The Creator of the Second Dimension

"Game of the Year?"

Xu Rui was also a little confused when he received the contact from the public relations side.

He has heard about this annual game award. The organizer is jointly signed by several game media. Unlike the annual animation, there is no industry association involved, so it is slightly inferior in terms of professionalism and authority. The biggest award in the industry, but most game companies just laugh it off.

The selection of the Game of the Year Awards is more concerned with the popularity and topicality of the game. For example, the year before last, a game that had not yet been officially released and was only in the testing stage appeared in the list of candidates for the Game of the Year, just because the game was in testing. Many people played it when it was started, and the discussion was extremely hot. Although it was full of bugs and cheats, it did not hinder the entry into the candidate list.

The Game of the Year Awards that year also attracted a lot of attention. Of course, in the end, the game was not selected for any final awards. Even half a year after the selection, the game lost a large number of users due to the proliferation of cheats, and the game mode was replaced by other games. Copy away and cool down.

But who cares, the Game of the Year Awards are all about popularity.

There are five works nominated this year.

The game "Tomorrow's Future" produced by Suoren Company is a doomsday survival FPS game with a linear plot with a high degree of freedom. The game has sold five million copies.

ES Games' "Dragon Quest 10" is a classic turn-based RPG. The series has a history of more than ten years and has many diehard fans in China.

Cup Game's "Doom 4" is a refreshing linear plot shooting game. Compared with ordinary chug chug, it has many more skills and props, making it more fun.

The producer of "Speed ​​​​Horizon 3" is Fruit Jelly Interactive Entertainment. This is a racing game. It is famous for purchasing the copyright of real-life vehicles, and the scenery in the game is also good.

Finally, Hatsune Games' Bloodborne: Curse.

After the list of candidate works was announced, there was an uproar on the Internet immediately.

China's largest console game forum, V9, is basically populated by console players. The overall atmosphere doesn't look down on PC gamers, let alone mobile game and browser game players. In some people's words, playing games also has a chain of contempt .

For example, console players think they are the most noble, PC games are shoddy games, PC stand-alone game players look down on online game players, thinking that they play games to cheat others, and PC online game players look down on mobile game players, thinking that the games they play have little connotation None, and mobile game players look down on web game players, thinking they are gold sows and upstarts.

In other words, web game players are at the bottom of the chain of contempt for games.

In the V9 forum, the players who like to hack other games the most, in the related news posts, when they saw the list of candidates for the annual game selection, they became [beep——] in an instant.

[Corn buns]: Funny, why is there a page game mixed in, the judges are all thinking about aircraft carriers?

[Red Petals]: A few years ago, when I saw that game was included in the selection list, I felt that this year's game was a pheasant award. You don't believe it. Now it's good, and even web games have been mixed in.

[Bone]: When did you have the illusion that this award is not a pheasant award? Every year, the works are selected based on popularity. The judges don't understand games at all, they just want to stir up popularity.

[LKOP]: It’s good to be on the candidate list. If the game of the year is given to this garbage page game, then everyone’s faces will be swollen?

[Banning Coriander]: I just want to know how much Hatsune Games paid the jury to allow a web game to enter the selection list.

[Confidence turning back]: By the way, has anyone played this page game? I see that my cousins ​​play it every day, and there are many girls playing it on Weibo.

[Curved Spoon]: Who would waste time playing this, I still have many games at home waiting for me to pass the level.

[Sesame Douhua]: You are still too naive. It is obvious that the jury is looking for a popular game to compete with. Don’t you know that "Bloodborne: Curse" has already had 15 million users in just three months of operation? Well, the game's billing for half a month in August was 300 million, and it was 500 million in both September and October. In terms of earning power, none of the other games on the candidate list combined can be played.

[Refreshing curly hair]: So many? ? ? Fuck, if I were a game manufacturer, I worked so hard to make a 3A game for several years, and the money I made was not as good as the web game he made in half a year, then I would still be a ghost, and everyone would make web games Well, stop playing masterpieces in the future.

Many players who focus on single-player feel that web games are pure krypton gold games, which are not fun at all. "Bloodborne: Curse" must have been able to enter the shortlist by relying on some ulterior PY transactions. What's more What's more, it is unreasonable for the entire game industry to think that web games make a lot of money, and it will kill the development of stand-alone masterpieces.

Xu Rui also felt confused.

He has never been in contact with the jury of the Game of the Year Awards at all, nor has he asked the game department to send any materials, and he will not spend money to "buy" "Bloodborne: Curse" into it.

To be honest, Xu Rui doesn't pay much attention to these awards. Industry awards such as animation of the year can also participate. He didn't even want to participate in the real pheasant award.

After receiving the contact, Xu Rui communicated with the jury members of the Game of the Year Awards before realizing that the judges just wanted to catch the popularity of "Bloodborne: Curse". If the hottest one in the social circle can be selected, it will spread the popularity to the Game of the Year Awards.

To put it simply, they chose "Bloodborne: Curse" to add topicality to themselves and to spark a war!

Xu Rui was a little dumbfounded. After all, this selection is essentially a selection by the media, and whether or not he wins an award has little impact on the game itself. Looking at it this way, "Bloodborne: Curse" is probably responsible for accompanying the run, stirring up the atmosphere , By the way, it caused some controversy. Although this kind of award is useless, he still wants to give the game media a face, so as not to make any mistakes when he enters the console game in the future, so Xu Rui also defaulted to the competition.

I cooperated with the jury to sort out some information, and checked this year's nominations. "Bloodborne: Curse" was not only shortlisted for the game of the year, but also the best mobile game, best social game, best game music, best game art, etc. A couple of sub-awards, and it looks like the judges are particularly fond of this game.

The date of the award presentation was December 26th. Xu Rui looked at the arrangement and found that he had no time for the time being, so he asked Holofer to attend the award ceremony instead of him, while he was busy with the selection of works for this year's Spring Festival New Year Festival. The second work of the synthesis engine will work on the press conference held on New Year's Day.

Just a few days before the Game of the Year awards ceremony, "Pure White Narcissus" also aired its final episode.

The previous super-expanded plots were continuous, which left the audience dumbfounded. The production team seemed to have really let themselves go. Although there are still audiences who are looking forward to it, the bigger and bigger plots can have a beautiful ending in the last episode.

But unexpectedly, the last episode of "Pure White Narcissus" actually created the history of Chinese animation!

Happy Children's Day everyone, I have been to Children's Day~~