Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 121 25. Sega! New handheld console!

"hiring."

Qing Zhiyuan knocked on Ayase Akane's desk.

"Why?"

The latter was stunned for a moment, and his eyes immediately burst into light.

"Okay, Mr. President, how many people do you want to recruit now and for what positions?"

Akane Ayase quickly picked up the pen and paper and took notes at any time.

"Hmm..." Qing Zhiyuan glanced around.

Currently, there are 35 regular employees in the company, and several new employees will report to the company in April.

Then there are 5 regular interns.

The schools here in Neon have three holidays a year. They have summer vacation in July every year, and then start school in September until the Chinese New Year in December, and then the winter vacation in January.

Then spring break in February or March.

School will start again in April.

For example, when Xin Haicheng came to the company for an internship this time, he came during the spring break.

This group of interns had left the company by April.

Of course, there are some exceptions. It depends on how well you get along with the interns. If the conditions are good and the interns are interested, they can come to work in the company during their free time at school.

This is a very common phenomenon in neon and China.

In his previous life, Qing Zhiyuan worked for a small game company where half of the employees were interns.

It is a tacit understanding among capitalists to use interns as regular employees.

But at least Qing Zhiyuan will give them sufficient internship salary. If they perform well, they can also sign an employment contract first, and they can enter pokeni as soon as they graduate from university.

This can be considered relatively conscientious.

Most companies just let interns work without paying them at all. Some large companies even require interns to pay for their internships.

Xin Haicheng is one of those whom Qing Zhiyuan pays close attention to, so even if school has started, Xin Haicheng will come to the company to help in his free time and do some odd things.

He is not doing it for the internship salary, but mainly to have a sense of identity among pokeni, to have seniors he likes, and to be able to do the things he likes.

Sometimes the company would also give him original painting tasks and ask him to complete them in school and then bring them over.

Although Xinjin Cheng is not a formal employee now, he is still considered a member of pokeni and is used as a half-regular employee.

In the future, Qing Zhiyuan also wants to hand over more important tasks to this young man.

In addition to Xinjin Cheng, there are several good young men who also receive similar treatment and are being trained as future talents of the company.

Of course, it is still unknown whether they will choose pokeni after graduation.

…

So now the company is fully staffed, with 40 people.

But it is only enough to support 2 to 3 teams.

One of the projects being developed is "Diablo 2". It was originally given to Shinji Mikami to produce, but he wanted to make "The Witcher" with Gen Urobuchi, so for Diablo 2, Qing Jiyuan could only do it himself. .

The other one is "Pokémon". The development progress of Pokémon is currently relatively satisfactory.

The mechanics of this game are not complicated. The most important thing is that the original painting and character design take a lot of time. According to Qing Zhiyuan’s own estimation, Pokémon should be finished in June.

But these two projects have basically occupied all the company's manpower.

If you want to free up your hands to work on "The Witcher", you either have to expand your recruitment, or you have to see if you can work on programming and art seamlessly.

The so-called interspersed work is a bit like [time slice rotation scheduling] on computer processes, because everyone's work arrangements are arranged in a certain dislocation and sequence, and it is impossible for everyone to do a saturated amount of work at the same time.

When some of the people deliver the work at hand and wait for the next batch of work to arrive, there will be a part of the remaining time, and then use this part of the time to work on other projects.

To put it bluntly, "The Witcher" needs to review the rest of Diablo 2.

But as a result, the development cycle of "The Witcher" will become longer, and manpower support will not be available until Pokémon development is completed.

"Two programs, two art, that's about it for now." Qing Zhiyuan said, "Well, by the way, let Taiji Sakata pay more attention when the time comes to select. What we need are talents who can draw Japanese-style Western fantasy. "

"Okay president." Akane Ayase wrote down carefully with a pen.

As a result, the number of people in the company will increase.

"By the way, we need to find a larger venue. The company's current area can no longer accommodate so many people." Qing Zhiyuan added.

"Eh?"

The little HR was stunned for a moment and pointed at himself, "Shall I contact you?"

"if not?"

"Ah... Damn it, President, you treat me as your secretary again!"

…

Back in the office, Qing Zhiyuan folded his hands and thought silently.

Large-scale game development is indeed a very time-consuming, money- and resource-intensive matter.

The development cycle is generally long, even half a year is considered short, and some projects even take one to two years, three to four years, or even 10 years.

But the problem is that several of pokeni's games are now large-scale projects.

Games like Diablo have a long cycle.

In comparison, galgame has obvious advantages.

The development cycle is short and the selling price is high. P Company is now quite famous. As long as the product quality is good enough, it can actually make quite a lot of money.

Based on the current program development progress, as long as the amount of art can be spread, the production cycle of a galgame will only be 3 months.

Do you want to make another galgame?

…

It took 5 days to sort out the plan for the new galgame. On the afternoon of the second Tuesday, when Makoto Shinjin came to the company, Qing Zhiyuan called him, art director Taiji Sakata and copywriter Mika Ishino to the president's office. among.

Qing Zhiyuan handed out a copy of the printed plan to each person.

Xinjin Cheng was a little flattered and took two deep breaths to calm down.

The president is so kind to me, I don’t know how to repay him.

I looked down and saw a few big words written on the plan——

"Your Name"

This is an original neon animated film directed by Makoto Shinkai in 2016, with Ryunosuke Kamiki and Moe Kamishiraishi as the main dubbing actors, and produced by Comix Wave Films.

The film tells the story of male and female high school students who meet in a dream and find each other.

It can be said that this cartoon established Makoto Shinkai's position in the field of animated films, and he has since been hailed as Hayao Miyazaki's successor.

Your Name can be regarded as a mature work that he has been exploring for so many years. Before this, it was somewhat "the picture is beautiful, but the story is insufficient".

This movie has also set a box office miracle for animated movies around the world and has become a masterpiece in the minds of countless people.

Either don’t do it, or of course go directly to the big one if you want to do it!

This is what Qing Zhiyuan thinks.

In the past, it was restricted by hardware, but now pokeni technology has also improved, both in terms of software and hardware.

Although using Sega's MD can't make it as beautiful as Wallpaper Mania, it can still be done quite well.

…

A few people didn't speak and looked through the books silently.

The background of the story takes place in Neon, which coincides with the visit of a once-in-a-millennium comet.

Miyami Mitsuha, a female high school student living in a neon town, is bored by the election campaign held by her father, who is the mayor of the town, and the ancient customs of family shrines.

She is full of longing for big cities and even fantasizes, "Please let me be a handsome guy in Tokyo in the next life!".

Suddenly one day, Mitsuha had a dream that she became a boy, in a strange room, facing strange friends, and on the streets of Tokyo.

Although she was confused, the girl was still very happy to be able to come to Tokyo, which she had longed for.

At the same time, Tachibana Taki, a male high school student living in Tokyo, also had a strange dream. He became a female high school student in a small mountain town that he had never been to.

In this way, the boy and girl met each other in their dreams, and looked for each other with the belief that "no matter where you are in the world, I will definitely go to see you."

…

Although he has a deep memory of the animation in his mind, due to the limitations of the times, Qing Zhiyuan made some minor adjustments to the script outline of this game project.

For example——

Smartphones have not been invented yet, so naturally they cannot be included in the plan.

Relatively speaking, there will be a little bit of regret, but overall the impact is not very big.

After several people read it, they each sighed.

Ishino Mika lowered her eyes and laughed silently.

She can almost feel the beauty of the story described in the script, and has her own ideas about the emotions of the male and female protagonists and their respective experiences.

If the details could be filled in completely, it would really be a good story.

On the other side, Taiji Sakata and Makoto Nitsu also had the same idea.

"This story of exchanging lives and saving each other is so good." Sakata Taiji sighed with emotion.

"Yes. Is this the president's work?" Xinjin Cheng stroked the original line drawing. Although it hadn't been colored yet, he could already see the beauty and——

A feeling of déjà vu.

This feeling was really subtle, as if he had seen it in a dream.

"I'm afraid I will never be able to match the president's talents in this lifetime," said Shinjin Makoto.

"No, no." Qing Zhiyuan thought to himself, this is your work.

Several people chatted with each other for a while and exchanged opinions on some uncertain issues. Ishino Mika probably already had an idea.

"Currently, the company is short of manpower. Let Xinjin-san serve as the original artist for this project first. I hope that the main design comes from Xinjin-san."

Qing Zhiyuan said this to the art director Taiji Sakata.

The latter understood and nodded silently.

Although he still had some doubts in his heart, he was willing to trust the president's judgment.

"The only problem is that Xinjin-san is now a freshman. I don't know if he can take care of his studies, and his time is not stable either."

"It's okay, I can take it back to school to do it," Xinjin Cheng said.

It seems that this guy is very interested in the project "Your Name".

Sakata Taiji thought to himself.

However, he quite agrees with Makoto Nitsu's ability in original painting. Although some of his skills are still unfamiliar now, he has already shown extraordinary talent. There is no guarantee that he will become a master in the future.

Even Taiji Sakata had an incident——

The idea that this guy would be too humble if he stayed in the game company.

According to his vision, Makoto Nitsu would be more suitable to follow Hayao Miyazaki to do independent animation.

"But president, I'm still an intern now. Why did you choose me?" Xinjin Cheng asked weakly.

"Because I think you are the most suitable." Qing Zhiyuan said firmly.

This is indeed Qing Zhiyuan's truth. There is no one in this world more suitable to be the original animator of "Your Name" than Tsukai Makoto.

Because this is what belongs to him.

"I have seen your works and I think they are quite beautiful and imaginative. After I finished writing this project, my first thought was of you.

If it were you, you would probably be able to make the original painting of the game the best possible. This is my first instinct. "

Eh?

is that so?

Xinjin Cheng suddenly felt a little moved.

When I first came to the company as an intern to receive such strong recognition from the president, I really don’t know how to repay it.

"Okay president, I will work hard to live up to your expectations."

…

After Shinjin Makoto and Sakata Taiji left, Ishino Mika held the project and looked at Qing Zhiyuan hesitantly.

"What's wrong?" Qing Zhiyuan turned around and asked.

"President, don't you like doing galgames?"

The corners of Qing Zhiyuan's mouth twitched twice.

"The direction of the wind has changed... and it's profitable and not shabby. What's more, our galgame is different from other galgames. We are a galgame that brings happiness and excitement to people."

"Yeah." Ishino Mika nodded.

Unexpectedly, the president would have to compromise for money in the end.

But, being able to find a different galgame path is quite charming.

But - don't you have any idea in your heart whether you are happy or not?

…

After arranging the work, Qing Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The main reason is that the company is under too much repayment pressure and does not dare to take too many risks. It is not bad to have a short-term galgame to make money.

Time passed gradually, and it was late May in a blink of an eye.

The weather is also starting to get warmer.

In early June, Qing Zhiyuan was invited to participate in the [Chicago Consumer Electronics Show] in Chicago, USA.

The Chicago Electronics Show is equivalent to the future E3 electronics show, or the Tokyo Game Show. It mainly invites the world's largest electronics manufacturers to come here to exhibit and promote their new products, and at the same time, it also allows more people to be exposed to these products. Cutting edge products.

This time last year, Rentiantian and Sony were still at odds with each other at the electronics show.

A year passed in the blink of an eye, and Qing Zhiyuan came to this stage that belonged to the big guys.

The reason for being invited is mainly because at this exhibition, Sega will launch a new handheld console, and pokeni and Sony are both major participants.

Of course, DUN’s Nao Tsuda is also there.

…

The entire consumer show is divided into two parts. The first part is the pre-show press conference, where each exhibiting company introduces its products. Media reporters and consumers will attend the event.

After the press conference, it is open time for free visit and experience.

Each exhibiting company will have a fixed area where it will arrange and display its products for consumers to experience.

At this time, the process has been relatively complete, and similar exhibitions in the future will basically follow this model.

On the afternoon of the first day, Rentian brought the expanded SFC game console that they jointly developed with Philips. Because of the use of new disk technology, playing games on SFC can increase the game capacity to more than 500 MB.

This technology is actually not that advanced anymore. At the electronics show last year, Sony showed everyone the PS prototype developed for Rentian.

It's a pity that it has now become a fantasy.

It's quite ironic in retrospect.

But the media and players don't seem to have such deep memories. When the Rentian game console was displayed on the stage and the introducer tried it through the TV, the name of Super Mario was still shouted below.

Qing Zhiyuan glanced back at Sony's representative, Mr. Kutaragi Ken, and saw an angry expression on this man's face. He could tell at a glance that he was full of energy and ready for revenge.

The next morning, it was Sega's turn to hold a pre-show press conference.

The media reporters have been waiting for it for a long time, because before the press conference, everyone has received the news that Sega will launch a brand new handheld game console this year jointly developed by Sega and Sony.

Coupled with the love-hate relationship between Sega, Sony and Rentendo, the atmosphere of this press conference became more intense.

Everyone is looking forward to a very dramatic performance.

…

The person Sega took to the stage to give a demonstration was their sales director in the United States, named Tom Kolinski.

After Tom came on stage, he raised the microphone with a smile on his face, "Hello everyone, I am Tom Kolinski, the sales director of Sega."

There was a burst of applause from below.

Everyone has been looking forward to Sega for a long time, and they want to see what kind of sparks can be created between Sega and Rentendo this year.

Tom smiled slightly, "If there is anything in this world that can make our dreams come true, or even let us hold our dreams in the palm of our hands.

I thought, at least this thing won't be black and white. "

Ha ha ha ha……

There was a burst of laughter below.

This is obviously because Rentian’s gameboy still has a black and white screen.

Randy, the sales director of Rentiantian, didn't look very good, but he still tried his best to smile when facing the cameras of media reporters.

“Whose dreams are in black and white?”

Tom Kolinsky spread his hands and made an invitation gesture. The staff below immediately ran to the stage and put a brand new handheld game console into his hands.

On the big screen, the camera was pushed forward and zoomed in, showing the brand new game console in Kolinski's hands.

"Now, I would like to introduce you to you——

Sega!

GAME POCKET! "

…

Thunderous applause broke out again below.

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