Reborn in America, I'm serious about making money.

The matter in Hong Kong has come to a temporary end. What has Zhang San been busy with during this time?

After acquiring a game company, he renamed it Blizzard Entertainment and immediately began assembling a larger team of game developers.

Another issue is that NT-MS has some unresolved problems left over from the former MS company, so it must be diverted.

At the time, John was discussing the situation of NT-MS with Zhang San, and Zhang San said to him, "I'm waiting for an opportunity to try to resolve the company's personnel issues."

MS Company has a vast pool of talent, but its sheer size has naturally led to some of the bad habits that are common in large corporations.

Now it's time to get this sorted out. John announced some important personnel appointments at his recent routine meeting.

"We need to reassign these people. They need to go to Silicon Valley and work in other companies within the group. They will receive the same treatment there as they do here..."

Aside from a few core departments, many people in other departments began to hesitate about this matter, considering transferring from Seattle to Silicon Valley, which they heard was also a good option.

"If you're not going, then prepare to submit your resignation."

This is what their supervisor told them: this relocation will involve 20% of the staff moving from Seattle to Silicon Valley.

With fewer people, there will be less fighting and less messy stuff.

Zhang San knew that before he transmigrated, the world's richest man at the time acquired Tuitui, then laid off a large number of employees, leaving only a few dozen; the website was still operating normally, and its efficiency had even improved.

It's not that those people are inefficient, but rather that there are problems inherent in large corporations. Some of them could be reassigned.

These people were dispersed to many places, and they discovered that the group President John mentioned was not the NT-MS Group, but the behemoth behind New Era Holdings.

They went to browser companies, website backend operations, game companies, SE* and other companies. Zhang San founded many companies in Silicon Valley, and behind them all were New Era Holdings.

People who went to browser companies, website backend operations (YAHO), game companies, or other companies were not too excited. They continued to develop more technologies, including information collection, just like they did at NT-MS.

Of course, there is another company that is even more boring, and that is a computer and internet security company. The people in this company are all F**KED lunatics. People who work here become marginal figures who assist those people, making them feel like they are just tools.

Some people, however, were very lucky and ended up at a company with personalities similar to their own—an online video download website, an online paradise for them.

Their job is very simple: to make download speeds faster and to develop streaming media.

This download plugin developed for the online game "Saint Valley" has several major functions... If someone from ten or twenty years in the future sees this software, they will definitely exclaim, "This is BT!" It just also incorporates some functions of "Kuaibo".

These will gradually be integrated into those software programs, but they won't bring in more money. Apart from a few browsers, it will take time for these software programs to break even.

However, some software can be different from them, and that is games.

On both sides of the Pacific, many things are often the opposite. For example, in gaming, people in the East prefer online games, while those in North America prefer single-player games, and there's a lot of piracy involved.

Under these circumstances, the first game software that Zhang San had someone develop was called "Angry Fat Bird," or "Angry Round Bird."

The game's story is very simple: to avenge the wild boars who stole its eggs, the fat bird uses its own body as a weapon, attacking the boars' fortress like a cannonball. The angry red fat bird recklessly crashes into the green boars' fortress.

The gameplay is very simple: launch the fat bird from the slingshot to hit the green wild boars, and you can pass the level by hitting all the wild boars.

The angle and force of the fat bird's launch are controlled by the player's finger. Players need to carefully consider the combined calculation of force and angle to hit the wild boar more accurately.

The ejected chubby bird will leave a trajectory, which can be used as a reference to adjust the angle and force. In addition, the higher the score in each level, the higher the rating will be.

This type of puzzle game has always been very popular, so this was the first project from a small studio at Blizzard Entertainment.

The game was made in a short time; this is the advantage of having abundant resources behind it. People who came to it quickly fell in love with this little game.

Pixar has both graphic design and computer animation; in short, it has everything you could want. Pixar's computer animation is arguably the best in the world right now.

While they were making a feature-length animated film, they took some time to create the CG for this game.

Another reason Zhang San created this game is for its merchandise; the game's merchandise also generates a considerable amount of revenue.

Not only can those round, chubby birds be used as plush toys, but so can those cartoon wild boars, and since they come in various shapes and sizes, they are naturally used in just as many related products.

When things settled down in Hong Kong, his "Angry Birds" was basically in closed beta testing.

Zhang San still felt there were some shortcomings. If it could be released together with the animated film, it would definitely... wait, although it can't be released together with the animated film, the comic can be released first in one or two issues, and then the game can be released, or the game can be released at the same time; then, wouldn't that create a synergistic effect?

He acted on his idea immediately, contacting the Marvel Comics studio in Los Angeles to have them produce a second issue of the Angry Birds comics.

However, these round, chubby birds are very simple to draw, as are the wild boars.

However, due to the tight schedule and the importance of the task, some of them still had to work overtime.

Those who purchase the comic will receive a free public beta version of the "Angry Birds" game, which will help promote the game.

Zhang San has been in his studio lately, and he's noticed that a good piece of work can motivate his employees, and when they get busy, they move like the wind.

Salaries in North America aren't low, but there's also a lot of work, especially with a new game about to be released.

Universal's distribution department mainly promotes and distributes movies, but that doesn't mean they can't promote games; Zhang San took the CG to Universal's distribution department and asked them to discuss how to promote the game's CG.