Game Development Giant

After taking a seat in the box, Claudia made some strange inquiries.

How did you come up with this idea? Let the player become the head coach of the team? As she said, Claudia smiled softly, I don't think this will give the player a good experience.

After hearing Claudia's slightly mocking teasing, Jester also calmed down a little.

you're right.

He nodded first, agreeing with part of what Claudia said, but he also had his own opinion: This game mode should belong to the category of simulation games. I will call it business simulation for the time being. In fact, If you look at it from a broad perspective, it’s not very different from the previous games like “SimCity” and “Railway Tycoon.”

Hearing what Jester said, Claudia nodded involuntarily. As the most important partner of Mars Entertainment and the general person in charge of the European affairs, Claudia couldn't help but agree with what Jester said. There is also some understanding of these two types of games, although the sales of these two PC games can only be said to be average.

But the response was huge.

The characteristics of players of this type of game are that they are a niche but loyal group. Once they are determined, they will not change their views on the game. Jester said in a very calm tone, making some of his judgments, and then he continued The topic turned to football management games.

The game I mentioned before that allows players to become head coaches is just a preliminary idea of ​​mine, and...

As he spoke, Jester laughed, which made Claudia look a little strange. She didn't hear anything that could make people laugh in the words Jester just said.

Seeing the confused look on Claudia's face, Jester stopped laughing: Don't you think this game would be interesting if it were designed? And now, when I am making the game, I don't There are so many things to consider that have nothing to do with the game.”

indeed so.

After hearing what Jester said. Claudia nodded immediately and said casually that on this point, she was indeed wrong. She was thinking from the perspective of the person in charge of a game company. From the perspective of whether this game can provide The company provides enough profit to start considering.

But she ignored that Jester no longer needed to be restricted by these things.

Jester was just about to continue saying something, but a burst of extremely warm cheers suddenly broke out from below the podium where Jester was. It was the main stand for Manchester United's home fans. Jester saw that many fans turned towards the box where he was sitting.

And he kept waving the scarf or other things in his hand to him.

At this time, Jester naturally understood. Maybe the on-site camera captured him, and he couldn't see the big screen outside the stadium at this place, so he didn't notice it at the first time.

The players came out.

Claudia grew up watching football matches and is a die-hard Newcastle United fan, of course. As Jester became the chairman of Manchester United, she naturally became a fan of Manchester United. The fans and audience at the scene sang the Manchester United anthem in unison.

The melody of this song was not familiar to Jester. The only Manchester United anthem he was familiar with was the one from 1999. After Manchester United won the Triple Crown, the glory that spread all over the world belonged to Manchester United. In the future, this song was the most remembered at the Manchester United scene, but it seems that this song is not the team song of Manchester United now.

It's a song I'm not familiar with. But it's still a very exciting march tune song.

So your next game is going to be the game you said that allows players to become the head coach? A Manchester United attack ended when the pass was blocked by the goalkeeper. When the Manchester United players were taking a corner kick, Claudia asked casually.

no.

Jester shook his head: My next game is not a big production, it is just a small game for self-entertainment. It is a minesweeper RPG called Runestone Guardian. Well, I plan to There were only three people working on this game, including me, and Football Manager...

Although it doesn't seem to be troublesome, there are still many things that need to be considered, such as the copyrights of major leagues, and whether current PCs can simulate the desired game content - and the most important point , that is, if you want players to really like this game and make them feel that this game is irreplaceable, there is still one more thing to prepare.”

Claudia, who was a little curious by Jester's answer, couldn't help but ask aloud.

What job?

hehe.

Jester laughed a few times indifferently, and then said calmly: Scouts from all over the world, since I want to make a football manager game, I naturally hope to get some data that is completely consistent with reality as much as possible. Think about it, if the data in our game, whether it is famous players, unknown players, or even young players who are not famous at all, can have relatively real data, then those who like Football game players, will you be ecstatic?

boom!

At this moment, cheers like a mountain roaring and a tsunami broke out again. Jester, who was sitting in the box, suddenly felt like he was on a volcanic crater, and he had just experienced a volcanic eruption. Although the box was very stable, Jester still felt like the earth was shaking under the embrace of such violent cheers.

Jester raised his eyes and looked at the middle of the court. The electronic scoreboard on one side of the court showed a score of 1-0.

Behind one is Manchester United.

The goal scorer was Bryan Robson. Jester was talking to Claudia just now. In his distraction, he actually missed the wonderful scene of the goal. However, he could see a No. 7 wearing red. The man wearing the jersey was waving to the fans in the stadium, and his teammates were celebrating beside him.

It's better to watch the game first, and we'll talk about the game after watching the game.

Jester was still a little bit upset about not seeing the goal just now, so he said this to Claudia and started watching football seriously, and Claudia also covered her mouth and smiled. After a while, he nodded without saying a word.

The rest of the first half basically became an offensive and defensive drill for Liverpool. After all, in terms of strength, Liverpool is still stronger than Manchester United, and Manchester United seemed to have arranged the tactics before Ferguson, and has been solidly defending, and then allowing a speed Fast forwards cruising in front.

Once the backcourt gets the ball, it will kick forward to find the forward player in front, and then quickly move forward in the backcourt to try to get a quick counterattack and have the opportunity to play more with less.

Of course, the success rate of such a tactic is not high, but once it succeeds, it is fatal.

However, most of the time in such a game has turned into a boring offensive and defensive drill. Except for the fierce movements of the players on both sides during the fight, there is really no attraction. Jester also stretched out a little boringly. Stretch your arms.

Let's talk about the previous game. Jester said awkwardly.

Claudia still smiled and nodded.

I heard you say before that you seem to value football games very much? Claudia seemed to remember something. He recalled Jester's speech at an annual high-level meeting of Mars Entertainment, where In this speech, Jester predicted several types of games that will dominate in the future.

Jester nodded after hearing this: Yes, I said in that meeting last time that future games will inevitably develop into three categories of simple and crude gameplay: car, gun and ball, which can be played in the simplest and most direct way. The game format is dominated by games that provide players with the most intense sensory stimulation. As for the reasons, I discussed them in the last meeting. I will not go into details here. This is why I am interested in racing game engines. The reason why the production is so thoughtful.”

Do you think the future football game will be the football manager mode you want to make now?

Claudia continued to ask, with a smile on her face.

Jester smiled. He knew that this was Claudia joking with him again. He was not angry. He just waved his hand: I said before, this kind of game can only be a niche. Although it is interesting, but The sales volume will not be very high, and since it can become a mainstream game type in the future, it must be a mainstream game type.

At this time, Manchester United almost succeeded in a counterattack, and the fans in the stadium burst out with very regretful sighs.

And Claudia sighed involuntarily.

Obviously, when she was chatting with Jester, she was still paying attention to the game situation.

But I can't seem to find any of the current football games that you mentioned can become a mainstream game type, whether it's our Mars Entertainment, EA's, or the football games of Japanese game companies, it seems We are still very far away from perfectly simulating a game.

Claudia expressed her doubts. She agreed with the gun games and racing games that Jester mentioned, but only for football games, it seemed that she could not see any big development in the future. .

It's just that the current hardware doesn't allow it.

Jester casually said that he felt there was nothing to talk about. The popularity of football games in the future has been verified by history. In the future, EA's FIFA series can be directly equated with money making games. , is released every year, and it costs almost no resources from EA to renovate a new version of the game. It was actually able to maintain a stable sales volume of 15 million copies per game in the years before Jester's time travel. (To be continued...)