Abiru Shohiro is the president of Mink. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he founded Mink, he once said such a sentence, and made it the company's tenet "to pursue the ease of the game, and to pursue the bright and pleasant atmosphere".

Companies like ELF and Active can be said to have their own unique and distinctive style when they were first founded.

Leaf, who specializes in pure love works, ELF, who discusses life in depth through games, Alice, who puts playfulness first, and Long live Shigeguchi black_lilith......

But mink is an exception, and from the beginning, this company was a company that didn't have its own specific style - or rather, that's the style of mink.

Our characteristic is that the wood has a characteristic mouth!

Probably because of this, after Senxia sent an invitation message last year, President Abirujuhiro chose to join the Mithril platform and put his work on the platform.

As it turned out, he was completely right in this choice.

"The financial report for the first quarter has risen so much compared to last year......"

When he saw the financial report left by his club in the first quarter, President Abiru Shouhiro was really very emotional about his correct decision.

Abidiliu, who has made enough money on the Mithril platform, organized the company's people to make a big news and make a good game, and this game is ready to be put on the Mithril platform for the first time.

However, at this time, Abidio suddenly received a phone call.

"Animic Company...... Game...... Eh?!Together?!"

When Abidiliu heard the news, he was astonished.

The game I'm doing on my side, of course Abiliu Shouhao knows what it's like, it's a game with a bit of a heavy taste.

But at this time, Animic Club, even said that they wanted to cooperate?

Of course, Animic Club, a club as pure as a white rabbit, naturally seems impossible to make a game in the category of work.

Therefore, all the content of the gentleman will be released in the name of the vest DW club at that time.

Having said that, he was still a little shocked when he was named and flopped by the "big guys in the industry".

Although Animic is a club that was established in the past two years, other people's games have been sold to the United States, making a lot of money, and it has also fallen on Sega's thigh, and it has a somewhat entangled relationship with Sony.

Although there are many clubs in the gentleman's game industry that are more senior than animic clubs, but seniority does not mean that there are people on it!

The so-called qualifications are only valid when the status is equal, and the "qualifications" of being a commoner for 60 years and the "qualifications" of being a samurai for 10 years are two completely different things.

So after hearing the news on the phone, Abidio was excited.

In any case, the request for cooperation, this side will agree first, no matter what happens, we will talk about it when the time comes!

After the initial confirmation of the intention, the animic club sent a fax to Mink.

After hanging up the phone, Abidiliu couldn't wait to pick up the relevant documentation

"3D?interactive movie?"

3D or something, of course Abidiliu understands, but what about this interactive movie in the back?

It's no wonder that Abidio doesn't know, because the concept that Senxia is proposing now is really something beyond the existing game concept.

The latter is not mentioned for the time being, and if the former is the case, Abidius looks a little concerned at this time.

"But it's 3D......"

Mink, founded in 1993, positioned itself as a visual kei company when it started making its first game: to be a visual kei company, that is, to make the game "leave the deepest impression on players from a visual point of view".

Since then, Mink has specialized in graphics, and in terms of visuals, he has given everyone a very enthusiastic work.

And it turns out that this approach of the Mink Club is completely correct, although there is no style, but the display of the visual kei has made them determine the development direction with CG as a complete selling point.

But 3D is such a thing...... How to say it, in the galgame industry, there are really not many people who use 3D.

From the advent of Windows 95 to the next few years, it can be said that this is the time when the galgame industry has changed the most.

Other types of games can improve the quality of the picture and improve the gameplay, but in the galgame industry, before, everyone basically relied on CG to win, although the story is important, but in most cases, a good picture is more important than the story itself.

If you have to say,Galgame industry,It's not without upgrades.,From 16 colors to 256 colors of the painting style, there are some animated voices、Replace the original monotonous MIDI with CD sound sources、Make a separate opening OP and so on。

Because of this, the audience is becoming more and more critical about the game, some pursue more perfect graphics, some need more exciting gentleman plots, and some want more moving plots.

All this is reflected in the industry, which has become a big diversion - the diversion of game genres, the diversion of game companies, and the diversion of game graphics systems.

In 1995, after the advent of Windows95, the graphics of the game were directly crossed from 16 colors in the DOS era to 256 colors.

And this point is also where Mink transforms.

At the beginning of the transformation, Mink once concentrated all the strength of the company and developed the company's first RPG "Dangel".

Abiliu Shouhiro had great ambitions at the beginning, and he thought that this work was a confident masterpiece of screenwriting, original art, and music.

- But the reality is cruel.

The game industry's evaluation of this work is very simple.,This is a game that pushes girls and accepts girls.,Well,That's it.。 What, you ask, what's more?

It's not just the industry evaluation, in terms of sales, this work is not much different from the previous ordinary works.

is obviously a confident big work, which took three times the cost and effort, but the final result is so ridiculous and simple, which makes the whole mink fall to the bottom of the mood all of a sudden.

In fact, the player's evaluation of this game is only one sentence: "It turns out that Mink still makes this kind of game!"

And then...... And then there was no then......

Making 3D games was another transformation for Abidio and Mink.

Whether this transformation will succeed is also a very important question.

The dark clouds of this previous production failure lasted until August 1996, when Mink released a new creative work: "ぺろぺろcandy~陽の章~".

Well, to be honest, Sen Xia also borrowed some of this work in "Guilty Crown". Of course, it's just a small reference, and Senxia is referring to more mature systems in the future.

This game is a drag club type SLG - not a "cross-dressing" in the sense of a pseudo-girl. In this game, there is only one girl who appears, and the player can set the place, clothing, and various gentlemanly poses, there are hundreds of combinations, and if you want to improve Candy's favorability, you can unlock more poses...... No, it's a special event.

In this new work, the whole work reached the peak of Mink at once, and at the same time, Miss Candy was crowned the best Miss Game of the year, and she also became one of Mink's representative girls.

And because of the success of this work, many players have sent letters hoping that Mink will try more types of work design.

As a result, President Abidier thought of the problem of "dark works" that he had never thought of at the beginning of the company's founding.

- And this is the source of the legend of Mink, and it is also the source of Sen Xia's initiation.

And the first dark-oriented game they made was the famous "Demonic Appearance".

This work tells the story of a girl who completely destroys her aunt's entire family in order to take revenge on her mother, who made her unhappy life.

By the way, the heroine of this work is also called Lihua......

With the success of the first dark work, Mink seems to have awakened and started to make a new dark story, and their second dark story is "しゃぶり姫~陰の章~", the name is the opposite of "陽の章", and it is also very popular.

And after that,Mink also made a 3D game,This game is called "ミンク大作戦,In this work,Mink's previous works are all in Q version of the main characters.。 But the so-called 3D, uh...... In fact, it's just the Q version of the villain when the battle animation is ...... Ahem.

After that,Mink made some dark games.,It's also a big sale.,And at this time,Abidio felt that "we have a big advantage".,And then proposed to try to do a school love type work that mink tried for the first time.,But unfortunately,This work ended up hitting the street......

Right now, Mink is working on a dark game called fu·shi·da·ra, but it's just a niche work, and their main focus is to prepare a game about the hospital for one night to be sold in December.

Abidió had great ambitions for the title, so, at the very beginning, he decided to land on the Mithril platform.

But at this time, the owner of the Mithril platform came to the door......

Abidió flipped through the introductions and statements about the interactive film that followed.

"Huh?"

Although I was a little skeptical at first, after seeing what was described in the document, President Abidiyu felt quite interesting.

It turned out that the other party didn't want to interfere with their game production, but wanted to make a 3D version of the game according to the text plot after the production was completed.

Of course, because the text and pictures are different, a certain amount of adaptation is necessary.

The news impressed President Abidiliu.

"Looks pretty good......"

This novel way of performing is not able to show the beauty of CG, but it is interesting to be able to make the entire work in 3D.

It's like a TV series......

In fact, there are not many descriptions in the data, but in this regard, in the form of the game, it is different from the past.

This kind of performance is different from CG.

First of all, the picture is dynamic.

Although Live2D can also be made dynamic - this technology of Animic, everyone is also watching and studying - after all, 2D has no way to adjust the viewing angle and other parameters anytime and anywhere like 3D.

In terms of story flow, this kind of interactive movie, and the general galgame game, are essentially the same.

The story has a flow of a predetermined direction, which then has an impact on the story itself based on the player's actions.

This whole process, and the options on galgame that affect the structure and development of the whole story, are actually the same.

After understanding all this, President Abidio looked a little enlightened.

"I see. ”

Abidio thought Animic was really interesting at this time.

Before that, they had tinkered with a game that was a text-only game with almost no graphics, and even excluded the game CG from the game.

After that, they created a new game, which turned out to be only visual, and the use of text dropped significantly.

——Although the DW club has only been established for a long time, people in the industry know that the DW club is actually the vest used by Animic to make 18X category games.

President Abidio noticed that the two types of games were almost completely opposite.

"Maybe you can give it a try. President Abidiho nodded secretly, thinking that this matter might be quite reliable.

After all, the game itself can't affect the sales on its side, so even if the work hits the streets, it's nothing.

What Mink Club lacks now is a solid audience, and at this time, it may be possible to expand with the help of interactive films?

Abiliu Shouhao thinks that this method may work......

However, what Abidio didn't know was that just as he was deciding to give it a try, Mori Xia was sneaking to meet the active people.

Well,Senxia once gave active a draft here.,And then I went to make a game as a script.,The progress of this game,It's a little faster than the progress of the mink club.,If nothing else.,The game here should come out first.。

Maybe you don't remember what this game is, so here again, this game is a script for a certain Black Sacred Book Story written by Sen Xia......

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Two-in-one, I'm so tired and lazy after I come back, and it hurts to check the information

orz (To be continued.) )