Fuzhou, Mercury Technology's office area.
The clatter of keyboards merged into one continuous sheet of sound.
The air-conditioning unit hummed outside the window.
Fu Zan stood behind the lead programmer's workstation, staring at the data running across the screen.
"There are still two clipping points in the Red Armillary Sash's cloth simulation." The lead programmer pointed at the lower-left corner of the screen. "Frames four and seven. When Nezha turns and launches the enemy, the edge of the red sash overlaps with the shaft of the Fire-Tipped Spear."
"Have Old Zhang pull out those frames and fix them separately." Fu Zan patted the lead programmer on the shoulder. "This is the final mine-sweeping pass. Don't drop the chain now. It has to stay locked at sixty frames—if it drops too much, we won't get the action effect we imagined."
Investiture of the Gods: Legend of Nezha had already entered its final bug-fixing stage.
After more than half a year of grinding away at it, this group of technicians who had clawed their way up from the Famicom era had forced action fluidity comparable to arcade games out of the Jupiter board on a 2.5D foundation.
When he returned to his private office, the computer screen on the desk was lit.
An email from Sega Tokyo Headquarters lay quietly in his inbox.
The sender was Hisao Oguchi.
The attachment was large.
After he decompressed it, what was inside was neither a conventional low-level code optimization guide nor feedback on art asset review.
North American PC Game Market Research and Analysis of Online Trends.
A Preliminary Study of Commercial Models for LAN Battles and WAN MMOs.
Memorandum on Silicon Valley Online Internet Café Operations Model.
Fu Zan rolled the mouse wheel, quickly browsing through the documents.
Sega rarely sent them this kind