Game Development Giant

Mars Entertainment has done this kind of activity before.

So players are more familiar with it.

Being able to get an opportunity to visit Mars Entertainment is very attractive to many people, not to mention that this time you can also personally participate in the development of Jester's game - for someone who loves Mars Entertainment and Jester For players of special games, this is simply a dream come true.

Therefore, people's participation is quite enthusiastic.

Jester himself took the time to take a look and found that many of the players' ideas were too unreliable, and he could only smile bitterly about this.

However, he did see a few good ideas in the players' responses, but he read them quickly and did not read them carefully. These responses will be sorted by specialized people.

In fact, many people have already speculated about the GDC awards this time. The level of "Xia Xia" completely crushes other games. Even those games released by Mars Entertainment at the same time cannot compete with this game for the place of game of the year. This is also This is the second time that Jester has won this award, and of course, this is also the first game that Jester has produced since the last time he won this award.

It can be said that there is no false alarm.

GDC's annual conference and awards gala are held at the Art Gallery of Chicago.

In addition, the awards ceremony is also broadcast live on TV. In recent years, the GDC awards ceremony has been broadcast live on TV, and the ratings are getting higher and higher, so the price of the broadcast is relatively easy to negotiate.

However, this year's selection may be the least suspenseful after the first one. In the first year, Jester's RPG game "Foreign Land Requiem", which is called a work of art, was also selected with an undisputed number of votes. The competition for the best game of the year has been fierce in the following years. Several games compete every year. No one dares to say who will win the award until the final awards moment.

Moreover, the annual VGA awards established by the game media seem to like to compete with the GDC selection. Generally speaking, as long as a game wins a GDC award, it is basically impossible to win another VGA award. "Foreign Town" The year when "Soul Song" won the GDC Award of the Year. Because the VGA selection has not yet started, the game that had the best hope of winning both annual awards unfortunately had to win only the GDC Game of the Year Award.

the second year. When VGA's selection began, their reputation was definitely not as good as that of GDC. After all, GDC was endorsed by the World Electronic Games Association, and it was also a selection of game developers, so its authority would naturally be higher. Moreover, they are more interested in the quality, creativity, etc. of the game itself, and VGA is mainly selected by the major media. He mainly makes selections based on the status of the game in the minds of players.

This does not mean that the two are incompatible.

But under the circumstances at that time, in order to narrow the reputation gap with GDC as soon as possible, VGA deliberately adopted the strategy of announcing the same game as GDC as the game of the year to attract the attention of players.

In fact, there are basically several games in a year that are eligible to win the game of the year. It is very reasonable for GDC to choose one of them, and VGA to choose the other one. Even in the world before Jester's time travel, the selection of VGA and GDC was the same as the market. These two awards rarely go to the same person. Game of the Year honors.

For example, GTA5 swept the entire army back then, and VGA deservedly gave it the Game of the Year award. However, there were two other outstanding games that year, and that was "The Last of Us." Also called "The Last of Us", this game was finally awarded GDC's Game of the Year.

This selection method is also reasonable in the eyes of players.

Whether it's GTA5 or "American Daily". They all deserve the honor of Game of the Year.

However, now VGA's influence among the player community, after several years of development, coupled with the full promotion of major media, is actually not inferior to GDC in terms of influence, so. Basically, whether it is the prediction of GDC awards or the prediction of VGA awards, it is one-sided that "The Hero" will win the award in the end. Of course, this is what it should be.

Because this game is great in every aspect.

Whether it is technology, system, inspiration for game designers, or the development of the entire game, it is completely beyond other games by more than one level.

Even if such a game appeared in the first year of VGA's founding, even if VGA wanted to attract attention by being different from GDC's selection, they would have to put their idea into the second year. Because the game "Gallant" was recognized by everyone as the game of the year, just like IGN and GS later selected the 100 greatest games.

Among the top ten, there must be Super Horse, there must be Zelda, and there must be Super Metroid.

Because these games have such a huge impact on the entire history of gaming, and their status in the minds of players is so deeply ingrained that there is no way to shake it.

If you don't choose these, it means your selection lacks fairness.

A selection that lacks fairness is still a new selection. There is an award that is very authoritative in the minds of players compared with you. If your choice is different from the authoritative and different from the players' ideas, then I'm sure players will give you a definition.

Not authoritative.

If an award has such a definition, then no player will care about your selection.

Just like the ratings of games, whether it is media such as game publications or game websites, if you are not authoritative, your ratings will never be used as a reference when players discuss the game.

It's like when players say how good a game is, they usually talk about IGN's rating, GS's rating, and FAMI's rating, but they never talk about the rating of Youxia.com, the rating of Nomad Star, or the rating of 17173. Same.

The awards ceremony started at half o'clock in the evening. There would be a speech for almost half an hour before. This time the speaker was Shigeru Miyamoto. He originally wanted to ask Jester to talk about his creative process for "The Hero". Some thoughts, but were rejected by Jester. (~^~)