deltrittennovels #176 - Action Game Development Competition (Please Order)
#176 - Action Game Development Competition (Please Order)
"What the heck is this Tianzun Cup?" Lu Yu frowned, wanting to decline.
Lin Ying explained:
"President Lu, the 'Tianzun Cup' is one of the most prestigious action game development competitions in our country.
Looking at the names of its governing bodies, you'll know that this competition has official support and endorsement.
And its organizer, the China Electronic Sports Association, is also a very long-standing industry association.
The members of this association are all manufacturers who have achieved considerable success in the field of e-sports games.
Their games include Heroic League, Honor of Kings, CS:GO, APEX Legends, and so on...
This alliance has a very high threshold for entry, but once you join the alliance, our games can open the door to e-sports events and even be selected for the Asian Games.
Moreover, the name of this competition originates from the co-organizer Capcom, known in the game industry as the Action Tianzun(动作天尊: Action God)..."
Lu Yu yawned, losing interest.
E-sports events?
Sounds like a lot of trouble, and might drag the company into an even deeper involution(内卷: internal competition) hell.
But Liu Mengyuan beside him looked very interested, prompting Lin Ying to continue explaining the competition rules.
"This development carnival doesn't focus on the game's commercial success, but rather on scoring by professional judges and a jury of veteran players.
Participating companies will submit their developed games to the judges for evaluation, and then the judges and player jury will vote.
The voting weight ratio between professional judges and the jury of veteran players is 10:1.
The winner in the voting process will win directly."
Lu Yu clicked his tongue, sounding a bit like a cooking competition.
Liu Mengyuan continued to ask: "If we participate in this competition, what benefits can we get?"
"The winning game will receive a large promotion for two consecutive weeks on the game platforms and official homepages of all member companies under the alliance.
Furthermore, the game can permanently use the title 'Annual Action Tianzun(年度动作天尊: Annual Action God)' on all promotional pages."
Lu Yu glanced at the list of alliance members: Tenghui, Youyi, Alibaba, Beautiful World, Shengju Network, Nanshanju...
Basically, it covers most of the benchmark enterprises in the industry.
Being able to get half a month of continuous recommendation from these companies is indeed a very attractive reward, which would be an astronomical figure if converted into advertising costs.
"It seems that this award is a big investment," Lu Yu exclaimed.
Lin Ying explained:
"Because our country started late in the field of action games and has few achievements, there are very few e-sports events for action games. This is a blue ocean market that urgently needs to be developed.
So the e-sports alliance seems to be intentionally supporting action games."
Just as everyone was marveling at the rewards, Lu Yu calmly asked the technical director, Chu Xiong:
"Given the current technical level of our Peach Garden Township(桃源乡: Taoyuan Township), what are our chances of winning the competition?"
Chu Xiong, holding his fat chin, told the truth:
"Brother Lu, the development of action games pays great attention to various details.
First of all, there's the physics engine. The physical movement of characters and the environment needs to be very accurate.
Secondly, the character's actions must be natural and smooth, avoiding stiffness and frame drops. The player's input must be reflected very promptly through action feedback, which is why many companies use motion capture technology.
The above two items greatly affect the so-called 'feel'.
And when a character is hit, there also needs to be obvious special effects, actions, and sound effects feedback, which is the 'sense of impact'.
The sense of impact and feel are two very difficult problems to overcome in action game development. Any small difference in details can lead to vastly different final results."
After listening to Chu Xiong's analysis, the employees retreated again.
That's right, if action games were so easy to make, how could the domestic action field still be barren after so many years.
Seeing everyone's reluctance, Lu Yu nodded with satisfaction: "It seems that it is indeed not advisable for us to participate."
That's right, why participate in any competition? It's better to lie down and make money!
However, at that moment, Lu Yu glanced at the list of registered participants attached at the bottom of the email, and a company appeared prominently—
Mileyou!
Participating project: Next-generation action mobile game 'Honkai 3'.
Lu Yu's eyes lit up.
Lin Ying sighed: "I'll reply to the organizing committee right away and say we decline..."
"No, on the contrary, we must participate!"
Lu Yu raised his hand directly to interrupt, startling everyone.
Everyone was full of questions, why did President Lu speak with such a twist?
The reason why Lu Yu changed his mind was because he felt that the reason why this group of little involution(卷: compete fiercely) kings in the company were getting more and more energetic was because they had received all positive feedback from the previous game project developments!
Peach Garden Township(桃源乡: Taoyuan Township) has come all the way here, it's like opening a cheat, making a game and setting it on fire, it's no wonder these guys are not inflated.
In the previous rounds, the projects of the competitors were either copied by Sharingan(写轮眼: Copy Ninja's eye from Naruto) or plagiarized by planning proposals. It can't be said that they are scum, but it can be said that they are a bunch of chickens.
But Mileyou is different, that is the overlord who will sweep the two-dimensional mobile game field in the future.
Especially the action game category, which is Mileyou's old business.
Two-dimensional, beautiful girls, action games, buff stacked, Mileyou has a huge competitive advantage in this track.
If Peach Garden Township(桃源乡: Taoyuan Township) signs up to participate and compete with Mileyou on the same stage, then there is a high probability that they will be beaten violently.
To put it bluntly, he wants to use Mileyou's strength to make his subordinates give up involution(内卷: internal competition), relax and enjoy life.
Moreover, this round of the cycle has a system task to develop a beautiful girl action mobile game, killing two birds with one stone, beautiful!
...
After President Lu decided to sign up for the competition, everyone was quite puzzled and @Liu Mengyuan in the development group:
"President Liu, what is President Lu singing, we are not familiar with the field of action games at all, isn't this a beatdown?"
Liu Mengyuan sent a mysterious smile and said:
"Analyzing President Lu's behavior, you must not only look at the surface, don't forget, he is an old layered cake(老千层饼: someone with many layers of thoughts).
Think about it, why did President Lu push all the small cooperation invitations without thinking before?
This shows that he has been waiting for the Tianzun(天尊: God) Cup invitation email.
And why did he deliberately emphasize the development difficulty of action games and make a gesture of refusing?
That's because he hopes to see us not afraid of difficulties and take the initiative to ask for orders.
As a result, we disappointed him, but he is still unwilling to give up this opportunity to train us, so he accepted the invitation."
Everyone suddenly felt ashamed and moved, and regained confidence.
"So that's it, I said, President Lu can't possibly deliberately let us do a job that we can't do and hit our fighting spirit and enthusiasm, I'm so superficial!"
"In this case, we can only continue to work harder to repay President Lu's expectations."
"That's right, what about Mileyou? Watch Laozi(劳资: I) roll them to death!"
...
Tuesday.
Li Hongmei came to Lu Yu's work station with a pile of resumes.
"President Lu, our recruitment process has come to an end, and each project team has recruited enough candidates. These are the candidates' resumes, please take a look..."
Lu Yu glanced at it casually, then waved his hand: "You can take care of it."
Li Hongmei hesitated: "President Lu, there are no major problems with other candidates, but one candidate's resume is too strange, which makes people have to suspect her mental state, please decide."
Lu Yu took the resume and saw a strange girl in the photo.
She has black twin ponytails, wears devil hair hoops with pointed corners on her head, one eye wears blue cosmetic contact lenses, and the other eye is covered by a black eye mask.
She wears darkLolita clothing with magic symbols printed on it, and wears various strange skull rings on her hands.
The girl's eyes have a kind of insight into everything, evil charm smile.
Lu Yu looked at the information:
Name: Wan Xiaotong
Birthplace: Phantom Glass Realm(幻璃界: Huanli World)
Character title: Dark Fallen Demon Princess
Professional skills:
[Extreme Absolute Zero]
[Absolute Sky Dragon Flash]
[Dark Destruction Death Light]
Character motto:
"Explode, reality!"
"Crush, spirit!"
"Banish, this world!"
...
Lu Yu read with cold sweat.
What Takanashi Rikka(小鸟游六花: Chuunibyou character).