Game Development Giant

When he said this, the Game reporter's tone was filled with an indescribable tone of expectation. △The top novel,

After hearing the reporter's question, Jason just remembered that he seemed to have forgotten that this interview would be released before the carnival. However, he thought about it carefully and realized that he was here when the big boss called him. In his office, he told himself that he should do an exclusive interview with Game magazine, and the content of the interview was related to Age of Empires.

At that time, the big boss handed him a piece of paper. On that piece of paper was written some information about Age of Empires that he could not disclose in the interview. After reading it, he cautiously asked the big boss, Is it right? Except for what is written on the note, you can say anything else.

And the big boss nodded and said yes.

Therefore, Jason thought about it carefully, and it seemed that what he just said about the big boss's next plan was not on that note.

So Jason felt relieved, waved his hand and said, It doesn't matter, you can report everything I said today. The reporter who received his reply also looked overjoyed.

After entering the interview room, this exclusive interview officially began.

The first few questions were all about the basic information about Age of Empires. These things have been disclosed by Mars Entertainment through many channels before. There was nothing to ask in detail, so the two parties just chatted briefly. It's like warming up the scene first.

Jason and Jester have different statuses, so the treatment they can enjoy is naturally different.

If it is an exclusive interview with Jester, all the questions in the previous interviews will be reviewed by Jester in advance, and Jester will be asked to delete the ones he is unwilling to answer before starting the interview. Jason is just an ordinary member of the development team. Due to Jester's status, he naturally does not enjoy Jester's treatment.

Questions about the interview. He definitely didn't know it beforehand.

After warming up with a few simple questions that were easy to answer, the editor suddenly asked a question that was difficult for Jason to answer.

Jason, you said before that Mr. Jester Lee will produce a completely different RTS game every year in the next few years. Please forgive me, if so many RTS games appear at one time , will it shorten the lifespan of this type of game?

Upon hearing this question, Jason's expression suddenly changed.

The other party’s question is not unreasonable. There have been many examples before. When a genre becomes popular, there will be many followers immediately, but the followers only want to make quick money, so the games produced are shoddy and players are deceived. If they buy these games, they will naturally be angry. For this type of game , or even the entire gaming industry. All can cause extremely bad effects.

For example, in the gaming industry before Atari collapsed, this phenomenon continued to appear.

After pondering for a moment, Jason said, I think your idea is a bit unfounded. He said. Jason's tone became a little disdainful.

The phenomenon you call does exist, especially on PC. This is an open platform. Anyone can develop games on this platform as long as they are willing, and no one can effectively supervise them. . Even the newly established Electronic Game Association is the same.

Hearing what Jason said, the editor of the interview suddenly had some doubts. Didn't he think what the other party said was information that was beneficial to him? Then why did he say that his thoughts just now were unfounded?

really……

As he spoke, the smile on Jason's face became even brighter, and he changed his voice and said: However, although the PC is an open platform, this platform is very different from the so-called open platform of Atari. Differently, to put it bluntly, do you think that as many games as there are grains of sand in the Ganges have appeared on PC in recent years are all worth playing? I can even put it bluntly, do you think , there are so many PC games, is there not one worse than eq?

Hearing what Jason said, the face of the interviewing editor changed, and he showed a stiff smile, and then shook his head: The level of games on PC is indeed uneven, and some are as high as Jess Mr. Te Lee's Quake is a masterpiece that has guided the industry to a future path, but there are also many works that are worse than shit.

So!

When Jason heard the editor who interviewed him say these words, the expression on his face became happy: Since this hasn't killed the PC platform, why should we worry?

As he spoke, Jason's tone paused again: Besides, the level of our boss is well known. Are you still worried that the game produced by Jester Lee will disappoint the players? Indeed, Jason He said this in a loud tone, but he did mean the truth.

Jester's level is indeed very high, and the games he makes have never disappointed the players who are looking forward to it.

Even a work like Dream Simulator that has reached a bottleneck without a breakthrough and is still spinning within the previous framework is a rare masterpiece. It can even be said that this is the best work after Fire Emblem An SRPG game, even Matsuno Yasumi's previous Royal Knights, cannot be compared with Dream Simulator.

Not to mention those other games.

Both of them point out the direction of game development to the industry and make more detailed classifications for various types of games.

at the same time.

At this carnival, Jester also extended an invitation to the ordinary board members of the World Electronic Games Association. By the way, it also held the second plenary meeting of the association since its establishment. The first plenary meeting was at the time of its establishment. It has already been held.

The reason for holding this meeting is also to discuss one of the basic purposes of the establishment of the association, which is the delineation of game classification.

Of course, because the laws and regulations of each country are different, the grading standards set by the association are only for reference by the members of the association and are not mandatory. Moreover, each country formulates its own game grading standards according to its own national conditions. time, it also has very important reference value.

The venue for this meeting was all planned by Jester, but when representatives including Kutaragi Ken, Nakayama Hayao, and permanent board members such as EA, Sierra, and Nintendo all arrived, Jester was not there. Being late, the people from Mars Entertainment were also very anxious, but they were just told that Jester had something important to do now and needed to delay for a while.

However, as the official meeting got closer, people present also had a lot of dissatisfaction.

Of course, Mars Entertainment has the greatest influence and power now, so it is natural for Jester to hold a meeting. However, if a meeting is planned to be held, but he is late, then for those who come to the meeting, it will be a bit uncomfortable for him. So take it seriously.

However, when the staff of Mars Entertainment briefly talked about what Jester was doing now, although the people present were still a little dissatisfied, they also expressed their understanding.

Because this is really not something that can be delayed.

This all stems from an incident in the country on the other side of the Pacific in the middle of this year. This incident caused a lot of dissatisfaction in many countries, including the United States. However, surprisingly, at that time, many countries in the country on the other side of the Pacific When state-invested companies were withdrawing their capital, Jester suddenly announced that he would once again invest $10 million in his business there.

Jester did not formally express his attitude, but his actions fully demonstrated his attitude.

After that, the country over there invited Jester to visit several times. However, because Jester had something to do, he did not talk to the country in detail. Today, an important person from the country over there is visiting, and he wants to meet Jester. Jester immediately agreed to meet after being notified, even delaying the plenary meeting of the World Electronics Association.

When Jester arrived at the meeting site, it was already forty-five minutes late from the scheduled start time of the meeting. Jester first apologized sincerely, although the specific matter was not clear to everyone present at the meeting. Clearly, but they all knew that what happened before was very important to Jester, so they didn't say anything more.

Jester's demeanor looked exactly the same as before.

I think the ratings of our video games can be set with reference to Hollywood movie ratings.

After Ken Kutaragi made brief eye contact with Nakayama Hayao and Jester, he expressed his opinion, and his opinion was also the opinion of Sony, Sega, and Mars Entertainment.

Hollywood's top standards are very strict, and there will definitely be people who are dissatisfied.

For example, ea.

Tripp Hawkins is also a legend in the industry. He was a top student at Stanford University and the marketing director of Apple. He later left Apple to found ea, which was established two years earlier than Mars Entertainment. The market share in the PC field is much larger than that of Mars Entertainment.

However, the share of PC games in the entire electronic game field is almost negligible. Therefore, their name as the world's largest PC game developer and publisher is not very influential.

Tripp Hawkins's objection is simple and difficult to refute.

I think we should be different from Hollywood's film classification standards, otherwise it will be easy for people to criticize.

And there are many supporters of his opinion. (To be continued...)