Chapter 104: "Game" Episode

It was close to noon, and the final results of the WCG competitions were also decided. Because there are only a few people who are engaged in e-sports in China, or who have time to practice games regularly, they did not achieve particularly outstanding results in the first WCG World Finals. In the "StarCraft" competition, Ma Tianyuan, who was no longer lucky, was defeated by Park Taemin, a Korean who used the Zerg, and won the runner-up. In the 5vs5 battle of "Special Warfare Heroes", the top three were won by players from abroad, and a total of four domestic teams participated but only won one fourth place.

In the competition of "FIFA2000", the domestic players were too nervous on the spot, and they didn't even break into the top four. "Three Kingdoms 3" performed much better, with the team winning the championship all the way with good tactics and tacit cooperation, the second place went to a team from South Korea, the third place was the Japanese Kyushu Abyss that was once defeated in the hands of the world, and the fourth place was the mixed team from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

As for the unofficial competitions such as Pro Evolution Soccer 4, Street Fighter Zero3 and Dance Machine, the final results were also separated, and because there was more entertainment than competition, except for the "China-Korea Confrontation Match", the players in the other games were more enjoying the fun of the game, and the audience was also the same.

After getting the promise of Zhang Lexing's help, Arakawa lost his interest in continuing to mix, and secretly left the Times Fashion Building in the car early, if he was clever enough to book a ticket, maybe he was already on his way home, after all, he was also the president of a company, although it was just a fictitious position, but it was not good to leave for too long. Arakawa didn't want things to be known to everyone before they succeeded, so he would be passive.

After Arakawa left, Zhang Lexing didn't leave in a hurry, he didn't have to stay here to watch the WCG game, but had another temporary adjustment meeting, and met with a few screenwriters to discuss the TV script. This incident was originally scheduled for the second day of the WCG competition, but Zhang Lexing was still in Hong Kong at that time, so it was postponed, and I didn't expect the conversation with Minoru Arakawa to end soon. In the spirit of economy, Wang Mengyao temporarily adjusted the schedule and brought forward the meeting scheduled in the afternoon to the morning.

Because of policy restrictions, Zhang Lexing cannot directly invest in film and television production companies in China, but fortunately, there is also Chen Zishan, who borrowed her name at the beginning of last year to set up a beauty film and television culture communication company in Beijing, engaged in film and television production, actor brokerage and other businesses, originally wanted to do film and television distribution, but it was also a policy restriction and could only be temporarily abandoned. However, Zhang Lexing vaguely remembered that it seemed that the film and television distribution business would be opened in two years, and now he could only prepare for the time being.

The nominal boss and chairman of the company is Chen Zishan, but in fact she basically never comes forward, and the main management work is still managed by Zhang Lexing's personnel transferred from his own film and television company, such as the current general manager Cai Yilun and deputy general manager Chen Yingshan and others who have been in Hong Kong's film and television companies. Before getting the distribution rights, Zhang Lexing will allocate a certain amount of funds every year to shoot a small-budget film and one or two TV series every year, not seeking to make any money, just to train the company's team for the time being.

This time, the screenwriters of Beauty Film and Television were summoned because Zhang Lexing wanted them to write a book, a TV script about the game industry. In Zhang Lexing's impression, there have been film and television adaptations into games, the most famous is the "Star Wars" series, and there are games adapted into film and television, such as the controversial "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" series, but there seem to be very few movies and televisions with game companies as the background, he seems to have only seen a TV series called "J's Game Designer", and it was stopped after only one season.

"J's Game Designer" is about a group of game designers in Vancouver, Canada, who have a group of game designers whose names start with "J" in their development process. When Zhang Lexing first watched it on VeryCD, he didn't even have subtitles, and he didn't even know if he had figured out the plot, and now he almost forgot about it. I just remember that the game designers developed it seems to be a children's game, but the graphics seem to be quite violent, and one of the guest protagonists, Ethan's father, is the "otaku dad" Jensen in "Growing Pains".

Zhang Lexing has always felt strange, why there are so few film and television works that reflect game development companies, is it that everyone is not interested in this, in fact, to put it mildly, at least in foreign countries, game designers are still a very respected white-collar profession, but the situation in China is a little different. If it weren't for Zhang Lexing's positive promotion of the game through various channels over the years, maybe there would be something like "targeting children's electronic (sea) (loin)".

As far as Zhang Lexing knows, game companies are very mysterious to the public, they don't know how game companies are structured, what departments they have, how games are developed, and even the games that have been developed have become mysterious. In addition to players who have experienced the game, many people's first impression of the game comes from the evaluation of the game by the major media, if the media mention the game is "violent, pornographic, very yellow and violent" and other words, then people who have not personally known the game are asked what they think of the game, they usually refer to the information they have learned from other sources, so in their mouth, the synonym of the game has become "violent, pornographic, very yellow and violent", perhaps this is one of the reasons for the prejudice against the game.

Since 1995, when he began to use the media to promote the game positively, some results have been achieved, at least the negative reviews of the game have been relatively small, but there may be many people who don't read much in the newspaper, or the simple text and pictures are not attractive enough, Zhang Lexing feels that many people do not understand the operation of the game company, which is why he wants to try to promote the game in other ways.

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"Come and sit here, Meng Yao pour some tea. The screenwriters who were notified pushed the door in, Zhang Lexing got up and greeted, in order to have a quiet environment for discussion, he also turned off the TV with the remote control.

There are three screenwriters here today, two men and one woman, and Zhang Lexing met them all last year. The slightly older man's name is Shi Kang, and he worked as a programmer for a year before he started writing, so he used to be a peer. The younger man's name is Chen Wanning, it is said that he used to study finance, and he was an online writer before joining Liying, and he also got the position of editor "under the banyan tree". Liao Yimei, the only woman among the three, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama and Drama Literature Department of the screenwriting major, and was born in a serious class, once worked in Wang Shuo's current affairs and cultural consulting company, and later became a freelance screenwriter.

The three of them exchanged a few polite sentences, came to the sofa and sat down, and Shi Kang, the eldest of them, asked first: "Mr. Zhang, your assistant notified us to come over, saying that he wanted us to help write a notebook, I don't know what you wanted? What type of drama do you plan to write, historical drama, military drama, family drama or idol drama?"

In Zhang Lexing's view, Shi Kang is more like a writer, because he has not written a TV series script seriously, but has published two novels "Dangling Yoyo" and "Fragmented", perhaps Cai Yilun, the general manager of Liying, invited him because of his writing. But after all, he won't show any contemptuous expression on his face, after all, he is a serious writer who can lie at home for three months.

Chen Wanning and Liao Yimei saw that Shi Kang had already said what they wanted to say, so they turned their eyes to Zhang Lexing, hoping to see some clues from the face of the person who was said to be the main provider of the company's filming funds.

Zhang Lexing smiled faintly, shook his head and said: "It's not a book, I hope you can write a few more books, there can be more types, sitcoms, urban romance dramas, idol dramas or anything, I won't give you too many restrictions, I only have one requirement, that is, there must be a game company in the script, and it must be a positive image." For example, a sitcom can be set up in a small game studio, a development team composed of several men and women, and some interesting things that happen in daily work and life......"

"Sitcom words......" Chen Wanning suddenly thought of a book he was conceiving in his mind, originally planned to finish writing the "Networm Diary" in his hand and then continue to improve, the book is prepared to be based on a small advertising company in Shanghai, if it is changed, it is similar to the investor's requirements, maybe there will be a chance to shoot, but if he wants to change, he still has a little trouble to solve.

Thinking of this, Chen Wanning took advantage of Zhang Lexing's halfway stop to drink tea, and interjected: "Mr. Zhang, I can try this sitcom you said, but I don't know how the game studio works, I don't know if you can ...... it."

"No problem. Zhang Lexing put down the teacup in his hand, called Wang Mengyao over and instructed: "Mengyao, you arrange, these screenwriters may need to go to the game studio or game company to collect style, you notify the creative workshop to do a good reception." ”

"Yes, boss, I'll be in touch. After speaking, Wang Mengyao took out her Motorola V998 and walked to the side to make a call.

"In addition to sitcoms, I also need urban romance dramas or ethical dramas and things like that. Zhang Lexing continued to say his thoughts, there are more people watching sitcoms or something, but it is not enough to use it for the game to imperceptibly: "There needs to be a relatively large game development company in it. The kind of 300 people, when describing this game company and the employees in it, you must have a sense of fashion, and you should make people feel that game development is a noble profession after watching it, and you can play freely for the rest of the part, but I hope you can consider the viewing habits of the audience now, what kind of plot they like to watch, you should be an expert in this regard......"

In fact, according to Zhang Lexing's idea, it is best that modern TV series in the future (costume films or something, if there is a game development company, it is a bit too shocking) can appear more or less game-related content, and it should be positive. For example, the superior working environment of the game development company, the positive appearance of the employees, the normal and healthy game content, and the reasonable and controlled players are all conducive to improving the public opinion environment of the game subtly.

In Zhang Lexing's view, the biggest obstacle to the development of the domestic game industry is the public opinion environment, the problem of piracy will inevitably improve with the increase of people's income level and the increase of the government's crackdown in the future, but if it comes to games, the game industry is all negative reports, what addiction to games does not return at night, what goes astray in order to make money playing games, and even what "diseases" such as Internet addiction, together with the development of games has become a "drug" producer, and game publishers have become "drugs" The sellers, the game media are even more hateful, and they are completely fueling the "drugs". In this case, many people who are involved in the game industry are embarrassed to let their families know what they do, so how can the entire industry have a chance to catch up with the level of foreign countries.

What is the obstacle that prevents more people from joining the game industry, Zhang Lexing believes that it is the reputation and development prospects of the profession, especially for many parents who are accustomed to making arrangements for their children. As for young people who choose their own careers, they may pay more attention to future development prospects, which can be done by the internal operation of the enterprise.

However, for many people who are new to the game industry, the traditional game professions (including producer, producer, planner, programmer, artist, etc., and even music and sound effects) and emerging game positions (including game customer service, game operation, game promotion, etc.) are very new to them, and they don't know how the game company works inside. The role and status of each position in the game company, as well as what are the future development prospects, Zhang Lexing hopes to dispel their concerns through various channels of publicity, and strive for more talents for the development of the domestic game industry. After all, it is still too slow to rely on Fengyun Game Academy to cultivate, not to mention that there are still some so-called training institutions on the market that follow the trend and are established under the guise of "game design training", purely to make a handful of them and leave.

In addition to removing obstacles to the development of the domestic game industry, Zhang Lexing is also a little selfish in terms of public opinion propaganda, and he also hopes to do subtle publicity with his own companies through the clever implantation of TV and movies (if the subject matter is appropriate). Just like Coca-Cola everywhere, Zhang Lexing hopes that one day, when domestic players want to play games, the first choice subconsciously is the game produced by the creative workshop or the game produced by Fengyun Interactive......

Anyway, there are many companies under Zhang Lexing, and when necessary, they can also provide a real environment to shoot, such as filming a workplace TV series such as "XXX Promotion", you can go to the creative workshop to shoot live, which can not only get a more realistic feeling, but also add some selling points and gimmicks to the TV series, after all, the game company at this time is very mysterious to many people.

In order to ensure that fewer mistakes are made, Beauty Film and Television Culture Communication Company is a little different from other domestic film and television production institutions, and has an expert advisory group composed of part-time personnel, in order to check the places involving different professional levels in the script and avoid too obvious low-level mistakes. Because this situation has appeared too much in domestic films and television, Zhang Lexing can't remember it clearly in other aspects, but the scenes about computers in some TV series are still a little impressive.

For example, in a white-collar romance drama, the heroine asked her girlfriend to help, saying that she wanted to play a game developed by her boyfriend, and it is said that the game image is based on her. As soon as the girlfriend came, she didn't even use the mouse, so she banged on the keyboard and opened the game, and then the screen turned, and what appeared on the screen was actually "DeadOrAlive3". The heroine excitedly snatched the keyboard to play, but the computer screen suddenly went black.

The girlfriend nervously asked, "Which key did you press?" The heroine pointed to the keyboard, and the girlfriend shouted anxiously: "What are you pressing that for, that's the delete key!"

At that time, Zhang Lexing saw this and almost fainted, is this the legendary "one-click deletion", it seems that the software housekeepers are going to watch this TV series collectively, they are all playing deletion, how can the gap be so big.

Or in that play, when the male protagonist came back, he heard that the game had been deleted, so he hurriedly pressed a few keys on the keyboard, and then had a painful expression of constipation, probably because the "recovery" failed. The heroine who caused the trouble went to apologize, but the actor said coolly: "It's not your business, I've been working on the computer for so many years, and I forgot to save ...... disk."

This sentence made Zhang Lexing laugh again, how a good romantic drama was directed by some people is a bit like a nonsensical comedy.

What's even more exaggerated is the drama of some computer masters, often a master sits in front of the computer, doing meditative thoughts, suddenly inspiration, crazy on the keyboard, and then stand up and say to the person behind him: "It's done", and then the camera rotates, the computer screen is displayed at this time, and there is a prompt "KEYBOARDERRORORNOKEYBOARDPRESENT" (keyboard error or keyboard is not installed)".

Zhang Lexing doesn't want these low-level mistakes to always appear in the film and television dramas produced by his company, especially in computers and games, he doesn't want to be imperceptible and spread some wrong things.

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