Chapter 47: Sailing on the sea depends on the captain
Everything goes well without saying it, but by doing it yourself.
Although Takahashi has not been overly involved in the game production process since "Bubble Dragon". However, now, he still provides the game planning in full. The department responsible for game production has almost no fun of "creating" games. They are just tools to execute Takahashi's Will.
This sounds a bit cruel, but not so much work in this world. Wanhu is still in its infancy, and there is not so much time, space, and money for employees to try and make mistakes.
Takahashi hopes that one day, Wanhu can develop into a way that every employee can make games for themselves and make games they like. "Make happiness with your heart."
Takahashi opened the safe and flipped through the settings, plot documents, and character designs he wrote. From time to time, he took out a few pictures from it, and gradually the outline of a new game was built.
Although the game "If You Are the Braves, the Next Hundred Levels" is Takahashi's counterattack against the outside world that "10,000 people can't make action games". Takahashi himself really understands that "Well the Next Hundred Levels" is just a very basic action game. Even so, it took a month to adjust the feel. I wanted to develop an action game masterpiece that is enough to make people shine on the red and white machine in three months. Takahashi felt that it was pure dream.
To be safe, Takahashi decided to follow the route that Wanhu is good at now.
What is Wanhu good at?
"The Tower of Magic" is a role-playing game mainly based on dungeons. Takahashi thinks that the new Wanhu work on the red and white machine should be a role-playing game.
The reason why he thought so was based on the following judgment.
First of all, the most obvious difference between home game console platforms such as red and white machines and arcade platforms is that the home game platform is not a game format where multiple payments are paid, but a one-time buyout.
In this way, the game mode with high difficulty and high mortality on the arcade can be completely subverted.
Imagine playing as long as you want in a comfortable home, a player will like a relatively relaxed game, or a game that requires constant concentration and death if you are not careful.
In fact, there are more games that need to be fully focused on the red and white machines now. The reason for this is not because the players have problems, but because the game manufacturers have problems.
All Japanese game manufacturers, including Nintendo, don’t know much about home games. They should have moved the successful experience on the arcade to the red and white machines as expected.
In addition, the red and white machine group, mainly primary school students, has strong social attributes. Often, there are several children in front of a red and white machine. If the operation is wrong, it will be just right for the replacement. In this case, difficult games still have a foundation for survival.
However, as red and white machines become more and more popular, almost every company in Japan has a red and white machine. This situation will inevitably decrease. Family games must return to a relatively slow-paced and leisurely mode.
Play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.
Since he has not devoted himself to action games and has accumulated a certain amount of accumulation in role-playing games, Takahashi decided to use the script he had written and designed game characters to create a role-playing game in the true sense.
The plot design does not pursue how profound and obscure it is, and does not pursue how Black Island Studio "Exotic Soul-Secret Song" is praised by core players.
Takahashi's script is very simple, and it is still a binary confrontation between light and darkness.
The darkness envelopes the world, representing the protagonist's power, awakens. Use swords and magic to liberate the entire continent from the darkness.
The game's music is intended to be handed over to senior music teachers from the Shen (Harmony) Yang Conservatory of Music in China.
The game program was handed over to Sun Ming and Lao Li and others to do it.
The art image has been designed myself, but it is just a portrait drawing. I need to find someone to design it as a pixel image again.
"Please come here." Takahashi ordered.
"yes."
After a while, Sun Ming, who had just been studying the development machine for red and white machines, came to Takahashi's office.
Takahashi explained the program requirements of this role-playing game based on the red and white machine platform to Sun Ming. This middle-aged man was a little out of the way, thought for a while, and then issued a military order saying that the core program would be completed within one month.
Afterwards, Takahashi talked to people in charge of different parts and set job rules for each person.
Finally, a "magic production team" was established to let these people who have been trained in several games work together to make final preparations for this game that will be released on the red and white machine.
Takahashi also does not intend to join the specific production process this time. Starting from Wanhu's previous game "If you are the brave, then you will be down to the next hundred floors", Takahashi began to try a new game production management mode for Wanhu - the milestone mode.
He designed several phased milestones for the game, which may be a small game sample, or an implementation of a certain function.
Takahashi doesn't care about the specific production process, he only inspects the results. Even if the results are not satisfactory, he will not directly criticize the people who produce this part, but will find the general person in charge of coordinating this part.
Although this is not flat enough, it may affect efficiency.
However, Takahashi believes that such clear organization is much better than that of a country's president Chang Kaishen, who crosses several levels and directly commands the front line and the other level.
Since someone is responsible for that part, it means trusting the person's ability. If you command more than level, it will only quickly turn the entire organization from order to disorder, and make the entire project a mess in chaos.
In this way, days are passing by day.
Everyone in the "Magic Production Team" has a clear job, just like a blind man pinching an elephant. Some people are responsible for pinching an elephant nose and some are responsible for pinching an elephant legs. This is the first time that more than ten people in Wanhu have made a game at the same time. It is considered the first "big production" of Wanhu.
As there are more people in the working group, the things that everyone is responsible for become very detailed. In this way, the people in the production group have no idea about the finished game.
In this way, although Takahashi did not participate in the specific production.
But he was like a captain traveling in the endless sea, a beacon for all crew members. Whether it was a sailor or a first mate. In the endless sea without clear indicators, only Takahashi was their only lighthouse.
They can and can only trust the captain, believe that he can lead everyone to break out of endless seas, reach the other side, and obtain gold, silver and treasures.
Two months after the signing of the betting agreement, Wanhu's first "big production" game has finally taken shape. The members of the project team who were buried in the water and breathless, were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Chapter completed!