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Chapter 368 with a strange BUG, ​​"God Drama Director Simulator" is online, Yinzi Live (2 in 1)

"Could it be that Mr. Lu did this on purpose?"

"Intentional?"

"Yes, think about it, which of the projects we launched before looked easy? Doesn't Mr. Lu know that we will step into many pitfalls on our first attempt?
But he still agreed to the film project, which shows his full trust in us. Maybe he even wants our project team to develop a new game while we're in Hengdian!"

"Indeed, the company needs to continue recruiting, and we have so many people sitting idle anyway."

So, everyone started to think about what the next project of the Zizai Studio Group should be.

……

After traveling in Hengdian for half a month, Lu Yu finally met Sberg's team.

The first time we saw this team, we were stunned.

Director Sberg has fluffy curly hair that looks a bit messy. He is wearing a colorful pikapika shiny jacket and exaggerated sunglasses that almost cover his entire face, making him look extremely eye-catching.

Next to him was a short-haired woman wearing a cool leather jacket, with tattoos all over her arms, exuding a rebellious aura.

The man on the other side was wearing a baseball cap covered with glowing LED lights and a T-shirt printed with semen patterns.

When Lu Yu saw the appearance of these people, he was delighted!
Here it comes, this is what they call, the more a team likes to make bad movies, the more they deliberately portray an unruly image!
It’s the same idea as the previous non-mainstream.

After a simple handshake and greeting, Sberg took Lu Yu to visit his photography studio.

After visiting the studio in person, Lu Yu discovered that it was even more bizarre than he had imagined.

The studio was filled with strange devices and decorations, and on the walls hung mechanical devices that looked like they were made of scrap parts, making creaking sounds.

There are some strange sculptures on the ground, some of which look like alien creatures, and some look like chaotic urban landscapes.

Sperger nodded and said:

“We love making our own crafts so we can always have props on set, like a giant rubber duck or an inflatable dinosaur.”

At the workbench in the studio, employees are busy with their own work. Some are doodling with colored pens, some are fiddling with the set, and some are typing frantically on the keyboard. Their expressions are full of wildness and insolence.

On the other side of the corner, the action director team would suddenly start doing strange dances, such as the Golden Rooster Dance or the Crab Step, without paying any attention to the eyes of the people around them, as if they were performing some kind of mysterious ritual.

When passing by the conference room, Lu Yu listened for a moment and was shocked to find that
These filmmakers actually had bizarre discussions in the conference room, such as arguing about whether there are parallel universes in the universe, or weird supernatural phenomena like the Bermuda Triangle.

As he toured this seemingly simple yet otherworldly studio, Lu Yu was astonished!
This place is simply a paradise for a bunch of psychopaths!

No wonder they were able to produce such a weird movie with a Douban score of 1.9, "Star Travelers".

With the film in the hands of such a talented team, how can we worry about it not being a flop?

After walking out of Sperger's studio, Lu Yu shook hands with him:

"Director Shi, you truly amaze me! I've decided to acquire this studio and rename it 'Taoyuanxiang Pictures'"

As usual, Shi Bo said politely, "It's okay, Mr. Lu, I understand your decision not to invest..."

Then, he suddenly realized,

What?
Full acquisition?!
At this time, the way Sberg looked at Lu Yu was a bit like looking at an alien.

To put it bluntly, they have now completely given up on finding investors to invest in them.

Before, he still had the patience to wear a suit and tie to receive investors, but now, he has completely given up and will shoot as long as he can.

I never expected that Mr. Lu would be willing to acquire them even though they behaved so outrageously?
There must be a demon in the abnormal situation.

Is there some kind of commercial fraud going on here?

Sperger asked tentatively:
"I need to remind you that the three most popular domestic films on Douban are all produced by our team. Are you sure you want to buy them?"

Lu Yu suddenly became serious:

"It's precisely because you've taken over the bottom three that I'm willing to buy! Director Shi, do you know what the scariest thing in the world is? It's not being too good, nor too bad, but being too mediocre!
Think about it, from childhood to adulthood, the top students and the last-place students in the class have a very strong sense of presence in the class, but it is precisely the middle-level students who have the lowest sense of presence, as if they have become Akalin.

I believe that since you have the ability to be at the bottom of Douban, sooner or later you will be able to dominate the Douban charts!"

After hearing this, Sberg and the members behind him decided not to stay in Bengbu anymore and their eyes were filled with tears!
Sperger excitedly shook Lu Yu's hand:

"Mr. Lu, you truly are our soulmate! We've endured the cynicism and ridicule of film critics and the audience for so many years, and finally the clouds have cleared and the moon is shining!"

"It's easy to talk about."

While Lu Yu was comforting the other person, he sighed in his heart:
Director Shi, Director Shi, don’t you think about why film critics and fans have been chasing you and criticizing you all these years?
Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility,
Is your film really hopelessly bad?
Lu Yu maintained a polite smile on his face and introduced them to the free studio led by Naitang.

"These are the colleagues who produced 'Defense of the End'. I hope you will work hard together to create more brilliant achievements."

When the crew members of Sberg saw Milk Candy, their eyes widened!

Oh my goodness, how can there be such a good little girl!
Seeing this group of LSPs salivating, Lu Yu felt secretly happy:
The plan goes through!
In order to interfere with the normal filming of the movie, Lu Yu specifically instructed to extend Mo Xiaoxuan's "business trip" arrangement and allow Nai Niutang in women's clothing to continue the activities.

Although Mo Xiaoxuan wanted to appeal, Lu Yu ruthlessly rejected his decision.

Brat, this is the punishment for backstabbing me last cycle!
Lu Yu smiled and said:
"Ms. Milk Candy, Mr. Sperger is a well-known weirdo in the film and television industry... Oh no, a weirdo. We in Zizai Studio must fully cooperate with him.
Watch more, listen more, learn more, and then use these experiences in future game development, understand?"

Milk Candy and the studio members nodded in confusion.

Lu Yu smiled slightly. Since Sperger was so weird and unsuccessful, working with his team would definitely cause various mental pollution.

After the Zizai Studio is completely defiled, these weird trains of thought will spread to the other two studios.

Meh hahahaha, the plan works!
……

A few days later, Taoyuanxiang Pictures was officially established in Hengdian. Due to the acquisition of Sberg's photography team and the expansion of recruitment, the total number of employees in Taoyuanxiang reached 900.

Now, they are setting up the studio while waiting for the Paramount team to arrive.

After a period of adjustment with the Sperberg team, the employees of the Zizai Studio group began to doubt themselves.

That night, they discussed in the work group:

"Hiss... I feel like my brain is going crazy. I don't know if there's something wrong with me or with this world. Why do I feel more and more that Mr. Sberg's seemingly bizarre and unusual filming ideas... seem to make quite a bit of sense?"

"Yeah, this thing is so magical. When we first heard him talk about the shooting plan, we all thought, 'This is absolutely not the way to shoot a movie.' But he was like a ghost hanging around us every day, talking over and over again. After listening to him so much, we got used to it."

"Oh no! This isn't what you call brainwashing, is it?"

Seeing that everyone was trying to steer the conversation off track, Milk Candy interrupted and said:

"Hmm, hmm, I think the reason Mr. Lu asked us to study with Mr. Sperberg is because he wants us to apply what we've learned to the new work we develop!"

This reminds everyone:
"Yes, Sister Toffee is right! Mr. Lu, the old master of Thousand Layer Cakes, has hinted at us coming here for every previous project. This time is definitely no exception."

"In other words, Mr. Lu wants us to develop a new game related to filming?"

Everyone's minds were instantly opened!
Then, after a night of discussion, they summarized what they had seen and heard during their visits to the crew and decided to launch the "Director Simulator" project.

In this short-form game, the protagonist will be the producer and director of a newly established film and television company. Starting from the script, he will go through investment, casting, shooting, and complete the shooting of the entire movie until it is released online.

The audience's evaluation will affect the protagonist's box office revenue. The protagonist must make a hit film and then use development funds to continue to grow.

Generally speaking, it still follows the design concept of simulation business games.

After everyone finalized the project plan, they began to use their time in Hengdian to develop it enthusiastically.

After all, this is just a small-scale game, and the development workload is not that large.

Moreover, as veterans of numerous game development, the project members were already well-versed in collaboration, and soon after the project was launched, they asked the operations department to schedule a release date. Taoyuan Township's official Weibo account later released a brief teaser poster.

The poster features a studio set filled with cameras and storyboards, with the following text written below:

"Taoyuan Township's new career simulation game brings you a different experience"

"Coming soon, please stay tuned"

Here are some fan comments:

"I'm Chao? A new career simulation game? What new thing is Taoyuan Township planning?"

"Thanks to Taoyuan Township, I've been president in Africa, a building security guard in the city, the leader of the Beggars' Gang, and even a crosstalk master. No matter what you come up with, I'm not afraid of you. Just come at me!"

"GKD, GKD!"

Now, the mainstream attention of the media and players is all focused on the reports of the Tokyo Game Show and "Xie Yun's Legend".

Even Taoyuanxiang’s own fans focused their attention on the mysterious new work “Codename CARD” that was exhibited.

So this preview poster did not cause much waves.

However, on Weibo, a popular Weibo user named Qin Ming, who has 300 million followers, mocked the game:

"It looks like a typical film studio management simulation game. There are a lot of these games on Steam. Even with VR, the gameplay remains the same. What new things can Taoyuan Township come up with?"

Qin Ming’s certified identity is “Manager of Daqin Media”, and Daqin Media is the MCN agency behind “Zhongyuan Wubian”.

Qin Ming is quite influential in the gaming circle. Under his leadership, the popularity of this game took a sharp turn for the worse before it was even released.

Many neutral players expressed concern: "Indeed, the upper limit of the subject matter has been reached. What else can Taoyuan Township do?"

……

After several weeks of development in Hengdian, the engineering files for Director Simulator were finally completed.

However, on the eve of delivering the printing plate to the factory, an accident occurred!
Client programmer Fang Qingjie said sadly:

"Oh no! There's a major bug! There's a problem with the logic code for our game's NPC audience reviews. Everything is wrong, and the NPC audience has started to like bad movies!"

"What the hell?" Others were confused and started to chat in the development group.

Afterwards, Fang Qingjie explained to everyone that their game had misjudged the audience's evaluation logic. The more unconventional the plot, the more awkward the acting, and the more bizarre the filming techniques, the higher the scores given by the audience.

The more professionally shot a movie is, the lower the audience score will be!
Yao Jun said, "It seems like the scoring rules and logic were written backwards from the beginning. How could such a basic mistake occur?"

Shao Peng:

"There's no other way, Jun Ge, think about it, we've never been idle in the past month since we came to Hengdian.

Mr. Lu is either taking us on sightseeing trips, picnics, or visiting the sets of celebrities. We don't have time to thoroughly investigate bugs."

Fang Qingjie's voice trembled:
"What's worse is that this layer of rule code was written shortly after the project was launched, and all subsequent functional module development was based on this buggy code.

If we blindly make changes now, there won't be enough time, and it might even cause a ripple effect!"

All the programmers in the project team looked disheartened.

Here it comes, the classic program can only run normally because of a BUG.

Everyone was undecided and quickly pulled Liu Mengyuan into the group.

After listening to everyone, Liu Mengyuan said, "I think everyone should stay calm. This isn't the first time our company's project has had a bug right before going live. We just need to ask Doraemon for help... oh no, ask Director Chu for help."

Yao Jun: "I'm afraid it won't work this time. Chuxiong's AI server is undergoing an upgrade and maintenance, so he can't help us right now."

Liu Mengyuan pondered for a moment: "Although Chuxiong has no solution, we can continue the idea he used to help us solve problems in the past, that is - forcibly package the bug into a game feature!"

After she said this, everyone's eyes lit up:
Shao Peng: "Mr. Liu is right! Package the bug as a game feature. This is the only place where we have a bug right now. We can repackage this bug by slightly changing the copy and art.

This time there is no confusion of resources, and it can be done without the help of artificial intelligence."

Sun Rou: "The question now is, how can we package this bug so that it doesn't look out of place?"

After everyone pondered for a moment, copywriter Hao Shuwen released the winning move:

"Let's base our protagonist on Mr. Shi's studio. We can do this..."

……

Soon after, it was the day the game was released.

Taoyuan Township’s official Weibo released information about the new work:
"'God Drama Director Simulator' is now available exclusively on the Taoyuan Shenyou platform for 99 yuan!"

After the announcement was released, the response on Weibo was lukewarm, because the first few hot searches were bought by several other friendly companies participating in the Tokyo Game Show.

The top trending topic on Weibo is now the increasingly fierce business war between Longteng Group and Liu Group.

It is said that in many first-tier cities, fierce physical conflicts have occurred between store employees of the two groups' physical stores.

So, at the beginning, the game's sales were just climbing at a snail's pace without any notice.

……

Taoyuan Light Year live broadcast platform, live broadcast room of game anchor "Yinzi".

Yinzi was originally a well-known game anchor on Douyu Live Streaming Platform, and was very popular.

However, Douyu has had a lot of problems recently. The CEO went to jail, Xuxubao left, Shuyi's reputation collapsed, PDD fled to Japan, and Xiaotuantuan seems to be going to jail as well.
Therefore, Yinzi, who foresaw the danger, terminated his contract with Douyu after it expired and joined Taoyuan Light Year.

Yinzi joined Taoyuan Township not only because of the negative public opinion about Douyu.

The last game anchor G-chan who jumped over from D Station gained more than 200 million followers thanks to the game "Final Defense".

The gift flow during the live game even ranked among the top 10 on the entire platform.

Everyone would be envious of this traffic and money.

However, Taoyuan Township officials recently introduced new regulations, and only the Taoyuan Lightyear platform can live broadcast Taoyuan Township's games.

Therefore, Yinzi changed jobs in order to take advantage of the popularity of Taoyuan Township's games.

Today, as soon as "God-level Drama Director Simulator" was released, Yinzi couldn't wait to buy it and start watching it.

This was Yinzi’s first broadcast on Taoyuan Light Years. The former VIPs were also very supportive, flooding the screen with all kinds of gifts, which quickly pushed him to the top of the game category.

"Everyone, today we're live streaming a new game from Taoyuan Township. I see this game isn't very popular online, so I'm going to give it a try."

On the screen, Yinzi put on VR glasses.

The game quickly enters the title screen, with the background being an ordinary-looking studio.

But Yinzi took a look around and soon found the key point:
"Look, the words 'God Drama' are highlighted, and the props and sets in these studios look a bit... how should I put it, weird. I guarantee this game is definitely not just a simple movie."

The audience was delighted:

"Indeed, I no longer dare to believe any of Taoyuan Township's promotional announcements or game titles."

"New type of Utopia PTSD, hahahaha!"

Just like that, under the expectant gaze of the audience, Yinzi entered the game.

(End of this chapter)