Chapter 217: The Originator of Parkour Games "Sonic" (Asking for Tickets)
Yang Yun smiled, looking at the several Kirby prototypes drawn by Masahiro Sakurai on paper, he couldn't help it, picked up a watercolor pen and painted it with pink color, or added a tail to it, turning it into a ghost, which felt quite interesting.
Yang Yun explained: "It is precisely because Sega's games are so professional that we also need to add this type of purely casual and cute games. When people are busy all day, crowded like sardines on the way to work, dragging their tired bodies home, washing up and lying in bed, do you think they are willing to play an exciting game of Contra, or would they rather play an incredibly relaxing Kirby as a nighttime enjoyment? ”
Ma Liang opened his mouth, he couldn't imagine this scene, he was a little tired in Fengyun, but with high salary, high welfare, and the company provided a high-end apartment with 24-hour housekeeping service, it was difficult for him to experience the feeling of extreme fatigue.
Iwata Satoshi sighed: "It's still Mr. Yang who is right!" I know a lot of ordinary people who would rather choose to watch a soap opera with no connotation or listen to a piece of soft music and watch a funny comic before getting some sleep. ”
Masahiro Sakurai nodded: "These people are also our target customer group, and I believe that there must be many more such people in Japan than those who like to play fighting games!" ”
"It's not just in Japan, it's all shijie!" Yang Yun added: "Light-hearted novels, relaxing movies and music allow people who are already tired to quickly relieve their fatigue. They're already tired from the day, and who wants to play those troublesome and nerve-wracking games? ”
Ma Liang shrugged: "OK, I understand what you think, maybe I need to know more about customer needs." The market comes first! ”
Yang Yun smiled: "Sega's Liliang magazine does this, please pay attention to the feedback letters sent by readers." There will be a lot of good ideas on it! ”
That's it, "Kirby of the Stars" is positioned as easy. Cute, funny casual type game, Yang Yun handed it over to Satoshi Iwata and Masahiro Sakurai, and he was very relieved.
With a high project dividend, these two Kirby fathers will definitely work hard, their idol and role model is Tajiri Tomo, and Yang Yun provides them with a platform, and they vow to make Kirby of the Stars a hot-selling game no less than Pokemon!
Signaling that they could go to work, Yang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. Grab this game, Nintendo's handheld is not so good, what do they have left? Castlevania? Fire Emblem? That's all!
Ma Liang was about to leave, but Yang Yun stopped him: "Don't go yet, there are 3 projects on the handheld, "Kirby of the Stars" has been finalized, as well as "Sonic" and "Reversal Referee", your task is heavy!" ”
Next up is Sonic the Speed Hedgehog, which was originally an idea of Sega. Unfortunately, with Yang Yun's participation, Sega's R&D department stopped it without restrictions.
Accompanied by Ma Liang, Yang Yun came to the data room and finally found Sonic's plan.
"For Sonic's design. I don't have any ideas. "Yang Yun can speak Japanese, but it is very difficult to read, and these things are recorded in a large book. He couldn't stand it at all.
But he knew that Sonic was good for this game in Sega history. The one who can fight Super Mario is Sonic the Hedgehog. With a total sales volume of more than 30 million units, it is far worse than Super Mario, but ......
That's all Sega is, the platform can't catch up with Nintendo, and no matter how haode things are, it's useless.
"No idea? Mr. Yang, this is not your style! Ma Liang said with a smile: "I am in the Japanese game circle, people say that I am the chief designer of Fengyun Company, in fact, people don't know, I admire you the most!" ”
"Fuck off!" Yang Yun picked up the planning book and slapped him: "Don't pat yourself on the back!" Sonic Jihua book, handed over to President Nakayama, this is something he made out, handed over to him to finish. I believe that with a significant increase in market share, this Sonic classmate's popularity will not be lower than that of Mr. Mario! ”
"Okay!" Ma Liang took the dusty plan and carefully put it away.
Sonic was originally a thing of the MD platform, and Yang Yun was also forced to use it in the handheld, because in contrast, Longteng Company was the most precarious in the handheld department.
If Ma Liang knew that Yang Yun thought so, he would definitely laugh out loud, how could the handheld computer be in danger? They have Pokemon too!
The key is that Ma Liang is not a reborn person, how can he imagine the things that follow?
That's why he was worried and prepared to launch 3 games in one go to expand his advantage over Nintendo's GameBoy.
Yang Yun must join the game Sonic, mainly because of its potential.
In later generations of smartphone games, there is a genre that players are very fond of, and that is parkour games.
The more famous ones are the "Temple Run" series, "Everyday Cool Run", "Subway Surfers", "Hell Run", and even the mobile game "Where Are You Going, Dad".
These games, like Sonic the Hedgehog, are all about the excitement of running at high speeds, the exciting background music, and the tension to attract players.
For example, in the Temple Run series, in a temple in the rainforest, explorer Indiana Jones obtains a cursed artifact, and in order to escape, the player has to control him to escape from the rainforest from the demon guards.
The mobile game is very simple, the character can run on his own without having to control his movements.
The player needs to control the protagonist to avoid various obstacles and traps in the escape route, such as turning, jumping, lying down and sliding, and can also shake the direction of the smartphone to change the protagonist's travel path, collide with dangling gold coins, or avoid large pits and tree stumps on the original route.
A game that can be played with one hand, easy to learn, Temple Run is loved by hundreds of millions of people around the world and is one of the most popular games on the Apple Store and Android.
Unlike Sonic the Hedgehog, due to hardware limitations, the first version of Sonic could only be made into a side-scrolling 2D scrolling game, while Temple Run relied on the powerful CPU of the mobile phone and was easily made into a 3D mode.
At the kick-off meeting of the Sonic group, Yang Yun met the genius designer Yuji Naka.
Sonic's idea is mostly what he came up with. Yang Yun first thanked him: "Sega is in great need of you talented and excellent designers, and I have read your game planning plan. I love it, I'm sure you'll succeed! ”
Yuji Naka was excited. He felt that it was really a trick to make people, and when fate was in the fight between Sega and Nintendo, everyone wanted to do their best and contribute to the company.
But a Yang Yun came out halfway and actually bought Sega, which made the original Sega employees not know what to say, and they were nervous, worried that the new boss would have an impact on them.
However, Yang Yun did not lay off any employees, and brought quite a few new game ideas with him. Let Sega's benefits get better and better, which made the original Sega employees breathe a sigh of relief.
It's just that Sonic's plan was stranded, which has always been a regret in the heart of Yuji, I thought that I would never see the birth of this game in my life, but I didn't expect Yang Yun to call them over today, and it turned out to be a reboot of Sonic!
After being praised by the big boss, Yuji immediately said: "Don't worry, Mr. Yang!" Our Sonic group is ready to go! ”
Yang Yun nodded with a smile and said, "I will pay attention to this project at any time, and I would like to make two suggestions." First. Both MD and GG platforms can be run. Second, I don't ask for efficiency, and I don't expect much profit from Sonic for the time being, you guys have a year and a half to play this game now. The more beautiful, the better, you know what I mean? ”
Yuji Nakatsu muttered two sentences and came to his senses. Very happy: "Mr. Yang, I understand!" This will be the third Pokemon! ”
Yang Yun smiled and nodded. That's what he meant, making Sonic a boutique. It has been in the hands of Sega for 10 years, and 20 years later, there will be no temple to flee at that time!
There is still one "Reversal Referee" left in the handheld project Zuihou, which is the most troublesome one.
The content of the game is not troublesome, the trouble is the hardware.
The 32-bit handheld GBA will only be launched in 10 years, and the Sony PSP will be withdrawn in 13 years, which means that in this decade, Sega will basically only face the confrontation of 8-bit GameBoys.
But Yang Yun knows that with the change of people's living habits, portable game opportunities are becoming more and more popular, and in the future, they will become an indispensable and essential item for everyone, just like mobile phones, and with the popularity of intelligent operating systems, handheld computers may even be replaced by smartphones!
Speed up the progress of handheld research and development, lay a solid foundation for yourself in advance, go your own way, and let Nintendo and Sony have no way out, this is Yang Yun's jihua.
He went to Sega's hardware lab and saw the Saturn development team.
The situation is not promising, the supply of 32-bit CPUs is sufficient, but unfortunately the internal instructions are too difficult to rewrite.
These things used on the PC, if you want to achieve all kinds of complex actions, special effects, and graphics processing on a small game console motherboard, just optimizing those instruction codes will give developers a headache for a long time.
What's more, even with each passing day, maybe it took them 1 month to process the rendering code of a stereoscopic graphics, and the graphics GPU manufacturer launched an upgraded GPU version, and only one wrapper program wiped out a month of hard work!
Yang Yun suddenly realized that 16+16 is designed like this, so two CPUs must be installed, which means that the volume of GGA will become larger, and the cost will increase a lot!
NEOGEO is a 16+16 arcade board, because it is expensive, and there are not many good games, plus it is suppressed by Longteng, so the sales are dismal.
Yang Yun is out of options, and when Sun Monkey can't figure it out, he also needs to ask for help.
This rescuer is Zhu Shuguang. (To be continued......)
PS: There is no need to argue who is the originator of parkour games, but Sonic is indeed a game with high speed as a selling point, and it has a lot of parkour charm in it, and I have arrangements for it in the back. Yesterday, that buddy voted 6 votes for 12,000 updates! Gritted his teeth and fought hard...... By the way, ask for a ticket, now it's the end of the month, and it's estimated that everyone has voted for the monthly ticket, right? Then vote for recommendation~