Whether it is filming "Dream of Red Mansions" or making strategy games for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", they are all part of Gu Ao's national cultural industry.

However, he also knew that it would not be enough to carry forward the "archiveable game" to the first wave of enthusiasm alone. Even if this encourages the people's belief in gritting their teeth and spending, if they cannot be internationalized, this card will never be played for a long time.

Gu Ao couldn't help but think: In the late 1980s and even in the early 1990s, which categories did this industry be supported in history?

American RPG is more of an action element. Even if you can kill monsters and level up archives, it was only in the late 1990s, the era after Windows 98, and the 21st century, that became awesome.

Don't think that only the Assassin's Creed Watchdog and the American character plot game of Wizard Hunting GTA have action elements. The "Prince of Persia" in the 1990s is the same, and it can be regarded as the distant ancestor of the Assassin's Creed Watchdog Wizard's style.

And these things are obviously unstoppable at least on the current primitive Tiankun learning machine, and even on the 16-bit gaming machine that will compete with Sega MD in the future.

Only in the era of PS can we have smooth "action elements + leveling + archive" American games.

Therefore, during the difficult period of 86~92, if you want to carry forward the advantages of the game console's archive function, you have to rely on Japanese turn-based rpgs and those strategy games.

The Japanese Three Kingdoms theme series "Swallowing the World" series and "Flame Emblem" series were all supported on the original 8-bit platform before the Sega MD game console appeared in 1988.

In the first few years after the 16-bit computer appeared, there were also popular products such as "Fantasy Simulation War", "Age of Discovery", "Great Strategy", "Robot Wars" and so on.

Although turn-based strategy games in later generations have been generally abandoned because of the lack of fluency and blowing pleasure. However, the low performance requirements of turn-based consoles are destined to be popular for many years in special transitional eras.

Therefore, at the end of the Hanle Electronics investigation, Gu Ao put forward his own requirements for the development plan of the learning machine supporting game software:

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is just a stepping stone for us to define new categories and inspire third-party collaborators. The subsequent supply chain management department will take "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to follow up with upstream third-party game developers.

Tell them that strategy and turn-based RPG will be a big trend in the next two years, allowing more foreign developers to join in. Because Nintendo does not react so quickly, it is definitely impossible for Nintendo to follow up on the "archiveable game development plan" based on the FC based on FC.

This period is the window period for us to make efforts. In other markets in the world outside Japan, we want to further widen the market share gap with Nintendo. The current pattern of our eight and Nintendo 2 is definitely not enough to satisfy me. Even in the Japanese market, the current market share of Nintendo 7 and we 3 is currently in the Nintendo 7 and 3. I hope to get back some. At least to get back to four and six, preferably 5 and 5.

In addition, starting this month, I think we should add a software department studio in the Mainland Special Zone or Qiantang to fully develop the plan to develop turn-based role-playing and strategy games. Nowadays, the top domestic universities have been setting up computer majors for several years. For projects like game development, software engineers’ jobs are more of ‘physical work’, and the difficulty is not that high, and you can use software to accumulate cheap labor.

However, I decided to recruit people from Japan to work in China for high salaries. After all, graduates of Chinese art colleges and universities have not experienced international modern aesthetic education and can't even draw Japanese comics. And everyone is ashamed of being fantasy and fighting monsters. I guess they can't do game planning and scripts for the time being."

After Gu Ao said this, Yang Zihao raised his hand and said he had something to say, so Gu Ao nodded and signaled that he could speak.

"Boss, we already have semi-formal outsourcing studios at Zhejiang University. Have you forgotten that in the past few years, your commissioning plan to sponsor us for four places every year to go to Stanford exchange students has left many outsourcing channels. At present, our software company often asks outsourcing there, so we can formalize those outsourcing into studios, so we don't have to go to the SAR to start a new job.

However, as far as I know, Japan's salary is not only high, but their promise to overseas dispatch in the Third World is higher than working in their own country. That is to say, if you hire someone from Tokyo to work in Qiantang, your salary will be more expensive than you are in Tokyo! They feel that going to a poor country will cause inconvenience to employees, so they have to give more expensive money than their own country.

This is not a good deal, right? They can enjoy much cheaper prices and spend more money in China and save more money, but they actually have higher salaries! It would be better to ask Chinese people to work overtime on their own."

"That is, let Gome students work as artists in software companies. As long as they give Japanese people a one-tenth of their salary, they will not be able to work in three shifts 24 hours a day." Lu Yunda, the hardware department, whispered.

Because his wife is from the Academy of Fine Arts, she worked as an electric artist for "Plant vs. Zombies". At that time, Tiankun was still working in the first generation of arcades, so she is also a veteran in the art field of the company, no matter what her artistic level is.

But Gu Ao was very courageous: "Manpower costs are the issues I need to consider, you don't need to consider them. I would like to invite Japanese people, even if they are temporarily high, it will not exceed three years. By the 1990s, I will realize the comprehensive localization of game planning, scripts and artists. Instead of worrying about this, it is better to think about how to let newly recruited people learn from Japanese people, learn all their abilities, and completely bridge the gap with international advanced concepts."

After Gu Ao said this, no one would refute it anymore. After all, the contradiction between the problem is pushed to "whether Chinese employees who follow Japan work hard and whether they can learn the skills as soon as possible." After learning, it will be the day when Japan leaves.

In the late 1980s, it was the era when Japan's economy was the craziest and the salary of employees in the technology industry was the most awesome. Gu Ao found a planner and artist who worked in the Tokyo industry for a few years and struggled in Akihabara. You can't get a monthly salary of 500,000 yen.

In addition, the yen appreciated after October last year, and the black market exchange rate against the RMB has now risen above the 20 to 1 mark. In other words, "It takes extra money to work in poor countries with harsh living environments."

This means that Gu Ao may have to spend a monthly salary of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan to hire a Japanese man. But when these people come to China, they actually enjoy the price of 1.5 cents of pork, which is like living in heaven.

I hope this gap will make the Chinese artists and planners next to you catch up, throw away the traditional moral integrity of "inducing players to fantasize about how to upgrade monsters", completely break the airs you are holding, and enter the bloody market competition state that is always good at selling cool, cute and killing as soon as possible.

So, the head of the software department and backbone of the attendee asked for some details in front of Gu Ao, and discussed it, and decided to merge the department in charge of Chineseization mentioned earlier, Tiankun, to this studio.

Gu Ao opened his mouth and finally did not refute.

In my impression, he vaguely remembers that the Chinese people who started to get Chinese cards in 1987 were all the developments they sought to escape from the special zone in the south of the capital during the same period of the establishment of Zhongguancun in Beijing.

Therefore, Gu Ao originally planned to gather all the project teams that are engaged in Chinese and Chinese WPS in the Special Administrative Region in order to attract enough talents.

He was afraid that no one would be available in small rural areas like Qiantang.

But since the Zhejiang University-Stanford commissioned exchange student project in the past few years and Tiankun’s original outsourcing studio already has a foundation in Qiantang, and centralized office is indeed more conducive to management and growth and progress.

"Then let's do it like this, Qiantang is Qiantang. I originally tend to be in the special zone and have many talents. However, if you put out Tiankun's signboard and do more job advertisements, you should attract people from universities and research institutes in Beijing."

Gu Ao pondered himself, which was considered as a decision to approve of this arrangement.

After hearing this, his subordinates felt that Gu Ao was overly worried, and they all smiled and flattered: "Although the Special Administrative Region is attractive, the current software-related industries in China are not as good as our Tiankun. Where is Tiankun going to be? Of course, the talents will come from. Those colleagues in Beijing cannot attract people at all."

86, 87 In the past two years, the domestic software-related industry has really started.

There are many companies that do practical things, such as Tsinghua Electronic Technology and Tsinghua Research Corporation (later Tsinghua Unigroup) that will be established two years later. They still want to make hardware, chips, or at least embedded systems.

Of course, there are many businesses such as "Chinese, installing computers, and providing repairs and repairs after import of foreign computer brands".

For example, the later marketing master Fang Zheng of the Ministry of Justice, and the inconvenient evaluation of Lenovo all emerged in the past two years. To be honest, the three forces in the Tsinghua and Peking University and the Central Committee of the Qing Dynasty are relatively strong.

And because of the emergence of industrial clusters, Beijing City will officially develop Zhongguancun in 1987 as a centralized development zone for the software technology industry.

So after 1987, domestic software and computer talents will have a significant agglomeration effect compared to the budding period of the previous two years. If you want to do broker business, there is no way. You must gather in Zhongguancun and help foreign computers to build domestically. It doesn’t matter if you want to do something else and work hard on your own, then you will go south to the Special Administrative Region.

At that time, other cities in China had no computer and software industry atmosphere at all, and they were not even able to do anything in Hujiang. At that time, there was no Pudong development, and there was no Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park.

Gu Ao originally respected this historical trend and did not want to change anything.

But his subordinates seemed to be too blindly confident because they didn't know history.

Then let it go and leave it to the market to test the results. Anyway, Gu Ao has a lot of money, and even if he makes a small mistake in layout, he can afford it.

...

After finishing the inspection and meeting at Hanle Electronics and giving comprehensive instructions on subsequent development, Gu Ao asked his secretary to bring some samples of learning machines and take them back.

Before leaving, Gu Ao took care of Shi Yuzhu: in the past few months, he paid attention to timely reporting the market feedback data and copied it directly to him.

According to the company's original management level, Shi Yuzhu is not qualified to report directly to Gu Ao, and he should report to Shurhof. Gu Ao's arrangement is also because he attaches great importance to the performance of Tiankun Learning Machine's mainland market.

After all this, Gu Ao drove back to Xiangjiang from the Special Administrative Region.

ps: The above is 3,000 words, and the following answers is a technical detail that readers questioned a lot yesterday.

Some readers say that "Chinese characters use 16*16 in total 256 pixels to store their glyph information, so the glyph of a character needs 16 bytes" (usually speaking, 1 byte letter, 2 bytes of Chinese characters refer to "reference", not the glyph itself)

This view is not wrong now, because there are many fonts now and the storage space is not valuable, so you can do this. And now you can bring a word font column and we can see "Song style, imitation Song style, bold style, elegant black style, young circle"... Hundreds of characters, artistic beauty, and brush tip processing are different. Therefore, it is cost-effective to have the overall pixel point of each character.

However, this could not be done from the 1970s to the early 1990s. The storage space was very valuable at that time, so the efficiency had to be higher. At that time, there was only one type of Song-style font.

Starting from Wang Xuan, Chinese scientists have thought of a route: not storing the pixel dot matrix of each Chinese character, but storing the pixel dot matrix of all strokes that Chinese characters need to use.

Because the total number of strokes is definitely at least dozens of times less than the total number of commonly used Chinese characters, and a single stroke has a maximum of dozens of pixels, without using 256 points, which also saves space.

Strokes are not only horizontal, vertical, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, through the penultimate, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, through the penultimate, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, through the penultimate, horizontal, and horizontal, also through the strokes. However, the shapes of these two strokes are different, and they must be stored separately in the font library at that time. There are three horizontal strokes in the character "Gu", but the length of horizontal strokes is different, which corresponds to several types of codes. In this way, there are dozens or hundreds of strokes in Chinese characters.

Then when storing each character, you first take a storage bit to store the word with a few strokes. Then, each byte can record the starting pixel point of the two strokes and the stroke shape of the stroke call in this stroke. In this way, it saves several times more space than storing 256 pixel points per character. (Later, in the early Chinese input method, the "Wubi typing" input method was invented, which actually followed this idea, because at that time, every Chinese character had a stroke call relationship that could be retrieved. In the font library, Chinese characters not only had corresponding pinyin, but also had corresponding stroke library. It is estimated that after 1990, they had never used Wubi typing in the future).

For example, a word "Gu" has 10 strokes, and the overall pixel storage is 256 bits. Now, the "stroke reference method" is used. The first bit represents the "start point of the stroke", and the second bit represents the "long"

(In fact, regarding the deeds that started with Wang Xuan, I remember that there are detailed records in the high school Chinese extracurricular reading book of People's Education, and even the technical details displayed in the early Chinese scheduling are mentioned. The article is called "Say goodbye to lead and fire, welcome to light and electricity". This article has its origins and is reproduced from the Xinhua Daily that year.

When Wang Xuan won the National Science and Technology Award, he was a great man of the same level as Yuan Longping. Now, readers born in the 1990s and 2000s don’t know this person, and I actually feel very sorry.

Of course, the Chinese language documents may be more official, not as easy to understand as I said. So, I shamelessly think that I am not a waste. After all, it is also a skill to convey difficult things in a simple way.)
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