Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 121 25. Sega!New handheld!

"hiring."

Qing Zhiyuan knocked on Akane Ayase's desk.

"Hey?"

The latter froze for a moment, and his eyes immediately burst into light.

"Okay, Mr. President, how many people do you want to recruit now, and what positions are they divided into?"

Akane Ayase quickly picked up the pen and paper, and kept records at any time.

"Hmm..." Qing Zhiyuan glanced around.

Now there are 35 regular employees in the company, and a few newcomers will report to the company in April.

Then there are 5 common interns.

The school on the neon side has three holidays a year. The summer vacation is in July every year, and then the school starts in September.

And then spring break in February or March.

School will start again in April.

For example, Makoto Xin Hai came to the company for an internship this time, just to take advantage of the spring break.

These interns had left the company by April.

Of course, there are some exceptions. It depends on how you get along with the interns. If the conditions are good and the interns are interested, they can come to the company to work in the company during their free time.

This is a very common phenomenon in neon and China.

In his previous life, Qing Zhiyuan worked in a small game company where half of the interns took the lead.

It is a tacit understanding among capitalists to use interns as regular employees.

But at least Qing Zhiyuan will give them enough internship salary, and if they perform well, they can sign an employment contract first, and they can enter pokeni as soon as they graduate from university.

This can be considered relatively conscientious.

Most companies only let interns work but don't pay them at all, and some large companies even need to pay interns for internships.

Xin Haicheng is one of the objects that Qing Zhiyuan takes care of, so even if school has already started, Xin Haicheng will come to the company to help and do some scattered things in his free time.

He is not doing it for the internship salary, but mainly because he can have a sense of identity in pokeni, have seniors he likes, and be able to do what he likes.

Sometimes the company will also give him the task of original painting, let him finish it at school and bring it back.

Although the current Xinjincheng is not a regular employee, he is still a part of pokeni and is used as a half regular employee.

In the future, Qing Zhiyuan would like to hand over more important work to this young man.

In addition to Xin Jincheng, there are several good young men who have received similar treatment and have been trained as future talents of the company.

Of course, it is still unknown whether they will choose pokeni after graduation.

……

So now the company is fully staffed, with 40 people.

But only enough to support 2-3 teams.

One of the projects under development is "Diablo 2", which was originally produced by Shinji Mikami, but he wanted to make "The Demon Hunter" with Urobuchi Gen, so Diablo 2 can only be produced by Qing Zhiyuan up.

The other one is "Pokémon", and the current development progress of Pokémon is relatively satisfactory.

The mechanism of this game is not complicated. The most important thing is that the original painting and character design will take a lot of time. According to Qing Zhiyuan's own estimation, Pokémon should be finished in June.

But these two projects have basically taken up all the hands of the company.

If you want to free up your hands to work on "The Witcher", you must either expand the number of recruits, or see if the program and art can be interspersed with each other.

The so-called interspersed work is a bit like [time slice round-robin scheduling] on the computer process, because everyone's work arrangement has a certain dislocation and sequence, and it is impossible for everyone to do saturated work at the same time.

When some of them deliver the work at hand, while waiting for the next batch of work to arrive, there will be a part of surplus time, and then use this part of the time to do other projects.

To put it bluntly, "The Witcher" needs to check what is left of Diablo 2.

But in this way, the development cycle of "The Witcher" will become longer, and manpower support will not be available until the development of Pokémon is completed.

"Two programs, two art, basically like this first." Qing Zhiyuan said, "Well, by the way, let Taiji Sakata pay more attention when the time comes to select, what we need is talents who can draw Japanese-style western fantasy. "

"Good president." Akane Ayase wrote carefully with a pen.

As a result, the company has more and more staff.

"By the way, we have to find a bigger venue. Now the company's area can't accommodate so many people." Qing Zhiyuan added.

"Eh?"

The little HR was stunned for a moment, and pointed at himself, "Shall I contact you?"

"if not?"

"Ah...Damn it, President, you treat him as a secretary again!"

……

Returning to the office, Qing Zhiyuan clasped his hands, thinking silently.

Large-scale game development is indeed a very time-consuming, money- and resource-consuming matter.

The development cycle is generally long, half a year is considered short, and some projects even last for one or two years, three or four years, or even 10 years.

But the problem is that several of Pokeni's games are now large-scale projects.

Games like Diablo have a long cycle.

In contrast, galgame has obvious advantages.

The development cycle is short, and the selling price is high. P Corporation is now well-known. As long as the product quality is good enough, it can actually earn quite a lot of money.

With the current program development progress, as long as the amount of art can be laid out, the production cycle of a galgame is only about 3 months.

Do you want to make another galgame?
……

It took 5 days to sort out the new galgame plan. On the afternoon of the second Tuesday, when Makoto Niijin came to the company, Qing Zhiyuan called him, art director Taiji Sakata, and copywriting planner Mika Ishino to the office of the president among.

Qing Zhiyuan sent a copy of the printed plan to each person.

Xin Jincheng was a little flattered, and took two deep breaths to calm himself down.

The president is so kind to me, I don't know how to repay him.

Looking down, I found that there were a few large characters written on the plan——

"your name"

This is an original neon animation film directed by Makoto Shinkai in 2016, with Ryunosuke Kamiki and Moe Kamishiraishi as the main voices, and produced by Comix Wave Films.

The film tells the story of male and female high school students who meet in a dream and look for each other.

It can be said that this cartoon established Makoto Shinkai's position in the field of animated films, and has since been hailed as Hayao Miyazaki's successor.

Your Name can be regarded as a mature work that he has explored for so many years. Before that, it was more or less like [the picture is beautiful, but the story is not enough].

This movie has also created a box office miracle for animated movies worldwide, and has become a masterpiece in the minds of countless people.

Either don't do it, if you want to do it, of course you will go directly to the university!
This is Qing Zhiyuan's idea.

In the past, it was restricted by hardware, but now pokeni's technology has also been improved, both in software and hardware.

Although using Sega's MD can't make it as beautiful as the wallpaper maniac, it can also be done to a fairly good degree.

……

A few people did not speak, and looked through silently.

The background of the story takes place in Neon, which coincides with the visit of a once-in-a-millennium comet.

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a female high school student living in a neon town, is bored with the election campaign held by her father, who is the mayor, and the ancient custom of passing down a shrine to her family.

She is full of yearning for the big city, and even fantasizes, "Please let me be a handsome guy in Tokyo in the next life!".

Suddenly one day, Sanye had a dream of becoming a boy, facing strange friends in a strange room, and the streets of Tokyo.

Although confused, the girl is still full of joy to be able to come to Tokyo, which she has always dreamed of.

At the same time, Tachibana Taki, a male high school student living in Tokyo, also had a strange dream. He became a female high school student in a remote mountain town that he had never been to.

Boys and girls meet each other in dreams like this, and look for each other with the belief that "no matter where you are in the world, I will definitely go to see you".

……

Although he has a deep memory of the animation in his mind, due to time constraints, Qing Zhiyuan made some minor adjustments to the script outline in this game plan.

For example--

Smart phones, this kind of thing has not been invented yet, so naturally it is impossible to appear in the plan.

Relatively speaking, there will be a little bit of regret, but overall the impact is not very big.

Several people watched it, and each sighed.

Mika Ishino lowered her eyes and smiled silently.

She can almost feel the beauty of the story described in the script, and has her own thoughts on the emotions of the hero and heroine, as well as their respective encounters.

If the details can be filled in completely, it is really a good story.

On the other side, Taiji Sakata and Makoto Nitsu also had the same idea.

"This story of exchanging lives and saving each other is so good." Taiji Sakata sighed.

"Hmm. Is this the work of the president?" Xin Jincheng caressed the original line drawing in it. Although it hadn't been colored yet, he could already see the beauty and——

Deja Vu.

This feeling was really subtle, as if he had seen it in a dream.

"The talent of the president, I am afraid I will not be able to match it in this life." Xinjin Cheng said.

"No, no." Qing Zhiyuan thought, this is your work after all.

Several people chatted with each other for a while, and exchanged opinions on some uncertain issues. Mika Ishino probably already knew it.

"Now the company is short of manpower, let Xinjin-san be the original artist in this project first, I hope the main design comes from Xinjin-san."

Qing Zhiyuan said this to the art director Taiji Sakata.

The latter understood and nodded silently.

Although he still had some doubts in his heart, he was willing to believe in the judgment of the president.

"The only problem is that Xinjinsang is now a freshman, and he doesn't know whether he can take care of it academically, and the time is not stable."

"It's okay, I can take it back to school and do it," Niijin said.

It seems that this guy is very interested in the project "Your Name".

Taiji Sakata thought to himself.

However, he quite agrees with Xin Jincheng's original painting ability. Although some skills are still rusty now, he has already shown extraordinary talent, and it is not certain that he will become a master in the future.

Even Taiji Sakata produced——

If this guy stays in the game company, he will be too talented.

According to his vision, Makoto Niijin is more suitable to follow Hayao Miyazaki to do independent animation.

"But the president, I'm still an intern now. Why did you choose me?" Makoto Niijin asked weakly.

"Because I think you are the most suitable." Qing Zhiyuan said firmly.

This is indeed the truth of Qing Zhiyuan. In this world, there is no one more suitable as the original artist of "Your Name" than Jin Haicheng.

Because this is what belongs to him.

"I have seen your works and think they are quite beautiful and imaginative. After writing this project, my first thought is you.

If it's you, you can probably make the game's original painting the best. This is my first instinct. "

Eh?
Is that right?

Nijincheng suddenly felt a little moved.

Just came to the company as an intern to get such strong approval from the president, I really don't know how to repay it.

"Good president, I will work hard and strive to live up to your expectations."

……

After Makoto Nitsu and Taiji Sakata left, Mika Ishino held the project proposal and looked at Qing Zhiyuan hesitantly.

"What's wrong?" Qing Zhiyuan turned around and asked.

"President, don't you dislike being a galgame?"

The corner of Qing Zhiyuan's mouth twitched violently twice.

"The direction of the wind has changed...and it's not shabby to make money. What's more, our galgame is different from other galgames. We are a galgame that brings happiness and touch to people."

"Yeah." Mika Ishino nodded.

Unexpectedly, the president finally had to compromise for money.

But, to be able to walk out of a different galgame path is also quite charming.

But—lucky or not, don’t you have any idea in your heart?

……

After arranging the work, Qing Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The main reason is that the company is under too much pressure to repay the loan and dare not take too many risks. It is not bad to have a short-cycle galgame to make money.

Time passed gradually, and it was late May in a blink of an eye.

The weather is also starting to warm up.

At the beginning of June, Qing Zhiyuan was invited to participate in the [Chicago Consumer Electronics Show] in Chicago, USA.

CES Chicago is equivalent to the E3 Electronics Show in the future, or the Tokyo Game Show. It mainly invites the world's largest electronics manufacturers to come here to exhibit and promote their new products, and at the same time let more people have access to these products. cutting edge products.

At this time last year, Ren Tiantang and Sony were still tearing each other up at Electronics Show.

A year passed in a blink of an eye, but Qing Zhiyuan came to this stage that belonged to the bosses.

The reason why I was invited was mainly because at this exhibition, Sega will launch a brand new handheld, and pokeni and Sony are the main participants.

Of course, there is also DUN's Nao Tsuda.

……

The entire consumer exhibition is divided into two parts. The first part is the pre-show press conference, where exhibitors introduce their products. Media reporters and consumers will attend the event.

After the press conference, it is time for free visits and experiences.

Each participating company will have a fixed area, where it will arrange and display products for consumers to experience.

At this time, the process is relatively complete, and similar exhibitions in the future will basically follow this model.

On the afternoon of the first day, Ren Tiantang brought the SFC game console that they jointly developed and expanded with Philips. Because of the use of new disk technology, playing games on the SFC can increase the game capacity to more than 500 megabytes.

In fact, this technology is not very advanced. At last year's Electronics Show, Sony presented the PS trial machine developed for Rentiantang.

It's a pity that it has now become a dream bubble.

It's also kind of ironic in retrospect.

But the media and players don't seem to have such a deep memory. When the Rentian Tiantian game console was exhibited on the stage and the introducer tried it on the TV, the name of Super Mario was still shouted below.

Qing Zhiyuan glanced back at Mr. Kutaragi Ken, the representative of Sony, and saw the resentful expression on this person's face, and he knew that he was full of energy and ready to take revenge.

The next morning, it was Sega's turn to hold a pre-show press conference.

The media reporters have long been waiting below, because before the press conference, everyone has received news that Sega will launch a brand new handheld game console jointly developed by Sega and Sony this year.

Coupled with the love-hate relationship between Sega, Sony and Rentiantang, this time the press conference became more intense.

Everyone was looking forward to a very dramatic performance.

……

Sega took to the stage to give a demonstration of their sales director in the United States, his name was Tom Kolinski.

After Tom came to the stage, he raised the microphone with a smile on his lips, "Hi everyone, I'm Sega's sales director, Tom Kolinski"

There was a round of applause below.

Everyone has been looking forward to Sega for a long time, and they want to see what kind of sparks can be sparked between Sega and Rentiantang this year.

Tom smiled slightly, "If there is anything in this world that can make our dreams come true, and even let us hold our dreams in the palm of our hands.

At least this thing won't be black and white, I thought. "

Hahahaha...

A burst of laughter erupted below.

This is obviously because the gameboy of Renren Heaven is still a black and white screen.

Randy, the sales director of Rentiantang, didn't look very good, but he still managed to squeeze out a smile when facing the camera of the media reporter.

"Whose dreams are in black and white?"

Tom Kolinski spread his hands and made an invitation gesture. The staff below immediately ran to the stage and put a brand new handheld game console in his hands.

On the big screen, the camera was pushed in and zoomed in, and it was in Kolinsky's hand, showing the brand new game console.

"Next, I would like to introduce to you——

Sega!

GAME POCKET! "

……

Thunderous applause broke out again below.

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