Game Development Giant

After thinking about John Carmack's future, Jester finally let go of his worries.

After all, it is a pity that talents like Carmack are not used on the road where they should be used. What is the point of studying rockets? Americans landed on the moon decades ago, how can you still study them? Is it worse than NASA?

It's obviously impossible.

In fact, there are not only John Carmack and Kazunori Yamauchi in Jester's company who are not doing their job properly. For example, Jester has attached great importance to him in recent years and has even become the ace producer of Mars Entertainment. Itagaki Tomonobu is also such a producer, and he naturally likes games, but Jester also asked Itagaki Tomonobu during his usual chat.

When he is bored, he likes to play games or do other things by himself.

As a result, Itagaki Tomonobu's answer also directly connected Jester with the wild and uninhibited Itagaki Tomonobu in his mind.

Because of his appearance, Itagaki Tomonobu is called a sullen face by many players who like him but don't like him. In fact, he was a real gambler in middle school. When summarizing his life, he always uses gambling to describe it. . If it weren't for becoming a game producer, perhaps a gambling god would appear in the Japanese gambling world. Of course, this is a humorous ridicule of himself.

In this world, the reason why Itagaki Tomonobu became associated with games was because he lost money in a bet with his roommates and had to queue up to buy games for them.

Otherwise, Itagaki Tomonobu may not necessarily be in this world and continue on the path of game development.

And even if he embarks on the road of game development as in history, he may have to wait until he graduates from graduate school. It is absolutely impossible for him to apply for an internship at Mars Entertainment when he just graduated from college, and then be unable to extricate himself from the game. Develop this path of no return.

In fact, gambling still plays a great role for Itagaki Tomonobu.

Especially for game development.

As everyone knows. Game designers are also psychological researchers. Behind the development of a game, they are actually studying the psychological conditions of players, so as to develop a game that best meets the psychological expectations of players.

Gambling-Bo made Itagaki Tomonobu learn to guess other people's thoughts, which made him good at guessing and catering to the players' psychology: the high difficulty and hard-core fighting style of Ninja Dragon, the blood-spraying breast shake in Doa are all very It caters well to the players' psychology, and has achieved the reputation of sulfuric face and the personality of wild speeches.

Jester remembered a story about Itagaki Tomonobu.

That was probably after he had a falling out with the Pantsless Demon over the bonus issue and left.

He was interviewed by the gaming media, who asked him what he planned to do next. Or should I start my own company or work in another company? Do I have any plans for new games?

As a result, Itagaki Tomonobu said very confidently at the time: My future career is as a photographer, and my hobby is game production. In fact, this cannot be regarded as a purely pretentious and angry talk, although he turned around after finishing the interview. A game company, Valhalla Studio, was established.

But he really showed up as a photographer.

And started a photography career that lasted a lot of time. From the perspective of not doing his job properly, Itagaki Tomonobu may be the least successful among the gamers in this article, and also the one with the most ill-fated fate. He failed to become either a quality gambler or a famous photographer.

So, after two years of silence. Itagaki Tomonobu has returned to the gaming world.

The development progress of its new game The Devil's Trio has been repeatedly frustrated since it was announced in 2010. First, the game content could not be released as scheduled, and then the game engine crashed, resulting in a sharp decline in profit expectations. at last. This game that has been developed for five years is actually exclusive to Wiiu, and Wiiu sales have not exceeded 10 million as of 2015, which can be said to be too miserable.

However, the production of this game is indeed not very good, to put it bluntly. This is simply an insult to the illustrious reputation of the father of the Dragon Ninja.

But Jester is also a little worried. He doesn't know what Itagaki Tomonobu chose after The Devil's Trio, and he is really disappointed with the game. I have completely failed to do my job properly, and I still want to avenge my shame...

It can only be said that if Itagaki Tomonobu really leaves the game industry, it will really be a huge irreparable loss for the entire industry.

In the industry, there are many designers like this who are not doing their jobs properly.

For example, many game producers are avid music enthusiasts. For example, the full name of Rockstar is Rock Star. They are admirers of rock operas, including their general Matsuno Yasumi, and the famous Miyamoto. Mao, his hobby is singing in bars.

But these people pale in comparison to the strange person in Jester's memory.

This person is not an employee of his company. Jester doesn't even know where he is now. Jester just suddenly thought of him as Myles Jacobson.

He may not be well-known now, but in the future, this person will be the helmsman of Si Company.

That's right, it's the company that developed the game Football Manager, and he's also known as the creator of Football Manager.

Later, after he became famous, he once recalled his early days in SI in an interview, and Jacobson called this period a period of not doing his job properly.

Before receiving the Championship Manager 2 (CM2) floppy disk, Jacobson, in addition to being a loyal player of the Football Manager series, could be said to be a complete musician. During the glory days of the record industry in the 1990s, Jacobson worked as a manager for a record company called Food Record, spending his days in the recording studio and at events.

How could such a pure musician get involved with games?

Working as an agent allowed Jacobson to meet many game producers who love music.

Once, his rock star band Blur held a concert, and an edios employee expressed that he wanted two tickets, but they had no intention of making a monetary transaction. In exchange, they gave Jacobsen a beta version of cm2, hoping to make the football manager a die-hard part-time tester. This made Jacobson quite tempted. While the tickets were being mailed, he got on a flight to London. There he met the Collier brothers, the heads of Si Studio and the main designers of the CM and later FM (Football Manager) series. (To be continued...)