Chapter 217: The Chinese Cube

Wu Jie is going to release an English album of 12 songs this time, and now there are only seven songs, of course, it is not enough, so he is going to ask PolyGram's lyricists to change the works from another Chinese album he is preparing into English version.

At this time, many people will ask - aren't you proficient in several languages? Isn't it all over if you fill in the words yourself?

Of course, Wu Jie can't say - "I'll fill in the words for it"!

His reason is that "there is no time to repeat the creation".

This reason is reasonable, so his second Chinese album will do the same, and he plans to ask PolyGram's Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan branches to pick out a few songs from his English album for localization.

In this way, he can release 4 albums containing 12 songs in Chinese, English, Cantonese, and Cantonese at the same time.

But this time, three songs in his Chinese album were not plagiarized by himself, but handed over to Luda for plagiarism, which is also supporting Luda in disguise, or trying to find a way to send him money.

The four songs he copied by himself are "Young Battlefield", "Red Dragonfly", "Lu Binghua", and "Trust Me, You Are Not Alone".

The three songs that Ruda helped him copy were "Sailor", "Inch Heart Smiling Proudly", and "Boy's Dream"

Wu Jie naturally recommended Ruda to Polygram, and the two sides have been discussing differences in the contract.

Luda hopes to sign a contract with Polygram with the same conditions as Wu Jie, but Polygram feels that although Luda has gained a lot of global influence at the World Championships, there is still a big gap compared with Wu Jie, the most important thing is that he can't write English songs, so Polygram is only willing to give a 20% share of sales at most, otherwise they will really become workers for Chinese athletes.

The two sides were deadlocked over the share ratio, and Ruda's temper finally broke out, and at the end of November, he signed a contract directly with Universal Music, and promised a 25% share of global sales.

Universal is also one of the four major records in the world, but until Ruda officially releases his first album, I am afraid it will be next year.

This year, only Wu Jie will release his second album in Chinese, English, Cantonese and Japanese on Christmas and New Year's Day.

At this time, I have to mention one person, that is another Chen Haonan who regards music as a side hustle.

But Chen Haonan doesn't sing, Wu Jie thinks that the three of them are so good at singing, and they can all write their own songs, the more I think about it, the more I feel that it is a little too abnormal.

So he only let Chen Haonan create, and the singing was left to him and Luda.

Chen Haonan has no off-site life in Madrid at all, and the whole person is like a depressed person, but he also carries a world famous book on his body all day long.

Whether this kind of person pretends to be sick or not, he will definitely have a lot of time to read and accumulate, so it is naturally not so surprising that he has enough literary literacy to compose music and write lyrics.

Wu Jie now not only has to let Chen Haonan be responsible for the creation of music, but also let him write and write scripts.

Qin Jian is responsible for copying orthodox literature, and Chen Haonan is responsible for copying high-quality networks, or adapting games such as The Legend of Sword and Fairy, Swordsman Love, and Ancient Sword Legend, including Harry Potter.

This kind of character design is actually not uncommon, the long and short stories of the Eight Classics require deep literary accumulation, and the same is true for scripts and lyrics, and as long as one of these three jobs can be done well, it actually has the foundation for the other two jobs.

Wu Jie's Cantonese album was first handed over to Chen Haonan to be responsible for plagiarism, and the six songs he helped Wu Jie plagiarize were - "Summer Wind", "Friends", "Legend of the Galaxy", "Sky Bird", "Love Trap", "Superstar in Troubled Times".

Here are a few songs that are popular covers of Japanese songs in the next few years, after all, it is no secret that the pop music scene in Hong Kong and Taiwan is copied from Japan.

But at this time, even the original version of Japan has not yet been born, and these copies copied by Chen Haonan have naturally become the original version.

Therefore, the Asian pop music scene in this plane is likely to become another situation - mainland original ~ Japanese/English cover ~ Hong Kong and Taiwan cover!

Wu Jie's arrangement makes his side business with the tool people more reasonable, and it is also a way for them to accumulate raw capital for their business.

Whether it is the electrical industry or the FMCG industry, building factories to purchase equipment, publicizing marketing and research and development, including training workers and daily expenses, these are not small figures.

But when it comes to making money, Turin, Italy, also has a man who is ready to start making his own money.

"Freeman, what are you playing?"

Platini called Lin Yaodong's English name, and he and his Juventus teammates were gathered in front of a computer, all of them watching Lin Yaodong play a puzzle-like game in front of the computer with fresh expressions.

It's December now, and Lin Yaodong has been staying in a hotel for months, but he bought a villa with his signing fee before the season started.

After the house was renovated, he invited the whole team to his house for a housewarming party.

"It's called Chinese Cube, and it's a game program I just wrote."

Lin Yaodong didn't blink, and directly changed the name of "Tetris".

"Looks good, how?"

The more Platini looked at it, the more interesting it became, and he soon wanted to try it out for himself.

Lin Yaodong immediately moved out of the way and told him how to operate.

However, after the game was running, even if he chose the lowest difficulty, Platini quickly became scrambling, and he didn't even last a minute to get GG, which immediately attracted the ridicule of his teammates!

Lin Yaodong said with a smile: "I'll demonstrate the control methods and mechanics of the game again!" ”

Platini quickly stood aside, and the group looked at the computer screen again, only to see simple squares falling from the top of the screen.

Lin Yaodong can move, rotate, and place blocks of different shapes by simply controlling the AWS SD on his computer keyboard, and then simply arrange them into a complete row or rows to eliminate the score.

With such a simple game mechanic, everyone quickly and completely figured it out.

"I'll try again!"

Platini has an eager look on his face, and he has two of the world's most popular "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man" arcade machines at home, which he thinks are the two most fun.

This block game looks unremarkable, but as soon as he gets started, he finds that these few ordinary blocks, when combined with the cleverly designed game mechanics, actually make him feel like he can't stop.

The game really has an inextricable appeal, otherwise it wouldn't have been hailed as one of the "10 greatest video games".

Platini was immediately drawn into the game, enjoying the fun of pushing and stacking blocks and disappearing, and of course being annoyed by the frustration of the full screen.

But whether he was enjoying or annoyed, he felt like he couldn't stop.

Soon, Juventus players began to try out the game, and Lin Yaodong turned on several other computers at home for everyone to play.

The Juventus players also didn't forget to ask Lin Yaodong where to buy the computer and if he could make a copy of the game for them.

Lin Yaodong naturally agreed to his teammates' requests, and wrote down for them which computers could run.

"Freeman, I didn't think you're an electronics engineer?"

Platini now admires Lin Yaodong very much, and there have always been few highly educated stars in football, so he doesn't know that this should be called a programmer, although Lin Yaodong can really be considered an engineer.

"It's my amateur, just as my boss's music has taken the world by storm, and I want my video games to be known all over the world."

Lin Yaodong did not leave Wu Jie in two sentences, but as soon as he finished speaking, he attracted everyone's approval.

Although Wu Jie is their dual opponent in the national team and club, I have to say that the songs he wrote are really good, and almost the entire Juventus team is Wu Jie's fans!

They know that this Christmas, Wu Jie is about to release his second English album, and they have already paid for this record at this moment.

Wu Jie himself didn't know that everyone in the Juventus team contributed more than one album sales, including Platini, who also admired him very much in this regard.

Now, Platini admires another Lin Yaodong on the list.

"Chinese players are really versatile!"

Platini had to convince the Chinese athlete because he was also a fan of Wu Jie and now a fan of the game developed by Lin Yaodong.

The Juventus players played "Chinese Cubes" for a while, so naturally they had to continue the party, otherwise it would be too rude, and also visited Lin Yaodong's new house.

In fact, everyone knows that Lin Yaodong is a science and engineering man from the decoration of his home, especially in his game room, where several computers and arcade machines are placed, as well as several Atari's latest 2600 models.

But half of the electronics were dismantled by it, and there was a pile of electronic components he had bought on the wall.

The most amazing thing for everyone is that he actually made a "Chinese Cube" game cartridge that can run on the Atari 2600.

Of course, they won't know that this is the business that Lin Yaodong planned to do before establishing Lenovo - games + arcades!

In particular, the "arcade industry" was one of the most lucrative industries in the world in the mid-to-mid-80s, and the Space Invaders arcade generated more than half a billion dollars in revenue (including merchandise) throughout the 80s.

That's an incredible figure, and the purchasing power of $5 billion in this era is worth $50 billion in 40 years.

But the arcade industry in the 80s was so unreal, take the United States as an example, even if you count the film industry and the record industry, the 80s were not as good as the industrial income of an arcade market, which is simply more profitable than selling laundry detergent!

He announced "China Cube" in front of his teammates today, which is to spread it through them.

In addition, he has contacted Wu Jie, and the game will soon be bought by Activision, which has just won the lawsuit, for $1 million + a share of the distribution rights in North America, and then use the Atari 2600 to sell it throughout the United States, and will also make its own arcade machine to sell in North America.

Wu Jie is very confident in this, because he knows very well that the video games of this period are like children who have just learned to walk, and those developers who made games while reading programmers' manuals in the early 80s are now only "pioneers" in the game industry, where can they fight their "big plagiarism".

The commercialization of Tetris in the late 80s would have been addictive to countless people, and he knew very well how attractive it would be in the early 80s, when most of the classic games were not yet available, and he knew very well that this "Chinese Cube" could be the next Space Invader.

Lin Yaodong only needs to cooperate with Nintendo in the future, so that "China Cube" will become the first game of FC, and the huge Japanese market will be opened.

Then he set up a company in Europe to be responsible for distributing the arcade and home machine cassettes of "China Cube", and in the next few years, Lin Yaodong will not be able to obtain more income than Luda, Shen Lang, and Chen Haonan combined.