Game Development Giant

The person who submitted the application for the egg incubator program is called Ye Mingzhang, and the name Jester is familiar to him.

When coupled with his identity as a Wanwan person, it is self-evident who this person is. To be honest, although many people in later generations boasted about the so-called domestic three swords...

It is necessary to talk about the origin of the domestic three swords, also known as the three famous swords. Daruo first mentioned it in an article in 1997. At that time, there were many players of Xuanyuan Sword and Fairy Sword. Players who say that their status in the country is at the peak of their popularity.

Because Swordsman Love had just been launched at that time, although it was recognized by some players, it was still not as famous as the other two swords. It was under this situation that Qiu Bojun, the president of Kingsoft, personally wrote an article for Dasoft, In this article, Qiu Bojun proposed the idea of ​​domestically produced three swords for the first time, juxtaposing Swordsman Love with Xuanyuan Sword and Immortal Sword. This is the origin of domestically produced three swords.

And why did Qiu Bojun do this?

Very simple, this involves the origin of the swordsman's love. In 1997, Qiu Xin brought his Dugu Nine Swords to Jinshan Xishanju. He was highly valued by Jinshan President Qiu Bojun, and the game was developed. Later, it was officially named Swordsman Love. Although it had a good reputation after its release, the sales volume was not high. In this case, in order to increase sales, Qiu Bojun's article about the domestic three swords was published.

Of course, at the time, such an article seemed a bit bragging.

But looking back now, Xishanju, who dared to produce real-time arpg games at that time, and their Swordsman Love was indeed a very high-level game at the time, and it is understandable to call it that.

Of course.

One thing that still needs to be noted is the name given to the domestic three swords by domestic players, especially after Foreman Jun left Shangsoft to form Zhulong and then developed Gu Jian Qi Tan. There have been changes to a certain extent. Because the Swordsman Love series has not released a new stand-alone work for more than ten years, so gradually, when referring to the domestic Three Swords, the originator of this name, Swordsman Love was actively excluded and replaced His is The Legend of Ancient Swords.

That’s it for the domestically produced Three Swords.

The reason why I say this is because many people think that the domestic Three Swords is the pinnacle of domestic RPG game production. Whether it's gameplay or something else.

Of course, everyone has different opinions, and everyone is an independent individual.

However, in Jester's mind, there are also three RPG games made in China, regardless of the sophistication of their production, the playability of the games, and the creativity of the producers. Or any other aspect about the production level of the game, it far exceeds the so-called domestic three swords.

Two are mainland and one is curved.

There are two versions in mainland China, one is called Sword and Demon Sealing Record and the other is called Qin Shang.

And this curved one. It's called The Tribulation of Heaven and Earth: Record of the Phantom Sword of Youcheng.

Of course, the Heluo Trilogy is also excellent, especially Jin Yong's Legend of Heroes, which is the most playable work of domestic games. However, the shortcoming of the game is that the layout is not large enough, the production is not large enough, and it is far less sophisticated than other games. So it is no longer considered.

And this Ye Mingzhang, in Jester's memory, is the producer of the Heaven and Earth Tribulation series, and the structure of the entire story was completed by him.

Of course, the name Hantang is naturally very familiar to fans who are familiar with them. It is also very familiar to Ye Mingzhang, because he has also completed another chess game that is much better than the Heaven and Earth Tribulation series. , it can be said that this war chess game called Knights of the Flame Dragon is a domestic game. It is the only time in the history of 20 to 30 years that it can compete with the top similar games in the world in the same genre. War chess game works.

The similar game being compared here is Royal Knights.

Although Jester can't be called a fan of Hantang, Ye Mingzhang, or several of his games, he has many friends, and fans of these games have always been very loyal. I have some understanding of this character.

For Ye Mingzhang, he originally submitted an application for the egg incubator project, but planned to wait one more day before rushing back.

In fact, he didn't hold out much hope. After all, there were so many people submitting applications at the same time, and it would never be his turn. He still knew this.

As for having your ideas plagiarized by others, Ye Mingzhang didn't care too much, because there are so many people applying for this program. How can the reviewers be so dedicated to plagiarizing your ideas? They really think that their own Is creativity the right one? Ye Mingzhang has never thought about it this way. Moreover, for strategy games, the most important thing is to see the producer's understanding of this type of game.

Just looking at a simplified development plan will tell you nothing.

However, just at noon, Ye Mingzhang suddenly received a call from the organizer of the egg incubator plan, saying that his plan was valued and someone wanted to talk to him about it. idea for a game.

Ye Mingzhang asked who was the person who valued his game plan, and the organizer did not hide it, Matsuno Yasumi.

After receiving this answer, Ye Mingzhang suddenly became extremely excited.

Because the reason why they had the idea of ​​​​the game Knights of the Flame Dragon was completely inspired by Matsuno Yasumi's Royal Knights. It can be said that although the two games are of the same type, they are not the same. Nothing else is the same, but just like diabol-like games, there is always a game that is born, which triggers the emergence of a class of games.

That's right, after Jester read the development plan for Knights of the Flame Dragon, he immediately called Matsuno Yasumi over.

Because Matsuno Yasushi is already the producer of Royal Knights, he has more say in this type of game than himself. Although this plan is not very detailed, Matsuno Yasumi is still very excited to see it. After watching it, After that, he respectfully said to Jester: I can only say that the idea of ​​the game is still a bit rough and immature, but the person who completed the game design is very imaginative and talented. If I can give him Given a chance, he will definitely succeed.

When Jester saw Matsuno Yasumi's comments about Knights of the Flame Dragon and Ye Mingzhang, he also smiled.

Then are you interested in meeting the person who submitted this project?

Hearing Jester ask him this question with a smile, Matsuno Yasumi had no objection. He also nodded and agreed curiously: I'm very interested. To be honest, there are so many people who like to make war and chess games nowadays. Too little.

Matsuno Tai already complained a few words to Jester.

However, Jester shrugged his shoulders indifferently and continued to smile: It's not to blame that no one is willing to develop this kind of game. It is really that this kind of game is too core. The sales volume of your Royal Knights is also It is difficult to break through one million units, but if we spend so much manpower and energy to develop other types of games, plus a little promotion and publicity, it may not be difficult to exceed one million units.

After hearing Jester's words, Matsuno Tai already remained silent.

He also knows that what Jester said is right. Battle games have never been popular works. This type of game is Jester's original masterpiece Fire Emblem, which is the top three best-selling works in Dreambox history. However, in In Fire Emblem, Jester just added a little bit of strategic chess gameplay. In essence, this is still an RPG game.

However, after extracting the elements of war chess from it, he developed Royal Knights. Although it has a good reputation, the sales volume is only more than 900,000 sets at most.

This is not the reason for his fame.

Jester later also developed a war chess game called Dream Simulation War, which is the escort masterpiece of Dreambox2.

But despite this, relying on Jester's incredible appeal, this game has only sold 12.3 million units. You know, Jester is an American RPG that can be sold within a week. Four million sets of characters were produced.

Ye Mingzhang came to the headquarters of Mars Entertainment with some anxiety.

Because the Egg Incubator Plan is still completely dominated by Mars Entertainment, most of the reviewers for the Egg Incubator Plan are now employees of Mars Entertainment. Of course, as more and more companies join later, the Egg Incubator The plan will also have its own separate office location, but such review matters still need to be entrusted to major game companies.

In the courtyard of Mars Entertainment, there are many statues of game characters. In the corridor of the office building, there are various posters about games everywhere.

Although he had imagined what it was like inside the world's top gaming company before, he was still shocked after seeing it with his own eyes. The employees of Mars Entertainment took Ye Mingzhang to a lounge and pushed the door open. open.

Sitting on a sofa in the lounge were two young people, both in their twenties.

Ye Mingzhang, who was standing at the door, was momentarily stunned when he saw these two people. He knew all of these two people. Except for one being his favorite producer Matsuno Yasumi, the other one was Jess. Te. Lee.

When the door to the room was pushed open, Jester also saw the person coming.

He waved his hand to ask the staff to leave, and then looked at Ye Mingzhang, who was a little nervous and reserved. (To be continued...)