Just as all the novelists and novel enthusiasts were gearing up to participate in the Essay Competition, Boss Jia came to Rocket Team Game Company.
After spending a total of 80 million yen on the development of Pokemon, the development of Pokemon was basically complete. All that was left was to wait for Boss Jia to try it out. Then, they could apply to Nintendo for the game to be sold.
"President, please give it a try!" Tajiri carefully handed the development cartridge to Boss Jia and waited for Boss Jia's evaluation.
To be honest, Tajiri was now in awe of Boss Jia. He was even a little afraid of him.
This was because Tajiri knew that the popular Yu-Gi-Oh and Legend of the Three Kingdoms games in Fusang were all under Boss Jia's company. Therefore, he knew that Boss Jia was one of the biggest entrepreneurs in Fusang.
However, these were not enough to scare Tajiri. What Tajiri really respected was Boss Jia's god-like management skills and foresight. Anything that Boss Jia set his eyes on would sell like hotcakes. This made Tajiri feel that Boss Jia was very scary and great.
Now that the development version was complete, if Boss Jia found out that the development version of Pokemon was not fun and received a 'fail' review, Tajiri felt that his game was finished!
Therefore, Tajiri was looking forward to it. He looked at Boss Jia nervously and waited for Boss Jia's evaluation.
"It's pretty much the same as the previous life!" Boss Jia held the GB cartridge and familiarly played with it.
That was because Boss Jia was afraid that his unauthorized changes would cause the originally popular Pokemon to fail in this world.
Therefore, Boss Jia modified the game based on his memory of Pokemon. Therefore, the Pokemon that Boss Jia was playing was almost exactly the same as the original version.
Other than the story background being different, the name of the game's main character was also called Xiao Zhi. Boss Jia wanted to unify the name of the main character in both the anime and the game version.
Including the game's plot and level design, it was exactly the same as the original game. There were no differences.
"No problem! I'm very satisfied! " After two hours of careful play, Boss Jia nodded his head. Tajiri Tomoaki and the others heaved a sigh of relief.
"How's the fixing of the bug?" Boss Jia asked.
"After various tests, the bug is almost fixed." Tajiri quickly said.
Tajiri could not help but feel a little pained as he said this. Compared to other games, Pokemon had a lot of story content and a completely random battle system. The most important thing was that players could communicate with each other online. This caused the programming of Pokemon to be very complicated. The number of bugs was unavoidably high.
In order to fix all these bugs, all the programmers in the factory went through 18 levels of hell. For example, one day, they had to fix seven bugs.
The most tragic thing was that when they found a bug and fixed it, it would cause the entire game to crash. Therefore, they had to rework the game's structure. It took them almost half a month to fix the bug. It was equivalent to redoing the entire game's programming.
At that time, everyone felt that it would be better to die.
However, all their hard work and effort paid off. Although the current Pokemon wasn't at the level where there weren't any bugs, as programmers, they hadn't encountered any bugs after hundreds of weekends of gaming. This was considered a passable game.
It was estimated that when the game was played by tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of players at the same time, it would be possible to find some hidden bugs.
"Then, finally, show me the original art of the Pokemon!" Boss Jia said to Tajiri.
"Okay!" Tajiri gathered all the original art of the Pokemon together with the images from the show and placed it in Boss Jia's hands.
Jia Yapeng examined the Pokemon one by one. In fact, during the week that he stayed here, Boss Jia had already drawn the original art of many of the Pokemon. At the very least, he had built a basic image template.
Therefore, Boss Jia was very familiar with most of the original art of the Pokemon this time. At the same time, they were exactly the same as the Pokemon from his previous life.
Of course, there were also some Pokemon that were changed because of the butterfly wings. Boss Jia directly used a pen to change some of the Pokemon's appearance to that of his previous life.
Boss Jia felt that the current appearance of the Pokemon was more adorable, so he did not make any changes.
Other than these slightly different Pokemon, Tajiri also created more than ten brand new Pokemon that Boss Jia had never seen before. It seemed that the power of the butterfly wings was starting to show.
The first generation of Pet Sprites had a total of 151 Pet Sprites.
Now, the Pokemon First Generation had a total of 165 Pokemon. The number of Pokemon was slightly more than before.
"Well done!" Boss Jia praised again. Tajiri and the others finally heaved a sigh of relief.
"Right, regarding the release version, do you have any plans?" Jia Yapeng asked again.
"President, we actually have an idea about this!" Tajiri Tomoaki said excitedly.
"Oh! What idea? Tell me! "Boss Jia smiled and asked.
"We feel that we don't have to release only one version of Pokemon!" Tajiri swallowed his saliva and said, "The reason for this is because we have designed a total of 165 Pokemon. The game's capacity is a little over the limit. A normal game cartridge would not be able to store so much data."
"Although this problem was solved with the optimization of the main program, and a cartridge can store 165 Pokemon, I was thinking, why do we have to store all the Pokemon in one cartridge?"
"In the game, due to the needs of the plot, there are 67 types of Pokemon that will definitely appear. There are also 98 types of Pokemon that will not appear in the plot and will only exist in the wild maps. There are also some special capture maps!"
"If we divide these 98 Pokemon into two and match them with the 67 types of storyline Pokemon, we will create two different versions of the game cartridge!"
"Although these two game cartridges have 116 types of Pokemon, only 67 types of Pokemon are the same. There are still 49 types of Pokemon that are unique to each version!"
"This way, even though it's just one game, we can sell two different versions. If we want to collect all the Pokemon, we have to buy two different versions. This way, one game can be sold at the price of two copies!" Tajiri said excitedly, "I have already thought about it. We will create two versions. One will be called Pokemon – Red, and the other will be Pokemon – Green. This way, we can make two copies of the game!"
"F * ck, what will come will come!" Hearing Tajiri's words, Boss Jia couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Actually, when Jia Yapeng was playing Pokemon, he didn't understand why the same game would be divided into red and green versions. The two games were basically the same and there wasn't much difference.
Later on, when Jia Yapeng grew up, he understood the businessman's idea. This was to force the players to buy two copies of the game.
However, Boss Jia still had some conscience. He felt that this would be unfair to the players. Therefore, he never brought up the issue of two versions. He wanted the future Pokemon to be more conscientious than in his previous life.
However, Boss Jia didn't expect that what will come will come. Even if he didn't bring up the issue of two versions, Tajiri, the creator of the original game, still came up with it himself.
This made Jia Yapeng, who was previously sighing at the butterfly's wings, sigh at the inertia of the wheel of history.
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