Software guidance hardware.

This is not a empty talk, but what Jester is doing now.

Of course, Sony will do this after more than 20 years later, Ken Kutaraki resigned.

Why is this happening?

Because although the development of game consoles was invented for players to play games, software is needed before playing games for players, that is, game developers are required to develop games based on this game console.

Due to architecture issues, developing games on game consoles is completely different from developing games on PCs.

If game developers can easily develop games, they will naturally be able to develop better games. This is the reason why Sony appointed Mark Seni as the chief architect of ps4. Later, ps4's performance in the market also proved the correctness of this point.

Therefore, at a fixed time, Jester would gather the main designers of Mars Entertainment to discuss next-generation game console development with the hardware development team.

Of course, such discussions also have great disadvantages.

That is, every game developer must have their own requirements. It is impossible to meet their requirements as much as possible. So at this time, you need to make a summary at the meeting and decide which solution should be adopted.

Jester returned to the office from the conference room and rubbed his forehead, which was a little swollen and painful.

Then start to look at the minutes he made.

To be honest, although he knew that the outside world was chattering about 2D or 3D, what he didn't expect was that this kind of debate was chattering within Mars Entertainment.

Some support 3d and some support 2d.

Of course, the most supportive 3D is Hideo Kojima. His newly designed "Spy Dragon Spy Shadow" is waiting for the completion of the next-generation game console. It can officially start production, and Kojima's reorganized team is also coming to the United States with Kojima and participating in the development of dreambox3 throughout the process.

The development of 2d games, like many of the company's meritorious personnel, believes that 2d will have an incredible level of exquisiteness in the next era.

Jester is also carefully focusing on his understanding of the future to continue to summarize the meeting.

Because when he left, he had agreed to the manager responsible for the development of dreambox3 and would hand over his opinions to the other party this afternoon. After working for most of the day, he finally found a clue and Jester couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

On the table is a new game.

With the reform of game magazines, the original bimonthly magazine has now become a weekly magazine. The previous issue of "Game" reported that "Runite Guardian" caused a great response, but this response was mainly caused by the game being Jester's new game.

Now the latest issue of "Game" has once again published an article about "The Stone Guardian".

Because before, Jester had asked the company to send out the alpha version of "The Stone Guardian" to many people, of course, these are also very pleasant to work with. In fact, it is his own magazine.

Maybe it's not the official version.

After the trial, the game magazine did not give specific ratings for the game.

In fact, this time, Jester did not make the tester Qianshu confidentiality agreement on the game content like usual. Therefore, as this time, as the alpha test progressed, a lot of news came out.

The reason why the message is not kept confidential is very simple.

Because the game "Runite Guardian" will soon be released for sale after completing the alpha version, so this time the alpha version test was also regarded as a promotion by Jester.

After all, it is a mini game that makes oneself entertaining.

Jester originally did not intend to occupy much company promotion resources, but despite this, the trial of this game still caused a great response.

Not many people participated in the trial.

Basically, they are all real loyalists in Mars entertainment, and they still have to live near Los Angeles.

These people have been working on game testing for Mars Entertainment all year round. It can be said that many of the creative ideas and ideas in Mars Entertainment games have also contributed a lot. This time, the news about "The Stone Guardian" no longer needs to be kept confidential. Therefore, after just the trial, these people revealed their feelings to various media.

For a self-son media like "Game", in addition to their own trial experience, it will naturally be accompanied by the trial experiences of several participants.

In short, "The Stone Guardian" is rated as a game that surprised them by "Game" or by players of these senior games. This is a game that is completely different from other RPG games. Although it is also an RPG, it is also a player who operates a protagonist on adventures.

However, this kind of adventure experience is completely different whether you play traditional American rpg or those well-made Japanese rpgs.

Although "Game" did not rate "Runite Guardian" in the article, and this alpha version still needs to be improved in many places, although it has unsatisfactory shortcomings, this extremely innovative game.

Let the editor who wrote this test report speak in a very affirmative tone.

If he was asked to give "The Stone Guardian" a score now, he might give an eight in the ten-stage system, but if he gave Jester and the two intern new employees a little time, they could improve the game from the Alpha test version to the official release version.

According to Jester's ability, after this game is perfected, you can definitely get a score of nine or even nine-five.

And in "Game", there are tests about the trial players.

There was a person's answer that was interesting.

In this article, the interviewer asked what was his most surprising thing about the game "Runite Guardian"?

The answerer did not say that the game method subverted the traditional rpg, but talked about the online mode in the alpha version. However, because he played it at his own home, the test floppy disk of the alpha version of "Runish Guardian" can only be installed once, and will automatically lock after installation, so he has no way to go online.

"I'm curious about the online mode of "Runish Guardian". I don't know how this is obviously designed specifically for individual players to do online. I asked a few friends, and they were like me, and they had no way to experiment online, so I'm extremely curious about this."

At the end, the interviewee also added.

"Because online on PC is a pioneering move for Mars Entertainment, especially their "Harst of Thor" and "Age of Empires". It can be said that whether it is FPS or RTS, the biggest fun of these two types of games is not about making plots, or contacting computer AI or other things.

These two games, or these two types of games.

The greatest fun lies in online fighting with players. The fun and sense of accomplishment are not something that people who only know how to play stand-alone computers can understand.

Of course, especially in the RTS game, the frustration of the IQ after failure is crushed is also extremely frustrating.

Of course, for game magazine, this kind of online problem is not a problem.

This time, their magazine had to get about twenty game test disks. Of course, this was because the magazine found that there was an online mode when it got the game. Thinking about the popularity of the previous online battle mode of "Age of Empire" in the magazine, it decided to want more.

And Jester was not stingy. In fact, he did not have any expectations for the attractiveness of the current online mode of "The Rune Stone Guardian".

Because the gameplay of this game is a gameplay for adventures, including Jester or the original producer of "The Stone Guardian", they have never had any idea about this. It's very simple. If the game design needs to be considered for multiplayer games.

Then it will inevitably cause the complexity of the game.

In short, it is to make the game less simple and fun, which is contrary to the designer's original intention.

As for why there is an online mode.

It's very simple, this is actually prepared for future battle networks.

For Jester, after Mars Entertainment's Battle Network is built, the first game to be added to Battle Network for testing is not "Age of Empire". After all, the game "Age of Empire" is too big, but "Runite Guardian" is more suitable.

In "The Stone Guardian", Jester sets an abyss mode.

This mode is exactly the same as the ladder mode created by Blizzard, which ranks according to the number of layers a player can reach.

Of course, Blizzard's original Dark Ladder was not set up like this. Jester had never played Dark 1's Ladder, so he was not clear about it. He knew Dark 2's Ladder, but this kind of ladder calculation method is relatively complicated and not advisable. However, the Dark 3's Ladder method is very simple and easy to understand.

Whoever has more layers and who uses fewer layers will rank higher.

That's all.

The same is true for the Abyss mode of "Runite Guardian".

It's just a ranking. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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