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Chapter 175 President 79 is really different

Chapter 175 79. The president is really different

The advertisements for "The Man in the Bed" are overwhelming and can be found all over the streets. As long as advertisements are allowed, you can probably see posters of this work.

Especially on the doors of major game stores, there are basically large color posters.

Because of Quilt Man's unique painting style and use of colors, you can see a riot of colors from a distance, which makes it easier to attract attention.

If you hadn't looked closely at the content above, you would have thought there was a watercolor painting hanging at the door of the store.

What does this mean?

It means that pokeni is really rich now.

Since the popularity of Pokemon, Pokeni has been equivalent to a hen that can lay golden eggs. Anyway, so far, the combined revenue of all Pokeni games has brought the company more than 30 billion yen. income.

After excluding expenses and paying off bank debts, there are more than 20 billion yen on the books.

Perhaps there is still a certain gap between it and the top ten game companies, but pokeni is now considered to have a small amount of capital.

…

After all, Qing Zhiyuan is a person from the future of 2023, and he is engaged in the game industry, so he is very familiar with this kind of propaganda. He was not able to use it before, mainly because he was limited by funds. Now he has money. From now on, why don’t we need to make more plans for the future?

Game promotion trinity:

The future is: online and offline warm-up, celebrity endorsement, topic hype, cross-border linkage, and viral marketing.

Nowadays, except that there is no Internet, I can do almost everything. It just depends on whether it is necessary.

If it were placed 20 years later, Qing Zhiyuan would still want a set of pancakes and fruits no matter what.

The main promotion methods of "Belt Man" still rely on the media, TV, and posters.

Even though there is no celebrity endorsement and no cross-border linkage, it is already quite good. With pokeni's unremitting promotion, the popularity of this game quickly rose.

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"Tsk tsk, with such a big campaign, it will be a disaster if the cost of publicity and distribution cannot be recovered." said Hiroyuki Aoyama, the level designer (planner) of the Diablo project team.

"Hmm... It's possible. It is said that the TV station alone has spent more than 30 million yuan on advertising. Including other expenses, it is in the direction of 100 million yuan. To be honest, I didn't expect the social media at first. I am actually willing to invest so much money in "The Man in the Quilt"."

"That's right. I thought the president was using "Bedding Man" as an experiment to train newcomers."

This time, what is completely opposite to the reaction from the outside world is——

However, pokeni internally is not very optimistic about this game.

Of course, it is mainly focused on the Diablo 2 development team and the Pokémon project team who don’t know much about the game itself.

"Hey, let me tell you, why are you so narrow-minded? Are you so ignorant of your own products?"

"Ah~ That's not true." Hiroshi Aoyama quickly apologized, "It's not that I don't think our products are good, it's mainly because the members of "Bed Men" are really too new. Even Ishino, although he has project experience, has never served as a Over the producer.”

Having said that, Hiroshi Aoyama does not recognize Ishino Mika's ability from the bottom of his heart.

He is also one of the earliest employees of the company. At the same time as Ishino Mika, both of them served as planners for Onmyoji.

It's just that he is mainly responsible for the level design part of the game, while Mika Ishino is responsible for the game script content.

Later, after the game became a big hit, everyone praised the plot, but they didn't have much feeling for the levels and battles.

But in fact, within the game industry, level designers are generally better than script designers.

Now that Mika Ishino can serve as the producer of a new game, Hiroshi Aoyama is somewhat jealous.

But what he said is not unreasonable. Many people think the same as him——

"Belt Man" is first of all a lightweight galgame, with relatively small investment and a small number of project members.

And basically they are all newcomers.

Whether it’s Mika Ishino who is serving as a producer for the first time, Jun Maeda (Juni Aseda) who is doing script design for the first time, or original animator Shota Yokoyama who is doing innovative design for the first time...

It always gives people an uneasy look.

No matter how you look at it, it is an experimental game project, so naturally not many people really care.

Perhaps Qingzhiyuan was founded with the mentality of giving it a try. It would be better if it could be hatched, and it wouldn't cost much if it couldn't be hatched.

This is what everyone guessed.

But I didn't expect that when it was finally put on the shelves, Qing Zhiyuan was really willing to spend money.

I thought you were hatching eggs casually, but I didn't expect you were serious about it.

In fact, the ideas of men and women in Neon in the 1990s have not yet changed. They are not as advanced as they were 20 years later. They are still stuck in an era where men are strong and women are weak.

So even though Ishino Mika has been making games with Qing Zhiyuan for so many years, everyone still has reservations about her evaluation.

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"It's too much for these people. Do they not think highly of us that much?"

I heard some gossip, which made Shota Yokoyama, the artist of the "Bed Man" project team, particularly unhappy.

He turned his chair and looked back at Ishino Mika who was writing a document next to him.

"Senior Ishino, don't you have anything to say?"

senior……

The corner of Ishino Mika's mouth twitched, and she had the urge to slap the cactus on the table directly into this person's face.

Hengshan is tall and tall. A sinister face gives people an invisible sense of oppression.

Such a mature man calls her senior because he joined the company later than Ishino Mika.

How can I afford this? !

"Yokoyama-kun, are you 40 years old?" Ishino Mika asked.

"Ah~ Senior, why do you think so?"

Hengshan felt very hurt, like a pitiful big bear. He frowned and covered his head with a high hairline with his hands. His whole body felt bad.

"Ishino-senpai, I am only 26 years old this year."

"Huh? Sorry, I really don't know..."

Only 26 years old? !

Can't tell at all.

Isn't this guy Hengshan too old?

But it makes sense to think about it. After all, art director Taiji Sakata is only under 40 years old. How could Yokoyama be so old?

You know, the current average age of pokeni is 24 years old.

Although Ishino Mika was apologizing, she was extremely happy inside.

Who told you to call people senior? I don’t want to be called that old by you.

Ishino Mika cleared her throat and said patiently and gently, "Yokoyama-kun, can you please stop calling me senpai from now on? Just call me Ishino. If you feel uncomfortable, just call me Ishino-san."

"Okay, senior. Oh no, Ishino-san." Hengshan nodded obediently.

After a two-second pause, he continued to ask:

"But don't you care at all? The other members of the project team don't think much of the "Belt Man" thing."

Ishino Mika frowned. Although she was a little dissatisfied with these rumors, she was not so arrogant that she had to argue with others.

perhaps--

"It's not that I don't care, but it doesn't make sense to care."

Ishino Mika said, "Instead of wasting time arguing with others, it is better to do your own thing. Results are the best proof."

When she was able to take over the responsibility of being a producer, to some extent she wanted to challenge herself and prove herself.

President Qing gave her this opportunity.

Ishino Mika needs to take advantage of it.

From this point of view, the president is really different from ordinary men.

From Qing Zhiyuan, Ishino Mika has never experienced any discrimination against girls...

No matter what the job, everyone is treated equally.

but……

When she thought of this, Ishino Mika frowned in discomfort.

Sometimes she also feels that it would be nice for the president to treat her as a girl occasionally.

In every sense.

"Anyway, come on! Use your results to slap them in the face!" Ishino Mika secretly clenched her fists.

"Oh well."

Yokoyama nodded, Ishino Mika's words calmed him down a little.

Look at Jun Maeda next to him.

This guy didn't seem to care either.

Jun Maeda has been at the company for a while. He looks carefree on the outside. He is currently listening to music on Sony headphones. I don't know what this guy is thinking.

Your game is about to be released. As a script creator, aren't you anxious at all?

On the contrary, as an artist in a supporting role, I bear the most pressure.

Does it fit?

…

In fact, despite Maeda Jun's calm and nonchalant look, there was a lot of panic in his heart.

Wearing headphones, there was no sound at all. I pretended to listen to music the whole time, but actually listened silently to the conversation between the two people.

Jun Maeda is a person who is very afraid of competition and pressure. It can even be said that the character "Bedding Man" is a true reflection of him.

When he encounters something that cannot be solved and is beyond his ability, he will shrink himself.

Therefore, although Maeda Jun in the previous life was Alice Soft as her first choice when applying for a job, she still joined Scoop, which seemed to be able to grow and develop.

In Alice Soft at that time, the development director of TADA declared that "if you have not performed well after one year, you will be fired immediately." The competition for survival in Alice Soft was very fierce, which was one of the reasons why I did not join.

A newcomer like Maeda, who has never even touched the Windows operating system before, has no confidence that he can survive Alice Soft's competition for survival.

In this life's timeline, if he had not received Qing Zhiyuan's personal commitment, Maeda Jun would probably not have the courage to shamelessly join pokeni.

Maeda Jun pretended to listen to the music, feeling extremely anxious inside.

White teeth, white teeth...

The company doesn’t have an elimination system, right?

Will I lose my job as soon as I join pokeni because of poor performance in "Belt Man"?

No way?

Wouldn't the results of "The Man in the Bed" be bad?

…

"Ah~ It would be great if it was produced by Tsubaki Furuhara, and the results would definitely be very good. But the producer of this game wrote the name of [Ishino Mika]."

In the Elf Club, Takei Masaki sighed.

This is the script character of the famous "Classmate". Masaki Takei is responsible for many character settings and story lines in "Classmate".

He and the company's president, Hirudian Masato, can be said to complement each other in both literary and military skills.

"Who doesn't miss Gu Yuan Chunqiu?" Zhidian Changren sighed from the bottom of his heart.

To a certain extent, Gu Yuan Chunqiu is the leader of elf.

In the field of galgame, pokeni is the first company to perfect the entire game mechanism, including [memory corridor] [favorability setting] [strategy branch setting]...

Without pokeni, Hirudian Changren feels that galgame would not have developed so fast.

You know, a few years ago, galgame always gave people a bad impression.

And now, more people feel that they can gain love, touch and tears from galgame...

All this is because of Gu Yuan Chunqiu.

But Teacher Gu Yuan Chunqiu is no longer engaged in game work.

During this period of time, Hirudian Masato felt that he had suddenly lost his direction in life, that the lighthouse on the sea suddenly disappeared, and that the whole world had turned dark.

If Chunqiu Furuhara were here, what kind of game could he create?

Zhidian Changren always thinks about this problem in the dead of night.

"Furuhara Chunqiu's departure from the game industry is really a big loss for the game industry." Hiruda Masato sighed, "To be honest, all the players of galgame today miss him. If President Qing Zhiyuan could retain him He’ll be fine.”

"Yeah." Takei Masaki nodded, "It's just a year or two. In a few years, when a dominant galgame producer appears, Furuhara Chunqiu will probably become history. .”

"Didn't newcomer Shinji Mikami prove his strength?" Masaki Takei turned to look at his president.

Hiruda Masato smiled and said, "Mikami's game is in a completely different field. It is an ARPG, not a galgame."

"Then now we have to see whether Mika Ishino can take over from Tsubaki Furuhara?"

"Well, that's right."

…

The entire gaming industry, not just industry insiders, but players are also paying attention to this issue——

Who is the successor of Tsubaki Furuhara at pokeni Co., Ltd.

Or, to put it more bluntly, who will produce P Club’s galgame after Chunqiu Furuhara leaves?

Who has the ability to take over?

The main reason is that the old thief Gu Yuan made it so well before that it made players wonder if anyone else could have such a talent.

As Hiruda Masato said, no matter how good Mikami Shinji's "The Witcher" is, it will always be an ARPG.

Galgame can take over the baton only if there are real successors.

…

However, things are much better this time around than when The Witcher launched.

At least players are willing to give it a try, whether it is out of curiosity or whether the publicity is in place, in short, the popularity is there and the willingness to buy is also there.

All of this is actually thanks to "The Witcher"

It is the combination of Shinji Mikami and Gen Urobuchi that gives players confidence.

Make them willing to believe——

Even if Pokeni does not have Tsubaki Furuhara, high-quality game works can still be produced.

…

On October 11, 1993, "Belt Man" was released on time.

Long queues formed at the entrance of major game stores.

This scene is quite similar to the scene when "Your Name" was released.

Furukawa Hirose and his friends also lined up early.

"No matter what, I definitely have to give "Belt Man" a try. If it's not good, just treat it as a memorial to Chunqiu Furuhara."

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