The arrangement that Zhou Haoxuan and others said was still very full and good, but Zhang Lexing, who had seen too many unsatisfactory things, was not completely relieved, after all, there was no basis for this matter, and it still had to look at the actual effect after all, so when he left Yuebai Studio, he was there to wonder whether to start the "mystery shopper", and when the game was officially operational, let them understand "Legend" from the perspective of a player The operation situation, such as the feeling of the game in the current network environment, whether the recharge and payment channels are convenient, whether the problem can be solved after it occurs, and the service attitude of the game customer service, etc., and even he plans to try it in person when he has the opportunity, the level of experience game service is one aspect, and more importantly, he wants to feel what this new "Legend" is like.

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhao Haiguang's voice came from Zhang Lexing's side: "Lexing, you didn't say that there was anything to talk about at first, but you turned around." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Lexing thought about it for a while, and almost forgot about the important things when he was thinking about the online game "Legend", he quickly turned his head and said, "Brother Zhao, there is something wrong, have you heard of IGF?"

"IGF?" Zhao Haiguang blurted out an Internet word in confusion: "What Dongdong?"

"IGF, the full name is IndependentGamesFestival, which means Independent Games Festival. Zhang Lexing explained as he walked.

"Indie Games Festival. What is an indie game?" Zhao Haiguang was still confused.

"To put it simply, the so-called indie game is relative to commercial games, and generally a game that is independently produced without the influence of commercial funds or for the purpose of commercial distribution can be considered an independent game. In the early days of development, many game companies are often just a workshop of two or three people, and the games developed at that time can usually be regarded as indie games. Zhang Lexing stopped in front of the elevator and continued to explain.

"Oh!" Zhao Haiguang nodded with a sense of enlightenment: "I know, you want to hold an independent game festival in China, right?" ”

"That's right, I do have this idea, but I still need the support of Brother Zhao from your side. ”

"There's nothing wrong with that, but is there a team that makes indie games in China?" Zhao Haiguang said with some concern: "Don't let the indie game festival be too deserted after it starts." ”

With a "ding" sound, the elevator door slowly opened, and Zhang Lexing said as he walked inside: "Brother Zhao, you don't have to worry about this." I've investigated, in addition to these game companies, there are actually a lot of amateur and semi-amateur game studios of all sizes developing their own games. The reason why I want to hold an independent game festival is also to give them a chance to stand out, for amateur and semi-amateur game studios, it is still very difficult to directly compete with those commercial game companies, after all, limited by technical strength and manpower, they will pay more attention to the fun of the game itself when developing games, as for the external graphics, CG, Music, except for a few geniuses, is mostly improvised, because the external aspects of the games they develop may not meet the requirements of commercial distribution, so it is difficult to be favored by game publishing companies, and it is naturally more difficult to develop and grow. However, compared with the increasingly complex commercial games, indie games also have their own advantages, and they often have fresh ideas and novel gameplay that commercial games have ignored or discarded.

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In this increasingly commercialized society, commercial games have become more conservative, and many domestic commercial game companies do not care about what games players need, they will only choose the most popular games in order to avoid risks, and they will develop whatever games are popular, so there are often real-time strategy games and role-playing games flocking. I hope that by supporting the development of indie games, I can bring some freshness to the development of the gaming industry, and show people who are too conservative to chase the trend and don't want to explore creativity what really good games are. ”

Zhang Lexing said a lot in one breath, so much so that the elevator had already reached downstairs before he finished speaking. Zhao Haiguang didn't expect Zhang Lexing to say so much, he felt a little ashamed, it stands to reason that this kind of thing related to the development of the game industry should be considered by him as the president, but every time Zhang Lexing thinks ahead, and often has good ideas and suggestions, sometimes he is a little skeptical, how unqualified is he as the president of the China Game Industry Association.

The elevator door opened again, and Zhao Haiguang, who was in deep thought, instinctively walked out of the elevator, Zhang Lexing noticed Zhao Haiguang's abnormality, but he didn't expect that Zhao Haiguang was thinking about the problem of unqualified presidents, and he thought that Zhao Haiguang was thinking about how to hold an independent game festival. Zhang Lexing beckoned to Wang Mengyao, took out a document from the briefcase she handed over, gently stabbed Zhao Haiguang, and then handed the document over.

"Brother Zhao, this is the relevant information of the indie game festival in the United States, you can refer to it, it should be helpful. ”

Zhao Haiguang smiled reluctantly, reached out and took the document and flipped it over, "The American Independent Games Festival is co-sponsored by Game Developers Magazine and Game Developers Conference, the first was held in 1998, and it has been held every year since then. The purpose of the Indie Games Festival is to encourage innovation in game development and to discover the best indie games, and due to its growing influence, the annual American Independent Games Festival has even been called the 'Sundance Film Festival of Gaming'. The most important award in the Independent Games Festival is the Seymus McNally Awards, which has been renamed this year, organized by CMPGameGroup, and the winner will not only receive a $20,000 prize money, but also a pass to participate directly to the Game Makers of America Annual Conference, as well as a commemorative trophy and the right to use the name and logo of the Independent Games Festival on promotional materials for one year......"

In addition to an overview of the American Independent Games Festival, the document also contains the operating model, organizational structure, major awards, and even the judging criteria of the Independent Games Festival. It can be seen that Zhang Lexing was very attentive and comprehensive when he sent people to collect information. For Zhao Haiguang, this is a very detailed document, and he can even basically copy it and hold a similar indie game festival with a gourd.

Of course, Zhao Haiguang does have this idea now, but for the sake of safety, he decided to consult Zhang Lexing's opinion again: "Lexing, when do you think this independent game festival is better?"

"Well......" Zhang Lexing pondered for a while and said: "This year's time is too tight, and it is impossible to mix it with the game expo and developer conference, after all, there is still a big difference between the two, so I suggest referring to the time of the American Independent Game Festival, and choose a day with a suitable climate next year, such as April and May, you can also consider other venues, not necessarily limited to Beijing, which can also promote the development of the game industry in other parts of the country." ”

Zhao Haiguang nodded, and said as he walked: "Okay, I'll discuss with them after I go back, the date and place or something, anyway, there is still time, don't be too anxious." ”

"That's fine, but I'd like to consider including DreamBox128, or 'Dream Box', in the scope of the Independent Games Festival, so that there should be more games to choose from. Zhang Lexing added that in fact, according to his vision, the independent game festival is to give a new stage to the majority of domestic game developers, while providing new performance opportunities, it is also to promote the growth of domestic developers, and I hope that they can pay more attention to the consideration of game creativity and gameplay. In order to achieve this goal, in addition to holding the indie game festival, Zhang Lexing also plans to set up a fund to support small and medium-sized game developers with some funds from the Dream Fund, and provide them with the necessary development funds and corresponding opportunities.

As he was talking, a mobile phone that Zhang Lexing was carrying suddenly rang, and the number of this mobile phone was rarely known, so he quickly took out the mobile phone, opened the cover and put it to his ear to answer the sound, and after a while, his brows furrowed. After hanging up the phone, Zhang Lexing dialed a few numbers again, but it didn't seem to be connected at that time, and then he immediately called Wang Mengyao over, and anxiously ordered: "Mengyao, hurry up and contact the crew of the special plane, and at the same time find a way to help me apply for a route from Beijing to Hawaii, I have to go over now, and the speed must be fast!"

Wang Mengyao has never seen Zhang Lexing so anxious, although she doesn't know what is going on, but it is obvious that the situation is very serious, she nodded again and again, and immediately took out her Motorola V998 and contacted people from all sides.

Li Chunlin next to him also noticed the abnormality, but before he could open his mouth to ask, Zhao Haiguang spoke first: "Lexing, what's wrong, is there something wrong?"

"I don't know very well," Zhang Lexing sighed, and said helplessly: "Shanshan went to Hawaii to attend a biology conference in the past few days, and just now someone suddenly called her mobile phone and said that Shanshan entered the hospital, as if it was called the hospital, I wanted to ask a little more clearly, but the phone was disconnected, and I couldn't get through if I called again." I can just hurry over and see what's going on. ”

"What!" Zhao Haiguang was in a hurry, his sister actually entered the hospital inexplicably, he grabbed Zhang Lexing's arm, and then he remembered that his brother-in-law also heard about it on the phone, and couldn't help but sigh. He actually wants to go with him immediately, but it's not as good as going anywhere in the country, you have to get a visa first to go to Hawaii, but this thing doesn't mean that you can do it right away if you want to, it's not like your brother-in-law, who has a visa-free passport, and many countries can go as much as you want.

Zhao Haiguang let go of his hand, gently patted Zhang Lexing's shoulder, and said, "Lexing, I can't get my visa for a while, so I can't go with you." I'm sorry for my sister, so you must tell me as soon as you have any news!"

Zhang Lexing nodded hard: "Brother Zhao, don't worry, I'll call you as soon as I get there." ”

Zhao Haiguang and Zhang Lexing had sad faces, and Li Chunlin next to him had to sigh for a while. After about ten minutes, Wang Mengyao walked by Zhang Lexing's side and said, "Boss, we have already contacted us, the plane will take off in half an hour, and we have to hurry over now." ”

"Okay, let's go. Zhang Lexing turned around and said goodbye to Zhao Haiguang and Li Chunlin, and then hurriedly walked outside with Wang Mengyao. After walking for a while, Zhang Lexing suddenly remembered something again, and hurriedly called Wang Mengyao and instructed: "I almost forgot about it in a hurry just now, you contact and find someone to check in Hawaii to see which hospital your sister Shan lives in." ”

"Okay boss, I'll get in touch. Wang Mengyao nodded, took out her Motorola V998 again, and began to dial the number.

The two walked out of Building 6 and got into the car, and the car immediately started and drove out of the Oriental Industrial Park, and then headed for the Capital International Airport. Along the way, Wang Mengyao's mobile phone rang several times, and every time Zhang Lexing looked over with hope, but unfortunately every time he saw Wang Mengyao shaking his head helplessly. Until the car drove into the tarmac and the two boarded the "BL901 Global Express", there was still no good news, and Zhang Lexing's worries became deeper and deeper, and he even couldn't help but think about it.

On the way to the plane, Chen Zishan's news finally came, and after a carpet search, she finally found her information in the Queen's Hospital, she was living in a single senior ward at this time, but because the examinations were still in progress, so it was not clear what the reason for the hospital was for the time being.

Knowing a little news, Zhang Lexing's heart calmed down a little, but the current situation of his unknown condition made him still very worried, and even a little self-blame, "If I could accompany her, maybe this kind of thing wouldn't have happened......" He couldn't help but think about it over and over again in his heart.

In the process of this cranky thinking, the "BL901 Global Express" crossed the ocean and came to the sky near the island of Hawaii, and began to slowly circle under the command of the airport tower and wait for the opportunity to descend. Looking at the island below surrounded by azure waters through the porthole, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but get nervous again......

At the same moment, in the Sega headquarters building in Tokyo, Japan, Shoichiro Iriko stood for the last time in the president's office that once belonged to him, and he was calmly packing up his things. In fact, there are not many items that belong to him, that is, some books he bought, family photos, etc., which can be easily packed in a cardboard box, but he packs it very slowly, after all, three years is not a very short time, things are easy to be taken away and erased, but the joy, hesitation, hope, expectation, loss, and despair he left here are not so easy to let go.

The Dreamcast host has failed, and even Sega has come to the brink of failure, although today is the last day of Shoichiro's friendship, although the recent financial report calculation has not been completed, but he is roughly clear, and now the loss of Sega is very serious, the original forecast is a loss of 6~700 million yen at most, as long as the sales of the Dreamcast console rise, everything will come back. But what I didn't expect was that under the front and back of the DreamBox128 and PS2, the sales of the Dreamcast console have always been not ideal, and it can even be said that there is no improvement, and even worse, the high hopes, "Shenmue" starring Yu Suzuki himself With more than 7 billion yen invested in development, it is already the most expensive game on the planet to develop, and it should be able to achieve good results, but it was put on the market at the end of last year, but the final sales were not even 6,000 units. In this way, the sales of the Dreamcast console were terrible, and the game with high hopes suffered a fiasco, with the result that Sega has lost more than 26 billion yen so far, and the situation is still getting worse, and Shenmue definitely plays a big role.

Throwing the last photo into the cardboard box, Shoichiro Iriko walked around the president's room with great nostalgia, then sighed and walked out of the room with the cardboard box, knowing that he had completely lost his relationship with Sega......

On the other hand, at Sega's press conference, CSK Group President Koshi Ogawa stood on the podium with his sick body in his arms, smiling and answering various questions from reporters in the audience. Since he couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, or Okawa couldn't find a person with the same philosophy as himself, after Shoichiro Iriko resigned, he decided to take charge of Sega for a while, and when the company's business situation improved or a suitable candidate was found, he would hand it over to someone else to manage. As for now, he has to work his own, after all, the loss of more than 20 billion yen is not a small amount, and it is not so easy to turn around.

Okawa looked at the excited reporters in the audience, but in his heart he was thinking about Sega's huge losses: "Look at this situation, it won't work if you don't move the old book......"

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