Chapter 18 Submissions Exceeding the Deadline
Some people have a sense of participation when something happens thousands of miles away. And some people, even if things happen around him, he has a posture that he has nothing to do with himself.
Takada is the former of these two people, and he has the urge to participate in the "Game Future" activity and make a game of his own.
However, what made him very frustrated was when he told his friends about it. They all looked at him with the eyes of a madman, as if he was doing something wrong, if he had a fever and his brain burned out.
He knew that these friends around him were realists. Their pursuits are very clear and small, and they have no big dreams or ideals.
For them, a down-to-earth life for a lifetime seems to be the result of their birth.
The environment composed of such people is, of course, very depressing. Takada has felt this since he was a child. He always felt a little out of place with his peers around him. Although clothing, food, housing and transportation are all the same, some things that cannot be seen or touched seem to be much worse.
Since no friends are willing to work with you, it's better to do it yourself. Takada clenched his fists with a resolute expression on his face.
In fact, this is not the first time he has participated in such an event. Before, there was the "Campus Star Science Fiction Essay" hosted by Nebula Magazine, and he also submitted several manuscripts.
Perhaps, it's because his pen is not very good, or because the core of the works he writes is not science fiction enough. Therefore, he submitted several manuscripts, and only one of them won the final consolation prize.
This result. Naturally, the "realists" around him began to have something to say. They seem to have found a realistic basis for their theories. When taunting Takada. They use a weird tone to indicate that your dad is a worker. You are destined to be a worker.
Stop daydreaming, if everyone doesn't do their job like you, then the whole of Japan will collapse.
Takada also thought about being with the light and the dust, and behaved like the people around him. However, the impulse in his heart prompted him to keep trying and trying.
The consequence of the constant attempt is a series of ridicule.
Because of his contributions to various events, there are not many things that he has to study on a temporary basis. However, this time I saw an album of video games on Game Pass. He still felt that his eyes were dark.
This...... There's so much to learn.
Of course, it was only a moment before my eyes went dark. After a while, he was full of energy. In this world, no knowledge is free.
And Chiba Games was able to spend such a large amount of time in the magazine and publish the "cheats" of making its own games. This shows how much attention Chiba Games attaches to the "Game Future" project.
If, make a game that catches the attention of players. Maybe. This time it will work.
Although Takada is a person who constantly pursues his dreams, he is not blind. He knows that no matter what work of art, it is the majority of people who have to deal with it. Only most people like it. This work can have a future.
And how to make people like these works has an internal logic. Perhaps, a sentence from an article. It will impress some people. And the people who are moved by each sentence are different, so that all those who watch this article. will see the part they want the most, so they will cry a lot.
This principle. It's a bit like a panacea horoscope analysis. No matter what sign you look at, you can find a trait that matches you. As for those that do not meet, they are subjectively ignored.
This is the reason why some people feel that the horoscope commentary is indeed right, but there is a bit of nonsense. In fact, every "nonsense" here corresponds to the corresponding group of people.
Although Takada understands this, he still makes a mistake.
It's that he pursues this work too much, so that everyone agrees. This creates a problem, the work has no character, no theme.
In fact, this is also the reason why he has submitted many papers before, but he can only win the final prize. Because, the judges felt that his article was too ordinary, and there were no shortcomings, but there were no bright spots.
Naturally, it is impossible for such a work to be liked by the judges. At most, they can get a little recognition because they don't have any shortcomings.
However, a person due to the reasons he experienced. What he thinks is popular is not necessarily what is popular. For example, a person who grew up in East Asia and eats rice as his staple food thinks that rice is the staple food in the world. That's wrong.
After learning some more detailed game production methods, Takada came across a magazine saying that he was pursuing a new type of game.
At that time, he happened to see the digital tyrannosaurus machine played by his friends, and thought of the memory of collecting insects in the bushes at his grandmother's house in the village when he was a child.
So, he had an idea. It is to make a game similar to Digimon, where pets are used as combat power.
Just like Digimon, there is an element of upgrading. And what makes it different from Digimon is that there is a clear storyline.
From the moment the protagonist gets his first pet, he embarks on a journey to become a master animal trainer.
Because, because I have submitted several literary works before. Takada's ability to structure stories on his own is actually quite strong.
Yes, in his head, he imagined what the world should be like.
He currently vaguely knows that the game in his mind is more important than "cultivation elements", and another point he can think of is "collecting elements".
However, it seems that this alone is not enough. So, in this faint confusion, Takada began the journey of making his own game.
Focus on one thing, and time will pass quickly. It's the same here in Takada. Before I knew it, it was the deadline for the submission of "Game Future", and on this day, Takada was still perfecting the framework of his unfinished game.
He knew what had come his way. Because. His idea was too new for a ready-made game to draw on. Even Chiba Games, which is known for leading the trend. No such game has ever been launched.
So, from the design of the whole program. The design of the interface, and other aspects, had to be completed by himself little by little.
This is a very time-consuming thing, and most people prefer to follow a predetermined path rather than being "original".
This is because it saves time and effort, although it is not easy to get super high praise, but it is enough to keep them fed and clothed.
Although, the people who make the game. There are many, many for dreams. However, companies don't exist because of dreams.
If the theme of the company is dreams, then I believe they are not far from the northwest wind.
This is also the reason why Lin Yan engaged in the activity of "Game Future" - to let those games that do not conform to the rules come out. Thus adding more possibilities for the future of video games.
Rather than letting video games go into a dead end, and thus die.
The four words of video games give people the feeling of real estate. Although it seems to be a subdivision. But just like real estate is divided into residential real estate, commercial real estate, and logistics real estate, and so on.
Video games are also full of sub-genres. What the Future of Games is doing is adding a variety of these sub-genres to make video games accessible to more people.
After all, it is impossible for everyone to have the same preferences. Some people like to play video games. But he only likes to play fighting games. What kind of expression would someone give him an electronic pet machine because they knew he liked to play games?
Takada when he got the next issue of the magazine. Only then did I know that the submission of "Game Future" has ended.
The expression on his face, if you can describe it in two words, is frustration.
However, you can't let your efforts go to waste. Thereupon. He continued to finish the game he had made.
Anyway, the magazine said that Chiba Yuki's "game future". There will also be a second installment, a third installment. It is a long-term call for games. Then you don't have to be afraid that things will be made, but people will be gone.
After the submission day ended, there were still submissions on Lin Yan's desk. However, most of these manuscripts are not expired.
In fact, the submission date for Game Futures, like most events, is based on the time on the postmark. In other words, this time is the time when the sender sends the mail.
Because of the distance, these emails may arrive a week or a month late. As a result, the announcement of the selection of ten games to participate in the player selection was postponed for a period of time.
However, this time cannot be blank. There should also be content to maintain the popularity of the "future of games". As a result, some relatively excellent game information was leaked out little by little.
Many people who pay attention to the "future of games" have seen the descriptions and screenshots of these games, and have said, "Ouch, that's good".
It seems that the quality of these games is not much worse than those professional manufacturers.
Of course, you can't see much of a gap just by looking at the screenshots and text descriptions.
It's like looking at Japanese animation and Chinese animation in the future, taking a still picture, it doesn't seem to be much different. But when it comes to the actual screening, the problem arises. Compared to Chinese animation, which is stiff and unnatural in action, Japanese animation looks much smoother.
Of course, this can be said to be the reason for the lack of experience. But that's not a reason. In later generations, when those Chinese manufacturers outsourced for Japanese manufacturers, there was no problem with the pictures they made. Why is there a problem with switching to in-house production? The problem here is not really complicated, but it is quite interesting.
Of course, the smoothness of these games, Chiba games have been optimized for them. This is also specifically stated in the receipt. Prevent these producers from having the illusion that they can easily make a game that is no less than that of a major game company.
You must know that the optimization of these games by Chiba Games can be as little as millions of yen or as much as tens of millions of yen in commercial charges.
Of course, the average third-party manufacturer will not choose to let Chiba Games help optimize. Except for some technical collaboration, these terms are just a clause, and although there is, no one has actually used them.
Lin Yan opened an envelope, and he glanced at the postmark, which was past the deadline.
He could choose not to look at it and throw it aside, but he felt that the bag was quite thick, so he felt that he should open it and look at it.
After all, everything here is the work of one person or a team, and it would be irresponsible to throw it aside.
Lin Yan flipped through the documents page by page, and he felt that this game seemed to be a little familiar. When he saw the back, he suddenly realized that this was not the "Pokemon" that brought great profits to Ren Hell in his memory.
This...... Why is it coming out now?
This made Lin Yan feel a little uncomfortable, this game is not to say that it shouldn't come out now. Rather, Lin Yan thinks the most suitable time to launch it is when Chiba Games launches its own portable game handheld.
This game alone will sell 10 million more handhelds.
This is not an exaggerated number, but a real possibility.
Lin Yan was a little glad that the deadline for this submission had passed, and he summarized some shortcomings and deficiencies in the game and wrote a receipt. Then, he said that his idea was excellent, but because the deadline had passed. Therefore, it is not possible to participate in this "Game Future" selection.
However, he hopes that he can come to Tokyo and come to the Chiba Games headquarters to talk. The full round trip will be covered by Chiba Games. As long as people come.
When Takada got this receipt, he had a feeling like he was in a dream. He was born in a small town in Hokkaido, and his daily life is based on rules and seems to be the same.
He was not satisfied with the status quo, so he desperately participated in various competitions. I didn't expect to have a result today.,Although I didn't win a prize.,Not even qualified to run.,But I had an invitation to go to the headquarters of Chiba Games.。 This cannot be said to be something to celebrate.
Takada's classmates watched Takada come back with the envelope and jokingly said, "Did you win any awards for the game you made?" Everyone wants to play your game. Let's take a look at how the Worker Kid made the winning game. We're really, really looking forward to it. ”
Takada happily looked at his classmates who were mocking him, smiled slightly and said indifferently, "I didn't pass, but I'm going to Tokyo." ”
"This kid has a broken head, right?" After Takada left, his classmates discussed. (To be continued......)