I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 428

As a result, in my memory, I quickly recalled that the 500 yen second-hand game disc that Gabriel was holding in the game store yesterday morning seemed to be a product developed by this company.

Without saying a word, Li Yan immediately took his laptop and rushed downstairs.

[Ding dong! Ding dong! Ding dong! ! 】

"Open the door, Gabriel!" Li Yan rang the doorbell hurriedly. He was already well aware of Gabriel's bad habit of opening the door while playing games. He would never call this lazy angel out if he knocked on the door too gently.

——[What’s the matter? Preaching, learning, etc. If you want to talk about these, let’s talk about it another day. 】

Not long after, the doorbell heard the voice of a girl who was almost exhausted after staying up late.

"No, this time, I'm here to play games." Li Yan said into the intercom.

As a result, there was a crackling sound immediately in the house, and the sound of hurried footsteps quickly came towards the door. The door of Room 405 was quickly opened by Gabriel. Her hair was a little messy at the moment, and her face had a strong look of cultivation. With dark circles under his eyes, he greets like-minded comrades with a smile as bright as the sun.

"Welcome to Gabriel's game hobby club!! You, a study fanatic who doesn't understand life and adaptability, finally figured out that instead of playing games on Sunday, you still play yarn!" Gabriel said with a gentle smile like an angel's. , said with emotion to Li Yan.

Li Yan looked at Gabriel with a complex expression, and reminded in a low voice: "Don't show a sincere expression of saving the world when you say such depraved words..."

Sure enough, I walked into the house and quickly found the newly purchased "Elf Story 2" among a pile of game discs. This is a game on the PS3 platform. I moved out the console that had eaten some dust. Li Yan began to try to play the second sequel of this game club. What are its strengths and weaknesses?

"Oh, this is a game. It's a boring game. Are you so curious?" Gabriel's eyes suddenly became lazy and he looked at the TV screen and asked.

"The company that developed this game is cooperating with my Bunko company to develop a new series of works. At present, I am competing with a novelist in the Bunku company for the script design rights for the next series...probably, something like this It’s the same as the essay competition, but if I win this time, my work will be successfully launched on the PS4 platform.”

Li Yan held the handle, looked at Gabriel with a pair of serious and serious eyes, and said.

"This event is quite good, so do you plan to play this game to study the other party's problems?" Gabriel understood and asked.

"Yeah... Well, you've already finished this game. Gabriel, you really work hard at the game."

After Li Yan clicked into the game interface, he saw the completion of the bronze cup trophy on the [continue] interface. He couldn't help but look at Gabriel with some worry after staying up late, and complained.

It should be said that Gabriel is actually quite bad at playing the game. If he can pass a level over and over again, Gabriel needs to replay it more than ten times to pass it. Such a bronze cup reward is probably the result of countless efforts. Completed this recreational game.

After entering the game, after watching the animation op, story introduction, and character narration of "Elf Story 2", we officially got to the player operation part. However, five minutes have passed since I finished reading these parts.

"..." Li Yan held the controller and seemed to notice some problems with the game.

"That's right, I have never seen such a long-winded opening game. This phenomenon is probably also common in Japanese works such as "Rune Workshop", "Legend of Mind", and "Golden Sun". "Gabriel yawned and looked at the TV screen and said.

This is the so-called forced plot.

In the field of novels, this phenomenon called "forced plot" is also a common phenomenon. An overly long introduction to the novel's worldview and characters is undoubtedly a threshold that quickly kills readers' interest. This is a blind spot that needs to be extremely avoided. It just so happens that traditional Japanese RPG games pay great attention to plot description. Most of them like to tell the story and interact with the characters at the beginning. To roughly understand the outline of the world, in a certain sense, it does need to be foreshadowed.

Li Yan silently understood the design ideas of Eagle Jump and continued to operate the controller to explore the settings and plot of the game.

Gradually, I began to understand the fun of this game. The fairy tale-like world view of the game, the colorful maze mechanisms that require skill to clear, and the various monsters that require different weapons to fight. The story mainly tells about enemies and friends. The two protagonists go on adventures in separate routes, and constantly use another protagonist with a sharp personality to stimulate the protagonist controlled by the player to carry out psychological tactics to achieve various achievements... If you play it seriously, it is still a pretty good game.

As Li Yan played the game later, he also discovered that the most important selling point... was not the plot, but the gameplay settings, and the superb game art design.

Li Yan kept playing, while Gabrielle watched Li Yan flexibly use various tactics to defeat monsters, and then explored many maps that were easily overlooked. The more she looked, the more shocked she became. She always felt that her fight was in vain. Once again, I realized that this game actually has such a gameplay.

"Sure enough, if you weren't a fan of the previous game, you wouldn't have felt at all that the cumbersome design of the game's combat explanations was any good at first. It turns out there is such a gameplay..."

Gabriel sighed, watching Li Yan play the previous part, and always felt that it would be better to try to play it again.

"..."

Li Yan operated the controller, and gradually, while feeling the excellence of the game, he also silently felt the experience of himself and Gabriel on this game. After all, he also had feelings for this game. Preliminary understanding and knowledge...

I have to admit that there is a big gap in design ideas between writing light novels and writing game scripts. It should be said that writing good light novels may not necessarily lead to designing a first-class game script.

This is why most of the games adapted from light novels and comics are a bit different. Now, the more I study and understand the game that has been rejected by the market, it involves the plot and gameplay determined by the game script. The setting is ingenious. The more I understand that he currently has not much practical information to draw from inspiration, a sense of anxiety and powerlessness quietly disturbs his heart.

"……Oops."

Li Yan silently understood the gap that exists between these professions. Good-looking does not necessarily mean fun, and fun does not necessarily mean good-looking. This is the difficulty between him and Eagle Jump. How to integrate them together is the biggest question.

Therefore, most non-fan players are likely to give up on this sequel. For example, players like Gabriel who are demanding and sensitive to the plot requirements but are incompetent in the operation will not be able to start from the beginning, and naturally they will not be able to dig out the hidden treasures. Too deep of interest means that the plot of the game is not very complete and lacks the fun for players to explore.

At the moment, he doesn't have much confidence to come up with an excellent game script to conquer Eagle Jump's game planner. Although he doesn't know what Senjumura Zheng's side will think of, at least he doesn't have many conditions to support him in defeating it. The first writer of Sanhe Library.

After initially understanding this, Li Yan felt that this was a big gain.

He put down the controller, then looked at Gabriel who was starting to become interested in playing again, and said with emotion: "There are indeed many problems with the games made by this company, but it can be seen that Eagle Jump is very careful in making games. , let’s play again for a little while, Gabriel.”

"Tch, I've been able to play games for a while and then I'm so good at it." Gabriel showed a sullen expression, turned his head and said with envy.

"..."

Next, Li Yan faced the huge gap of transitioning the story from the library version to the game script. I don’t know why, but the more difficult the challenge seemed, the more he became itchy and hoped to write a wonderful game script. , allowing you not only to walk in the world of light novels, but also to expand your hands into games, a world full of imagination and creativity.

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In the early morning of the next day, gray clouds continued to surge in the sky over Tokyo, and a drizzle began to fall.

For Eagle Jump, it is obviously still relatively early, but the IT and art departments have already begun to work in full swing in order to rush into the production of the just-launched "Elf Story 3" project.

However, September also seems to be an anxious time for Japanese high school seniors.

It is necessary to make difficult choices between the two paths of university and society. The confusion and anxiety caused by such a choice to determine the future are like the drizzle in the sky, gray and unclear.

"Huh..." Following a group of classmates, a blue-haired girl with a twin-tail hairstyle held an umbrella and looked at the gray sky, thinking about the general direction of her future life.

"Qingye, what are you doing? Go to school quickly, or you will be late."

One of the girls walking in front who looked a little squeamish turned back to look at her and reminded her curiously.

"...Ah, okay."

This cute blue-haired high school girl hurriedly caught up with an umbrella, and for a moment, in the drizzle, she passed by a young man on a bicycle who seemed to be rushing to school.

"Huh?" Li Yan, who was wearing a raincoat, was slightly startled. He stopped his bicycle for a moment, looked at the petite girl whose background was somewhat similar to the lotus flower in the palace, and stopped for a moment.

"It's a bit like... forget it, I'm almost late. I wonder if the professor of the elective course will catch me secretly writing settings today..."

Li Yan thought about it, pedaled his bicycle again, and rushed towards the University of Tokyo.

On the wet street, in the faint drizzle, two separate figures were standing in the sky above the advertisement of a building. The promotional poster for "Elf Story 3" happened to be opened...

Chapter 236 The confused social girl and the script novelist

Sega Corporation, also known as Sega Corporation, together with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, has become the world's four major video game production companies. It is a game empire invested and established by Americans with strong Japanese blood. It is headquartered in Shinagawa District, Tokyo. Higashi Shinagawa 1-chome.

However, today I am not introducing SAGE, but a gaming company [Eagle Jump] composed of fifty-three employees, both with its headquarters and branches located in Higashi Shinagawa Street, one kilometer away from Sega.

Although it is a small game company, and it was established in an ordinary commercial building one kilometer away from Sega's headquarters for some reason, it has managed to survive for more than 20 years, and has expanded its initial employee base by three More than times.