Game Development Giant

Generally speaking, the Mars Entertainment Carnival will be held on the first weekend or the second weekend of November.

This is also the busiest time of the year for Mars Entertainment.

If E3 and Carnival were of equal importance to Mars Entertainment before, now it has basically become that Carnival is far more important to Mars Entertainment than Daewoo E3, and players are also willing to make such changes to Mars Entertainment.

This large-scale carnival-style gathering of players is very much supported by players.

Of course, it’s not like they didn’t learn from Mars Entertainment in this way, but neither Sega nor Sony was as successful as Mars Entertainment.

Of course, they also insist on holding such activities that help increase player loyalty.

In fact, hosting such a party is expensive.

Although part of the investment can be recouped through ticket broadcast revenue, advertising sponsorship, and naming rights, this is still a large-scale event that requires an investment of at least several million US dollars. Even with the prize money of e-sports competitions in recent years, it has gradually increased. , in fact, investment in the carnival is gradually increasing.

Fortunately, e-sports is finally starting to become an industry.

In Jester's vision, it may take up to three years for Carnival to become profitable through the income from this sponsorship and broadcasting rights.

For Li Kewen, this is his first time to participate in the carnival. Although he has heard about it before, it is really the first time to personally participate in such a grand event among countless players. When he was in China, he never imagined However, it turns out that the game has such a huge charm and can attract so many players, players from all over the world, to gather together.

His surgery was originally scheduled for the end of October, but in order to have the opportunity to attend the carnival this time, he asked Jester to postpone the surgery for half a month.

In fact, during the first few months of school. He also gradually adapted to the teaching and learning methods of American universities.

It is very different from that in China.

He feels that in such a university, it is called real learning, and the pressure is also very high. His language is always a weakness. Although he came to the United States a few months in advance to do an internship at Mars Entertainment, this weakness is not so easy to make up for. Of course, he is much better than when he first came to the United States. At least he can communicate with them normally now.

You won’t be unable to understand the professor’s lectures in class because of language problems.

He was also somewhat grateful to Jester for allowing him to come to the United States in advance to adapt. Otherwise, he might have needed to take a language preparatory course.

This time Jester did not appear at the opening ceremony. Even the promotion of the protagonist of this carnival, that is, "Super Balotelli Galaxy" was all managed by Shigeru Miyamoto.

Trials are available.

But not much, and it’s a closed trial. It is not an open trial. Everyone needs to queue for at least two hours before they can get a 30-minute trial opportunity. The trial location is in a small closed dark room. As a member of the team, Li Kewen Intern employees, of course, also have tasks.

In fact, there can never be enough people to entertain Mars during Carnival.

His task is to issue a questionnaire to each player who participates in the trial, and then take it back after the other player completes it.

In this case. Players can get a redemption coupon.

With this redemption coupon, players can exchange for a prize at the Mars Entertainment prize exchange office.

Of course, the prize may not be too valuable, it may just be a sweatshirt or a hat or even a hand-made doll. The meaning of commemoration is greater, but players are still very enthusiastic about it.

Somatosensory sports were not included in the trial items in this carnival because the somatosensory equipment was not ready yet. Players have also asked about this, and Mars Entertainment’s answer was very straightforward because of planning issues. At the time of the carnival, the order for the somatosensory equipment they requested was not completed.

Therefore, they previously said that there would be a trial of "Sports" during the E3 exhibition.

Although the players are not satisfied, they are still very satisfied with the closed play of "Super Balotelli Galaxy" provided by Mars Entertainment this time.

Although it is prohibited to bring some photographic and video equipment when entering the trial room.

"Amazing!"

"I can't believe it!"

Basically, this is the reaction of the players who came out of the demo room of "Super Balotelli Galaxy". Their faces are full of reluctance. Whenever the players in the queue ask them about their experience of the demo, they They would always yell and scream uncontrollably, as if they saw something extraordinary in the trial room just now.

Actually.

For them, the feeling of receiving physical sensation for the first time just now was really an amazing feeling.

"It's hard to describe. Before this, although I had the best idea about body sensation, after actually playing the trial version of this game, I still can't believe my eyes. I even feel that I am dreaming now. , how could this be a game that can be made now?”

When Li Kewen handed a questionnaire to a player who had just come out of the trial room, the player continued to talk about his feelings.

Jester has actually been thinking about what to do after his retirement in the past few years. In fact, he feels that he is somewhat matched now. After more than ten years of high-intensity work, it is indeed very easy to feel tired.

Moreover, in this world, especially in the field of games, he has done everything he can do. All the games he can make are basically formed in his hands. Almost all players have came into being at his hands.

He is revered as the god of games. It is even certain that in the next few decades, at least in the game industry, no one will make greater contributions than him, even Shigeru Miyamoto in history. , compared to where he is now, the distance is still far, far away.

You will be at the top of the mountain, and you will have a panoramic view of the mountains.

This is how Jester feels at this time. He is actually in a state where he doesn't know what to do in the future, because there is no way out in front of him.

The road he knew had reached its end.

Yes, Jester is not a genius in essence and in terms of talent. The reason why he has been able to achieve such achievements. It's all about his understanding of future games. He has played countless games, but that's all. Let him create something from scratch. In fact, he is not as good as those real geniuses and real geniuses.

Only by standing on the shoulders of those giants could he sit down and talk with the original giants.

By the time these giants finished their discussion, Jester himself was basically able to discuss it. This was actually very good, as Jester felt that his greatest contribution was. It is to allow the prosperity of the video game industry to arrive in advance.

Almost all game types have been enriched ten years in advance.

The only game left in front of him now is WOW, which is the benchmark of the MMORPG game type and the flag of this game type.

Although in the era when Jester traveled, the MMORPG game type had declined and was no longer popular. People seemed to no longer like this game type - even the number of WOW players was declining. Many people said that WOW Not fun anymore, AFK, actually. These are all excuses - the real reason is that this style of game no longer adapts to the increasingly fast-paced era.

MMORPG is an RPG game anyway.

The core of RPG games is to develop characters.

And developing characters requires a lot of time and energy - which is completely inconsistent with the pace of the future.

Even if I give you level 60 WOW, can you still play this great game like you did when you played level 60? I'm afraid not.

But will the MMORPG game genre slowly decline and eventually die out completely?

Jester feels that this kind of worry is purely unnecessary. First of all, to consider this issue, the first premise to know is why the MMORPG game type appears, and why the MMORPG game type appears.

In fact, the RPG game type is an extension of human fantasy, as long as humans can still fantasize. Then the MMORPG game type will not die.

There will always be a day when it will rise again.

Of course, for now, MMORPG is a game that has just emerged and is on the rise.

The popularity of EQ during this period also proves this point.

And Jester is gradually letting go of the news about his next game. At least some media interviews have mentioned that they have learned that Jester's game after "Super Balotelli Galaxy" will be an MMORPG game. Mars Entertainment has not denied this.

Although Mars Entertainment did not announce the progress of Jester's next game at this carnival, however, in a brief interview with Jester.

Jester also talked about some things about the MMORPG game.

But he was talking about the game EQ.

Because the person beside Jester at that time was an EQ producer.

However, the producer resigned from SOE at the end of October, causing quite a stir among the EQ player base. Because this producer is one of the core members of EQ, with his resignation, almost a dozen people also left - you must know that the entire development team of EQ only has 60 people.

Afterwards people speculated about what he was thinking.

There is no need to guess now, maybe his destination has been determined, and that is Mars Entertainment.

"I like the game EQ very much. I also talked a lot about this game with Ledgers. We had a great time chatting. I even talked about my next game. Ledgers was also very excited. , so, he decided to join us.”

Jester responded to this.

The reporter keenly captured some of the information Jester revealed: "Mr. Li, is your next game also an MMORPG?"

"You can say that."

Jester nodded and admitted: "But I can't talk too much now. In fact, EQ has inspired me very much and given me a lot of inspiration, although I did think about it a long time ago, before EQ was released. The content of the next game, I decided at that time that it would be a unique MMORPG, but after I experienced EQ, I was still shocked by the designers of EQ."

"Because they accomplished almost all of my previous visions, I just wanted to complete such a world."

"Even people in our company lamented after playing EQ, this game is so good, can we also make a game like this?"

"Then I told him, actually, we already had a plan."

"I almost re-examined my original plan and redesigned it from the beginning. I started to study all aspects of EQ, from architecture to system... almost all aspects, and then I found that we can do better. , so I reconvened the team that started the project and told them that EQ is excellent, but I think we can do it even better."

"At this time, we needed someone with rich MMORPG game development experience, especially someone with EQ development experience, so we contacted Ledgers and talked to him about my idea. He felt that our plan Makes his blood boil.”

"We have a deal."

Jester used very simple language to talk about the reasons why Ledgers left SOE and joined Mars Entertainment.

"So can you tell me, what is the background of your next MMORPG game?"

"Of course you can."

"I have said before that for this MMORPG, I actually started building the background for this game very early on. Now I can say that the background is the world of WAR. I started with WAR1 many years ago. I kept adding to the background of this game through novels, comics, and even animations, and many people didn’t understand why I did this.”

"Now the mystery can be revealed. It's very simple. I just want to use these things to create the atmosphere of a world, and then present this world in front of the players."

"My next game is to accomplish something like this, to fulfill my long-cherished wish that I have wanted to fulfill many years ago, to make a complete and infinitely real "World of Warcraft"." (~^~)