Yuki Uesugi has been very addicted to fishing recently.
He has successfully joined a fishing club. The first thing he does after get off work every day is not to go home to his wife and children to sit on the bed, but to go fishing with a group of like-minded friends.
Fishing will make him feel peaceful and free from any distracting thoughts.
During this process, he can freely think about the game development details of Final Fantasy 13 Versus.
The game's development funding is $300 million.
Generally, a company would have to leave at least 100 million US dollars for publicity and distribution out of 300 million US dollars, but Yuxing Electronic Entertainment no longer needs to spend so much money on publicity and distribution.
Nowadays, players themselves take the initiative to find news about Youxing Electronic Entertainment, and publicity is more about expanding the player base.
Yuki Uesugi estimates that only about 50 million of the 300 million US dollars will be used as publicity costs, and the rest will be all development costs.
250 million US dollars, we must spend all the money wisely.
The first and most important thing is naturally the core gameplay of the game.
This time Zhuyouxing specifically requested that this game not be made into an industrialized open world game.
Because this is a game that pays great attention to the main story of the game.
Unlike those cyberpunk games, the storyline of Final Fantasy 13versus this time will be handled by a professional team of screenwriters, with minimal AI cooperation in plot arrangement.
What stands out is a royal story, which is something that AI cannot do at this stage.
Until now, AI technology has not been able to completely arrange a very long story, and at most it is about two hours of long-term branch game content.
It can be said that AI is still weak in terms of ambush in story writing and construction of very long plots.
Until now, only humans can complete super-long stories, and only humans can fill out the connotation and core of the entire story through all kinds of careless details.
As for the story, Yuki Uesugi doesn’t have to worry.
The president personally produced the plot outline, and then senior screenwriters refined it. The story is absolutely perfect.
What he has to consider now is to add as much gameplay and fun as possible.
Add some mini-games to the game.
These include mini-games with fishing gameplay.
He has made this small fishing game play like a professional fishing tutorial.
He also considered that players might not be interested in this, so he also made a simplified version of the adjustment to this gameplay. Average players can simply try it out, while professional fishing enthusiasts like himself can play in Final Fantasy 13 vs.
Experience professional fishing gameplay here.
He even felt that he should consider making a more professional fishing game, but as a senior game developer, he knew that this kind of game would definitely not make money, and the audience would definitely not be large.
People who like fishing may not like this kind of virtual fishing game.
So how should I discuss it with the president?
Da da.
At this moment, Uesugi Yuki's fishing rod shook slightly. With his keen sense, he began to carefully shake the fishing rod to test to see if there was really a fish taking the bait.
But this time he was unlucky. The fish was very cunning and ate the bait on the hook without being caught.
When Yuki Uesugi lifted the fishhook, he was very calm when he saw that it was empty.
He has long been used to not catching fish.
This is nothing at all.
Fishing is all about fun for him, and it doesn't matter whether he can catch fish or not.
Moreover, he was planning to fish here for at least a few hours.
He prepared the bait again, swung the hook out again, then sat down again and fell into deep thought again.
By the way, since Final Fantasy 13versus is the final chapter of the new Crystal Myth series, we can still add some more interesting gameplay.
How about... adding a VR gameplay function?
This seems to be possible. The current VR technology is also quite good. If used properly, it can give the current Final Fantasy a new development path.
Many people on the Internet have been advocating for the changes that the VR field will bring to the world, and he thinks it is relatively reliable.
At least in terms of gaming experience, VR definitely surpasses the current pure gaming entertainment model.
The only drawback may be that the current picture quality is not particularly high. This is a technical bottleneck at the hardware level. Only manufacturers that specialize in screens can solve this problem. Youxing Electronic Entertainment can only wait patiently for this technology to appear.
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Then he thought of another popular technology: somatosensory.
Maybe it would be a good idea to add physical gameplay to the Final Fantasy 13 version?
It just so happens that current game consoles also have built-in motion sensing game functions. Although the frequency of motion sensing game releases has been greatly reduced in recent years, this feature has always been retained, and the motion sensing experience will be greatly improved with each generation.
Now use the latest game console to experience Ring Fit Adventure for a better experience.
Add this somatosensory feeling to Final Fantasy 13versus.
He was brainstorming alone by the pond.
But in the end he rejected all these ideas.
Adding too many such gameplay is a bit complicated, and the investment cost will be relatively high. Not all players have VR equipment and somatosensory equipment.
Additional investment in these two peripherals for a game will also affect the gaming experience.
These are also what the president has taught by words and deeds.
A game must have a clear development positioning from the beginning.
If you want to make a pure console game, then work towards this aspect and don’t think about other things.
If you want to make a VR game, then focus on making a VR game.
Don’t let a game have too complex an experience.
But these ideas are still very good.
He decided to wait until the Final Fantasy 13 version was completed before applying to the president to create a VR Final Fantasy and a body-sensing Final Fantasy.
As long as you come up with a good creative idea, the president will probably agree.
Well, that’s it!
Da da.
The hook vibrated again. This time Yuki Uesugi moved faster and pulled the fishing rod hard. Then he could feel a very violent pulling force from the fishing rod.
"bingo!"
Here’s the appetizer for tonight!
Yuki Uesugi was very happy. He was happy that he caught a fish, and he was also happy that he had figured out the basic direction for the next game development of his department.
All that's left is to ask Zhu Youxing for advice tomorrow, and then he can arrange for people to start making the game.
When the time comes, he must give the world the best Final Fantasy.
To give the new Crystal Myth series a good enough ending.