An hour later, Yu Suzuki put down the test machine in his hand. The game was over. Only the first few levels of Adventures of the Chinese Zodiac have been designed.

This kind of rushing game only needs to complete the previous level design, and most of the rest will be repetitive work, which can be completed quickly.

"Are you going to use it against Sega?"

Suzuki Yu thought Liu Zhiyuan was preparing a game for Might and Magic.

"Although this game has not yet been completed, it will definitely become another classic game of the Han Dynasty, and the name of this game is related to Pokemon, right?"

Liu Zhiyuan nodded. He would not be so arrogant as to think that just copying a game from later generations would make it popular. In addition to the excellent quality of the game itself, every popular game has many external factors that influence it.

If Tetris did not have GB, it would be far from possible for it to achieve future achievements. If Pokémon did not appear at the right time, it would not be able to achieve the title of the most profitable IP.

If Nintendo does not have a dominant position in the gaming industry, can Super Mario continue to dominate the sales list? Try changing the positions of Super Mario and Sonic, then Super Mario's status in the gaming industry belongs to Sonic.

The fragrance of wine is not afraid of the dark alleys. It has long been outdated. A classic game will inevitably have huge promotion expenses. Now everyone in the world says that Liu Zhiyuan is a madman.

A game can easily cost tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars in promotion fees, but this is really not much. You don’t have to wait too long. The promotion cost of Final Fantasy 7 in 1997 reached 100 million U.S. dollars, although it also included the promotion of PS.

After that, games with promotion fees of hundreds of millions of dollars cannot be said to be everywhere, but the promotion fees of some well-known classic games are basically around this figure.

He was just a few years ahead of schedule. No one had done this before because Nintendo dominated the game market and it was difficult for others to threaten it, including Sega, so no one was willing to spend money to splash water, and they couldn't afford it.

Until Sony's PS came out.

Didn’t Nintendo and Sega spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the launch of Gremlins 2 this time? Even Hiroshi Yamauchi was preparing to fight him for a billion-dollar battle.

The reputation of a major game company is really not as important as imagined. Reputation is useful, but when a game company that is not inferior to itself starts to exert its efforts, if it is still conservative, it will wait for the other party to seize the market.

Therefore, whether a game can be successful and whether it can become popular and become a trend, promotion is crucial. In the eyes of ordinary people, the salary of programmers in game companies must be relatively high.

But the real situation is that the department with the highest salary in the game industry is planning. Programmers are completely tools in front of game planning. A top game planner is actually a top game producer.

Planning includes game plot planning, value setting, etc. Publicity and promotion planning is also planning. In this era, this position is not so valued, but in later generations, especially for companies with bad money, the most important thing is promotion and publicity planning.

For example, my brother came to hack my Bluetooth game, and another example is the TV drama series Swallowing Alien Beasts: Classic of Mountains and Seas. Is there anything outstanding about these games? I really can’t find any redeeming features at all, but it is popular.

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This is the credit of planning and the power of promotion. There is a saying in the shopping mall that if you stand on the wind, a pig can take off. This sentence is also suitable for games.

When you meet a top promotion planner, a pig can really praise you. If the pig itself were stronger, it would be Marshal Tianpeng.

If Adventures of the Chinese Zodiac were just an ordinary release, relying on the reputation of the Han Dynasty and its excellent quality, the results would not be too bad, but whether it would be a hit is another matter.

But if Twelve Zodiac Adventures is tied to Pocket Elf, no need to think about it, it will definitely be popular, especially since the twelve game characters in it correspond to the twelve mythical beasts in Pocket Elf.

This kind of popularity does not mean that it will become a tens of millions of masterpieces. As long as the advanced settings do not make players unaccustomed to it, then it is 100% certain that The Adventures of the Chinese Zodiac will become a tens of millions of masterpieces.

What he wants is the kind of explosion that instantly detonates the world. It has to eat Sonic with all his bones to be considered successful. The purpose of its birth is to kill Sonic. How much money it makes and how many copies it sells are all.

It's incidental.

If the Han Dynasty hadn't been short of money, he would have dared to sell it at a loss, at 10 dollars a copy. He didn't have any doubts about whether Sonic could survive, and he was dead!

Of course, a copy of 10 dollars can also declare the game to be finished. He has no intention of continuing to develop this game. Even if there is still a market, it will fall out of the ranks of the Han Dynasty sequence. There will be this kind of action parkour in the future of the Han Dynasty.

Racing type game.

The horror puzzle background of Ghost Blowing Lantern combined with the Prince of Persia-style gameplay makes this a true masterpiece of this type of action parkour racing game. It is countless times better than The Adventures of the Chinese Zodiac.

"Yes, the twelve zodiac signs here are the twelve mythical beasts in Pokemon, but the images are cartoonish."

Suzuki Yu shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"I really don't know how much creativity you still have in your head. The twelve mythical beasts have hundreds of millions of players looking forward to their appearance. Although the ones here are cute cartoon versions, they can also arouse the crazy pursuit of players."

He really admired Liu Zhiyuan. This kind of game was definitely the focus of any game company, but Liu Zhiyuan actually just gave it up and handed it over to others.

"However, a good game is a good game, but depending on its type, wouldn't Super Mario be more suitable?"

It's not that Sega doesn't have games of this type, but they're not on the market, so there's no need to deliberately target them.

Liu Zhiyuan smiled mysteriously.

"Internal news, Hayao Nakayama is developing a game of this type, and he has invested a huge amount of money, bringing together all the resources of Sega. Hayao Nakayama wants to promote the protagonist of this game into a new image of Sega, like Nintendo Mali

The kind of Chenchen from the Aohe Han Dynasty."

When Suzuki Yu heard this, he sighed heavily. Liu Zhiyuan said that he had already started targeting Sega, not just for words, but for asking for such internal information.

"So, its mission is to snipe Sega's new games?"

He didn't know what kind of game Sega was developing, but I'm afraid it would be hard to beat Zodiac Adventures. He knew Sega's game development level very well.

A game that combines all the resources of Sega will definitely not be too bad. If it weren't for Liu Zhiyuan, it might be successful, but now...

"Mr. Suzuki, what do you think is wrong with this game?"

Problem? There is really no big problem. This game is very mature in all aspects. There are only some minor flaws, which will not be affected whether they are corrected or not.

"I really can't fault it."

Suzuki Yu was a little tired. Although Liu Zhiyuan kept calling him teacher, he really felt that he was not worthy and could not teach. Every Liu Zhiyuan game was mature as soon as it came out. He couldn't find anything that could be improved.

The place.
Chapter completed!