The Trickster's Ninth Episode

"Ah..." Yasen was speechless.

"Anyway, it's settled like this. As for the final exam, I will go to Guangsaka to hold a school board meeting tomorrow. It can be advanced or postponed. If it is impossible, I will let you make up the exam. That's it, bye~"

"Hey! Wait a minute! Hey!  …"

Obviously, Ren Amameiya failed to stop Ya Sen from hanging up the phone.

"It's rare to see you with this expression! What did Yasen say?" Morgana asked, looking at Amemiya Ren.

"It's nothing... It's just that our final exam seems to be coming earlier." Yu Gonglian looked helpless, and was silent for a few seconds before explaining.

"......what?"

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Chapter 170 The fourth has to find a way to let the shark appear

Ren Yugong put down her phone, but Yasen sent another text message.

[I just hung up too quickly and forgot to say, there may be a call from a number you don't recognize later, remember to answer it. 】

"Tsk."

I hung up in a hurry and forgot to say that it was okay to send a text message in the end. It is for Yasen to understand that the mentality of Amamiya Ren is true.

I don't want to talk to this person, but Ren Amamiya saw the contact information sent by Gunying in the text message interface, so while she was free, Ren Amamiya dialed the number of the organizer of GDQ.

After connecting, the person on the other side spoke English.

"Hi, this is Akira Kusu." Ren Amamiya introduced herself. "My agent told me this number, is it the organizer of GDQ?"

"Ah? Ah! Laiqi... ah! Yes yes yes yes, hello." The other end of the phone responded for a few seconds, and then claimed yes as if suddenly realized.

"It's an honor to have a conversation with you. We have already discussed the purpose of this harassment with your agent before. Do you have any doubts in this regard?"

"I have already heard about your invitation from your agent. I do have a few questions about this matter."

"Please say."

""Trial of the Traveler" is the second creation of "Hollow Knight". How did the organizer arrange for such a game to participate in GDQ?"

"It's like this. Although "Trial of Traveler" is a second creation, it is also the second playable game with a high degree of completion on the VR platform, and it is also the first game produced by a highly popular small group on the VR platform. We I think it has a special symbolic meaning. At the same time, although the content of "Trial of the Traveler" is short, we think that "Trial of the Traveler" already has the volume of an independent game."

The fully immersive game was born this year, and any large-scale event related to the theme of the game cannot avoid this thing. If you don’t add this content, there is a high probability that people will be questioned as having no gold content.

This is like one day after the PS5 is released, the major game anchors immediately need to buy it immediately, even if it is at a premium.Because that is their professional demand, whether it is equipment, platforms or games, it is just needed for relevant practitioners.

Even for MMORPGs like DAO, there is also a speedrunning item [the fastest way to clear the main storyline] on this year's SGDQ.

"On the other hand, we have contacted Cherry Studios and confirmed that they have no objection to this and support "Trial of the Traveler""

Under normal circumstances, the game live broadcast involved in the GDQ event does not need to consider copyright issues.Because the essence of this activity is the same as that of the anchor playing live, it is just broadcasting other people playing games, and does not involve copyright issues.

But "Trial of the Traveler" is the second creation of "Hollow Knight" after all, and it is not a tribute, it is a second creation that directly uses other people's IP.Because it is a completely free game, it does not involve copyright issues, but the fan game and the main game are on the same stage, so we still have to worry about the feelings of the original author.

After all, although live broadcasting of games basically does not involve copyright issues, it is because infringement is a crime of personal prosecution, and if the official wants to punish you, they can still hit you with a copyright cannon.

Fortunately, Cherry Studio has a certain degree of communication with speedrunners, and they also like "Traveler's Trial" itself very much, and the communication in this part is very smooth.

"I'm very honored. I also want to know how many people have signed up for the performance project "Trial of the Traveler"?"

"In our speedrunning community, four top ten world record holders have signed up for the speedrunning of "Traveler's Trial". They will perform a racing performance on the same stage after the event begins."

That is to say, the game screens of four players are released at the same time, and they will time the game clearance speed together.As for whose game screen to watch, it is the audience's freedom.

"Since this is the case, you should also know something about me. I haven't specialized in speedrunning gameplay before. On the premise that there are already professional speedrunning players participating, is it inappropriate to invite me?"

There were actually four people who signed up, and it was still a live broadcast. The number of people was beyond Amamiya Ren's expectation.But in this way, he didn't want to get involved.

You have to ask if he has the confidence to be faster than these professional players?

Haha, no!

Ren Amamiya has basically never played "Traveler's Trial" after it was released, and Ren Amamiya has no idea at all about the useful custom magic and sword skills in that game.

That is to say, Ren Amamiya's idea of ​​clearing the game "Trial of the Traveler" is still in the original state when the game was just announced. Monthly speedrunner to race?

This is like asking a person with two wheels to compare the speed of a person with four wheels.

"Regarding this, we think you may have some misunderstandings about the speedrunning gameplay. We agree that the passthrough you personally tried when the game was announced is by far the most enjoyable passthrough. And in fact, we will privately Your clearance was classified, and in that classification, you are the world record holder so far."

The organizers explained it this way.

As mentioned earlier, the topic of speedrunning can be highly customized. You can use any% that prohibits the use of evil ways and bugs, or any% that allows the use of evil ways and bugs. These are two different topics, each with its own A world record of its own.

If you want, you can also ban all evil ways, bugs, and tricks, and use the most normal game process to clear all% of the royal way once.This is also a speed pass.

The organizer's words mean that within the community of speedrunners, they divided the live broadcast of Umiya Ren's original clearance of "Traveler's Trial" into a topic.

That is, it is forbidden to customize magic and sword skills, lock swordsmanship amulets, no evil ways, no bugs, no stable points, and pass the level with the highest difficulty.

This topic is called [Akira Route] by speedrunners, and many people have tried to challenge it. However, in this topic, Ren Amamiya is still the world record holder.

"Is there such a thing?" Yu Gonglian was a little surprised. He didn't expect that there would be so many people walking like a primitive man like him.

But after another thought, "Hollow Knight" is originally a subject of four locks and five doors, and there are indeed a lot of hollow players who use the initial state to clear the level.

"Then the last question."

So far, Amamiya Rendu has not decided whether to accept the invitation, the key lies in the last issue.

"As far as I know, GDQ's speedrunning live broadcast process requires players to go to the scene and show their faces in the live broadcast. But you should also know that because of my special occupation, I may not be able to appear in real life. I don't know if you can accept this. What about one o'clock?"

The tradition of real people appearing in speedrunning performances does not actually stem from any complicated reasons.Just because of the particularity of the speedrunning gameplay, many operations in the game make ordinary players seem unbelievable.So in order to prove that this was played by the player himself, without cheating or using any auxiliary plug-ins, the real person appeared on the scene.

It's not to prove that you are the one who achieved this result. For speedrunners, whether you are a real person or just a screen name is actually not very important to everyone.

All speedrunning activities of performance nature are aimed at ordinary people. They are all promoting and expanding the circle of speedrunning, in order to eliminate some people's misunderstanding about speedrunning.Therefore, in order to ensure the order and fairness of the speed pass, it has subtly become a part of the rules for real people to show their faces or even show their hands.

"This..." Sure enough, when Yu Gonglian expressed her request not to appear in real life, the other party became embarrassed.

Can VR be turned on?The answer is yes.

There are already attempts to influence game content by tampering with VR headsets.It's just that physical cheating is ignored for the time being, all electronic cheating will be monitored and banned by Yui who is the world tree.

But that is for online games, such as independent games such as "Traveler's Trial", as long as you don't upload your scores to the leaderboard, then players can play however they like, whether they want to skip class or change their minds. People take care of it.

For the brand-new game method of completely immersing the game, of course, it is not expected to live broadcast the whole process.After all, after you put on the helmet and log in to the game, it's like falling asleep.

How to [prove the authenticity of the complete immersion game speedrun] has been discussed in the speedrun community.

The final conclusion is that players must come to the host site of the event, use the VR helmet provided by the event party to log in and play the game.

During the performance, the camera will also specially show the player himself wearing a helmet and logging in.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly a violation of the rules that Yu Gonglian does not want real people to appear on the scene.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid we can't compromise on this point." The organizer was silent for a while, and it seemed that after a round of quick discussions, they finally said regretfully.

Regarding the vtb that Lai Qixiao is currently engaged in, they actually did a little understanding beforehand.It's just that on the one hand, they don't have a clear enough understanding of the fact that vtb can't reveal their real bodies. On the other hand, even if they know, they still have to be invited, and they have to try hard.

"In fact, we can each take a step back. I don't mind appearing on the scene, and I am willing to accept the organizer's fairness inspection. On this basis, if you can endorse me, so that I don't have to appear in front of the audience, so that I can then participate in this GDQ." Ren Amamiya suggested that he was actually quite happy to participate in this kind of large-scale event.

This can be said to be a pioneering of the field that vtb is involved in. It is a kind of behavior like Kizuna Ai, telling other vtbs that you can still take such a road.

...Well, although this path is a bit too hardcore, it is a path after all, isn't it?

"I'm sorry, but the GDQ conference is not only about charity, but the main purpose is to face the audience. We can't meet your demands." The organizer hesitated for a while, but still refused.

"I'm sorry." Umiya Lian also apologized.

"Thank you for taking your precious time to communicate with us. Although I regret that as the organizer of GDQ, I can't reach a cooperation, but as a speedrunner, I still have a request here."

"In fact, the number of speedrunning communities about "Traveler's Trial" is still increasing, and I am one of them. Speedrunners usually exchange a lot of in-depth content about the game. We hope to invite game creators You join our channel."

In foreign countries, there is a huge community of speedrunners, and different groups are divided according to different games.In addition to speedrunners, there are also many game producers in this community.They will exchange many questions about game mechanics and bugs with speedrunners to improve the game itself.Even in some game tests, speedrunners are invited as testers.

"Of course it's no problem." Yu Gonglian readily accepted.

Although Ren Amamiya's motivation to make games is entirely on a whim, and she doesn't have any new ideas recently, who can say clearly what will happen in the future?

Ren Amamiya has a high degree of acceptance of speedrunning gameplay, and he is also willing to listen to the opinions of these players.

In the future, there will be a game called "Azure Mountains", which is a game that takes into account both ordinary players and speedrunners, and achieves both sides to the extreme.

Ren Amamiya accepted the other party's invitation and joined the "Traveler's Trial" community. After a short introduction, the whole community exploded.

What surprised Ren Amamiya was that there seemed to be a lot of his audience in this community?

ah? Is vtb still purely transparent in a foreign language environment?Why are there so many Western audiences?

Although Ren Amamiya has always subtitled her own videos, this behavior is very rewarding in China, but it has little effect on European and American audiences.

Because the English community hates subtitles very much.

For English-speaking viewers, it is usually necessary to fall in love with an anchor first, and then they are willing to take the trouble to watch the content through subtitles.

But if they don't understand the language, how can they get them to like the host in the first place?

Therefore, it is very difficult to promote vtb to the western market. It is conservatively estimated that it will have to wait until 2020.

In any case, after Ren Amamiya joined the discord of the community, the response was very great, and various questions mixed with excitement and excitement were thrown. It is quite rare for Ren Amamiya to use English intensively like this. The excitement made him a little tired of coping.

During the communication, Ren Yugong found that in addition to expressing their concerns and questions about "Traveler's Trial", the most frequently asked questions were "Which game types will the main force of fully immersive game development in the future fall?" superior】.

Obviously, although full immersion games bring high immersion and high degree of freedom, they also have limitations in form. Some game types on PC and console platforms cannot be reproduced in VR.

For example, a player whose ID is [Gawr_Gura] raised the question [whether full immersion is suitable for developing games in the form of audio games].

Thinking about and enjoying new platform games is what these players who love games think about the most during this time.

Ren Amamiya hasn't thought about this question, so she can't give a systematic answer for the time being.

And when Ren Amamiya was thinking along the content of the communication with the players in the community, a call covered the discord screen, interrupting his thinking.

After looking at the phone number, I didn't recognize it, but there was a wonderful sense of familiarity.

The format is familiar.

This seems to be a mobile phone number in China.

Chapter 170 The Fifth Final Exam Sacrifice for the Righteousness

(Anyway, it's timed out, so I will update it in Yangjian.)