Chapter 59 Old Tang’s Platform
"Today is April 1, 2031. One hundred and twenty-one days have passed since the release of "Ori and the Blind Forest", a game destined to go down in history since the birth of the Blue Star gaming industry.
I sometimes wake up from my sleep and often feel in a trance, as if the game Ori has never appeared in this world, and everything is just my imagination.
But when my mind is clear and I recall every bit of the game Ori, I am convinced that Ori has been born, and I can tell the time of its birth in detail.
Along with it, a great sense of frustration gradually came into my heart.
This stems from a game maker's jealousy and compromise.
I understood that I would never be able to develop a game like Ori, and I often despicably imagined that this game never existed. In the end, I gradually reconciled with myself in self-disgust.
I have been working hard in the gaming industry for nearly thirty years, and in exchange for the little fame I have now, I always thought that I was a genius, the chosen one destined to change the soil of the gaming industry in this land.
But now, I can only hold my nose and admit that I feel uncomfortable that I am not as good as others.
Luo Bai, Mr. Luo, the leader of Chuxin Game Studio.
Please allow me to use the word leader to describe him.
Just like the first morning star rising in the night sky, I don’t need to go into details here, and those who come after will naturally rectify its name.
Because the light is there.
At 12 noon today, Chuxin Game Studio released the first promotional video of its new game "Darkest Dungeon" under development.
For a time, it caused a lot of uproar on the Internet, and there were also some good people behind it to add fuel to the flames.
From a bird's eye view, everyone's discussions are mainly focused on two aspects.
One is the painting style, and the other is why Mr. Luo didn’t make Ori 2.
I have no intention of starting a verbal dispute about the former, but I just feel that strengthening the nation’s aesthetic quality needs to be put on the agenda.
But for the latter, I seem to be able to guess the insignificant thought in Mr. Luo's far-sightedness.
For game developers like Mr. Luo, they treat their works like their own children. At the beginning of the child's birth, game developers as parents have poured all their inspiration and efforts into it. Into the game.
At the time of its creation, it was perfect for game makers.
And Ori is indeed perfect, with perfect gameplay, perfect graphics, and a perfect game journey.
Now, players hope that Mr. Luo will make Ori 2 as soon as possible. There is no doubt that Mr. Luo will re-create a child similar to Ori.
No matter whether the new child is better than Ori, worse than Ori, or not much different from Ori, it is definitely not an easy thing for a parent to accept.
Presumably, it was under this situation that "Dark Dungeon" began to take root in Mr. Luo's heart.
Is Darkest Dungeon a good game?
To be honest, I don’t know. No one dares to draw conclusions before playing the game in person.
But is Darkest Dungeon a bad game?
I can guarantee this with all my heart, it will definitely not be a bad game.
In "Dark Dungeon", the shaping of the atmosphere and the bold exploration in the field of game aesthetics have already allowed me to see Mr. Luo's ambition.
He will never be satisfied with the great success of Ori. He wants to get out of this comfort zone and explore deeper things in the field of games.
Although I have not yet thoroughly studied this game, we may witness the birth of another masterpiece..."
Tang Yunpeng posted a blog, how could Lu Maru not see it.
But when he actually finished reading this blog post full of rainbow farts about Luo Bai, a big question mark suddenly appeared on his head. "Old Tang? Did you really write this thing? Did you really just type it out with your thick, black fingers?
Take my advice and chop it up quickly! ”
“What’s wrong with what I posted?”
Any other problems have arisen.
Lu Maru's face darkened and he continued:
"Regardless of his years in the industry, his experience, or the awards he has received, there is no doubt that Tang Yunpeng can be regarded as a senior.
Not to mention that your easter egg did Luo Bai a big favor.
When we last met, didn't Mr. Luo call you "Tang Ge" when he shook hands with you?
How long has it been? Why did you just kneel down and start licking me?
Look at those words you made when you were dragging the article, it’s disgusting! Disgusting!
Do you know how to lick a dog, lick a dog, and lick it until there is nothing left? You've lost all your strength, do you know that? ”
"So?"
"Delete that and let me post it."
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Tang Yunpeng has many fans on Weibo, but not many are active because Tang Yunpeng didn't like to post on Weibo before.
It’s just that as he “redressed his injustice” a while ago, when he had nothing to do, he would start to share some inside stories about the gaming industry on his Weibo, and gradually his Weibo became active.
Of course, Tang Yunpeng still has a sense of proportion. Those things are not so much insider information as they are common sense that everyone in the gaming circle knows, but outsiders don't know much about.
It takes great care of the kind of cloud gamers who want to understand the gaming industry, as well as Internet writers who need to write this kind of online articles but have no place to look up the information, such as a guy with the pen name Xiao Subei.
All in all, with the fermentation of Tang Yunpeng's blog post, the discussion of the game "Darkest Dungeon" in the domestic gaming circle has risen to a new trend.
But... this has nothing to do with Luo Bai.
It's not that he didn't pay attention to the response after the first promotional video of "Darkest Dungeon" was released, but that he had already boarded a plane to the Lighthouse Country at that time.
TGA sent him an email a while ago that "Ori and the Blind Forest" was shortlisted.
Ori was nominated for six awards including Best Innovative Game, Best Art Direction, Best Independent Game, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Action and Adventure Game, and Game of the Year.
This time it was specifically for him to go there and win the award.
TGA, the full name of TheGameAwards, is a game festival award sponsored by the three major console gangsters, and is known as the Oscars of the gaming industry.
It just so happened that he didn't win anything at the Independent Games Festival last time, so Luo Bai planned to add his first trophy to the window of his office.
Of course, in addition to winning awards, Ori's sales in Europe and the United States have exceeded three million, and three-fifths of the sales are provided there. Luo Bai has to go there to express his condolences to the dear players. ah.
In addition, the head of Microsoft's gaming department also wanted to have a dinner date with him to discuss cooperation.
Hey, busy, maybe this is the trouble of genius game producers.
(End of chapter)