Reborn Game Pioneer

Chapter 123 The winter game ends

When the WCS news was announced, it was only two or three days before the auditions. During these two or three days, the discussion of the StarCraft WCS World Championship has remained high around the world.

As the saying goes, there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts. As a highly competitive competitive game, whoever has some strength doesn't want to become the first world champion in the gaming industry in history?

No matter what game, as long as there is a ranking mechanism, anyone who can become one of the few players at the top of the pyramid of the game, in addition to having good game talent, must have a desire to win that is far better than ordinary players.

For a time, major servers in the interstellar world are competing to usher in a new round of ladder craze. Those who have reached the entry requirements hope to further hone their skills. Those who have not yet reached the entry requirements, especially those who are just a little bit outside the entry threshold. , even more desperately trying to squeeze in.

High-level players who usually take a while to find their opponents can basically find their opponents within 5 seconds these two days.

After all, it is a working day, and some players may have to go to class or go to work during the day. At night, the bloodiness and intensity of the ladder will be even higher.

The masters at the top of the ladder have all become cautious recently. Those who had previously disclosed their battle records quietly changed their settings to hide their battle records, and everyone even turned on the switch to refuse to watch the battle.

RTS Half the Sky is still active, and friends who usually laugh and joke become shadow emperors. From time to time, they will make tricks in their words, trying to get the tactical information of the good brothers.

They all know it in their hearts. Not counting the foreign masters, these people in the group are their biggest competitors on the road to winning the championship. Let alone sharing tactics, LYBs can't wait to prepare a few more targeted tactics to lift their good brothers away.

In the past, Nie Tian, ​​who used to go to the Chuxin experience store every day to check in at work, was never absent. Recently, he stopped going to the store. After all, there are so many people in the store. Zai secretly leaked his carefully prepared tactics?
Recently, the domestic game circle seems to have become a special event for original intentions. The continued popularity of WCS will last at least until after the finals. No matter how long the post-game popularity will last after the finals, it will only last until the finals are over. The finals will be at least a month and a half later.

The reason why the game circle has become a special event for the original intention is because on the morning of the opening of the WCS auditions, the third winter game also ended the night before, and the post-game summary was released at this time.

The final votes for "Machinarium" were 210 million, overwhelming No. 50 with an absolute vote advantage of nearly 2 to win the championship of this winter game.

No. 2 was not Wang Chen's "Hidden Object Detective". "Hidden Object Detective" ultimately lost to "Escape" developed by an independent game studio with 157 million votes.

"Escape", like "Hidden Object Detective", lagged far behind the major well-known manufacturers in the early stage without being famous. In the mid-term, it relied on the quality of the game itself to pass all the way and reach the top of the rankings.

The difference in the number of votes between the two games in the following days was quite small. As the number of votes increased, the rankings of the two games also changed again and again.

It can only be said that Wang Chen's luck was still lacking a little bit, and he unfortunately got a third place.

However, they have also played the game "Escape". It can only be said that it is a masterpiece with a score of 9 or above. The gameplay is really interesting, and the puzzles that are interspersed between multiple scenes are often amazing. the design of.

Gu Feng naturally also played this game. It can be said that "Escape from the Sky" brought him no less surprise than "The Detective".

If "Hidden Object Detective" has gone the way of "Dream Detective" in the previous life, it has successfully opened up the hidden object gameplay in this world.

Then "Escape" is very similar to the previous "Escape Room" series, fully demonstrating the characteristics of games such as escape rooms that seem to alternately increase the exploration progress of multiple scenes, but in fact the overall exploration process advances linearly.

The general game plot of "Escape from Birth" is very simple. The protagonist controlled by the player is captured by a perverted murderer. The place where the protagonist is imprisoned is an abandoned residential building. Behind the room, there are two locked doors in the corridor.

What makes people even more desperate is that this perverted murderer doesn't know if he is also cautious to the extent of being perverted. These locked doors are either combination locks, machine locks, or locks with keys that have been lost somewhere.

In short, what the player has to do is to search for some useful things or information in each room, use these things or information to crack open doors, and finally escape from this abandoned residential building.

This is what escape room games are like. If you have to dig into the details, it is obviously impossible for this kind of design with a room full of messy puzzles to exist in reality. But as long as you put this aside and don't get entangled, you can step by step in this kind of secret room. The sense of accomplishment of relying on your own intelligence to solve puzzles and finally escape is extremely satisfying.

Just looking at the game "Escape from the Sky", Gu Feng thinks that it is not inferior to the average level of the escape room series and the lost island series in the previous life. This studio obviously has something going for it.

Perhaps Gu Feng used facts to prove the market potential of "niche" games. The emergence of "Escape" and "Hidden Object Detective" also proved that there is no shortage of excellent game designers in the world. They and Gu Feng It just lacks some vision, but as long as you are willing to think carefully, it is not as difficult as imagined to make excellent works recognized by players.

Longteng Huanyu and other major manufacturers made a collective overturn in this winter game. Compared with the top three results in the past two years, this year they all fell out of the top three, which shocked countless people.

However, the players and the media have no regrets about this. The public generally thinks that the result of winning the championship in the first place is a matter of course. On the contrary, two or three came from a small studio and a personal designer respectively, which surprised them.

After all, who really loves games doesn’t want this industry to flourish. Compared with the situation where major companies have not made progress in recent years and competed to fail, the emergence of Original Intention is like reinjecting new vitality into the stagnant industry ecology. Generally, independent game developers see the potential behind small-scale high-quality games.

Gu Feng was also pleased with the changes in the industry ecology. Taking advantage of this trend, he also announced an announcement.

The game designer of "Hidden Object Detective" officially joined Chuxin and became a member of the Chuxin family. The official release version of "Hidden Object Detective" will be sold on the Chuxin mobile game platform.

As soon as this news came out, players rushed to Gu Feng's Wanderer News to congratulate his original intention on conquering a general. Many players also went to the comment area of ​​"Hidden Object Detective" to congratulate the designer on finding a good master.

A group of players asked for credit in the comment area. They thought that this matter was due to their suggestions in the comment area in the past two days. Little did they know that Wang Chen had already joined Chuxin before the interview on the Sky Eagle Game Channel came out.

(End of this chapter)