After a while, Zhang Lexing returned to Hong Kong for a week, and then set out on another journey, this time not in an Agusta A109 helicopter, but in his BL901 Global Express, which flew directly from Hong Kong to Beijing.

Beijing in July has entered the hot season, although it has not yet reached the highest temperature of the day, Zhang Lexing still feels the heat wave on the plane, and unlike the humid heat of Hong Kong and Zhuhai, the air here still has a slight feeling of dryness, even if you hide in the shade can not escape. Fortunately, the car that came to pick up the airport was not far from the tarmac, Zhang Lexing ran a few steps, and soon got into the black Mercedes-Benz S600 in the middle, and with the help of the air conditioning in the car, he temporarily escaped the invasion of the heat wave.

The Mercedes-Benz S600 quickly started and drove smoothly on the road. Zhang Lexing leaned back in the comfortable leather seat, took the iced green tea handed over by Wang Mengyao and took a sip, and a cool feeling quickly spread to his whole body along his mouth, making him exhale comfortably and gently.

When Zhang Lexing was almost drunk, Wang Mengyao took the empty drink cup and put it away, then took out his PDA and began to introduce the itinerary according to his habits: "Boss, the main arrangement of the itinerary in the past few days is like this......"

Zhang Lexing's visit to Beijing is to inspect his own industry on the one hand, and to participate in the judging meeting of the games participating in the Independent Games Festival, which is the main purpose of his trip. As the first indie game festival in China, although there are still many people who don't know what an indie game festival is, but the all-inclusive fee, plus the VIP badge of the China Game Developers Conference and up to six exhibition badges still attracted a large number of participants, and more than 1,000 games were registered before the deadline.

After several rounds of screening, there are still 50 entries left in the professional and amateur categories, and he needs to work with other judges to select the highest-level finalists for the Independent Games Festival to impact the final awards.

The motorcade drove downstairs to the Beijing Hotel, and Zhang Lexing, accompanied by Wang Mengyao and the bodyguards, walked into the lobby of the hotel, and the lobby manager immediately greeted him warmly. Wang Mengyao took out a platinum card and handed it over, the manager glanced at it, the expression on his face immediately became more respectful, and immediately guided Zhang Lexing and his party into the VIP elevator.

The group came out of the elevator and put their luggage in the guest room, Wang Mengyao came to the door to send the enthusiastic lobby manager away, exhaled lightly and turned to walk back, just in time to see Zhang Lexing resting on the sofa, so he walked over and leaned down and asked: "Boss, it's still early, do you want to rest first." ”

"No, I'll just lean on for a while. Zhang Lexing waved his hand, this journey is quite easy, at least it is much more comfortable than many passengers who need to queue up for security checks, but after all, it is still a few hours of plane and car, and it is still a little tired. So he moved his body down and closed his eyes, a pair of Qianqianyu hands reached over and put them on his head and pressed them gently, with a hint of familiar fragrance, a comfortable and comfortable feeling spread along the scalp......

After eating a sumptuous Chinese food, after a short break, Zhang Lexing went to the office of the review committee located downstairs from the conference room, when he walked out of the elevator to the door of the review office, it can be seen from the open door that there are already several people present, basically Zhang Lexing's acquaintances, such as Fu Zan, a game predecessor from Tianzhiyuan, Bian Xiaochun, who is obsessed with the game of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yuanhuan, a representative of the creative workshop, Xu Bo, a planner from a game company in the south, Liu Kun, a well-known game producer in the industry, The famous Japanese painter Mori Qilou, the simulation master Will White, the "King of Britain" Richard Galriot, and Max Sheffield, one of the three giants of Northern Blizzard, etc.

There are generally two types of people who like to play indie games, one is a professional and experienced industry veteran, who develops indie games basically to show their unique creativity or show some unique technology, and the other is a passionate game enthusiast, who may know a little bit about game development, but basically it is still a new Ding, and game development is more based on the love of games. If the works of these two people are compared together during the review, it is obviously unfair, although there is no shortage of masters of the hidden dragon and crouching tiger among game lovers, but after all, it is still a minority, as if the peerless master in "Kung Fu" is one in ten thousand, and the probability of game lovers picking up professional veterans is also very low, so this review is deliberately divided into two levels, the professional group of veterans and the amateur group belonging to game enthusiasts.

"Mr. Zhang......"

"Mr. Zhang......"

"Boss ......"

As Zhang Lexing walked into the office of the review meeting, everyone who arrived in advance greeted him warmly, Zhang Lexing smiled and nodded to everyone casually, and then found a seat and sat down. In addition to Xu Bo and Liu Kun, Zhang Lexing has had a lot of dealings with these people at the scene, and even some of them are employees of his subordinate companies, so they can be said to be more familiar, so there is no need to waste time to be polite.

"Alright guys, let's get started. Zhang Lexing, who was sitting in the chair, didn't talk nonsense and directly picked out the theme.

"Well, then let's start with the game of the professional group first...... Zhao Yuanhuan stood up and turned on the power of the projector, and soon a picture appeared on the projection screen, and he continued: "Work 049, "Green Storm" from Hainan Balance Beam Software Company, development game ......"

"The game is similar to an old game "Chinese Ball King" many years ago, but no matter the game screen, music, or the content of the game, there has been a leap of progress...... "Zhao Yuanhuan pressed the electronic remote control laser pointer in his hand, while making an introduction, and the pictures on the projection screen also kept switching, showing all aspects of "Green Storm".

This is the first step in the game judging process - the game presentation, which lasts about 10 minutes, and is projected so that all the judges can have a preliminary understanding of the target game. 10 minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and then entered the formal review process, under the control of the server, the game screen of "Green Storm" appeared on the computer screen in front of every judge, including Zhang Lexing, and everyone picked up the mouse and began to try to operate.

The formal judging of the game is not too strict, but the maximum trial time is limited to no more than 50 minutes, as long as all the judges fill in the game score sheet, the game's judging process is preliminarily completed, and if there is a consensus of opinion, the judges can even complete this link in a few minutes, of course, this situation is generally because the game is too bad.

15 minutes passed, and one after another, people put down the mouse in their hands and began to fill out the game rating form on the computer. In the 22nd minute, Xu Bo put down the mouse in his hand for the last time and began to score "Green Storm" one by one.

"Well, the game screen, 70 points...... Operating system, 65 points ......" Xu Bo looked at the items on the game's score sheet while filling in the scores in his mind one by one, and when the last "creative" score was filled, he checked it slightly and pressed the submit button on the screen.

Soon the projection screen switched to a new screen, and the final score of "Green" came out, Zhao Yuanhuan looked at the projection screen and began to read: "The game screen score of "Green" is 67 points...... The operating system scored 63 points...... The game plot is 55 minutes...... Creativity 72 points...... The overall rating is 65 points. ”

On the wall, an LCD monitor used to announce the results showed the first data: "Greenfield"...... 65 points", Zhao Yuanhuan pressed the electronic remote control laser pointer in his hand, and continued: "Well, next is the second game in the professional group, number 098, from Qin Studio's "Resurrected Corps", real-time strategy game ......"

"The real-time strategy game "The Resurrected Corps" depicts the war between the Qin Empire and the Xiongnu in the north and the Baiyue in the south...... Zhao Yuanhuan introduced the "Resurrected Corps" as the screen on the projection screen switched, and everyone's eyes shifted from the computer screen in front of them to the screen screen, listening carefully to the information about the game.

Time passed day by day, and the people of the jury carefully appreciated each game, hoping to dig out some highlights from it, although there were many disappointments, but occasionally there were one or two special surprises, such as the efficient AI and the large-scale battle scene of thousands of people in the professional group work "The Resurrected Corps", and the physical characteristics of objects of different materials reflected in the amateur group work "The Jumper".

By 11 a.m. on the fourth day, the final indie game festival finalists appeared, as the ratings for the last game appeared on the projection screen, and the LCD screen on the wall was refreshed for the last time. In order of ratings, the shortlisted works in the professional group are: the real-time strategy game "Resurrected Corps" (DreamBox128 platform & PC platform) developed by Qin Studio, the music game "Super Drummer" (DreamBox128 platform) developed by Guangzhou Tianyou, the action role-playing game "Qin Yan" (PC platform) developed by target software, and the decryption game "Fog Street" (DreamBox128 platform) produced by Wuhan Dingfeng & PC platform), Shanghai Naike's card battle game "Pocket Magic" (DreamBox128 platform game), and Taiwan Hantang's war chess game "Deadly Force" (PC platform).

The shortlisted games in the amateur category are: Clover Studio's barrage shooter "Legend Moonlit Night" (PC platform), Pixel Fish Studio's puzzle game "Light and Shadow" (you need to use the characteristics of light and shadow to clear the level, DreamBox128 platform game), Xiaoyue Studio's action-agile game "Jumper" (PC platform), Riding Racing game "Rampage" (PC platform) developed by Weifudo, and the real-time strategy game "" with insects as the protagonist developed by Avant-garde Studio Micro War (PC platform), the chain elimination game "Super Chain" (PC platform) developed by Shao Feng of Changsha University of Science and Technology.

Looking at the final shortlist, Zhang Lexing breathed a sigh of relief, although he has not been engaged in continuous rotation in the past few days, although he is only responsible for the review of the professional group games, but it took him a lot of effort to look at the 50 works one by one, and he can also see the tired look on the faces of others, but fortunately, the final result is not bad. Although Zhang Lexing did not see the appearance of the amateur group of games with his own eyes, the feedback received from another review group showed that the shortlisted works of the amateur group also had good results.

The first time the independent game festival can have such a result, Zhang Lexing feels very gratified, which shows that his efforts over the years have not been in vain, at least you can see that domestic game developers are growing, showing strength is also increasing day by day, in addition to their own descendants, other game developers are also constantly approaching the first-class level, maybe it will not be long before China will become a game development power like the United States and Japan, Zhang Lexing is very much looking forward to the early arrival of that day......

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