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Chapter 61 Status Quo

Bullfrog is a very spiritual game production studio. Although in another world, many of their game ideas have been used in advance by Takahashi in this world, as a British game studio, they still maintain the flavor of their own games and the black humor.

Bullfrog Studio is a world in the world, and the most popular game in China is roughly "Theme Hospital".

The two most famous lines in "Theme Hospital" are "Don't let the patient die in the corridor" and "The person in charge of this hospital is a liar."

In fact, in another world line, the launch of the game "Theme Hospital" has caused quite a stir in the UK.

What kind of turmoil?

At that time, Britain was implementing a policy that was to convert public hospitals into private hospitals.

As we all know, some of the public hospitals are welfare hospitals. These welfare hospitals are not for making money, but for the health of the people.

It is precisely because of this that as an old capitalist power, in the economic downturn, it gradually cannot afford the expenses of these public hospitals and can only try to reduce expenses on a market-oriented basis.

Theme Hospital was released at this time, and it can actually be regarded as a ruthless mockery of private hospitals.

After all, the protagonist controlled by the player in "Theme Hospital" is the director of the hospital. Although different players have different gameplay, the protagonists under most players will still earn more money with less expenses because of pursuing more ratings.

For hospitals that aim to make money and hospitals that aim to make profit, patients are just a resource that can be squeezed.

When privatization is sensitive, the emergence of "Theme Hospital" naturally touched the sensitive nerves of many people.

Fortunately, in this world, "Theme Hospital" has been produced and released by Wanhu in advance.

Although it still attracted a lot of attention in the UK, because Wanhu is a foreign game production company and publisher, and the game is released before the hospital is privatized, so although some people still think Wanhu is a satirizing the privatization of medical care in the UK, the time is not up to date, and there is no evidence.

However, compared to Rich, an American, the founder and main person in charge of Bullfrog Studios, it is much easier.

In this world line, the two games that made him truly famous are "God Crazy" and "Black and White".

The themes of the two games are similar, both of them play God.

The former God, God played by the player in "God is Crazy", cannot directly affect humans. It can only use various "miracles" to encourage ignorant and insignificant humans to complete what the players want them to do.

This gaming experience is magical and subtle.

Although the game looks a bit similar to real-time strategy games, this way players cannot directly control the game characters, and players are very spiritual when playing.

In the second "Black and White", players still play the role of gods, but this time this god can influence humans relatively directly, and there is also a divine beast.

Unlike the first "God is Crazy", players in this game are equivalent to making one choice after another.

That's right, it's like two villains that often appear in elementary school compositions, one is a demon and the other is an angel.

Every action of the player will have an impact on his or her own beast.

Behind you, under the influence of the player, you can become a messenger of a god who loves flowers and blooms, or you can become a big devil who is worried about doing things without doing anything.

In addition to the black humor revealed by the game itself, the entire game will also allow players to experience a completely different game experience from other games.

Perhaps this is what is called "flow".

In fact, in many things, humans can understand the so-called "flow of heart".

Flow is actually a state of extreme commitment.

In this extremely devoted state, reading is not like reading, but like a series of pictures appearing and sliding past the whole person's eyes.

Playing games is not like playing games, but feeling the unspeakable inner beauty in the game.

Many games look gorgeous, but actually make people feel as if they are chewy. It is not because the game is not done well or refined enough, but because this game cannot bring about a "flow" experience.

Just like recently there is a game production and distribution company that is gradually rising in France, the company's name is Ubisoft.

The games produced by this company are very exquisite, but they are difficult to bring players a flow experience.

Of course, the company's leading game series is now the "Lehman" series.

This game is launched by the age of the times, with very excellent pictures, but the core of the gameplay is indeed the core of the most popular platform jump game on Japanese red and white machines from the mid-1980s to the late 1980s.

If you ask Ubisoft is not a little bit ambitious to make games with their own game core.

Because that requires more cost and requires continuous exploration.

For games like "Lehman", it seems that the pictures are exquisite and it costs a lot, but in fact the actual cost may not be very high.

It is like the difficulty of the road that was originally opened up on a mountain, and the difficulty of the road that the ancestors followed were walking along the road that the ancestors had opened up.

The difficulty is not the same, and the difficulty of making video games is naturally different.

Just like what Takahashi is pursuing now is to let Wanhu China embark on a game path with its own characteristics. Unfortunately, although he has invested a lot, it is hard to say when there will be results.

Bullfrog Studio has been in the limelight in the video game field around the world because of this series of "God Games".

The "Dungeon Guardian" series they recently produced has pushed them to the peak.

Unfortunately, this peak is the peak of fame but not the peak of income.

Although the games at Bullfrog Studio are very spiritual and the games they make are very fun, their sales are not particularly good.

The UK's video game market can be called the third largest market in the world.

Although the video game market in Japan is one order of magnitude different from that in the United States and Japan, it is also very considerable.

However, even in the UK, the most mainstream game methods are arcades and home game consoles, and personal computers are not very popular in the UK.

The electronic games produced by Bullfrog Studio are all personal computer games.

Although almost all other games are already being transplanted on multiple platforms, Bullfrog Studio really has no money.
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