The leak of the news was a little surprising, but Zhu Youxing took it very seriously.
It's just a small thing that suddenly leaked now, but if it's not managed well, more information will be leaked in the future.
This will have a great impact on the overall development of the company, and will also lower players' expectations.
However, the production of Mario Kart still needs to continue to progress.
"This time, the racing game we need to make is no longer a more exciting-looking game like Need for Speed, but more cartoon-style."
Zhu Yuxing stood in front of a blackboard and was explaining his concept of making Mario Kart.
"President, do you think you're going to give it to children to play with?"
"No, it's not entirely for children. I would rather define this game as a family game." Zhu Youxing explained.
Everyone looked at each other.
Family fun games?
This is a relatively novel statement, but it is also easy to understand. It is something that the whole family can play together.
"My plan is that Mario Kart will support up to eight people playing at the same time, so we need to create an online system similar to gb, which requires the cooperation of people from the engineering development team, so I will also use it this time
Several people from the engineering development team called over."
Several engineers dressed differently from game developers stood up and greeted everyone.
"They will cooperate with our game production and provide an eight-player online gameplay method to allow more people to participate."
"President, do we need to connect eight game consoles? This is a bit outrageous."
One person said strangely.
Eight game consoles means that at least eight boxes of Mario Kart games are needed to play together. This cost alone may not be affordable for ordinary families.
"No, I plan to use a completely new way to play the game, which is quad-split screen."
Zhu Youxing wiped the blackboard clean again, then drew a screen-like pattern on the blackboard, and then neatly cut out four partitions on the screen pattern.
"I plan to make one game console display the driving images of four different players at the same time, and then reach the point where one game console can allow at least four people to play at the same time. Then, in this case, only two game consoles and eight
With a controller and a connection line, eight-player play can be completed.”
Everyone's eyes widened slightly, they really didn't think of this method just now.
Is it possible to still do this?
Then the problem can be solved in this way.
It’s just two game consoles, so this kind of consumption won’t be too prohibitive.
If a family plans to hold a small banquet, three or four children can have a great time with a game console. If there are eight people, children from other families can also bring game consoles to play together, or a
It is not unacceptable for ordinary families to directly purchase two game consoles.
In Japan, the price of an SFC is not expensive, it is more than half cheaper than in the United States. Then there are the prices of the handle and cassette. In order to make their children happy, parents are not too stingy.
This is actually another way to increase income.
This degree is just right.
At this time, an employee raised his hand and asked: "President, the next problem we need to overcome in the game is how to ensure the stability of the game in four-split screen?"
Zhu Youxing nodded: "This is one of the points. At the same time, this car is not a simple racing. The game itself must have a certain amount of fun, and it must also give some players with handicap some hope, so that they can also defeat advanced players.
Possibly, making the game more uncertain."
Sometimes when a game adds certain random attributes, its competitive effect will be greatly reduced, but the entertainment effect will be increased many times. This is a tried and tested method.
Those mobile games of later generations also had a similar form of card drawing, but it was more straightforward and direct.
Then Takeyusei once again drew several props that appeared in Mario Kart on the blackboard.
Some props will slow down the first place, some props will help the first place win faster, and some props will harm others and yourself. In short, each has its own pros and cons.
"These props are just a rough example I gave. Now I need you to come up with a sufficiently balanced prop system as much as possible, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different operating racing characters. This is an adjustment in numerical values. These are the
The core of this game."
The mutually reinforcing characteristics of Mario Kart are also the golden signature of this game’s success.
Of course, Zhu Yuxing can just take out the most complete game data of the previous Mario Kart, and then let these people do what they want.
But this is actually not conducive to the creative thinking of people in this world.
This is just a numerical balance adjustment. There is no need to reproduce the game from the previous life. Let the game developers of this world think for themselves and find ways to solve the problems themselves. This will be more conducive to their growth.
Everyone nodded slightly. They already had some ideas, but it would take some time to try.
Fortunately, they already have the experience of constantly adjusting test data when developing Street Fighter, and they have long been used to it. However, the test data this time will be very different from those of Street Fighter, and they need to change their thinking.
At the same time, we have to work with the engineering department that develops the hardware again this time.
In fact, there was some cooperation with Super Metroid before, but it only helped to produce a cartridge with an independent chip. It was not integrated with the gameplay of the game, so the two parties were still doing their own things at the time.
But this time it is obvious that the gameplay has to be bound to the hardware itself, and they also need to cooperate with each other for research and development.
From here, the benefits of one-person management of Zhuyouxing are once again reflected.
When he said something east, no one dared to say something west, or they didn't even think to question it. Now they would all think that everything Zhu Youxing said was taken for granted.
At this point, game development officially began, and the entire development cycle took about four months before it was officially released.
Initially, it was exactly as Zhu Yuxing imagined. Because of the name Mario, many players would choose to buy it without hesitation. However, those who have played Need for Speed felt that Mario Kart was a bit childish, but it was indeed quite interesting.
Yes, it's just that the fun time doesn't last long.
Because most people buy it basically to play alone, and rarely play together, which is equivalent to killing the greatest fun of this game.