26 December 1990.

Tokyo.

Pokeni Co., Ltd

The end of the year is approaching.

Everyone had no intention of working, chatting at their workstations.

Aside from the mentality, there really isn't much at hand right now.

The main reason is that the future direction of the company has not yet been determined, and no one knows what the youth president plans to make the next game.

"Nene, what does the president think, the Onmyoji series has such good results, won't it be done again?"

"Who knows? It's not like you don't know the president, he wants to go ashore with all his heart. ”

"How can it be so easy to go ashore, I always think about doing other categories when I don't make any money with ready-made money, and I think the president is really confused sometimes."

"But it's not necessarily, isn't Onmyoji 2 also changed from the original orthodox RPG to galgame?"

"I hope I don't repeat the mistakes of the past, but don't wait until the project is almost finished to make changes, I really can't stand it."

"It's superfluous to worry about it now, it's about to be the New Year, so it's better to think about what to do during the New Year."

"Haha, that's right, the future of the company is decided by the president, and all we can do is go all out in the direction he decides, and that's it."

"That's right."

"By the way, do you want to go to the fox shrine to worship on New Year's Day?"

"If you want to go, you have to go, the fox parade is fun."

"Where's the lucky bag?"

"Go, go! I hope to grab a big lucky bag this year! ”

"Ah~ I'm already looking forward to it."

……

At the same time, in the president's office, Qing Zhiyuan is also worried about the new game.

The Onmyoji series is now achieving very good results and has also brought considerable revenue to the company.

According to financial statistics, the available funds on the company's books are about 300 million yuan.

The fact that pokeni can earn so much also means that DUN and sellers, as investors, also make a lot of money.

300 million yuan is enough to give it a go and develop a game masterpiece.

Qing Zhiyuan made a plagiarism list in the computer, ahh

Due to the limitations of the current level of hardware, there is not a lot of range to choose from.

Now home computers are not yet fully popular, mainly because the price of PCs has not come down.

In 1990, a 486-class computer was sold for nearly 700,000 yen.

In Chinese mainland, it is also a terrible luxury of nearly 30,000 yuan.

Those who can afford computers are rich people.

The computer market is not mature enough, so some game types can be directly passed.

For example, the type of shooting.

Don't play shooting games with a controller that doesn't hurt too much.

The mouse and keyboard experience will be significantly better.

This kind of game, which is obviously more suitable for development on the computer side, is not going to be touched by Qingzhiyuan at present.

Otherwise, the company has just joined a platinum-level producer like Shinji Mikami, and developing "Resident Evil" on PC is even more reflective of his talent.

……

After removing the desktop side, there are only a few platform options left:

The first is to continue to develop on FC.

After all, FC and nes are still the largest home phones in the world.

In addition, you can choose from Sega's MD and Nintendo's SFC.

The most advanced home game console now is undoubtedly the SFC developed by Nintendo, and if the FC is a horse-drawn carriage, the SFC is the equivalent of a supercar.

Due to the late release of SFC, SFC has better image performance than the other 16-bit console, Sega MD.

With the help of special effects and sound effects such as Mode 7, Mosaic, HDMA, etc., the overall performance surpassed that of any 486-class PC at the time, and was on par with the Pentium class (586) PC.

Interestingly, the SFC main CPU 65c816 has an analog mode, which can perfectly simulate the 6502 chip.

It is clear that Nintendo once had plans to make SFC compatible with FC software, but it was abandoned because of the cost.

But even such a game console is difficult to support an action game masterpiece like a wolf, or a popular open-world game in the future......

According to Qing Zhiyuan's own estimates, if they make good use of Chikawa Hongichi's hardware design talents, they may be able to make game effects on SFC that are about 5 years ahead of the current one.

The main thing worth here is the game performance, in terms of image support, since SFC can achieve more than 586, which is the most advanced computer level at the moment, then there is no problem in supporting it to the level of "Fate".

……

If you are confident enough, you can develop it on MD and use it to snipe Nintendo.

Help Sega establish console supremacy.

These two are currently in a hot fight.

To be precise, it's a three-legged situation for Nintendo, Sega and PCE.

Players have different evaluations of the three game companies, and it can be seen that Sega's MD and NEC's PCE are optimistic at this time.

When Qing Zhiyuan learned about these actual situations, he was also secretly surprised in his heart-

When did MD and PCE crush Nintendo?

In fact, it is.

Sega MD and PCE were released in 1988 and 1987 respectively, during which the 16-bit home machine could really beat the 8-bit machine.

Nintendo later reversed the passive situation after the introduction of SFC.

Considering its own interests, Qingzhiyuan finally decided to put the new work into SFC for development.

After all, Nintendo is in full swing, and even if there is no pokeni, it feels like they will establish the hegemony of game consoles in the future, and the battle between MD and SFC is only temporary, and there will be a battle between PS and SS in the future.

Let's take one step at a time, and it is wisest to take the largest boat at this time.

……

The image quality of SFC can already fully present the beautiful and attractive picture.

With Qingzhiyuan's own drawing ability, the game developed can definitely crush all the products of the same era in terms of picture quality.

In order to get rid of the influence of the previous Onmyoji, Qing Zhiyuan decided to set up a new subsidiary after the year, which was dedicated to the development of ashore games.

You can't fall twice in the same pit!

……

All that's left is to choose your game carefully.

After thinking about it for a long time, Qing Zhiyuan still typed on the screen-

A few words "Diablo".

……

There are many milestones in the history of game development.

Diablo is undoubtedly one of them.

In particular, Diablo 2, with its game mode, rich combat system and good numerical system, has been regarded as a classic by many game planners who have entered the industry.

It is one of the compulsory courses that game planning, especially numerical and combat planning, must study and learn in their lives.

Although Diablo was originally made on PC, and now it is developed on the SFC platform and uses a controller, as long as it is well designed, it will not affect the game experience of players in the slightest.

Well!

It's up to you!