May 10, 1993.

Tokyo.

Pokeni Co., Ltd.

In the small conference room of about ten square meters, which can only accommodate ten people, it is crowded with employees of P Company.

Today is a very special day for Pokeni.

Because the producer Shinji Mikami will be in the conference room to demonstrate the new game that will be released for everyone-

The Witcher

Even if you weren't the staff of this project team, they were full of curiosity about this game.

Pokeni is not a big company, and everyone usually works together, although I have watched this game a lot, but it is the first time that such a systematic display has been made.

Shinji Mikami's palms were sweaty.

He had never been more nervous than he was today.

After all, "The Witcher" is the first game that will be released as a producer, and it can be said that it is very meaningful to life.

The company's internal display is also an idea put forward by President Qing Zhiyuan.

One is equivalent to giving the company's employees an opportunity to learn, even if it is to observe and complain, maybe they can find some design problems from the demonstration.

This is a very rare test, after all, everyone makes games, has experience, and thinks from a completely different perspective than players, and can look at the game itself from a more professional standpoint.

Of course, even if a design flaw is found at this stage, it is impossible to fix it, unless it is a particularly large vulnerability.

The other is also equivalent to the glory of the company, allowing the members of the project team to show their results to others.

If it is done well, it is undoubtedly a very strong confidence boost.

If you don't do it well......

Be ashamed and brave, Qing Zhiyuan can only think so.

In the previous life, there was such a tradition within NetEase, and the game had just reached a stage of development, and it could be experienced by people within the company, and this time the test was called the company's internal test.

Many very valuable comments and suggestions will be collected.

If the company's internal test does not pass, then the project is likely to be gone.

It is not possible to reach the stage of PR testing (small-scale release testing).

In the case of Qingzhiyuan's ability to hold on, there will generally be no problems in internal testing, unless Pokeni's employees have been able to create works that are 30 years ahead of their time.

Otherwise, with his knowledge and professionalism of the future, there is no possibility of overturning.

Of course, the exception is the prestigious colleges.

……

In the small conference room, only Qing Zhiyuan sat alone on the chair.

The main reason is that it is really too small, there is no extra space at all, and in order to make it easier for other employees of the company to come and watch, the tables and benches in the conference room are emptied except for the necessary equipment such as game consoles and televisions.

In this way, there are still some children crammed into the corner, and they can't see it.

So the people in front are basically sitting on the ground, and the people in the back are standing against the wall.

Qing Zhiyuan gave a chair because of his status as president, which looked particularly strange, but everyone was engrossed in it, and no one cared about it at all.

Now there is no good viewing equipment, such as a large screen, a projector that can be connected to a game device, these are not available, if you really want to let everyone see clearly, you can only broadcast live through the shooting equipment like a TV station.

The problem is that Pokeni is a game company, and there is no need to do such a thing.

Let's just take a look and experience what is called [game demo].

……

The TV is not big, only 32 inches, but it is already the largest TV set of this era.

This is also because Pokeni is a game company, and for the usual testing and demonstration, it is much larger than the average home TV.

This thing is like a big box, and Qing Zhiyuan is a little nostalgic for the LCD TV in his previous life.

However, the momentum of the development of liquid crystal materials is very rapid, and it is not necessary to say that it will be possible to see it in a few years.

He also didn't know if his arrival would trigger the so-called butterfly effect.

At least in the game industry, Qing Zhiyuan still pushed, such as Diablo several years in advance.

It's the same with galgame.

……

With the equipment in order, Shinji Mikami held the gamepad and prepared to give a demonstration to everyone.

The game starts, and the screen goes black on the TV.

Then the Pokeni logo appears.

This was followed by the words "Witcher".

Select the new game in the initial menu, and that's the official start of the game.

[In the year 206 of the New Era, the battle between humans and bloods has become white-hot......]

"Wow."

Everyone let out a low cry.

If you want to see what the opening scene of this legendary big production looks like, it is said that "The Witcher" is particularly powerful in terms of action, and it took a lot of hard work, and the president even asked the program team to write a support structure for the new action.

Multiply......

That's when it happened.

A mosaic appears on the TV, and the game freezes.

The legendary flower screen.

"Huh?!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, no one thought that the game would be blurred in such a critical moment!

Qing Zhiyuan's eyes opened slightly, thinking that Mikami's luck was really okay.

Shinji Mikami's brow furrowed fiercely.

Who would have thought that presenting in a company would encounter this kind of problem.

He hurriedly cast a distressed glance at Ken Akanishi, the boss of the program department.

Ken Akanishi suddenly became nervous.

He coughed, stood up and looked around and said, "Don't worry, everyone, the game hasn't been officially released yet, and the yield rate is actually not 100%, so try again with a different cartridge." ”

……

After replacing the cassette, The Witcher was finally running smoothly.

Ken Akanishi breathed a sigh of relief.

In the corner of his eye, the president is quite calm.

The president is worthy of being the president, and he really can't do this position without a little courage and a big heart.

Qing Zhiyuan said that these are small scenes, and when Microsoft demonstrated the operating system in public in the previous life, there were a lot of blue screens.

Calm, calm.

That's just an internal presentation.

"But Akaxi-san, remember to recheck it later, to see what caused it, the yield rate can't be 100%, but you have to control it as much as possible.

Players are in a terrible mood if they get a cartridge like this. ”

"Okay president."

Akanishi Ken silently pinched a cold sweat.

……

This time the demonstration obviously went a lot smoother, Mikami controlled the heroine to start chopping melons and vegetables, and the blood clans of different shapes attacked in twos and threes.

The heroine is holding two very futuristic technology guns in her hands, in a half-squatting position, and the whole walking and attacking movements are very beautiful.

When she ran, in order to take care of the visual experience from a bird's-eye view, the artist specially added a long red scarf, tied around her neck, and stretched it back.

Coupled with the heroine's long tuxedo skirt, when she shoots, it is called a heroic posture.

Mikami directly made a combo.

Flash, lunge, shoot, roll......

Bang Bang Bang ......

The monsters that were hit flashed with golden light all over their bodies, and then burst open.

"Whoa......

There was a round of applause in the front row, and colleagues from other departments of the company were stunned.

This set of actions is simply like this, and you can't do it in a side-scrolling fighting game, right?

"How is this done?"

Diablo's programmer ape asked.

The Witcher has taken more than just a step forward in terms of the sense of impact and the fluidity of the movement, it was clearly based on Diablo and is now like two different games.

"Is it the same set of motion detection that you use in fighting games?"

The detection mechanism of fighting games is relatively mature, and it is determined by attack box and hit box, and if there is a stacking area, it is judged as a successful hit, and the damage caused by hitting different parts is also different.

The programmed ape of The Witcher shook his head, "No, this is through range detection, and it's actually not as detailed as a fighting game." ”

Are you kidding?

Fighting games only need to make a background, and all the game performance is used to feed the battle.

If we were to do this in this game, the memory would be too expensive.

It's impossible to stuff so many monsters and levels, so it's impossible to use such a granular hit determination.

"But there is one thing that is consistent with fighting games, in this game, the damage coefficient is divided into different parts and bonuses."

"Huh? How is that determined? ”

"Hey, guess?"

The apes' faces changed.

Because they realized a terrible fact -

In The Witcher, there is a Z-axis.

Because only in this way can the torso be distinguished from the head.

For a general 2D flat game, only the X and Y axes are sufficient.

In other words, although "The Witcher" is a 2D game in terms of performance, in terms of the underlying logic of the program, it is already a 3D game.

What the hell is this?

2.5D games?

"If you have to say it, turn three dimensions into two dimensions." Ken Akanishi explained, "If you look at the effect of flying in the game, when the monster is knocked away, it is offset above the Y axis from the two-dimensional plane, but if there is a Z axis, then it should actually fly to the Z axis.

We made a projection to make it look like a 3D piece standing on a 2D board. ”

"Nani?!"

Ken Akanishi pursed his lips.

Do you think it's my work?

This Nima is the idea provided by the president, and the ghost knows how long his brain is to be able to think of such a complicated way.

It's just horrible.

In short, under the suggestion of Qing Zhiyuan, the team of "The Witcher" has made an incredible product, at least unique and far ahead of 2D action games.

Qing Zhiyuan clasped his hands, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Best-in-class motion feedback.

There will be a little bit of distortion, but it's not a big problem.

A few more iterations of the game, and it is estimated that the action game will be quite good.

This blow alone will now take years for the world's top game manufacturers to chase after it.

"I can't see it, I can't see it......" The colleagues standing behind were a little anxious.

The first wave of monsters is cleared, and Shinji Mikami continues to explore.

At that moment, a line of bats popped out of an ancient tree in the middle.

Everyone was taken aback.

Mikami himself was taken aback.

As if asking-

I've ever made such a design?

But just as his gaze shifted to the row of bats, a Bloodline suddenly sprang out from the corner of the wall and pounced fiercely.

Syllable~

Mikami's blood line immediately dropped most of it.

But before he could react, a gunshot suddenly appeared in the shadows.

A flash of spark and light penetrates the protagonist's body.

I only heard a scream from the TV, and the heroine fell to her knees with her chest clutched.

The screen turned black and white, and a large line of [Game Over] appeared.

Shinji Mikami's face turned pale, as if he couldn't believe that this was a game he designed.

"Huh?"

The crowd let out a low cry again.

"What just happened?"

"It looks like Mikami was killed by a monster, right?"

"Huh? Really, is the value of this game so terrifying? ”

"You can see that he has a gun, and he will lose blood in an instant when he fights monsters, and it feels like modern warfare."

This can be regarded as a creative numerical design of Mikami-

In order to allow players to experience the thrill of adrenaline, the game has been greatly enhanced in terms of attack power.

In other words, although this game is an ARPG, it will be more inclined to a shooter game in terms of experience.

The benefits are obvious, each blow is quite exciting, and you can kill a large area of monsters in an instant.

At the same time, the requirements for the player's operation have become higher.

If you don't dodge and regenerate health in time, you may be killed by monsters in seconds.

Sanshang was embarrassed for a while, saying that today's demonstration was really a failure.

I knew I should have made the numbers simpler in the first place.

However, this situation is also expected, and Mikami still has a hand.

So he controlled the handle and quickly pressed up and down, left and right, up and down, up and down, right up and down.

Unlimited blood.

It's usually for QAs to run tests.,Otherwise, if you encounter a powerful monster, it's easy to die if you can't operate it yourself.。

It's the legendary [Game Cheats]

Sometimes other developers use it for internal testing, but after it is released, it is discovered by players and becomes an easter egg.

However, this also adds a lot of fun to the game.

……

Mikami's demo is complete, showing the creative [action combo] part of the game, as well as monsters and bosses, although the process is full of twists and turns, but it can be regarded as a complete task.

Action combos are a very unique creation in The Witcher.

There are 6 buttons on a pair of controllers, and players can choose to freely combine 6 skills, each of which has an action connection.

For example, one picks up, catches a horizontal knife in the air, then jumps and splits, and then slashes with a splitting ground after landing......

It's a very handsome set of moves, and although each one is a separate skill, it can be connected together to create a wonderful chemical reaction.

Don't underestimate this design, because it pits the art students unwanted.

Because players don't necessarily put skills in this order, it's likely to turn into a pick-up and split-ground slash, and it's easy for players to flicker in the air.

The action is distorted.

Qing Zhiyuan actually has a way to solve this problem, but he feels that the time is not ripe enough, and he will wait for the development of software and hardware in the future.

In the end, everyone goes with him, it's time to skip frames, and if you can't connect, you can't connect, after all, the butchers in Diablo are often ghostly, and we still care about this?

……

Bang Bang Bang ......

There was a round of applause in the conference room, and colleagues said that "The Witcher" was really wonderful.

"Convinced, convinced. Mikami producer is too strong, right? ”

In just over a year, to be able to achieve this level, Shinji Mikami is already considered to be the top producer in China.

"This is already the pinnacle of action gaming, right?"

"As soon as "The Witcher" came out, I don't know what the outside world would say, but I think the platinum hall of Famitong has been booked."

"Mmmm, I'm really looking forward to the players' reactions."

"I don't think I'll be sent a blade this time, right?"

"Hahahaha, it's hard to say, the blade has nothing to do with what Mikami demonstrated just now, it's mainly to look at Wada."

……

Hearing their words, Xuan Yuanxuan frowned fiercely beside him.

It was Qing Zhiyuan, who was happy throughout the whole process and laughed very happily.

And most importantly –

The Witcher works very well.

The next step is to wait for the market to verify.

……

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