Chapter 13: Calm before the storm
The public’s evaluation of the new game, Stardew Valley, was quite ambiguous during the interviews for the employee recruitment.
Is it natural, if it’s natural?
Doom’s intuitiveness is good, so that it could be known what kind of game is easy to enjoy the fun without much effort with its action of killing demons.
But a game like Stardew Valley, a healing romantic farm game, is very unfamiliar to gamers who have only enjoyed battles, and they might not know what element to enjoy.
Didn’t Earth have the same thing in the past life?
Why do you play turn-based games?
How do you play a rhythm game?
Simulation games are boring.
You must have seen these kinds of posts at least once.
That’s the story of how much preferences vary by genre.
But it’s also a problem that you can’t just accept their demands.
I think it’s better for a company to release games of various genres to attract as many gamers as possible, and the reason for that was the specific niche and risk.
Now, Doom has unprecedented… um, in another sense, there’s no precedent.
Since there’s only one game, Doom, there’s no precedent.
Anyway, even though it’s been an unprecedented success, there are people who don’t feel interested or feel rejection to Doom.
Weren’t the fighting game gamers in the past life completely immersed in fighting games?
There were also some such users in rhythm games.
Anyway, it’s not bad to focus on one genre, but I think it’s important to broaden it in various ways.
And it’s because if you focus on only one genre, when controversies arise in the game or the reactions to the new work are not good, it’s a big blow, and I also wanted to distribute the risk by making various games.
Of course, as time passed, gamers often tried various things without regard to the genre, and there were many games that mixed various genres, and there were many situations where the boundaries of genres became ambiguous.
I also think that gamers are touching various games because famous game companies ruined the games… anyway, this will be the same.
Since there are only two games in this world, including this one, how are you going to filter?
Are you going to play only Doom for the rest of your life?
Or are you going to wait unconditionally, not knowing when another game company will release a game?
Just put it out and be done with it, and they’ll have to pick it up.
There are users who are 징징거리는, or extremely whining, about releasing a Doom sequel, which is a little irritating… but it seemed okay.
I have prepared the article I wrote for them, so they should be satisfied.
And there was a reason why I expressed the evaluation as ambiguous.
Whether certain gamers found Stardew Valley more attractive than Doom, numerous inquiries came flying in, and because of that, my e-mail and the simple homepage I had made were about to burst.
How did they know my email address in the first place?
I’m also concerned about how to do it, as people have been recognizing me and approaching me lately, or being blocked by Kaela, and it’s a part that I’m secretly worried about.
I’m even feeling that a stalker has appeared, because I keep feeling watched.
It’s just a feeling, but sometimes I feel that someone is watching me even at home, so I thoroughly searched the house, but I couldn’t see anything like a camera.
What I could see was the gift of the neighbor’s ‘Summer’s Dream’ which was also seen during the interview.
Is it just a feeling again?
Did I have too much confidence lately that I was thinking nonsense?
Since there are only games I made in this world yet, I didn’t have any hobbies, but I’ve been enjoying growing the plants that the neighbor gave me these days.
I took a watering can and hummed, and watered the flowers.
One of the most common mistakes beginners make when growing plants is that they give too much water and kill the plants, but since this plant is okay, I was growing it without any burden.
Kaela sometimes glares at the plants and passes by, because she doesn’t like them, but why is that?
[From the time I started preparing this game until today, when the preparation for the release was completed.
I’ve rarely seen my family awake on weekday evenings.
Today, the day before the official release.
The sound of the wind and the bleak rain hit the office window.
Storm before the storm.
I didn’t attach a rebuttal article to those who laughed at this game and still complain.
The results will tell us whether you’re lousy or I’m lousy.]
[Pettiguy: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Elf also eats meat: Wow, you have a spirit of a guyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Elf also eats meat: Ah, but it seemed interesting to me by my standards. It’s a completely different game from Doom, but I think I can enjoy the life of the old elves in the game with ease. I’ll buy it tomorrow and plant some seeds.]
[Sijinpuung: Come on and work.]
[Demon level: Is the developer a dumb*ss? The water is coming in right now, so all he has to do is row, and he can earn money with an excavator, not a shovel, when it’s obvious that he’s going to earn so much money. Please just release a Doom sequel.]
[Wise man: Try it and say it. There are many products on the market that are different from the appearance.]
[Sex: Oh. Rare nick.]
[Crispy chicken: Does it look interesting only to me?]
ㄴ[Ranlanru: LOL, I’m looking forward to it. I’m sure I’ll get bored if the same games like Doom come out every day.]
ㄴ[Iingatssalla: I’m looking forward to the multi-player that the developer mentioned ㅋㅋ]
[ㅇㅇ: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s funny for some reason, and it feels like a failed game. Storm before the storm!]
ㄴ[GT: It seems like it’s going to come out on July 6?]
ㄴ[Sijinpuung: LOL, did someone cast a mental spell? Confess quickly.]
[A new god who appeared like a comet, will it fall like light?]
[The result of being too conscious of the media and political circles]
[It’s great that he opened the beginning of the game]
[The game is a low-level culture, the claim of Recco Back Koresto to regulate games]
These negative opinions were prevalent in the public opinion, but the evaluation was turned upside down in just 4 hours after the game was released.
It was so much fun watching that change of attitude on my smartphone, that I was looking at it with my legs on the desk in the representative’s office, and then a phone call came to my cell phone.
“Hello?”
“Kuhn.”
“Kaela. You should call me Representative at the company.”
“Representative. There’s something important to say.”
Her serious voice, which is rare.
We didn’t have a long relationship, but I didn’t think she was a person who could be this serious with the things I’ve seen so far.
How important is it?
Is it being promoted because of the recent talk about game regulations?
It’s faster than I thought!
“I have to plant potatoes. This is urgent. Therefore, I am applying for a leave of absence.”
“Yes? Just a moment…”
“I don’t have time to wait. Aigel is waiting for my gift. Oh, of course, this is just a game, and I only have you!”
Then she hung up.
I must address this matter.
I don’t mind her acting casually, but how am I supposed to get home without security!
And you should have told me in advance!
“Hello.”
“Busy.”
“You should have told me about the leave of absence in advance. And how am I going to get home today?”
“I’ll pick you up later. And if you can’t take a leave of absence, you’re telecommuting…”
It was cut off again.
How could any security guard telecommute?
The person to be guarded is in the company in the first place…
I couldn’t help what had already happened, so I thought about the future.
The employee who has just been hired will be able to see me tomorrow… and I have to seriously consider the release cycle of the game.
And it’s better to separate the games made by the newly arrived employees from the games I made.
If the games I released are compared, their morale will also fall, and making games will feel like torment, and they’ll just try to waste time without enthusiasm.
Passion and the spirit of the game developer are more important than anything else.
Isn’t the game development period long enough, so the emotional consumption is also severe?
I will decline if they only produce mediocre content and produce trashy content without enthusiasm.
In the past life, the famous Nex was famous for this problem.
Every new work they released for several years failed miserably and the users got all sorts of curses, they didn’t produce any results, so the morale was at the bottom, and they were so self-blaming that there were many employees who developed mechanically.
Since the image has become so bad and the company’s future is getting more and more unclear, they’re trying to change, but I don’t know if they’ve really changed.
I’m here.
Since the point where my mysterious power was transferred to here, the release and update of the game have stopped, and I don’t know how to tell.
I don’t know if the company and I can keep these games intact when the time comes and the updates are blocked, like some famous game companies.
Maybe the company will be crushed like a famous game company that was cursed to be April Fool’s Day.
But I wanted to go that far.
What will be the reactions to what I’ve created?