Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 3 "Summoning the Dragon"

"Ah~" Zhao Hao yawned and said feebly, "Why is this process so long?"

Liu Wei chuckled and said nothing.

Is this too long?

That is, the opening speech, the introduction of the judges, the introduction of the rules, the speeches of the judges...

You don't know what torture is until you go to work, especially at the New Year's party.

It's smelly and long. After a group of leaders finished speaking, the hot dishes turned into cold dishes, and the New Year's Eve dinner turned into a late-night snack.

……

"Weier, let's start."

Zhao Hao pushed the sleepy Liu Wei and said excitedly.

Liu Wei opened his hazy eyes and looked around subconsciously. He found that most of the people were similar to himself, looking like they had just woken up.

On the stage, the host with light makeup seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief. After all, who was it? When they saw that he was hosting, everyone in the audience was drowsy and anxious.

But she can't help it, after all, this is a necessary process of the school.

Fortunately, everything is over now, and her voice as crisp as an oriole sounded:

"Now please go to the school's official website, find the 'Campus Outstanding Game Competition' interface, and click to enter."

"All the games for this competition have been loaded into the interface, and students can run them directly without downloading."

"However, please pay attention, students." The host changed his tone and emphasized: "Each person only has the right to vote once."

"This contest is limited to one hour. If you do not cast your precious vote before the end of the contest, the vote will be invalid."

"Each judge teacher has the equivalent of one hundred votes and will cast a valuable vote at the end."

“Meanwhile, the big screen behind us will be showing the most popular games of the moment in real time.”

"Then, the competition begins now!"

As the host's voice fell, everyone happily opened their mobile phones and began to enter the game experience.

Occasionally, Liu Wei saw some classmates holding their mobile phones and showing them around. It was probably his entry, and he wanted to get his classmates to vote for him.

However, the championship is basically determined by default... Liu Wei immediately understood this after reading the rules.

At first glance, this is a very reasonable rule.

There are 459 students participating in the selection, each with one vote.

There are three judges and teachers, with a total of 759 votes.

Ordinary students have the big ticket type, and the teacher who is the judge has the small ticket type.

As long as a certain game is particularly good and can get votes from all the students, even the judges cannot influence the result.

But in fact, not to mention that everyone is a group of college students who have not graduated yet, and they are not even the lowest D-level designers.

In terms of game types alone, some people like turn-based games, some people like real-time games, some people like fighting games where macho men fight passionately, and some people like sweet love otome games.

The gender ratio of everyone present was almost one to one, and the votes were divided naturally. As long as the default champion can get 100 votes, the champion can basically be stabilized.

But this has nothing to do with Liu Wei.

He is not aiming for the championship, his goal is everyone's emotional value.

To be honest, if this championship is given to Liu Wei, Liu Wei is not even willing to take it!

……

In the multimedia classroom, Chen Yaohui, with messy hair, thin body and dark circles under his eyes, stretched before picking up his mobile phone and starting the game.

He is a veteran Internet addict, dabbling in various games, hanging out in Internet cafes all the year round, known as 'Brother Ashes' by people in the world.

Because he skipped classes all year round and went online, his credits had reached a precarious level.

It is precisely because of this that he has no choice but to participate in this competition selection event, otherwise he will lose his diploma!

However, he obviously looked down upon this kind of competition. If a game made by a group of college students was not fun, it would be better to grind a few copies and earn money by playing gold.

So Chen Yaohui just did a simple search and found his target.

A game only 18m in size.To vote, you must first try the game.

Although people can now play games directly without downloading them, the smaller the memory, the shorter the online loading time.

In order to vote as quickly as possible, Chen Yaohui chose the game with the smallest content.

""Summon the Dragon", the name is quite interesting, but I don't know what the content is like?"

Chen Yaohui clicked on the icon and entered the game.

He was a little unimpressed at first, after all, what good games can college students make, but when he entered the game, he was shocked!
A 'comma' floats in the blue pond, which is like a blue plastic bag, stretching to the extreme.

There are not even basic water ripples!

The tadpole is more like a map, suspended in the middle of the pond.

With such a rudimentary game screen, is it definitely a work in 2022?

Chen Yaohui even quit the game and took a closer look to make sure it was not a nostalgic game show.

I don’t know what his mentality is, but Chen Yaohui returned to the game.

Probably wanting to see how rubbish the game with this image quality is, Chen Yaohui entered the game.

The gameplay of the game is very simple. You can control the character to swim by dragging with your finger. If you touch it, it will be swallowed automatically.

Chen Yaohui dragged his fingers to control the tadpoles to swim in the pond, constantly devouring other tadpoles, and gradually evolved.

A tadpole with a comma, a frog with a skinny body and huge limbs, a dull turtle, a carp with a heavy head and a light tail, a goldfish with protruding eyes...

Needless to say, these creatures look weird at first glance, but once you get used to them, they have a mysterious beauty.

Although the gameplay is simple, Chen Yaohui feels that this game is not so boring because of the 'Picture Book Achievements' that pop up from time to time. Instead, it gives him the joy of achieving achievements.

Chen Yaohui was sliding his fingers, controlling the big goldfish with protruding eyes to swim unscrupulously in the pond, devouring the surrounding small creatures.

Suddenly, a purple electric eel appeared on the screen. Chen Yaohui dodged without haste and bumped into it.

Boo!Boo!
With several sounds of bubbles bursting, the big goldfish with protruding eyes instantly turned into white mist and disappeared.

Chen Yaohui slowly typed a question mark.

What just happened?
It seemed like something purple swam past...

Wait, isn’t this a collection and decompression casual game?
Chen Yaohui was stunned for a few seconds.

He was indeed playing cautiously at first, but slowly, he discovered that the game was very simple.

Only creatures of the same level or lower level will appear.

So he subconsciously relaxed his vigilance, thinking that this is a casual game for collecting and decompression.

Unexpectedly, he had just evolved into a goldfish and was letting himself go when a purple old man suddenly appeared.

Just let yourself go back to before liberation.

Looking at [game over] on the screen, Chen Yaohui could now choose to vote to end this boring competition.

But suddenly, he didn't really want to end the game.

Come again!

He clicked on the screen, started again, started from a 'comma' again, and embarked on the road of revenge.

But this game seemed to be poisonous. Chen Yaohui had just evolved into a big-eyed goldfish when several purple electric eels appeared around him. Without warning, he bumped into them again.

"I knock Nima!"

Chen Yaohui was not convinced. After all, he was also a veteran player of major games and was proficient in various games.

From turn-based games to real-time strategy games, from fighting games to shooting games, and even clothes-changing games.

But today, he fell to this game with only 18m twice in a row.

He refuses to accept it and wants to come again!

restart! ! !
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I beg you for recommendations, collections, and readings. The cute new author is begging for all kinds of things!
It should be updated twice every day, one chapter at 12 o'clock and one chapter at [-] p.m.

(End of this chapter)