Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 610 514. Is this going to war with aliens?

Speaking of Bug Master 2, we have to talk about Violet Evergarden.

Shinji Mikami mentioned this project with some embarrassment, "President, this game, when will the game plot be corrected so that development can proceed?"

"Ah this..."

Qing Zhiyuan was ashamed, "I have been so busy during this period that I forgot about it."

Last year, taking advantage of the development of Mushishi 2, Qing Zhiyuan asked Shinji Mikami to set up the project.

He wanted to make Violet Evergarden into a slow game similar to Mushishi, but due to work reasons, there were a lot of delays in the process, so Qing Zhiyuan was powerless. He just talked about some ideas in general, and has not yet given the project team the specific story outline and content requirements.

Oops.

Being pushed to work by your own subordinates is simply too terrible.

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"Then, it will be a derivative of Pokémon 3D World. The follow-up plan will be to complete two twin games next year."

The Pokémon series is basically pokeni’s repertoire.

Especially the corresponding derivative works, two games with obvious characteristics and mirroring each other, as sequels to the 3D world, and then select some of the newly added Pokémon and put them into traditional battles, thus forming a virtuous circle.

This has become a routine.

The problem wasn't big, and Qing Zhiyuan felt reassured by Asano Lisa and the others, so it was over quickly.

The Pokémon series is not only a signature product of pokeni, but also one of the main sources of income. Even if it does not continue to produce subsequent works, the peripheral products alone can bring a lot of income to P Club every year.

"Spirited Away is currently under development, but since the design of the large map and large buildings is too complex, it is still being finalized."

The world structure of Spirited Away is different from other previous game works. The most important subject is Yubaba's soup house. However, the structure of this thing is very complicated. It is equivalent to a large fortress and needs to be loaded into the same space. The number of game objects increases geometrically.

The impact on program performance is too great.

Moreover, it cannot be split using the map function of the existing editor, and can only be hard-built through models.

Now the programmers of the Spirited Away project team and the developers of the Pioneer Engine all hate Qing Zhiyuan and also hate Hayao Miyazaki.

The only thing that can really feel the joy in a project, apart from planning, is the art.

The art team was astonished after receiving Hayao Miyazaki's design sketches. They just felt that it was a great thing to be able to see Hayao Miyazaki's manuscripts and setting collection earlier than others.

As a result, after taking over the design of the soup house and all the characters, the artists' faces were as excited as monkey's butts.

Including art director Taiji Sakata, everyone said they had never seen such an imaginative design before, it was simply amazing.

In this world, probably only Hayao Miyazaki can imagine such a wild but reasonable, richly detailed and fascinating scene, right?
Qing Zhiyuan said that it is because you have not seen the next work.

In "Howl's Moving Castle" released by Hayao Miyazaki in 2004, it would really take your life to realize that castle.

At least Yubaba's soup house is now a non-moving thing and can be spliced ​​and produced as a fixed scene.

but……

How are you going to make Howl's Moving Castle?
That guy can run around and transform.

It is also a behemoth with a multi-layered structure that can walk inside. Even Qing Zhiyuan himself would find it difficult to realize it.

Qing Zhiyuan himself is a little overwhelmed just thinking about the program support to be provided, let alone these current programmers.

Fortunately, technology is constantly improving.

Qing Zhiyuan thought to himself, it's not that far yet. By the time Mr. Miyazaki actually makes Howl's Moving Castle, some of the prerequisite technologies may have been developed.

In addition to these game projects, Shinji Mikami also briefly introduced the game projects developed overseas.

The first is Border Online. Based on the Border game supported by LAN, it is obviously easier to expand the network. However, this project requires the development of peripheral systems and interactions, so the progress is not particularly ideal.

It is expected to be completed in the first half of next year.

Warcraft 3 Shinji Mikami just said it.

Secondly, Martin's new work "Game of Thrones", which Qing Zhiyuan just negotiated last year, is now being adapted into a strategy game. It is developed almost according to the model envisioned by Qing Zhiyuan, and Martin has been hired as a consultant, so the details There are controls from above.

The development difficulty is not very high, but it will take time to deal with the details, and it is expected to be completed in 2002.

In addition to the Game of Thrones strategy game, pokeni in the United States is also working on the 3D role-playing game "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and the game is progressing well.

But it is expected to be in 2002.

This can be regarded as the large-scale game project in which an American subsidiary has invested the most research and development efforts and funds after Border.

They seem to be quite keen on making this kind of magic-themed game.

After reading Harry Potter-related books, Breivik, now the president of the subsidiary, has become a fan of Rowling.

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After Mikami finished his report, Qing Zhiyuan went over all the contents with him.

Regarding the real-name authentication of Neon Network, it is more difficult. Neon is a country without ID cards, and even the government has no power to require citizens to produce corresponding documents, such as driver's license, insurance, household registration, etc. that can prove your identity.

In this way, players can only be protected through machine retrieval, blocking and extraction of sensitive words, and then manual inspection. Another is to issue an official disclaimer when registering the game, plus long-term reminders of player behavior, to prevent some hidden dangers that may occur.

In short, it is more complicated than Qing Zhiyuan imagined.

Only then did he discover that China is the country that best protects its citizens and has the strongest control in the world.

Except for China, no country in the world can implement a real-name system.

The Internet is naturally not as safe in other countries.

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Then for Warcraft 3, because pokeni has its own R&D engine, there is no need for them to re-develop the editor. The current development by members of the Warcraft project team is based on some functional expansions made by the Trailblazer engine.

In other words, in this world, there is no war3 editor, only the Trailblazer editor.

The functions provided by the Trailblazer Editor will not only cover all the functions of the previous war3 editor, but also provide additional capabilities that it cannot do.

And this editor is placed on the Dandelion platform for players and developers to download.

In other words, any independent game developer can use pokeni’s pioneer engine for free.

And upload the corresponding games to the Dandelion platform, which will issue and charge for them. The platform will take a portion of the revenue, about 15%, and the rest will be credited to the corresponding game developer account.

These functions are now relatively complete.

Otherwise, the platform strategy that Qing Zhiyuan proposed with other game developers before will not be realized.

For this reason, the program department led by Akanishi Ken also worked overtime a lot, causing them to complain.

But...

Mikami Shinji grimaced. After today's round of discussion, Akanishi-san's side will probably hate him and the president even more.

Because there are more new demands.

Coupled with the new procedural problems brought about by Yubaba's giant soup house, Akanishi Ken wanted to hack Qing Zhiyuan to death.

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"Finally, there is Sega's new handheld console SDS. A first version of the trial machine has been completed, and it may be used for demonstrations at this E3 electronics show. However, it is expected to take more than a year before the actual machine is delivered, that is, by It won't be completed until the second half of 2001," Shinji Mikami said.

SDS is a new handheld console jointly developed by Qing Zhiyuan and Satoru Iwata. It has many similarities with the NDS developed by Rentendo.

There are some very key technologies, such as split screen and electronic touch screen technology, which are of epoch-making significance.

After the development of this game console is completed, it may be able to contribute to future touch screen applications and play an important role.

To put it bluntly, although there are certain gaps, the research and development of SDS can accumulate valuable development experience for pokeni to enter the field of touch screen smartphones in the future.

After all, that thing will be the focus of the next 20 years.

There is no way a time traveler like Qing Zhiyuan would give up on this.

Qing Zhiyuan is full of confidence in this.

Think about it, pokeni now owns shares in Nvidia and Google, and also has a lot of valuable experience in game console hardware development. In terms of hardware design, chips, and operating systems, it has actually laid a certain foundation.

In the future, smartphones should not be too smooth.

After sorting out all the major events in the company one by one, it was already past 10 o'clock in the evening.

Time flies by really fast.

Although there are still many unfinished products, there are also many highly completed games.

This time at the E3 electronics show, if nothing else happens, the stage for pokeni will most likely be the same.

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A week later, when he saw the massive questions piled up by Shinji Mikami, Ken Akanishi just wanted to kill him headlong.

“Are these new demands too much?

Why are there so many new features about the editor? "

Akanishi-san frowned, "Let's schedule it first, we can't even take care of it here."

The president is like urging someone to die.

Game engines are obviously already world-leading. Are we going to fly to the moon on a rocket?
Or are we going to war with aliens?
Anyway, Akanishi Ken schedules everything according to needs and priority levels.

"It's okay, I understand it very well." Shinji Mikami cast a caring and compassionate look.

To be honest, sometimes he felt terrible about the president's enterprising spirit.

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(End of this chapter)