The so-called formula book is a set of game settings. It is a series of detailed introductions to the world view, characters, creatures, equipment, etc. in the game that assist the game itself. It is the favorite of die-hard fans and sophisticated fans.
Takeyusei originally wanted to talk about the setting collection directly, but using the formula book of the manga industry to express it would make it clearer for Daigo Ikeda.
Ikeda Daigo was surprised.
"Jiuyou-kun, you said you still need help in compiling the formula book? This... this is no longer just a promotional painting, right?"
Zhu Yuxing nodded: "Yes, what I want to do is a video game, and the settings of video games will even surpass ordinary comics, so I need a long-term partner, and it is best to have a certain reputation."
Assisting in the preparation of formula books is no longer a small project for a cartoonist.
It's just that no one has ever asked a cartoonist to do this kind of thing before.
No, not at all.
Even today's movies do not have such a formula book. At most, they are just some detailed records of the director's own essays. No one would go out of their way to find an outsider to produce a formula book.
"That Zhuyou-kun, I want to ask, what exactly is the video game you are talking about?"
"This is a brand new form of entertainment. I won't be able to explain it to you in a short time. If you want to know more, I will give you an address. If you tell the boss there that I introduced you, he will tell you on the spot.
Show what video games are all about.”
Brand new entertainment? Daigo Ikeda pondered.
"Let's do this. I'll give you two conditions to choose from. One of the conditions is that I will hire a manga teacher for a year with a monthly salary of 500,000 yen. We can continue to talk after one year."
"The second condition is that I give you a basic salary of 180,000 yuan a month, but the cartoonist can get 5% of the future share of the entire game series."
If it were Zhu Yuxing, he would definitely choose the second one because he could foresee how huge the development of the game would be in the future.
And if possible, Zhu Youxing also hopes that the other party can choose this, because this will completely bind a cartoonist, and he will not have to worry about problems for at least twenty or thirty years.
However, this was tantamount to giving people an invisible blank check, so Zhu Youxing gave him the first choice.
If you are willing to cooperate with me in the first year, then you can seriously consider the issue of sharing in the second year, but you will earn less in the first year.
Five hundred thousand yen.
Ikeda Daigo was a little surprised.
He doesn't understand what a video game is yet, but he can roughly understand that it will be a very complicated thing.
In today's Japan, if an average college student can find a job after graduation, 180,000 yen is enough.
Under normal circumstances, 300,000 yen is the average income of a company's regular employees after working for four or five years with relatively positive benefits.
This income has barely fluctuated in Japan for more than 20 years since the bubble burst.
This is one of the reasons why many people call it the lost twenty or thirty years.
As for Takeyusei, he was willing to offer a salary of 500,000 yen from the beginning. This level was enough to make a down-and-out cartoonist excited.
By the way, the down-and-out cartoonist is still somewhat famous...
Daigo Ikeda instantly remembered Teacher Tsuchiya who had been chatting with the editor before.
The first work debuted at the peak and then plummeted.
Although he is still not able to make ends meet, his life has gradually become a little worse. Some famous cartoonists were quite generous at the beginning, and some even became heavily in debt after the bubble burst, and were eventually crushed.
Teacher Tsuchiya was lucky. Just before the bubble burst, the quality of his comics was not very high. He concentrated on how to draw good comics and didn't spend much money.
In other words, this can be considered another kind of luck.
If I can help him find this job, at least for a short time he won't have to worry about starving to death without income from comics.
After settling down for a while, if Teacher Tsuchiya makes a comeback, perhaps his grades will skyrocket again.
Thinking of this, Ikeda Daigo immediately said: "If it is this salary, then I have nothing to say. I don't think anyone will refuse this kind of remuneration."
If a stranger suddenly said what he just said to him, he would probably think him a liar or a lunatic.
However, this is Teacher Masako's child. Just relying on Teacher Masako's reputation, it is absolutely impossible for his child to lie to others over such a trivial matter.
So, he was already preparing to introduce Teacher Tugu to Zhu Youxing.
"Sansuke Tsuchiya, Takeyu-kun, have you heard of this teacher? He has a relatively famous comic book."
Zhu Youxing shook his head.
He doesn't know much about many celebrities in this world.
This is equivalent to a parallel world in his previous life. Many celebrities are different. Moreover, after traveling here, he devoted most of his time to making games and had no time to study the celebrities in this world.
That's why he thought about asking his mother to help find a suitable candidate.
"I think this teacher Tugu should be in line with your standards and has a certain reputation, but... the quality of his works in recent years has not been very good, so his popularity has gradually declined."
Zhu Youxing understood immediately.
There are also many cartoonists who reached their peak right after their debut in previous lives.
This kind of cartoonist is often not good at drawing, but mostly has problems with the writing of the story.
Comics sometimes really require talent.
There are some crazy cartoonists who can attract people with their neurotic stories, and their drawing skills don’t necessarily need to be very good.
However, some cartoonists work hard to study the plot, but in the end they can only stop at the entry-level level, which is disappointing. In the end, they can only work hard to improve their drawing skills, but it is difficult to stop the decline.
"I will give you Mr. Tugu's contact information... No, I will contact him now, or go to your place."
Daigo Ikeda was unwilling to give up such an opportunity to make money easily.
He must win over Mr. Tsuchiya.
After all, Teacher Tsuchiya was trained by him, and he didn't want Teacher Tsuchiya to completely fail.
"Don't be so polite. Let's meet at the magazine. It will be good for both parties. Otherwise, it will appear that I disrespect the teacher too much."
"Okay, okay, then I will contact Teacher Tugu now."
Takeyusei agreed to meet at the magazine, which was what Daigo Ikeda wanted to see most.
Because he also wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of person Zhu Youxing was.
Judging from Masako's teacher's age, I'm afraid Takeyusei will be very young.
It sounds amazing to start a company at such a young age and seem to be creating a brand new entertainment industry.
And he also wanted to see what the so-called formula book contained.