When they landed in London, there were still about ten days left before the ga developers’ competition began.
Several departnt heads agreed to take advantage of this ti to walk around London more, experiencing the atmosphere of the forr British Empire. For them, this also counted as a rare vacation and sothing to be properly enjoyed.
Back at the company, each of them still had their own developnt tasks, but it wouldn’t hurt operations if these leaders were away for a few days.
As for Takayuki, he wasn’t in the mood to sightsee at all. He shut himself in his hotel room alone.
He wanted to continue thinking through counterasures, and at the sa ti, he needed to complete a ga of sufficiently high quality before the opening ceremony began.
The ga also couldn’t be too complex, so the best choice was a rogue-style randomized dungeon ga.
Almost instantly, Takayuki ca up with the ga’s na.
He intended for this ga to serve as a benchmark for the competition, to let those who truly loved gas realize that even within existing ga fraworks, it was still possible to create very novel experiences.
Originally, Takayuki planned to release the ga under a pseudonym, but after so thought, he decided to use his real na instead. At the very least, the reputation attached to his real na would give developers greater encouragent.
As for the ga’s title, it was called The Binding of Isaac.
This could be considered the pinnacle of rogue-style randomized dungeon gas, and its developnt difficulty wasn’t particularly high—the only thing missing was a flash of inspiration.
Takayuki estimated that by using Unreal Engine and its convenient programming capabilities, he could definitely finish it by himself within ten days.
At the sa ti, during developnt, he would also continue thinking about how to further improve the overall quality of indie gas.
And so, Takayuki holed up alone in the hotel for ten days, barely going out at all.
Several departnt heads were very curious about what President Takayuki was doing. They all wanted to enter his room to take a look, but each ti they were firmly turned away by him.
anwhile, as the organizers of the ga developers’ competition, they also wanted to speak with Takayuki in detail about the event’s arrangents.
From the emails Takayuki had previously sent, they had already confird that the competition would adopt a categorized, grouped format.
In total, it would be divided into three major categories:
Sports & Racing
Casual
Combat & Action
Within these categories, there would also be smaller subcategory awards. However, the top prizes would only be for these three main categories, with just one ultimate grand prize per category.
After hearing Takayuki’s ideas, the organizers felt this was indeed a very solid plan.
With more categories ca more awards, allowing developers whose gas weren’t bad to share in the recognition and receive at least so form of prize. For them, this was also a kind of motivation.
At the sa ti, the organizers secured additional funding from other sources, expanding the prize pool and increasing the total prize money.
Everything was already prepared, but they still wanted to sit down with Takayuki to discuss further improvents in detail.
Unfortunately, Takayuki declined them as well.
No one knew what Takayuki had been doing these past few days.
It wasn’t until the day before the developers’ competition officially began that Takayuki finally erged from his room, looking sowhat exhausted.
He appeared tired, but his eyes were sharp and lively. His mind seed to remain in an excited state the entire ti—only his body was struggling to keep up.
Over those few days, Takayuki had finally finished developing the ga, and he had also co up with what he believed to be a fairly good thod to improve the indie ga ecosystem.
It might not be the best solution, but at least it would give developers more motivation.
"President, you finally ca out. If we hadn’t heard you refusing us every day, we would’ve barged in to rescue you by now."
Seeing Takayuki finally step out of his room, Uchiyama Ei was extrely happy.
The others felt the sa—they were all relieved and glad to see him.
"I’m fine. I just wanted to make an indie ga, so it took a bit of ti," Takayuki said.
"Huh? Making an indie ga now? What kind of ga is it?"
Several of them grew curious.
"It’s a rogue-style randomized dungeon ga. That kind of ga isn’t too hard to develop these days."
Everyone nodded in agreent. "That’s true. If you want to make a qualified and fun ga in such a short ti, rogue is the most suitable choice."
Then Yabuki Shizuo asked eagerly, "President, can you let us see the ga? Let us try it?"
As soon as Yabuki finished speaking, the others all turned to look at Takayuki with the sa expression.
Clearly, they all wanted to try it as well.
After all, this was a ga personally developed by the president.
Their president was the most famous ga developer in the world. No matter the scale of his gas, they were always worth anticipating.
Takayuki shook his head. "Not yet. Once the entire competition is over, the ga will naturally be revealed."
Uchiyama Ei nodded. "That makes sense. If you released it now, President, it would be an instant kill in the competition. Other developers might completely lose their fighting spirit."
"Then let’s look forward to the ga you made, President. As for now, let’s head to the competition venue first. The organizers have contacted you several tis already, hoping to discuss more details about the event."
Takayuki said, "I also have a few things I want to talk to them about. I think I’ve roughly found a way to address the shrinking indie ga scene."
"Oh? You already have sothing? What’s the thod?"
Takayuki didn’t hide anything from his subordinates—there was no need to—so he said directly, "You’re all familiar with crowdfunding, right?"
"Of course. Crowdfunding is a very popular business model now. President, are you thinking of adding a crowdfunding option for developers? But I rember there are already quite a few crowdfunding platforms for gas."
Takayuki replied, "We’ll talk about the specifics once we get there."
"Got it! I’ll call a car right away." Yabuki Shizuo imdiately ran out to arrange transportation.
In front of others, he was a well-known ga producer and one of the developnt departnt heads at Gastar Electronic Entertainnt. But in front of Takayuki, he was unquestionably the junior.
He understood this very clearly.
The car was quickly arranged, and the group from Gastar Electronic Entertainnt headed together toward the venue of the ga developers’ competition.
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