Game Design: Is that okay, CaiGou?

Chapter 321: Horror Game + Sense of Unity? Old Thief, Be a Human Being (Subscribe)
Three days passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye it was the day of the Journey Cup opening ceremony.

In this Journey Cup competition, a total of 108 game manufacturers received invitations to participate in this feast.

They are the game manufacturers that have joined the 10 million yuan club in the past six years, with a total of 72 players.

In addition, according to the rules of the game, thirty-six players will be selected from the ten million clubs in the first three editions of the Journey Cup, for a total of one hundred and eight scheduled participating manufacturers.

The Travel Cup offline game exhibition hall is held in Liangshan, which is built on the mountain. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there are 108 offline game exhibition halls, named after the nicknames of the 108 generals in Water Margin.

Based on the comprehensive performance of reputation, qualifications, sales volume and other data, the higher the ranking of a game manufacturer, the better the location of its offline game exhibition hall.

In this Journey Cup competition, among the 108 participating companies, the one with the best overall performance is undoubtedly Taipingdao Games.

Therefore, Taiping Dao not only ranked among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, but also became the leader of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, occupying the offline game exhibition hall on the top of the mountain with the best location for this competition. This exhibition hall was named - [Hu Baoyi].

During this period, each contestant set up his or her own game exhibition hall, each showing off their own unique skills.

In terms of hardware such as gaming equipment, from virtual helmets to high-end computers, from virtual gaming cabins to keyboards and mice, each company has prepared everything.

Not only are all the gaming equipments prepared, but each gaming manufacturer has also produced a number of gaming peripherals based on the characteristics of their own games as gifts for visiting tourists and players.

Well-known industry self-media such as Game Events, Game Storm, and Game Chronicles also came to the scene in advance with their teams and cameras to conduct pre-match interviews.

As a rising star in the gaming circle, Chu Yun also brought the team of the Game Boiling Point Channel to Liangshan two days in advance, and is currently strolling around the peripheral activity site at the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, Chu Yun’s mind was full of thoughts on how to conduct high-quality street interviews during the pre-match interview session.

Just when he was wandering on the street without a good idea, the cameraman's eyes suddenly lit up and said to Chu Yun:
"Brother Chu, look over there!"

Chu Yun followed his gaze and found that a large number of game anchor teams including Teacher Ma, Teacher Piao, Boss Yin, Liuliu, Zhuangzhuang, Xudi, Wuwo, Qiezi, Bo Shen and others appeared on the street, forming a tour group of anchors.

The number of people and the luxurious lineup are rare.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. After all, no matter how famous these game anchors are, they still make a living by playing games. Nowadays, the most popular festival in the gaming circle is undoubtedly the Journey Cup. As game anchors, how can they not take advantage of this popularity?

In the circle of anchors, it is a very prestigious thing to get an invitation to the Journey Cup based on one's status in the gaming circle.

Even small second- or third-tier anchors will try every means to buy a ticket for an ordinary tourist and get the opportunity to enter the offline exhibition hall of the Travel Cup, just to conduct outdoor live broadcasts in this competition and gain a large amount of traffic exposure.

Chu Yun's eyes lit up, and he quickly picked up the microphone, walked up to the crowd, and said:

"Hello, teachers. I am Chu Yun from the Game Boiling Point channel. Do you have time to accept our channel's street interview?"

Chu Yun's Game Boiling Point channel has been very successful in the gaming circle in the past two years. Even if no one knows who his father is, Chu Yun can hold his head high in the gaming circle just by relying on the four words "Game Boiling Point".

The anchors like Mr. Ma came to the offline exhibition hall of the Travel Cup this time for traffic and popularity. How could they miss the popularity that was delivered to their doorstep? They all agreed immediately.

"Brother Chu, right? I've heard a lot about you. Street interview? No problem, just ask!"

"Yeah, we don't have anything to do anyway."

"Ya'er? How can you be alright? The admission time is in another hour."

"Oh, how much time can be wasted on a street interview?"

The anchor was quite talkative, so Chu Yun took the opportunity to get straight to the point in the interview. He handed the microphone to Teacher Ma and asked:
"Teacher Ma, which game company's game are you most looking forward to in this Journey Cup competition?"

Teacher Ma smiled seriously and said, "My dear young comrade, the question you asked is not of high standard. Of course, we are here for the game of Taipingdao."

Chu Yun smiled and then handed the microphone to Teacher Piao and asked, "Teacher Piao, what do you think of the game theme of this Journey Cup?"

Teacher Piao continued, "Although Qiezi and I don't like playing horror games, we are game anchors after all. We have played a lot of horror games, but after playing a lot, we found that horror games only have the same three tricks, and they are the same no matter how you play them."

Eggplant continued, "But who says this journey cup is horror-themed? I believe I have the courage to play other horror games, but I am a little scared of the horror game that Taipingdao is about to release, because I believe that General Tiangong will give us some surprises."

Chu Yun nodded repeatedly upon hearing this, and then asked each of the other anchors present a question, allowing the cameraman to shoot enough video time.

He has already thought of a name for this street interview——

[The anchor team bravely enters the Journey Cup, who will win the horror game?]

After more than half an hour, the interview ended.

Chu Yun followed the host team, checked his ticket and entered the large square at the foot of Liangshan Mountain, ready to welcome the upcoming opening ceremony.

It's ten o'clock in the morning.

The square was packed with people and every seat was occupied.

By the time Chu Yun arrived at a position close to the stage, several other gaming self-media had already set up their cameras and were ready to shoot.

Many anchors directly started the outdoor live broadcast mode so that the viewers who were unable to come could watch the opening ceremony first.

"Airborne successfully!"

"Wow, wow, wow, the people of Liangshan didn't see the competition being held in their own home, they are so angry!"

"This year's Journey Cup is well organized. There are 108 Liangshan heroes, and there are 108 offline game exhibition halls in the Journey Cup. It all matches up, hehe!"

"Newbie, please tell me, which exhibition hall are Taipingdao and Laozei in?"

"Of course it's in the Hu Baoyi exhibition hall. There's no doubt about it."

“I am a serious horror game player and look forward to the horror games that Lao Zei will bring.”

“Wow, why are the games for the Journey Cup not available until three days later? I can only watch you play for these three days? That’s not fair!”

In the live broadcast rooms of major anchors, viewers chattered and vented their excitement and happiness.

The handsome host, wearing a neat suit and shiny leather shoes, walked to the center of the magnificently decorated stage, raised the microphone and said solemnly:

"Dear contestants, journalists, audience, and players in the live broadcast room, welcome to the opening ceremony of this year's Journey Cup."

The host announced the official start of the opening ceremony.

"Bang! Bang! Bang -"

The fireworks behind the stage were lit and exploded in the sky at an extremely fast speed, scattering many different patterns.

"boom--"

"Crash!"

The opening ceremony was filled with noise and the audience clapped excitedly, their palms almost turned red, and the applause resounded through the sky.

The host then introduced the rules of this Journey Cup competition.

During the 15-day competition, each contestant must submit a horror game based on the horror theme determined by the pre-game blind audition. The Journey Cup participating games will only be available for preview at the Journey Cup site for the first three days.

In the next twelve days, the participating games will be simultaneously logged into the event areas of major game platforms.

Players can place orders as usual to purchase the experience and obtain voting qualifications to vote and rate their favorite games.

On the tenth day of the Journey Cup, each participating manufacturer can update the game, hold new events, or release new DLC, but such operations can only be performed once during the competition.

The judges will score based on comprehensive data such as game response, game quality, game innovation, and player voting.

Finally, the judging panel selected the special prize of this year's Travel Cup, as well as the first, second, third and best prize winners, and provided a series of financial and publicity support to these winners.

This is because the quality of the games in the Journey Cup is very high every year, coupled with the playability and innovative innovations.

After each Journey Cup competition, a trend will be set off in the gaming circle that will last for one to several years.

After the Journey Cup this year, because of the horror game theme, both players and game manufacturers understand that horror games will dominate the gaming industry in the next few years.

Whoever can make a splash and win the first place in this Journey Cup will have a greater advantage in the gaming industry in the next few years.

The host introduced the competition rules of the Journey Cup in detail.

Representatives from Liangshan's official departments, representatives from the Travel Cup organizer, representatives from the Cultural and Entertainment Bureau's Game Office, and representatives from the gaming industry took the stage to deliver speeches.

The continuous and lengthy speeches by the representatives of various companies seemed to make the audience and netizens drowsy.

Not many people will really listen carefully, but the process must be followed.

But gradually, even the usually slow-witted netizens noticed something was wrong.

Because until the host came on stage again and announced the end of the representatives' speeches, no one saw Cai Gou.

At such a grand opening ceremony of the Journey Cup, General Tiangong, who is the leader in the gaming circle, didn’t even have the opportunity to speak on stage as a representative of the gaming industry?
Isn't this unreasonable?
The host understood everyone's confusion and said with a smile: "I understand your confusion. Are you looking for General Tiangong?"

"I'm sorry, General Tiangong is not on the list of candidates for this speech... because the Journey Cup organized a press conference specifically for General Tiangong."

What? A press conference?
Holding a press conference at the opening ceremony?
What kind of magical operation is this?
"As for the secret of this press conference and why it was held at the opening ceremony, I think you will get the answer soon." The host said with a smile:

"At the same time, I would like to congratulate myself and every audience member present here, because we are about to witness history. Now let us hand over the stage to General Tian Gong and welcome him with the warmest applause!"

As the words fell, accompanied by applause, a line of large words appeared on the big screen behind the stage -

[Beacon Fire No. 3 Virtual Game Cabin Launch Conference]

Beacon-3?

Virtual helmet?

Teacher Ma thought of something, clenched his fist, and excitedly said to the anchors beside him:
"I seem to understand!"

"The old thief said that Jiegan No. 2 is just an experimental product of Taipingdao in terms of somatosensory gaming equipment."

"What Taipingdao is really going to do is a gaming cabin that includes the sense of pain. Could it be this? Fenghuo No. 3?"

The other anchors gasped when they heard this.

If this is true, then it’s a good idea to come to the Journey Cup this time.

This is definitely a landmark conference in the history of gaming.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of people, Cai Gou walked onto the stage with steady steps.

Today he wore a light blue shirt on the upper body and white shorts on the lower body. The overall style seemed relatively casual. While he was full of youthfulness, he also showed his strong aura.

Cai Gou looked around, with a smile on his face, and said, "Welcome everyone to my special show!"

Cai Gou talked about the origin of this press conference and the strong support from Zhao Guang and the organizers of the Travel Cup.

Then he got to the point. The Beacon-3 series includes two major categories, holistic gaming helmets and holistic gaming cabins.

Relatively speaking, due to equipment issues, gaming helmets can only achieve a 50% overall sense of experience, while a holistic gaming cabin can achieve a maximum 99% overall sense of experience.

These two major categories each have different models, each achieving the ultimate in a certain physical sensation, and the price will be relatively affordable.

High-end luxury gaming cabins can take every physical sensation to the extreme, so naturally the price will be much more expensive.

With the help of Fenghuo-3, players can experience the whole sense of pain, taste, hearing, touch, vision and smell in the game, which is undoubtedly a landmark product in the game industry.

The press conference lasted for a full hour, during which Cai Gou introduced the various data of Fenghuo-3 in detail.

The scene was in complete silence, with everyone shocked by Cai Gou's generosity.

The number of online users in the official live broadcast room of the Journey Cup and the live broadcast rooms of major anchors has reached new highs.

However, there were only a few comments, because General Tiangong's speech was too eye-opening.

Players originally thought that the holistic gaming cabin was a series that would only be released in their lifetime, but who could have imagined that it would be announced so suddenly.

After Cai Gou introduced the various functions of Fenghuo-3, he smiled and said:
"Beacon-3 is also our biggest trump card in this Journey Cup. I believe that when players get a sense of synchronicity in the game, a lot of interesting things will happen."

At this point, Cai Gou winked at everyone and smiled meaningfully, "I think it's even more interesting when the game that players get to experience as a whole is a horror game."

After the words fell, the whole audience fell into silence.
After a long time, the host came on stage and announced the end of the opening ceremony, and everyone finally reacted.

The applause instantly flooded the venue like a tsunami.

"Ward! De! Fa! Old thief, are you serious? No? Such a big deal? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"A sense of unity? Wow, I still can't believe this is real."

"Horror game plus sense of community? Be a human being, old thief."

"A sense of unity? Hey, do you think it's possible..."

"What's upstairs?"

"I haven't said what yet?"

"We are all old perverts, who doesn't know who? Come on!"

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