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Chapter 305: Keigo Higashino

The game "Reverse Referee" is very suitable for handheld consoles. According to Jester's memory, the sales of this game series on handheld consoles are also very good. Before Jester's rebirth, there were five games in this series. If it does not include the mobile version, these five "Reverse Referee" are all on the consoles of the Nintendo series, from GBA to Wii, everything is available.

The production company is Capcom, nicknamed Kaba. The producer Atsushi Inaba is also known as the most classic producer of the first three generations in GBA. The two generations later changed the producer, but Jester only played on GBA and did not know much about the ones behind.

Atsushi Inaba has not yet been to work at Capcom, and even Jester doesn't know which knot to be with him now. However, this type of game producer is not the key. The key is the writing of the script. The scripts from the first generation to the second generation of the series "Reversal" are all written by Qiaozhou, and Qiaozhou is even the soul of this development team.

However, as far as Jester knows, he joined Capcom just after graduating from university in 1994, and it is impossible for Jester to find him now.

"Are you confident of completing an excellent script? You should know that in reasoning games, the pros and cons of scripts account for almost 90% of the success or failure of this game." Jester was still a little uncertain, and he once again focused on asking what he was worried about.

When Michael Steiniff heard Jester say this, his face also showed an uncertain look. After all, it was not a big deal to write a few reasoning problems, and he had such experience. However, if he had to rely entirely on reasoning to complete a rigorous, progressive and interesting process, he was also a little worried about whether he could do the best.

"Or I'll write one first. If not, you can change it."

So Michael Steiniff had to say this.

"No need." Jester shook his head. He frowned and thought for a while before saying, "That's it. You write a copy according to the structure I just mentioned. I'll read it first, but it's probably difficult for me to add anything to you in the specific content. After all, I'm not very good at reasoning, but I can still read it. If you can meet my requirements and I can't meet the requirements of the game, then I still have to make you the producer."

This made Michael Steiniff wonder. Why did he not meet the requirements of the game and instead had to be a producer by himself?

Faced with the other party's questions, Jester also explained simply: "You have worked in the company for so long, and you should understand this truth. A game producer may not be the plot plan of this game, but the same is true for a detective game. A detective game producer does not need to be the copywriting of this detective game."

Seeing the sudden enlightenment on Michael Steinif's face, Jester continued to add: "But if you have the ability, look at whether there are talents in this regard among your friends who love to read detective novels. If not, I would have a recommended person, but Japanese. His name is Keigo Higashino."

As he said that, Jester hesitated for a moment before continuing: "Forget it, no matter whether you have a candidate or not, I plan to invite Keigo Higashino, who is really an excellent detective novelist."

As a fan of detective novels, Michael Steinif not only likes European and American detective novels. He also likes Japanese reasoning that values ​​native reasoning. Keigo Higashino is not an unknown person. At least Michael Steinif has heard of this name, but he has never seen the other party's works.

It’s not that I don’t have any interest. After all, Keigo Higashino’s debut work was also the highest Edogawa Ranjue Award in the Japanese mystery industry three years ago. It is unlikely that as a fan of a detective novel, Michael Steinif has several Japanese friends. They said that Keigo Higashino’s work is very outstanding, and Keigo Higashino is not very old and very talented.

Keigo Higashino is just 30 years old. After his work "After School" three years ago won the Edogawa Ranbu Award and sold over 100,000 copies, he officially resigned from an engineer and became a full-time writer. However, although he has written several works in the past three years, his grades are still far behind his first book, both in terms of sales, reputation and evaluation.

"After School" has a score of more than 100,000 copies, which is really amazing, but if you add an Edogawa Ranbu Award, it's nothing, because almost every work that won the Edogawa Ranbu Award cannot be less than 100,000 copies.

Therefore, during this period, Keigo Higashino was also seeking change. Although his newly published "Student Street Murder Incident" was also selected as the candidate for the Yoshikawa Eiji Literature Newcomer Award and the Japanese Mission Writers Association Award (Long Edition), these honors are still far inferior to his after school movie that won the Edogawa Ranbu Award.

Keigo Higashino is not an unknown person, and the writer always has a kind of arrogance. When Jester asked someone to invite him to make an invitation, it was naturally impossible to send an ordinary business staff as casually as Hachida Hideaki who invited Kyoani. This time, Jester's special instructions made him make sure to go there in person.

Coincidentally, Tamahiro Yoshiro himself is also a fan of mystery novels. He is naturally very familiar with Keigo Higashino, who has become famous in recent years. After hearing Jester's words, he immediately agreed.

Keigo Higashino lives in Osaka. When he received a call from Tamahiro Tamahiro, he was a little surprised. How could it be a game company? In fact, when he heard the name Mars Entertainment, he thought it was from a film and television company, after all, he had the word entertainment.

If it was a film and television company, he wouldn't be very surprised, because he had recently become a work by Fuji TV and planned to buy the copyright to make it into a TV series.

Do these game companies also want to buy their works to make games?

With this idea, Keigo Higashino met with Tamahiko Tamahiko at a coffee shop he often went to. Keigo Higashino was very familiar with this coffee shop. Whenever he had no inspiration, he liked to come here to sit for a while, drink a cup of coffee, and then think for a while. If there was inspiration, he would start writing on the spot.

The waiter here is very familiar with Keigo Higashino. As soon as he came in, someone immediately said to him: "Mr. Higashino, someone is waiting for you there."

Looking in the direction the waiter pointed at his finger, Keigo Higashino saw a middle-aged man in his thirties dressed in casual clothes. As a mystery novel writer, he would always look at a stranger seriously, thus discovering some of the person's personality and characteristics from some unintentional details.

However, when Keigo Higashino saw Higashino, Higashino stood up almost at the same time, walked forward quickly, and went to Keigo Higashino, bowed slightly, and said politely: "I have long admired Mr. Higashino's daimyo."

Keigo Higashino dared not be entrusted, he also bowed and said, "I dare not."

The two of them sat down, and Tamahiko Yoshiro went straight to the topic. When Keigo Higashino heard that he was not going to buy the copyright of his novel to develop the game, a hint of disappointment was still obvious on his face. However, when he continued to listen, he heard that the other party seemed to want to invite him to write a script for a game they were going to develop. This proposal made Keigo Higashino's eyes lit up.

As Zhou knew, Keigo Higashino has been seeking change recently. He won the Edogawa Ranbu Award for "After School" based on campus youth reasoning. In other words, his style was set on the style of campus youth reasoning from the beginning, but the development prospects of this style are not very good. After writing several books on youth campus reasoning, Keigo Higashino also discovered this. Therefore, during this period, he was always seeking change and wanted to completely change his style.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to change the style. At least for Keigo Higashino, whenever he wants to change the style, he always feels that he can't write a word no matter what. Therefore, for him now, all common sense is worth it.

Just like the invitation Tamahiko Yoshiro told him.

However, before this, Keigo Higashino still had to ask what the specific content was, but it could not be a campus mystery story, which would have no meaning to him. However, when he heard Tamahiro Tamahiro say that the protagonist of this game was a prosecutor who upholds justice, his eyes lit up.

Of course he knew that using a prosecutor as the protagonist of a mystery novel is very novel. Most of the most widely circulated novels on the market are maintained in high school students, policemen, detectives and even lawyers. Instead, he rarely sees the opposite prosecutors of lawyers as the protagonist.

“Is it my own responsibility to write the script?”

However, Keigo Higashino has never liked others to interfere with his creative thinking. This is how he wrote novels. Therefore, although he was very interested in Tamahiro's proposal, he still asked this question.

Sure enough, as Keigo Higashino expected, after Tatsuhiro heard this question, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

"Mr. Higashino, the script writing of the game is very different from the novel writing. As for the question you asked, I personally cannot answer you, because the proposer of this game is my boss, namely Jester Lee. Before I came to see you, he told me that if you are interested, you can go to the United States to have an in-depth understanding with him."
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