"What's going on?"
As soon as Takayuki stepped out of the office, he saw several employees from the ga developnt teams engaged in heated argunts.
"President, sorry for disturbing you," one employee said nervously.
"First, tell what's going on and why you're arguing."
"Well... we might have run into so trouble."
"Be more specific."
"A while ago, the composer we hired... left."
Takayuki was taken aback. "Left?"
The employee nodded. "Yes, literally... left..."
"What happened?"
"Because he felt insulted in his work, but we didn't disrespect him at all. We just wanted him to learn so assembly language so he could compose music for the ga. But after learning for a while, he felt it was humiliating and resigned."
Next to these employees, Matsuki, who was in charge of personnel managent, also spoke up after the others finished, "President, it's not just one composer who wants to leave, it's three or four of the composers we recently hired."
After a brief mont of thought, Takayuki imdiately realized what was happening. He said, "Is it because of the programming aspect of composing?"
"Yes, they've never written music for ga consoles before. At first, they thought they just needed to create music, and our ga consoles would play it. But later they realized that before composing, they needed to learn a programming language, so they backed off."
Takayuki shook his head. "It's my negligence. I didn't consider this. How many composers want to leave now?"
Matsuki replied, "We've hired a total of five composers, one for each ga developnt team. But now, except for the one in the fifth ga developnt team, the others want to leave."
The composer in the fifth ga developnt team... That's right, it's the one Matsuki recomnded, the sowhat down-and-out composer. He probably can't leave even if he wants to. At least here, he has the opportunity to make money composing music, whereas elsewhere he would only be able to do odd jobs to make ends et.
The other composers themselves are not exactly short of money, but because of the considerable sum we offered and out of curiosity about the new industry, they ca to try their hand.
It seems quite normal for them to choose to leave when they encounter difficulties.
In the early days of Famicom ga production, gas were made using a programming language called assembly language, which was a fairly early programming language.
And creating music on the Famicom, the iconic 8-bit music, is not as simple as just adding sheet music.
You have to write code like a programr, treating the code as sheet music, so that the machine can recognize these things.
The musical notation in human society is simply unrecognized by the Famicom.
And in the SFC ga console, performance has made a qualitative leap, and sound effects have skyrocketed, making it much more pleasing to listen to than 8-bit music.
However, even with 16-bit chips, you still need to use assembly language to create music.
And using assembly language to create music on a 16-bit console is a bit more complicated than on the Famicom, as the quality of the music has greatly improved.
This is due to so inherent flaws in these chips. Improvents are possible, but difficult and require huge investnt in research and developnt to develop a machine specifically for assisting in music production.
In the past SFC era, Nintendo did develop a device for quickly creating ga music.
But the research cost of that thing is unknown, Takayuki only knows that it's very expensive.
Only large companies like Capcom, Konami, and EA can afford it.
It's not cost-effective for smaller ga companies and studios to buy it.
So, Takayuki didn't consider this at first, thinking that 16-bit ga consoles were just a transition. It's estimated that in three to four years, or at the earliest in one to two years, a better-performing ga console will be released, so there's no need to invest too much money in it.
But now, he's run into trouble.
Those composers simply don't want to learn assembly language.
In their eyes, a programming language is like a cryptic script. They are composers, not mathematicians. If they have the ti to learn assembly language, who knows how much music they could create? Why waste ti here?
Composers are very important. In the 16-bit ga console, the improvent in image and sound quality is the most significant.
He can help write the main music for so gas, like the Crystal Overture, but he can't handle all the background music in the ga himself, right? How can he be busy with that?
After the birth of the 16-bit ga console, the ga industry began to have clear divisions of labor.
Those who make music specialize in music, those who make animations specialize in animations, and those who write programs specialize in writing programs.
It seems that I've been moving too fast, accelerating the developnt of electronic gas, and there may be so hidden dangers. I need to be alert.
"Is it only one person who wants to leave now? Or do the other three also want to go?" Takayuki asked.
"The other three also have this idea. No one took the lead before, but now that soone wants to leave, it's probably difficult to keep the others. But, President, I can assure you that my friend's brother will definitely not leave easily."
Takayuki nodded. "I understand. Where are those four people now? Call them all together, I'll talk to them personally. And try to call the one who's preparing to leave as well, if he really doesn't want to co, then forget it."
Takayuki intends to try to persuade them himself.
These four composers are the most suitable candidates determined after several screenings.
Each of their styles is suitable for electronic gas. If they all want to leave, it would really be a loss. Takayuki plans to try to save them as much as possible.
"I'll call them over now."
As everyone left, Takayuki walked gracefully towards the room where he usually held impromptu etings.
Speaking of which, this building seems a bit small now.
With the company's expansion, there are nearly two hundred employees under his command.
More than half of them are developers, and the rest are divided into marketing, public relations, legal, finance, etc.
The custor service staff are outsourced and do not occupy the company's space, otherwise this three-story office building would definitely not be enough.
It seems that after a while, I should seriously consider finding a new office location.
While Takayuki was contemplating, several people walked in one after another.
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