As soon as Zhu Youxing walked out of the office, he saw several employees from the game development team arguing fiercely.
"President, I'm sorry, we didn't mean to disturb you." An employee said slightly nervously.
"First, let's talk about what happened and why there was a quarrel?"
"Well...we may have run into some trouble."
"Let's talk about it in detail."
"The composer we hired some time ago... ran away."
Zhu Youxing was stunned: "Run away?"
The employee nodded: "Well, he literally ran away..."
"what happened?"
"Because he felt that his work was insulted, but we didn't disrespect him at all. We just hoped that he could learn some assembly language, which would help him to score music in the game, but after he learned it for a while, he
He thought it was humiliating him and resigned."
Matsuhashi Minoru, who was in charge of human resources management next to these employees, waited until the others finished speaking before she said, "President, it's not just one composer who wants to leave, but three or four we just invited.
All the composers want to leave."
Zhu Youxing thought for a moment and then realized something immediately. He said: "Is it also because of programming and composing?"
"Yes, they have never written music in a game console before. At first they just thought they just need to find a way to create music and our game console can play it, but then they discovered that they need to learn something before composing music.
programming language, so they all backed away.”
Zhu Youxing shook his head: "It was my negligence. I didn't consider this kind of thing. How many composers want to leave now?"
Matsuhashi replied: "We have hired a total of five composers now, one for each game development team, but now except for the one from the fifth game development team, everyone else wants to leave."
The one from the Fifth Game Development Team... By the way, he happened to be the one recommended by Minoru Matsuhashi, that somewhat downtrodden composer.
I'm afraid that even if this person really wants to leave, at least here it can give him the opportunity to make money by composing music. In other places, he can only work odd jobs to make ends meet.
The other composers themselves were not short of money, but they came to try the waters because they had given them quite a lot, and because they were curious about the new industry.
Now it seems normal for these people to choose to leave after encountering difficulties.
In the early game production of Famicom, games were produced using a programming language called assembly language, which is considered a very early programming language.
If you want to create music on the Famicom, that is, the iconic 8-bit music, it is not just a matter of adding sheet music.
You have to write code according to the thinking of a programmer and treat the code as music score so that the machine can recognize these things.
The kind of music scores in human society cannot be recognized by Famicom machines at all.
In SFC game consoles, the performance has made a qualitative leap, and the sound effects have also soared. Music sounds much more pleasant and pleasant than 8-bit music.
But in a 16-bit chip, you still need to use assembly language to produce music.
Using assembly language to produce music on a 16-bit host is a little more complicated than on a NES, after all, the music effect has been greatly improved.
These are some inherent flaws of this chip. It is not impossible to improve them, but it is very difficult and requires a huge investment in research and development to develop a machine that can assist in the production of music.
In the previous SFC era, Nintendo did indeed develop a device that could quickly produce game music.
But it was unclear how much the research cost for that thing. Zhu Youxing only knew that it was very expensive.
Only large game companies such as Cardboard, Konami, and EA can afford it.
It is very uneconomical for smaller game companies and studios to buy this.
Therefore, Zhuyouxing did not consider this matter at first, thinking that 16-bit game consoles were also a transition. It is estimated that a game console with better performance will be released again in three to four years at the latest, and in one or two years at the fastest.
Too much money needs to be invested in this.
But now we are in trouble.
Those composers didn't want to learn assembly language at all.
In their eyes, programming language is like a bible. They are composers, not mathematicians. If they have the time to learn assembly language, they don't know how much music they can create. Why waste time here?
Composers are very important. In 16-bit game consoles, the improvement in picture and sound quality is the most significant.
It's okay for him to help write the main music for some games, such as the Crystal Overture, but he can't even do some background music in the game himself? How can he be busy then?
After the birth of 16-bit game consoles, the game industry has begun to have a clear division of labor.
Those who make music specialize in making music, those who make animations make animations, and those who write programs specialize in writing programs.
It seems that I am still moving too fast. I have accelerated the development of video games, leaving the world without much stable development period. This may be some kind of hidden danger, and I need to be more vigilant.
"Is there only one person who wants to leave now? Or do the other three want to leave now?" Zhu Youxing asked.
"The other three all have this idea. No one started it before. Now someone wants to leave. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the other three to stay. But president, I can assure you that my friend's brother will never leave easily."
leave."
Zhu Youxing nodded: "I understand, where are those three people now? Call them together, and I will talk to them personally. By the way, the one who is about to leave should also call as much as possible. If you really don't want to come, just forget it.
"
Zhu Youxing planned to try it himself to see if he could save her.
Now these four composers are the most suitable candidates determined after several screenings.
Their respective genres are suitable for video games. If they all leave, it will really be a loss. Zhu Yuxing still plans to try his best to save it.
"Then I'll call them over right now."
Everyone left, and Zhu Youxing walked delicately to the room where temporary meetings were usually held.
Speaking of which, this building seems a bit small now.
As the company expanded, the number of employees under his command also reached close to 200.
More than half of them are developers, and the others are marketing, public relations, legal, finance, etc.
The customer service staff are outsourced and do not occupy the company's space. Otherwise, the current three-story office building will definitely not be enough.
It seems that after some time, I can seriously consider finding a new office location.
While Zhu Youxing was thinking, several people walked in one after another.