Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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monster hunter?

It's a fairly straightforward name indeed.

"As you can see, this is a game about hunting monsters, and the highlight of this game is a sense of oppression. When you face truly powerful creatures, you only have the most traditional attack moves. If you are interested If so, the Monster Hunter demo area has been opened in the Carnival, but what I want to tell you is that this game may not be suitable for everyone.”

Before deciding to make Monster Hunter, Zhu Youxing had already made psychological preparations.

Because Monster Hunter was indeed a very niche game at the beginning.

It's just that this game has cultivated a group of very loyal players. They will spend thousands of hours on this game without any sense of fatigue. Even if they hunt repeated monsters again and again, they will still enjoy it.

This game will also be a very long-term front, so that core players can be better attracted to themselves.

Ueto Hayakawa carefully looked at the live broadcast.

Then he looked at the head of his game development team.

"Have you seen any characteristics from this game?"

The person in charge of the game development said with a bitter face: "This is just a game preview, we can't see anything at all, but according to what Zhu Youxing said, this game should be a game with a certain degree of difficulty. Screen out many ordinary players."

After all, the vast majority of players are not the kind of masochists, they prefer to find fun in a relaxed game environment.

That's why the simple platform jumping game Super Mario is so popular, and there are also Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, etc. with beautiful stories, but the difficulty can also be adjusted by yourself.

But so far there doesn't seem to be a really hard game.

Zhuyouxing seems to be planning to break this routine and start developing some difficult games.

But many companies have tried to launch that kind of very difficult games before, especially arcade games. In order to cheat more players out of coins, they will forcibly increase the difficulty of the game.

However, this kind of behavior generally gets negative feedback, and there are still a small number of players who are willing to abuse themselves.

So Suri Electronics' games are all in a simpler direction.

But turning around, Zhu Youxing suddenly made a game with a certain degree of difficulty, and also reminded the players in advance to let them take it easy, which is really confusing.

"President, do we need to follow up on this game? Do we want to make something similar?"

Ueto Hayakawa shook his head: "No need for now, just look at the reactions of the players on the scene, they seem to be only attracted by the screen of the game, from this point of view, it seems that we should make a game with more exquisite screen, by the way, about the game screen To what extent has the attack reached?"

The person in charge of game development immediately replied: "Our latest game has already used the latest data resources provided by Unreal Engine. This time the data resources have greatly improved our game graphics."

"Still using Unreal Engine? Didn't I say before that if possible, we should develop our own game engine as much as possible."

The person in charge of the development said with a embarrassed look: "It's not that we don't want to do it, but our manpower is already a little short. If we can expand the development staff and invest more budget, we can develop our game engine. .”

Recently, Ueto Hayakawa has increasingly felt the need to break free from the shackles of Unreal Engine.

After all, this is something of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, not your own. The value of each game developed by yourself will be uploaded to the Unreal Engine team without reservation. It is a great loss to provide game development values ​​intermittently.

Until now he finally realized why Zhu Youxing agreed to use their engine in the first place.

This is the purest numerical monopoly, and Unreal Engine has jointly cultivated a behemoth with the input of countless developers.

And this behemoth now has a faint absolute dominance.

This is really not what Hayakawa Ueto wants to see.

Hayakawa Ueto said cruelly: "I will find a way to inject more funds into you in the future. Now the game team has begun to show signs of profitability, and the development of the game engine has already had some capital. It is necessary for us to create our own games. engine."

With Hayakawa Ueto's guarantee, the person in charge was still a little reluctant.

Seriously, he's used to Unreal Engine.

Now Unreal Engine is really super easy to use, and all functions are very user-friendly.

Moreover, the Unreal Engine team will continue to improve according to some special requirements on their side, and the speed of improvement is so fast.

If I use Unreal Engine now, I am a customer, and the person that the Unreal Engine team needs to serve constantly.

But if they develop a new engine themselves, everything will start from scratch, and it will definitely not be as easy to use as Unreal Engine.

But this is the president's request, they can only obey.

"By the way, I found that the character of this Monster Hunter moves very smoothly. How did you do it?"

Ueto Hayakawa stared at the screen and asked suddenly.

At this moment, the demo content of Monster Hunter has begun to be played on the live TV.

Takeyuhoshi personally acted as a commentator to try out the hunter with the big sword.

This hunter started the battle by looking for powerful monsters on the big map.

Judging from this battle scene, everything is really real, as if creating a whole new world out of thin air.

Everything is perfectly in accordance with the laws of physics.

This kind of numerical adjustment of the game action gave him an amazing feeling.

So how is this action value created? This is what he is most curious about.

"This... is probably the secret weapon of Youxing Electronic Entertainment. There is no relevant data for these values ​​in the Unreal Engine. It should be the secret of Youxing Electronic Entertainment."

The person in charge of the game development was also very envious of the smooth movements of the monsters and characters in the demo.

Too bad he's pretty sure these values ​​don't exist in Unreal Engine.

Of course, the action values ​​in the Unreal Engine are also very real, but compared with the actions of this Monster Hunter, it is still a bit worse.

Hayakawa Ueto sighed and said: "This is the advantage of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment. They will always be one step ahead of us. This is not acceptable."

If they want to win this console war, they must first find a way to approach Yuxing Electronic Entertainment in terms of game quality.

"President, I don't think it's worth worrying too much about. In fact, we should work harder on the screen. This is at least what we can do now."

At this time, the head of the team in charge of marketing said.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because according to our marketing team's survey, players are more interested in games with excellent and exquisite graphics, and improving the quality of games is also the easiest thing to do. As long as the performance of the game machine reaches the level, we can make the graphics Infinitely true, this is also the most cost-effective way.”

Ueto Hayakawa didn't particularly approve of this kind of thing.

He still thinks that the innovation and powerful game development technology of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is the right way.

But the marketing team is also right. In terms of cost-effectiveness, a game with enough exquisite graphics and average game quality is the most cost-effective.

Ueto Hayakawa hesitated for a moment and said: "Let's continue to work hard on the development of the game's core technology. Of course, the expressiveness of the screen cannot be let go, but it is only placed in a secondary position."

The head of the marketing team wanted to say something, but was stopped by Ueto Hayakawa.

He has made up his mind and cannot be influenced casually.

At the same time, the Monster Hunter game demonstration in the carnival venue has ended.

Most of the game trailers have also been played.

For the players, the news they most want to get has basically been announced.

"Yinjiang, can you slow down? Why have you never seen you so focused on something before?"

"It's because you two are too slow, it's so interesting here, don't you have any interest?"

In the crowd, the three girls kept shuttling.

The three girls are all wearing the classic Japanese sailor uniform.

Yin-chan's eyes looked around without blinking.

She was already a little dazzled.

The surrounding game-related stuff is so fascinating.

Yinchan, Kazumi and Aiko are good friends since they were young. The three of them played together when they were about four or five years old.

Among them, Aiko is the smartest, and often gets the first place in the grade.

Yinchan and Kazumi are much worse than Aiko, so Aiko often gives them two make-up lessons.

One day, Aiko, who has always liked to study, suddenly took out a handheld at their study meeting.

Aiko said she got it from a boy she knew since she was a child, and said it was a bet that after completing the challenge of some game, she would get an obedient follower.

Finally, through the unremitting efforts of three people, Aiko completed the bet.

All of this was supposed to be an episode.

But for some reason, Yinjiang's interest in video games has been out of control since he experienced Fruit Ninja.

Originally, video games are something that most boys like, but Yinjiang likes them especially.

She has always had the image of an iceberg beauty, but she has an extraordinary obsession in front of games.

Then, when she learned that Youxing Electronic Entertainment was going to hold a carnival, she called her two best friends without hesitation, and came to the carnival together.

This is really, really rare in carnivals.

Ninety percent of the players who come here are male players.

At least 90% of the remaining 10% of women came with their male partners. In fact, they may not have much interest in video games themselves.

People like Yinjiang can only be regarded as a minority.

"Aiko, I found that Yinjiang might be completely bewitched by the game. Should we find a way to get her out of this addiction?"

Kazumi and Aiko followed behind Yinchan, who was speeding back and forth, and they talked to each other.

Yinjiang ignored the discussion between the two behind, but continued to focus on the interesting games around him.

The three of them have already arrived at the trial play area on the second floor. Yinjiang switches between different trial games almost every three minutes, as if she never knows how to get tired.

Aiko shook his head and said, "I don't think it's necessary. Have you forgotten that Yin-chan even made math problems that I couldn't solve in order to be able to play games? I said Yin-chan a long time ago." She is very gifted in learning, but she has always been careless, but now she is willing to bet with us because of playing games, and is willing to study hard for games, so I think this is a good thing."

Kazumi murmured, "But I always feel that she will be addicted. Without the two of us staring at her, she will probably become a Heisei waste house."

Aiko said: "Then we should be together all the time, even in college, shouldn't we?"

"Well... that's the problem. You know my brain. I'm the stupidest of the three of us. I might not be able to get into the same university as you."

When it came to this, Kazumi was still a little frustrated.

She is the stupidest of the three, and sometimes she really has low self-esteem.

"Don't say that, believe me, I will try my best to get you better grades, and we will definitely be admitted to the same university by then."

"Aizi, Kazumi, have you two finished talking? Let's move on to the next place. We've agreed. I'll make the decision today. For this reason, I was in the top ten of my grade."

"Okay, okay, I listen to you."

Aiko took the hands of Kazumi who felt inferior and said, "We are friends for life, and this will never change."

The three finally came to a brand new casual game trial area together.

The name of the game here is Bejeweled, and it is a very light game.

The development of the game is under the name of Zhuyouxing, so many players patronize here.

However, most of the players just have a taste of it, and they are not interested in such a simple and brainless game.

But Aiko and Kazumi liked it very much, because it was just right for the two of them who had no talent in games.

Yinjiang played it for a while and then it became boring.

"Huh? Aiko? Kazumi? And Yinchan, why are you three here?"

Just then, a boy's voice sounded.

Aiko turned her head to look, and found that it was the guy she had known since she was a child, Tian Chong.

It is not the slightest surprise to see Tian Chong Aiko here, after all, this is a carnival for players, it would be abnormal if Tian Chong didn't come.

"What? Can't we come?" Aiko asked back.

"That's not true, it's just really surprising, I thought you guys weren't interested in video games."

"Video games are not difficult, don't forget, I beat you on Fruit Ninja."

Tian Chong's face immediately turned red: "It's just that I didn't play Fruit Ninja seriously. That kind of game is not for me at all. If I want to play, I must play the very hardcore and very difficult ones, just like monsters. Like a hunter."