Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 182 The First Game Console
Feng Jianjun was transferred away, and several of his graduates of the same period were also transferred away.

Next to the joint factory, on Yanwei Island, a new laboratory was born.The leader of the software team of the laboratory is Feng Jianjun who was transferred back from Neon Country. Their task is to design games.

Of course, they are not the only ones in the entire game team. Zhao Ye also asked Santai Club to hire several illustrators in the neon country. In terms of the design of some pictures and characters, Zhao Ye still feels that people from the target country are better than others. good.After all, cultural differences do exist.

The task of the hardware group is rather simple. It is to develop the most powerful arcade game machine in the shortest time and at the lowest cost according to Zhao Ye's design requirements.

Zhao Ye also made the design ideas and methods of the 6802 chip into a development note and sent it to this hardware group. In this group, most of them are young people. Zhao Ye's purpose is to cultivate a group of young teams on this technical route. .

The design and production work went very smoothly. Of course, with Zhao Ye's bug, it's hard to think about it not going well.In less than two months, a prototype was ready.

But the problem is stuck in the software group again.

Although Feng Jianjun and the others are interested in games, this is the first time they have made this kind of thing, and many conceptual things are still in the formation stage.In their minds, they have no idea what the game should be like.

Zhao Ye didn't interfere too much with their ideas. Creativity is very important when making games, but establishing a game design thinking is even more important.Zhao Ye can copy technical things, but creativity and thinking, this still has to be explored by these young people themselves.

Of course, Zhao Ye didn't do nothing.In the days when prototypes of arcade machines awaited testing, the hardware group began to tackle the design of a controller-style home console.

The main laboratory is responsible for designing game cards.

Game cards are the key to the success of the entire project.

The game card that Zhao Ye has seen in later generations is usually a circuit board.Zhao Ye feels that this idea is correct. Making the memory chip, trigger, and protection circuit into a printed circuit board can not help saving the resources of the game console itself, but also greatly improving the flexibility of game design.In this way, different production processes can be selected according to the complexity of the future game.

At first glance, this seems to be more expensive, but it reduces the single cost and greatly increases the profit point of the entire project.

Generally speaking, game consoles have become cheaper, but game cards have become more expensive.

Following this line of thought, Zhao Ye designed and simulated a game that is common in later generations, "Contra" in his own space.This is a very classic shooting game. In essence, the hardware requirements are not too high. Many scenes in the game are actually a picture, and then design a dynamic character and scene on this background picture. and so on element.The data volume of the entire game is only less than 800kb.

Zhao Ye decided that he had to create the first game himself. It only took him a few days to "copy" this classic game.Not only the software was copied, but even the hardware was "cottage", but it was only slightly modified to match my own arcade console.

The prototype was placed on Yanwei Island. On this day, Zhao Ye took the game card made by others, burned the software code he wrote, and went directly to test it.

"Director, you're here." Feng Jianjun didn't dislike Zhao Ye's transfer to the game team at all. On the contrary, he felt very grateful.Here, he finally got his dream job.What a joy it is to be able to play and work at the same time.

However, Zhao Ye quickly made him unhappy. As Zhao Ye began to test, the magic power of this classic game was not blown out, but tested by countless people in later generations. It is not comparable to the table tennis game he made.

And this game also directly lit up a lighthouse for these game designers, as if a light was suddenly found in the dark sea.

Zhao Ye didn't set any goals for these people either. For the first game, it's better to let them grow freely.

But Zhao Ye didn't care about anything, at least the time was given.In half a year, if no decent work can be produced in half a year, then the team will be disbanded, and they will go back where they came from!

This is very tense!

For Zhao Ye, it is not so easy for these people to "get it done" in minutes.

Feng Jianjun finally realized the pain after turning his interest into work.

Zhao Ye, however, experienced double the joy, firstly, the game console could be released, and secondly, it gave a young team the motivation to move forward.

Soon, a very cool house appeared on the streets of the neon country.The door of the cottage also has the words "game room" written on it.

Tetsu Hashimoto is a middle school student. After school that day, he happened to pass by a bookstore he often visited.

Since last week, the side of this bookstore has been renovated. He thought it was the bookstore being renovated. It wasn't until today that he discovered that there was a place called "Puzzle Game Club" next to the bookstore.

The boy's curiosity drove him to go in and have a look.Well, the whole decoration style is very youthful.On the wall next to it, there is still a large poster.

Two soldiers carrying machine guns stood back to back.It looks very powerful and domineering, and it is full of anime style.

These two soldiers are based on the image of Western soldiers. Looking at the other side of the room, there are more than a dozen machines neatly placed in a row.

The machine is as tall as a human, with a large screen on the upper part and only one console below.There is a round rocker on the console, and there are several buttons beside it.

At this time, none of the dozens of machines was idle, and there were two people standing in front of each machine.They frantically shook the joystick.Tapping the button.

What is this?Hashimoto Tetsu is full of curiosity!

I leaned forward to take a look, and saw the two soldiers on the screen, exactly the two people on the poster.At this moment, they are doing various actions under the player's control, killing enemies frantically.

"Ah! Baga! Damn it, I didn't break through!" Just as Hashimoto was sighing, a guy next to him yelled dejectedly. , and then stuffed something into the machine again.

"Ding ding dong, ding ding dong, ding ding dong, dong, dong dong dong..." There was a pleasant voice, and the man started to shake the joystick crazily again.

"It's amazing!" Hashimoto Tetsu suddenly expressed such emotion.

At this time, he had already put the matter of going home to the back of his mind. Now, his mind is full of the plot and pictures of the game in front of him, and he can't accommodate other things anymore.

After watching for half an hour, the person in front of the machine finally used up all the coins on his body, and left that position resentfully.

Hashimoto Tetsu touched his pocket, and there were still a few coins in it.At this time, he didn't think about anything else, he just wanted to stand in this position quickly and try this game for himself.

With a "clang", the coin was stuffed in.

Immediately, the pleasant game start sound that I had heard several times sounded.

Tetsu Hashimoto became nervous all of a sudden. He held the joystick clumsily and nervously. Maybe he was holding it too hard, so he was killed by the enemy not long after the start.

A countdown appeared on the screen. Having watched others play, he understood that if he did not insert new coins quickly at this time, he would not be able to continue.

So without thinking too much, he quickly stuffed another coin into it.

10 minutes later...

"Baga! Just a little bit, just a little bit so I can pass the test! Damn it!" Hashimoto Tetsu couldn't help but also cursed.

He didn't scold others, but scolded himself for being too stupid.

In fact, if he knows some game design knowledge, he can know that he is not a little bit worse. This kind of design is purely an appearance specially set up by the designer to attract players.

From the day the game was born, psychological research on players has actually begun...

In the research institute on Yanwei Island, Zhao Ye specially invited experts in marketing and psychology to participate in the design of the game.

Hashimoto Tetsu didn't know this, he just knew that, just a little bit, he could become a hero!Become the hero who has gone through untold hardships and finally won the battle!

No boy can refuse such a temptation!The only thing that can make them refuse is their own dry wallet.

Hashimoto Tetsu ran out of his last coin, and finally left the control position of the game console unwillingly.

But then another player took his place.

When Hashimoto Tetsu returned home, it was already late.

"A Zhe, did you participate in school activities today? Why did you come back so late?" Hashimoto Tetsu's mother is a housewife, and her biggest task is to take care of her family.

"Mom, I didn't participate in the school activities, but Mom, I came across a very interesting store on the street. There was a kind of educational electronic game machine. I went in and played for a while, and watched other people play for a while. It was really good Already!" Hashimoto Tetsu told his mother about his experience today.

Hashimoto Tetsu's mother patiently listened to her son's story about what he saw today.Although she didn't quite understand what her son was talking about, Hashimoto Tetsu's performance today surprised his mother.

The child who was not good at talking and a little dull at first, today he told himself uncharacteristically what he had seen and heard today, especially the game console, in his mouth, it was simply a very remarkable thing.

She doesn't care what it is, she just thinks that this thing may really be a puzzle machine as her son said, and the change of her son is the best proof.

(End of this chapter)