Compared with software development, the development cost of hardware is huge. Therefore, in a short period of time, the game company founded by Li Zetian is purely for game software.
Li Zetian worked in Atari for a period of time, and has been paying attention to the development of Atari since then.
In 1973, Atari acquired the Smart Tank program, which was still being designed by Qinglan Engineering, to develop the next-generation video game system, and used to run on "Stella". And Stella is Atari's internal test machine, which belongs to the second generation of home game consoles under development! It specifically integrates an original TV transfer (TIA) processing chip, random access memory (RAM) and input/output (I/O) chips. Standard CMOS and logic cache ICs are used to save costs, bringing the price down to a more reasonable level.
Of course, these are just what Li Zetian knows, and what he doesn't know is even more powerful.
In August 1976, when Stella was not ready for the public beta, Fairchild Semiconductor invented an exclusive CPU data system and a TV entertainment system. Since then, the market has been flooded with a large number of similar products. Atari knew it needed to release it as soon as possible, but struggled with not having enough money to speed up development. In 1976, Nolan Bushnell sold the company to Warner Bros. for $28 million in order to ensure that Stella could be released as soon as possible.
By the time of its official launch in 1977, Atari's second-generation home console had cost $100 million to develop. After that, Atari quickly occupied the US and even the global market with this game console, becoming a well-deserved overlord in the game industry! ! !
Li Zetian has now sold Apple without the money to develop a home game console.
What he can do now is to develop Apple-ll games first, which can then be ported to other personal computers and earn some money to accumulate strength.
Of course, Li Zetian has a lot of ideas in his heart. If he was asked to lead the team to develop home game consoles, the development amount would definitely be far less than 100 million US dollars.
A week later, Li Zetian registered a subsidiary overseas in the name of Umbrella Company - Sun Bird Company, referred to as Sun Bird Company.
The reason why it was named "Sun God Bird Company" is because Li Zetian once saw a piece of gold foil at the SCCD Jinsha site, that is, the "Sun God Bird" gold ornament. Li Zetian was very impressed with it, and it was very beautiful to use it as the company's LOGO!
The whole gold ornament is in the shape of a ring, with a complex hollow pattern on the gold ornament, which is divided into inner and outer layers. Four identical birds flying counterclockwise. The four birds meet front and rear, flying in the same direction, which is opposite to the rotation direction of the inner vortex. Analysis of its composition shows that its gold content is as high as 94.2%. The gold ornament may be an artifact used by ancient Shu people for sacrifice. It is now in the Jinsha Site Museum in CD City, SC Province.
The company's registered capital is 250,000 US dollars. Originally, Li Zetian planned to buy a house and a car for himself, but now he has contributed all to the Sunbird Company! In the future, I may even inject capital into it!
At present, the company is not large, there is only one person, that is Li Zetian himself.
First game development project: Tetris.
No, it should be called "China Box"! ! !
How can we continue to call it "Tetris" developed by the Chinese
So, the name "China Cube" was so happily decided by Li Zetian!
"Chinese Cube" is very easy to develop. It is generally a work of programming rookies, and the code is only more than 100 lines. Li Zetian wrote the program in three steps. After finishing, he hurried to the patent office to apply for a patent!
After leaving the Patent Office, Li Zetian went to a newspaper to place a job advertisement.
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Hiring 3 Artists!
Hiring 10 Game Program Development Engineers!
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Li Zetian is not good at art.
There is a lot of code for large-scale games, and Li Zetian doesn't have so much time to write it alone, and assigns it to others.
Li Zetian is responsible for the overall design and management of the game project.
There is no doubt that Li Zetian is going to develop a large-scale computer game when he looks at this recruiting posture! ! !
Small games such as "China Cube", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid" can be handled by Li Zetian alone!
It is no exaggeration to say that Li Zetian alone dominates half of the sky in the game world! ! !
Since Sunbird is a start-up company, the salary is not high, and employees from other companies will not jump in.
So Li Zetian can only recruit fresh graduates!
However, although they have just walked out of the school, their skills and experience are no match for the old employees of other companies, but there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals. Under the leadership of Li Zetian, all of them will grow up quickly! In addition, what Li Zetian values most is that they are full of vigor and vigor, which is what game developers should have the most!
After 10 days, Sunbird had a total of 14 employees, including Li Zetian. The company's office is located near Apple and Microsoft, which is convenient for Li Zetian to manage the three companies!
Before recruiting everyone into the company, Li Zetian stayed up all night and worked overtime. He had written the system framework and rules of "China Cube", "Pac-Man", "Donkey Kong" and "Super Arkanoid", and applied for patent. Of course, the game is very simple, the graphics are rough, and they only have the first level.
Li Zetian intends to let the artists polish or improve it, and let the game program development engineers carry out the subsequent level development of the game! After the completion of these four games, everyone's level will be improved, and cooperation will be more tacit. At this time, we will make a big move and develop a large-scale role-playing game!
If large-scale games were developed from the beginning, Li Zetian was worried that they would not be able to do it, so he let them practice these four games first.
Newbies, always have to be trained!
Of course, no company boss can come up with these four super popular games for employees to practice. In today's world, there is no one except Li Zetian! ! !
"Sunbird is short of everything, just good projects!!!"
"Work at Sunbird and you'll be successful!!!"
"Today you can only be an ordinary programmer at Sunbird, and tomorrow you will be the project manager of another company!!!"
Li Zetian said this to every employee who came in.
Of course, he does not encourage job-hopping, and after coming to Sunbird, no one will want to change jobs, comfortable working environment, no pressure, just a little less salary, but the company has an equity incentive mechanism, stay in the company and work hard, The more profitable the company is, the more you earn. Li Zetian's brain is filled with countless classic games, which will bring huge wealth to the Sunbird Company. The person who wants to change jobs is S.B. Presumably in the future, they will understand that they have a few pounds and a few taels, and they are just an ordinary code farmer. The core figure of the company is Li Zetian.
Apple and Sunbird are both industries under the name of Li Zetian, and there is no problem with the cooperation between the two companies.
Li Zetian can predict that when the Apple-ll is released, it will be more shocking and popular than the previous life, and the sales volume will increase sharply. Maybe the CEO of IBM will be shocked and sleepless at night!
At the same time, I'm afraid the CEO of Atari can't sit still...
Think about it, the more advanced Apple-ll than the previous life, the more powerful Excel spreadsheet office software, and the four classic games provided by the Sunbird Company, Apple-ll is no longer popular! ! !
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