The Global Game Developers Conference has been around for five years, starting in San Jose, California, from a dozen companies in the circle to hundreds of people every year.

This year, thanks to the addition of Longteng and 3DO Group, the number of people has skyrocketed to 4,000, and a considerable number of developers have rushed from all over Shijie to look for cooperation opportunities.

The two brothers, Babu and Rawat, rushed to the scene, looked at the exhibition tickets in their hands, compared them with the banners outside the Holiday Inn, and waved their fists excitedly: "This is it!" ”

The two brothers came to the door with their duffel bags and accepted the security check, while speaking stumbling English and asking, "Is Longteng's Yongyonglai coming?" ”

The security guard looked confused: "Yongyong? Who is Yong-Yong? Are you asking Yang Yun? ”

Babulen said with a gesture, and finally made it clear, they really couldn't pronounce the name Yun-Yang, and the security guards also had a headache with the English of these Portuguese accents.

After entering the venue, the two brothers, Rawat and Babu, asked when they met, and Zuihou was told by the kind staff that Yang Yun would most likely not appear in the venue two days before the conference, and that they should be able to meet him in person when they came back on the third day.

Babu was a little annoyed: "I have to wait two days, I don't know if we will be able to see him!" ”

Rawat comforted: "Don't worry, the organizing committee has said that he is coming, and he will definitely come." We have traveled thousands of kilometers and waited for several years, and we are not afraid to wait for this zuihou for two more days! ”

The loss after the excitement made the two of them tired, but fortunately, the organizing committee arranged a room for everyone to rest. The two deliberated, and one stayed at the venue to supervise the standout. The other person goes to sleep in the room, leaving one person to keep an eye on the meeting.

The Game Developers Conference is divided into several sessions. The first two days were for development training and teaching, providing lectures on four topics: game planning, game production, game development, and advertising management.

This will be followed by an industry symposium that will be held interspersed with training and teaching, commenting on and predicting the games that already exist in the market today, as well as the games that may be popular in the future, leading game developers to choose new targets.

Then came the keynote speeches by home console manufacturers. Including handheld and home game consoles, mainly Sega and Nintendo, there is another 3DO this year, and the product departments of the three companies will showcase the latest jishu and products.

Zuihou was the climax of the meeting, the developer's caprice. This session will focus on a certain type of game on the market, and then invite the biggest names in the game industry to participate in the discussion, vent their dissatisfaction or shortcomings with the most direct words, and then find ways to improve it.

Because this session will invite the game developers themselves to speak in person, and will face the merciless criticism of several other game industry professionals. The language is very sharp and very prone to controversy and even arguments.

However, it's not good to look at without quarrels. If there is no struggle, it will not be lively, and if there is no conflict, it will not attract the attention of the media, and it will not attract the attention of readers.

This time the developer's caprice. Everyone speculated that it should be from real-time strategy games, fighting games. RPG game picks, and no surprises. Longteng will definitely produce a developer to participate in the discussion and accept criticism and lessons from others.

As a result, on the second day of the meeting, at the industry symposium, the first small climax appeared.

3DO Group includes Panasonic of Japan, AT&T, Time Warner, Universal Pictures and Television, as well as EA and KTT companies, after seeing the dismal and aggrieved sales of Panasonic 3DO host for more than half a year, finally thought of asking for help from all over the world, with the help of this GDC conference, took the initiative to carry the banner of morality.

Speaking on behalf of the 3DO Group, EA is willing to set up a fund to help eligible members with less than $1 million in annual profits, in the form of jishu assistance or direct funding disbursements.

The idea was immediately supported by all the attendees, who were greeted with applause without hesitation, and Larry on the stage smiled and waved to the audience, receiving the cheers of the people like a king.

The 4,000-person conference, nearly 800 companies, 95% of which are small companies with annual sales of less than $1 million, will be direct beneficiaries if the foundation is established.

Of course, the 3DO Group is not responsible for this foundation on its own, and the remaining 1% of the core members are all highly profitable companies such as Dragon, EA, Ubisoft, and Nintendo.

"Mr. Yang, isn't this the international version of our Longteng small game company supporting Jihua?" Jiang Shaoyun complained in a low voice.

Yang Yun laughed: "They are playing the dollar card, using money to support those small companies that support them, and setting a series of harsh high thresholds to eliminate those game companies with mediocre strength. ”

Jiang Shaoyun asked: "They call for large enterprises with high profits to jointly invest, should we follow up?" ”

Yang Yun disagreed: "It's only a few dollars, follow, of course you have to follow." But to hear clearly, there is a precondition for the distribution of these money, it must be 'qualified', who is in charge of the setting, what are the conditions, and who is more beneficial, we can't ignore this! ”

Holding the same idea, of course, there are Ubisoft, GW, Nintendo and them.

No one wants to see themselves contributing money and ending up doing a job for others.

The amount of the foundation's donation, which is a matter for 1% of the core members, all parties will inevitably argue for their own interests, after the meeting, the organizer specially arranged a special small negotiation meeting, Jiang Shaoyun participated on behalf of Long Teng.

As the main initiator of the Foundation, Larry read out the standards drafted by EA one by one, and sure enough, in the threshold setting, there was a lot of tricks in it.

"If the company's games pass the game quality management threshold for any of Nintendo, Sega, or 3DO, and the annual sales don't reach $1 million, then they can make up the 1 million through the Foundation's primary selection, and the Foundation professionals select the best 20 companies every year," Larry said. ”

It sounds like yes, but the most tormented are the small companies with annual sales of less than $1 million, and maybe they need to get through the initial difficulties with this money, come back to life, and then soar the next year.

But for the people of Nintendo and Sega, this is a very unfair clause, because 3DO has almost no game entry barrier, and almost any game can be sold on Panasonic 3DO consoles, but not many companies are willing to do so.

If there is a game that is not haode enough, or there is no innovation to follow the trend, because the commercial value is not high, it has not passed the quality management system of Nintendo and Sega, but the low-threshold 3DO platform is willing to be released, and the annual sales reach 200,000 US dollars, then these ten companies can successfully enter the preliminary list.

In this way, those companies that are still a little bit past Sega and Nintendo, for the sake of this primary selection place, take the initiative to find 3DO companies to release, instead of going back to modify, reflect, innovate, and strive to improve their own strength, and then submit it for inspection in the next round.

The quality management system is like this, forcing game production companies to improve their own strength, instead of developing bad games for money!

And EA's good calculation is to increase the number of orders on the 3DO platform!

Without Jiang Shaoyun to speak, Arakawa Minoru refused: "The setting of this threshold needs to be discussed separately, so you can't be so rash!" ”

Ubisoft also expressed its attitude, Lawrence believes that for PC games, there is no unified standard for all shijie, and the threshold needs to be reset.

Larry hated it, but after he saw Jiang Shaoyun also smiling, he had to give up: "This is my preliminary opinion, everyone can make a haode suggestion, no matter what the final result is, 3DO is even willing to bear the cost alone." ”

Sympathy cards? Jiang Shaoyun sneered: "Since everyone is not short of this money, it is better to set up their own ones." ”

Minoru Arakawa snorted heavily: "Nintendo has always supported companies with potential!" ”

Lawrence sneered, "Everyone has strength, so why would EA use the fame of the Game Developers Conference to advertise itself?" ”

Soon, the quarrels in the small conference room continued, and the voices of dissatisfaction became louder and louder.

Yang Yun didn't participate, he knew that this matter would not be so simple, and the matter would be handed over to his subordinates.

He was stopped by two young men, pulled to the rest area, and enthusiastically explained his game ideas to him.

One person quickly introduced: "Hello! My name is Babu, he is my brother Rawat, we are from São Paulo, Brazil, and we have come to you! ”

Yang Yun was really uncomfortable listening to the Portuguese accent of English, but it was not good to refuse these two enthusiastic young men too much, and said with a slight frown: "Thank you for your hard work...... Is there anything you guys are up to? ”

Rawat said: "I heard that Longteng has a third batch of support in the world? I wonder if there is a company that takes into account our Brazil? ”

Brazilian gaming company? To be honest, Yang Yun really didn't know that there were any famous game companies in Brazil, and when he heard about Brazil, his first reaction was football.

"Which game company are you?" Yang Yun asked.

The two brothers said in unison: "BrazilGames! ”

I'm sorry...... Yang Yun has never heard of this name, but this name is good, it can be named a Brazilian game, awesome!

"Then what are you looking for ...... me?"

"We have a new game idea, and we hope to get your support, preferably to invest in our company and develop it together!" Rawat said calmly.

And Babu couldn't wait, and he excitedly said, "This game is called Ancient Inca Zuma!" (To be continued......)