game trailblazer

Chapter 379 Independent Game Review Meeting

After the work of the "Zero" studio came to an end, Zhang Lexing returned to Hong Kong for a week, and then embarked on a journey again. This time he was not flying an Agusta A109 helicopter, but his BL901 Global The express train flew directly from Hong Kong to BJ.

BJ has entered the hot season in July. Even though it has not yet reached the highest temperature of the day, Zhang Lexing still feels the heat wave when he gets off the plane, and it is different from the humidity in Hong Kong and Zhuhai. The air here is still tinged. The feeling of being dry, even if you hide in the shade, you can't escape it.Fortunately, the car that came to pick up the plane was not far from the tarmac. Zhang Lexing ran a few steps and quickly got into the black Mercedes-Benz S7 in the middle. With the help of the air conditioner in the car, he temporarily escaped the heat wave.

The Mercedes-Benz S600 started quickly and drove smoothly on the road.Zhang Lexing leaned on the comfortable leather seat, took a sip of the iced green tea handed over by Wang Mengyao, a cool feeling spread from his mouth to his whole body, and he let out a comfortable breath.

When Zhang Lexing was almost done drinking, Wang Mengyao took the empty drink cup and put it away, then took out her PDA and began to introduce the itinerary as usual: "Boss, the main itinerary for these few days is as follows..."

Zhang Lexing came to BJ this time on the one hand to inspect his own industry, and on the other hand to participate in the judging meeting of the games participating in the Independent Game Festival. This is the main purpose of his trip.As the first independent game festival in China, although there are still many people who have not figured out what an independent game festival is, the conditions of all-inclusive fees, plus the VIP participation card of the China Game Developers Conference and up to six exhibition visitor cards are still attractive. There are a large number of contestants, and more than 1000 game works have been registered before the deadline. Although the level of participation is somewhat uneven, this number is still very gratifying.

The judging meeting that Zhang Lexing participated in is already the last judging meeting of the Independent Game Festival. After several rounds of screening, there are still 50 entries left for the professional group and amateur group, and he needs to select from them together with other judges. The one with the highest level will be the shortlisted work of the Independent Game Festival, and will be used to hit the final award.

The convoy drove to the downstairs of the BJ Hotel. Zhang Lexing, accompanied by Wang Mengyao and bodyguards, walked into the lobby of the hotel. The lobby manager immediately greeted him warmly.Wang Mengyao took out a platinum card and handed it over. The manager glanced at it, and the expression on his face immediately became more respectful, and he immediately guided Zhang Lexing and his party into the VIP elevator.

A group of people came out of the elevator and put their luggage in the guest room. Wang Mengyao came to the door and sent the enthusiastic lobby manager away. She let out a light breath and turned around to walk back. Just in time, she saw Zhang Lexing resting on the sofa, so she walked over and bent down Lai asked: "Boss, it's still early, do you want to take a rest first?"

"No need, I'll be fine in a while." Zhang Lexing waved his hand. This journey is easy to say, at least it is much more comfortable than many passengers who need to queue up for security checks, but after all, it is still a few hours in the plane and car , somewhat tired.So he moved his body down and closed his eyes. A pair of jade hands stretched out and rested on his head and gently pressed it. With a trace of familiar fragrance, a comfortable and cozy feeling flowed along. The scalp spreads...

After eating a sumptuous Chinese meal, Zhang Lexing, after a short rest, headed for the office of the jury downstairs which was converted from a meeting room. When he got out of the elevator and came to the door of the judging office, he could see There are already several people present, most of them are Zhang Lexing's acquaintances, such as Fu Zan, a game senior from Tianzhiyuan, Bian Xiaochun, who is obsessed with Three Kingdoms games, Zhao Yuanhuan, a representative of Creative Workshop, and a planner from a game company in the south. Xu Bo, Liu Kun, a well-known game producer in the industry, Mori Keiro, a famous RB painter, Will White, a simulation master, Richard Garriott, the "King of Britain", and Max Sheffer, one of the Big Three of Northern Blizzard Wait.

Generally, there are two types of people who like to play independent games. One is professional and experienced industry veterans who develop independent games basically to show their own unique ideas or unique technologies in a certain aspect. The other is Enthusiastic game lovers may know a little bit about game development, but basically they are still newcomers, and game development is more based on the love of games.It is obviously unfair to compare the works of these two kinds of people together during the review process. Although there are many masters of hidden dragons and crouching tigers among game lovers, they are still a minority after all, just like the peerless masters in "Kung Fu" It is one in a million, and the chances of game lovers picking on professional veterans are also very low, so this review has been specially divided into two levels, the professional group for veterans and the amateur group for game enthusiasts.

"Mr. Zhang..."

"boss Zhang……"

"boss……"

As Zhang Lexing stepped into the office of the judging meeting, everyone who arrived earlier greeted them enthusiastically. With a smile on his face, Zhang Lexing nodded casually to everyone, and then found a seat and sat down.Except for Xu Bo and Liu Kun, Zhang Lexing had a lot of dealings with these people at the scene, and some of them were even employees of his subordinate companies. It can be said that they are relatively familiar, so there is no need to waste time to be courteous. .

"Okay everyone, let's start." Zhang Lexing, who was sitting on the chair, did not talk nonsense, and directly pointed out the topic.

"Well, let's start with the games of the professional group first..." Zhao Yuanhuan stood up and turned on the power of the projector, and soon a picture appeared on the projection screen, and he continued: "Work No. 049, from Hainan Balance Beam Software Company "Green Wind and Cloud", a developmental game..."

"The game is similar to an old game "China Ball King" many years ago, but no matter the game screen, music, or game content, there has been a leap forward..." Zhao Yuanhuan pressed the electronic remote control laser pointer in his hand while While doing the introduction, the screens on the projection screen are also constantly switching, showing all aspects of "Green Wind and Cloud".

This is the first step in the game review process - the game display, which lasts about 10 minutes, through projection, so that all reviewers can have a preliminary understanding of the target game. 10 minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and then entered the formal review process. Under the control of the server, the game screen of "Green Wind and Cloud" appeared on the computer screen in front of every reviewer, including Zhang Lexing. They picked up the mouse and began to try to operate it.

The official review process of the game does not have too strict a time limit, but the longest trial play time is limited to no more than 50 minutes. As long as all the reviewers fill out the game scoring form, the review process of the game is considered to be initially completed. If the opinions are unanimous , the judges can even finish this part in a few minutes, of course, this is usually because the game is too bad.

Fifteen minutes passed, and one after another, people put down their mouse and began to fill out the game scoring form on the computer.In the 15nd minute, Xu Bo was the last to put down the mouse in his hand, and began to score "Green Wind and Cloud" item by item.

"Well, the game screen, 70 points... the operating system, 65 points..." Xu Bo looked at the items on the game score sheet, and filled in the scores in his mind one by one. After finishing, he checked slightly, and pressed the submit button on the screen.

Soon the projection screen switched to a new screen, and the final score of "Green Wind and Cloud" came out. Zhao Yuanhuan looked at the projection screen and began to read: "The game screen score of "Green Wind and Cloud" is 67 points...the operating system score is 63 points... ...55 points for game story...72 points for creativity...65 points for overall score."

An LCD monitor on the wall used to announce the results showed the first data ""Green Wind and Cloud"... 65 points", Zhao Yuanhuan pressed the electronic remote control laser pointer in his hand, and continued: "Well, next is the professional group. The second game, No. 098, "Resurrected Corps" from Qin Studio, is a real-time strategy game..."

"The real-time strategy game "The Resurrected Corps" describes the war between the Qin Empire and the Huns in the north and Baiyue in the south..." Zhao Yuanhuan introduced "The Resurrected Corps" as the screens on the projection screen switched. They also shifted from the computer screen in front of them to the screen on the curtain, listening carefully to the information about the game.

Time passed day by day, and everyone in the review meeting carefully appreciated each game, hoping to dig out some highlights from it. Although there were many disappointments, occasionally there would be one or two special surprises, such as professional The efficient AI and large-scale battle scenes of thousands of people in the group work "Resurrected Corps", and the physical characteristics of objects of different materials are reflected in the amateur group work "Jumper".

At around 11 o'clock in the morning on the fourth day, as the score of the last game appeared on the projection screen, the LCD screen on the wall was refreshed for the last time, and the shortlisted works of the first independent game festival finally appeared.Ranked according to the scores, the shortlisted works of the professional group are: the real-time strategy game "Resurrected Corps" (DreamBox128 platform & PC platform) developed by Qin Studio, the music game "Super Drummer" developed by Guangzhou Tianyou (DreamBox128 platform), and the target software The developed action role-playing game "Qin Shang" (PC platform), the decryption game "Mist Street" (DreamBox128 platform & PC platform) produced by Wuhan Dingfeng, the card battle game "Pocket Magic" (DreamBox128 platform game) of Shanghai Naike, The war chess game "Lethal Force" (PC platform) developed by Taiwan Hantang.

The shortlisted games for the amateur group are: Clover Studio’s barrage shooting game “Legend Moon Night” (PC platform), Pixel Fish Studio’s decryption game “Light and Shadow” (need to use the characteristics of light and shadow to pass the level, DreamBox128 platform game), the agile action game "Jumper" (PC platform) developed by Xiaoyue Studio, the racing game "Rampage" (PC platform) developed by Weifengtang, and the game with insects as the main character developed by Avant-Garde Studio The real-time strategy game "Micro War" (PC platform), the chain elimination game "Super Chain" (PC platform) developed by Shao Feng of Changsha University of Science and Technology.

Looking at the final list of nominees, Zhang Lexing breathed a sigh of relief. Although he hasn't been involved in the past few days, and although he is only responsible for judging the professional group games, it took him a lot of effort to review the 50 works one by one. You can also see tired looks on the faces of other people, but fortunately, the final result is not bad.The shortlisted works of the professional group performed very well in terms of game screens, operating systems, music and sound effects, game plots, and creativity. It shows that the shortlisted works of the amateur group also have good results.

Zhang Lexing is very pleased that such an outcome can be achieved by holding an independent game festival for the first time. This shows that his efforts over the years have not been in vain. At least he can see that domestic game developers are constantly growing and their performance is also increasing day by day. In addition to his direct troops, other game developers are also constantly approaching the first-class level. Maybe it will not be long before China will become a game development powerhouse like the United States and RB. Zhang Lexing is looking forward to the early arrival of that day...

(End of this chapter)