're in a good mood today?"

Roland is in a very good mood today, or rather, since he received Mohami's distress call the day before yesterday, he has been like a laugher, and he has been happy for no other reason than because Mohami has asked for help from him.

To be honest, he has long wanted to vote for Mohami, but he didn't speak, and he can't support this studio with only twelve people, after all, if he really wants to count it, he still wants to be friends with Mohami in his daily life, rather than the relationship between the investor and the investee that may be antagonistic, and this is actually very simple......

Regardless of the territory, the more famous people are, the fewer friends they have.

is like Ryan Reynolds, who starred in Deadpool, and the photos of his own children were sold by friends who could enter the delivery room to bless him; Lindsay Lohan's psychotherapy report was taken out by her girlfriends to publicize it, and the list of her previous boyfriends and rich people was exposed; Pepper even took the script from Winona's house...... There are too many incidents caused by these plastic friends.

To be honest, before Mohami reported the news, Roland only regarded him as an ordinary friend, but since he told the other party that someone had posted a photo of himself on the Internet community, he knew that this guy was actually okay to date.

In that case, it is even more difficult for him to tell the other party that I want you people.

Wait, that sounds so gay!

He didn't even think about picking up soap!

Anyway, it means that Mohami doesn't speak, and Roland doesn't open his mouth, and as soon as Mohami speaks, Roland is enthusiastic!

After signaling the waiter to serve the dishes according to the dishes he ordered yesterday, Roland, who was leaning on the sofa with Mohami left and right, smiled and said, "You called me the day before yesterday and said that you were short of money?" ”

"Do you want to change the name of the company?"

"Is your company name really changing, silicon and neural bonds? The most misspelled word, it is easy for people to generate, this is the idea of a breast enhancement plastic surgery company, it has nothing to do with the game, and it can't be famous at all. ”

"And even if you hit it, it will make people think that you are a pervert."

The English word for silicon is 'silicon', and the English word for silicone is 'silicone', although there is a difference of one 'e', but this is the dividing line between normal and perverted! Those who know understand that they are serious games, and those who don't know will definitely think that they started with little butter! Because there are no normal people, they will play this kind of edge ball!

Do you know that the glory of really starting with little butter is very tall and good?

Even if Nintendo is trying to open a love hotel, they won't give the company that kind of red fruit name!

Moreover, when playing Blizzard games in his previous life, Roland had already learned that Mohami was originally regarded as a small butter game manufacturer by the console platform, so he thought about changing his name, and he also collided with other studios, and the other party asked Mohami to pay 100,000 yuan to buy his name, and in the face of high transfer fees, they chose Blizzard.

So, when Roland received a distress call from Mohami, he felt that this guy was trying to buy a name for money.

However, before Roland could tell Mohami that I had a better name here, Mohami, who picked up his cup and wanted to drink water, was a little confused, "Roland, when did I tell you that our company is going to change its name?" ”

“What？ Didn't you say you wanted to buy the rights to the company's name? ”

Roland raised his eyebrows, and suddenly felt that the tirade he had prepared in advance might not be needed......

"I didn't say I was going to buy the rights to the company's name!"

Mohami scratched his head, seeing that Roland was serious, he was a little unclear now, whether he didn't explain it on the phone the night before, or Roland would be wrong, but it doesn't matter, just spread things out and it's over?

"I mean, we want the rights to make the game."

"Game production rights?" Roland scratched his head, instantly feeling that his brain memory might be running out of memory.

Blizzard bought game rights in a previous life?

Why didn't he have any impression of this?

But it doesn't matter if you don't have an impression, after seeing him look confused, Mohami took the initiative to explain what happened.

"Do you remember, in the summer of '90, when I went to your house for a party, and Chris Columbus directed them there, and your uncle David asked me what the company's development plan was?"

"My answer at the time was that we didn't think it through."

"But after I went back, before I officially started the company, I had already discussed it with Alan and Frank."

"We decided to do all the types."

"RPM Racing, which you played with Steven before, is a racing game we made."

"The Lost Vikings that we're working on right now is an adventure action puzzle game similar to Mario."

"Our next plan is to develop a shooter game similar to Contra."

"And a fighting game that's similar to Street Fighter."

"We want to keep making it to see what kind of game we're good for."

"And like racing, action puzzles, and shooting games, these plots can be designed by ourselves, but fighting games are different, he has to have a beautiful world view and a clear faction positioning, otherwise it will look very twisted."

"So when we put The Lost Vikings in the hands of the distributors for review, they were like we were suggesting a fighting game with a mature worldview, and they recommended us the projects they already had......"

"Superman."

It's not too common for startups in the early 90s to want trial and error.

Because it's so easy to make games these days, four people can get together at a table, and you can squeeze out a finished product in three months.

Like the kind of producer picking up the head in the future, design, art, music, and a bunch of people getting together to squeeze toothpaste in the later stage, it will not appear again in this year, and it is precisely because there are few people that things are easy to do, first see which type you are suitable for, and then get into it to do it, if you don't have the money to maintain, then take orders to help others work!

And Mohami and they don't need to take orders at all, not only because their first game "RPM Racing" is profitable, but also because he is confident that he can pull investment from Roland when the funds are exhausted, but this self-confidence, with the disappearance of Superman in the mouth of the supplier, what is Superman?

That's Batman's own grandson!

Making a fighting game with Superman's copyright?

If it's popular, it will definitely make a name for their studio!

"So, you need money now to buy Superman's rights?"

After listening to Mohami's narration, Roland suddenly felt a toothache.

Don't ask Mohami how their supplier received Superman's game order, the word Superman alone can smash Roland into the eye, not only because the other party is very famous, but also because-

It's expensive!

As the only two comic book IPs (Superman and Batman) in the market that have successfully made profits in film and television, the game copyright does not shout to eight figures, which is sorry for Warner, which once owned Atari!

And use eight figures to buy a game copyright?

Hold the grass!

I didn't expect Mohami, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, to dare to treat me as an online loan!

However, just as Roland touched his jaw, deaf to the world of flowers outside the restaurant, and pondered how to tell Mohami euphemistically that he couldn't handle it, Mohami suddenly shook his head and said, "No, no, no......"

"We don't want Superman's copyright."

"Really? So what do you want? ”

Roland couldn't laugh anymore, and he felt that Mohami would definitely dig a bigger hole for himself.

Superman can't even look at it, so what he likes should be "Star Wars" that shoots spaceships with bows and arrows, right?

He couldn't handle that.

Because so far, the level scripts of the "Star Wars" games have been written by Lucas and Spielberg themselves.

It seemed that he had noticed that Roland's mood was wrong, but it was more like he had already thought about Roland, Mohami's answer was neat, "What we want, you have to decide......"

"Last summer, James Cameron was going to film "Spider-Man", and the news that you were going to star at the same time spread all over the country."

"So after hearing Superman, we thought of Marvel."

"We want to know what you think, if you're close to Marvel, then we're not going to pick up Superman."

"At the same time, if we can get the game copyright from Marvel, or the authorization of a game, then we can do it."

Roland is the golden thigh who has been personally certified by the future Blizzard Triumvirate.

In this case, wouldn't taking Superman be tantamount to moving away from him?

Compared to the Superman proposed by the supplier, they felt that it was better to surround Roland.

It's not a question of money, it's a question of taking sides.

As long as it is done around Roland, it means that the game has a chance to come to Spielberg again, and if the other party is happy to play, he casually said to the media, I have been playing "XXX" recently, and this kind of influence is even more terrifying than being Superman.

The quality of the games is not bad, and they can instantly become the most famous game company in America.

At that time, they are still afraid that they will not be able to recruit people? Can't make a game?

Hearing the other party's explanation, Roland, who was still stiff in his face, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out that it has something to do with Marvel again?

"I thought you asked me to buy you the rights to the Superman game!" Roland rolled his eyes and grumbled.

Seeing Roland's comfort, how could Mohami not know that this guy was thinking nonsense? directly patted his thigh and said, "How is it possible?" What are you thinking? Unless I'm crazy, how could I possibly let you buy Superman copyrights? ”

"Okay, let's not talk about Superman for now, you just tell me directly, can Marvel handle it......"

Marvel?

If it was placed before "Home Alone 2", Roland would still feel a little choked, but now......

Whether it's calling James, or Ivanka, no problem.

Perelman and Icahn ate Marvel to death, and buying a game copyright is a matter of money!

As for how much?

Then Roland is not clear.

But he understands that with Mohami, you can't talk about copyright money first, you have to talk about -

Firm.

"Whatever copyright you want, as long as they don't sell it, I can get you over." Roland made it clear, "But there's one thing I want to know first, what do you guys think?" ”

Mohami was silent for a while, he naturally understood what Roland was talking about, and these things, they had actually thought about before they came, "We know that copyright will be expensive, and we also know that the company is not worth much." ”

"We can authorize it once and then we're done."

"As for the company......"

"Acquisition or shareholding, we have no opinion."

"We have only one request."

"The three of us lead the game, you can try it out, you can give feedback, you can even have a meeting to tell us why it's changed, but you can't ask us to have to get the game out before a certain quarter, nothing else......"

"We know you can take it."

"Because everybody is a gamer."