Chapter 623: Elephant Electronics
But this is his own. Except for Fu Zan's studio in China, it was the first studio established by Chinese, so it is of great significance.
At this time, Jester couldn't help but think of another bendy game company.
Several of the games of this company are quite famous.
Maybe there are not many players who have heard of the company's name, but most of the old players who have experienced the arcade era have heard of a very classic arcade clearance game developed by their company. It is based on the Three Kingdoms theme and has borrowed many elements of "Round Table Warrior". It can be called the highest peak work of domestic arcade games.
This game is the famous "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms".
The company's name is Eagle Electronics. Since its establishment, their main development focus is arcade games.
In addition to "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", they also developed several other domestic arcade games that are familiar to many players. For example, before "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", their research work "Journey to the West to Release the Evil Transfer".
For example, the arcade fighting game "Huang Feihong", which was once very popular for a while, is the real game called "Star Battle". Jester was very impressed by this game because it was the first game he played in the arcade hall. For nothing else, it was because his language was Chinese, and there was also his favorite Huang Feihong.
You know, when Jester watched Tsui Hark’s movies, he really treated Wong Fei-hung as his idol.
In fact, although Old Elephant Electronics is not very famous in the eyes of players, it seems far less than Daewoo Information, which is also from Wanwan, in fact, there may be much more people who have played Old Elephant Electronic Games than Daewoo Games.
In addition to the famous "Huang Feihong", "The Three Kingdoms War" and "Journey to the West", they also have an extremely famous arcade puzzle game. It is also the first Chinese arcade puzzle game, or it can be said that it is a game of elimination in a row, that is, the "Chinese Dragon". Many people may not know which game it is when they hear this name.
However, it only needs a brief introduction. As long as I entered the arcade hall in the arcade era, even if I have never played it, I must have seen this game.
It is the one that mahjong is eliminated. After it is eliminated, the beauty in the background picture will take off your clothes and see it.
Of course, Jester has never played this game, so he didn't know if he really could take off his clothes. However, he heard people say that he could take off his clothes. He thought that Jester wanted to find an opportunity to try it. However, these machines were occupied by people for many years, so he never found any good opportunities throughout the arcade era.
In fact, the game of Old Elephant Electronics is not limited to arcades.
Although they are not as productive as their arcades on PCs, they are not as big as those on arcades. However, this does not mean that their games on PCs are not famous.
You know, Eternal Electronics released a game on PC that was as famous as Daewoo's Monopoly.
This game should have been played by people in China who have been exposed to PC for a long time, and it is even more popular with "Monopoly". This game is the most famous mahjong game "Star Three Missing One". Of course, the influential game of Eleven Electronics is not only that, for example, the first Chinese dance game and the first Chinese rhythm game were their pioneering efforts.
It can be said that if it hadn't been born at the wrong time and had passed the glorious era of arcades in the late 1990s, then the influence of the Eleven Electronics would not be comparable to that of a money-scammer like Daewoo.
Of course, more than 20 years later, the old elephant electronics, which had been constantly innovating and enterprising, have completely corrupted like Daewoo.
After Jester thought of Eleven Electronics, he immediately called his company at Wanwan's office. Of course, he didn't call the phone himself, and he didn't need to do such things himself. He just needed to tell his assistant. He just checked whether there is a game company in Taiwan called Eleven Electronics. After all, in the future, this game company is considered unpopular even for many players who have a knowledge of game history.
Even Jester probably remembers that the company was established in the past few years at the turn of the 190s, and he doesn't know the specific time.
Because he remembered that he played the game "Huang Feihong" in the arcade hall in about 1993, so he concluded that the Eleven Electronics must have been established before 1993, and the development time required for the game must be deducted. Arcade games will take more development time than home computer games.
If you calculate this way, it is very likely that the old elephant electron was established in 1992, 1991, or even earlier.
He doesn't need to worry too much about the ‘Time’ project now. After all, the formal development has not yet begun, and he has already made a clear division of labor, so he doesn't need to worry about anything before the results of the first phase come out.
Only after seeing the first phase of the project development plan can he make targeted modifications. Moreover, this time he participated in the industry's absolute elites. Even to be honest, if it were just about pure game development capabilities, these people might be above him. Moreover, this is a real new game that he plans to make by himself, and at most draw on the gameplay of sandbox games in later generations.
In the absence of ready-made games for comparison, Jester is still somewhat self-aware of how much he has.
Although Jester has not been preparing for any new projects during this period, he had to travel as soon as possible for the two games he had promised to make for Sega. Although it would be only two games within five years, the first game must be handed over to Sega before the end of next year. Although Jester has handed over the development rights of the game to Itagaki Bashi, after all, Itagaki Bashi is still relatively young and has insufficient experience, so he still needs to cut it off.
During this period, Jester basically stayed in the development team of "Shadow Blade" every day, and talked to Itagaki Baonshi about some things about the development of this game every day.
For example, control the difficulty of the game.
Jester always believes that an action game must be challenging. If an action game only needs to be able to pass the level through the entire process by pressing O, then this action game will have no value.
A good action game must be challenging, but this challenge cannot be too high.
What does the so-called too high mean?
That is, for some players with poor skills, they cannot be as high as possible, and completely let players see no hope of passing the level.
For example, the game Jimojie Village has made such a taboo. Is the game a good game? Of course it is a good game. This is one of the few hardcore action games in the industry. But why is the fan sales and reputation of this game have so much less than that of the Castlevania Moonxia Night? It is because the difficulty balance is lacking in the level of the Moonxia.
Of course, Moonlight is a benchmark work in the 2D action game. Apart from Lao Ren’s new Metroid, no other game can match him.
How should we design the difficulty of an action game?
Either you are like a Ninja Dragon, and you can make difficulty choices for players with poor hands. Even the lowest difficulty is required for ordinary players, but it will not be like extremely endurance. Doesn’t it completely make people see hope?
Even after the Ninja Dragon who is at the difficulty of the Ninja will pass the level, some players with poor hands will feel very accomplished.
Either it is like Miyazaki Hideo's soul series and Bloodborne Curse. Although it is difficult, although it is difficult, although it is difficult, even though there is no difficulty choice, the difficulty design of his game is so clever. In this place, you don't need to be like Devil May Cry or Ninja Dragon, you need a very high hand speed to play high difficulty. In Miyazaki Hideo's game, even if you have poor hands, as long as you have patience, perseverance, and perseverance, you can still complete the level.
Moreover, the sense of accomplishment obtained from it is definitely not inferior to the action game of Sulfurized Face and Kamiya Bald Head.
In fact, there is another company that has a special action game, that is, Nintendo games, such as Mario, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong.
Don’t look at the cartoons of these games, they seem to be games that some young players like.
But in fact, games like Nintendo have always been the real core game. If you want to play high stars, you will feel fulfilled. Especially in "Donkey Kong", the difficulty is really very high.
Therefore, many people say that Nintendo's action games have always been the core, but it is also very accurate to always wear a young skin.
Ninja Ryu is the work of Itagaki Bashi in the future. At that time, he had already mastered the difficulty design, so naturally he didn't need Jester to remind him. But now, for Itagaki Bashi, who was the most powerful producer who was in charge of the development of the action game for the first time, on this point, although Jester and Itagaki Bashi had talked so much from the bottom of their hearts before, Jester was still not relieved.
Jester also received a return from the investigation from Wanwan Office.
They conducted a survey in the company that Wanwan was engaged in game development, but did not find the game company called Old Xiang Electronics that Jester asked them to find.
Jester, who received this news, was also a little uneasy. He didn't know whether this was the reason for the butterfly effect caused by his arrival, or the reason why the old elephant electrons were not yet established. In his heart, it would be better to hope that the second type would be. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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