Xie Jiaming didn't know how he got back home.

When he said goodbye to Ji Lan, he still felt relieved, maybe Ji Lan's encouragement played a little role, but after the separation, he walked alone on the street, and the defense line in his heart began to gradually collapse.

Taxis are a very hurtful means of transportation, perhaps some TV movies and music have rendered too much, in such scenes, sitting in the car, the world in the rearview mirror, the feeling of saying goodbye farther and farther away, pedestrian buildings and street lamps quickly retreating, one by one, the streetscape has been receding, his collapse outside the window fragmented feeling.

Finally returned to his rental house, passing by the living room where there was no sofa TV, random piles of miscellaneous items and parked bicycles, and the moment he entered his room and closed the door, Xie Jiaming finally couldn't help it, lying on the bed like a "big" word, and cried.

26-year-old Xie Jiaming is experiencing a fork in the road in his life.

There are many forks in the road in life, and our whole life is to make choices in those forks, turning left or right, which is a typical tree-like structure, from the starting point to branch one after the other, all the way down, when life originally had many possibilities.

As we get older, we have fewer and fewer possibilities, who we will become, where, where we live, which bed we sleep in, and who we sleep with.

That's what we are now.

After a long time, I don't know what time it was in the morning, the tears were dry and wet, wet and dry, and after a few reincarnations, Xie Jiaming knew that he should make some changes.

His philosophy of "no way".

Now there is no way, he has to change, because he is not satisfied with the status quo, so he can only change. He had to take that step, and in which direction, I don't know......

But step out and talk about it, no matter what.

Xie Jiaming stood up like a zombie and stabbed the computer.

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This year's VGA Awards will take place on the same day as Paradise Lost and CS:GO, both on December 10th. However, the award ceremony is 8 p.m. EST on the 10th, and both games are in London, England, that is, at 00:00 GMT on the 10th, and the real global simultaneous release.

At that time, it was 7 a.m. in China, around 2 a.m. in Moscow, 8 p.m. in São Paulo, Brazil, and 7 p.m. on the 9th of the previous day in New York...... Therefore, Ye Shenxi still had time to lead the game launch work before going to the United States, and the studio hall of the channel SPIKE TV station participated in the award ceremony.

Originally, he was not very sure that he had to go to the awards ceremony, and the reason for his work, everyone can understand, and he could let Michael Buson, the general manager and team leader of Salmon Studio, attend on behalf of "No One Survives", but the organizer Spike TV was so sincere that it was almost to the point of complaining.

Of course, this also illustrates the outcome of tonight's battle from some aspects, which is not necessarily absolute, but quite indicative.

As for why Sipke's attitude is so low, in the final analysis, the name Pasca still has its own traffic, and no TV station will be unable to keep up with the ratings. In the past few years, the number of VGA viewers has generally stabilized at around 3 million, which is indeed the most influential annual selection in the gaming field, but it is not influential enough for mainstream society and even the player group. More often than not, it's a carnival of hardcore players, but the number of hardcore players in the entire player base is still small.

VGA in 2009, when Pasca first participated, won the "Best Indie Game" award with "The Origin of Everything", which reached 4.2 million viewers that year.

In 2010, he took "Getaway" to sweep Liuhe and swept the Eight Wilderness to become the biggest winner of that year, with 4 nominations and 4 awards on stage, and last year's viewership was higher than their expected 7 million, actually reaching 7.3 million. Among them, about 650,000 Chinese players watched through the Internet.

Trophies can shape legends, and legends can also expand the impact of awards.

And this year's Pasca and "Nobody Survived" were shortlisted for an unprecedented 8 awards.

There's also an unbeatable amount of buzz this year, with November's Nobody Left, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, Uncharted 3, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward all shortlisted for Game of the Year, plus a Portal 2. The R&D teams of the first three games, Salmon, B Society, and Naughty Dog, all made it to the "Studio of the Year" shortlist, with the addition of a Villefort.

In November's unprecedented scuffle, the battle for sales and word-of-mouth of several games is almost settled, but the awards season can still compete in the ability to harvest awards and squeeze out the last newsworthiness.

And Villefort and their Portal 2 are even more so...... That day was supposed to be the time for the two companies to launch their games, so it would be good to move your wrist on VGA first and set a tone. This is the first time that the two major digital distribution platforms have put the battle on the table, although they are both merchants, they still use games to speak, and both games are used to increase the number of online platforms of their own platforms, according to the terminology of the hip-hop world, one-on-one battle.

This year's awards ceremony, like E3 in the middle of the year, has become the official partner of Longyan Video Live Platform, which will bring live broadcasts and commentary to Internet viewers around the world, and there is no doubt that the number of viewers will usher in another explosive growth. Not only will Longjing Platform lay flat advertisements on the advertising wall outside the venue, but it will also have its own independent video advertisements during the intermission, and there will also be their broadcast commentary seats on the spot, both in Chinese and English.

There is no doubt that it will come with a large audience.

In summary, it is highly likely that the number of viewers this year will exceed 10 million for the first time, and the award ceremony will be striding forward on the road to becoming influential in mainstream society.

And the organizers are getting more and more high-profile, in addition to the traditional broadcast link, this year's performances for mainstream audiences have also spent a lot of money, and it has been revealed that showbiz stars are responsible for performing and awarding awards, such as Taylor Swift and Robin Williams. The former just won the Artist of the Year award at the American Music Awards in November, and the latter is a well-known avid gamer in the entertainment industry, in addition to appearing many times at the booths of show manufacturers like E3 to perform demo games, and people also named their daughter Zelda......

Hardcore not?

As December 10th gets closer and closer, the promotion offensive of the three online games is becoming more and more fierce, all of which are not bad companies, and it seems that the online game advertisements before Christmas are about to be contracted by them.

On December 8th, they announced a new contest called the Costume Design Contest through the Paradise Lost website and official Twitter...... Xia Qingyu and Ye Shenxi both replied and forwarded......

All players can sign up to participate, and the way to participate is also very simple, just reply directly to the official Twitter. Provide an 800*800 picture for the competition, limited to the clothing that humans can wear, with or without a human model.

The submission period is from December 1st to 10th, for a period of 10 days, and the final selection results will be officially announced on the 13th, and the top players who win the final award will be rewarded with some cash, souvenirs in addition to the custom folding stool of the king of cold weapons in the game...... After no one survived, there were folding stools in Paradise Lost, but they were not one-to-one, they were all furniture sold and prizes were given away, but they were handicrafts made of small precious metals, but they could also be folded...... The most important thing is that the official will officially put their work into the game, and name the costume after the designer, so that players around the world can see and wear it.

Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu also presented their first and No. 1 and No. 2 entries in this competition.

This is really designed by the two of them, but Ye Shenxi painted it himself, while Xia Qingyu dictated the idea, and then asked Ye Shenxi to write it, she didn't have the skills in art.

Xia Qingyu's design is a set of women's clothing, the concept is very clear, the main body comes from the traditional Chinese short cheongsam, the color is blue represented by the herring, and the improved is both feminine and feminine, and it is also suitable for fighting, highlighting a sexy and heroic posture. This set includes a cheongsam, wrist guards, high heels, and a pair of safety pants......

And Ye Shenxi's inspiration comes from...... The most common middle school uniform in China, suitable for both men and women. It can be said that it is also very Chinese, and this costume is relatively old-fashioned according to the previous aesthetics, and now it seems that it is still very hip-hop.

These two didn't want to win awards or anything.,The final selection will definitely be separated from these two works.,That is, it's just a sample for the players and contestants.。 However, Ye Shenxi's painting skills have been sought after by many fans, with a master's demeanor and master's handwriting, and his works have also been praised in media reports, claiming that this is very in line with his artistic and producer temperament.

Temperament is a very subtle thing, but those who stand out can always be clearly felt, and even become the label of their image. Just like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the former is a typical engineer who often writes a piece of code himself, and the latter is a product manager, who is in control of the overall situation and strategizes.

Pasca is a game producer who is full of wild ideas and can bring them to life as works of art.

By December 8th, 3,400 players from all over the world had signed up for the contest and submitted their work...... It's really a mix of dragons and snakes, what do you want, there are thousands of styles, and the creativity is boundless.

Women's clothing accounted for 67.3% of the total...... This group of people...... From bikinis to professional suits, from T-shirts and hot pants to sailor uniforms and skirts, from evening dresses to Joan of Arc's battle armor, from sexy torn stockings to bib cusps cute...... What other cat-eared girls, even wedding dresses......

There are also many fancy costumes for men or unisexes, with a tree on their heads, crockpots on their feet, and inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur suits...... It's purely hilarious, this costume has a large volume, and it's not too easy to aim.

The official review team had a headache to see.

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The publicity has been increasing and is about to reach its peak, but Ye Shenxi has been becoming more and more low-key recently, still participating in various promotional activities, and also accepting interviews with the media, and his rhetoric is full of praise for "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" and "Star Wars: The Old Republic".

Reporter: "What do you think of Villefort?" ”

Pasca: "It's a great company. ”

Reporter: "Do you know Gabe (the owner of Villefort)?" ”

Pasca: "We've met a few times at launches and awards ceremonies, we had a great chat, he's a nice guy and has a great understanding of the game. ”

Reporter: "What do you think of the three most watched online games in December, and which one do you think will be more popular with players?" ”

Pasca: "For me, these are three completely different games, Star Wars is an RPG, and it should be compared to Warcraft, but the Star Wars IP is so powerful that EA shouldn't be disappointed. ”

Reporter (laughs): "That's how EA advertises, they claim to challenge Warcraft, but they also claim to challenge Call of Duty in October's Battlefield...... What about CS:GO, Paradise Lost is also a shooter online game. ”

This reporter actually complained to his face...... Is EA so unpopular, of course, if it was someone who interviewed EA, she might be complaining about herring fish and Activision, who knows.

Pasca: "The two games are not aimed at the same users, Counter-Strike is a great franchise with a huge number of die-hard fans all over the world, and even now CS 1.6 has a peak of about 80,000 people online every day on the steam platform, and that's been many years. It's a tried-and-true classic, and Paradise Lost is a whole new genre, and we want to get more players into the shooter genre. ”

Reporter: "Just like what "Eternal War" did three years ago, more casual users, all people competing? ”

Pasca: "That's the ideal scenario. ”

Reporter: "So you think Paradise Lost will have more players than CS:GO?" ”

Pasca: "I didn't say that, it's actually hard, it takes a process for players to understand and like a game. ”

The reporter and Pasca looked at each other and smiled.

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On Saturday, December 10th, at half past six in the morning Beijing time, Ye Shenxi got up early rarely, and then went to the company to enter his office.

Many employees are already preparing for his second solo live broadcast, bringing the first live display of Paradise Lost to players around the world when the global server officially opens.

Of course, he will definitely be the only one who will open the live broadcast of "Paradise Lost" for the first time.

Villefort also opened the official live broadcast room on the Longyan platform, and the Longyan platform is open for all ...... Legal games, as well as game companies, are open and welcome everyone to join the platform to achieve a win-win situation. And more and more manufacturers have also found that as the Longyan platform begins to become popular, the promotion of live video for games is simply not too strong.

Especially the cost performance, compared to the various advertisements that cost a lot of money, this side is completely free, even ...... You can also make a little money.

At the end of November, the Longyan platform has officially launched the gift giving function, providing 7 months of free service, burning money for so long without financing at all, the platform's technology has been relatively stable, which can ensure the provision of high-quality live broadcast services, and the number of users has been considerable, and it has begun to be realized.

It's like the FG platform uses its own number of users to provide a platform for all developers to meet a large number of players.

The Longjing live broadcast platform also has such a function, which is a boon for too many game companies.