Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 250 Different Development Thinking

The leak of the    news is a little surprising, but Take Yusei takes it seriously.

   Now it's just a small thing that suddenly leaked, but if you don't manage it well, there will only be more information leaked in the future.

   This has a great impact on the overall development of the company, and will also reduce players’ expectations.

   However, the production of Mario Kart still needs to continue to advance.

   "This time, the racing game we need to make is not a more exciting-looking game like Need for Speed, but a more cartoony style."

  Take Yusei is standing in front of a blackboard, explaining his concept of making Mario Kart.

   "President, do you mean to play for children?"

   "No, it's not entirely for children. I intend to define this game as a family-friendly game." Zhu Yuxing explained.

   Everyone looked at each other.

  Family game?

   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 make an online system similar to GB, which requires the cooperation of people from the engineering development team, so I also put Several people from the engineering development team called over."

   Several engineers dressed differently from the game developers stood up and greeted the crowd.

   "They will cooperate with our game production and provide an eight-player online play method to allow more people to participate."

   "President, do we want to connect eight game consoles? This is a bit outrageous."

   said strangely.

  Eight game consoles, which means that at least eight boxes of Mario Kart games are required to play together, and this cost alone may not be affordable for ordinary families.

   "No, I'm going to use a whole new way of playing the game, and that's quad-split."

  Bamboo Yuxing wiped the blackboard again, then drew a pattern similar to a screen on the blackboard, and then neatly cut out four partitions on the screen pattern.

"I'm going to have a console that can show four different players driving at the same time, and then get to the point where one console can play at least four people at the same time, and then it's only two consoles, and eight Eight-player games can be completed with the controller and the line for online connection.”

   Everyone's eyes widened slightly, they really hadn't thought of this method just now.

  Is it still possible to do this?

   Then the problem can be solved.

  There are only two game consoles, so this kind of consumption will not be too prohibitive.

If someone is planning to hold a small party, three or four children can also have a good time with a game console. If there are eight people, they can also have children from other families bring their game consoles to play together, or a It is not unacceptable for ordinary families to buy two game consoles directly.

  In Japan, the price of a SFC is not expensive, it is more than half cheaper than that in the United States, and then the price of the handle and cassette, in order to make the children happy, parents will not be too stingy.

   This is actually another way to increase your income.

   This degree is just right.

   At this time, an employee raised his hand and asked: "Then President, the next problem we need to overcome in the game is how to ensure the stability of the game under the four-split screen?"

Zhu Youxing nodded: "This is one of the points. At the same time, this racing car is not a simple racing game. The game itself must have a certain amount of fun, and it must also give some handicapped players some hope, so that they can also beat the advanced players. Possibly, making the game more uncertain."

  Sometimes a game adds a certain random attribute, its competitive effect will be greatly reduced, but the entertainment effect will be increased many times, it is a method that is not satisfactory.

   Those mobile game krypton gold draw cards in later generations are also in a similar form, but they are more red fruit and more direct.

   Then Take Yusei again drew some props that appeared in Mario Kart on the blackboard.

  Some props will slow down the first place, some props will help the first place to win faster, and some props will harm others and themselves, in short, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

"These props are just a rough example I gave. Now I need to ask you to come up with a sufficiently balanced prop system as much as possible, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of different operating car characters. This is a numerical adjustment. These are the The core of the game."

   Mario Kart’s mutually reinforcing characteristics are also the golden sign of the game’s success.

   Of course, Zhu Yuxing can directly take out the most complete game data of the previous Mario Kart, and then let these people do it like a cat and a tiger.

   But this is actually not good for the creative thinking of people in this world.

   This is just a numerical balance adjustment. There is no need to re-enact the games of the previous life. Let the game developers in this world think for themselves and find ways to solve the problem, which will be more conducive to their growth.

   Everyone nodded slightly. They already had some ideas, but it took a while to try.

   Fortunately, they already have the experience of constantly adjusting the test data when developing Street Fighter. This aspect has been used for a long time, but the test data this time will be very different from the data of Street Fighter, and they need to change their thinking.

   At the same time, we will cooperate with the engineering department that develops the hardware again this time.

   The previous Super Metroid actually had some cooperation, but it only helped to make a cassette with an independent chip, and it was not integrated with the gameplay of the game, so the two sides were still doing their own thing at the time.

   But this time, it is obvious that the gameplay is bound to the hardware itself, and they also need to cooperate with each other for research and development.

   From here, it once again reflects the benefits of Zhu Yuxing's one-man management.

   When he said East, no one dared to say West, or they didn't even think about questioning it, and now they would take everything Zhu Yuxing said for granted.

   At this point, the game development officially started, and the entire development cycle took about four months before it was officially released.

At first, 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 ​​thought Mario Kart was a bit naive, but it was really interesting. Yes, it's just that the fun doesn't last long.

  Because most of the purchases are basically played by themselves, and few of them get together to play, which is equivalent to obliterating the greatest fun of this game.

   (end of this chapter)