Chapter 712: And More
Figured out John. After Carmack's future, Jester also let go of a concern.
After all, it's a pity that a talent like Carmack doesn't have to be used on the road it should be, what's the point of studying rockets, the Americans landed on the moon decades ago, and you can still study more than NASA?
Something that is obviously impossible.
In fact, such an unprofessional maker is not the only one in Jester's company. Carmack, Kazunori Yamauchi and the two, for example, Jester has been very important over the years, and even now he has faintly become the ace of Mars Entertainment's Itagaki companion, and he is also such a ruler, and the game is naturally what he likes, but Jester also asked Itagaki companion when he usually chatted.
When he's usually bored, he likes to play games by himself or do something else.
As a result, Itagaki Companion's answer also put Jester in direct contact with the wild and uninhibited Itagaki Companion in his mind.
Because of his appearance, Itagaki Companion is called Sulfuric Acid Face by many players who like him and don't like him, he is actually a real gambler in middle school, and he uses "gambling" to describe his life when he summarizes it. If it weren't for being a game maker, maybe there would be a gambling god in the Japanese gambling world, of course, this is a humorous joke of his own.
And in this world, the reason why Itagaki Companion is associated with games is also because he lost his gambling money with his roommates, and had to queue up for them to buy games.
Otherwise, Itagaki Companion really doesn't have to be in this world and continues to embark on the path of game development.
And even if he embarks on the road of game development as in history, it may have to wait until he graduates from graduate school, and it is absolutely impossible to apply for an internship at Mars Entertainment when he just graduated from college, so he can't extricate himself from the road of no return to game development.
In fact, gambling is still very useful for Itagaki Companion.
Especially when it comes to game development.
As everyone knows. Game designers are also psychologists, and behind the development of a game, they are actually studying the psychological situation of players, so as to develop a game that best meets the psychological expectations of players.
Bet-Bo makes Itagaki learn to guess the minds of others, which makes him good at guessing and catering to the player's psychology: the high difficulty and hard-hitting style of "Ninja Dragon", and the blood-spurting "milk shake" in "DOA" all cater well to the player's psychology, and achieve the reputation of "Sulfuric Acid Face" and the personality of wild testimonials.
Jester remembers an incident about Itagaki Companion.
That was probably after he fell out with the pants untainer over the prize money and left.
He was interviewed by a gaming press who asked him what he planned to do in the future. Whether you want to start your own company or work in another company, do you have any plans for a new game?
As a result, at that time, Itagaki said that "I hope to be a photographer in the future, and my hobby is game making." In fact, this is not a pure pretense of anger, although after the interview, he turned around and set up a game company, Valhalla Studios.
But he really showed up as a photographer.
And began a photography career with a lot of time. From the perspective of "not doing business", Itagaki is perhaps the least successful of the gamers in this article, and the most ill-fated. He failed to become a good gambler or a well-known photographer.
So, after two years of silence. Itagaki has returned to the gaming world.
Since its announcement in 2010, the development of his new title, The Demon Trio, has suffered a number of setbacks, first when the game's content could not be announced as scheduled, and then when the game engine crashed, and the company's profit expectations plummeted. At last. This five-year-old game turned out to be exclusive to WiiU, and WiiU's sales have not exceeded 10 million as of 2015, which can be described as too miserable.
But it's really not very good for this game, to put it mildly. This is simply an insult to the name of the father of the ninja dragon.
But Jester is also a little worried, he doesn't know how Itagaki Companion chose after "Demon Three", he is really disappointed in the game. If you don't do your job completely, you still have to be ashamed......
It can only be said that if Itagaki Companion really leaves the game industry, it will really be an irreparable loss to the entire industry.
In the industry, there are a lot of designers who don't do their jobs like this.
For example, many game producers are music enthusiasts, for example, the full name of R Star is called Rock Star, like an admirer of rock opera, his own general Matsuno Yasuyo, and the famous Miyamoto Shigeru, his hobby goes to the bar to sing.
However, these people are a little small compared to a strange person in Jester's memory.
This is not an employee of his own company, and even where he is now is not very clear, Jester only suddenly came up with the name Miles. Jacobson.
He may not be well-known now, but in the future, he will be at the helm of SI.
That's right, the same company that developed the game "Football Manager", and what players call the creator of Football Manager.
Later, in an interview after his success, he recalled his early days at SI, which Jacobson described as a period of inactivity.
Before receiving the ChampionshipManager 2 (CM2) floppy disk, Jacobson was a complete musician in addition to being a loyal player of the Football Manager series. During the glory days of the record industry in the '90s, Jacobson worked as an agent for a record label called FoodRecord, spending his days in the studio and at events.
How could such a pure musician get involved with the game?
Working as an agent has allowed Jacobson to meet a number of game-makers who love music.
Once, when his rock star band "Fuzzy" held a concert, some Edios employees said they wanted two tickets, but they had no intention of trading for money. In exchange, they gave Jacobson a copy of the CM2 beta, hoping to keep the football manager a die-hard part-time tester. This made Jacobson quite tempted. While sending out his tickets, he boarded a flight to London. There he met the Collier brothers, the heads of the SI studio and the main designers of the CM and later FM (Football Manager) series. (To be continued......)