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Chapter 293 Corporate Planning
"Donkey Kong" is a vertical-axis game, but the "Mario" series is a horizontal-axis mobile game. "Mario" was not made into an arcade by Nintendo, but was sold directly on the newly developed FC home video game console at that time.

It can be said that it was the great success of the Mario series that established the dominance of the Nintendo fc game console in the entire 80s home console market.

Compared with a fixed screen of a tank battle is a map level, the screen of the horizontal axis game will continue to advance with the movement of the protagonist.The complexity of the game has suddenly increased a lot, and the corresponding design difficulty has naturally increased.

Bai Zirui asked his assistant to distribute the new game plan printed on A4 paper to everyone, and said, "This is the plan for Dingtian Game Company's next game. Let's take a look. The game is inspired by Miyamoto-kun's design last year. For the jumpman character in the Donkey Kong game, I have asked the company's legal department to discuss licensing matters with Nintendo.

I named the jumpman Mario and redesigned the character. Mario is a plumber and he has a brother Luigi, so the new game is called Mario Bros.

Brother Mario destroys monsters such as turtles that appear from the water pipes, eats gold coins, and "tops" to make the turtles unable to move, and then "kicks" the unable to move turtles to earn high scores.

If you don't "kick" the inactive turtle for a long time, the turtle will resume its action and become faster. The game also includes gold coin levels.

In the two-player mode, two characters can "push" or "chase" each other to cause trouble for each other, which can also add to the fun of the game. "

While watching the new game plan, everyone listened to Bai Zirui's speech.Through the great success of "Tank Battle" and the Great Wall Cube in the market, everyone has been conquered by Bai Zirui's creativity and talent. This kind of respect and admiration comes from the heart.

Bai Zirui took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and continued: "The background of the new game that the company will develop has a complete game world view. "Mario Brothers" will be a side-scrolling game, and this game company will enter the family For game consoles, we want to develop a home game console that other manufacturers cannot imitate for at least a year. The name is Xiaobawang Game Console.

How are we going to design this game to make him fun, playful and engaging! Each level of the "Mario Brothers" game is not a map like a tank battle, but like a rolled up picture scroll, which will slowly spread out as the protagonist continues to advance.

In this way, the screen of the new game is required to be able to move horizontally, which puts forward higher requirements for our program design.

Programming is just one aspect, game design is another.The map of the new game is more complex than Tank Wars, and it contains more game content.Whether you can stick to the player and keep playing is the key to the success of a game.How to design each level, this is where we have to dig deeper.

For example, the skill of difficulty arrangement should be easy and then difficult. The arrangement of enemies and traps should be simple and safe, and the player should not hang up as soon as they come up.To give players a process of adaptation, gradually add dangerous elements little by little.

After the player is familiar with the game, these traps and enemies can be combined and configured to guide the player to challenge with higher difficulty.If you let the players get stuck and can't continue playing, many players will choose to give up. In this way, no matter how exciting and interesting the subsequent game content is, it will be nothing.

Then there is how to grasp the rhythm of the game?After the player crosses a very difficult link, it is necessary to give the player a time to relieve the tense nerves, and the next section of the map should be simpler.

In other relatively dull paths, can you consider paving some gold coins to guide the player to control the character to jump, which can improve the player's concentration and investment. "

Based on the memories of his previous life, Bai Zirui hand-painted several game screens of "Mario Brothers".He also talked about some game development ideas and game hardware development parameters, and asked Shigeru Miyamoto to be in charge of the development of the "Mario Brothers" game.

According to the idea provided by Bai Zirui, the R&D department first filled in the details of the entire game, and then brainstormed to come up with a detailed feasible plan.

After Bai Zirui finished talking about the development of the new game, he said solemnly: "Our company will expand the scale of several subsidiaries in the city: establish Dingtian Electronic Technology Company, Wang Yatao and Li Yalei will serve as the general manager and deputy general manager respectively. , responsible for managing the production of PCB.

Established Dingtian Electric Co., Ltd., and developed the first product, the Walkman. The Walkman is a miniature version of a tape recorder. It is a portable pocket tape recorder. I named it the Walkman.

It is a machine that records the sound for repeated playback. It uses the magnetic material as the carrier and uses the remanent magnetic properties of the magnetic material to record the sound signal on the carrier. To have a playback function, most of them use a test tape for playback and recording.

It is mainly composed of microphone, tape, recording head, amplifier circuit, speaker, transmission mechanism and other components.And to develop a headset tailored for the Walkman, the sound quality must be good.The control of the Walkman software part is very simple, and the control chip used is not very complicated.

The patents for the tape recorder are basically in the hands of Sony Corporation in Japan. We want to obtain the patent authorization from Sony Corporation, even if we pay a little more, we have to buy the patents. "

Bai Zirui announced the candidate for the general manager of Dingtian Electric Company. The general manager of the electrical company is Peng Feng. He graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Xiangjiang University, so he can be regarded as Bai Zirui's senior.

Bai Zirui continued: "To establish Dingtian Computer Company, I have entrusted HSBC to help acquire Wanwan Zhu Bangfu's Lingyi Computer Company.

Established Dingtian Software Co., Ltd. to be responsible for developing computer software. The first software developed was RoyalTek-1, an office electronic graphic form software for personal computers. "

白子睿让鼎天软件公司开发的RoyalTek-1软件，就是1982年，Lotus公司发布电子表格Lotus1-2-3，售价495美金。1-2-3代表三大先进功能：表格、图表、小型数据库。很快打败VisCalc、Multiplan夺得销量第一，世界上第一个销售超过100万套的软件。

Dingtian Communication Company was established to develop Chinese pagers and mobile phone communications.Pager is another name for BP machine. It is a personal information terminal that receives wireless call signals from paging stations. It does not have a transmitting function, so it is only a one-way receiver.

In the early 80s, the BP machine and the wireless paging network serving it appeared in my country, and after just over ten years of development, it reached its peak—in 1998, the number of BP machine users in the country exceeded 6546 million, ranking first in the world.

In 1902, a beautiful countryman named "Nathan Stubblefield" made the first wireless telephone set in his country house in Murray, Kentucky. The phone is the earliest exploration and research of "mobile phone" technology by human beings.

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