Chapter 118 A New Journey
Time flies, and three months have passed since that eventful time.
At that time, Su Yun, who had just returned from Taiwan, immediately terminated her contract with her former club Jiahe in a peaceful manner.
Originally, the contract signed by both parties was a clearly-structured profit-sharing contract, and before Su Yun went to Tang City, she had planned a new type of film for Jiahe. Therefore, in the end, Zou Yunhua still remembered their old friendship, and not only did he not collect the penalty from Su Yun, but he also generously transferred all the non-Hong Kong local broadcasting rights of "The Perfect Match" and other Su Yun-related films to her.
Apart from the locally produced "The Perfect Match", the copyrights of Su Yun's other related films are respectively managed by Jiahe and Warner. Now that Taiwan is completely banned from entering, the Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian markets will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.
The others that have already been released and made a round of box office revenue are fine, except for "Perfect Love", which is estimated to be released only in the European and American markets, and may have to be postponed in Hong Kong - Taiwan said that it is banned for three years, but even if three years have passed, without negotiations and reconciliation from the bigwigs, who in Asia would dare to ask Su Yun to film again?
Without a large portion of the Asian box office, the investment in North America would probably be high enough.
Therefore, Zou Yunhua let go so generously, in fact, he was also trying to let Su Yun try to secretly find a way in mainland China - now there are said to be new developments there, and cultural and entertainment resources are in urgent need.
Anyway, Su Yun has already made her position so clear, it is difficult to change it. It is better to take advantage of this opportunity to bring these films back there. Maybe we can earn a little box office revenue to make up for the loss of subsequent box office revenue sharing funds.
This way, it can probably make up for the image of Jiahe Company that everyone fled when disaster struck after Su Yun's accident.
"I understand. I'll see if there's a chance then." Su Yun nodded: Now everyone thinks that the movie ticket prices in mainland China can't be any lower. Putting the film there will not only offend other markets but also not make much money from each ticket. However... there are so many people there!
Even if it's only a few cents, as long as the quantity is sufficient, it can naturally add up to a terrifying number.
"I'll probably take this time to study hard and work on my career." Su Yun smiled. "By the way, when you finish the project of Half a Catty, Eight Taels, I will use a pseudonym to bring you the zombie movie script I mentioned before."
Zou Yunhua responded, "Your foster father and I are still busy with 'Half a Catty, Eight Taels'. There is no rush for the new movie. You can take your time and study hard."
Seeing that his attitude was still a little colder than before, Su Yun nodded again, turned around politely and walked out of the office.
Only after they walked out of Jiahe's gate did Su Yun breathe a sigh of relief. Then, with a complicated and nostalgic look on her face, she got into the car and left without looking back.
The media tends to be quick to respond, and after noticing that she was going back and forth between home and school in the following days, all the paparazzi who were waiting for her ran away within a week.
Without the paparazzi lurking around them, the Mei sisters began to sing and perform everywhere in their spare time again: although Su Yun and Grandma Su told them not to work so hard, the Mei sisters said they had gotten used to it, and now they perform for fun rather than for a living, and will try their best to keep it at a level that does not affect their studies and health.
Faced with such an answer, Su Yun and Grandma Su had no choice but to let them go.
Unexpectedly, the moment they received their salary the next month, the two Mei sisters said they would hand it over to Grandma Su for management.
Su Yun and Grandma Su couldn't persuade them, so Grandma Su had to accept it.
Then Su Yun turned around and found the Wang family next door, and asked them to help open a bank account for her and deposit all the money into it.
I'll find a chance to give it to the two sisters when the time comes - that's what Su Yun and Grandma Su thought.
When the winter chill arrived, Su Yun, while ensuring excellent grades, took a short vacation from school and went to Japan to participate in the development of Nintendo's new console.
"Based on the low evaluation of the poor sound and image performance of the ATARI CVS game console launched by the American ATARI company by our president Yamauchi, we at Nintendo decided to go all out to enter the home game console market, which has huge potential!" said Gunpei Yokoi, director of Nintendo's First Development Department, in an interview with the media.
"At present, our company's first generation of new consoles has been successfully developed and given the resounding name Familyputer (FC)..." In order to better promote his company's new products, Gunpei Yokoi did not hesitate to reveal some small inside information. "The FC red and white machine not only completed the special IC design and hardware revolution under the support of Mitsubishi's technology, but also came with a game "Duck Strike" as a gift. At the same time, our company also launched the super interesting and fun "Super Mario Bros." game, which can be purchased separately..."
"I heard that the Famicom console and its supporting games were produced with the assistance of Miss Marie Sue, and she recently came here. May I ask if we can interview her?" Since the ban in Taiwan came out, Su Yun has basically disappeared in the past few months except for being occasionally photographed attending high school in Hong Kong. However, considering that "The Fault in Our Stars" will be released in North America on Christmas, the sensitive media are all trying to grab first-hand interview information.
"I'm sorry, Mary is testing another new type of game with the development team and is currently unavailable for an interview." Gunpei Yokoi politely declined the request.
Unable to get any information about Su Yun, the media quickly shifted the topic back to Gunpei Yokoi: It was said that in order to obtain technical support from Mitsubishi, Nintendo promised to order three million chips within two years - however, according to the industry consensus at that time, the maximum capacity of the game console market was three million units.
From this point of view, either Nintendo really has hidden new technology that can occupy the entire market, or Nintendo's boss Yamauchi Hiroshi is greedy and wants to swallow an elephant.
Whether the outcome will be a resounding victory or a shambolic failure may be revealed from the details they reveal.
Surrounded by the media once again, Gunpei Yokoi couldn't help but take a moment out of his busy schedule to glance at the closed conference hall: I wonder how the test of Su Yun's new game is going?
At this moment, in the dark conference hall, everyone breathed a sigh of relief after watching the five protagonists on the large projection screen finally escape from the terrifying mansion.
Sure enough, except for Su Yun, the leader of the development team, it is really difficult for ordinary people to complete this extremely difficult perfect true ending.
"This is easy, I'll get familiar with it after playing it many times. Inventory management and QTE are not a problem at all." After Su Yun defeated the final BOSS easily, he picked up the takeaway lunch box on the table and took out a bowl of steaming ramen from it.
"Uh..." Although the ramen was takeout from the famous Nakamoriya ramen shop nearby, and the aroma and quantity were still as rich and heavy as usual, in the eyes of this group of staff who had just finished watching the entire horror game process, there was an inevitable feeling of nausea.
Considering that Su Yun, a special production consultant whose status was equal to that of the First Development Department Director Gunpei Yokoi, was still present, they at least forced themselves to hold it in, and with great difficulty transformed the subconscious "嘔" into "ｕｈ".
However, if you have not seen this 8-bit game named "Sweet Home" by Su Yun with your own eyes, who can imagine that such a pixel-style game can create a sense of evil and horror that is stronger than high-definition movie images?
They all thought that the previous "Super Mario" was the pinnacle of Famicom games!
However, Su Yun, the "devil", was not satisfied with the "Duck Hunt" they developed, and she was the main planner and the team successfully developed "Super Mario". Taking advantage of her free time, she started a new round of creation based on the template of "Super Mario" and created such a horror puzzle survival RPG game...
Because the project of "Sweet Home" was so huge, Su Yun split it into several parts, gave each team a part to produce, and then combined them together at the end - unexpectedly, each of these combined parts would become such a terrifying and evil game!
When the game was finally released, since the outcome of the game was determined by the number of survivors, all the staff involved in the production acted as guinea pigs and began trial play testing.
Soon someone felt unwell. The best record in the team so far was that four out of the five people in the protagonist's group escaped.
So Su Yun took over and showed them what a high-level player operation was: seeing the five main characters on the big projection screen finally escape from the terrible mansion without a single one missing, the staff who had been tortured to death by the game these days almost cried for joy.
Su Yun ate noodles silently, watching with interest as the staff watched the ending animation with satisfaction: in order to celebrate the survival of all members, the protagonists followed the advice of a mysterious man and decided to take a group photo as a souvenir.
In the heartwarming shot, the mysterious man who suggested they take a photo slowly turned his head, revealing a scary face that was half intact and half missing...
This classic look back and smile immediately triggered several wails and screams.
After hearing the distorted howling, Su Yun realized that he had overestimated the tolerance of people at that time - this 8-bit pixel-style look back and smile can scare chickens to death. When the remake with a different skin and plot and the high-definition remake are released in the future... then it will be changed to "Look Back and Smile Brother" in the opening credits, won't it scare a lot of people to death?
After careful observation, Su Yun immediately discovered a phenomenon that was somewhat speechless: these people were afraid, but they were reluctant to look away...
Well, it turns out that being both bad at and fun-loving is an eternal truth in the world. Those who are most afraid of horror movies and games and howl the most fiercely are often the ones who are most impressed by them and are most likely to commit suicide.
No wonder horror and comedy, these two enduring brothers, can occupy a large part of the market respectively.
Of course, since it can scare so many people, "Sweet Home" is indeed an excellent and unpopular horror masterpiece.
Although its name is not well-known to outsiders, it has been praised as "a milestone in the history of horror game development" and "the greatest horror game in the history of games" in the industry. Because of its status as a pioneer, many horror games in later generations have been more or less influenced by it - the "Silent Hill" series, which is also one of the pinnacle works of horror games, the Silent Hill series, the Siamese horror game "Sweet Home" of the same name, the "Corpse Party" series of comics and games from Japan, and the "Sweet Home" series of comics and films from Korea...
Although the plots of these new stories vary greatly, the core themes such as horror, survival, and puzzle solving can basically be found in similarities between this pioneering old man.
However, "Sweet Home" is not here to be fleeced by others. Its reskinned remake is another legend in the gaming world and even in multiple industries: the culmination of horror survival games and the "Resident Evil" series, which has also become another milestone.
And it's not just the games. The Resident Evil series' peripheral fan fiction, film and television adaptations, etc. have created a new and extremely huge market.
Although Jiahe has temporarily put the fantasy zombie series on hold, if she changes direction and starts with a science fiction zombie series, won't she still be able to expand the market and make money?
So what is the problem with the Taiwan dollar? Is it that the US dollar and the British pound are not expensive, or that the Japanese yen and the Korean won are not attractive?
Of course, the best way to make money is to make money from outside and use it to enrich your own country!