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Chapter 159 Transoceanic phone calls

When you devote yourself to something, it is basically difficult to feel the passage of time.

In a blink of an eye, a few days passed.

In fact, American game workers are very hard-working now and in the future and other places. For game workers, overtime is the only thing that must be done. As for the history of game companies that Jester knows, no matter how big or small, when developing each game, no one does not need to work excessively, because only such game companies can survive in this industry. There are countless such companies, whether they are American, Japanese, European, or mainland China decades later.

And Mars Entertainment is no exception.

Of course, now is just the beginning of development, so it is naturally impossible that Blizzard's chief programmer insisted on working overtime outside his wife's delivery room when his wife was giving birth, completing the StarCraft engine, and left behind the classic "This is not a damn game job, it is StarCraft!" game world quote.

But working overtime until pm is still common.

Mark Seney, who participated in the conference room a few days ago, was very fantastic and eclectic R&D planning seminar, suddenly became interested in the brand new RPG game type that Jester called SRPG. You should know that he is a die-hard DND tabletop game player. He often runs with his subordinates in the lounge. He had discussed with his subordinates whether he could make an RPG game. However, after discussing and discussing, the game they wanted to make was just a copy of "Witchcraft" or "Genesis". In addition, because he was in a hurry and there were many games to start working at the same time, it was in the end that he had not even watched it for Jester.

Jester later learned during a chat with Mark Seney that they had privately studied what would happen if they made an RPG game.

So, in this way, Mark Seni also applied to join Jester's development team. This is exactly what Jester wants, because in addition to making this game, he has many things he needs to be responsible for. The entire Jester Holding Group needs to participate in many things every day. For example, the legal and negotiation teams that go to Hong Kong to conduct formal negotiations with Guo Taiming requires him to follow up the whole process, so his free time is very short, and with Mark Seni participating, he can feel much more at ease.

After all the R&D personnel understood, at least on the surface, what type of game Jester was going to do. These designers who were addicted to DND role-playing RPG desktop war chess burst out with great enthusiasm for it, especially after Jester let them play the real SLG game "Nobunaga's Ambition", they clearly stated that it would add the SLG style to RPG, which was their task. Everyone was very interested in the innovation of this RPG game proposed by Jester.

As for the other characters' levels, blood bars, tasks, skills, and equipment systems, these innovative settings proposed by Jester from the success of later generations of RPG games have not attracted the attention of most people because of the previous innovations.

Just as Jester stayed up late in the office to review the work report of the R&D team yesterday, the phone on his desk suddenly rang.

This made Jester a little confused. Logically speaking, it is unlikely that someone would call the phone directly to his office at such a late time, unless it was his family member... While thinking about this, Jester picked up the phone. As soon as the phone was connected, the sound came to him was a little surprised. It may be that the cross-border phone was somewhat damaged to the sound quality, and the sound in the microphone looked a little hoarse, as if he had just cried.

The phone call was from Claudia, who was far away in the UK.

With doubts, Jester asked, "It's so late, what's the urgent matter?"

After Jester finished speaking, the opposite side seemed to be silent. After about ten seconds, Claudia's voice sounded again.

"No... I just want to tell you about some work. I thought you were at home before, so I called your father and told me that you were in the company, so I called."

This made Jester a little suspicious. Claudia was not a person who didn't know how to advance and retreat in his understanding, and she was very outstanding in terms of emotional intelligence, IQ or ability. How could such a person call herself late at night just talk about some work matters? For example, the time difference between Los Angeles and London? Jester didn't think the other party would not think of this.

Then, although Jester doubted, he didn't say it out loud, and he did not pay attention to the affairs of the European branch for a while, so he talked to Claudia about work.

After talking to each other for a few minutes, Claudia's tone before became normal. From the phone, Jester could clearly feel the confidence of the strong woman who was rushing towards her, rather than the pitiful girl who seemed like a frightened sparrow before.

This change in tone also made Jester extremely curious.

"When will dreambox be released in Europe? Recently, people from the company told me that dreamboxes and game cartridges flowing from various channels have appeared in many places in Europe, and the price has been hyped up, especially a game called "Ballotelli's Big Adventure", which is more like crazy. On the market, this game is already 30% higher than the price released in the United States."

Claudia's tone was a bit funny.

Hearing Claudia's question, Jester also knew that the other party was just complaining with him in a joke, because before Dreambox was officially announced, he convened a conference call for senior executives of several companies. The specific launch plan and region were determined at that meeting. At that time, Europe was set to be the last launch area, while Japan was the second launch area.

The first half of 1985 was released in North America, and the summer in the second half of the year was officially released in Japan. The earliest date in Europe was also set for Christmas. If the production capacity does not meet the standards, it may have to be postponed until late January.

Although this plan was opposed by Claudia as soon as it was launched, after Jester explained to her one by one why she did this, she had to agree. However, in order to compensate, the first release area of ​​the new electronic pet machine before Dreambox was officially released in Europe was placed in Europe, and the area of ​​the expansion package that "World Storm" will be launched soon was also placed in Europe.

"Let's talk about this for now. How did you ask the top students to test the expansion pack cards that you just sent? Are there any areas that need to be modified?"

Since he thought of the expansion package of "World Storm", Jester also remembered the documents given to him recently by Clement. The first batch of test versions of the first three expansion packages have been shipped to Europe. The first batch was shipped to Europe for those enthusiasts from the two prestigious schools that completely hyped "World Storm" in Europe.

Of course, students from these two prestigious schools are also very interested in this, and even set up some clubs to compete between the "World Storm" cards.

Jester originally planned to build a printing factory in the mainland to do this. However, building a printing factory is not a matter of overnight. It may be better to buy one directly. However, after Jester asked someone to inspect the mainland, he found that the equipment of the printing factories or paper mills in the mainland were very backward, and it could not meet the printing effect required by the "World Storm" card. If they want to achieve the printing effect they require, they have to transport the equipment of Clement Company to the mainland, and employees have to undergo a period of training before they can officially take up their posts.

Moreover, regarding the current situation of state-owned enterprises, in some of the information about this era that Jester once read about, plus his experiences in the mainland, after ten years of catastrophe, he knew how bad the current workers' discipline of state-owned enterprises had been. He remembered that a foreign journalist visited a state-owned factory, but he didn't expect that the workers in the workshop would peel melon seeds in front of the visitors, and they gathered together to peel melon seeds. When they saw foreign visitors, they not only did not restrain themselves, but also watched openly.

Jester disagreed with one million people to let such a state-owned enterprise employee be his factory employee.

This is just Jester himself thinking about it. In fact, the right has not yet completely gained the upper hand. If foreign capital wants to acquire state-owned enterprises, it is impossible to get the approval of the mainland. What's more, Jester only plans to acquire factories instead of accepting workers in full, which is a condition that the mainland government is absolutely unacceptable.

This is not a matter of money. It involves very complex things, including politicism, interests, and routes. Jester did not want to be involved in such a small matter inexplicably. In addition, Jester had to do too much at that time, so he had no time to deal with such small matters. He could only temporarily dispel this idea and handed over the printing of the "World Storm" card to Clement.

Claudia laughed at Jester's words.

"They still made a lot of suggestions, but I don't know much about it. I have asked the employees of the feedback department to make a report. After the report is completed, I will send the report directly to the United States. Your card department will watch and modify it." Claudia said while smiling. After that, she hesitated for a moment before speaking.

After a while, Claudia suddenly changed her tone.

"Li, have you had time to come to England recently?" This time, Claudia's tone was no longer as confident as before, but with a hint of hesitation and confusion.

Hearing Claudia's words, Jester frowned suddenly. He could now be sure that something must have happened to Claudia in the UK. This matter may be her private matter, but this private matter was so big that she, a strong woman, was so uneasy that she called herself to discuss work late at night.

There was almost no hesitation, Jace nodded.

"No problem, I'll book the air ticket right away and I'll arrive tomorrow."

After Jester finished saying this, Claudia seemed to be silent on the other end of the phone again. After nearly a minute, her voice rang again.

"Thank you." (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, novels are better, updated and faster!
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