Game Development Giant

After a moment of silence, Jester smiled.

"This is not bad. After all, for such a new genre of game, we are only in an exploratory stage."

As he spoke, Jester paused for a moment, and then continued: "I don't know if a game like this can be completed in the end." After speaking, he sighed.

But Suzuki Yu's tone was much more confident.

"I think we will definitely be able to complete a game of this scale. I also believe that the game we want to make is the future of video games... But for us now, it is indeed a bit difficult to overcome, but this is not It does not mean that there is no way to conquer it. A long time ago, many people believed that Mount Everest was impossible to climb.”

"Do you have any ideas?"

When Jester heard what Suzuki Yu said, he was also a little curious about what the original father of 3D sandbox games thought of the development of his game. After all, in addition to him wanting to get Suzuki Yu's combat system In addition to his design talent, the most important thing is his identity that should originally belong to him. Maybe some of his ideas can save him a lot of detours.

"It's not anything special, I just thought about the scale of the game we are going to do..."

As he spoke, Suzuki Yu returned with gestures with his hands. What he meant was that the scale of this game was very large. Then he shook his head and said: "...The scale is too big. If we want to make a complete I think it would be unrealistic to put all the stories into it, because even if the next generation of consoles uses CD storage, I’m afraid they won’t be able to store such a large amount of content.”

Suzuki Yu said this very firmly, and Jester did not deny it.

Because he knew that Yu Suzuki started making games with hardware such as arcade frames, so he had an understanding of the hardware. He is much more authoritative than he may be.

"Yes, that's true."

Jester nodded.

Suzuki Yu continued to laugh, and then he looked at Jester and said while laughing: "So, after I thought about this, I felt a little strange, because these things are not in-depth issues, they just need If you think about it carefully, anyone who is engaged in game development can know this. But why do you still plan to carry out this project without looking back? "

Jester did not interrupt this time, but looked at Suzuki Yu with a smile as he continued.

"I was puzzled at the time. I knew there must be a reason, but I couldn't think of it for a moment. Later, when I was bored, I was flipping through the comic books. Suddenly something like this happened. An idea, since comics can be sold in volumes, why can’t games be sold in volumes?”

"So, I was wondering. Do you want to divide this game into a dozen chapters, and then produce one or several chapters at a time. It's like this kind of serialized comic book, published in volumes. How about making games in the same way?"

Suzuki Yu expressed his inference with some excitement.

Then. He looked at Jester seriously, hoping to hear Jester's reply.

Jester just smiled, and then fell silent. After a while, he replied: "Suzuki, what you said is indeed what I thought. I also thought about it at the time, if I want to do something that involves too much system, it is probably unrealistic to tell a complete story. We can only divide a complete story into several parts. Originally, this was an attempt at game development. The main thing is that I want to prove that these are It can be done.”

"Yeah, this is the only way."

Suzuki Yuya nodded like this, and then he turned to another topic.

"Jace, my team is almost set up. Those who didn't stay in the United States before can be called to Japan to carry out motion design and motion capture. These can be improved in advance."

Jester didn't say anything about it.

He just said lightly: "I have said before that after dividing into groups, each development group will be responsible for it by a separate person. I just want you to give me results that satisfy me. As for how you go there?" Do, I don’t care.”

Just as he was talking, the door to the room was pushed open.

Minhiro Nagoshi walked in carrying a tray of tea sets, with tea already brewed in it. He placed the tea sets neatly beside Jester and Suzuki Yu, and then he looked at Jester as if he wanted to say Something.

Jester actually liked Nagoshi Nohiro, even though this was only his first meeting with him.

But in fact, because of the memory in Jester's mind, he was full of respect for the white jade pillars of Sega that would later frame the sea. Without his persistence during Sega's most critical period, I'm afraid Sega would have It would not exist, so when Jester saw the strange look in Minyo Nagoshi's eyes, he also became interested, so he made a joke.

"What? Do you still want an autograph?"

Hearing what Jester said, Minyo Nagoshi was immediately shocked, but Minyo Nagoshi's answer next surprised Jester even more.

After Nagoshi Minoru was shocked, he immediately smiled awkwardly.

"Yes, it is."

After Jester heard Nagoshi Nohiro's answer, his face suddenly became embarrassed. What he said before was just a joke. When he thought about it, it was absolutely impossible. He didn't expect that even if it was like this, he would still let it go. He was right.

Seeing the change in the expression on Jester's face, Nagoshi Nohiro also knew that the other party might have misunderstood him.

So he quickly explained: "It's not what you think, I don't want your signature..." But just after saying this, Nagoshi Nohiro seemed to feel that it was impolite to say this, and he suddenly felt a little dull. He stood up and opened his mouth, but still no words came out.

Jester is a very smart person, and his understanding is far beyond that of ordinary people.

He quickly understood what Nagoshi Nohiro wanted to express, and then he laughed: "I understand what you mean. You mean that this time you don't want my signature, but you want me to help you." You want it from someone else?"

"Yes Yes."

Hearing Jester say what he meant, Nagoshi Nohiro nodded vigorously.

"Whose do you want?" Jester didn't refuse, so he asked directly, and Nagoshi Nohiro didn't even think about it, and directly said a name that surprised Jester.

"I want a signed photo of Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. He is one of my favorite designers. I like his games very much."

Ming Yue Minyang said this sentence very seriously and firmly.

This really surprised Jester, because he knew that Minhiro Nagoshi had joined Sega many years ago, and how could a Sega employee like Nintendo's ace designer so much? This seems a little wrong, right? Although Miyamoto Shigeru has now joined Mars Entertainment, it was less than a year ago.

Suzuki Yu saw the doubt flashing across Jester's face, he smiled and explained for Jester.

"In fact, the company Nagoshi wanted to join most at the beginning was Nintendo, and his favorite game company was also Nintendo. But unfortunately, Nintendo didn't want him at the time, so he came to Sega."

When he said this, Suzuki Yu even laughed.

"You may not know that Nagoshi was very resistant to working at Sega at that time, because our relationship with Nintendo was not good at that time. To be precise, we did not have a good relationship with Sega, but he later followed me. As I grow older, I also think Sega is great, no worse than Nintendo, but I asked him before who his favorite game company and designer are."

"His answer is still the same, Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto."

"You may not know that last year, after Nintendo announced that it would completely withdraw from the game industry, he cried a lot."

After saying this, Suzuki Yu's laughter became louder.

But this actually made Jester a little embarrassed.

Because he was the culprit who forced Nintendo to withdraw from the game industry. He really didn't expect that a future Sega veteran would be a die-hard fan of Nintendo.

In fact, although Jester liked Nagoshi Nohiro more in his previous life, he really didn't understand his past in depth.

If he knew about Nagoshi Nohiro's past.

Now he won't be surprised that the other person is a Nintendo fan.

He is a native of Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and was born in 1965. To be honest, for the Japanese game industry, 1965 is really an amazing year that deserves special mention. In fact, in In fact, there are always some strange but completely inexplicable things happening, just like NBA fans will always find that in a certain year, a large wave of outstanding players will emerge.

But in other years, there is always no one who can fight, such as the famous 1996 golden generation and 2003 golden generation.

The same is true in the Japanese game industry.

This year is 1965.

Not only Minhiro Nagoshi, but also Matsuno Yasumi, Mikami Shinji, Inafune Keiji, Funamizu Noritaka, Naka Yuji, Mizuguchi Tetsuo... many, many people who will carry half of the Japanese game industry in later generations. Was born in 1965.

This phenomenon is unique in other years.

As Suzuki Yu said before, Nagoshi Nohiro did worry about his job when he graduated from college.

There was even the idea of ​​not giving up Sega at all, but fortunately, it was just an idea. Minhiro Nagoshi did not really reject Sega at that time. Otherwise, the history of video games might have been completely different. (To be continued...)