Game Developer in the World of Anime

Chapter 614: The Hardworking Haruno Working Overtime, Weekend Plans

The last time Kō appeared in front of players was quite a long time ago. If Ichin remembered correctly, it was when she appeared once during the livestream promotion for Persona.

After that, she completely refused to show up again. Whether it was livestream events or interviews with various gaming magazines, she never participated.

And this time, Ichin had finally found an opportunity to make her appear again.

After all, she was one of the company's representative figures. She couldn't just stay hidden inside the company working forever.

Looking at Kō sitting at her workstation looking gloomy, Ichin said with a smile, "Once in a while, you should go out and let the players understand what kind of people are developing the games they love. Isn't that right?"

Resting her chin in both hands, Kō said with a skeptical expression, "I think you guys just want to see me go on stage. There's no other reason!"

"Hmm~~~ If you want to say that, that's not wrong either. But no matter what, as one of the company's executives, you should attend important occasions like this."

Ichin patted Kō's shoulder.

"So stop feeling so depressed about it. Since it's already decided, it won't change. Just prepare well afterward. It's not that difficult."

Then he ignored Kō's eye roll with a smile and headed toward the programming department.

Kō stuck her tongue out at his back before turning around and throwing herself toward Rin.

"Ugh~~~ Rin, do I really have to go?"

Rin hugged Kō with a smile and said gently, "Everyone voted together to decide this, you know. Kō, don't be like that. Just go enjoy the event when the time comes. Besides, the livestream event won't be long. It'll be less than an hour. It'll be over very quickly."

"Fine…"

Soon after, the news that Kō Yagami and Rin Toyama would be accompanying Ichin to the Tokyo Game Show spread throughout the company.

Everyone knew that aside from Ichin, the other development team leaders rarely appeared at public events. Now that they were finally going to show up, everyone was extremely excited.

Rin was fine, but after seeing the expectant looks from everyone, Kō only became more and more nervous.

Well, hopefully Rin could calm her down.

During dinner, Utaha and Yukino, who hadn't come to the company today, also heard about the news.

Utaha smiled and said, "Kō hates showing herself in public so much, yet you all still chose her. It seems like the livestream will definitely be interesting that day."

After taking a bite of rice, Ichin looked at Utaha and Yukino.

"On the day of the Tokyo Game Show, do you want to come to the venue with me?"

The two exchanged glances and shook their heads at the same time. Yukino said, "We won't go to the venue. Watching the livestream at home is enough."

Utaha nodded as well.

"Exactly. You won't be there the whole day anyway, right? I was thinking that maybe we could invite Aoba and the others over that day and watch the livestream together at home. Now that we've moved, we don't have to squeeze together like before."

"Sure, you can decide that yourselves."

Just as Utaha said, now that they had moved into a large villa, inviting friends over to hang out had become very easy.

Whether it was holding a barbecue party in the backyard or watching the Tokyo Game Show livestream together in the home theater room, there was more than enough space.

This year's Tokyo Game Show was scheduled for Saturday, September 15.

The timing was excellent, since it fell on a weekend. That meant both the number of offline attendees and the number of viewers watching the livestream would reach extremely high levels.

After dinner, Ichin went into the studio and began his usual planning work.

Before starting, he glanced at the calendar on the desk.

"Today's September 6th. Nine days left. Over the next few days, the promotional PV for Monster Train and the new content PVs for GARO and the other games can all be finished. Next week everyone can relax a little."

The physical sample copies of Tales of Berseria had already arrived, and they had been sent out to various gaming media outlets for preview and review.

After the Berseria team completely finished development in August, Ichin gave them a week-long vacation. In the final stage, they only needed to continue looking for bugs and fixing them step by step. Of course, it would be even better if the review media could also report any bugs they encountered during gameplay, allowing further optimization.

Opening the document, Ichin began working with a smile on his face.

"Not bad. This year's main tasks are basically finished."

Looking at the nearly completed development plan for Bloodborne, Ichin thought aloud.

"Hmm~~~ Development for Bloodborne can start at the end of September. The Game Awards begins in mid-December, so that's about two and a half months. That should be enough."

Nodding to himself, Ichin continued working through the night.

It wasn't until nine o'clock that the chat software on his computer received a message from Utaha saying Haruno had returned home. Only then did Ichin stop working and head downstairs to check on Haruno, who had just come back from overtime work.

Recently, Haruno had been working overtime every few days. Coming home at nine like today actually counted as early. A few times she hadn't gotten off work until nearly eleven.

As soon as he went downstairs, Ichin saw Haruno sitting in the living room with her head down, eating.

"Why are you getting off work so late again? Is there really that much work?"

"Mmmph!"

After swallowing the food in her mouth, Haruno said,

"Of course there is. Didn't we acquire that piece of land earlier? Construction has reached a certain stage recently. Now there's all sorts of follow-up work like construction schedule analysis, additional funding investments, and so on. A lot of things need to be discussed in meetings. It's not like we've never acquired land and built on it before, but this project is really huge. The investment cost is higher than any of our previous projects, so everything has to be carefully calculated."

"Hmm… that really sounds tough."

Ichin didn't know much about the real estate industry, but he understood that working this hard meant the land would bring Haruno enormous profits in the future. Otherwise, she wouldn't be working so diligently day and night.

"So how long will you have to keep working overtime like this?"

"Hehe, for now I don't have to anymore."

Haruno picked up a piece of braised pork and said happily,

"Since I stayed so late today, I arranged everything for the upcoming tasks. Tomorrow is Friday, so I gave myself and the people who worked overtime today a day off. With Saturday and Sunday added in, we get a three-day break to catch our breath."

Then she looked up eagerly.

"Hey, should we go out and have some fun on Saturday? I haven't relaxed in a long time!"

"I'm fine with anything."

Ichin shrugged and looked at Utaha and Yukino.

"What do you two think?"

Utaha thought for a moment before saying, "Sure. Haruno-nee, you can sleep in properly on Saturday morning. Then in the afternoon we'll go out and have fun, and we'll eat dinner outside that night."

"No problem. It's settled!"

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