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Dragon Quest X o Sasaeru Gijutsu (The Technology That Supports Dragon Quest X)
Behind the Scenes of a Large-Scale Online RPG
Koji Aoyama
Summary
A Japanese-language account of Dragon Quest X, the first online RPG in the Dragon Quest series, and the development and operation behind it, written by Koji Aoyama, who now serves as the title's producer and previously served as its technical lead. Drawing on both roles, the author discloses the behind-the-scenes work of developing and running the game in full. Thanks to the author's deliberate effort to make it accessible without prior programming knowledge or familiarity with Dragon Quest X, the book is written for a broad readership, not just engineers or players of the game.
Target Readers
- People interested in online game development and operation
- Current game developers, and those who want to work in the game industry in the future
- Dragon Quest X players
Tags
Colophon
- Publisher
- Gijutsu-Hyohron
- ISBN
- 978-4-297-10174-9
- Published
- Nov 2018
- List price
- ¥2,948incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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