You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 367: Heroes participate in TGS, talented producer joins the company, and Hengdian team building begins (2-in-1 order required)

After Longteng Group announced its upcoming participation in the exhibition,

A few days later, many domestic manufacturers quickly announced that they would participate in the Tokyo Game Show!

These include—

Tenghui's "Glory of the King World",
Douyin's "Crystal Core",
Youyi's "Shunhuo Nuan Standalone Edition" and "Naraka: Bladepoint",
Zulong Games' "Perfect World Standalone Edition"...

All of a sudden, all the major manufacturers announced that they would release stand-alone versions of their own online games!

The finale of these is "Swordsman Romance III: The Legend of Xie Yun", which was sponsored and developed by Longteng.

On the day when the exhibition news was announced, Nanshanju’s official Weibo account released a video of the Tokyo Game Show.

At the beginning of the video, a Taoist priest named Xie Yunliu in white robes, with a long sword on his back, leaned against the crack of the door and eavesdropped.

An old man said from inside the door, "You and I have both been summoned by that great figure. I didn't expect that Prince Wen's senior brother Xie Yunliu would actually come out to disrupt the situation."

Then, the screen switches.

"Hold the origin and keep the unity, and the energy will follow the movement of the spirit."

Xie Yunliu was wearing a clean white Taoist robe, with a long sword hanging across his waist. His cold eyes revealed confidence and determination.

He stood in front of a huge wooden door. A faint light shone through the cracks in the door, enveloping him in a halo of light.

The figures of the opponents gradually emerged, they were wearing armor of various colors and holding weapons.

"Kill this traitor!" the old man shouted.

After the flash of swords and sabers, the battle scene switches to a desolate ancient battlefield. A biting cold wind whistles past, and the sound of iron horse hooves and the collision of swords can be heard in the distance.

Xie Yunliu was agile and walked lightly, holding a long sword that flashed with cold light. He was like a meteor streaking through the night sky, fighting with the enemy soldiers in black armor.

As the swords clashed, each swing seemed to tear the air apart. The swordsmanship was sharp, sometimes flashing with cold light, sometimes turning into flowing water, forcing the opponent into a desperate situation.

Then there was a fierce battle deep in the dense forest. Xie Yunliu, agile and nimble like a cheetah, darted between the trees, and the leaves fluttered in the wind of his sword...

The trailer features a subtitle: "Giving you a different world of martial arts."

At the end of the promotional video, there is a life-and-death struggle on a cliff, with Xie Yunliu and the tall monk confronting each other on the edge of the cliff.

The monk held a huge pestle in his hand, looking very imposing, and forced Xie Yunliu back to the edge of the cliff.

The sound of bells and drums from the Shaolin Temple came from afar, and the scene stopped abruptly.

Black screen subtitles: "Longteng Group and Nanshanju jointly present the new next-generation single-player game "Xie Yun Chuan Liu" and will be exhibited at the Tokyo Game Show soon!"

As soon as this promotional video was released, it instantly went viral:

"OMG! This video is so exciting! Xie Yunliu's swordsmanship is so cool, every move makes my heart beat faster!"

"Hahaha, as a long-time fan of Jian Wang 3, the standalone version of Xie Yun Liu Chuan is finally here! I've been waiting since middle school all the way until I graduated from college, and now I can finally experience the ups and downs of Jianghu in this standalone masterpiece!"

"Xie Yunliu's art design is fantastic! With his white robe and long sword, cold and handsome, he's exactly the image of a chivalrous hero I imagined!"

"As a die-hard action game fan, I feel that the combat controls in the video are pretty good. It makes my blood boil. I hope to get started as soon as possible!"

Of course, in addition to praise, there are also some debates:
"It's a shame it's a single machine."

"I'd rather play single-player games. I'm tired of online and mobile games."

"This 'Xie Yun Chuan Liu' has been a saga for years, and every year they have to show off with a different style of demo."

"Although this game was developed by Nanshanju as a practice product, it has recently received sponsorship from Longteng Group, so its future is promising."

"Indeed, no matter how much it sounds, it's still much better than You Yi's Shun Huo Nuan and Eternal Disaster."

……

The reason why players say this is because Youyi has recently been under crazy suppression by Longteng Group, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of its game promotion and marketing!
Longteng's methods are basically the same old ones in new bottles, the same ones he used to deal with Taoyuan Township.
In the past few days, the HR team of Longteng Group has almost come out in full force, using various personal connections to poach key employees of Youyi Company.

Youyi’s employee benefits cannot be compared with Taoyuan Township’s. They basically can’t withstand this trick!
In addition, Longteng Entertainment's KOLs and anchors have launched a full-scale negative publicity and public opinion attack on Youyi Company, trying to lower Youyi's image and credibility in the minds of players.

The streamers are still pushing the same old trends, like claiming Youyi's games are expensive, corrupting children, distorting history, and destroying traditional Chinese culture...

For a time, Youyi’s public relations team was overwhelmed and overwhelmed!
Longteng Group also uses its competitive tactics in hardware competition.

Longteng's strategic development department spent a lot of time negotiating with Youyi's industry chain partners, promising them economic benefits and inducing them to terminate their cooperation with Youyi and sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with Longteng.

In this way, Longteng caused Youyi to have many shortcomings in development resources in a very short period of time, and all of them were key resources such as game engines and servers!
Seeing that You Yi was gradually losing strength, in the spirit of taking advantage of your illness to kill you,
Longteng began to intensively file patent infringement lawsuits against Youyi and launched a crazy price war. As long as the two parties were competing in themes and tracks, they would lower the prices of their own games by more than 30%!

Because of these attacks from Longteng Group, Shi Yi, the head of Youyi Company, has been extremely busy and overwhelmed, unable to cope with them.

……

While various manufacturers were scrambling for attention at the Tokyo Game Show, Taoyuan Township had quietly registered the "Official Weibo Account Codenamed CARD" on Weibo.

Weibo wrote:
Dear players, we will be participating in the Tokyo Game Show. Here are our new games for the exhibition. We hope you like them!

Subsequently, a promotional video was uploaded on Weibo.

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 pattern of each card is in a childish graffiti hand-drawn style, and these hand-drawn patterns are constantly jumping, as if they have their own life.

The camera slowly moved to the center of the arena, and a lively and cute little boy appeared in the picture. He was holding a card in his hand, his eyes full of curiosity and expectation.

suddenly!
The little boy gently raised the card in his hand, and the pattern on the card began to glow! A colorful phantom rose from the card, transforming into an armored swordsman.

This character is clad in golden armor and holds a shining sword.
At this time, a blue dragon appeared in the sky above the arena, and the armored swordsman began to fight with the dragon!
Then, the camera zoomed out to the castle in the north of the Grand Arena. Above the castle fluttered a flag with a cross of holy swords printed on it. Surrounding the castle stood various characters, including mechas, exotic beasts, ancient dragons, elves, witches...

The camera finally moved to the two beautiful girls hugging each other.

They look like the cat girl Illya and the panty girl Lanbaiji, and their eyes are nervously watching the Dragon Quest on the sky...

The scene ends abruptly.

Tokyo Game Show Autumn 2013

"New information is released, please look forward to it!"

As soon as the trailer of Taoyuan Township was released, it caused an uproar!

Many fans of Taoyuanxiang rushed to Weibo to leave messages:

"Oh my god, this trailer is so interesting! It's a style I've never seen before! It looks like the new game is a casual game?"

"I particularly like the graffiti style of the cards; they feel so lively and cute! It would also be nice to make some family-friendly games."

"Wait, wait! I think I saw Lan Baiji? Oh my god, my anticipation for this game has skyrocketed!"

"Indeed, the trailer for Taoyuan Township was a reverse trailer scam. What a bunch of idiots! The finished product is bound to be much better than the trailer. I won't be fooled again!"

Of course, some neutral players and passers-by also expressed pessimism:
"Am I the only one who thinks this looks like an ordinary children's card toy. Nothing particularly appealing about it?"

"The person above, you're not the only one. The images in this trailer feel too childish. Are there any Crystal fans out there? I'm dying of laughter."

"Indeed, even if the trailer for Taoyuan Township's "The End of the Line" is a scam, the story's setting isn't deceiving you. Look at the setting of this game, isn't it definitely a game for children?"

"Oh, so disappointing! I thought Taoyuan Township would come up with something groundbreaking for the Tokyo Game Show, but this is all it gets?"

At this time, Pei Shengnan, who was in the office, also saw this promotional video.

He wiped his eyes repeatedly to make sure he was not seeing things.

Pei Shengnan breathed a sigh of relief.
Great! This is the perfect pillow for when you want to sleep!

He was suppressing You Yi fiercely, and was afraid that Taoyuan Township would stab him in the back at the Tokyo Game Show.
As a result, you, Taoyuan Township, spent several days holding it in, and only came up with a piece of tattered paper for children to play with?

That's it? How can you compete with "Xie Yun Chuan Liu"?
Our single-player masterpiece is a dimensionality reduction attack on this thing, right?
Although he didn't know what Lu Yu had suddenly done that led him to do such a crazy thing, since Lu Yu had given him the opportunity, he would naturally seize it!
This time, as long as he operates well, he might be able to defeat Youyi Paradise and Taoyuan Shenyou in one fell swoop and unify the domestic VR game console market!

and!

Aren’t you going to make a movie in Taoyuan Township? Although Longteng doesn’t make movies himself, I can still find an agent in China to fight you!
He called his secretary:
"Call Mr. Wang from Hualian Brothers and tell him we've just received full authorization from Nanshanju and are very interested in discussing the film 'Xie Yun Chuan Liu' with him."

……

At this time, in Taoyuan Township Villa.

After looking at the players' feedback on the new game trailer on Weibo, Lu Yu nodded with satisfaction.

Very good, this trailer, as usual, does more harm than good. Even he can see the visibly low neckline and simplicity!
In fact, this trailer was made by Gong Qijun, who was hired by the company on short notice to create a children's cartoon set.

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 the little guy heard that he was going to shoot a promotional video, he was so excited, and the remuneration was only a lollipop.

The feedback from netizens was also unexpected. The negative reviews were so many that they outnumbered the positive reviews by 50-50. It was worth it!

Lu Yu was happily planning his next grand plan of lying down, when Liu Mengyuan beside him asked curiously:

"The filming schedule for 'The End' is about to begin. Is the production team in place?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Shangyu came back exhausted.

"Boss Lu, I'm back from Hengdian. Fortunately, I have accomplished my mission and found a very good producer."

"Are you sure it means 'very good'?" Lu Yu asked seriously in a low voice.

"Oh, sorry, it's very bad!" Xia Shangyu quickly corrected.

Lu Yu took the information of the producer and director and began to read it.

This person's name is Sberg, and he dropped out of his sophomore year at the Imperial Capital Film Academy.

For many years, the Chinese film industry has been famous for producing bad movies.

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 unruliness.

His masterpiece is a low-cost science fiction comedy called "Interstellar Explorers".

The Douban score is as high as 1.9, and a large number of reviews believe that this genius is challenging the audience's aesthetic standards!

The story is simple and vulgar. An arrogant and stupid rich man is confident that he is the greatest explorer in the universe. So he takes a group of unreliable companions, invests in the development of the universe at his own expense, and embarks on an absurd interstellar adventure.

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 met a group of Martians in space, and they actually 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 he is playing awkwardly.

For example, the aliens' costumes were made from classical costumes from ancient Greek dramas, which were completely unrelated.
Moreover, in order to highlight the high intelligence of the aliens, he made the aliens frequently quote Shakespeare's famous sayings in the dialogue.

In the architectural design of the alien world, he even asked the set designer to imitate Van Gogh's style. As a result, the alien city was full of impressionist colors and lines, which looked quite old-fashioned.

The audience was so distracted halfway through the show that they could dig out a three-bedroom apartment with their feet!
Finally, this narcissistic director always likes to incorporate a lot of cultural symbols and metaphors into his films, trying to educate the audience and make them reflect, but ended up making things worse.
For example, his character's lines actually mistook Buddhist Sanskrit for the Quran, which almost caused an international dispute.

Ultimately, "Interstellar Explorers" was unanimously criticized by audiences and critics after its release. It was considered a vulgar, childish, boring movie and was a box office failure!
Douban's highly praised film review wrote:

“This is truly a hearty eating experience!”

"I want to replace my brain with someone who hasn't seen this awful movie, balls!"

"Compared to this awful film, 'Dreaming of Show Business' looks pretty good."

……

When Lu Yu saw this man, he was happy. Now everything is stable!
"Join the job! You must join! The top producer of Taoyuanxiang Film will be handed over to Mr. Shi!"

Liu Mengyuan and Xia Shangyu were dumbfounded.

Xia Shangyu: "Mr. Lu, shouldn't we first conduct an interview according to the procedure?"

"No, where is he now?"

"He's still unemployed in Hengdian..."

"Then let's go find him directly and buy out his team. Then we can set up a studio right here in Hengdian and start filming right away! Of course, before we find him, let's enjoy ourselves in Hengdian for a few days!"

Then he waved his hand and announced that the entire company would head to Hengdian Film and Television City together to start a new round of team building!

……

Two days later, a tourist bus full of Taoyuan Township employees arrived in Hengdian.

Hengdian Film and Television City, located in Hengdian Town, Huajin City, Zhejiang Province, covers a total area of ​​more than 5 acres. It is the largest film and television experience resort in China and was built in 1996.

Hengdian Film and Television City has more than 2000 film and television studios, with over ancient, period, modern and contemporary film and television shooting scenes!
The first stop of our trip to Hengdian is to visit the Qin Palace.

When we arrived at the outskirts, we found that the Qin Palace scenic area was huge in scale, complex in shape, and rigorous in layout.

The employees strolled among the magnificent palaces, with a building every five steps and a pavilion every ten steps; the corridors were winding and the eaves were high, each one following the terrain and full of intrigue.

The main palace, the "Four Seas Return to One Hall", stands majestically and tall, vividly demonstrating the magnificent momentum of Qin Shihuang's annexation of the six kingdoms and unification of the world.

As the saying goes, there are millions of honeycomb vortices.

The employees excitedly took various photos.

Three days later, everyone went to the Dream Valley Scenic Area again.

We visited the four major areas of Dream Culture Village, Hengdian Old Street, Jiangnan Water Village and Water World.

Everyone also visited the display areas of various natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions, rainstorms and flash floods, as well as various amusement facilities and performances.

Stay directly in a five-star hotel in the resort area at night.

[600 employees from Taoyuan Township experience Hengdian World Studios, with +9000 leisure points]

Seeing the system prompt, Lu Yu was very happy. Very good, the new round of the Lebusishu plan is going smoothly!

After having fun for several days, the employees of the "End of Defense" project team started chattering in the hotel.

"Why did Mr. Lu bring people like us who have nothing to do with the film to Hengdian? Does he have some ulterior motive?"

"I don't know what the intention is, but I'm really worried about our film project. We don't have any successful film experience at all. We finally got to go to Hengdian to learn from them, but Mr. Lu still took everyone out for fun. It's really frustrating."

"Could it be...that this was done intentionally by President Lu?"

(End of this chapter)