Chapter 172 Personal Producer(4K)

"Let's start introducing the game." Yamada Kage opened the game, and the interface that greeted everyone in the meeting frowned. "I know you may have doubts about this game, but before I finish the entire demonstration,

Please do not speak or express your opinions casually."

It’s no wonder Yamada Kage said so. When you open this game, you will feel like you are playing “Pokémon Dark Phantom”, with a complete pixel style.

Even at the beginning of the game, Amamiya Chizuru's expression suddenly felt wrong.

Because of this idea, except that Butter will use a lot of pixel RPG games as themes, it seems that there are very few such games.

She usually plays butter a lot, and is afraid that this second game is really a butter... In such an important occasion as a company meeting, she shouldn't come up with a butter, right?

After thinking for a long time, Amamiya Chizuru suddenly figured out why the characters in the PPT looked awkward. If the clothes were removed, wouldn't it be the character portraits in the butter dialogue that were inappropriate?

But she still suppressed her curiosity and continued to watch Yamada Shengjing explain the game.

A very different pixel style game. It is more sophisticated than the arcade games I saw on the red and white consoles more than ten years ago, but that’s it. At the current level, it is only on par with the dozen-dollar games sold on Steam.

Pixel games are on par.

Can a company seek investment from a game like this?

The story tells that in a quiet small village, a boy with magical talent lived an ordinary life farming and raising chickens. One night, an injured girl broke in and broke into his life.

The girl had nowhere to go and begged the boy to take her in and be a maid in his house.

The kind boy agreed, so the girl stayed to take care of the boy's daily life and teach him magic. Life was still so ordinary. The player controlled the male protagonist. The entire early life was a tutorial for novices to get familiar with the use of magic and interaction with items.

During this period, you can also control the interaction between the male protagonist and the female protagonist like Sylvie, which has a certain meaning of galgame. In fact, this is also teaching players how to use it. There is also galgame content in the later stage of the game.

It's just different from Sylvie, it's not butter.

One day later, a group of cavalry broke into the village where the male protagonist lived, massacred the village and took away the girl. The male protagonist only escaped death and learned that the girl was a princess of an enemy country and was to be taken back as a hostage.

The prologue of the game ends and the game officially begins.

The original confusion and unfavorable mood of shareholders gradually calmed down. At least from the prologue, the game system is very well done, the combat mechanism is very interesting, you can switch back and forth between turn-based and control battles, and there is a rich variety of auxiliary content.

The level is comparable to "Zombie Destruction Project".

After the prologue, the male protagonist embarks on a journey of revenge and search for the female protagonist. During this period, he will travel to different towns, travel through forests and secret realms, and meet beautiful girls of different races and personalities.

It's hard to imagine that a game that looks so rough could actually contain such rich content. If you don't want to follow the main line, you can play it as a galgame and attack different heroines... except that the game production team seems to be quite poor, and there are no dialogues.

, it always feels like it’s missing a bit of flavor.

The music also needs to be improved. Do you have no money to hire a music production team? In fact, all the music is used from the game website. The BGM of the battle makes people instantly play.

It can be seen that Yamada Kami has put a lot of effort into this game. He has prepared many archives to introduce all the contents of the game. If he starts the demonstration from scratch, one night will definitely not be enough.

The game is rich in content and has a long process, which makes it not boring and kills time. After Yamada Kage finished the demonstration, the shareholders no longer despised the game as much as they did at the beginning.

"Do you have anything you want to say?" Yamada Shengjing looked at everyone present, looking forward to seeing if anyone could ask the question he cared about.

It's as if this game was really made by him, eager for players to discover the Easter eggs they buried.

This is the charm of this game, and it has captured the heart of Yamada Kaki without even realizing it.

One shareholder spoke up: "The content of the game is okay, but the problem is... the pixel game is too boring, wouldn't it be good to make something else?"

Another shareholder nodded in agreement: "This production team obviously lacks sincerity! The copywriting is so good. If you have money to hire a copywriter and script, why don't you have money to hire an artist? After playing the entire game, there is not even an avatar in the dialog box. Yes,

The copywriting is good enough that you can judge who is speaking through the context without looking at the name...but it is obviously better to have vertical illustrations!"

The shareholder just now added: "Yes, most games with dialogues will be skipped by players if they are too lengthy, but this production team has obviously put a lot of thought into it. The copywriting is excellent and makes people read and understand."

The desire for a background story...but doesn’t this mean that the dialogue box should be made more precise? No matter what the production team says, they should hire an artist, right?"

"That's right!"

"The production team is so lazy! There's also music! The person in charge of the music is so fooled, and the team agrees? If you don't give a damn to the copywriters and programmers, we should fire them quickly and replace them!"

After the demo of the game, the shareholders were very angry at the obvious areas of confusion in the game, as if this game was made by their own company, and they wanted to fire the artist and music artist on the spot.

You can't be so poor even if you are poor, right?

Even if the production team has no money, can they afford to pay one month's salary? It's enough to use this one month's salary to find an artist and music artist who charges less!

Yamada Shengjing smiled slightly and stretched out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

"Do you think the production team of this game is strange? They can obviously do better, but there are still many flaws?"

The shareholders nodded one after another, saying, are all the people in the production team working for a living? Are the art and music students paid to hire college students?

"What if I tell you that this game is made by myself?"

Yamada Shengjing enjoyed the feeling of being able to tell secrets. He looked around at everyone present and slowly told the news with a smile that made him feel incredible.

Everyone was stunned and could not be described as surprised!

Some irritable shareholders were already slapping the table and shaking their heads: "No way, Vice Chairman Yamada, don't be fooled by them! This happened before. The game was quite satisfactory. In order to win the bid, it was lied to that it was a personal production to defraud money. In fact,

It is also a small team of several people... You tell them and let them tell the truth. At the level of this game, as long as it is a small team of less than five people, it is also very powerful. Investment... This investment can be further

discuss!"

Amamiya Chizuru was also surprised because big sister Natsuki said how difficult it is to play games alone, and she suffered a lot when she tried to play games alone.

Even an industry elite like Natsuki struggled to make a game. Is there really someone who can...

oh!

And that stupid piece of wood!

Amamiya Chizuru came back to her senses. No wonder she didn't believe it when she heard that this game was made by herself.

Because in her mind, only that wooden senior could complete a game by herself.

She always felt that only Naoki Natsume could accomplish such a feat, so she didn't believe in others.

"I don't know what's in the USB flash drive, but I hope it's the game you made." Chizuru Amamiya murmured to herself in her heart.

After Natsume Naoki gave her the USB flash drive that day, she imagined that it might be a game he made himself?

I originally planned to find some free time to take a good look at the contents of the USB flash drive. Based on Natsume Naoki's understanding of her, it was either a homemade game or a short movie or butter. Anyway, they were all existences that could not be seen by others.

But as luck would have it, the head maid has been tutoring her on business knowledge and analyzing the content structure of the Butterfly Club in the last few nights, and she has not been able to find a chance to be alone.

It was very late after the head maid left her room. She was only thinking about washing and going to bed, and forgot to check the USB flash drive... Gee, my brain seems to be running out of energy recently.

"I must check what's on the USB flash drive when I go back tonight." Amamiya Chizuru made up her mind.

"My suggestion is also that Mr. Yamada must ask clearly whether the production of this game was completed independently." Chizuru Amamiya also spoke.

She is still a little selfish. It is undeniable that there are many geniuses in this world, and there may be others who can complete this level of game independently, but at least...

Amamiya Chizuru thought to herself that at least the first personally produced game she had ever seen was made by the stupid Natsume Naoki.

Everyone has this kind of "first time" struggle, whether it's mild or severe.

She even wanted her first kiss to be with Natsume Naoki. It would be best if she could have his first kiss.

"But to take a step back, if it were really made by myself, then the shortcomings of this game would be excused."

The oldest shareholder touched his beard and murmured: "The game adopts pixel style, which can save a lot of time. Otherwise, how much time would it take for personal production to switch to 3D games? It requires modeling and coding...

…Tsk, tsk.”

"Yeah, just in this case, writing the underlying code, copywriting, game flow, etc. are all done by one person. It's still hard to imagine how many difficulties and failures I went through!"

"The move combinations, item attributes, and prop distribution...if these things were not copied or ready-made, it would take several months just to think about them, right? I just watched the deputy director's demonstration, and there were all kinds of strange monsters and dropped items.

, items, props, etc... talents, no, wizards!"

Every boy may have fantasized about something when he was a child, and then record the continent in his fantasy, or draw or write, or a combination of both.

The author of this game has actually achieved every boy's dream when he was young. He has perfectly restored the world in his mind, the customs and human geography... There is also a library in the town in the game, and you can actually read books in it.

, various travel notes, histories of other worlds, urban legends, etc.

The shareholders looked at each other, then nodded affirmatively, and looked at Yamada Shengjing: "We unanimously decided to ask the deputy director to investigate clearly. If this game is really made by an individual, the two places in the company will be given to this wizard.

Leave one."

Yamada Shengjing looked at the remaining three USB flash drives and said, "My suggestion is to read them all before making a decision. Among the remaining three, there is also a game produced by a very good team. Although this wizard is great, but don't

Forgetting that personal power is always limited, we can only say that his potential is terrifying, but if we invest in him, the results will be very slow."

The vice director's words plunged the board of directors into another discussion.

Yes, it is really awesome to be able to make a game by yourself and have people praise it. In time, it will be another Miyazaki Hidetaka.

However, players will not pay for such gimmicks as independent production. What they want to see is which game is more sophisticated and fun.

To be honest, it is difficult to make money from this wizard's game. Unless he is equipped with a complete team, at least two outstanding programmers, a powerful painter, and an excellent music team, only in this way can it be possible to make a hit.

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what to do?

The company is in urgent need of life-saving games, and investing in Wizards is a long-term, stable choice. However, if the company does not have a desperate game to stand out and support the market first, it will not be able to survive for a long time.

"That's it!" Yamada Shekage suddenly thought of an idea: "In order to expand our influence, the company has prepared a lot of funds for the Waseda Campus Festival and plans to sign a few outstanding college student teams?"
To be continued...