"What's this?" While Murong was tinkering with the mixer, he glanced at the stack of sketches that Ye Shenxi had thrown on the table beside him. ◢ With * dream * small ◢.1a

A scene background music from "Chang'an Road" came out of the stereo. In large-scale games, or projects that pursue details, different scenes will have different exclusive background music, and some have more than one song. Now this section is the theme of "Purple Autumn Wind", desolate and magnificent, highlighting the lonely smoke of the desert outside the plug, and the sunset of the long river.

"It's good." Ye Shenxi first dealt with it casually, and then listened carefully, imagining the original scene in "Chang'an Road" that he had seen before, and suddenly felt nostalgic.

The background music of the game is similar to that of the movie, and it is not the most important thing to sound good and pleasant, but to fit the scene and plot.

Some tunes may feel "mediocre" when you take them out and listen to them alone, but when they are combined with specific scenes, they will feel amazing. The emotion of that moment will make you feel very emotional and very good even if you don't watch the movie and forget the plot later.

"Of course, this is the fifth edition."

"Good work, this is a storyboard, I just got it done." Ye Shenxi said.

"Oh, it's time to make a trailer again." Murong was already very calm.

"That's right...... Eh, what's it called...... "The frequency of Qingyu Network filming trailers is actually not high, that is, announcing the game, describing the features of the game, or showing some new content, new technology, etc.

But I've never had the idea of whetting the appetite of players with a trailer, although it may be the case.

Murong asked, "What are your needs this time?" ”

Although what Ye Shenxi gives will definitely have the required content presented in writing, oral communication will always be more convenient and in-depth than words. The written record is more of a memo.

"This time it's not a song, I want a song."

Murong temporarily stopped what she was doing, and her expression showed that she was interested.

She has been coming to Qingyu Network for a year and a half, and last year she also wrote the official theme song of the Eternal War World Cup "The Unstoppable Battle", which later exceeded 8 million views on Yutube, and it can also be searched on some domestic and even foreign mainstream music playback software, and the popularity is still very good, which gives her a sense of achievement.

The difference with other theme songs is that others listen to your songs and sing your songs.

Unfortunately, I haven't been in the company long enough, and there aren't many opportunities for that.

She picked up the sketch and weighed it: "It's a little thick." ”

"Please don't use that adjective to describe my art."

"What's wrong?"

"What's the difference between you and measuring the value of a book by its thickness?"

"Ah, okay, then you can describe it roughly."

Ye Shenxi thought for a while, and said with a few words: "First of all, you need strong white American music characteristics, such as country ballads, ballads, two-part style, the main instrument must have a guitar, and you can play the rest freely." I need to be quiet, serene, peaceful, like a lullaby, so that you can listen to this piece and fall asleep. ”

Murong didn't understand too much: "Isn't your new project about fighting zombies?" ”

Of course, she understands music with strong American characteristics, and country music is also K, she doesn't know much about the project "Nobody Survived" now, but she has also seen some American zombie movies, if Ye Shenxi says it is rock, heavy metal and the like, she can understand it immediately, and now it is a little strange.

Fight zombies, isn't it supposed to be biubiubiu, bangbangbang.

"Zombies are just a kind of background construction, this game mainly wants to reflect the many stories and emotions that will happen between people in the context of human beings facing a common disaster, relative to this, whether it is a zombie or a dinosaur, or a meteorite hitting aliens, robots or something, but it is not so important. Well...... You go through the storyboard first. ”

Murong nodded as if he didn't understand: "Okay." ”

Ye Shenxi didn't make many published storyboards, more than a dozen pieces of A4 paper, one shot each, a bit wasted......

The whole trailer is only about two and a half minutes long, less than the length of a V, the whole trailer is certainly not a V, because of the long shots, the number of shots will be less than that of ordinary music videos, and the song will actually start in the middle and late stages, after explaining the characters and background.

The scenes and characters are not complicated, and there is almost no plot.

It is a typical American-style log cabin, this is not a modern metropolis, but in a small town, Americans have been building houses with wood since more than 200 years ago, labor is too expensive, but also energy-saving and environmentally friendly, two- or three-story single-family residential buildings do not have such high requirements for housing structure, this kind of wooden house is very common.

The main character is a middle-aged and elderly white man, in a close-up shot, Ye Shenxi's painting is very simple, with a few brushstrokes outlining the outline, but the notes on the side are: wrinkles and beard, life experience and wisdom, life marquee, memories, calm.

This belongs to the kind of people in Group B reserved by the shark studio who will scold their mothers when they see it, in fact, Ye Shenxi has already passed things to them first, and they also had such an element in their inner activities at that time.

In fact, this also needs to be connected to the context, under the background of the environment, the player and the person watching the trailer make it up by themselves in the case of combining the background and plot, if you can really see so many things just by looking at such a shot, then there will be a ghost.

There was a sofa in the cottage, very old.

A rocking chair, also somewhat damaged.

The fireplace was burning and the light of the fire illuminated the cottage.

A woolen carpet, wooden floor, spilled with some blood.

There was also a corpse, also lying on it.

There was no signal on the TV, and there were snowflakes.

There is also a vinyl record player on the side, which is full of texture.

The traces of the fight in the room were more obvious, and it was obvious that he had just experienced an abnormal life-and-death struggle, and the fragments of these vases were scattered on the ground.

The middle-aged and elderly man was lying on the rocking chair, swaying slightly, half-squinting.

His right hand rested on the armrest, his left hand drooping naturally, dragging a shotgun, blood running down his arm, to the barrel, and then dripping intermittently, ticking, ticking, as if to beat the music playing.

This passage is just describing a person's state before he is about to die.

Murong quickly finished watching all the shots, frowned, and looked like he was thinking very seriously, and Ye Shenxi was waiting for her next to her, and he didn't interject.

After a while, Murong Cai said: "It's like the kind of memory when your life comes to an end, a very calm self-examination, and then the feeling of being able to face all this without any fluctuations?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Ye Shenxi nodded hurriedly.

This feeling is not very easy to describe in words, as long as Murong can understand it.

Murong said again: "The reason why this piece is peaceful is that it is in line with this person's state of mind at that time, because he is very peaceful himself, and he is waiting for death." ”

"Yes."

"Why wait to die?"

"Because there is no escape."

"It's not a good lullaby, it's Lullaby, but it's not a mass, it's country music, and I'm going to write a requiem in the format of country music?"

"It shouldn't be a requiem in the narrow sense, if you can."

"You can add a violin and a piano."

"It's up to you to decide, on the other hand, I don't think you have to be so high, it's just that he knows he's going to die, and he put on one of his favorite songs before he dies, and that's it. So don't look too sad. Because it's just a 'coincidence' that the mood of the song matches the scene in the trailer, this feeling is ...... It is close to the plot, but in fact it is not, it may have some other emotions, such as the joy of going home, but there are some sighs and sorrows that have been away from home for too long, and some music and plot that deviate from the style will present a contradictory tension, probably ...... Can this be understood? ”

It's very complicated, Ye Shenxi himself feels that his description is making things difficult for his sister Suozhu, and he himself wants to answer himself, "You know what a fart!" ”。

"I understand." Murong's answer was very simple.

"Huh?"

"I have an idea, did you write the lyrics yourself?"

"Nope."

"Then do you have any requirements, if you like it, you must want to add it to it?"

"Take e he?"

"Gone?"

"It's gone."

"Okay, when will it be?"

"This is the trailer for the VGA Awards in February, so try to get it as early as possible."

"Then I'll give you the first version next week, you should go to Seattle at that time, and send it to you directly."

"Yes."

……

……

On the 8th, spike TV officially announced the list of nominees for this year's mid-VGA awards ceremony.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there are "God of War 3", "Call of the Year: Black Ops", "Mass Effect 2", "Red Dead Redemption", "Fallout: New Vegas" and "Civilization V", "Halo: Reach", "BioShock 2", "Assassin's Faith: Brotherhood", "Star Wars 2: Wings of Freedom", ...... There are too many, and it also makes the awards ceremony "foggy".

Foggy......

That's what the male host of the TV station said when the list of nominees was announced, at least for most awards.

The game is not as serious as social news, and even if it is social news, American TV stations are indispensable to take it out to joke and ridicule.

The hostess asked, "Do you really think there is a lot of fog this year?" Especially when it comes to awards like Game of the Year and RPG Game of the Year. ”

The male host looked very flustered: "Hey! We can represent the official attitude. ”

The final selection results have not yet been produced at this time, but different games have already had different voices, whether in the player's circle or from the perspective of the media. Some of the entries seem to have a good chance of winning the award in the end.

That's right, what to see, that is, you, "Getaway".

In the list of nominees announced, "Getaway" was strongly shortlisted for 3 awards, including the most important "Game of the Year", as well as "Best P Game" and "Best RPG Game".

Some other awards, such as "Best Soundtrack" and "Best Voice Actor", which "Getaway" can also try to impact, were not shortlisted by Qingyu Network.

Yes, Getaway is divided into P games, in fact, awards like Best P Game, Best B30 or PS3 Game are mostly for exclusives on the platform, but there are exceptions, and there are quite a few.

For titles that have landed on all three platforms, such as Getaway, the jury's criterion is to see which platform best represents the highest level of the game. In the end, they discussed it internally, it was still the P platform, which itself was also the base camp of the herring network, and they had FG......

Yokoko Studios was also shortlisted for the "Studio of the Year", and if you count from the beginning of "Survival", which they were still called P0, they finally squeezed into the top honor candidates for the highest honor evaluation on the planet for the first time after two and a half years of formation.

This young team is starting to have the momentum to dominate the gaming world.

Competing with them for this honor this year are Gayare who handed over "Mass Effect 2", "Halo: Reach" Stick, and "Star Wars 2", the crumbling glass slag entertainment on the altar that has not yet fallen.

However, in the public opinion of players, Henggong of the Qingyu Network on the altar has also squeezed up, which seems a little crowded.

Previously, players' evaluation of glass slag was "Glass slag is produced, it must be a high-quality product." ”

For the herring network, it is ...... "produced by herring must be made by God." ”

It's time for someone else to sit on the throne.

In fact, in the evaluation of professional media, the difference between the works of the two studios is not so big in terms of design. On Etariti, "Getaway" still maintains a super high rating of 97 points, while "Star Wars 2" also has a score of 93, a difference of only 4 points.

In terms of sales, the two are not on the same level at all.

At present, the sales of "Getaway" on the whole platform have exceeded 8 million, and it took five months, relying on the strong follow-up sales, this number even exceeded the standard sales bomb, and the sales volume was higher than his own and created a Guinness World Record for "New Year's Goods Calling".

However, Activision's golden sign is still the absolute hegemon in the sales of triple-A works in this era, and "New Year's Call 7" has just been on the market for 9 days, and it has once again swept the global game market as everyone expected. Now that 4 million units have been sold across the platform, most data analysts predict that it could reach 20 million units sold in three months, and break a series of sales records.

The reputation is not low, with an average rating of 88.

The reason why it is deliberately emphasized that it is a triple-A work is to remove "The Origin of Everything"...... That's a bug, two years on the market, sales have exceeded 34 million, although this sentence has been repeated many times, it still has to be said, there are still no obvious signs of decline. Moreover, it is rumored that Qingyu Network intends to move it to mobile game platforms, including mobile phones and handhelds, which will definitely trigger another wave of sales at that time.

What is its upper limit? Now no one can guess....

These are big monsters.

And Star Wars 2: Wings of Freedom, which has been on sale for four months, is equally gratifying, with 4.5 million copies, and the glass slag itself is a happy and happy thing to do, and only they can achieve this level of unprecedented data in real-time strategy games.

But compared to monsters like "Getaway", "The Origin of Everything" and "New Year's Goods Call", it still seems a little shabby.

Within hours of the announcement of the nominations, press releases from the world's major game media outlets had spread to all corners of the internet, and in the midst of many people's exchanges, it would undoubtedly be a theocracy if Henggong Studio could finally defeat the other three competitors as it wished.

The first king is not dead, but the new king has ascended the throne, and a new era has begun.

This is probably one of the biggest highlights at this year's VGA.

These are the 4 heaviest prizes.

Maybe it's also for balance, after all, any awards ceremony can't be absolutely fair, not necessarily because there is a dirty deal behind it, but because it's better to be happy alone than to be happy, and only when the rain and dew are evenly stained can the whole world celebrate, the truth is the same everywhere.

After all, there are so many game companies in the world, and people need to be encouraged.

……

In the Seattle studio, the young man Robin knocked on the door and walked into Ye Shenxi's office, wanting to announce the good news of the nomination, but saw that Ye Shenxi's face was a little distorted, red, almost in a curled posture, holding a pillow like a child, very hard, his eyes were red, his teeth were clenched, and tears could be faintly seen.

“Bss？” Robin was thinking in his heart that the boss had also watched the live TV broadcast and knew the news of the award finalists, but ...... Isn't it like this, is it such a state to cry with joy?

In the workshop outside just now, a group of people were excited, cheering, high-fived, and ready to move when they heard the news. It is easier to understand earlier, but the reason why they are ready to move is because they also belong to such a company, and Henggong Studio is already too far ahead of their salmon, which makes them feel pressure and motivation while being honored.

In the "Getaway" project, they also undertook a part of the important content, but the whole was completed by Henggong, which is still a work belonging to Henggong's studio.

They also want to make "No One Survives" well, and strive to stand on such a glorious stage.

I don't really understand the boss's mood of seeing his "child become a talent", wow, I am so interested in the growth of the project team...... Robin thought.