I'm a Light Novel Master in Japan

"It seems that there are finally two teachers, and they plan to take advantage of this opportunity to compete a little bit." Kagurazaka Ayame seemed to understand Li Yan and Qianshou Village Zheng's thoughts, and looked at them with a smile.

"..."

Xia Zhiqiu Shiyu looked at the figures of the two authors standing together, and even she became a little nervous. She, Uesugi, and Izumi have almost all bought and studied the story of "Fantasy Demon Sword". From her point of view, Chishoumura Masaru is worthy of being a loner from a literary family. Female, her writing style is like that of a professional literary writer. She meticulously describes the wonderful story and plot. In terms of her writing style, she is not only far superior to Uesugi Yan, but even she is not confident that she can win this prospective high school student.

However, Uesugi is not without advantages. As a top student in science, Uesugi's works are almost impeccable in battle descriptions, but in emotional descriptions, they are neat and meaningful. Even she herself, who has always been cold to blood, has always I couldn't help chasing after him, it was obvious that "the name of the old thief" was not false.

Therefore, even she is a little curious, in terms of creation in this field, who can write the best works in the top two positions of Sanhe Bunko...

"..." Li Yan looked at the plan book in Kagurazaka Ayame's hand, and sure enough, he also noticed that the silent Chishou Village Sei seemed to be waiting for something, and he was not the only one who was unfamiliar with the unknown territory of light novel writers. This is of great interest.

——[…I always wanted to ask you, did you find it interesting when you were making games? 】

——【Yes, it will be very interesting. 】

"I have always had hope. If there is a chance one day, I can have a good match with Teacher Uesugi. Can I do my best this time, teacher?"

With Kato Megumi's voice answering him in his heart, in front of Li Yan's eyes, Qianshou Village Zheng, who had been silent for a while, raised his head and looked at him, asking with a smile.

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Li Yan once had a game dream. It should be said that almost many young people with him dream of leading a game development by himself.He felt that in the medium of storytelling, in addition to the means of film and television, it is the interaction of games that can vividly express the plot and emotion of the story described in words.

As a result, on this day, there really was an extremely rare opportunity that fell in front of Li Yan, burning Li Yan's belief that he must win. After he was admitted to the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo, he seldom included in his career goals. , so hope to win the surging mood.

One Yuan Apartment, Room 505.

"It's really white, they said don't run around naked!!"

At noon, in the hot weather, the roof seems to save an air-conditioning bill. Recently, I can always hear Qingshan Qihai's shy and annoyed scolding. September is the hot season, and it is also the season for the start of school. After writing the eighth volume, Li Yan originally thought that he would stagnate for a while to touch the writing. However, amid the noise of Qihai and Zhenbai on the roof, and the resounding sound of the video game BGM downstairs, Li Yan himself sat there. In front of the computer, start searching for game works developed by ealge Jump, and study the types of works that this company is good at.

The game company Eagle Jump, which was founded in 1995, has a small number of personnel and registered capital. It is rumored on the Internet that there have been several risks of bankruptcy. However, the game works developed by it have always been popular because of their unique style and workmanship. There are many loyal fans who support this company, and many technicians join Eagle Jump because of its fans.

In 2010, he developed the best-selling work "Spirit Story 1", and in 2012 developed the follow-up work "Spirit Story 2". Due to the influence of personnel changes, the sales of the game sequel were not ideal, so it was not reprinted for many years. With the news of the third sequel, many loyal fans originally thought that after the classic series had been cut in half, it seems that this year, there was an amazing news of the development of the third sequel, which caused a heated discussion.

"...Wait a minute, where have you seen the cover and name of this game?"

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, staring at the game cover that was somewhat similar to Kingdom Hearts style on the screen, and always felt a sense of sight.

As a result, in my memory, I quickly recalled the [-] yen second-hand game disc that Gabriel was holding in the game store yesterday morning, as if it was a work developed by this company.

Without further ado, Li Yan immediately rushed downstairs with his laptop.

【Ding dong!Ding dong!Ding dong! ! 】

"Open the door, Gabriel!" Li Yan hurriedly rang the doorbell, already deeply aware of Gabriel's bad habit of opening the door while playing games, and knocking on the door too gently would never call out this lazy angel.

- [What's the matter?Preaching, learning, etc. If you say these things, let's talk about it another day. 】

Not long after, the voice of a girl whose fatigue level was almost overwhelmed after staying up late came from the doorbell.

"No, this time, I'm here to play games." Li Yan said into the intercom.

As a result, there was a crackling sound in the house immediately, and the sound of hurried footsteps soon came towards the door. The door of Room 405 was quickly opened by Gabriel. At this moment, her hair was a little messy, and her face was full of immortality. With dark circles under his eyes, he greets like-minded comrades with a sunny smile.

"Welcome to Gabriel Game Hobby Club!! You, a learner who doesn't understand life and flexibility, finally figured it out. You don't play games on Sundays, but you still play wool!" Gabriel had a gentle smile like an angel on her face. , said to Li Yan with emotion.

Li Yan looked at Gabriel with a complicated expression, and reminded in a low voice, "Don't show a sincere expression of saving the world when you say such depraved words..."

Sure enough, when I walked into the house, I quickly found the "Spirit Story 2" that was just bought in a pile of game discs. This is a game work on the PS3 platform. I moved out of the host that had eaten some dust. Li Yan began to try to play the second sequel of this game club. Where is his expertise and where are his failures.

"Oh, this game, it's a very boring game, are you so curious?" Gabriel's eyes suddenly became lazy, looking at the TV screen and asking.

"The company that developed this game is cooperating with my Bunko Company to develop a new series of works. At present, I and a novelist in Bunko Company are competing for the script design rights of the next series of works... Probably, something like It’s the same as the essay contest, but if I win this time, my work will be able to successfully land on the PS4 platform.”

Li Yan held the handle, those serious and serious eyes looked at Gabriel and said.

"This event is quite good, so, are you going to play this game to study each other's problems?" Gabriel understood and asked.

"Yeah... um, you've already cleared this game, Gabriel, you're really trying so hard to play the game."

After Li Yan clicked into the game interface, he saw the achievement of the Bronze Cup trophy on the [continue] interface. He couldn't help but looked at Gabriel after staying up all night with some worry, and complained.

It should be said that Gabriel's game is actually quite bad. For the level he can pass once, Gabriel needs to replay more than ten times to pass. Such a bronze cup reward is probably the result of countless efforts. Played this pastime type game work.

After entering the game, after watching the animation op, story introduction, and character narration of "Spirit Story 2", the part of the player's operation is officially reached.However, after reading these parts, five minutes have passed.

"..." Li Yan held the controller and seemed to have noticed some problems with the game.

"That's right, I've never seen such a long-winded opening game. This phenomenon is probably also common in Japanese-style works such as "Rune Workshop", "Tale of the Mind", and "Golden Sun". ' Gabriel said, yawning, looking at the TV screen.

This is the so-called forced plot.

In the field of novels, this kind of phenomenon called "compulsory plot" is also a common phenomenon.An overly long introduction to the worldview of the novel and the characters appearing in it is undoubtedly a threshold to quickly kill the reader's interest, which is a blind spot that needs to be avoided extremely.It just so happens that traditional Japanese RPG games pay great attention to the depiction of the plot. Most of them like to tell the story at the beginning and interact with the characters, so as to understand the outline of this world. In a certain sense, it really needs to be paved.

Li Yan silently understood the design idea of ​​Eagle Jump, and began to continue to operate the controller to explore the setting and plot of this game.

Gradually, I began to understand the fun of this game. The fairy tale-like world view of the game, the colorful mazes that require skills to clear the level, and the various monsters that need different weapons to fight. The story is mainly about enemies and friends. The two protagonists of the game go on separate routes to take risks, and constantly use another sharp-edged protagonist to stimulate the protagonist operated by the player to carry out various psychological tactics to achieve various achievements... If you play it seriously, it is still a pretty good game.

After playing the game, Li Yan also discovered that the most important selling point...is not the plot part, but the gameplay setting, and also the superb game art design.

Li Yan has been playing, while Gabriel watched Li Yan flexibly use various tactics to defeat monsters, and then explored many maps that were easy to ignore. The more she looked, the more shocked she became. Once again, I found that this game turned out to be such a way of playing.

"Sure enough, if you weren't a fan of the previous game, you wouldn't have felt that the battles in the game were good at first. It turns out that there is such a way to play..."

Gabriel sighed, watching Li Yan play the previous part, and always felt that it would be better if she tried to start the game again.

"..."