Chapter 37 Growing Big
Recently, Lin Yan has done an activity inside the Chiba game, which is probably the situation of the proposition composition, and set a theme, and then every person in the Chiba game can submit their own plans, and Lin Yan will review it, and those who pass the review will be put into the regular meeting for discussion, and the discussion will be passed, and the corresponding game will be made.
This is also a means of selecting talents within the Chiba game, which is increasingly ranked by seniority. Lin Yan firmly believes that there are many talents in this world, although they cannot reach the level of the car, but as long as they look for it with their hearts, there will definitely be them.
The theme proposed by Lin Yan this time is only four words: "Grow big with small".
As long as the business plan is based on these four words, you can submit it.
About half of the people in the company are interested in this event.
There are many people who have the mentality of participation, and casually write a book and hand it in, and only a few people write a game plan very carefully and hand it over solemnly.
In fact, after so many years of development, many people have settled down, and they don't want to do anything big, they just want to mess around every day and retire. You can receive a pension for Chiba Games.
Although the lifetime employment system and the seniority sequence ensure the stability of the company, the disadvantage is that it is too stable. Let employees not have a sense of crisis.
You can't just do something like expulsion. Because, now the first person to enter the work of Chiba Games is almost forty years old.
Forty years old is the most painful stage in a person's life. There is an old one on the top, and a small one on the bottom. He is also burdened with a mortgage for decades.
If, really expel a person of such an age. This is to force him to die.
Associations in Japan. When collecting debts, the money is not paid, even if the fingers are chopped off, this will leave two fingers of the thumb and index finger, which means that people can pick up the bowl and pick up chopsticks to eat, without forcing people to a dead end.
The theme of "small and big" is a good theme.
Submit a plan. There is a protagonist.,The plan to blow up the planet with one punch.。 Others are closer to life and more acceptable.
That is, the player is able to manipulate a mosquito, and the goal of the game is to make the mosquito suck blood.
This plan attracted Lin Yan's attention, and he put it in the regular meeting to discuss. Most of the people who attended the conference thought it was a good idea.
And. The cost of production is not too high, and there are many materials that can be directly called in the existing material library.
The game, called "Mosquito", was launched, and the people in charge of the project. It's the person who submitted the plan. This is a woman, twenty-nine years old, who has been working at Chiba Games for five years. The job is co-ordination.
A position that has little to do with the specific game.,It's the most basic person in the management position.。
Even. Many of the people she managed in the past said that she didn't understand games. Because. When she was taking notes, she always asked these people, "What are you drawing?"
"Slippers."
"How many strokes have you drawn?"
"It's more than seventy."
"How many more are finished."
"This ...... Do you want to be sure of a single digit? ”
"Hmmm......"
"One hundred and thirty more."
In other words, she wants to quantify all the work so that it can be managed. However, making games is more like working as an artist.
It's really not easy to quantify.
Many people who write their plans carefully and think they know games very well have not been selected, why can a person who doesn't understand games be selected. There's got to be a cat here.
Although no one said it, the word "power-sex-trade" was about to be spit out.
Yuki Chiba and Mayu Riverside both joked with Hayashi Hiko, saying that you like the thirty-year-old Obasan. It made Lin Yan quite embarrassed.
In fact, Lin Yan occasionally wants to be coquettish with girls, but he can't let go of it, and he always looks a little cold.
Between Yuki Chiba and Mayu Riverside, he is still wavering. Then again, he really is a very indecisive man.
There is also a game that was chosen "to be small and big", called "Pikmin". It's also a game that's close to reality. However, although the scene is the one that most people have experienced, the protagonists are only the size of ants, showing a different world from such a microscopic perspective.
Both games are three-dimensional and are produced using the most mature technology. These two games were soon published in the magazine "Game Pass".
Two months have passed, and these two games have also given their own trial levels on the disc that comes with "Game Pass".
All of a sudden, the attention of the two games has been greatly improved.
Lin Yan himself also likes these two games very much.
Of course, the majority of players, without the conditions of being close to the water, seeing is believing, and they have seen the demo version in the game disc.
Most of them like it.,This kind of game that is close to life.。 】
Of course, there is a third game that is small and big, and it is in secret production. The game is named after the sun god and is called Apollo.
is a story of revenge.
The idea of this game is a bit similar to "God of War". The game's design style also uses a lot of action elements.
In this regard, Chiba Games has accumulated a lot of experience with Money Future, so it is a very good thing to use here.
However, because this game, unlike "Mosquito" and "Pikmin", is a sketch game, it is considered a big production. Therefore, the release of information is still a little late.
Chiba games have always been conservative in this regard, and there are not many interviews with TV stations. It's not like the Friends Video Game Alliance, where I think about how to make a sense of existence almost every day.
Because of the arcade rental business, the financial reports of the video game league in the past two years seem to be in the past. Because. The elementary school students who were blocked out of the arcade hall have a place to play games again.
Plus this model. It's really good for promotion. On average, hundreds of thousands of arcade machines can be deployed in Japan every year.
And, of course, with the launch of the new arcade machine. There are old arcade machines launched on the stage of history. Most of these arcade machines are treated as garbage and transported abroad for disposal.
After all, the pollution of e-waste is still very large. In foreign countries, these obsolete machines will continue to exert their light and heat, so that the owners of those underground arcade halls can continue to make money.
Compared to the good image of Chiba games in countries around the world, the image of arcades is not very good. That's because the arcade is a place of filth.
Delinquent teenagers, or unemployed vagrants, like to wander these places. In addition, there is no proper publicity, so arcade halls are not popular compared to machines that can play games at home.
After all, some arcade halls themselves fall into that gray category. There is no formal license. Therefore, it is natural that they are discriminated against.
Chiba Games Global Entertainment, in the global business development of Chiba Games. It has played an indispensable role.
Recently, Chiba Games Global Entertainment has launched its main entertainment product, which is the Talent Show.
various countries. In each region, those who have the ability can sign up. Show off your talents. After audition, and so on. Finally stand on the stage and become the star of the limelight.
In this way, finding out the routines of stars from ordinary people has obviously been welcomed by many people. They just love it.
Because, these people are down-to-earth. is not like those stars with their nostrils in the sky, rejecting people thousands of miles away, which makes people look unpleasant.
Of course, after these people become famous, it is common for them to swell. After all, it's human nature, and many people won't forget that feeling after experiencing the kind of thing that is in the spotlight and being the center of the world.
It is said that this feeling is many times more refreshing than the feeling after taking the little blue pill and doing something non-stop.
Lin Yan also tried it a little, that is, in the arcade hall, when he was admired by those people. When others watched him operate thrillingly one by one, they cheered.
In fact, no matter what kind of person you are, you want to be noticed by others.
And even if a person is introverted or has low self-esteem, in fact, let him succeed a few times, he will become confident and extroverted.
This world is such a world.
For example, the two games "Mosquito" and "Pikmin" actually made two people.
The basic operating structure of Chiba Games is still "R&D, Production, Marketing, Finance, Security, Information, Human Resources, and Administration." "These eight items.
Chiba Yuki told Lin Yan very carefully, Lin Yan sounded a little laborious, but he also understood a lot. In fact, he has the intention of making a new game in the simulation series, which is enterprise simulation.
However, this game, if it is really done exactly according to the real business, it seems too bad.
Lin Yan himself would not like to play such a game. Besides, in an environment like Japan, the game is largely a street.
It's better to go to the U.S. and release the game to make it popular, and then get it back to Japan for distribution.
In fact, in recent years, the United States has encouraged entrepreneurship. Garage businesses, garage factories, can be said to be all over the United States.
Therefore, this game can be regarded as having an audience base.
However, the team that is now working on the simulation series is working on "The Sims II", so this game can basically only be developed after that.
It's not good, it's a game on a next-generation console.
Yes, the next generation of consoles has already been developed. It's basically five times more powerful than this generation of consoles.
For various reasons, it is still a cooling fan that is added. However, the shape and color of the machine have changed from the original gray. It turned black.
This black, and part of it, is a glossy finish of piano lacquer.
It is said that this design is a design that the appearance designers of Chiba Games overturned hundreds of design prototypes.
The appearance of this machine is more in line with Lin Yan's aesthetics. In fact, aesthetics is something that is constantly evolving and changing. The original gray shell, although looking back now, is more old-fashioned. But in fact, he was the color of technology in that era.
That's right, this gray represents technology.
Of course, the colors that now represent technology have changed to white and black.
The new console color scheme that Chiba Games is preparing to exit has these two colors.
This is also the first time that Chiba games have debuted two colors of attention. In the past, all generations of consoles basically had only one color. Occasionally, the console with a different color scheme is basically a variety of limited editions.
They are all sold in conjunction with various games.
Selling two colors was a great challenge for Chiba Games' inventory management. After all, it was a bit difficult to coordinate the colors and arrange production according to the sales situation.
However, this step must be taken.
Both Chiba Games and Hayashi think so.
The biggest change is the handle of the new console. The design is more ergonomic. It's more comfortable to hold. In the previous generation, due to the long time of playing, the palms of the hands were sweaty, and it was easy for the handle to fall off, but now it is also solved by adding rubber pads.
Moreover, more vibration motors have been added. Be able to give better feedback on the information that comes out of the game.
What's more, this time, the handle can be infinitely linked. I just don't need that long handle line.
Also, there is a headphone jack on the handle. In this way, you can play the game happily without disturbing others.
Of course, there's also a microphone on the controller, which is a setting to match the expected online battles that will be launched.
Lin Yan felt that this handle was already a relatively perfect handle. After all, Chiba Games has so many years of experience, whether it is in the design of gamepads or industrial manufacturing, it has enough experience. I was able to secure a yield rate when the handle was comfortable.
It won't appear, like the handle of the red and white machine, so in order to compromise the yield rate, and wake up early.
Of course, the first game is still produced by Lin Yan. Of course, there will inevitably be a Mario series. This time, Hayashi wants to launch two Mario series.
One is the new version of Mario Kart and the other is Made in Mario.
It is to make a level of the previous Mario, all the situations that can be customized and edited, and can be uploaded online for others to play.
Mario Kart and Made in Mario are all online and social, meaning that players are encouraged to fight online through Chiba Games' new console.
Not only that, Chiba Games has also partnered with the TV sector to launch a plan for digital television. With the current power of technology, almost Chiba games have been done to the extreme. (To be continued.) )