What to do in the new game?

Meng Huo chose "clannad" without hesitation. He wanted to make this game very early. "CLANNAD" is the third love adventure game released by the famous game brand KEY Club, representing the "spring" in the Key Club's "Season Suite" game. It ranked first in the sales ranking of the Beautiful Girls Games in the second month of its launch.

This game breaks through the ideological limitations of ordinary galgame. The highest theme it shows is not love, but family affection. Because of its touching plot and rich connotation, it is regarded as a masterpiece by many people, and it is both famous and famous. As a new game, "Clannad" is naturally the best choice.

After deciding to make "Clannad", Meng Huo immediately started working. He first drew the characters and then faxed them to the painters in the game production department to get familiar with the style of painting. This work was very easy for Meng Huo, but it was a test for those painters. Fortunately, he had experience in cooperation before, and within a few days the painters divided the work and drew it.

The first step went smoothly, and then the second step was the script plot. The project volume of this step exceeded Meng Huo's expectations. The plot of "clannad" was very long and complicated, far exceeding the text script of "Fate/staynight". It can even be compared with the text volume of an online novel.

Meng Huo made a preliminary calculation and it would take a month to write the script completely, and he had to be very attentive.

“It’s been too long…”

First, get the script done and then slowly make the game. Time will definitely not be able to catch up, and Meng Huo cannot just write scripts and not work. So before writing the script, he called some programmers from the game production department to Tokyo, and then told them the game framework needed for this story, and first asked them to make the game framework.

Although "clannad" and "Fate/staynight" are both galgames. The main body of the two is the same, but the details are very different. The story of "clannad" needs to collect something called Guangyu, which is the key to unlocking the subsequent content, so the game framework must be remade.

However, compared to the game system for making "Pokemon", several game designers agreed confidently.

The painters draw. The designers make games, while Meng Huo prepares text scripts. This time he learned from the last experience and did not write it on paper with a pen, but entered it directly with a computer, saving a lot of time. Every few days he would send a paragraph of text to the headquarters of Su Hua, Phoenix Company, and the painters would draw according to the script content. After the pictures were drawn, the designers would carry out the next work.

Under this synchronous process, the game's production speed barely meets the standard, but Meng Huo is very busy.

When he was at work, he had to carry a laptop, and he had to write whenever he had time, and he had to draw comics with his assistants at night. He had been wondering why he was so anxious? Why was he in a hurry to make "Clannad". In fact, it was nothing to slow down? Why did he have to make it in three months?

And three months later, he will make an animated movie again.

“There is no holiday at all!”

Meng Huo was a little confused. He felt that he was in a dilemma, but since things started, they could not stop and he had to complete the job.

At this time, an accident happened - the game "Clannad" leaked. This time it was leaked from the website of a game company, which claimed to have received news from within Phoenix. "Pokemon" was shelved for no time. Now He Xi has begun to produce the second text adventure game "Clannad", with the theme of the family.

As soon as the news came out, a whirlwind immediately blew on the Internet.

"Teacher He Xi develops a new game, is this true?"

"Clannad, what does the name mean? Teacher He Xi's game name is so weird. I could understand it a little last time, but I can't understand it at all this time!"

The Hexizhi Family Forum was soon occupied by this news, and readers asked if the news about the new work was true. Jose had to tell Meng Huo about this and asked him what to do next.

"Revealed?"

Meng Huo felt a little worried. In fact, if "Clannad" is leaked, the impact of the leak will not be too great. The game will be released soon, so he will soon announce it to the public. However, this artificial leak made him feel very unhappy. Even if the matter of "Pokemon" is fine, "Clannad" will also be leaked in advance. Will other games he made in the future be leaked in advance?

"Jose, check the employee of the department and who leaked it, find him out and fired me." Meng Huo's voice was very cold: "I don't need an employee who can't keep a secret. If even the story plot is leaked in the future, what's the point of our game?"

After hanging up the phone, Meng Huo took him online to find out which company he learned the news.

The leaked news was a game company called "Shuimu Nianhua". The company is quite large and its online games are ranked first in the country. Meng Huo also found that it actually made six galgames. It has only been a year since the launch of "Fate/staynight" and the company has actually made six models, and its vision is quite keen.

What surprised Meng Huo even more was that the sales volume of these six galgames were actually very high, even reaching the level of "Fate/staynight", and they were all - 1~8~ banned games!

"Sure enough, someone discovered it?"

Meng Huo frowned slightly. He knew that this day would come, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. In fact, galgame is a game for beautiful girls to fall in love. The most popular element is 1~8~ banned content. Meng Huo did not develop it in this regard, but was discovered and used by others. With such a huge player scale in China, games with 1~8~ banned content have natural selling power.

This kind of sales can be seen in many places. When Meng Huo watched readers' reactions to the leak of the news on the Hexi Home Forum, he found that the most replies were - "I beg Teacher Hexi to make "clannad" into a 1~8~ banned game!"

Whether male or female readers, they seem to beg for more adult content.

"Jose, the government has set a review standard for text adventure games?" Meng Huo took out a phone call to ask Jose. He read the comments online and said that the current galgame players are completely different from a year ago, so he thought at least from the perspective of game review, the government should have issued a standard that allows 18 bans.

"Yes, our games will also have to be reviewed by the Ministry of Culture before they are launched." Jose replied: "The review content is similar to other literary works and games. However, there is a hierarchical system now, and other manufacturers are developing the ~human version - now 1~8~ ban is the mainstream of the text adventure game market, accounting for more than 90% of the sales..."

She explained to Meng Huo the history of galgame development this year. Since "Fate/staynight" pioneered and caused a hot topic, Chinese game manufacturers have experienced a large-scale follow-up wave. However, this wave suffered a major setback in just a few months - the game cannot be sold. To be precise, the script quality of those followers' works is generally very low, and the music and pictures are completely incomparable to "Fate/staynight", so players are not buying it.

Under such circumstances, manufacturers blew a whirlwind of 1~8~ban. Pure games rely on plots and scripts, but as long as 1~8~ban sells meat, you won’t have to worry about not being able to recover your capital. Moreover, the Ministry of Culture has introduced a hierarchical system for text adventure. This has caused the manufacturers to howl. Even if the sales group of underages is lost, the current text adventure market is very popular.

"No wonder readers on the forum ask me to make 1~8~banned versions!"

Meng Huo understood that he was a little regretful that the market is the market and could not be changed because of his reasons. It was only a year later that galgame returned to its original appearance.

"Teacher He Xi, you can consider this. I think the 1~8~banned version is more popular..." Jose paused and said slowly: "I think you may not know that the most popular 1~8~banned text adventure game is "Fate/staynight". During the time you left, several fan authors added beds to your "Fate/staynight", which was very popular."

"What?" Meng Huo was stunned: "What's going on?"

"It's just that someone adapted "Fate/staynight" into the 1~8-banned version, without dubbing, and the pictures were very inferior... But that version of "Fate/staynight" was very popular and more popular than the original version." Jose replied: "Of course, we have already pulled out those people and asked them to compensate for the losses, but the 1~8-banned version has spread and cannot be banned. So we took the opportunity to conduct an investigation."

"From the data, if "Fate/staynight" was made into a 1-8-banned game from the beginning, its sales will increase by at least five times. Teacher He Xi, what do you think? I think it would be more popular to make the new work "Clannad" into a 1-8-banned version!"

Jose wants to persuade Meng Huo to change his mind because Meng Huo intends to make "clannad" a full-age version.

"No..." However, Meng Huo thought about it and shook his head, "I believe the script of "clannad" does not require the "seqin" element."

In the original world, "Clannad" was also an all-age version when it was released. Meng Huo did not intend to change this, and his target was not people over 18 years old. He also hoped that young people could also play this game. This is an educational game and cannot let hormones turn the tables.

"I knew you would say that, so why not do that..." Jose had long expected Meng Huo's answer, and she suggested with a smile: "How about we develop two versions? One is the all-age version and the other is the 18-banned version... This way it can be used for all players, and you don't have to worry about anything."

"..." Meng Huo Ran: "Do you think 1~8~ban is so important?"

"Teacher He Xi..." Jose sighed and said slowly: "Actually, I wanted to say it last year, but you were too young at that time... Now you should be 18th birthday, so I'll be more straightforward... We are businessmen, just make money, integrity, why do you care about so much!"

Meng Huo was speechless for a moment. He thought about it. In fact, what Jose said was reasonable. Why did he mind so much?

"All the all-age version and the 18 banned version..." he asked at the end, "We can release these two versions at the same time, right?"

"Absolutely!" Jose affirmed: "Other manufacturers are doing this, but their full-age version can't be sold..."

"That's good." Meng Huo nodded in agreement: "Two versions are just two versions... By the way, did the leaker find out?"

"Well... he resigned voluntarily..." Jose sighed: "It turns out that Shuimu Nianhua Company wanted to poach him a long time ago. This time he was very straightforward and handed over the penalty to us... Teacher He Xi, sorry, I didn't expect such an accident to occur. He also knew some script contents. If you tell me this, wouldn't it be very serious..."

She asked with some trepidation.

Meng Huo clicked on the official website of Shui Munianhua, looked at its leaked article, and shook his head and said, "No problem, this spoiler is not bad."
Chapter completed!