After the book signing, Li Jianhui suddenly disappeared. Reporters from major media outlets in Hong Kong visited his new home and even Tiu Keng Ling many times but did not find Li Jianhui.
This disappointed the citizens and the media who wanted to watch the excitement. Li Jianhui, who had won a good start, did not come forward to stomp on Gu Long and Liang Yusheng. There was no confrontation between the several parties, and the news gradually faded away.
These reporters did not know that on the afternoon of the book signing, Li Jianhui and Chen Xinyi flew to Tokyo accompanied by two bodyguards.
Writing novels was just a way for him to accumulate starting funds. Now that he had enough funds, he didn't care much about this aspect in his heart. Huihong Game Company was the focus of his development.
After three days, Li Jianhui finally made an appointment with Toru Iwatani, the company leader he had in mind.
Although this person is slightly less famous in the RB game world than Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto, he is equally talented and has extremely high talent in management.
The glorious era of arcades was coming. At this time, Toru Iwatani had just graduated from college. He was just an intern who had just joined Namco Dream Company, not even a regular employee.
Hearing the invitation from the general manager of a game company, Toru Iwatani, who had just entered society, was very excited.
After getting off work in the afternoon, I deliberately tidied up my image before heading to the agreed-upon restaurant.
But after meeting the real owner, Toru Iwatani's excited heart instantly turned cold.
Even if the game company is located in the game development desert of Xiangjiang, the boss of the company is just a young man who has just turned 16 years old.
He has no confidence in this company, and he is even less willing to waste his youth in this company.
Li Jianhui was naturally aware of his shortcomings. Seeing Toru Iwatani's expression, he said with a smile: "I know that Huihong Game Company cannot be compared with Namco Dream Company now, but I believe that in one year, Huihong Game Company will become
One of the world's leading game development companies."
As the translator hired by Li Jianhui, Zhou Jiayi repeated these words in Japanese so that Toru Iwatani could understand what Li Jianhui meant.
If he was just disappointed before, then now he has no intention of joining this company at all.
In his opinion, Li Jianhui was too arrogant. He felt that this man must be a kid from a wealthy family in Hong Kong. He established this company just as a temporary interest and did not understand the game industry at all.
"Mr. Li, thank you very much for your interest in me. It's just that it's hard to leave my hometown, and I have no plans to leave Namco Games."
Listening to Zhou Jiayi's translation, Li Jianhui sighed in his heart that he really had no destiny to be the protagonist. In his previous novels, as soon as the protagonist appeared, all the elites immediately came to submit the plot, which did not happen in his case.
In the past three days, he has also been recruiting game development talents at RB, recruiting more than ten people one after another, without any mistakes.
Toru Iwatani and Shigeru Miyamoto are two big guys who are not yet taken seriously by Namco and Nintendo. He only made an appointment with Toru Iwatani, but Shigeru Miyamoto directly rejected his invitation.
In order to win Toru Iwatani into his company, Li Jianhui used his trump card for coming this time, which was Pac-Man, one of Toru Iwatani's classic works in his previous life.
After explaining the general framework of the game, Li Jianhui smiled and asked Toru Iwatani: "If you were to preside over the development of this game, would it be possible to make it? Do you think this game would be loved by the majority of game fans?"
Toru Iwatani was still in shock, so much so that he didn't understand Zhou Jiayi's translation clearly the first time.
He didn't expect that the sixteen-year-old boy in front of him was actually a genius in game development. Although this game had not yet been developed, he somehow felt that this game would be successful.
At this time, he felt that Li Jianhui's becoming a world-renowned game company a year ago was not an arrogance. With this game and this genius at the helm, Atari could rival Namco and catch up with Sega. It was not a fantasy.
After Zhou Jiayi translated again, Toru Iwatani said with some surprise: "Mr. Li, the general structure of this game is already available. Anyone who has a basic understanding of game development can make it. There will be no problem with this game under your leadership.
I am just a little person who has just stepped out of society, why are you willing to give me this opportunity to become famous?"
Iwatani Toru has some confusion in his heart. Li Jianhui has been living in Xiangjiang. Even if he comes to RB to recruit people at this time, they should be famous seniors. At the very least, they should be deputy minister-level figures in the game development department.
He believes that with this game framework, many seniors will be willing to join Huihong Game Company.
However, Li Jianhui did not find the backbones and middle-level managers of major game companies, but chose to hand over this game to an unknown person like him to host it. This is really not in line with common sense.
He is not Li Jianhui, nor does he come from a later generation. Naturally, he does not know how famous and influential he will be in the gaming industry in the future, so he cannot understand that Li Jianhui left many big names to come to him instead of looking for him.
"Mr. Toru Iwatani, you can regard this as guidance from God. Although you are currently unknown, in many years you will be one of the legends in the gaming industry. Huihong Game Company needs elites like you.
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Regarding Li Jianhui's response, Zhou Jiayi on the side complained internally because he didn't believe this explanation.
Toru Iwatani, on the other hand, has some belief. In his opinion, other than this, there is really no explanation for Li Jianhui's invitation to join Brilliant Game Company, not only to serve as the company's development manager, but also to preside over the development of the Pac-Man game.
Faced with the temptation of fame and fortune, and the fact that Li Jianhui offered him a salary that was much higher than Namco Dreams' salary, Toru Iwatani finally chose to agree to go to Hong Kong and join Huihong Game Company.
Li Jianhui was very happy to receive this response. With this person, Huihong Game Company will not have any problems in its initial development.
As for Toru Iwatani not being able to officially join the company until September 1st, Li Jianhui doesn't care. Anyway, the Xiangjiang office area has not yet been renovated.
As for Toru Iwatani going back on his word, Li Jianhui is not too worried. First, both parties will sign a confidentiality agreement regarding the Pac-Man game framework.
Secondly, Li Jianhui has a lot of classic games in his mind, and using Toru Iwatani’s classic games to test out Toru Iwatani is worth it even if he throws away this game.
Now that Toru Iwatani's character is questionable, Huihong Game Company will not suffer much loss. This time is a good opportunity to test his character and be able to reuse him in the future.
After Toru Iwatani left, Li Jianhui said to Zhou Jiayi on the side: "Ms. Zhou, tomorrow morning, Xinyi and I will return to Xiangjiang. I wonder if you are willing to join Huihong Game Company?"
Because there are many RB employees in the company's development department, it is necessary for Li Jianhui to equip the company with talents who can understand both Cantonese and Japanese.
Moreover, he will often deal with RB companies in the future, and Li Jianhui also needs such talents. Zhou Jiayi's translation work these days makes him quite satisfied, and he also hopes that this talent can join Huihong Game Company.