Self-Defense Forces and Department of Defense training games, war game industry inner curtain

Mr. Daisuke Kurahara of J Blaine Holdings told "I have bought various good stories" and talked about the inner curtain of the war game industry, which is a training game for the SDF and the Department of Defense.

Future Serious Game Development: Actualization of B to B Game (War Gaming) Development in Overseas Government Organizations

Thank you very much, Kurashihara of J Brain Holdings, which is now to give a lecture. Thank you. The core story starts from here! All right! Today I have offered various good stories, so I hope you enjoy it. Even if it is said of a serious game, I will talk about a war game this time. By the way, I'd like to ask you, actually saw a war game, did you do, could you give me a hand? (The raise hands are sparse) Oh, it is quite low.

I will summarize what I will do today. This time we will deal with what is said to be M & S (modeling & simulation) which is used in the bureaucracy and the defense industry even in the war game. I will tell the story "What is M & S?" Later on, but I will explain in what process this is actually sold as a product, and who uses it. Maybe some of you think that you want to make people who are making M & S, and some may think that you can sell it to someone, so I will explain the idea around that as well. I would like to explain the know-how of how we can receive orders.


First, what is M & S? I wrote a lot of things, but since it is worldwide that I do not know even if written in letters, I can not see for a hundred. There is a basic concept about M & S in the master plan issued by the US Department of Defense.


This is M & S, which is actually used in the US military now. It is a helicopter war game. The lower frame is a helicopter in the game, and the upper right is the person who is actually playing the game. It is upper left from him that he seems like this. The biggest feature of M & S is that it is cheaply and efficiently trained than actual training while expressing things realistically.


Specifically, what is different from M & S and playing game? I am delivering M & S to the SDF and othersReal BizI interviewed the company called. First of all, the SDF will reproduce the actual war. Entertainment recreates movies or science fiction and what is not real. Although coco is important though it basically uses the same methodology and technology, it is not necessary to distinguish between serious and entertainment if it is impossible to distinguish whether it is genuine or not. The real biz He seems to have thought of.


I will abbreviate the history of M & S because it becomes finer, but in briefly, before the digital came out, there was a board game since the 19th century. How long have you ever played board games? Ah! There is quite a lot! Through that, you are doing M & S without knowing it. Two centuries later, computers came out ......


Suddenly evolving into this form. This was greeted by CEDEC last monthKoji MikamiMy teacher said, "I made this game with 500 million, but there are various things I can not put out on the table, so please give it to me in good shape" and got the image. About this extra story ....


It is the current story. The image on the left crop the previous video. The right is avatar. Avatar is using motion-capture technology to display human motion on the screen, but this is also a very important technique in M ​​& S. With the previous videos, it is an extension of motion capture - that when a player moves the machine gun, it will move even in the game.


Although it was in the report of the Self Defense Force, it is said that it is easy to say, even with the US military, in order to make the military training cheap and efficient, stop making a training tool, Is not it faster to bring a commercial game? about it. It is cheaper to entrust to the private sector and it is interesting.


What will happen then? The image on the right side can not be said with a loud voice, but it is a game that can kill a lot of Japanese at Chinese site. It is said to be anti-war online, but who you know? Oh! There! Truly Sedec! I think that probably it will come out if you search for "anti-war online Japanese killing" etc. So, what is the market size of M & S including these things?


I do not know clearly. As you can not answer if you do not understand, as a rough estimate. The size of the world game market was written at 9 trillion yen in 2009, but this is what the Korean government says, and as the Korean side promotes the future game industry and digital industry in Korea I think that it is 9 trillion yen. By the way, in online games, Korea says that Korea now occupies 20% of the market share. It is said that America's Army on the left image took officially 4 billion. Also, there is an organization named MSCO of the Department of Defense that actually makes M & S, but officially it is an annual budget of 1 billion dollars (80 billion yen). However, I do not know how many people are around here, but I think that the market is expanding.


Our country is also doing various things. The image on the left is FOOD FORCE, which Konami made in consignment of the United Nations World Food Program. The focus is on the right "Become a finance minister and make a budget" game. Is there a Treasury here? Please raise your hands honestly. I want to make friends with the Treasury Department ... .... The purpose of this game is that it would be interesting to improve Japan's tough financial situation as a player.


If you play with putting the name of the minister ... Well, now I am just expressing that Japan's finances are tough on the game, but social security is stupid high (within the left frame). So, if you do some treatment, you tax the taxes and cut the pension ... ...


It got the screen that the goal was achieved. The public will be pleased if you achieve your goal. I think that there are few citizens who are pleased with paying taxes, but I am pleased if this game. What I want to say is that M & S used in the military is now used as a publicity for the government. What I want to say is that the suspicion that M & S, which has been popularized in BtoB, is spreading in the form of BtoC, is probably used as such propaganda.


Next time I talk about academia, there is a quirky person who wrote a book on M & S in academic field and use it for history education. The picture is a book called Lost Battle, which is actually used at a university in the UK. These things should be done in Tokyo and Akita University even in Japan. There is room for cultivation in this area from now on.


The thing to say is that the era of distinguishing between serious and entertainment is over. Also, when I interviewed the Media Contents Division of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Cool Japan, it was a story that I thought as a content industry, not distinguishing between games and animation. However, as the content industry sometimes exports to other countries, it is important to note that there are countries that view it as cultural invasion. It became a story that it is not necessarily directly related to national interest that cool Japan prospers.


I think that I'd like to talk about business-oriented this time, so I would like to talk about Mr. Real Biz who appeared earlier. Mr. Real Biz who deals with the Self Defense Force is often directly linked to military. So is Realbiz an exception?


Mr. Real Biz is a corner of an iceberg to the last, for example, there is a company called a breakaway company. American facebook is a company who is singing entertainment. It is a company that made Sid Myers civilization. In addition to that, I am making Department of Defense M & S. What I want to say is that entertainment technology is used in serious military and political world. Considering entertainment and seriousness on the same playing field, it is commonplace to exchange information.


From here it is my opinion. I gathered the tricks to survive in these industries. The long-term credibility at the top is that government and public institutions and universities are very concerned about credit problems, so whether credibility is maintained for a long time. For example, if funds are provided from China etc., the Ministry of Defense will stand a lot of enthusiasm.

Next information security. Since M & S is directly linked to weapons and defense operations, can you handle such confidentiality?

Technology? In other words, technology is a good story if you bring a technician, so I do not think so much emphasis on so far. Rather what do you think about security and security?

When I heard the story to Mr. Real Biz, it is basically about the defense industry that the company in own country undertakes M & S. It will be a problem if confidentiality is exported to other countries.


It seems that you will be in violation of the law when companies outside the country receive it.


So, how can we launch such a company? The second reason to collect people from these ministries is that it is faster to add people who are familiar with the culture and the surrounding information of government offices to their colleagues. Although it writes as tacit knowledge, it also becomes to obtain information which is not disclosed such as security part.


Finally, to enter the defense related M & S, these conditions are necessary. What happens after entering it? If you dare say that, you can trust and create a situation close to monopoly. What you wrote here is very difficult as you do it, so it feels like you can be at a glance if you can do so far.