tkworld #367 - Many heroes participated in TGS, a genius producer joined the company, and the Hengdian team
#367 - Many heroes participated in TGS, a genius producer joined the company, and the Hengdian team
After Long Teng Group announced its upcoming participation in the Tokyo Game Show,
In the following days, numerous domestic manufacturers quickly released announcements stating their intention to participate in the Tokyo Game Show!
Including—
Tenghui's "Honor of Kings World\
,"Douyin's "Crystal Core\
,"Youyi's "Shun Huo Nuan Single-Player Edition", "Naraka: Bladepoint\
,"Zulong Games' "Perfect World Single-Player Edition"...
For a time, major manufacturers released news one after another, announcing single-player versions of their online games!
And the highlight of these works was "Swordsman Love Affair Three: Xie Yunliu Biography", sponsored and developed by Long Teng.
On the day the participation announcement was made, Nanshanju's official Weibo released a promotional video for the Tokyo Game Show.
At the beginning of the video, a white-robed Taoist named Xie Yunliu, carrying a long sword, was eavesdropping by leaning against a door.
An old man inside the door said, "You and I are now summoned by that important figure, but I didn't expect that Wen Wang's senior brother named Xie Yunliu would come out to disrupt things."
Subsequently, the scene switched.
"Hold the Yuan and guard the One, let Qi move with the spirit."
Xie Yunliu wore a white Taoist robe, with a long sword hanging horizontally at his waist, his cold gaze revealing confidence and determination.
He stood in front of a huge wooden door, with faint light shining through the cracks, enveloping him in an aura.
The figures of his opponents gradually emerged, wearing various colors of armor and holding weapons.
"Kill this traitor!" the old man shouted from the side.
After a flurry of swords and shadows, the battle scene switched to a desolate ancient battlefield, with a fierce cold wind whistling past, and the sound of iron horse hooves and clashing swords coming from the distance.
Xie Yunliu was agile, his steps light, and the long sword in his hand flickered with a cold light, like a shooting star cutting through the night sky, engaging in combat with enemy soldiers in black armor.
Between the interlacing of swords, each swing seemed to tear the air apart. The swordsmanship was fierce, sometimes flashing with cold light, sometimes transforming into flowing water, pushing opponents into desperate situations.
Then there was a fierce battle deep in the dense forest, with the agile Xie Yunliu like a cheetah, moving between the trees, leaves dancing with the wind of the sword...
The promotional video displayed subtitles: "Giving you a different kind of Jianghu."
The end of the promotional video was a life-and-death struggle on a high cliff, with Xie Yunliu confronting a tall monk on the edge of the cliff.
The monk held a huge pestle, awe-inspiring, forcing Xie Yunliu back to the edge of the cliff.
The sound of bells and drums from the Shaolin Temple came from afar, and the screen suddenly went black.
Black screen subtitles: "Long Teng Group and Nanshanju jointly present, the brand-new next-generation single-player game 'Xie Yunliu Biography', coming soon to the Tokyo Game Show!"
Once this promotional video was released, it instantly went viral and exploded:
"OMG! This video is so exciting! Xie Yunliu's swordsmanship is so handsome, every move makes my heart race!"
"Hahaha, as an old fan of 'JX3', the single-player version of 'Xie Yunliu Biography' is finally coming! I've been waiting since junior high school until I graduated from college, and I can finally experience the world of Jianghu in a single-player masterpiece!"
"The art design of Xie Yunliu is great! White robe and long sword, cold and handsome, completely the image of a Jianghu hero in my mind!"
"As a die-hard action game fan, I feel that the combat operation in the video is okay, it's exciting to watch, and I hope to get started as soon as possible!"
Of course, in addition to praise, there were also some disputes:
"It's a pity it's single-player."
"I hope it's single-player, I'm tired of online games and mobile games."
"This 'Xie Yunliu Biography' has been a pie in the sky for many years, and every year they come up with a different style of demo to pretend to be cool."
"Although this game is a practice product of Nanshanju, it has recently received sponsorship from Long Teng Group, so the future is promising."
"Indeed, no matter how much of a pie in the sky it is, it's much better than Youyi's Shun Huo Nuan and Naraka: Bladepoint."
...
The reason why players say this is because Youyi has recently been under crazy pressure from Long Teng Group, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of publicity for its games!
Long Teng's methods are basically old wine in new bottles, still the same tactics as before against Tao Yuan Township,
In the past few days, Long Teng Group's HR team has almost come out in full force, using various personal connections to poach key employees of Youyi Company,
Youyi's employee benefits can't compare with Tao Yuan Township, and they can't resist this trick!
Moreover, KOLs and streamers under Long Teng Entertainment have fully launched negative publicity and public opinion attacks on Youyi Company, trying to reduce Youyi's image and credibility in the minds of players.
The rhythm brought by the streamers is still the same, such as Youyi's games are very pay-to-win, corrupting children, tampering with history, destroying Chinese traditional culture...
For a time, Youyi's public relations team was overwhelmed and unable to cope!
And Long Teng Group's competitive methods are also used in hardware competition.
Long Teng's strategic expansion department spent a lot of time negotiating with Youyi's industry chain partners, promising to provide economic benefits, inducing them to terminate cooperation with Youyi Company, and sign exclusive cooperation agreements with Long Teng,
In this way, Long Teng quickly caused Youyi to have many shortcomings in development resources, and all of them are key resources such as game engines and servers!
Seeing that Youyi was gradually struggling, in the spirit of taking advantage of your illness to kill you,
Long Teng began to intensively file patent infringement lawsuits against Youyi and adopted a crazy price war. As long as there were competing themes and tracks between the two sides, the price of their own games was reduced by more than 30%!
Because of these attacks by Long Teng Group, Shi Yi, the head of Youyi Company, was already overwhelmed and exhausted.
...
While various manufacturers were fighting to the death to compete for the attention of the Tokyo Game Show, Tao Yuan Township quietly registered the "Code CARD Official Weibo" on Weibo.
The Weibo wrote:
"Dear players, we will be participating in the Tokyo Game Show. The following are the new participating works we have brought, I hope you like them!"
Subsequently, Weibo uploaded a promotional video.
At the beginning of the promotional video, a cheerful music sounded.
A wide circular arena appeared in the center of the screen, and the ground was covered with colorful cards,
The patterns on each card were childish doodle-style hand-drawn, and these hand-drawn drawings kept jumping, as if they had their own lives.
The camera slowly moved to the center of the arena, and a lively and cute little boy appeared on the screen, holding a card in his hand, his eyes full of curiosity and anticipation.
Suddenly!
The little boy gently raised the card in his hand, and the pattern on the card began to glow! Colorful phantoms rose from the card and transformed into an armored swordsman.
This character was clad in golden armor, holding a shining sword,
At this time, a blue giant dragon appeared in the sky above the arena, and the armored swordsman began to fight the giant dragon!
Then, the camera zoomed out to the castle north of the arena, with a flag printed with crossed sacred swords flying above the castle, surrounded by various forms of characters, including mechas, beasts, ancient dragons, elves, witches...
The camera finally shook to two beautiful girls embracing each other,
Their appearance resembled the cat girl Illya and the panties girl Lan Bai Ji, and they watched the hero fighting the dragon in the sky with nervous eyes...
The screen ended here.
"2013 · Autumn · Tokyo Game Show"
"New work information release, please look forward to it!"
The release of this trailer from Tao Yuan Township immediately caused an uproar!
Many fans of Tao Yuan Township ran to Weibo to leave messages:
"Wow, this trailer is so interesting! A style never seen before! It looks like the new work is a casual game?"
"I especially like the graffiti style of the cards, it feels very lively and cute! It's also nice to make some family-friendly games."
"Wait, wait! I seem to have seen Lan Bai Ji? Holy crap, my expectations for the game have skyrocketed!"
"Indeed, Tao Yuan Township's trailers are reverse scams, purely pig teammates, the finished product is destined to be much stronger than the trailer, I won't be fooled again, hmph!"
Of course, some neutral players and passers-by also expressed their disapproval:
"Am I the only one who thinks this looks like an ordinary children's card toy, there's nothing particularly attractive about it?"
"Upstairs, you are not alone, the picture of this trailer feels too childish, are there still fans praising this? Laughing to death."
"Indeed, even if Tao Yuan Township's 'Final Defense Line' trailer is a scam, the stage of the story basically didn't deceive you, look at the stage of this game, isn't it a proper children's game?"
"Alas, disappointed, I thought Tao Yuan Township would come up with some shocking work to participate in the Tokyo Game Show, but that's it?"
...
At this time, Pei Shengnan, who was in the office, also saw this promotional video.
He repeatedly rubbed his eyes to make sure he didn't see it wrong.
Pei Shengnan breathed a sigh of relief,
Great! This is really like having a pillow when you want to sleep!
He was fiercely besieging Youyi here, and he was afraid that Tao Yuan Township would stab him in the back at the Tokyo Game Show,
As a result, you, Tao Yuan Township, spent several days holding back, and came up with a broken paper piece for children to play with?
That's it? How do you compete with 'Xie Yunliu Biography'?
Our single-player masterpiece against this thing, this is already a dimensionality reduction strike, right?
Although he didn't know what Lu Yu was suddenly confused about, doing this kind of coquettish operation, but since Lu Yu gave him the opportunity, he naturally had to seize it!
This time, as long as he operates well, he might be able to eliminate Youyi Paradise and Tao Yuan Shenyou in one fell swoop, and unify the Jianghu of domestic VR game consoles!
Moreover!
Isn't your Tao Yuan Township going to make a movie? Although Long Teng doesn't make movies himself, I can still find an agent in China to fight with you!
He called his secretary:
"Go and contact President Wang of China Film Group, just say that we have just obtained a full set of authorizations from Nanshanju, and we are very interested in talking to him about the movie 'Xie Yunliu Biography'."
...
At this time, Tao Yuan Township Villa.
Lu Yu looked at the feedback from players on Weibo on the new work's trailer and nodded in satisfaction.
The newest novel is first published on 69shuba!
Very good, this trailer, as always, backfired, even he could see that it was visibly low-aged and simple!
In fact, this trailer was made by Gong Qijun, who was temporarily found by the company, to make a set of children's cartoon animation.
Even the little boy who appeared in the promotional video was not a child star, but Li Hongmei's son who was still in elementary school.
When he heard that he was going to shoot a promotional video, this little guy was very excited, and the pay only needed a lollipop.
And the feedback from netizens was also unexpected, the negative reviews were already as many as the positive reviews, not a loss!
Lu Yu was happily planning his next grand lying-flat plan, and Liu Mengyuan next to him asked curiously:
"The shooting schedule of 'Final Defense Line' is about to start, are the production team in place?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Cao Cao arrived, and Xia Shangyu came back covered in dust.
"President Lu, I'm back from Hengdian, and I'm lucky enough to not disgrace my mission, I found a very good producer."
"Are you sure it's 'very good'?" Lu Yu asked softly and seriously.
"Oh, sorry, it's very bad!" Xia Shangyu quickly corrected.
Lu Yu took the producer and director's information and began to read it.
This person is named Shi Bo Ge, and he dropped out of the second year of the Imperial Capital Film Academy.
For many years, he has been known in the Chinese film industry for producing bad films.
He disdains the traditional film production process and likes to challenge the industry's conventions in his own way, even deliberately deviating from the traditional model, full of rebellion and uninhibitedness,
His representative work is a low-cost science fiction comedy film called "Interstellar Explorer\
,"Douban scored as high as 1.9, and a large number of reviews believe that this genius is challenging the lower limit of the audience's aesthetics!
The story is simple and vulgar. A conceited and stupid rich man is confident that he is the greatest explorer in the universe, so he takes a group of unreliable companions and invests in the development of the universe at his own expense, launching an absurd interstellar exploration journey.
During the filming process, Mr. Shi completely ignored the suggestions of the production team and liked to use exaggerated and absurd techniques,
For example, the protagonist astronaut encountered a group of Martians in space, and the other party used the non-mainstream Martian language on Earth!
In addition, he has a unique aesthetic taste and likes to incorporate a large number of classical art elements regardless of the occasion, making the audience feel that they are playing awkwardly.
For example, ancient Greek drama costumes that are not related were added to the costumes of aliens,
Moreover, in order to highlight the high IQ of aliens, he asked aliens to frequently quote Shakespeare's famous quotes in their dialogues,
In the architectural design of the alien world, he even asked the set designer to imitate Van Gogh's style, and as a result, the alien city was full of impressionistic colors and lines, which seemed quite old-fashioned.
After watching half of it, the audience was so distracted that they could dig out a three-bedroom and one-living room with their jio!
Finally, this narcissistic director always likes to incorporate a large number of cultural symbols and metaphors into the film, happily wanting to educate the audience and let the audience reflect, but instead, he backfires,
For example, his character's lines actually mistakenly identified the Sanskrit of Buddhism as the Koran, which almost caused an international dispute.
In the end, "Interstellar Explorer" was unanimously criticized by the audience and critics after its release, and was considered a vulgar, naive, and boring bad film, and the box office was a complete failure!
Douban's high praise film review wrote this:
"This is really a hearty meal of history!"
"I want to change to a brain that hasn't seen this bad movie, please!"
"Compared with this bad movie, 'Dream Chasing Entertainment Circle' looks pretty good."
...
Lu Yu was happy when he saw this person, this time it's stable!
"Hire him, we must hire him! The top producer of Peach Garden Films will be Mr. Shi!"
Liu Mengyuan and Xia Shangyu were dumbfounded.
Xia Shangyu: "President Lu, shouldn't we at least follow the procedure and interview him first?"
"No need. Where is he now?"
"He's currently unemployed in Hengdian..."
"Then we'll go directly to him and buy out his team as well. Then we'll set up a studio right there in Hengdian and start filming immediately! Of course, before we find him, let's enjoy ourselves in Hengdian for a few days!"
Then, with a wave of his hand, he announced that the entire company would head to Hengdian World Studios for a new round of team building!
...
Two days later, a tour bus full of Peach Garden employees arrived in Hengdian.
Hengdian World Studios, located in Hengdian Town, Huajin City, Zheshan Province, covers a total area of over 50,000 acres and is the largest film and television experience resort in China. It was founded in 1996.
Hengdian World Studios has over a hundred film and television studios, and over 2,000 ancient, period, modern, and contemporary film and television shooting locations!
The first stop for the Hengdian tour was the Qin Palace.
Everyone arrived at the periphery and found the Qin Palace scenic area to be enormous, complex in shape, and meticulously laid out.
The employees strolled among the magnificent palaces, with buildings every five steps and pavilions every ten steps; winding corridors and upturned eaves, each embracing the terrain, interlocking and vying with each other.
The main palace, the "Hall of the Unification of the Four Seas," stood majestically, towering and upright, vividly expressing the magnificent momentum of Qin Shi Huang's annexation of the six kingdoms and unification of the world.
As the saying goes, like a honeycomb or a whirlpool, one doesn't know how many millions of structures stand there.
The employees excitedly took photos as souvenirs.
Three days later, everyone went to the Fantasy Valley scenic area.
They visited the Dream Culture Village, Hengdian Old Street, Jiangnan Water Town, and Water World, four major areas within the valley.
They also visited various natural phenomenon display areas such as volcanic eruptions and torrential mountain floods, as well as various amusement facilities and performance activities.
In the evening, they stayed directly in the resort's five-star hotel.
[Peach Garden's 600 employees experience Hengdian World Studios, leisure points +9000]
Seeing the system prompt, Lu Yu was very pleased. Good, the new round of 'forgetting home' plan is proceeding smoothly!
After the employees of the "Final Defense Line" project team had a great time for several days, they began to chatter in the hotel.
"Why do you think President Lu brought us, who are unrelated to the film, to Hengdian? Does he have some intention?"
"I don't know the intention, but I'm quite worried about our film project. We don't have any successful film experience at all. We finally got to Hengdian to learn from the scene, but President Lu is still taking everyone to play. It's worrying."
"Could it be... is this President Lu doing this on purpose?"