Game Development Giant

Although he had expected it before, when faced with the crazy sales trend of Mars Entertainment's gameboy, Yamauchi Hiroshi felt extremely uncomfortable. He only now began to think about Junpei Yokoi because of the suggestion of Junpei Yokoi on the handheld phone. Ping proposed it to him more than a year ago, but he rejected it at the time. He did not think it was something worth spending a lot of money to study.

However, when Gunpei Yokoi suggested it to me for the third time half a year ago, and seeing that it was difficult to make any better progress in the home machine market, I agreed to Gunpei Yokoi's proposal. Unfortunately, this opportunity did not make much progress. Yue was stopped by himself for the simple reason that Sega had already launched their 16-bit console.

In this case, even the great prospects for handheld mobile phones described by Gunpei Yokoi are far less important than the already shaky market share right in front of us, because no matter how great the prospects are, when they are floating on the surface on paper, they are not meaningful.

However, when I really saw how big this market was, it was already too late.

boy is sold out.

This is the biggest problem facing the Gameboy handheld console in the United States. In almost ten days, all one million Gameboy consoles pre-selected and prepared for release were sold out. Even in Japan, which has 200,000 units, It lasted longer and was almost sold out on the day it was released. The first map of Chapter 300 was updated. Many people even bought game cartridges to top up their credit because they couldn't buy a Gameboy handheld phone. The handheld version of Balotelli's Adventures in Another World was sold out on Gameboy. After that, the sales volume was still very high, and even the handheld cartridges of this game were almost sold out, with more than 2 million copies.

And p-e experienced an initial sales boom, especially after Sega's md home game console began pre-sales. The sales of this game console, which featured beautiful graphics, suddenly began to plummet because the graphics were more beautiful than the games. How could this game console, which is just a pseudo 16-bit game console, be better than a real 16-bit game console?

It is different from the current situation where Nintendo seems a little depressed due to the collapse of two major games. Mars Entertainment has indeed produced many hits during this period.

A development team formed by a core member of Jester's Fire Emblem and Jester development team, after getting Jester's approval, developed Jester II 》 also made a grand debut. It is actually inappropriate to say that it is a grand debut, because this game did not carry out large-scale publicity before.

But there is no need to do too much publicity, because after all, this is a sequel to Jester's work, and Jester himself is not the producer. Updated the first map of Chapter 300 In fact, many people have discovered something now. That is, Jester has almost never been responsible for the second development of the same game. However, because Jester's reputation is still there, no one dares to take the initiative to develop the game that Jester personally presided over and developed. After all, he has lost face. It's a small thing, but it's a big thing to discredit Jester.

However, Jester was very happy when this Heavy Soldier was mentioned. He himself said: I don't like to make sequels because I don't want to follow the same old path, but because Maybe it’s because of my relationship with the producer, but other people in the company don’t really like to work on my sequels. I have to read a lot of applications every day, and basically there are no sequels to my games.”

After saying this, he came up with this expression about the production of Heavy Robot. Jester smiled and said to those present: Now we finally have the first one.

It's that simple. The development of Heavy Duty was taken over by an unknown person. Of course, Jester is the soul of Mars Entertainment. It can be said that the reason why Mars Entertainment has achieved so much now is Jester was responsible for all this, so he wanted to apply to make a sequel to his game. Then of course it requires super high strength.

Although, there was not much publicity. But the sequel to Jester Games is already the biggest publicity.

Although Jester will not continue to support the development of the sequel, there are still many fans of this game. After all, Jester's Heavy Soldiers has opened up a new way for the development of RPG games, telling all RPG game developers that there is no need to stick to the one-third acre of DND and put their own Limiting yourself to the above is meaningless except for making your vision narrower and narrower.

There is some influence, but there is no Jester’s golden brand, so when “Jester” was released a few days ago, it can only be said that it was relatively popular, but the sales volume was only average. There may still be many fans of Jester. I was waiting and watching, but after waiting for a week, sales suddenly surged. This kind of thing that goes against the sales rules will naturally attract the attention of the sales department.

But after careful study, I felt relieved.

It's nothing more than what Jester once said. For a game, the most decisive factor in its sales is not the large-scale publicity before its release. These publicities just let those who don't know know you. At most, it can increase the initial sales volume a little, but compared with the total sales volume, the initial sales volume is not worth mentioning.

There is only one way to get high sales, especially for new games. When players face unfamiliar producers, they are always cautious, and they always want to try other people to try out the depth and take a look. Is it worth buying.

Therefore, when word of mouth breaks out, many players who were still waiting to buy it will naturally rush to buy it.

Jester had seen the development plan of Mech II at the beginning, but it was a long time ago and he had a lot of time recently, so he was not very impressed. However, he still tried it when the game was finalized. , it doesn’t take too much to say too much. Judging from Jester’s feelings, this game is quite outstanding. He also made a lot of innovations in the original Heavy Soldiers. As for the plot and other things, they are all the same. The Heavy Soldier II in his memory no longer had any connection with it.

At that time, Jester believed that even if the game could not be a big hit, it would still be a moderate hit.

To be honest, if you put aside everything else, the quality of this game may still be a little lower than that of Dragon Quest II by Yuji Tsui, at least the story is much weaker, but fortunately, this game When it was launched, Nintendo simply could not come up with games of sufficient weight to snipe.

Moreover, the defeat of Dragon Quest II is a crime of non-combat. It does not mean that this game is really that bad. The reason why it is said to be bad is because of the comparison.

It is still a direct confrontation between two games that have always been regarded as rivals. On one side is Final Fantasy, which is full of energy, and on the other side has never regarded Sakaguchi Hironobu as a real opponent and wants to defeat Miyamoto wholeheartedly. Shigeru and his Legend of Zelda Yuji Tsui.

It's a pity that with the quality of Yuji Tsui's Dragon Quest II, if it were sold at the same time as Shigeru Miyamoto's The Legend of Zelda II, his game might easily beat him. He has always been regarded as an opponent.

Jester has just returned to his office from the Pokemon development department. He has not slept almost all day and night since yesterday. He just wanted to take a rest in the small lounge he opened in the office. Unexpectedly, someone called at an inappropriate time. Originally, if Jester wanted to do something that was not necessary, he would wait until he fell asleep.

But when he heard the words coming from the phone receiver, Jester no longer felt sleepy.

The call was from Carmack, and the content was about . During this time, almost all the development teams led by Carmack had completed the production of the first in-game map, so they wanted Jester to go there. It was supposed to be done in the morning to see if it was suitable. However, after Carmack asked several times, he always said that Jester was busy developing Pokemon and was not here, so it was postponed until now.

When Jester had just left the development team of Pokemon, Carmack called immediately after knowing about it.

Jester had no choice but to get up and feel the development area of ​​.

Carmack's personal charm is very full, and he has an unspeakable appeal. This is when Jester joked with the people in the development team when they talked about the development process, Jester also laughed in the future. Having been inspired by Carmack’s biography, you naturally know Carmack’s personal charm.

Under the leadership of Carmack, almost the entire development team of more than 20 people called the development department home. The refrigerator was filled with coffee, cola and pizza. In a specially opened room, seven items were placed in a row. There are eight recommended folding beds. If anyone feels tired, just lie down on the folding bed and rest for a while.

This method of concentrating all the energy on all the difficulties is not used throughout the entire development process. It is only done when encountering a very difficult problem to solve. Although it is said so, but in these two projects, In the past month, such concentrated attacks have been carried out three times, each time lasting at least three to five days.

The same goes for the task of completing the drawing of the first 3D scene graph this time.

This was already the sixth day of hard work, and the problem was finally solved. Therefore, when Jester came to the development room, he found that there were not many people here because Carmack had given them a day off and let them go back to rest. , to meet the next heavier development tasks.

Seeing Jester push the door open and come in, Carmack turned his head and glanced, a look of joy on his face.