Chapter 025: The Circus Game Project Launches

  Yang Yun was slightly nervous.

  In the past, every meeting was a scolding session. The editor-in-chief of that damned gaming magazine would curse at him, and as soon as he attended a meeting, he'd be singled out for criticism. He's always looked down, having a shadow over meetings.

  But now he's the boss, his mood is completely different. After taking a few deep breaths, Yang Yun slowly adjusted himself.

  "Let me introduce myself, my name is Yang Yun, and from now on you can call me Director Yang, Engineer Yang, or simply Yang, but whatever you do, don't call me Boss Yang, I'm not the boss of a sheep-selling business..."

  "Hehe......" The employees all started laughing softly, at least this boss didn't seem so serious.

  Yang Yun said: "As your boss, uh, as your big boss, buying this five-story small building, working hard to invite experts from Japan, running to various schools to recruit with a humble attitude, I am absolutely not burning money for nothing. I only have one goal, which is to find the most suitable team in China for me, gather a group of young people with the most passion, and create the most classic and fun games in the world!"

  As expected, young people can't withstand the passionate drumming, while older engineers who have worked for several years and Japanese experts are calm.

  Yang Yun smiled and nodded at Fang Huimin, taking out a small learning machine and pointing to the game cartridge: "If I say that all four games were made by me, would you believe it?"

  Not long after the Little King learning machine went off the production line, a complete host and learning card set were produced. In addition, four classic games were stripped from the learning cards and integrated together as a gift for buying a learning machine with a game card.

  Sega China was very efficient and got the first batch of goods in Shenzhen, rushing to deliver them to Beijing. Nagano also brought a set for Yang Yun.

  What is the main business of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, everyone is very clear, but Xiaobao's four games are all from Yang Yun's hands, which really stunned the employees, and even two Japanese experts are no exception.

  They knew that they were struggling in Japan because they didn't have a hit game to show for it, and if any of these four games, just one, had made it into Nintendo or Sega's quality control system, they would have been revived.

  Very satisfied with the shocking effect, Yang Yun continued: "Next, I will arrange specific matters. The company has just started and is relatively small, with only two departments. R&D department, I will come up with a game planning scheme as soon as possible, and then you will write the code to implement my requirements. Sales department, Shaoyun, there's not much for you to do for now, you used to be a journalist, so you know people from all walks of life, just keep in touch with them, who knows when we might need them in the future."

  Jiang Shaoyun mustered up his courage and asked: "Don't I need to go run the market?"

  Yang Yun took out a contract and handed it to Fang Huimin, smiling and saying: "Read it carefully."

  "China Dragon Entertainment Game Company and Japan Sega Corporation's agreement contract regarding the wholesale of game cartridges..."

  Plop...

  No way!

  Two Japanese experts stood up quickly in surprise after hearing the translation and accidentally fell to the ground.

  And the rest of the Chinese people, after careful distinction, finally understood that the company did not lack sales channels, someone was in charge of sales!

  "Everyone, don't be surprised. Sega Corporation is the world's second-largest game manufacturer, and we have already established a strategic partnership with them. So you don't need to worry about whether the company will lose money or make money, or what the future holds. These are not for you to consider. You just need to follow my orders and do your best to develop various games. When the time comes, raises can happen! Welfare housing can happen! Year-end bonuses can happen! And girls... cough, if you work hard, you can have them too! Longteng products must be of high quality!"

  “……”

  A moment of silence, everyone stared at Yang Yun like a monster, these popular phrases twenty years later had no effect.

  Yang Yun lost interest and waved his hand: "Dismissed!"

  The most boring CEO and employee meeting in the history of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, the first formal meeting with great historical significance, ended like this...

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  A summer without air conditioning is unbearable, Yang Yun fanned herself with a large fan, sipping on the iced sour plum tea she bought from Xinfang Zhai, watching Inoue Takeo and Matsumoto Yoshino play games, secretly admiring that the Japanese are indeed very hardworking, in order to start research work as soon as possible and leave a good impression on Yang Yun, the two voluntarily worked overtime for free.

  Two Japanese people were playing Super Mario, while playing, they muttered to themselves, after a while, they started playing something else, occasionally jotting down something in a small notebook by their side.

  Yang Yun's task for them was to build the game framework of the horizontal scrolling roller as soon as possible, and set it up as a template for Super Mario, which can be used in its entirety.

  Although Inoue Osamu is a seasoned architect for side-scrolling games in Japan, he has to start from scratch now, and Yang Yun's requirements are only general directions. The code that was remembered in his mind needs to be re-localized, and it will take some time before it can be fully accepted by Longteng Company.

  Slap! Yang Yun slapped a mosquito to death, her palm stained with blood, feeling somewhat annoyed.

  It's no fun at all until tonight!

  Back in those days, there was no TV, no computer, no internet, no starting point, no KTV, no bars, and only a few handle games that were so boring you'd get sick of playing them!

  Yang Yun stood up decisively and went out for a stroll.

  "Hurry up! The Micyun Acrobatic Troupe's big tent has arrived! It's right behind the zoo!"

  "Really! I heard they're getting famous!"

  A group of middle-aged women quickly walked towards the Beijing Zoo, with groups of children occasionally popping out from beside them, laughing and shouting, like a flock of sheep being let loose, all excitedly chattering about going to watch the circus performance.

  Yang Yun is very sensitive to the word "circus", and Nintendo FC's circus game was in his first batch of production plans, but he felt that it was a bit out of hand, although it was also a horizontal scrolling game, at least the playability was much worse than Tank War, not to mention Greedy Snake and Tetris.

  He was hesitant about which game to make, but today just happened to coincide, so let's take a look first. If the Misty Cloud Circus is powerful, then the first game of Longteng Games will be this circus!

  Folk acrobatic troupe, driving a large canvas car, with people and animals, wandering around the country, running singles and walking holes.

  "Want to see lions and tigers performing together? Want to see dogs and bears carrying a sedan chair? Want to see aerialists flying high in the air? Tonight at 8 o'clock sharp, Jianmao Hutong, the Lion King Circus will start on time!"

  A big-voiced man with a strong Anhui accent shouted loudly at the intersection of Ten Crossroads.

  Not far away, a large tent in the shape of a grain warehouse with a pointed roof has been set up on an empty lot. Many citizens are queuing at the entrance to buy tickets. Elderly women and children of all ages, from toddlers to older kids, are excited beyond control.

  "Adults 2 yuan, children 1 yuan! Admission by ticket!"

  Yang Yun stood in the crowd, took out money to buy a ticket, entered the greenhouse, and casually found a bench to sit down.

  Listening to the music blasting from the loudspeakers, watching adults with children scrambling for the best spots, the air thick with the smell of animal dung, a tiger and lion locked in cages at one corner of the stage, children filled with curiosity yet afraid to get close, Yang Yun let out a deep sigh.

  Maybe at the age of eight or ten, Yang Yun followed his uncle to see a folk acrobatic troupe in his city for the first time. At that time, he always thought that animals were human's best friends and stubbornly believed that he could also command those animals, and was the only person in the world who could communicate with tigers, lions and little monkeys.

  This scene is so similar to the present, the scene in front of him awakened the memories that had been sleeping deep in Yang Yun's brain. He hadn't seen his childhood circus for over twenty years, what a feeling of nostalgia.

  The performance was not brilliant, at least in Yang Yun's eyes it seemed very ordinary. He had seen many bigger scenes than this in the future, but it still made all the audience present shout and cheer with excitement.

  Lions and tigers coexist on the same stage, jumping up and down, the beast tamers pointing to one place and hitting another, causing the audience's enthusiasm.

  The silly-looking bear carrying a bridal sedan chair is so ridiculous that it makes everyone burst out laughing.

  The monkey show is even more interesting. The adult monkeys, with their legs as high as those of a human being, wear red and green clothes and ride bicycles in circles.

  In addition, acrobats performed aerial stunts without hands, spinning, flying, trampolining, somersaulting, high-wire cycling, high-wire kicking bowls, and two people swinging in mid-air without any restraints, leaving the audience gasping in shock.

  The performance was a success, before the audience dispersed, the host invited everyone to take pictures with the tiger, letting children sit on the tiger's back, 5 yuan for one photo, and come back in three days to pick up the photos and negatives.

  The brave child sat on the tiger's back by himself, more children were both envious and afraid, most of the audience took pictures, the scene was very noisy, this is where the circus really made money.

  Alright, let's just say it was a childhood dream come true... Yang Yun left the circus, smiled, and decided that the first game software for Dragon Teng would be the circus!

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  "Art team, Matsumoto, Xiang Tian, you two first draw the five groups of acrobatic performances. The first group rides a tiger and jumps through a ring of fire, the second group walks on a steel wire and jumps over a large horse, the third group rides a unicycle, the fourth group rides a horse and jumps on a springboard, and the fifth group does trampoline stunts and swings on a swing. For now, let's just settle on these few items, this is a rough sketch I drew by hand, you two will perfect it and make it look good. If you don't have a clear impression of the ring of fire, unicycle, or trampoline, tonight I'll take you to watch a real acrobatic performance."

  Everyone burst out laughing and got excited. Yang Yun suddenly clapped his hands: "Forget it, everyone can go! You can bring your family members, whoever wants to go can go!"

  "Too good!"

  "The boss is really nice!"

  Yang Yun continued to assign tasks: "Programming group, Jing Shang, you set up the basic framework for game programming and speed up progress. Guo Qiang, I've seen the software you wrote, ask Mr. Jing for guidance more often, complete the programming design of the first scroll as soon as possible, I want to see results quickly."

  Inoue nodded, Zhang Guoqiang rubbed his fists and palms: "No problem!"

  "Also, I've heard that your CNC machine factory in Northeast China has a very powerful single-board computer. The control program is encrypted with a unique technique that even American and Japanese CNC companies can't crack? Can you quickly provide a new algorithm, I don't want the game I just made to be cracked!"

  Fang Jindong is a straightforward person and hastily guaranteed: "Don't worry, Director Yang! I've been doing this line of work before!"

  "Sales department, Shao Yun, you're familiar with Beijing, where can we find a large number of idle talents? Whether it's programming, marketing or management, take me to meet them. We're short-handed now and need to develop the game at the fastest speed!"

  Everyone understands what they need to do now, Yang Yun concluded: "I gave you 3 days, within 3 days, I want to see the simplest test version of the game come out. Since we have such a good platform and such powerful partners, there is no reason to fail! I believe that we will definitely succeed! Come on!"

  "Come on!" The crowd shouted in unison, with high morale.

  Longteng Entertainment's first FC side-scrolling game - Circus Project, officially launched!