Game Development Giant

"Um?"

Jester was surprised when he heard what Pidgeos said. He originally just asked casually out of curiosity, but he didn't expect that the other party really had an idea for a new game. He also continued to ask curiously: "Or Is it an action-adventure game?"

Although Jester didn't mean it, he could still tell that Jester didn't seem to think much of action games, and Pidgeos wasn't very angry either. He personally liked this genre, and everyone in the king development team One member is a fan of this type of game, and Mark Saini has said more than once that if he wants the King development team to continue to grow bigger and stronger, then the development team must consider the issue of style transformation, which does not mean that they should Instead of making action games, let them make other types of games so that they can be integrated.

However, people like Pidgeos have always shown some interest in other types of games.

What they recognize most is what Jester said when he was developing the only cooking game on Sega's MS console that reached one million sales: "There is no need to make a few A game that millions of people support, but a game that firmly captures the hearts of 100,000 people. Then, we hope to pass on the fun of this game to the next generation..."

This sentence has an inexplicable power for supporters of niche games like Pidgeot. Moreover, Jester’s game through his is extremely niche in everyone’s eyes. The game proves that even niche games can achieve good sales, as long as the quality of the game itself is good enough.

"The first is the transplantation of Dreambox 2 of "Avengers 3". This work is relatively easy. I estimate that after our development team's vacation is over and they come back, it will be completed in less than a month. We discussed it. It is for the arcade version. There will be some changes to adapt to the characteristics of our new console, but the difference from the arcade version is not big."

First of all, Pidgeos did not directly talk about the new game, but talked about their next mission, and Jester also asked what they planned to do next, which is not unreasonable, but Jieshi has no interest in these. In his opinion, transplanting a game is not a big deal. This kind of thing should not be reported to the general boss by a development director with a very high position in the company. Because this kind of work is too simple.

"The next thing is actually just an idea we discussed, and we didn't have too many in-depth discussions. A new person just came to our development team, a Japanese. I sent people to Japan to help take off pants. I met them accidentally when they were working on Ninja Gaiden."

As if remembering something, Pidgeos still didn't start to talk about the new game that not only Jester but also everyone else present was interested in. Instead, he talked about a new employee in their development team, just an employee. Why would people like Jester care?

But now that Pidgeos was talking, it was hard for them to interrupt.

"He is a college student who has just graduated from Waseda. It seems that he was just accompanying a friend when he applied for the job. His friend is a fan of our Mars Entertainment. He has tried to go to Kojima and Sakaguchi before, but without success. As a last resort, he didn’t want to go to Nintendo and Nintendo’s third-party manufacturers, so he turned to our third-party franchised manufacturers. The first stop was the Pantsless Demon.”

As he said that, Pidgeos seemed to have remembered something funny, and suddenly laughed unconsciously. This made Jester and others a little curious. They didn't know why he was laughing, but judging from the few paragraphs he just said, Inside, there was nothing funny at all.

Just when everyone was wondering, someone couldn't help but want to ask aloud.

Peters finally stopped laughing and continued talking. He waved his hands and said: "This is also what happened to me later when I decided to recruit him and asked him if he was willing to come to the United States to work. After hesitating for a while, he expressed that he was unwilling. I asked him why at that time, and he told me that the reason why he accompanied his friend to apply for the job at the Pantsless Demon was just because the Pantsless Demon was close to his home."

Close to home?

What is the reason for this? After hearing what Pidgeos said, everyone present except Jester couldn't help but laugh. This employee is really cute.

But after Jester heard it, he really felt deep in his heart, because what Pidgeos said was very similar to the personal experience in his mind of a very famous game designer in later generations, and he was also a designer of action games. consistent.

He also graduated from Waseda, and he was also asked on a program where he was interviewed why he went back to work at the Underwear Demon, but he just said nonchalantly, The Underpants Demon is relatively close to my home.

"So……"

Amidst everyone's laughter, Jester only had a faint chuckle on his face. This was his normal expression, and others rarely saw Jester with an overly exaggerated expression. It was revealed that many people even commented on Jester, saying that he was intangible with emotions and anger, and was very deep.

Jester spoke first to interrupt everyone's laughter, attracting the attention of everyone present to him.

Then Jester asked calmly: "Then how did you convince him? From his words, I seem to see that he is a very family-loving person."

Pigers also smiled proudly: "Actually, it did take a lot of effort. I told him a lot about Mars Entertainment's status in the video game industry, and even boasted in front of him with you, boss. It was awesome for a while, but the other party was unmoved, obviously the other party was very assertive."

"But it's not useless at all. At least the other party promised that he can win if the workplace is in the Japanese branch. After all, our branch is headquartered in Osaka, and his home is not far from Osaka. Moreover, I I also got the news from other channels. He has received the notice of the master's degree student taught by Waseda. If I can't convince him as soon as possible, he will probably continue to study for the master's program. In fact, I am in When I got the news, I had already decided to give up. In the last conversation with him, I just wanted to discuss the issue of action games with him in my personal capacity."

As he spoke, Pidgeos became a little excited. Apparently, he seemed to have thought of something that was extremely exciting for him and worth telling.

"In other words, it was this discussion about action games that made the other party change his original idea?" Jester asked thoughtfully, and Pidgeos nodded hurriedly. Obviously, Jester's guess was close to ten.

Although Peters nodded, he continued: "That discussion was unspeakable for me personally. To be honest, that young man who just graduated from Waseda University is definitely a gaming genius. , he is not the kind to play games. Of course, he is really good at playing games. The most important thing is that I heard from his friends that he was not interested in games at all before. He is really interested in games. It’s just within the past year.”

Peters is not a person who likes to talk big. There is a consensus within Mars Entertainment on this. When you hear him praising a person like this, it means that this person is really outstanding. However, Jester was the first to speak: "What were you discussing at that time, and it actually touched you so much."

He coughed first, then stuck out his tongue to moisten his lips. After talking for a long time, Piggers still felt a little dry.

Then, he continued: "The topic of discussion is actually "Ninja Gaiden", a game that has just been produced by the Pantsless Demon. This game is very unique, and the designer also has great ideas. I don't know if any of you have No one has ever played it. Of course, it’s a little difficult, but it’s fun…”

While Pidgeos was talking, more than one person raised their hands and booed. They were saying that they were very interested in this game and played it often, but they were tortured by the difficulty in it. They scolded the designer more than once for being anti-human. .

"...We were discussing this game, and then he told me a lot about how this game should be made in the future, and how future action games should be made, and his views were actually the same as those of the boss. The views are very similar!”

"Oh? Looks like me?" This surprised Jester.

"Yes." Pidgeos nodded and said in a very conclusive tone, "He believes that this type of action-passing game lacks enough memorable and shocking expressiveness on the 2D screen. He wants to It is very difficult to bring this type of game back to life in 2D, but it is not impossible, it is very difficult. If the scene can be changed to 3D, and the designer can perform various tasks in the 3D environment, If it’s an interesting setting – it’s going to be really memorable.”

"3D?" After hearing Jester's words, he also smiled. Now, although he has produced "Quake" on the PC, which proves that the shock of 3D games to people is indescribable, but for those who are still For home consoles that mainly focus on 2D games, it seems that the concept of 3D in the future has not yet become mainstream.

But today was not the time to think about these complicated and annoying questions. Jester pushed these messy thoughts from his mind before continuing to ask.

"What's his name?" (To be continued...)