Chapter 42: The Bug Squad
In this era, all players who go to online forums are actually not the main profit targets of game companies. Because these people have picky tastes, they are very cautious in spending money, unlike those new players, white players, who listen to the wind and rain, and say that buying is buying.
In fact, most game companies are more annoying to these players. However, they often have to deal with them, because these veteran players have the right to speak in the game industry. Many of them have changed from veteran players to practitioners in the industry.
Most of them are not making games, but news media. Journalists have always had the title of uncrowned king.
And those little white players, no matter whether these "old guys" are talking nonsense or serious nonsense, they don't have a concept at all.
I don't know how strong I feel, I think the article is well written, so I want to try this game. Because of this, some game companies are even more annoying to these guys who need to be provided like uncles. Especially this kind of hate can't be said yet, saying I hate you, such a nasty feeling, it's really too much to hate.
Lin Yan has a lot of affection for these old white players, after all, he used to take this path and become a professional game industry practitioner.
Don't look at these people when they talk about it, they seem to be gods descending to earth, but if you really want them to do something, such as making a game, they will be blind.
Immediately, he changed from a mortal god to a broken stone. This is the typical characteristic of the saliva party, it is easy to look at flowers and difficult to embroider. This truth has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is naturally extremely reasonable.
In addition to dealing with the affairs of these core players recently, Lin Yan has another thing that is not quite right with his major. It's about making 3D animations.
Although it is said that there is a technology, the picture that I want to achieve. As long as you smash it with money, you can solve it. However, there is a problem, that is, the animation studio owned by Chiba Games lacks a good script.
Lin Yan thought about it for a while, and felt that he still had to think with the thinking of a game. Animated movies can refer to those role-playing games.
Because, animated films take a long time to make. The cost is large, so it is inevitable that a niche category will not be chosen. Instead, choose a category that is as popular as possible and more popular.
If you can refer to it directly, it's probably "Pokemon". After all, this series of cartoons is still being broadcast on TV at the moment. It is a very rare thing to endure for a long time.
This is mainly due to the organization of "Pokemon", otherwise a game would not have been able to launch the kind of popular animation.
For example, the Mario series. There is no such thing as a popular animated series that can in turn drive the growth of game sales.
What is there to learn from "Pokemon", Lin Yan thought about it, and still thought of it.
That's the Pokemon narrative, and the Pokemon narrative is like this. 、
In a very simple way, tell a very profound content.
Adults see politics, politics, sarcasm, and hierarchy-bias, young people see the pursuit of dreams, and children see all kinds of strange pets.
Now that the technique of the story description has been decided. So what's next. It's about deciding on a theme. What a good theme?
Actually, this topic. It's already locked down to a certain extent. That's the characters in the animation, try to be as smooth as possible, don't have too much hair.
Because, the hair material is too expensive.
Therefore, the cheapest thing for 3D animation is to make a big bald head.
Lin Yan thought back to the animated movies he had watched. That's the ants as the protagonists.
Let a little boy who originally liked to abuse ants and water the ant nest all day long, let him become an ant and see the world from the perspective of ants.
Lin Yan handed over this idea and theme idea to the audio-visual department. But. I don't know if they will take Lin Yan's words as the same thing.
After all, it is actually very annoying for a layman to know about an insider.
In fact, the animation production department can also be regarded as a future game for Chiba Games, exploring the problem of how to use perspective in the process of 3D games.
The animation project, tentatively titled "Bug Squad", was established, and it is said that dozens of screenwriters are adding details according to the framework given by Hayashi.
Put the whole animation script on the cover. However, this matter is not in a hurry, and these screenwriters are needed to slowly ponder every detail of the script. So that the whole movie in the process, there is no cold point.
It's a bit like a platforming game, where there's never a long, long piece of flat land, and it's usually going to be up and down to give the player a little feedback. Let the player know that I'm playing the game and not messing around aimlessly.
I don't know what the ability of these screenwriters is, and it took two months before they submitted a first version of the script to Lin Yan. That's right, it's the first version of the script.
Lin Yan is also drunk, this work efficiency is too low. With their efforts, I don't know how many game plans have been submitted or approved.
Still, the editors were struck by the fact that they were working on the details. When Lin Yan heard this, his nose was almost crooked.
These screenwriters really don't seem to be a group of normal people. I don't know why, productivity is so slow.
Later, Lin Yan learned a little about it, and only then did he know that the screenwriter of the original movie was like this. Often, a script generally takes about half a year from the expected adoption to the finished product, and it is also a long one or two years.
After such a long time of gestation, there are indeed many excellent scripts. Of course, there is no shortage of garbage. It is said that in the screenwriting industry, those well-known screenwriters, in fact, rarely write their own scripts, many of them are written by some young people who have just graduated, and Lin Yan doesn't know if this is the case.
However, there is always something to say, and it will not be groundless, and it is estimated that such a thing is true.
After Lin Yan dealt with this matter, he was in charge of the games under his hands. In fact, there are now more than 30 game production teams in the entire Chiba Games.
That is, games made at the same time. More than thirty. This is the first party work of Chiba games, and the number of copies sent at the same time.
Of course, many of these projects will not be listed. It is possible that a half of it was carried out, a third of it, and it was mothballed.
This is because these games themselves do not meet the requirements of Chiba games. Or maybe it's an obvious flaw in some way.
After all, there are many ideas that are said to be first-class and awesome. However, when it comes to the actual production process, there are all kinds of inexplicable problems.
Some of them are too advanced to fit the current industry ecology. For example, it is a pure online game, and now Chiba Games is only a small-scale experiment, and the R&D team is a total of individuals.
These online games are basically based on personal computers. Even within the project team, there are people who feel that the prospects of this project are not optimistic.
For a variety of reasons, such as hardware limitations. As a result, the upload bandwidth and the processing power of the server are insufficient. So, this experimental online game.
A large part of the computation is on the client, that is, the user's own computer.
Although this has greatly saved costs, the demand for broadband and servers has dropped significantly. However, there is one problem that arises, and that is the phenomenon of cheating.
Because. The data is not actually uploaded to the data center, but to a personal computer like an island like a user.
This allows you to modify the data at will. Anyway, it's all running locally, even if it's on the Internet, it's impossible to check it.
At most, the server gets some "malarithmetic" data.
This kind of plug-in trend quickly spread. In the mid-nineties, tens of thousands of dollars could be harvested a month. This was quite surprising at the time.
That's the charm of plug-ins, there are always people who pay for them. And those who didn't buy it, seeing that others have it, and they have to balance it themselves, they will naturally buy it once.
Most of these plug-in deposit methods. In addition to bank card transfers, it is the deduction of telephone bills.
Sometimes, many people finish the service, but their family members don't know, and they are dumbfounded when they see the bill.
Some children, when they saw that they were spending phone bills instead of their own money, rushed up and played.
But how can there be such a good thing in this era, and it is inevitable that they will be beaten by their parents.
The development of online games in Japan is not particularly optimistic. Because, there are too many console games in Japan, and in such a situation, it is not nonsense to let players who are used to playing one type of game play a completely different type of game.
If it could really be changed so quickly, there would not be many middle-aged uncles in the United States, who still like to play "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man", and if they don't play four or five games every day, they will feel uncomfortable.
The new console of Chiba games, the name is a bit strange. It's called the new super red and white machine.
That's right, there is a new word in front of the new, which is really ......
It's kind of ridiculous.
However, what is striking is an advertisement about the mental journey of a teenager who plays video games.
In other words, it is thought that in addition to a video game teenager, because playing the game, gained a lot of things. Friends, friendships, and love, careers, and so on.
The reason for this is because of the game.
Lin Yan actually doesn't like this kind of chicken soup advertisement very much, because he is a little aesthetically tired. However, in this era, many people who watch new products will still think that advertisements are good.
In fact, there are people who come out of the way in any industry. The video game industry, as well as the esports industry, is just an ordinary industry.
It's strange that such an industry doesn't have stars.
The emergence of celebrities means that this industry is a relatively deep reservoir that can accommodate so many players.
However, what is more worrying is that if there are really many children, who are only in their early teens, they say that they want to play professionally and become professional players.
When I asked him why, he probably said that I would come if I wanted to.
Once the success will be achieved, there must be countless losers under the feet of those who succeed. It is impossible to only look at others as good, nor can you not look at them badly.
The former will feel that the world is too simple, and the latter will feel that the world is a bit foggy and messy.
The new super red and white machine has been launched after two months of preparation. This time, the first country was chosen to start in the United States, and the venue for the event was more than the venue for the previous event in Tokyo.
After all, Japan is exquisite, but it doesn't have the same atmosphere as the United States.
The entire game console is still the vane that is now leading the industry, and many game companies rely on the profits of Chiba Games.
After all, what people have spent painstaking research on, they will give it to others when they give it to others, which is a bit unbearable.
The new super red and white machine was launched, and the sales volume exceeded 300,000 days on the first day, which is a decent achievement.
However, with several first-party big productions, such as this game studio overseen by Hayashi Yan. Some of them had gray hair. To be honest, Lin Yan felt that they should be his predecessors.
However, after a little understanding, I found that these people turned out to be in the Chiba game with their own front and back feet.
Although Chiba Games is not listed, the welfare of employees is really thoughtful. This is including pension.
Therefore, many members of the club also work with heart-to-heart petitions. Of course, this is because they don't feel like they have any worries.
After all, the dispatch system has now become the mainstream. Most companies don't think about making their employees' lives better. It's about how to take the money that should be taken.
Lin Yan sometimes feels that employees feel that the working conditions are good, but in fact, the relationship with the development of the company is not completely opposite.
After all, if a company produces something and what it doesn't, then even if the benefits are good, but what's the use.
In fact, most of the company's development funds come from its own excess profits.
As a matter of fact. This is a dividend for innovative companies. For example, the pet stone series of Mayu by the river. To this day, there is still a group of loyal stone players who want to collect all the stones.
How is this possible, though. Because all the stones of pet stones are natural, one piece is one piece, so how can there be a set of such a saying.
Besides, in the pet stone series, there are still a few stones that have not been released, and those who want to collect the full set are also fools' dreams.
Lin Yan sometimes thinks that it is good to play creatively, and the hardware of any machine does not need to be too demanding, but this is an evil way, and it is not a good sign to do so.
Because, if you do this, there is no turning back, which is equivalent to giving up those old white players who care about the picture, care about the picture quality, and like mouth cannons. (To be continued.) )