Game Design: Is it possible? CaiGou

Three days later.

Cai Gou led Taiping Road's senior executives to Liangshan. Under the reception of the staff, he rushed to the Liangshan Juyitang Hotel where he was staying.

At this moment.

In the hotel lobby, the game manufacturers coming and going are basically well-known figures in the industry. There are even many well-known official media in the game industry and even self-media reporters staying there.

It can be said that this hotel named Liangshan Juyitang is a perfect annotation for those in the gaming industry.

Ever since Cai Gou announced his participation on behalf of Taipingdao, players in the gaming circle have been restless in the past three days, hoping that the Journey Cup will come soon. At the same time, the pre-game topic selection activity of this Journey Cup competition has attracted national attention.

After all, other game competitions are, at most, just following the trends and trends. And every Journey Cup competition creates trends and trends. Players are curious and have needs, so media reporters naturally follow them.

Cai Gou had just entered the hotel lobby under the guidance of the staff. Wuyangyang's group of people gathered around.

"General, I am a reporter for major game events. Can you just say a few words?"

"General, I am a reporter from Game Fengyun. Can I be interviewed?"

"General, can you say a few words? Just a few words is enough!"

The staff quickly stepped forward to stop Cai Gou and escort him all the way to the elevator. Chu Yun, who had some friendship with Cai Gou, jumped up and down and waved to Cai Gou.

"General, general, I am Chu Yun, I am Chu Yun!"

When Cai Gou saw him, he naturally understood that he wanted to interview him on behalf of the [Game Hot Point] channel. Cai Gou thought for a moment and asked the staff to take Chu Yun into the elevator.

"Xiaoyun, the pre-match themed blind audition event for the Journey Cup will be held in the afternoon. I don't have extra time to be interviewed... But since you are here, you can ask a few questions."

"Eh, eh!"

Chu Yun nodded hurriedly, took out a pen and paper from his trouser pocket, and quickly asked Cai Gou what he thought of the Journey Cup and his expectations for the pre-game themed blind selection event. Then the elevator reached the 6th floor, and he left very wisely.

The question is not sharp, and there is no need to be sharp, because at this time, being able to interview Cai Gou is news worth publishing.

Pack your luggage, ask the waiter to bring you lunch, and take a short break after lunch.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Cai Gou, driven by a special car from the staff, led Taiping Road executives to the site of the Liangshan Journey Cup pre-match themed blind audition event.

At this moment, the scene was already surrounded by media reporters. There was no shortage of red carpets, autographs, and official live broadcasts. This kind of battle can only be achieved with the Journey Cup.

When Cai Gou led the senior executives of Taiping Road onto the red carpet. The media reporters who were squatting aside quickly raised their long guns and short cannons, and then clicked them at Cai Gou.

In the official live broadcast room, water friends were extremely excited when they saw this.

"Mom's fans are here!"

"My girlfriend's fan is here!"

"Let me tell you, the old thief looks really good in a suit!"

"I told you to call General Tiangong outside."

"The general should have his suit welded on!"

After walking the red carpet and signing autographs in front of the huge event poster, Cai Gou, led by the staff, came to sit in the center of the first row.

It can be seen from this position alone that even the Journey Cup officials do not dare to underestimate Cai Gou's status.

Naturally, there was no show-off or slap-in-the-face drama. After all, it is now commonplace for everyone to have Cai Gou sitting in the C seat. No one who is blind would jump out, act as a clown, and become the butt of jokes.

The host came on stage, raised the microphone and started his opening remarks:

"Dear organizers, game association representatives, on-site players, media reporters, water friends in the live broadcast room, and viewers, good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the pre-match themed blind selection event of this Journey Cup..."

Following as usual is the leadership speech, because for every Journey Cup competition, where the pre-match theme blind selection event is held, the official Journey Cup offline event exhibition hall is also held.

Therefore, in this pre-game themed blind selection event, the president of the Shandong Province Game Association also came to the scene and delivered a speech, and the president of the Liangshan Game Association then delivered a speech.

By the time everyone finished their speeches, everyone in the live broadcast room was already drowsy. Fortunately, the preliminary process has been completed, and the host then came on stage, raised the microphone and said:

“Now let’s move onto the most important part of this Journey Cup competition, the pre-match theme blind selection activity. As we all know, each theme blind selection may even lead the direction and trend of the game market in the next few years.”

"It is not easy to hold the Journey Cup event. In order to reserve enough game production cycle for the players as much as possible. To improve the quality of the game to a higher level, so that players can play better quality games, and for the vigorous development of the game industry. This is Participated in the pre-game themed blind selection activity.”

After explaining the necessity and importance of the theme blind audition activity before the game, the host immediately asked the staff to move a big box and said:

"This is the blind selection box. There are many blind selection balls in it. Each blind selection ball is opened and contains a theme note. And the theme of this note is the theme of our Journey Cup competition one year later."

At this point, the host changed the topic: "Each game manufacturer specializes in different styles. The choice of game theme is very important. I wonder which theme do the players prefer?"

The host then named Thunder Studio: "Mr. Lei, what do you think?"

A football game produced and released by Thunder Studio the year before last. Until May this year, sales exceeded 10 million. It felt a bit like stepping on the school bell to enter the exam room.

But even so, no one dares to underestimate the pot-bellied Mr. Lei. After all, it is his ability to sit here. Many game manufacturers don't even have the opportunity to enter the examination room.

Mr. Lei took the microphone with a smile: "Everyone knows that our Thunder Studio has a weak foundation. The only game we can succeed in is "Football Contest". Naturally, our studio prefers sports and competitive games."

"Then we wish Mr. Lei that all his wishes will come true!" the host agreed with a smile, and then named the five contestants again, and they also named their preferred game themes in turn.

It’s nothing more than guns, cars and ball. After all, these three game themes are popular tracks. Everyone is following the popular ones to make a living and change to a smaller track. Not to mention that they can’t make games, but they are not that confident after all. foot.

The host finally turned to look at Cai Gou: "General Tiangong, I have admired you for a long time. I have the same question for you. I wonder what your answer will be?"

General Tiangong?

Is this okay?

on site. When the contestants and media reporters saw that the host finally asked Cai Gou, who was sitting in seat C, they all stretched their necks to look in Cai Gou's direction.

In the live broadcast room. When the water friends saw this, they held their breath and concentrated, looking forward to what kind of answer Cai Gou would give.

Cai Gou took the microphone and faced the topic preference question raised by the host.

He thought for a moment and said: "As we all know, Taipingdao has been characterized by hardcore since the Yellow Turban Studio period. Later, it added abstract, real and other game production features."

"It can be said that hard core, reality, and abstraction are the troika of Taipingdao. If I say I don't prefer these three elements, it is pure nonsense. But at the pre-game theme blind audition event, I was really a little different. the opinion of."

"People always have to leave their comfort zone in order to grow, and game companies are no exception. If the game theme of the Taipingdao comfort zone is selected in this pre-game theme blind selection event, then Taipingdao will naturally be lucky."

"But if in this pre-game theme blind selection event, the one selected is a game theme that Taipingdao has not dabbled in, or is even not good at, we will definitely do our best for the players and do our best to create a game that satisfies everyone."

Cai Gou's words were high-end and classy. Compared with Mr. Lei and the previous players, it was simply a judgment call.

"boom--"

"Crash!"

As soon as Cai Gou said these words, he won thunderous applause from the audience. The media reporters at the scene even held up their long guns and cannons, eager to take a slap at Cai Gou.

In the official live broadcast room, millions of water friends listened to Cai Gou's words and fired off barrages.

"General Tiangong, mighty!"

"What the old thief said is reasonable and convincing!"

"Produced by Yellow Turban, it must be a high-quality product and a golden signature in the gaming industry!"

"Do you understand, General Tiangong is so valuable?"

Cai Gou sat on the chair, and system prompts kept coming to his ears——

[Emotional Value +8]

[Emotional value +10]

[Emotional Value +6]

[Random entry treasure chest +1]

Cai Gou smiled, thinking——

The Journey Cup is really my blessing. I haven’t officially participated in the competition yet. I just participated in a pre-match themed blind selection event and got a random entry treasure chest.

It’s so cool!

Currently, he is still at the pre-match themed blind selection event and cannot open the treasure box. Cai Gou directly temporarily stores the random entry treasure box into the system space and then continues to participate in the event.

The host waited for the endless applause to subside, then raised the microphone and said: "The words of General Tiangong are really thought-provoking. It takes the gaming industry out of its comfort zone, which is also the original intention of holding the Journey Cup."

"Therefore, in this pre-match theme blind selection event, the organizers have eliminated three popular game themes: guns, cars and ball! We hope that this event will allow various game manufacturers to step out of their comfort zones. I hope that various game manufacturers can lead the game industry and Towards a more diverse and prosperous future.”

Participating manufacturer: "???"

Representatives of each company: "..."

Media reporter: "!!!"

no……

Organizer, are you serious?

Who doesn’t know that guns, cars, and ball are the three most popular tracks in the gaming industry? As long as the quality of the games they produce is not too bad and meets the basic experience needs of players, they can always make money.

Therefore, in previous Journey Cup competitions, let alone the theme of the game being gun racing and ball, even if it was not, the game manufacturers would try their best to rely on this aspect, but this time... there is no way to rely on it!

Isn’t this just killing people?

The contestants, especially those who were running with them, had mixed feelings when they heard this. They could only hope that the game theme selected in the pre-match theme blind selection event would not be too biased.

"Okay, now we're going to shake our blind box!"

The host started the device, and the big screen also showed a close-up of the blind selection box. A large number of blind selection balls in the blind selection box began to shake and make collision sounds.

In the midst of much anticipation, a blind selection ball happened to be hit and interfered with its direction, and rolled from the blind selection box to the blind selection booth. The host hurriedly asked the camera to follow him step by step, making the process of blind ball picking public.

The host came to the blind selection booth, picked up the blind selection ball, twisted it open with both hands, took out the attached note, and unfolded it towards the camera. The big screen played in real time and displayed two words——

【fear】

When the participating manufacturers saw this, they immediately made a rustling sound.

Horror game?

This topic is really confusing.

You said it is niche, right?

There is really no shortage of horror games in the gaming industry. There are even several game manufacturers in Wanwan Club, which started out by making horror games.

You'd say it's popular, right?

Horror games have never been a mainstream game in this world, and many game manufacturers have never even dabbled in horror games.

Because in the final analysis, horror games are based on the theme of creating various terrifying and disgusting monsters. They work hard on visual effects and use the player's vision as a breakthrough to deliberately create a [disgusting] and [bloody] horror adventure world waiting for players. explore.

Generally speaking, it is a kind of "super-realistic visual performance" with "strong sense of impact". As long as the game's atmospheric visual impact is good, there will always be an audience.

But the problem is that for games of the same type, as long as players adapt after the first contact, the impact of similar works on players will decrease. If subsequent horror games want to be successful, they can only further raise players' horror threshold.

As a result, the difficulty of making horror games has gradually increased, until now the horror genre is even known as a graveyard for newcomers.

Except for a few game companies, other game manufacturers have abandoned this track and switched to other tracks.

Especially in recent years, the emergence of Cai Gou, a pioneering monster, has led to the emergence of many new blue ocean tracks in the game market, and the horror game market has further shrunk.

Everyone never expected that in this year’s Journey Cup pre-match theme blind selection event, the final game theme would be a horror theme that has long since faded away.

Every game manufacturer has its own troubles!

After the media reporters at the scene took pictures of the historic moment, they then turned their cameras to the players' seats and took close-ups of the players' facial expressions.

Most of the players had expressionless faces, and a few had frowns. Only Cai Gou looked calm.

In the live broadcast room, the barrage scrolled wildly.

"No, I don't even watch horror movies, you give me a whole horror game?"

"It's broken, the old thief's Taipingdao has never made a horror game!"

"Upstairs, instead of worrying about the old thief, why not worry about yourself!"

"That is to say, in the game field that the old thief has not dabbled in, how many games are made for the first time and become popular all over the Internet?"

"When I thought about it, the old thief got a horror theme and combined it with the hard-core and real features of Taipingdao. How scary is the horror game? How scary is the experience and immersion?"

"It's bad, my palms are sweating now. What the hell?"

"Gan, the horror game party is ecstatic! Our horror game is finally going to stand up!"

Players had different reactions, players had different reactions, so much so that no one cared at all about the follow-up finishing session of the pre-match themed blind selection event.

It wasn't until the host announced that the pre-match theme blind selection event for this year's Journey Cup was over that everyone came back to their senses.

It was not until many years later that the entire gaming circle started a trend of Yellow Turban Army Histories.

When history turned this page, players suddenly realized that the Journey Cup was the first year of the revival of horror games.

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