"Now, if any game designer said that he had never been influenced by Jesse Lee, it would be very funny, just like a film director said that he had never seen Hitchcock's films, and a writer had never read Shakespeare's plays. In the game world, Jesse Lee is Hitchcock, Spielberg, Shakespeare and Tolstoy. His design idea rooted in human nature will be more valuable than all current or future technologies and will last forever. "
This is the third time that Time magazine has selected the legendary player in the game industry, Jesse Lee, as the person of the year, and everything about this legendary story started in the beginning of the summer of 1984
"My name is Jester Lee, a Chinese American, 19 years old, now studying in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and just finished my sophomore course."
A young man with black hair, yellow skin and black pupils talked to himself in the mirror on the wall. His eyes were full of confusion and disbelief.
Because only this young man knows that the person in the mirror before him is not himself.
He was supposed to be Li Ming, a 22-year-old college student who was about to graduate in 2014. He clearly remembered that the night before last, he had played a creative little game "Game Dev Tycoon" on STEAM in his dormitory, which was translated into Chinese as a game development giant.
He fell asleep when he used his self-developed console to punch Sony, kick Microsoft, and sell tens of millions of Shenzuo single platform games to dominate the world game industry. But when he woke up, he found that the world had changed.
I unexpectedly came to the barbaric era of video games 30 years ago. In 1984, the United States was reborn as a young Chinese American.
Moreover, it inherits the memory of the other party.
Does this sound incredible to the extreme? Is it like the plot of a certain type of novel on a certain website that has reached the extreme?
Li Ming also thinks so.
Even though he often reads novels of rebirth, when all this happens to him, Li Ming or Jester is also a little hard to accept.
He had no time to scold such novels for being brainless.
Just when Li Ming, or now should call him Jester Li, is recalling the memory of the original owner of this body in his head.
In his mind, there was a clear beep without warning.
It is similar to the "drip" sound of the buzzer alarm when the computer was just turned on, followed by a mechanical sound without any emotion echoing in his ears.
"The binding is successful... The host is qualified... The system is officially started... Countdown... Ten, nine, eight, seven..."
"What is this?"
At the moment when the sound sounded, Jester Lee turned around in fear to find the source of the sound, but the bathroom was empty. When he listened carefully again to the source of the sound, he found that the sound was directly in his brain.
"...... Two, one, zero...... The countdown is over. Welcome to the game development giant system."
Then the strange voice disappeared.
In front of Jester's eyes, it was like a virtual screen in a science fiction movie, with a column by column pattern.
This is not a fancy interface, even a simple one. There are only a few simple options on it, but there is a zero at the top of the interface, and the balance is displayed in front of the number.
"Zero balance?"
Jester didn't know what it meant, or what it meant.
The other five options are R&D, training, store, task and view.
Jester was at a loss for what was happening before him, but driven by a strong curiosity, he reached out to the virtual screen in front of him.
Just when his hand touched the first 'R&D' of the five options on the virtual screen, this option lit up for a while, then it returned to the previous dim, and then a line of conspicuous writing appeared on the screen.
"Your current permissions are insufficient. Please unlock and check this option again."
At this time, Jester found that the appearance of these five options was not the same. Except for the fourth task, the other four showed a dark gray, as if they were not activated, but the task showed a light light.
Sure enough, Jester clicked the gray options in turn to indicate his insufficient permissions, and then he pointed to the "task" column that was still lit up.
Shua!
The virtual interface in front of him suddenly changed, and the previous options disappeared, except for the obvious balance zero in the top column of the screen.
Instead, it seems to be a task interface very similar to the online game he played before.
There is a big golden question mark in front of the task.
And in front of the question mark, there are unfinished words.
"Task: Make your first game and release it successfully to unlock the other four options, and show that the completion of the task will give the system owner different purchase points."
At the end of this task, there is a note that by purchasing points, you can purchase all the games that have been sold or not, their design ideas, the source code of various powerful game engines, advanced host architecture, and even improve your technical level through training through this system, and so on, Let you make more excellent games
Seeing this note, an idea suddenly flashed through Jester's mind.
"This is not the game development system in the game of the game development giant. The wish I made before will not really come true... But this game is totally different from the game..."
Jester suddenly remembered that when he was addicted to playing that simulation game, he said without shame that if he returned to the pioneer era of video games, he would be able to beat Ren Hell and kick Sega. As for Sony Microsoft, Who－are－they？
But I thought it was just a casual remark, which really brought him to this age when he was not familiar with life. It's too careless
That said, Jester is very familiar with the game of the game development giant.
More than 50 or 60 times of customs clearance has unlocked the whole achievement. The games that have been matched with almost all types of games have been developed and highly praised. The highest sales volume of a single game has sold more than 60 million copies... But the system that seems to exist in his mind is very different from the game he plays called the game development giant.
However, after a little thought, Jester also understood that many options in the game are not suitable in the real world.
For example, at the beginning of the game, there are only four game themes, and dozens or hundreds of other themes need to be unlocked with the R&D points obtained by players.
However, there is no such situation in the real world. A game producer can produce whatever theme he wants to produce. Naturally, there is no need to unlock it.
For another example, after each game is made, there is an option to summarize the game and generate a game report. This option allows players to summarize whether the type of game they have made is suitable for matching the theme.
What are the advantages and disadvantages.
For example, war oriented games are suitable for matching with simulation games, but not leisure games.
For another example, through the summary, we can also know whether the matching of game functions during the previous game development is appropriate.
For example, a leisure game does not need any wonderful tasks and complicated AI, but requires extremely high gameability and powerful level design, while an adventure game needs a great task system, and an action game especially needs strong AI.
Like this, different games have different priorities.
These conclusions can be drawn only after the players have experimented on a game by game basis in the game. However, in the real world, these things are readily available, because he has known them for a long time, or even recited them backwards.
After all, if you want to make a good game, it is impossible to do it without knowing it.
Moreover, there are many differences between the real game and the game, and we must not copy them mechanically.
Therefore, these have no effect on the reality, and even misleading options are naturally deleted, but a few things that were not in the original game are added.
For example, purchase and task.
Oh, by the way, there is no employment option in the real system, which is simple to imagine, because people can be hired directly in the real world.
The employment in the game... Is it possible to directly employ the black households that do not exist in the world?
After all the information was sorted out, Li Ming or Jester Li also resigned. After all, he had come to the world.
Even if he wants to go back, he may not be able to go back.
Moreover, in the eyes of Li Ming, or Jesse Li, does he really yearn for this era? As a loyal player of video games, how can he not envy this era? Want to rise and grow with this era?
This is the pioneer period of video games! What a sense of achievement it would be to participate in the construction and development of an emerging industry in person. After decades of improvement, when this industry is worshipped by future generations, how would it be?
Even, in the middle of nowhere, Jester had a vague impulse and excitement.
As a loyal fan of games, he knows that the golden age that all game fans yearn for is coming.
Countless classic games are coming out.
Especially the masterpiece that will appear in the near future.
It is recognized by people outside the industry as the only nuclear weapon in the game industry.
Witnessing its appearance and accompanying its reign in the world, Jester seems to feel like a pilgrim.
It may not be properly described, but for him, for almost all the game enthusiasts, this is the case.
Up to the moment of Jester's journey, the total sales volume of this series has accumulated 525 million sets, and 40 million sets have been sold on a single platform, ranking first in the history of electronic games in the world, twice the direct lead in the second place. The direct sales value is more than 30 billion dollars, and the indirect added value is at least three times this number.
In other words, in the thirty years since its birth, it has indirectly or directly generated benefits of more than 100 billion dollars.
In particular, this game saved the world game industry from collapse at the most difficult time.
Just put a legendary halo on this game.
In case that the great and immortal words are not enough to describe the game
You think I'm bragging?
No, no, no, I don't exaggerate even one letter, and the description of each pinyin here is the most appropriate.
Because this game is just like diao.
wait!
Jester suddenly opened his eyes wide, and he realized that it was only June of 84. The former overlord Adali had just been on the verge of collapse in the Adali impact event. They had hidden hundreds of millions of game tapes in the desert of New Mexico. In the next ten years, no one could shake the overlord Hell, who had just released their home computer game console Famicon, It is also known as FC, the legendary game console known as red and white console in China less than a year ago.
Although this game console is popular in RB, it has not sold 1 million units so far. As for NES in Europe and the United States, it will take a whole year and three months.
And this game is extremely legendary, which makes Ren Hell and their FC establish the supremacy of the game has not been released yet!
At the thought of the game's influence and ability to attract money, Jester Lee's eyes turned red.
There was a voice in his mind that kept shouting.
Get him!
Jesse Lee clenched his fists.
His eyes are also inadvertently filled with a kind of light called desire.
Since he has been reborn and gained that strange system, why can't he enter this magnificent era of the game world to call the shots?
Why not?
We must take him!
Must be sure and certainly!
Because everyone who has played the game knows what that game represents in history!
