Game Development Giant

The game "Ace Attorney" is very suitable for handheld consoles. According to Jester's memory, the sales of this game series on handheld consoles are also very good. Before Jester was reborn, this series was mainly A total of five "Ace Attorney" games have been released, excluding the mobile version. All five "Ace Attorney" games have been released on Nintendo series consoles, from GBA to Wii, everything is available.

The production company is Capcom, which is nicknamed "Ka Biao". The producer is Atsushi Inaba, who is also known as the most classic producer of the first three generations of GBA. The producers of the latter two generations were changed, but Jester just played Having been through GBA, I don't know much about the rest.

Atsushi Inaba has not yet gone to work at Capcom, and even Jester doesn’t know where to work now. However, the producer of this type of game is not the key. The key is the writing of the script, and "Ace Attorney" 》The scripts of this series from the first generation to the second generation were all written by Qiaozhou. In fact, Qiaozhou is the soul of this development team.

However, as far as Jester knows, he joined Capcom right after graduating from college in 1994, and it is impossible for Jester to find him now.

"Are you confident to complete an excellent script? You must know that in mystery games, the quality of the script accounts for almost 90% of the success or failure of the game." Jester was still a little unsure, and he asked emphatically again out of my worries. "How about I write one first, and if it doesn't work, you can change it."

Therefore, Michael Staniff had no choice but to say this.

"That's not necessary." Jester shook his head. He frowned and thought for a while, and then said, "Well, you write one yourself according to the structure I just mentioned, and I'll take a look at it first, but I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to add anything to you on the specific content. , after all, I am not very good at reasoning, but I will still watch it. If you can meet my requirements and I cannot meet the requirements of the game, then I will still let you be the producer."

This actually makes Michael Staniff feel strange. Why can't I meet the requirements of the game, but I still have to be the producer?

Facing the other party's question, Jester also explained simply: "You have worked in the company for so long, and you should understand this. The producer of a game is not necessarily the plot planner of the game, and the same is true for detective games. Similarly, the producer of a detective game does not need to be the copywriter of the detective game." After saying that, Jester hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Forget it, no matter whether you have a candidate or not. I plan to invite Keigo Higashino, he is really an excellent detective novelist."

As a lover of detective novels, Michael Staniff not only likes European and American detective novels. He also likes Japanese reasoning that emphasizes character reasoning very much. Keigo Higashino is not unknown. At least Michael Staniff has heard of this name, but he has not read his works.

It’s not that I’m not interested. After all, Keigo Higashino’s debut novel was also the winner of Japan’s highest Edogawa Rampo Award three years ago. As a fan of detective novels, it’s impossible that I haven’t heard of it. Moreover, Michael. Staniff has several Japanese friends. They said that this work by Keigo Higashino is very good. Moreover, Keigo Higashino is not very young and is very talented.

Keigo Higashino is just 30 years old this year. After his work "After School" won the Edogawa Ranpo Award three years ago and sold more than 100,000 copies, he officially resigned from his position as an engineer and became a He became a full-time writer, but although he has written several works in the past three years, the results are still far behind his first one, both in terms of sales and reputation and evaluation.

The achievement of "After School" with more than 100,000 copies seems really impressive, but if you add an Edogawa Ranpo Award, it would be nothing, because almost every film has won the Edogawa Ranpo Award. The sales volume of any work is unlikely to be less than 100,000 copies.

Therefore, during this period, Keigo Higashino was also seeking change. Although his just-published "Student Street Murder" was also selected as a candidate for Eiji Yoshikawa's Newcomer Award and the Japanese Mystery Writers Association Award, these honors are still far behind him. The one after school that won the Edogawa Ranpo Award.

Keigo Higashino is not an unknown person, and writers always have a kind of arrogance. When Jester invites people to do invitations, it is naturally impossible to just send an ordinary business like he invited KyoAni's Hideaki Yata. The staff is enough. This time, Jester specially asked Tamahide Yoshiro to go there in person.

Coincidentally, Tamahide Yoshiro himself is also a lover of mystery novels. Naturally, he is very familiar with Keigo Higashino, who has become famous in recent years. After hearing what Jester said, he immediately agreed.

Keigo Higashino lives in Osaka. When he received a call from Tamahide Yoshiro, he was a little surprised as to why it was a game company. In fact, when he heard the name Mars Entertainment, he thought it was from a film and television company. After all, it carries the word entertainment.

If it was a film and television company, he wouldn't be surprised, because one of his works was recently spotted by Fuji TV and he planned to buy the rights to make it into a TV series.

Do these game companies also want to buy his works to make games?

With this idea in mind, Keigo Higashino met with Tamahide Yoshiro in a coffee shop he often went to. Keigo Higashino was very familiar with this coffee shop. He liked to come here and sit for a while whenever he had no inspiration. He would drink a cup of coffee and think for a while, and if he felt inspired, he would start writing on the spot.

The waiter here is very familiar with Keigo Higashino. As soon as he came in, someone said to him: "Mr. Higashino, someone is waiting for you over there."

Looking in the direction pointed by the waiter's finger, Keigo Higashino saw a middle-aged man in his thirties wearing casual clothes. As a mystery novel writer, he would always be serious when he saw a stranger. Take a quick look and discover some of the person's personality and characteristics from some casual details.

However, when Keigo Higashino saw Tamahideyoshiro, Tamahideyoshiro stood up almost at the same time, walked forward quickly, arrived in front of Keigo Higashino, and bowed slightly, He said politely: "I have admired Mr. Higashino's name for a long time."

And Higashino Keigo didn't dare to be too proud. He also bowed and said: "Don't dare, don't dare."

The two sat down and Tamahide Yoshiro went straight to the topic. When Keigo Higashino heard that he was not going to buy the copyright of his novel to develop a game, there was still a hint of disappointment on his face, but when he continued to listen, he heard The other party seemed to want to invite him to write a script for a game they were about to develop. This proposal actually made Keigo Higashino's eyes light up.

As we all know, Keigo Higashino has been seeking change recently. He won the Edogawa Ranpo Award for his "After School" based on campus youth reasoning, which means that his style was set in campus youth from the beginning. In terms of reasoning style, the development prospects of this style are not very good. After writing several books on youth campus reasoning, Higashino Keigo also discovered this. Therefore, during this period of time, he was always seeking changes and thinking. Completely change your style.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to change the style. At least for Keigo Higashino, whenever he wants to change the style, he always feels like he can't write a word no matter what. , so, for him now, all common sense is worth it.

Just like the invitation Tamahide Yoshiro told him.

But before that, Keigo Higashino still had to ask what the specific content was. Could it be a campus mystery story? This would have no meaning to him at all. But when he heard Tamahide Yoshiro talking about this, His eyes also lit up after the game's protagonist was a prosecutor who upheld justice.

Of course he knows that using a prosecutor as the protagonist of a mystery novel is very novel. Most of the most widely circulated novels on the market now keep high school students, police officers, detectives and even lawyers as protagonists. Instead, they use prosecutors, the opposite of lawyers, as the protagonists. Yes, he rarely sees it.

"Am I solely responsible for writing the script?"

However, Higashino Keigo has never liked others to interfere with his creative thinking. This is how he writes novels. Therefore, although he was very interested in Tamahideyoshiro's proposal, he still asked like this.

Sure enough, as Higashino Keigo expected, after Tamahideyoshiro heard this question, he showed a somewhat embarrassed look on his face.

"Mr. Higashino, there is a big difference between game script writing and novel writing. As for the question you asked, I personally cannot answer you because the proposer of this game is my boss, that is, Jester Lee, before I came to see you, he told me that if you are interested, you can go to the United States to learn more about him."

After hesitating for a second or two, Tamahideyoshiro said this.