Chapter Eighty-Four: One After the Other
The industry is thriving, and new companies are springing up.
However, most of them are companies from other industries that are testing the waters of video games. There are very few true solopreneurs, and that's because of Japan's culture, which seems to have gone to the other extreme compared to the extreme garage company startup trend in the United States.
Starting a business is equivalent to having a sick brain. That's what most people think.
Most people tend to join a company and work until they die. What job-hopping, for them, does not seem to exist at all.
So, except for a few professional managers.
Headhunting company, business is also very cold.
Several video game-related companies have entered the stock market, which has brought about a bubble in the assets of the entire industry. Watching others go public and raise funds, they made a lot of money.
Most companies can't hold back and go public.
Of course, there are advantages to going public, that is, it allows listed companies to have more funds to do what they want to do. However, there are also quite a few problems.
Among them, some companies swelled, and finally half-dead were acquired by other companies.
It's a real Japanese game company, and it doesn't seem to have much interest in PC games.
The main center is also the console games, as well as the arcade games.
Even for every three people, there is a red and white machine. Arcade halls in Japan are still thriving. Its popularity, except for some large-scale games, mainly relies on fighting games.
Since the launch of Street Fighter by the Video Game League, the whirlwind of fighting games has been ignited in Japan.
Numerous arcade game companies began to make fighting games. All kinds of novel games are emerging. There are also a lot of new ways to play, such as special moves.
and Samurai Shodown. The King of Fighters and other game series. And some comics with relatively large influence have also launched fighting games. For example, "Yu Yu Hakushu".
The entire fighting game market is booming, and it can be said that it is a super strong with "Street Fighter" as the head. Instead of being lonely like Lin Yan's "StarCraft" and "Warcraft".
This is a game type, a normal ecology. Just like after "Super Mario", there will be "Contra" and "Ninja Dragon Sword", "Mega Man", "Demon Village", "Castlevania", "Maplestory" and other excellent game series.
This is how to secure this game type. Really survive for a long time.
Even foreign magazines have now reported the "Prince of Persia" series based on titanium graphics cards. The game in the magazine is beautiful and the colors are comfortable, and many people don't believe that the picture on it is the actual picture of the game.
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SimCity is an orderly promoter of the production process. With the experience accumulated in StarCraft, Warcraft.
SimCity was made much faster than the two "Battle" games. Moreover, this game, compared to real-time strategy games, also has good news. That is, it can be sold on multiple platforms.
This is because real-time strategy games require the use of a large number of shortcuts, as well as precise positioning. That's where a mouse and keyboard come in. And neither of these things are available on consoles.
Management simulation games like SimCity don't need it, it's easy and slow-paced. There is no game goal either. You don't have to beat anyone. It's about making and building a city, and then. Let him be bigger and bigger.
Such a game. It may not be to suit the appetite of Japanese players.
Hayashi had never heard of SimCity, the Sim City series, and how popular The Sims were in Japan.
The simulation business game that has become popular in Japan is "The Age of Discovery", as well as all the Three Kingdoms theme and Warring States theme games.
Lin Yan also thought about making "The Age of Discovery", or making these historical games. However, these games are quite difficult to make.
It's not that the technology is difficult, but you need to check a lot of historical materials.
It takes months or months, or even years, to prepare these preliminary materials. Far from a fictional background world, it comes easily.
Let those otaku with feelings do this.
In fact, Glory, as a game company, was very affectionate before everything could be unique. There are some details that players may not know, but they are also very exquisite, and those who know will smile when they see it.
Lin Yan heard in his previous life that when he was glorious in making "Three Kingdoms", he collected portraits of historical figures in China for more than ten years.
Even, when China later wanted to find the characters of the Three Kingdoms period, they had to learn from the glory.
Of course, Lin Yan has been too exaggerated for more than ten years, so he came out with false rumors.
However, there is no groundless wind in this world, and with this legend, Glory must have made a lot of affirmations.
Lin Yan remembered that when he used to play "Age of Discovery", once his uncle, who was engaged in maritime trade, came to his house and asked if the wine of Podol was famous.
Uncle was surprised and asked how do you know, and Lin Yan said that I played the Age of Discovery.
You know, at that time, China was afraid of video games like a tiger.
There really is something to say.
Just to promote electronic heroin?
No, it's not enough.
A large number of reports of juvenile delinquents - delinquents appeared in the newspapers.
Coupled with the later Blue Speed incident, the entire video game industry in China is almost in a situation where everyone is shouting and beating.
Lin Yan is in the video game industry, also for love.
Of course, it is his love of video games that has enabled him to achieve his current social status and living conditions after being reborn.
Otherwise, he can only be a crappy repairman in an electrical repair shop.
Lin Fuzhi took a snort, put down the soldering iron in his hand, and closed the door halfway, he was going to catch a cold, it seemed that he had to eat some green onions for dinner.
Minutes and seconds passed.
"Simulation Game" slowly came out, Lin Yan watched one after another, one after another, I know that there is a classic game for the majority of players.
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In the previous chapter, the chapter was wrong and did not affect the reading. (To be continued.) )