Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 27 27. It's time to develop a new game
"Huh? Are we going to give up making galgames?"

When they saw the first version of the new plan proposed by Qing Zhiyuan, everyone in the conference room was startled.

Akanishi Ken opened the project in front of him, and there were a few large characters written on the cover——

"Famous Academy"

"Yes." Qing Zhiyuan nodded.

"Famous School" is a modified version of "Famous Pocket Academy" from the previous life.

This game is a business simulation mobile game developed by Cairo Game Company in 2013. The main gameplay is to run a school, try to train various students, and let them become talents to improve the school's reputation and ranking.

Although it was a mobile game in 2013, Qing Zhiyuan listed it as the first development list after landing, which is also the result of careful consideration.

First of all, the game company in Cairo is very special. It has only been making one type of game for a long time, that is, the pixel-style simulation business game. From the very beginning of simulating opening a bookstore, to simulating being a game company...simulating opening a ramen shop, simulating building a city ...In short, it is a style, and you can tell that this style is a Cairo game.

From the perspective of the screen, the pixel style of the Cairo game, even if it is placed on the red and white machine in 1990, there is no sense of disobedience at all. With Qing Zhiyuan's own polish, maybe it can still achieve the pixel style of this era ceiling.

In addition, the reason why Cairo games are made is because Cairo games are very simple, small in size, and have a short development cycle, which is suitable for making quick money.

Famous Pocket Academy can be said to be one of the top 10 most popular games produced by Cairo, with explosive downloads and low development difficulty.

Pixel style, playability, high fun, simulated management, short development time, low development cost... It is simply a game tailored for this era.

For a small company like pokeni with only 20 employees, Qingzhiyuan couldn't find a game more suitable for going ashore than making Cairo.

In fact, there were only 9 people in Cairo Game Company back then, but it was able to produce almost 6 simulation business games a year, which can be said to be a representative of the high-production industry. Lightweight, small size, agile development, and low cost are all the advantages of Cairo Games.

Qing Zhiyuan made an assessment. It may not take two months to make a "Famous Pocket Academy", and the cost may be reduced to less than 1800 million.

As long as the first famous pocket academy can be developed, the subsequent [skinning] work will be much easier.

Each game of Cairo Games has its own characteristics, but the core has not changed, that is, simulation management. The major categories are either terrain gameplay or numerical depth, and the workload of differences is relatively small.

As long as you gain a firm foothold with the Cairo game, you will be able to radiate to other fields in the future and open up new games.

After having enough funds and technology, Qingzhiyuan will move towards 3A masterpieces.

As long as I think of a bright tomorrow waving to myself, I'm still a little excited.

……

After listening to Qing Zhiyuan's statement and carefully reading the main gameplay of "Famous Academy", everyone nodded their heads.

"Indeed, according to our company's situation, it is a good choice to make a fast simulation business game like "Famous Academy"." The main artist Taiji Sakata stared at the project proposal, tilting his head and thinking.

"But President, isn't it a pity to give up "Onmyoji" so easily?" The engineer next to him, Hiroichi Chikawa, was an honest person, and he followed Sakata's words and directly asked everyone's doubts.

Indeed, according to the development routine of general game companies, if a game can sell well, there is no reason not to continue to develop sequels.

Especially now that "Onmyoji" has achieved a terrible score of 10 copies, there is no reason to give up developing a sequel.

Except for the boss of V agency who can't count 3, basically the game works that release blockbuster models have to start with at least 3 generations.

Otherwise, it would be foolish not to make money.

No matter how well the sequel is done, at least a certain level of players will buy it because of the fame of the first generation.

Qing Zhiyuan is also well aware of this truth.

"Hmm~" He shook his head, "I haven't given up. My idea is to continue developing "Onmyoji 2", but not to make galgames."

"what?!"

All the bigwigs present were taken aback.

"Why?" Chikawa Hiroichi asked.

"Of course it is for the long-term development of the company." Qing Zhiyuan frowned, "Once Pokeni is branded as a galgame, it will be very difficult to transform in the future.

It is still too late to change the image through "Famous Academy" before the players have formed a fixed impression of us. "

"Why?" Qian Chuanhong was puzzled, "Why can't we keep making galgame games and become a giant in the galgame game field?"

Ah, this good-for-nothing, Qing Zhiyuan really wanted to slap him to death.

"Of course it's because the president has higher ideals." Mika Ishino stood up and defended Qing Zhiyuan, "To put it bluntly, galgame games have always given others a bad impression, even if they are at the top of the galgame field. how?

Didn't Guangrong also transform when he did galgame back then?

If possible, why don't we try to develop in a wider field? "

Guangrong Company used to make some galgame games in the 80s, such as "NIGHT LIFE (Night Life)", although it is a galgame game, it is more like a popular science thing like a posture guide.

However, they quickly gave up, and instead focused their main development efforts on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series and the Nobunaga's Ambition series, which achieved great success.

To be honest, the game "NIGHT LIFE" can be regarded as Neon's first small galgame.

"Yes."

Qing Zhiyuan nodded, "If our company does not have enough support and expansion of games in other fields, and only galgame, maybe we may achieve good results in the short term, but in the long run, it will hinder the company's development."

"But on the other hand, if we have a non-galgame masterpiece first, and we have opened up enough fields, it doesn't matter if we release some galgame games on this basis."

But as a galgame player at the beginning, it was very troublesome to transform later.

Qing Zhiyuan's dream is not limited to here.

If possible, he hopes to make pokeni number one in neon.

……

After more than 4 hours of meeting, pokeni determined the development of two future games.

The first is "Famous Academy"

The second is "Onmyoji 2"

To a certain extent, pokeni has changed from a single-project game company to a two-project game company, and it has also taken a small step in expansion.

But for Qing Zhiyuan.

And this is just the beginning.

……

(End of this chapter)