Chapter 115: Flowering in Many Places (Fifth Update)

In the following months of May and June, Zuo Zhen didn't go back to school very much. He stayed in a rental house almost all day to work on the high-definition version of The King of Fighters.

In the early eight-bit era, games on this could be produced in one or two weeks and less than a month.

Anyway, we all have previous production experience. If we summarize and optimize it ourselves, the game will be completed. The amount of code in the game itself is not high.

But the King of Fighters produced this time is already considered a mid-term work of the next generation.

Normal development would require a team of at least fifty people and more than one or two years to develop.

Zuo Zhen and his team worked on it for about three or four months, and finally completed the high-definition full version of The King of Fighters.

When the full version appeared on the computer, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

During May and June, they were not very relaxed and were busy working as if they were commuting to work normally.

But at the same time they also feel quite fulfilled.

And gradually they are beginning to take this job seriously.

Starting around the beginning of this year, the state’s voice to encourage private operations has become louder and louder, and more and more people have begun to try the smuggling business model.

And these college students were not as resistant to Zuo Zhen's mess as they were last year.

A few people are even wondering if this will become their lifelong career.

But this idea will soon be extinguished.

They still think the iron rice bowl is more fragrant.

Just for stability.

But the aggressiveness in the hearts of young people makes them unwilling to remain mediocre.

At least the process of making the game is exciting.

In the next month, what Zuozhen will do is to optimize and adjust his movements.

Yu Mengchen could draw the picture Zuo Zhen wanted, but the actual effect had to be carefully considered.

The first is whether the character's movements are coherent and smooth.

If the character's movements are too stiff, or violate people's perception of the human body structure, players will lose their sense of involvement and the game experience will be greatly reduced.

Zuo Zhen directly asked a few people to follow him in the rental house and constantly put on various fighting postures in the game. After confirming that the people could indeed perform these actions, he made appropriate fine-tuning of the character's action screen.

It was already late June after all this was done. On the day the production was completed, Zuo Zhen called everyone out to celebrate again.

The dance hall has become the place where these students want to go most, and all of them clamor for Zuo Zhen to take them to the dance hall to play.

At the beginning of this year, the country just opened restrictions on dance halls, allowing people to open dance halls and other forms of entertainment to increase people's growing entertainment needs. At this time, Sichuan Province opened dance halls everywhere.

Any boss who has a little bit of money flocks to this industry to dig for gold.

Zuo Zhenna, of course, meets the needs of his employees one by one. This is a day worth celebrating, and it is always necessary to relax a little.

Then these students and Xie Qin danced around all night, making Zuo Zhen a little confused.

Obviously, people in this era have very few entertainment options. Just being able to jump around in the dance hall seems to have endless energy.

Fortunately, I have a young body now. If I were in my thirties, I probably wouldn't be able to hold on anymore.

A group of people worked hard until midnight, and then went back together happily singing songs. Then the next day, Zuozhen boarded a plane to Japan again.

This time he wants to send his complete version of The King of Fighters to Sega.

At the same time, he also plans to go to another arcade manufacturer this time.

The name of this arcade manufacturer is N2K.

Zuo Zhen didn't recognize this manufacturer when he went to Japan last time, mainly because the name had changed. However, after careful investigation later, he suddenly discovered that this was SNK in his previous life.

This is another big guy in the arcade industry, and his status in the arcade field is also quite high.

After arriving in Japan, the first thing Zuo Zhen went to was BEEP magazine. He promised Ozawa Ken to bring him the complete version of the King of Fighters game.

When Kenji Ozawa saw the full version of The King of Fighters, it was like seeing light, and he even almost forgot about Zuo Zhen.

The more he played the eight-bit version of The King of Fighters during this period, the more he felt that he still had more to play.

First of all, there are only ten characters, and the game plot only advances to the melee competition.

The only thing that can keep him enthusiastic later is the battle mode.

But the battle mode is also emasculated, and many things have to be sacrificed for the gameplay. The more Kenji Ozawa plays, the more eager he is to see the full version of The King of Fighters.

Now I finally got the full version of The King of Fighters from Zuo Zhen, and it was also a high-definition full version. You can imagine the joy in my heart.

After delivering the game to Kenji Ozawa, Zuo Zhen rushed to the Sega headquarters and handed over the complete version of the King of Fighters arcade version to Sega, asking them to produce the arcade version of the King of Fighters as soon as possible. He was waiting for the ten King of Fighters arcade machines. Got it.

In the end, Zuo Zhen went to N2K’s headquarters to discuss the licensing of King of Fighters.

It’s the same three hundred thousand, the same ten-year license, plus ten N2K King of Fighters version arcade machines shipped to the country. The other party agreed readily, and they didn’t even look at the gameplay.

Because the game screen that Zuo Zhen brought them was already very surprising to them. It just so happened that they did not have the type of battle game, so it could be considered an expansion of the type.

Anyway, the licensing fee is only 300,000 US dollars, which is really not much.

The biggest cost of an arcade machine is the arcade machine itself. If the game is not fun, just replace it with another one. There is no big problem.

You can't buy it with 300,000 yuan, and you can't buy it at a loss, and you can't buy it by being fooled.

After negotiating all this, Zuo Zhen didn't waste any time and quickly returned to China from Japan.

But before that, Zuo Zhen also investigated the trends on NGS.

Ozawa Kenji told Zuozhen that NGS was conducting various levels of promotions for Zuozhen's games.

They obviously wanted to disgust Zuo Zhen in this way.

Since there is a discount, the share you get is less, but the cost of our cassette is still there, so we can't lose any money.

Usually when this happens, game manufacturers will panic, and most of them won't hold on for long before giving in to NGS.

NGS likes to use this method to knock those disobedient guys.

But when it came to Zuo Zhen, he looked indifferent.

At that time, Zuo Zhen was already prepared for this.

He also thought that NGS would directly destroy the produced cassettes, leaving him unable to make a penny.

But obviously NGS is not willing to bear the cost of those cassettes.

After all, it is all real money, and it would be a pity to waste it.

Zuo Zhen can still get some money from the sales of these cassettes, but NGS does not dare to swallow it, otherwise their company will not even think about doing it.