Game Development Giant - Chapter 830

c824 The last game?

After much thought, Jester rejected the idea of ​​creating a new series.

Because there is really no need to do so.

Balotelli, the golden brand, has been in business for more than ten years from the day it was born. The total sales of the series of games, including Balotelli Racing and the like, total more than 180 million units.

This is currently the most famous video game brand in the world. At its peak, it was even more popular than Mickey Mouse.

Especially in the eyes of children, no other game can compare with its weight. It makes no sense to not use such an extremely suitable game brand and want to create one by yourself. Moreover, The more important reason is that if somatosensory games can represent the future, then it would be good to create a unique somatosensory series.

However, Jester, who knows the history of game development, knows that the popularity of somatosensory games is only temporary. After players get through the shock brought by somatosensory games when they first came out, this game type will quickly decline. Just like the original WII, when it first came out, it relied on extremely novel gameplay that players had never seen or experienced before to achieve a crushing effect.

But only halfway through the entire generation, WII sales began to drop sharply – even though Nintendo had already sold machines in half the time that other game console manufacturers could not sell throughout the entire generation, it still could not change. The biggest disadvantage of somatosensory games is that they can easily make players lose interest because of their single gameplay.

But this is not a shortcoming for current Mars Entertainment, Jester, or even the entire gaming industry.

In this era, whenever somatosensory appears, it is bound to be sensational.

During this period of time, a piece of information circulated from within Mars Entertainment attracted particularly attention. Both major game forums and various game media were discussing this matter.

That was during the time Jester was developing Monster Hunter. Several long, top-secret talks were held with Balotelli’s development team, especially almost all the level designers. Everyone involved in these long talks would sign a confidentiality agreement in advance. Strict new contracts, this method is not particularly new in Mars Entertainment.

Whenever they are before game development. There is only one reason for signing a new contract like this.

That is, there will be a very high-level large-scale project waiting to be launched, and judging from Jester himself’s participation in long talks and several times, this new project is. It is very likely that it belongs to Jester, and judging from the people gathered, it is very likely that Jester’s new work this time will be the Balotelli series?

This made countless players excited.

Balotelli has basically become a symbol of Mars Entertainment, and Mars Entertainment is a symbol of video games. Therefore, many people regard Balotelli as a symbol of video games.

But Balotelli’s gameplay has been relatively fixed. Although the playability of each level is sky-breaking and extremely fun, the gameplay is very fixed, even though countless players are very excited about this speculation. But actually there are some people who don’t have much expectations.

Because Jester’s development philosophy is very weird, he will only make games that can bring new ideas to players and make them feel different – I have never played such a cool game, such as Balot Although every game in the series is extremely excellent, its gameplay is not really new. After all, as the origin of side-scrolling games, Balotelli has experienced too much.

There is another very important reason.

Although Jester participated in the production of Balotelli’s series, and even the levels of the entire game. The setting and gameplay were all Jester participated in from the beginning, but Jester was not the producer of this game. At that time, Jester was only serving as a supervisor because he was responsible for other games.

Therefore, many people do not hang the name of Balotelli’s father on Jester’s head.

Moreover, Jester has never personally taken over this series.

Generally speaking, the number of people who hope that Jester will make a new Balotelli series, but think that it is impossible for Jester to take over the Balotelli series, is still about the same.

There is also a lot of debate on the forum.

Fortunately, there was no shouting match like before. Of course, there is a big reason why there is less conflict between the two parties. No one would think that Jester can’t do the Balotelli series well. In fact, the Balotelli series is no longer relying on a certain person to this day. A designer’s personal wisdom is used to design levels, but it relies on the entire Mars Entertainment’s most outstanding game level team.

This huge team is capable enough to ensure designers create the best levels possible.

There are even many players who speak shamelessly in dialects on the forum. Even if Balotelli’s grandmother is asked to be the producer, he can still produce a game that sells 10 million units.

Although this statement is somewhat nonsensical, many people still agree with it. Because this is how Balotelli works now. One person’s wisdom is small, but the collective wisdom is great.

However, people from both sides have a concern, that is, Jester may not be able to make the Balotelli series well – it does not mean that the game is not good. With the current level team, Balotelli The possibility of making a bad product is extremely small, not to mention that Jester has outrageously strict quality requirements.

Just from Jester’s development philosophy, how would he make a game that has been shaped by countless people in the depths of their minds – thinking that this is what the Super Balotelli series should do? As we all know, copying the previous practices is not Jester’s style at all. According to Jester himself, it would be better to retire directly if he does that. If developing games cannot bring him the passion to create a brand new thing .

So why do you still make games?

However, if we don’t make the Super Balotelli series according to the current model, will it still be Super Balotelli?

This is almost an unsolvable problem.

In the face of divergent opinions from the outside world, Mars Entertainment did not come forward to explain, which just shows that the possibility of this matter is very high, and has even entered the discussion stage.

Finally, more than a month later, a former member of Balotelli’s development team finally accepted an interview with the gaming media. He was asked this question by the reporter after hesitating for a while. He explained as follows.

“I can only say now that there is indeed a new game. Mr. Jester’s new game is a very special new game.” When he said this, the reporter could clearly see the face of the development team member. with an excited look on his face. It seemed like he was saying something very remarkable.

This surprised the reporter because the development of Super Balotelli was actually very industrial. Although the game’s playability was unparalleled, the entire development process was fixed. Such expressions of excitement and disbelief are unlikely to appear on the faces of the designers involved in this project.

“Is it a Balotelli series?”

Then he immediately asked, although he already guessed in his heart that the new game might not be related to Balotelli.

However, the answer from this design team member once again rejected his idea.

“Yes, it is the latest series of Balotelli’s works. It is just a brand new series of ultra-marathons. I can’t say too much. I can only say that when this game comes out, it will definitely make the whole world Shock!”

This is really a shocking statement.

In the history of video games, there are games that shocked the world as soon as they were released. The original “Quake” was like this, and the same was true for “The Hero” that Jester spent five years and invested a total of 300 million US dollars in. But the Balotelli series, yes, this is indeed the most profitable in the entire game history. , the most fun, the most popular, and the most sold game when he appeared. The effect of 2D scroll animation has indeed created a new situation for game developers.

But, after all, this is no longer more than ten years ago.

How can an old game series still shock the world?

This reporter couldn’t believe it at all. Could it be that Jester invested hundreds of millions more this time? Come up with a super project that will be funded with money?

“Is the investment in this game as amazing as “The Heroes”?” The reporter immediately asked his question.

If there is enough money, it is not impossible to break out a news that shocks the world, although in this reporter’s heart, he does not have high approval for this idea, as expected. The member of the development team who took over the interview immediately denied it.

“No, no, no, it’s not a project like “Heroes”. BOSS said in an internal meeting before that starting the “Heroes” project is not a very wise thing. The amount of money invested is still a small amount. The biggest loss is “Heroes” At the beginning, the project almost included the entire company’s general management and development personnel, which made the company’s internal manpower stretched thin, and many games had to extend the development cycle. Such a project is actually very uneconomical.”

“Of course, the “Heroes” project has indeed cultivated a group of absolutely outstanding developers. This is also the biggest gain of this project. As for the boom in console sales driven by this game, it is not very important, because regardless of whether there is ” Both “The Hero” and Dreambox 3 will be a great success, “The Hero” just speeds up the process a little bit, rather than promoting the result.”

“This is BOSS’s original words at that time, so I can say with certainty that BOSS’s new game will definitely not be a new project like “The Hero”, but it will be bigger than our previous Balotelli project. definitely.”

This is the interviewee’s answer.

After that, the reporter asked a few more irrelevant questions. It’s not that the reporter didn’t want to ask about other more important news, but that the developer member being interviewed would not reveal any other news at all, but he could be the first to ask about it. Having so much information in hand is also big news for this reporter.

However, at the end of the interview, the reporter accidentally revealed some shocking news.

He didn’t say the specific news, but he said that at next year’s GDC conference, when Jester attends and gives a speech, he will announce the status of his new game, and at the same time, there will be a very important one for her. News is about to be announced, and this news is about Jester’s entire career.

“Professional?”

Although this sentence made me feel unbearable, no matter how the reporter asked, the interviewee did not reveal even a single sentence. He only vaguely mentioned that this would be news that would make many people sad.

After this report was released, it immediately caused an uproar.

The initiator was the interviewee’s words that were huge news about Jester’s career, and it would be sad news.

As soon as this news was released, hot posts on major game forums quickly occupied the headlines. Many people speculated whether this game would be Jester’s last game. After this game, Jester Will Te retire? After all, Jester has stated several times in previous interviews that he will wait until he has no inspiration to make a different game until he retires.

Is it possible that the current game is what he thinks is the last game?

The legend ends?

Soon, the website of the world’s largest game website and the magazine “GAME” used a very scary title to announce the news.

Although it was all speculation, it still made many players feel very bad – they even had the idea that if Jester stopped making games, whose games would they be able to play? Many people even said that he grew up playing Jester’s games. He has played all Jester’s works. He does not want Jester to retire, but hopes that he will continue to play games forever.

Because he makes the best games.

The heat caused by this incident also spread to the player community forum of Mars Entertainment. The entire forum was in an uproar. Many people jointly posted a post asking Jester whether this incident was true.

But Jester never came out to reply until one night before Christmas.

One player posted that his Christmas wish was for Jester to tell him that the previous news that he was retiring was false.

This post received responses from many people. In just half a day, thousands of people responded. Their content was almost the same. They just wanted Jester to come out and tell the lies that are being said outside.

Finally, when Christmas comes.

A little past morning.

A new reply in this post instantly excited countless people.

Because the replyer was none other than Jester Lee, whom they had been waiting for. (~^~)