Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

The story of the Pokémon game produced by Jingyu himself has been slightly downplayed, so in fact, after the game was released, there was no such thing as Yu-Gi-Oh.

It’s just that most players play games immersively. One of the greatest pleasures of open world games is exploration, so the player group doesn’t particularly care about strategies, because the difficulty of Pokémon games is not too difficult. It tends to collect, explore and show the world view. Most players will play it at least once before searching to see if there are any wonderful easter eggs in the game that they haven't found.

Therefore, the number of discussion posts by gamers on major game forums is actually average.

But on the major evaluation websites, the scores of Pokémon are all high without exception.

An innovative game, fresh gameplay, mature game rules, novel pet elves that keep appearing after entering the game, and the satisfaction of getting those elves into your pocket after battles or various tasks and making them your partners

"It's almost like I'm actually keeping a pet."

"There is also this pet upgrade system, which is really well done. It's not particularly explosive, and the upgrade tasks are also very interesting."

"It's the first time I play this kind of game. Can anyone tell me if there are similar games in the world before? I'm afraid I won't be able to find similar games to play after clearing Pokémon."

"Let's talk about it after you clear Pokémon, but indeed, in my impression, this kind of game old thief seems to be the first of its kind."

"It's over. I played the game from the morning until nine o'clock. I ate breakfast. Now my stomach hurts from hunger."

"Don't be played by games, brother, moderate games benefit the brain, excessive games hurt the body!"

"The old thief game is really well balanced. Although Kenshin is also fun, it is too tortured. I still can't beat Zhixiong without the help mode, but Pokémon is different. Although There will also be times when you fail to collect elves, but carefully analyze the attack patterns and weaknesses of the elves, and then choose a battle pet that restrains its attributes, and there will be no level that will take you too long. From the morning to the present, really have fun”

"It's true. It's easy, enjoyable and not tiring to play. It's full of immersion. I rarely come across such an immersive game that allows me to play for seven or eight hours without stopping."

"But as one of the designers of this game, the old thief is responsible for which part of the content. It feels like this game doesn't particularly emphasize the plot!"

"I just went to look at the world view design of the game production table. Almost all the creative designs of Pokemon in the game, appearance, skills, growth direction, and part of the numerical planning work are also in charge of the old thief. Oh yes, this game Almost one-third of the music in it was written and composed by the old thief, for example, the opening CG theme song of the game was created by the old thief."

"???"

"Isn't the old thief an actor and screenwriter? He knows so much?"

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"When did you think that the old thief is just a simple actor! He knows a lot. Before, someone took a video of him drifting in a sports car on a deserted street after work late at night. You can study the old thief's previous works. Know how outrageous this person is, how complicated things are”

"Drifting and cornering on the streets of Shanghai. Will this not be deducted points?"

"He's not speeding! The problem is that he's just driving with cool skills, and he hasn't violated the rules. He's still on a no-man's street."

"I feel that the old thief is more outrageous the more he researches the region. Does this person think he is an alien! Last month's Yu-Gi-Oh, this month's Pokémon games, I have played both games and they are both top quality but The creation of the old thief is like making Chinese cabbage."

"Oh, I don't know, and I don't want to be clear. If the old thief can continue to release a Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh quality game a month later, I don't mind even if he is an alien."

After a day of playing, fans gathered in the forum to brag during the evening break.

Their game play experience is almost unanimously good, and unlike Rurouni Kenshin, Pokémon will not persuade those handicapped parties to quit at all.

And it’s different from Yu-Gi-Oh, Kenshin, which are fighting and fighting games. There are many cute and cute elves in Pokémon. Male players like to collect elves with strong fighting power, and they tend to fight, but women Players, some people are not interested in fighting, they just like to collect cute elves, and engage in farming and other things in the game.

However, this game has been designed with different gameplay needs of different players in mind at the beginning of its design. The open world has naturally prepared multiple open gameplays, and most people can find the most suitable way to play the game in the game.

On the first day of launch, the total sales volume of Pokémon was 1.59 million copies

After the data came out, players had no idea, but most people in the game industry didn't know what expression to use to look at this game.

Especially for the game's creator, Jing Yu, and the production company, Blue Star Film and Television Culture Company.

"It's outrageous! This first-day sales volume is another game that broke the tens of millions mark."

"It's higher than the first day of Yu-Gi-Oh, this is really abnormal."

"When did it become so easy for a game to sell over one million on the first day? The price of this game is not cheap, two hundred and thirty-eight yuan, and the name of Dazhou is so rich?"

"It's not just the people of Dazhou, almost 60% of the sales are contributed by overseas players. This game has a higher score overseas than Dazhou."

"Is this Jingyu a human or a ghost? Doesn't he have a creative bottleneck? Rurouni Kenshin, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon, three consecutive games have sold tens of millions of games, and Kenshin's total global sales so far are 1,600. Ten thousand copies, Yu-Gi-Oh has been on sale for more than a month, and the latest sales figures are 10.06 million. I'm afraid the sales will exceed 20 million by next year. Nothing less than that!"

"I really don't know how this man's head grew! It's outrageous."

"Shouldn't this guy come to refresh the sales data of the game industry in Dazhou after he dominated the TV drama ratings data and movie box office data in Dazhou?"

"Do you only feel this way now? I heard that the top five game companies in Dazhou have held meetings every day for the past two months. The company's senior management has become very disturbed, and they have asked their game production teams to study and imitate Jianxin. And the success model of Yu-Gi-Oh, I didn’t expect Pokémon to become popular again before Yu-Gi-Oh has studied it thoroughly.”

"However, this guy's game is very different from the mainstream big hit games before Dazhou, but players like him. You said that this young man has been in the game industry for more than ten or twenty years. I don't think so. I can accept it, he is a film and television screenwriter, why should he be an actor?"

"I heard that he is a game lover!"

"Who isn't? Those of us who are game practitioners, who haven't been playing games for decades since we were young? Can you make good games if you like playing games? How is that possible?"

"I have been working on games for 20 years, and the game with the highest sales volume that I have participated in is Maria's Gate, with a total sales volume of just over 5 million. He, Jing Yu, has been working on games for three years, and five hit games with a total sales volume of over 10 million. , I don't agree."

"This kind of thing. Alas, all I can say is that it doesn't matter if you don't accept it. Game creation also depends on talent."

After the game was released, the players played the game immersively, but Jing Yu's colleagues in the game industry couldn't bear it anymore, and complained wildly in the industry forum.

However, the potential of the Pokémon game, the follow-up sales and so on, are actually far beyond their imagination.

They thought that Pokémon's sales of 1.5 million on the first day were outrageous enough, but on the second day, the global sales of Pokémon directly exceeded 2 million copies.

Although it fell on the third day and continued to drop to more than one million copies per day, even on the fourth day, the sales volume still exceeded one million, and it was not until the fifth day that the sales volume fell to 860,000.

What kind of outrageous data is this?

In this way, this game has only been online for five days, and the total sales volume is close to 6 million copies

Every practitioner in the game industry, whether it is a game creator or company in Dazhou or overseas, has a big question mark on his forehead at this moment.

And Jing Yu, who had just finished a game release promotional event and was about to leave, happened to see a media report.

[This year's hottest game, Pokémon, was released less than a week ago, and its rating surpassed Yu-Gi-Oh, almost infinitely close to the scheduled title of best game of the year.]

Jing Yu didn't click into the article to read it, because Jing Yu knew what the article was about.

The high probability is to recount the Pokémon craze that has been set off around the world within a few days of the release of the Pokémon game by various companies and bigwigs in the game industry.

While the sales data of the game is booming, the first batch of Pokémon fans are accumulating globally. The playability of the game is second to none. These people are completely attracted by the world view of Pokémon. Games from overseas countries At the exhibition, Pokémon cosplayers were definitely the hottest and most popular during this period, because the game was only released for a week, and there were no genuine peripherals, so many fanatical Pokémon fans played their role as game nerds. The handicraft of the woman is to design and make the elf clothes in Pokémon directly from real people, in order to attract as many people as possible to promote this game at major game exhibitions.

Players also know very well that if they want to release a second part of the game, the first part must increase the sales of the game. Although these people have only been exposed to this game for a few days, they are basically addicted to it and become fanatical fans.

And this is exactly Jing Yu's purpose.

Judging from the current data, the sales data of the first generation of Pokémon games is only a starting goal to break 20 million copies.

Although this goal is already exaggerated, compared with the global IP ecosystem of Pokémon that Jing Yu wants to build, this is indeed just a start.

In Jingyu's previous life, there were dozens of hundreds of game versions of this work, and the total sales of games worldwide exceeded 400 million copies.

Heaving a long breath, Jing Yu got into his own car. At his level, he would no longer fluctuate too much because of the excellent results of his works.

Regardless of whether it is Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokémon, just based on the sales volume of their first-generation games exceeding tens of millions, they can bring Jing Yu one billion, or even two billion in dividends.

But he, who has already exceeded tens of billions of dollars, is now not so urgent about the growth of money digital data.

It's just that the company's growth, the extension of its influence, the production, distribution, and promotion of works need funds, so Jing Yu needs to keep working hard to increase the company's profit margins and revenue.

But in fact, he is still willing to be so busy creating these works until now. It has little to do with money. It is more about giving these game works he likes to the masses in Dazhou. The satisfaction of being a fan is obtained from this. This is the driving force behind Jing Yu's persistence until now.

"feel good."

Jing Yu, who was driving the car on the way home, listened to the analysis of the Pokémon game report on the car radio, with a smile on his face.

At least the first version of the game can have this kind of sales and influence, which must have met Jing Yu's expectations.

After the sales of Pokémon at the initial stage of release in the past two weeks have stabilized, Jing Yu will definitely hold a meeting in the company immediately. Not only Pokémon, but also the Yu-Gi-Oh, Kenshin, and Evangelion series are all established. The sub-department of game operation and production conducts a series of IP development for these works as a set.

Be it the first-generation games or film and television works that Jingyu worked on before, they were all small-scale troubles. Through the first-generation works and the accumulation of time, they accumulated the first batch of loyal fans.

But now, it’s about the same. Jingyu’s production strength has also caught up, and the financial situation is also very good, and the most important thing is

Kenshin, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokémon, three consecutive games have been selling well, which has also made the company famous in the global game industry.

At this time, it is a good time for the game branch of Jingyu Company to develop rapidly.

Thinking about the plan all the way, Jing Yu drove back home, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, Jing Yu's hands and feet were very light, and he was afraid of disturbing Yu Youqing who might have fallen asleep.

But as soon as he entered the living room, he saw Yu Youqing who was concentrating on the laptop and staring at the Pokémon battle on the screen without moving.

The expression on her face is focused and serious, and there is no other emotion in her beautiful pupils, just immersion.

Seeing this, Jing Yu didn't bother her either.

"Even Yu Youqing, who doesn't like to play games, can play them so engrossed."

Jing Yu pondered for a while, but actually felt quite satisfied in his heart.

In the next few days, Jing Yu followed the plan he made step by step. In a company meeting, I decided to set up a dedicated development team for several of my major IP works, and then I will be behind the scenes.

After all, there are too many projects in the company now, and Jing Yu no longer has the energy to deeply participate in many works. He can use the development of these games in his previous life to set a general direction for the derivative development of works, but he certainly can't do it like before. Intervened as deeply.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to keep busy even if Jing Yu was exhausted to death.

Unlike other game film and television companies, Jing Yu is not a capricious person, and he doesn't like such employees. The things that are confirmed will not be changed overnight. If something is confirmed in the last meeting, it will be blind in the second week. Change to toss the staff.

So when Pokémon was online for two weeks.

Blue Star Film and Television Culture Company directly announced a series of derivative films and game development plans.

The content of this plan dropped a bomb on Jing Yu's fan base at the end of September.