"President, Miss Katayama from "Fruit Luck Pass" has arrived." Akane Ayase reminded.

Qing Zhiyuan then looked up from Famitong's magazine.

"Okay, please come to my office."

……

This is Reiko Katayama's second visit to Pokeni Co., Ltd.

Compared to the first time she came, it was obviously a lot more lively.

Originally, there were only about 20 people in P Company, but now it has expanded to more than 30 people, and there is a trend of gradual increase.

Katayama's eyes are very sharp, and as soon as he enters, he sees artists in the distance drawing some characters with obvious Western fantasy characteristics.

Not to mention the exaggerated shape, and it has a strong sense of power.

It's just that Katayama doesn't know which of Pokeni's projects this is.

It can be thought that the P club is mainly a galgame, and she can't help but be a little staggered.

Can such a demon image also become a girl who is being attacked?

No, not necessarily.

After all, the heroine of "Mermaid Heart" is also a non-human.

To be precise, starting with Onmyoji, the heroines of Pokeni are not a pure human, right?

Now that P Society can produce a heroine with Western magical characteristics, she is not too surprised.

Thinking like this, Katayama and the photographer he brought with him were invited into the president's office.

Her main purpose this time is to collect some exclusive information about "Mermaid Heart".

After some pleasantries, Reiko Katayama asked about some of the production details of "Mermaid Heart".

……

We talked for about an hour.

"Hey, it's really amazing to come up with a story like this."

At the same time, Katayama couldn't help but sigh that Furuhara Tsubaki and Void Abuchi Gen were simply two neuropaths.

can actually combine weird elements and love.

This is out of the realm of what the human brain can think, right?

"Katayama-san, I have a small suggestion." Qing Zhiyuan said seriously.

"If you can, can you provide some other thoughts when reporting on "Mermaid Heart"?"

"Huh?"

……

After Qing Zhiyuan's explanation, she finally had a deeper understanding of "Mermaid Heart".

This is not just a galgame, but also carries a lot of humanity and club things.

It's just that the plot is too impactful, and the cross-ethnic love is too eye-catching, causing other magazines to ignore this.

Qing Zhiyuan can point it out, and he is clearly deliberately opening a small stove for "Guole Tong".

For this, she expressed her gratitude.

Reiko Katayama nodded, she already knew how to write this report.

"By the way, President Qing, do you have any other game plans for your club?"

Reiko Katayama raised her hand and folded her hands, "Please bear with me if I am rude." Truth be told, when I came in, I saw some very interesting paintings, with a distinctly Western style.

I'm sorry, but I didn't mean to see it. ”

Katayama closed his eyes, bowed slightly, and made a [I'm really sorry] pose.

"Well, we're already working on this."

Qing Zhiyuan clasped his hands to his chest, showing a charming and handsome smile, and the photographer next to him quickly stuck a photo.

It's also interesting to say that at the beginning of the year, when the Fruit Game Newsletter was published on January 3, the magazine's sales suddenly increased by 5 percent.

Later, a survey by the magazine found that a large number of female high school students actually bought it.

The reason for buying it is because the cover is good-looking.

On the cover, that issue was not a game advertisement, but a photo of President Qing.

Qingzhiyuan is very satisfied with their business.

In this era, when the traffic flowers have not yet become the mainstream of advertising, he himself is the spokesperson.

In the future, there will be a man named Chen Ou, who uses [I bring salt for myself] as a gimmick, and Qing Zhiyuan thinks he can too.

Not only can you absorb a wave of powder, but you can also save money.

"We're working on a Western fantasy game."

Hearing the exact answer from Qing Zhiyuan's mouth, Reiko Katayama's eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Huh? I'm curious about what kind of game it is. ”

"A landmark game." Qing Zhiyuan said bluntly, "This game, let's call it [Demon X] for the time being, is definitely an unprecedented legend.

It will redefine ARPG. ”

“ARPG？”

Reiko Katayama was amused by the pure idealist expression on Seijigen's face.

The youth president is really very conceited.

The game has not been made, so it can be clearly said that this is a [legendary]

"Hmm." Qing Zhiyuan nodded, "It's not just his gameplay, its complexity, especially the numerical formula, can be said to become a textbook for the entire game industry, and the numerical architecture of many games in the future will be expanded based on Demon X." ”

"Diablo" can be said to be a treasure book for game people, something that every game maker who enters the industry must understand, Qing Zhiyuan can be said to have been playing for decades, and he is still enjoying it when he is 21 years old.

"How so?" Reiko Katayama didn't quite understand.

"[Demon X] defines a lot of attributes, and it is designed using a multiplication formula based on a fixed damage additive method.

For example, the damage calculation is very complicated: (base damage x1.5 {only works on intangible items}) (1 + weapon ed value/100) + direct min/max damage increase) multiplied by (1 + strength or agility/100 + non-weapon ed value/100 + skill ed value %/100)) + (1-skill damage penalty/100) x2 {only when critical or critical hit is active} + elemental damage...... After that, it is necessary to block and defend according to the opponent...... These are used for damage reduction, and the damage can't be exactly 0, and many attributes won't be particularly perverted no matter how stacked.

The good thing about this system is that all of your attributes are useful, but there is a difference in value depending on the weight ratio, and some of the attributes will be more valuable......

It can be said to be the originator of ARPG, and it is also a model for future RPG games, as long as it involves combat, it is difficult to bypass the dark numerical system design.

In a way, it's simply beautiful. ”

To be precise, before Dark, almost all game battles were based on subtractive formulas.

For example, in the simplest attack and defense blood, the damage to the enemy is equal to your attack minus the opponent's defense, and then calculate the amount of blood deducted.

It's simple and crude, but it also brings a lot of problems -

Diminishing marginal effects are a very serious problem.

Once your defense stack exceeds the opponent's attack, it will cause the attack to be ineffective, and the room for expansion in terms of stats is very limited.

But there is no such problem with multiplication formulas.

Qing Zhiyuan gestured in the air with his hand, although there were a bunch of numbers and formulas in front of him, it seemed that this thing was more attractive than a woman.

Reiko Katayama was dumbfounded, and she had the illusion that her mind had exploded in a math class in high school.

Qing Zhiyuan said it too professionally.

If anything, it's not perfect...... Probably at the beginning, the makers didn't expect that players would use bugs to card bosses, resulting in overstepping the level to fight monsters, and experience overflowing.

Qing Zhiyuan touched his chin and thought carefully, so later Blizzard added a level limit to the experience formula, and only within a certain absolute value range of the level can you get normal experience, otherwise it will decay according to the level difference.

This is a piecewise function.

It has been verified by data and corrected by hand, so it is not so mathematically perfect.

However, in the case of pokeni production, various issues will definitely be taken into account from the beginning.

It's called Diablo Generation 1, but it's actually been iterated many times in Qing Zhiyuan's brain.

“……”

Reiko Katayama looked confused, feeling lonely when she heard it.

"In short, this game is definitely an epoch-making product in terms of numerical design, and the complexity and variety of combat is also a very important feature of the game, and we are very confident that Demon X will become a world-class game." Qing Zhiyuan made a summary.

"Okay, President Qing, that's all for today's interview, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule."

……

When she took the elevator downstairs, Reiko Katayama asked the photographer, "Can you understand what President Seiji just said?" ”

"...... me?" The photographer looked at her with a confused expression, "I'm just a machine-bearer, you ask me?" ”

……