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Hayashi-san is now director and executive vice-president of Koei Tecmo Games and his piece in the extensive document discusses the importance of being a gamer for a manager of a gaming company like Koei Tecmo.
Essentially, he argues that a gamer's perspective is "essential for successful management"
To successfully navigate the future gaming market and to continue delivering results by harnessing our development capabilities, which could be seen as the source of our competitiveness, we must manage projects while refining our skills as creators.
Moreover, by instilling management qualities into our creators, they are able to transition into managers. While this is the ideal career path that the Company envisions, I firmly believe that, above all else, continuing to be a gamer is crucial for me to walk this path.
Games are created to be enjoyed by our customers. To excel in management, one important thing usually found with gamers is the ability to have an intuitive understanding of what our customers find entertaining. This is precisely why, even in the role of a manager, one should maintain their identity as a gamer.
I, too, have aspired to be a creator who pursues what our customers find captivating while having faith in what I personally find engaging. In doing so, I have integrated development and management into crafting games.
In “Nobunaga's Ambition,” every subordinate general possesses unique skills and talents, requiring strategic placement in the right positions for them to excel. To achieve success, one must multitask in the game, allocating limited resources while considering the balance between the development of oneʼs own country and the conflicts with the rivalʼs. To accomplish this, one must also consider how to position and move effectively. When I played the game with a managerial and business perspective, everything seemed to make sense, and putting those principles and methodologies into practice yielded positive results.
Hayashi-san is now director and executive vice-president of Koei Tecmo Games and his piece in the extensive document discusses the importance of being a gamer for a manager of a gaming company like Koei Tecmo.
Essentially, he argues that a gamer's perspective is "essential for successful management"
To successfully navigate the future gaming market and to continue delivering results by harnessing our development capabilities, which could be seen as the source of our competitiveness, we must manage projects while refining our skills as creators.
Moreover, by instilling management qualities into our creators, they are able to transition into managers. While this is the ideal career path that the Company envisions, I firmly believe that, above all else, continuing to be a gamer is crucial for me to walk this path.
Games are created to be enjoyed by our customers. To excel in management, one important thing usually found with gamers is the ability to have an intuitive understanding of what our customers find entertaining. This is precisely why, even in the role of a manager, one should maintain their identity as a gamer.
I, too, have aspired to be a creator who pursues what our customers find captivating while having faith in what I personally find engaging. In doing so, I have integrated development and management into crafting games.
In “Nobunaga's Ambition,” every subordinate general possesses unique skills and talents, requiring strategic placement in the right positions for them to excel. To achieve success, one must multitask in the game, allocating limited resources while considering the balance between the development of oneʼs own country and the conflicts with the rivalʼs. To accomplish this, one must also consider how to position and move effectively. When I played the game with a managerial and business perspective, everything seemed to make sense, and putting those principles and methodologies into practice yielded positive results.
