Game Design: Is that okay, CaiGou?

Chapter 370: Two-Way Running: The General Does Whatever He Wants to Do (Subscription Request)
Zero o'clock arrives.

The regional competition for the Who Can Be a Multi-millionaire event has officially ended.

Over the past three months, we have relied on the outstanding performances of players in the Redstone, Animation, Architecture, and Speedrun areas.

The market share of the Tianming game platform has experienced a leapfrog growth from 30% at the beginning to 65% now.

Today, Tianming platform has already become the leading giant in the domestic gaming platform industry.

The end of the sub-competition area does not mean the end of the event, but represents the beginning of the finals.

After an all-night discussion, the jury made a comprehensive assessment based on the votes of netizens, the audience's voices, and the quality of the entries.

The judging panel finally selected the champions of the four major competition areas:

Redstone Competition Zone·Master of Mingyue Manor·Representative Work·Redstone Computer.

Anime Division·Knights of the Round Table·Representative Work·Minecraft version of The Three-Body Problem.

Architecture competition area·Steamed dumplings teaching Jiashen team·Representative work·Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Speedrunning area·Gao Tianyang·Masterpiece·Fixed seed speedrunning record 1 minute 48 seconds.

The representative works of the champion players in the four major competition areas are well-known in the gaming circle. The gold content of the championship in the sub-competition areas is also extremely high, and everyone is convinced.

Each champion player or champion team will receive a cash prize of 5 million. When the winning news is announced, the entire network will go crazy.

The four regional champions understood the principle that it is better to use the remaining courage to pursue the enemy rather than to seek fame by imitating the tyrant.

Therefore, during the three-week finals, the four champions frantically canvassed for votes for the tens of millions worth of endorsement contracts and even released additional works of their own.

When the owner of Mingyue Manor learned that redstone players particularly liked redstone computers, he opened a series of cyber courses on Bilibili specifically for the production principles of redstone computers, and invited Liuliu, a famous cyber postgraduate entrance examination teacher, to canvass votes for him.

The Knights of the Round Table understood their own strengths and produced a Minecraft version of Year Hare Affair. Once released, it directly topped the charts and became another representative work of MC anime.

The Jiashen team of the Steamed Dumpling Sect in the construction competition area was divided into two groups.

A small team learned from the owner of Mingyue Manor and was taught a series of courses on making buildings in Minecraft.

A small team gathered members of the Steamed Dumpling Cult to establish a new construction project - the Chinese Map.

Although the Jiashen team had a large number of members, so the 5 million cash prize was divided equally among everyone, which was not much, but precisely because of the large number of people, the finals had the greatest reputation.

On the contrary, Gao Tianyang is alone in the speedrunning area. Even he himself cannot break the current speedrunning record. He can only learn from others and start classes on Bilibili to teach players the things they should pay attention to when speedrunning.

Three weeks passed in the blink of an eye, and the campaign for the finals came to an end.

Due to the competition system, the champions of the four sub-regions will only know who is the overall champion after the final answer is revealed by Cai Gou at the award ceremony.

This time, the Taiping Dao invested a huge amount of money.

General Tiangong not only chose the Bird's Nest as the venue for the award ceremony.

Live streaming platforms such as Douyin and Douyu were also invited to broadcast the entire event live.

We also invited reporters from major self-media in the gaming industry to attend.

There was no shortage of contestants’ entrance, red carpet walking, autographs, photo taking, interviews, flowers, and applause.

At the same time, this awards ceremony also involves this year's surprise feedback, which is the voting for game customization rights.

Therefore, any player who has the Jiuding Badge in the Taipingdao Community APP can receive free tickets and come to the Bird's Nest to participate in the event.

Of course, although the Bird's Nest is very large and can accommodate 9.1 spectators, if the conditions are really relaxed, it may not be able to accommodate everyone.

Therefore, these free tickets will be distributed according to time periods, with 10,000 tickets distributed every hour. Players can claim them based on their speed on a first-come, first-served basis.

There are another one thousand tickets, two hundred for each of the four champion contestants, and two hundred for Taipingdao Company itself.

This event, which can be called the party of the century in the gaming circle, attracted the attention of the entire gaming circle. The four champion contestants walked across the red carpet one by one, followed by the runner-up, third place and winners of the Excellence Award in each sub-competition area.

When the event officially started, performances, lights, fireworks, and all other aspects appeared, and the players were dazzled.

After two full hours, it was finally time for the final awards ceremony.

The host shouted at the top of his voice: "Next, let's welcome General Tiangong to the stage to announce the champion of this year's Who Can Become a Millionaire event and the finals!"

There was a sudden burst of warm and prolonged applause, and at the same time shouts echoed throughout the Bird's Nest.

At first, the players shouted all sorts of things, but gradually the shouts from the entire crowd converged into one sentence:

"The blue sky is dead, the yellow sky shall be established! In the year of Jiazi, the world will be at peace!"

Cai Gou was wearing a well-tailored black suit with the collar of his jacket slightly open, revealing the collar of his white shirt and an exquisite silver tie.

Amid the players' cheers, Cai Gou walked to the center of the stage and stood still.

Cai Gou stood straight with his feet naturally apart and his left hand casually placed in the pocket of his suit pants, revealing confidence and composure.

His every move was broadcast on the big screen and was seen by nearly 100,000 people in the Bird's Nest and online viewers on major live streaming platforms.

"Hello everyone, I am General Tian Gong."

Cai Gou raised the microphone and said in a steady voice:

"After four months of competition, the Who Can Become a Multimillionaire event has finally come to an end. During these four months, I would like to thank every contestant for their efforts."

“It is because of everyone’s efforts that a large number of excellent works have emerged in the four major regions of Minecraft.”

“That’s why Minecraft has been on Weibo’s hot search list many times, appeared on the evening news, and was even collected and exhibited by the Palace Museum. It also gave birth to the current gaming culture ecosystem of Minecraft.”

“No matter how wonderful a moment is, it will eventually come to an end. However, I believe this is only the end of the event, not the end of my world charging towards the limits of human imagination and creativity.”

"At this moment, after the players' votes and the jury's strict selection, the ranking results of the finals are already in my hands!"

There were nearly 100,000 people at the scene, and you could hear a pin drop. Everyone held their breath, waiting for the final result to be revealed.

Cai Gou opened his hand card, took a look at the result, and announced loudly:

"On behalf of Taipingdao, Tianming Platform, the organizer of the Who Can Become a Multimillionaire event, I am here to announce the first Who Can Become a Multimillionaire competition."

"The winner of the fourth place trophy is from the Speedrun Division—Gao Tianyang!"

The whole audience burst into warm applause.

Gao Tianyang, who was sitting in the middle of the first row, was not very happy when he learned the result. Instead, he was very depressed.

Fourth place sounds good, but it actually means that he is the last one in the finals.

"call……"

Gao Tianyang took a deep breath, gathered himself together, and walked onto the stage under the guidance of the staff. Cai Gou personally presented him with the fourth place trophy and gave a speech.

Afterwards, he was led by the staff to stand beside the stage, preparing for the next activities.

Cai Gou's voice was heard from time to time, and the rankings of the champion, runner-up and third place were revealed one by one.

"The winner of the third place trophy is from the animation division - the Knights of the Round Table!"

"The winner of the second place trophy is from the Red Stone Division—Mingyue Manor Master!"

"The winner of the first place trophy is the Architecture Division - Jiashen Team!"

Representatives of the three winning teams came on stage one by one, received the heavy trophies from Cai Gou, and gave speeches in turn.

Among them, the most excited was Su Yajun, the representative of Jiashen team in the construction zone.

He was facing the microphone and the camera, holding up the trophy and the multi-million-level endorsement contract of Tai Ping Dao, and was shaking with excitement.

He had already prepared a speech in his mind, but at this moment, Su Yijun was silent for a long time, and all his words converged into one sentence -

"I have no regrets in this life, I will join the Yellow Turban Army in the next life! Thank you all."

Every one of the audience members understood his excitement at the moment, and understood the weight of his words, and they all responded with enthusiastic applause. Cai Gou took over the stage again and said to the four award-winning contestants standing beside him:

"Among the four of you winning contestants, there are veteran Yellow Turban Army members and some who are not, but you should all know one thing."

"Since the establishment of the Taipingdao Community APP, there has been a saying that whoever obtains the Nine Cauldron Badge will obtain the world."

"The reason why we keep you on the stage today is because you will be the ones to start the last event of this awards ceremony—"

"Nine Cauldron Badges·Game Customization Vote!"

The Bird's Nest was suddenly boiling with excitement. The audience on site and the viewers in the live broadcast room had been waiting for the entire night. Wasn't this what they were waiting for?
"Woo woo woo, I finally waited until today!"

"I'm so excited! The highlight is about to begin!"

"General Tian Gong, come on, give it some force!"

In the live broadcast room, the comments from netizens were scrolling wildly, almost freezing the screen.

The biggest rule of this game customization rights activity is that there are no rules.

When the four winning contestants announced the start of the event and pressed the event switch together.

At the Bird's Nest, there were 9.1 spectators, and everyone had a voting device in their hands, so they could freely fill in the type of game they liked.

These data will be concentrated on the big screen and displayed in real time. The game with the highest number of votes will be the Taipingdao surprise feedback game customization type.

Wei Xing, Gao Tianyang and others were happy that they could personally participate in this activity. The four of them stood in one direction and pressed the button together.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Boom! Wow—"

All kinds of fireworks suddenly flashed above the Bird's Nest, and the big screen on the stage also lit up in real time.

【Racing】【Gunfight】【Horror】

【Music】【Fishing】【Hardcore】

【Open】【Play】【Raw Pigeon】

【…】

Various game types, competing with each other.

In addition to the game elements and the classification of game types, it is more about the players' wild imagination -

[General Tiangong, can you make a food delivery simulator?]

[Old thief, can you make a game with unlimited modules?]

Make a game where players act as game designers and make games

There are more and more types of entries, and each entry has a varying number of players voting.

The four winning contestants also have voting devices and can participate in the voting.

Satellite thought for a moment and asked, "General, can we discuss the type of game?"

After getting Cai Gou's consent, the four of them gathered in the corner of the stage.

Satellite made a suggestion: "Everyone, surprise feedback is almost every year. Why don't we give the general a surprise this time? What do you think?"

Although Gao Tianyang was a member of the Zhengjiao Sect and Wei Xing was a reformist, he was still the first to respond. The owner of Mingyue Manor didn't care at all and nodded in agreement. Su Yijun was also a veteran of the Yellow Turban Army, so he naturally nodded in agreement.

So after discussing, the four of them reached a consensus and entered the same answer into the voting machine -

[General, make whatever game you want]

Because the four are winning contestants, their answers will be displayed on every voting machine and will also be pinned to the top of the big screen.

These four people are the most respected figures in the Yellow Turban Army. As soon as the answer came out, the remaining candidates who had not voted immediately cast their votes for them.

In the live broadcast room, fans were swiping the screen frantically——

"Satellite, well done!"

"Hahaha, reverse surprise feedback!"

"Let him give birth! Let him give birth! Let him give birth!"

"At a time like this, you little brat upstairs, be serious!"

At the Bird's Nest, Cai Gou looked at the game option "General, you can make any game you want" in surprise.

There are surprise rewards every year, who would have thought that the Yellow Turban Army would give them a surprise in return?

I thought this would continue forever, completing custom games that others would like every year.

However, the Yellow Turban Army collectively gave a completely different answer today:

Don't accommodate us!

General, make whatever type of game you want.

[Emotional Value +99]

[Emotional Value +99]

[Emotional Value +99]

The sentiment value and the number of votes rose wildly.

At the end, the game option "General, make whatever game you want" won first place with an overwhelming advantage.

[Emotional Value +99]

[Emotional Value +99]

[S-level entry treasure chest x1]

At the same time, Cai Gou also received an unexpected treasure chest reward in the exciting atmosphere.

"boom!"

"Crash!"

At the Bird's Nest, when the players saw the final result, there was applause and cheers.

Everyone was very happy.

The reason for being happy is not about what game customization rights players have, nor about who can become a millionaire in the event.

The reason for being happy is that the players have proved to Cai Gou with their actual actions that this is a two-way drama between players and game designers.

The cheers and applause gradually faded away, and everyone stared at Cai Gou with wide eyes, like a child waiting for praise.

Cai Gou secretly reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, raised the microphone, and could not hide his inner excitement:
"You guys, you really just want to watch the fun and make trouble."

"Leave such an important matter to me."

"Then I'll have to use all my skills."

“Although I’m not sure about the game type, production cycle, release date, and gameplay right now.”

"But you have handed this hard-earned opportunity to me, and I, General Tian Gong, promise you all."

“This is definitely an unprecedented – epoch-making game!”

【Monthly Ticket】【Recommended Ticket】

(End of this chapter)