game trailblazer

Chapter 92 One of the Martyrs of the Game Industry
After leaving his contact address, he bid farewell to Ma Guanghai's family, and Zhang Lexing took Li Taotao's car back to BJ.Three days later, Ma Guanghai arrived as promised, and Zhang Lexing had the idea of ​​going out again.After all, Tianzhiyuan, Jinshan General Motors and other companies are going to be integrated into the Dongfang Group. Before that, it is better to ventilate first, so as to avoid some bad things.

Before going out, Zhang Lexing planned to arrange for someone to be in charge temporarily, so he called Chu Jing to discuss it together.After much deliberation, in fact, only Chu Jing was the most reassuring, so during the time of leaving, Zhang Lexing simply entrusted Chu Jing to handle all the company's affairs.Of course, for things like equipment procurement, Zhang Lexing still gave some suggestions: Office equipment can be purchased domestically, and office computers can also be considered to support domestic products; however, development equipment is mainly purchased from abroad, including development computers, and some special equipment may also be purchased. Have to figure out a way to get it back.In order to make things easier for Chu Jing, Zhang Lexing also specially gave her a business card of Dongfang Holdings*. It would be more convenient to go there for the equipment that needs to be purchased from abroad.

When Zhang Lexing was explaining these things to Chu Jing, Xu Qian appeared at the entrance of the semi-open office, poking his head.

"What's the matter, come in and tell me." Zhang Lexing called out.

Xu Qian walked in cautiously, came to Zhang Lexing and said, "Boss, there is a man named Lin Gang looking for you outside the door. He claims to be the vice president of Pioneer Group."

"Pioneer Group? I don't seem to have heard of it. Well, Xu Qian, let him come in." Then Zhang Lexing said to Chu Jing: "It's about these things, you can arrange it, don't worry about purchasing funds, go first Get busy."

Chu Jing nodded, took the folder, got up and walked out of the office. It happened that Xu Qian also came with Lin Gang.

Lin Gang looked like he was in his 40s or [-]s. As soon as he entered the office, he immediately took out a business card and handed it to Zhang Lexing with both hands.

Zhang Lexing took the business card and looked at it carefully. On the front of the business card was "Vice President and Legal Representative of Pioneer Group, General Manager of Pioneer Cartoon Lin Gang" and the address, telephone number, fax, telegram registration, etc., and on the back was Pioneer Group The main scope of business, except software development can be related to Zhang Lexing, the others seem to have little to do with it.

"Boss Lin, what's the matter with you here?" Zhang Lexing felt that the Pioneer Group seemed to have nothing to do with him, so it was really strange why a vice president came here all of a sudden.

"Hey, Mr. Zhang, I actually came here this time for Pioneer Cartoon. I didn't contact you before I came here. It's really presumptuous." Lin Gang looked a little embarrassed.

"Pioneer Cartoon, I seem to have heard of this name, is it in the animation industry?" Zhang Lexing was still puzzled.The name Pioneer Cartoon sounds like an animation company, but what does this animation have to do with our game development company? We are just established.However, Zhang Lexing, the name of Pioneer Cartoon, has a little impression, but the related memory has been blurred due to the age.

Lin Gang explained: "Mr. Zhang, Pioneer Cartoon is a subsidiary company of our Pioneer Group. It was just established last year. At that time, it wanted to develop its business mainly in the direction of animation. It was also a coincidence. Last year, the Chinese Olympic Committee approved BJ's application to host the 2000 The [-] Olympic Games, the Olympic Bid Committee was also formally established, which suddenly set off the Olympic fever across the country, and many places held activities to support BJ's bid for the Olympic Games. We think this is a very good opportunity. The relevant animation series should be very marketable, and the prospects should be very bright."

At this time, Xu Qian sent a cup of brewed Biluochun. Lin Gang took the tea and put it on the table, thanked Xu Qian, and then continued: "Pioneer Cartoon has just been established, and it is impossible for the group to invest too much at once. The money went in, so the company’s funds were not sufficient enough to make a feature-length animation. After repeated research within Pioneer Cartoon, it was finally decided to make a series of cartoons about sports humor, about dozens of episodes, each about 5 minutes long. It’s a pity We didn’t understand it at the time, and thought it would be fine as long as it was a director who had won an award. We spent a lot of effort and researched a lot of director’s information, and finally chose a middle-aged director who had won an art award at the International Cartoon Exhibition. At that time, I naively thought that a director who won an international award must have a high standard."

Lin Gang took a sip of tea, and then said: "We didn't invest too much money, only about 50 yuan. The director was very straightforward and quickly agreed to take our order. We feel that we can rest assured now. , a director who has won an international award, must have made something extraordinary. In the following days, we waited and waited with joy, and the time passed day by day. Until this spring, we finally got the The final sample.

After getting the sample, we were very excited. People in the company gathered together to see what the cartoon made by the director who won an international award would look like.When the picture appeared on the TV, we all watched it attentively, afraid of missing the wonderful scene. After watching an episode, we felt the extraordinary taste and unique style of this director.In the episode we watched, there were some inexplicable laughter from the beginning to the end, but we didn't feel the music at all, the picture was very clean, except for the black background, only a few white villains were dancing there come and go.Until the end of the first episode, we didn't figure out what it was.Later we thought, at least after spending 50 yuan, we must finish watching the film, but unfortunately we couldn't stand it after seven or eight episodes.In the end, the sample was thrown into the trash, and the initial investment of 50 yuan was in vain. We are completely disheartened about the animation industry.

However, Pioneer Cartoon has already been established, and the group has invested a lot of money. We are very unwilling to give up like this.Later, an employee accidentally brought a game card back to the company, which inspired us a lot. Now FC (Nintendo Famicom) games are very popular in China, and the sales of game cartridges in shopping malls are also booming. We feel that game development should be very fast. I had some ideas, so I decided to switch from Pioneer Cartoon to Nintendo game development. "

Hearing this piece of music, I understand Lin Gang's intentions. Now only the Tianzhiyuan family has really mastered relatively mature Nintendo game development technology in China. If they can obtain relevant technology from Tianzhiyuan, they can indeed quickly enter this seemingly "Money" scene unlimited industry.Lin Gang had a good idea, but Zhang Lexing couldn't take the initiative to bring it up, so he continued to listen.

Lin Gang continued: "After making the decision to switch to Nintendo game development, we found that because the Nintendo Game Console (FC) is a patented product, there is no relevant information on the market. The CPU (central processing unit) uses a Which programming language is not clear. This makes us a little hesitant. Fortunately, not long ago, we heard that there is a game development company called Tianzhiyuan in China. It is a large-scale enterprise specializing in Nintendo game development. I heard that It was established in [-]s. Because Fuzhou is the birthplace of Tianzhiyuan, we sent people directly to Fuzhou to contact and try to see if we can buy game development technology from Tianzhiyuan. Fortunately, we met Tianzhiyuan Mr. Fu, the local person in charge, is also very enthusiastic about us, but he didn’t expect that he couldn’t make the decision about the transfer. Finally, under his guidance, we found this place. Mr. Zhang, I hope you can support us more in this matter. We are behind."

"Mr. Lin, you can rest assured that I will definitely support this matter. However, I just came back from abroad, and now the foreign Nintendo game console market has begun to shrink gradually, and many companies have already devoted their energy to Super Nintendo and Sega MD. On the console, or on Nintendo’s portable handheld GameBoy. At present, the main development force of Tianzhiyuan is also on the Super Nintendo and GameBoy. Is it too late for you to enter the Nintendo game console market now?” Although Zhang Lexing doesn’t remember Pioneer Cartoon has a well-known performance in the future, but at this time, it is basically difficult to make money in domestic Nintendo game development if you do not work hard on technology and production control. Trying to persuade Lin Gang to be more cautious.

Lin Gang obviously misunderstood: "Mr. Zhang, I know that this kind of technology will not be transferred to other people casually. However, I have studied the market strategy of Tianzhiyuan and found that it is mainly sold to foreign markets, and we just If you want to take a small piece of food in China, it should not affect you much, and I hope Mr. Zhang can help a lot."

I didn't expect Lin Gang to be so brain-dead. Zhang Lexing didn't want to affect their enthusiasm for game development. Anyway, it doesn't matter if the technology transfer of FC game development, which is about to become obsolete, said: "Mr. Lin, if you really want to work in Nintendo For game development, I can approve Tianzhiyuan to provide you with relevant development technology, and if you lack game developers, I can also ask Tianzhiyuan to provide appropriate training. But I hope you will be more cautious before making a decision, Now domestic piracy is still rampant, if there is no good countermeasure, even if the game is made, there will be some problems in sales.”

However, Zhang Lexing's words are obviously of little use. What Lin Gang cares about now is whether he can obtain the development technology. Perhaps they have never thought about other aspects. It seems that they will not have a profound experience without experiencing wind and rain.The matter has come to this point, Zhang Lexing couldn't persuade him any more, so he had to make an agreement with Lin Gang that when Zhang Lexing went to Tianzhiyuan in a few days, he would bring the people from Pioneer Cartoon with him, and finish the technology transfer as soon as possible. As for going to Fuzhou The train tickets will be borne by Pioneer Cartoon.

Some things that should have happened still happened. Although the process is different, the risks are still the same. I only hope that with Zhang Lexing's help, we can keep some kindling for the future.

(End of this chapter)