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《Big news! Golden Wind won the GDC's 'Most Anticipated Game' award! 》
"Most Anticipated Game Award! A Way Out deserves the award!"
"The first award in the Chinese gaming industry! It's this game that made history!"
"It won the international award as expected! It amazed everyone and became the flagship of the game industry!"
《……》
Two days later!
GDC is over.
With its outstanding gaming performance and amazing two-player cooperative gameplay, A Way Out unsurprisingly won the "Most Anticipated Game" award at this year's GDC.
Although two days ago, when Escape from Death made its debut at the conference and wowed everyone with its skills, this award was basically secured.
But when Gu Sheng, as the representative of Golden Wind, took over the certificate steadily from the organizing committee, the media players were still excited and discussing it!
Especially players in the domestic gaming circle are extremely excited and thrilled!
First International Conference Award!
Although, this award is far less important than some internationally renowned game selection awards such as the Golden Controller, TGA, GIGA, etc.
But it is also a big step for Chinese game manufacturers to win international awards from scratch!
For a time, Golden Wind seemed to be a dark horse from China that had accumulated a lot of strength and was about to make a breakthrough.
Moreover, due to the foreshadowing of the two previous games, Titanfall and To the Moon, and the glorious record of Outlast overcoming Silent Hill.
Many media outlets generally have high hopes for the final quality of "A Way Out".
Some media have even boldly started to hype it up, not fearing that the final product of Golden Wind will fail.
As for the players, they were naturally full of anticipation.
'Xiao Huang is awesome, he really made a big splash'
"But this game format is not easy to learn, and ordinary manufacturers can't make it."
"Indeed, it is not just a simple innovation of the gameplay, but also incorporates more artistic understanding, which is as difficult to copy as the script of going to the moon."
"Alas, what a pity, it requires two people to play, which is a real bummer for someone like me who is socially anxious."
"There is no good way to solve this problem. We can only say that it is a concession for the sake of gameplay. And it seems that communication between players during the game is also essential."
'The configuration requirements are so high that I actually need a friend (funny)'
"This should be the game with the highest system requirements among all the games produced by Golden Wind (dog head)"
"But according to Lao Zei's personality, if this game is successful, he will continue to release games of this type in the future. There will always be single-player games."
"Now I just want to know when they will release this work"
"You were just about to escape from prison when I was cut off. You old thief deserves death!"
"And it is said that the demonstration is just to show the basic gameplay and effects, and the real thrills and excitement will come later..."
'It's the third day of playing without escaping, thinking about it...'
…
Click.
With a slight sound, Gu Sheng placed the crystal certificate into the grid cabinet in the office and nodded.
"Hey - great, one more!"
"So...what is this..."
Behind him, Shen Miaomiao's tone was a little panicked.
The cabinet in a conspicuous place against the wall in Gu Sheng’s office was obviously newly built. The outer frame was made of black walnut board and the cabinet surface was made of explosion-proof glass. It was obviously worth a lot of money.
The grids are straight and horizontal, and most of them are empty.
Only a few of the boxes have things in them.
Such as the Supernova Trophy of Yiyou’s Mini Game Festival, the Best Rising Star Manufacturer of the China Entertainment Electronics Exhibition, the Gold Crown of the Asian Games Expo, and the GDC Most Anticipated Game Award Certificate that I just received.
"As you can see,"
After closing the glass cabinet, Gu Sheng sat in his boss chair and stretched out his hand to show Shen Miaomiao:
"My latest award display cabinet will house all the awards from home and abroad, just like stamp collecting."
Gu Sheng knew that if he wanted to become the king of games, it was not enough to just have one profitable project after another.
Xun Teng is also profitable, can it be called the king of games?
Of course not.
To become the true king of gaming, in addition to profitability, you also need industry recognition.
And those awards are the symbol of industry recognition.
GDC is just the beginning. In the future, Golden Wind will continue to challenge for one award after another.
A real-life demo of A Way Out has opened the door to the global gaming arena for them.
Next, Golden Wind will embark on the road to being crowned the king of world games.
"When the display case is filled,"
Gu Sheng said:
"Golden Wind will become a truly world-class gaming company."
My old swan!
Shen Miaomiao shuddered at this.
So many grids!
Who knows how many subversive works Lao Gu will produce in the future!
Wouldn't that mean I'm getting further and further away from losing money, and achieving yacht freedom is a long way off?
But think again!
Not necessarily.
As the saying goes, 'A child cries every day, and a gambler loses every day'.
It’s a good thing that Gu Sheng wants to become the king of games!
Because if you want to build a super gaming empire that stands at the top of the world, you need to accumulate one work after another.
And she is Shen Miaomiao!
The system of rebate for loss is carried out.
All you need to do is find the right opportunity to take advantage of two or three waves of wool among the countless works, and you will become rich suddenly.
If three out of ten games suffer huge losses, it would be eye-catching.
But if three games out of a hundred suffer huge losses, it seems insignificant and will not affect the company's position at the top of the world and its title as the king of games.
She shouldn't worry about Gu Sheng's ideals.
On the contrary, she should be grateful that Lao Gu had such ambitious goals.
Because as more and more works are produced, the probability of her losing money will increase.
Think of this!
Shen Miaomiao felt relieved and even a little happy.
Hi! What is this called?
This is called "King of the game, taste the wronged species..."
No, no! Cross it out!
This is called 'King of the game! Enjoy the life of the richest man!'
Um!
The life of the richest man!
That's right!
"Very good! Mr. Gu is very talented and ambitious! He will achieve great things in the future!"
Shen Miaomiao walked to the sofa in a square step and sat down, clapping slowly with an experienced and affirmative look:
"Old Shen will definitely be very pleased to know your ideal."
"Oh, Uncle Shen knows," Gu Sheng smiled, "This cabinet was given to me by your father."
Shen Miaomiao: ...
You bastard! Give me back my dad!
Damn it! Old Shen has never given me anything like this! It seems like he has no expectations for my career at all!
Instead, it was towards Gu Sheng!
Whenever Mr. Shen has time, he will teach him by example.
Talking about how to make choices and advance and retreat in the business world, a loss may not necessarily be a loss, and a profit may not necessarily be a profit.
Don't hesitate and miss the opportunity when making choices in life. There is no right or wrong choice. As long as you have a clear conscience, don't regret it.
Old Shen even used his own personal experiences as examples to tell Old Gu what to do and when.
Every time Shen Miaomiao went home, she felt like she was a buy-one-get-one-free gambler. She was Gu Sheng's personal driver, who specifically drove him when he was drunk!
Am I a biological child?
Rolling her eyes, Shen Miaomiao felt angry and snorted:
"Hmph... let's get down to business!"
"What's the matter?"
Hearing this, Gu Sheng was a little surprised, as if he had not expected to hear such a rare word from little Nezha's mouth. He raised his eyebrows:
"The claw machine has new flavors of lollipops?"
"...That's just one of the things." Shen Miaomiao replied.
Seeing Gu Sheng's expression of "I fucking knew it", he continued:
"But there's one more thing!"
"Anything else?" Gu Sheng sighed and asked, holding his cheek.
"Yuki and Sato want to introduce some former colleagues to the company,"
Shen Miaomiao said:
"But... they are from Yamamoto Studio, so I wanted to ask for your opinion."
good!
As the battle between Silent Hill and Outlast has come to an end, Konami has been defeated!
Today, Yamamoto Studio has been delisted and reorganized.
The latest studio to replace Yamamoto Tsuna and become one of the new Big Three is called 'Nishikawa Studio', and its director is Jiro Nishikawa.
As mentioned before, Konami has many studios.
Now that Nishikawa has come to power, he has his original team with him.
All he had to do was to expand the staff based on his original studio.
It is impossible to take over Yamamoto Studio in its entirety.
But this means that many members of the original Yamamoto Studio will face reassignment.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that these studios all belong to the same company, Konami!
But for these transferred employees, changing studios is no less than quitting and finding a new job!
Work mode, work style, work rhythm, work results, etc....all need to be adapted to again!
So!
Some employees who had participated in PT production or had heard of Gu Sang's reputation at the time became interested and fascinated by Golden Wind.
Since changing studios requires re-adapting, it is basically equivalent to quitting your job and finding a new job.
So why don't we just do it for real and say goodbye to Konami and join Golden Wind?
"…But they came from Yamamoto Studio after all, and Yamamoto Studio had been fighting with us before."
Shen Miaomiao said:
"So they are a little worried that you might be resentful and unwilling to accept them."
"A traitor."
Hearing this!
Gu Sheng gave a precise definition.
Then he asked, "How many people are there?"
Shen Miaomiao pinched her fingers: "Seven."
Good job!
Gu Sheng almost laughed out loud.
The seven rebellious ninjas.
Gu Sheng put his hand on his forehead and thought for a moment.
There is no such thing as holding a grudge.
Originally, the Seven Rebellious Ninjas were from Yamamoto Studio and were employees of the Konami Group.
There is nothing wrong with everyone serving their own master and doing their own job.
Moreover, from the beginning to the end, he never regarded Yamamoto Studio as his mortal enemy.
Now that the Seven have rebelled against Konami, to him, it is actually no different than what happened to Yuki and Sato back then.
They are all veterans, and it is hard to find such people in the market. It is naturally a good thing that they take the initiative to propose to join Golden Wind.
What he was considering was the arrangements after the Seven Rebel Ninjas joined Golden Wind.
now!
Golden Wind has only one project department.
If we don’t count the iron triangle of him, Lao Lu and Da Jiang.
The first batch enrolled 16 people, and then 2 more people were included, for a total of 18 people.
This scale is just enough for the current Golden Wind.
After all, the company's consistent policy is to 'control the core and outsource'.
So although 18 people is not a lot, it is enough for the development of a game project.
but.
As Golden Wind's reputation becomes more and more famous, it has even begun to enter the international stage, and is about to join the "billion club" to become a medium-sized game company.
The company's business scale should also be appropriately upgraded.
Otherwise, if there is only one group of studios, always running on a single core, they will never be able to reach the top of the world.
Before this, Gu Sheng had always been thinking about expanding enrollment for the second time.
Don't say much.
We can recruit another ten or eight good players to set up a second studio, and start expanding the dual-core mode to allow game development to proceed in parallel on multiple lines.
However, before he could make a proposal to Little Nezha, Konami, influenced by the golden dump truck, gave him a group of Seven Rebellious Ninjas.
"I think it's good,"
Gu Sheng thought for a moment, smiled and nodded, looking at Little Nezha:
"What do you think?"
"I think..."
Shen Miaomiao shrugged.
She was somewhat hesitant and conflicted about accepting the Seven Rebellious Ninjas.
Not that I doubt their loyalty.
Old Shen had taught her before: There is no eternal loyalty in the business world, only eternal interests.
Her main concern was that these people were too experienced. After all, they were former employees of the Big Three's studio. They were experienced among the experienced and were very capable.
But the problem is that she also wants to expand the company, speed up the development of game projects, and develop multiple projects in parallel.
Because only in this way can game projects be iterated frequently and her chances of losing money will increase.
Think about it carefully!
Shen Miaomiao finally nodded:
"If you think it's okay, I have no objection. The company will always develop, and our scale will become larger and larger in the future."
"Doesn't Xundou have three admirals? Konami also has the three great admirals."
"Now, even if we accept the Seven Rebel Ninjas, we only have two studios."
"There is still a long way to go."
My chances of losing money will increase.
Shen Miaomiao added in her heart.
Of course, Gu Sheng didn't hear what she was thinking, and couldn't help but make an affirmative expression: "You have a very high level of ideological awareness, Mr. Shen!"
"Of course!" Shen Miaomiao raised her head and wanted to laugh.
See? He even has to thank us!
"Let's go!" Gu Sheng waved his hand and stood up.
Shen Miaomiao didn't understand: "Leave? Where are you going?"
"Catch a lollipop?" Gu Sheng said, "Isn't there a new flavor of lollipop in the claw machine?"
Hearing this, Shen Miaomiao was stunned.
Then he laughed.
Such a sweet smile.
That's what Lao Gu is like.
Although he is completely focused and earnest in his work, it seems that work is the main theme of his life and his greatest pursuit in life.
But he will never forget his little wish.
Even a lollipop with a new flavor is as important to him as his career.
"Walk!"
Shen Miaomiao jumped up happily, like a lively little deer, and followed Gu Sheng's footsteps:
"Go grab a lollipop!"
Golden Wind opens a second studio!
For players, this doesn’t seem to be big news. Compared to this, players are more concerned about when “A Way Out” will be launched.
But for those within the gaming community!
This news is extremely explosive, even comparable to when Konami kicked Gu Sheng out to take over the project alone!
As a result, within just half a day, a post on the [Huaxia Game Developer Forum] took the top spot on the site's popularity list.
"Golden Wind accepts Konami employees! We win!!!"