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“Skeleton Theme Park.”
When I invited the planner who planned a famous theme park in Korea and explained what I had envisioned, he said with a bright eye.
“That is fun. The original concept of a theme park is to eat half of it.”
“Yes?”
“A amusement park made of skeletons and a theme park served by skeletons. Obviously this is a possibility. But there is a problem.”
The planner said while writing something on the paper.
“For a theme park to be successful, three conditions must be met. First the concept. As I just said, it’s really unique, so let’s skip the second one, it’s scale and fun, but as long as the president decides to unleash a bunch of money, it’s not a problem, so pass. The problem is number three.”
The planner said while writing the map on paper.
“Awareness. It has to be popular.”
“What do you mean?”
“The success of Mouse Land is because, although some of the rides in Mouse Land are fun, the public’s liking for the animation of Mouse is extremely high. You can see and feel the mouse you used to see in cartoons in real life, so you have to find it somehow.”
That’s right.
I too grew up watching mouse animations since I was a child, so it was my wish to visit Mouse Land once.
“But, isn’t it that the president conceived the theme park to neutralize the Japanese people’s objection to skeletons? In other words, the precedent has been reversed. We get popularity and we use that popularity to make theme parks, but it’s like creating a theme park to gain popularity.”
will that happen again?
“If you make it in Korea, I can guarantee it will be hugely popular right away, but in Japan, well. Of course, since the concept is so unique, one day it will be successful as the rejection will diminish, but it will take time.”
I’m trying to make a theme park to cut down on that time, but even that takes time.
“Is there no way?”
Then the planner smiled and said.
“Of course, there is no way out. After all, the success of a theme park is about having fun that can only be enjoyed there, but isn’t that possible with Skeleton? And there is one thing that the Japanese are also familiar with. The house of horror.”
A house of horror where ghost dolls pop out and startle people.
I also thought that it would be awesome if we could make this a real undead instead of a doll.
But I quickly figured out the problem with this system and immediately erased it from my mind.
In the first place, I was trying to find a friendly concept to neutralize people’s rejection, but the house of fear that frightened and frightened people was rather negative.
I said skeptically.
“When the real undead pops out, it can’t even be compared to the existing house of fear, and it is true that it is unique.
Then the planner nodded and said.
“you’re right. But if we get the direction right, we might be able to get a good response.”
“directional?”
“The traditional house of horror is a very passive play facility. All you have to do is walk and be startled by something that pops up. But what if you give me something to be able to deal with actively, not passively.”
The planner said with bright eyes.
“Even so, there is something that came to my mind after hearing the President’s words. Is it possible to pretend that the skeleton has been smashed?”
“It is possible.”
“Then it’s perfect. For example, something like this. Give a sword to the person who enters the House of Terror. And if you attack the skeleton that suddenly jumped out with that sword and hit a specific part, the skeleton will break.”
Oh oh?
“When the skeleton is destroyed like that, you gain experience. If you keep going inside like that, fight the undead that pops out suddenly, raise your level, fight the boss, and defeat that boss, you will succeed.”
“Isn’t that an RPG?”
“you’re right. It’s a mix of Japanese favorite RPGs in House of Horrors. Wouldn’t it be a little less repulsive if you repeatedly instill the experience of defeating the undead as well as being surprised.”
hey
is this ok?
Well, famous planners are different.
“The Japanese don’t like other worlds and things like that. It satisfies this need. When you come to Seron’s theme park, you can feel the experience of an adventure in another world.”
another world?
In this world, I’m an expert.
I said raising the corners of my lips.
“Would you like to try making a mini-Ceron continent?”
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Mixing this with RPG, we create a world full of adventure and romance.
I looked at the planner and said.
“House of horror mixed with RPG, let’s talk seriously.”
*
“boring.”
A friend said at Kiyoshi’s words.
“Shall we go to karaoke?”
Then Kiyoshi shook his head and said.
“I’m tired. Is there anything different and interesting?”
“Can there be such a thing?”
Kiyoshi said with a droopy body.
“Thanks to Ceron, I sold my energy and my wallet got thicker, but there’s nothing I can do.”
With the introduction of Ceron’s energy purchase and energy trading market in Fukuoka, many changes have occurred in the lives of residents.
People who enjoy a more leisurely lifestyle with tens of thousands of yen in their extra income.
However, although there are many facilities for tourists, there are no amusement facilities exclusively for locals, so it can only be boring.
“Ahh. I also wanted to go to another world after being hit by a truck in my previous life.”
“Crazy. Kick Kick.”
A friend who laughed at Kiyoshi’s words said, pointing to a passing truck.
“Here comes the truck. do you know Is that a previous life truck? Go and hit it.”
Kiyoshi looked at the truck without thinking about those words.
But Kiyoshi’s eyes widened when he saw the truck.
“uh?”
The truck my friend pointed to was not a regular truck, but a promotional truck with a billboard.
However, the phrase on the promotional truck catches Kiyoshi’s attention.
On the truck it was written:
-Come to the Seron Continent full of adventure and romance!
“Ceron Continent?”
A friend who checked the truck together after seeing Kiyoshi’s reaction said:
“I heard that the Ceron group is making something on the outskirts, is that that?”
“okay?”
“uh. It seems to have been completed after construction on a fairly large site. but what the hell is that Seron Continent? A skeleton is also drawn. Is it like a theme park?”
At that, Kiyoshi stood up and said.
“Would you like to visit?”
“Aren’t you afraid of skeletons?”
“What are you afraid of? If that was really dangerous, would all Koreans have died already? why. Are you afraid?”
At that, the friend was furious and said.
“What is scary?”
“Then let’s go. There’s nothing to do anyway.”
“great. let’s go!”
“Let’s see. The address is…”
*
Kiyoshi and his friends arrived on the new continent of Seron on the outskirts of Fukuoka.
Although it is a continent made in the form of a dome on a fairly large scale, it was not very well known, so it was very quiet in front of the entrance.
“Let’s go in.”
Kiyoshi and his friend went to the ticket office at the entrance and checked the price.
“5,000 yen?”
Quite expensive entrance fee.
Kiyoshi thought about it for a while, but the words adventure and romance kept coming to mind, so he pulled out 5,000 yen from his wallet, paid the entrance fee, and went inside, and soon the receptionist started explaining.
“You will now enter the continent of Seron, which is full of adventure and romance. Although ferocious monsters and undead lurk in the Seron Continent, if you are chosen, you will be able to get through it. Then good luck.”
After hearing the game prologue-like explanation, I opened the closed door and went inside, and what I saw were two swords stuck on the floor.
Kiyoshi pulls out his sword, as it looks like it was made to be pulled out by anyone who saw it, and a voice came out with a loud sound effect.
-You have been chosen.
“Select?”
At that time, like Kiyoshi, the friend who drew the sword said:
“What? I still don’t feel it.
“Let’s go in first. You’ll find out when you go in.”
“okay.”
Kiyoshi and his friend went inside with the sword like that.
“Wow······.”
And they couldn’t help but admire it.
In the continent of Seron made of domes, a dark forest had been created.
Then my friend kept going to the side and said,
“This one is blocked.”
“Maybe it’s a story that tells you to keep going along the road.”
“This is a bit artificial. But why is the atmosphere so gloomy?”
That’s when I was walking down the street with my friend.
moon crack. moon crack.
A skeleton with a sword suddenly pops out of the blind spot.
“Ugh!”
Kiyoshi and his friend were surprised by the appearance of the skeleton.
Then the skeletons find them, raise their swords and stride towards them.
“Come on, let’s run away!”
But Kiyoshi snorted at the friend’s words.
“Hey, why didn’t you give us the sword for nothing? It’s about fighting.”
“Didn’t you see the video of Han Ji-hyeok skeleton cutting monsters!? How do we win!”
“Wake. This is a playground! There’s no way we could have had a really strong skeleton.”
Kiyoshi boldly approaches toward the approaching skeleton.
Then the skeleton screams and runs away.
“Chur!”
Kiyoshi was a little startled by the sound, but upon closer inspection, only the noise was loud.
Kiyoshi lightly avoided the sword and attacked the skeleton with the sword he was holding.
And the moment Kiyoshi’s sword strikes the skeleton.
– Ding!
Whoops!
With a ding sound, the skeleton shattered and fell.
And then a voice came out of the sword.
– You have gained 1 experience. Experience remaining until the next level up 9.
At those words, Kiyoshi’s lips twitched.
“Catch the skeleton and raise the level, isn’t it? Did you do it well?”
Kiyoshi turned to his friend and said.
“let’s go! I paid for it, but I have to enjoy it properly!”
*
Skeletons popping out all of a sudden in a gloomy atmosphere.
And when he couldn’t stop the skeleton’s surprise attack and when he was hit, a voice saying his stamina had decreased from the sword came out, so Kiyoshi and his friend knew for sure.
That this is an RPG world with the concept of a house of horror.
At that time, while moving so carefully, he continued to grab the skeleton.
– The level has risen.
Kiyoshi’s sword after slaying 10 first raised a voice saying that the level had risen.
– Awakens the ability of the sword of fire. It is cast by shouting Fire Sword.
“Have you awakened your powers?”
That’s when I got something new.
“Kie-e-e!”
Something appears with a loud noise.
Kiyoshi and his friend immediately turned their heads, thinking it was a skeleton like before, and said with wide open mouths.
“Yoo, ghost!”
It was a ghost emitting blue light.
The appearance of a ghost floating in the air with a bizarrely distorted face is truly terrifying.
“Aww!”
When his friend, who had barely adapted to the skeleton, was engulfed in fear again, Kiyoshi stepped forward and swung his sword.
However.
Boo-woong!
The sword just passes through the ghost and does no damage.
“uh?”
Rather, Kiyoshi was attacked by a ghost.
-Health has been reduced by 2. remaining stamina 17.
Kiyoshi stepped back and said.
“The attack doesn’t work!”
Judging from the voices saying that his stamina has dropped, it is clear that this ghost is also one of the deployed monsters, but the attack doesn’t work.
At that moment, the sword of fire that Kiyoshi had just awakened came to mind.
“okay! Ghosts have to do elemental attacks to inflict damage!”
Then Kiyoshi exclaimed.
“Sword of Fire!”
Then the fire really came out of the sword, wouldn’t it?
“Wow······.”
Kiyoshi, gazing at the fantastic figure, puts his hand on the blazing fire.
“Isn’t it hot? How did you implement this?”
Then the friend pointed at the ghost and said:
“What do you do quickly? I’m approaching you!”
Kiyoshi, who came to his senses at those words, swung his sword of fire at the ghost.
Then the ghost struggles and suffers differently than before.
“Kieek!”
“Eat it!”
A ghost that slowly disappeared after cutting so many times.
– You have gained 3 experience points.
“Wow······.”
Kiyoshi was completely immersed in it at first as it was an amusement facility, but the sudden appearance of skeletons and ghosts caused tension, as if he was really chosen and awakened his abilities.
“Are you crazy?”
The friend who woke up then said in a cold sweat.
“This is so real.”
“That’s right, it’s probably a real summoner. It’s awesome though. Where are you going to experience this?”
“It is. Ah-oh. My heart hurts.”
“Let’s go on.”
So, after defeating the ghosts and moving forward, suddenly a brightly lit village appears unlike the dimly lit surroundings.
And Kiyoshi read the sign written there.
“A town of beginnings?”
When I entered the village like that, I saw various stalls and people were walking around.
Then a man approached Kiyoshi and his friend with a surprised expression and said:
“Maybe a warrior’s sword? Are you a warrior?”
Kiyoshi knew that.
This town is a middle ground, and the people here are playing NPCs.
Kiyoshi said with a smirk.
“Is this all right? great. Let’s enjoy it properly.”
*
In line with Japan, where there is a steady demand for maid cafes, Koreans may be cramped, but the Seron Continent has been properly localized.
In my mind, I wanted to create and experience a place like a real dungeon, but since it is a play facility that requires many customers to enter at the same time, it was made in a structure that had no choice but to proceed on a date.
That way people can enter one after another and enjoy individual adventures.
In addition to that, this Seron Continent has a strong test tendency, so we lowered the difficulty level and made it fairly intuitive.
Go through the beginning of the tutorial level, go through the starting village, enter the main game, become stronger through hunting, and then catch the boss.
And if the response is good in the future, I was planning to squeeze the many things I experienced at Seron into a story so that I could have a different experience even if I visit again by capturing a new concept for each season.
“Customers are pouring in.”
Although it is a concept, it is the only amusement facility in the world that allows you to experience the experience of dealing with undead monsters.
The planner said with a smile until the corners of his mouth were ripped apart.
“There is also a considerable amount of sales from the village of beginnings.”
The Village of Beginnings was acting as a food court and goods store in terms of a theme park, where employees who act as NPCs sell meals and potions that restore stamina for cash.
Of course, anyone who goes through the village of the beginning unconditionally will have to spend money there, apart from the entrance fee.
I looked at the sales slip and smiled.
“You can see how we got into the top 10 by market cap just by running two mouse lands.”
The net profit margin of the theme park has been enormous.
As long as the facilities are well managed and customers are constantly flowing in, the money keeps rolling in.
However, even the skeleton does not break down, so the maintenance cost is low, and the food sold in the village of the beginning is also at a profit level, so the ratio of net profit taken by Ceron was at a level that could not even be compared with that of the manufacturing industry.
“Is this enough for success?”
“Of course it is a success. Now, applying new stories and concepts to each season will increase the customer’s repeat visit rate. ah! Or, why not create several continents in the world and apply different stories to each other? Then there may be people who visit the Seron continent around the world.”
nice.
Just hearing that is awesome.
“I am not satisfied with this. After all, this is just a test. Finally, we will go to the Skeleton Theme Park where all kinds of rides are gathered. The continent of Seron is part of it.”
“I know.”
“How do you feel against skeletons?”
“It’s not exact because it just opened, but rumors are spreading that it’s fun, so the rejection will quickly diminish.”
Through the RPG experience of the Seron Continent, he frequently encounters skeletons to reduce rejection and earn money, and he is the best.
When I saw the report like that, I said while looking at the distribution of visiting customers.
“By the way, there are not many middle-aged customers.”
“I have to use my own body, so I have no choice but to do it.”
“Is there anything that appeals to middle-aged people? Hmm.”
I thought of things I had seen when I went to an amusement park.
“Rides. various foods. Ornate decorations.”
Then one thing came to mind, and I said with a twinkle in my eyes.
“···parade.”
“A parade?”
“You don’t parade the characters in costumes at the theme park.”
“That’s right. That’s one of the main events.”
“Isn’t it okay to plan such a parade with a skeleton and give it a pleasure to watch?”
Then the planner thought for a moment and said,
“Then why not collaborate with a mecha animation company to reproduce famous scenes in animation in reality? Even middle-aged people in Japan are the generation who grew up watching giant robot cartoons when they were young.”
“Oh oh!”
That’s a nice idea.
After all, a parade is just about people wearing clothes and playing characters.
Still, people are passionate about it.
Then, you put a robot skin on the giant skeleton to implement a giant robot, and then use those robots to reproduce the animation in reality.
No matter how well the human character is implemented, there is a sense of difference because the original version is different, but with this, you can make it almost exactly the same.
I snapped my fingers and said.
“It’s nice. If you put fly magic on a giant skeleton robot to implement aerial combat and create a spectacular effect like a warrior’s sword, people will rush in admiringly, right?”
At my words, the planner bowed his head and said.
“If you leave it to me, I will come with a proper plan.”
“OK.”
I said with a bright smile.
“After all, isn’t a theme park a dream come true? Let’s make the Japanese dream come true.”