SFS #368 - With a weird bug, "God Drama Director Simulator" is online, Yinzi Live (2 in 1)
#368 - With a weird bug, "God Drama Director Simulator" is online, Yinzi Live (2 in 1)
“Could it be that President Lu is doing this on purpose?”
“On purpose?”
“Yes, think about it. Which of the projects we initiated before looked easy? Doesn't President Lu know that we will step into many pitfalls in our first attempt?
But he still agreed to the film project, which shows his full trust in us. Maybe he also wants our project team to develop a new game while traveling in Hengdian!”
“Indeed, the company will continue to expand its recruitment. So many of us are idle anyway.”
So, everyone began to think about what the next project of the Zizai Studio Group should be.
……
After playing in Hengdian for half a month, Lu Yu finally met Spielberg's team.
The first time everyone saw this team, they were amazed.
Director Spielberg had a head of fluffy curly hair that looked a bit messy. He was wearing a colorful, shimmering jacket, and exaggerated sunglasses that almost covered his entire face, making him exceptionally eye-catching.
Next to him was a short-haired woman wearing a cool leather jacket with tattoos all over her arms, exuding an aura of rebellion.
On the other side, a man wore a baseball cap covered with glowing LED lights and a T-shirt printed with grotesque patterns.
When Lu Yu saw the image of these people, he was overjoyed!
Here it comes, this is the so-called, the more a team likes to make bad movies, the more deliberately they show off their unrestrained image!
It's the same idea as the previous non-mainstream.
After a simple handshake and greeting, Spielberg took Lu Yu to visit his photography studio.
After personally visiting along the way, Lu Yu found that this studio was even more bizarre than he had imagined.
The studio was piled with strange devices and decorations everywhere, and the walls were hung with mechanical devices that looked like they were pieced together from scrap parts, making creaking noises.
There were some strange sculptures on the ground, some like alien creatures, and some like chaotic city landscapes.
Spielberg nodded and said:
“We like to make our own handmade items so that we can place some props on the set at any time, such as a giant rubber duck or an inflatable dinosaur.”
Next to the workbench in the studio, the employees were busy with their own tasks. Some were doodling with colored pens, some were fiddling with the set, and some were frantically typing on the keyboard. Their expressions were full of wildness and recklessness.
In the other corner of the wall, the action directing team would suddenly jump up and do strange dances, such as the golden rooster dance or the crab walk. They did not care about the eyes of the people around them, as if they were performing some kind of mysterious ritual.
When passing by the conference room, Lu Yu listened for a moment and was horrified to find that
these filmmakers were actually having bizarre discussions in the conference room, such as arguing about whether there are parallel universes in the universe, or bizarre supernatural phenomena, such as the Bermuda Triangle.
After visiting this seemingly simple but otherworldly studio all the way, Lu Yu was amazed!
This is simply a paradise for a bunch of lunatics!
No wonder they can make a wonderful film like "Interstellar Traveler," which has a Douban score of 1.9.
Handing the film over to such a talented team, how can it not flop?
After walking out of Spielberg's studio, Lu Yu shook hands with him:
“Director Shi, I am really amazed. I have decided to fully acquire this studio and rename it 'Shangri-La Pictures.'”
Spielberg was habitually polite, saying: "It's okay, President Lu, I can understand your decision not to invest..."
Then, he suddenly reacted,
What?
Full acquisition?!
Spielberg's eyes at Lu Yu at this time were a bit like looking at an alien.
To put it bluntly, they have completely given up on whether they can find investors to invest in them.
Before, he still had the patience to receive investors in a suit and tie, but now, he has completely given up, and can shoot for a day is a day.
Unexpectedly, this President Lu is willing to acquire them even when they perform so outrageously?
Something must be wrong.
Could there be some commercial fraud in this?
Spielberg tentatively asked:
“I need to remind you that the top three worst domestic films on Douban are all from our team. Are you sure you want to acquire us?”
Lu Yu suddenly looked serious:
“It is precisely because you have taken the top three worst that I am willing to acquire you! Director Shi, do you know what the most terrible thing in the world is? It is neither too good nor too bad, but too mediocre!
Think about it, from childhood to adulthood, those top students and those at the bottom of the class have a very strong presence in the class. It is precisely those middle-ranking students who have the lowest presence, as if they have transformed into Akarin.
I believe that since you have the ability to be at the bottom of Douban, you will one day be able to dominate Douban!”
Hearing this, Spielberg and the members behind him could no longer hold back and burst into tears!
Spielberg excitedly held Lu Yu's hand:
“President Lu, you are really our soulmate! We have endured the cynicism of film critics and those audiences for so many years, and finally we have seen the light of day!”
“It's all good.”
Lu Yu comforted him while feeling in his heart:
Director Shi, Director Shi, don't you want to think about why film critics and movie fans have been chasing and spraying you all these years?
Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility,
that your films are indeed hopeless?
Lu Yu maintained a polite smile on the surface and introduced the Zizai Studio led by Niunaitang to them.
“These are the colleagues who produced "Final Line of Defense". I hope you will work hard together to create more brilliance.”
When Spielberg's crew members saw Niunaitang, their eyes went straight!
Good boy, how can there be such a good little girl!
Seeing this group of perverts drooling, Lu Yu was secretly pleased:
Operation success!
In order to interfere with the normal filming of the film, Lu Yu specifically instructed to extend the "business trip" arrangement of Mo Xiaoxuan's body, so that Niunaitang in women's clothing would continue to be active.
Although Mo Xiaoxuan wanted to appeal, Lu Yu ruthlessly rejected his decision.
You brat, this is the punishment for stabbing me in the back in the last cycle!
Lu Yu said with a smile:
“Miss Niunaitang, Teacher Spielberg is a famous weirdo in the film and television industry… oh no, a remarkable person. Our Zizai Studio must fully cooperate with him,
Watch more, listen more, learn more, and then use these experiences in future game development, understand?”
Niunaitang and the studio members nodded in confusion.
Lu Yu smiled slightly. Since Spielberg is so strange and a flop, then working with his team will definitely continue to produce all kinds of mental pollution.
After the Zizai Studio is polluted, these strange brain circuits will be spread to the other two studios.
Mieh ha ha ha, operation success!
……
In the next few days, "Shangri-La Pictures" was officially established in Hengdian. Due to the acquisition of Spielberg's photography team and expansion, the total number of employees in Shangri-La reached 900.
Now, they are building the studio while waiting for the Paramount team to arrive.
After a period of running-in with Spielberg's team, the employees of the Zizai Studio Group really began to doubt themselves.
That night, they discussed in the work group:
“Hiss… I feel like my brain is going to break. I don't know if there is something wrong with me or something wrong with this world. Why do I increasingly feel that Teacher Spielberg's seemingly bizarre shooting ideas seem… quite reasonable?”
“Yes, this matter is too magical. At first, when we heard him talk about the shooting plan, we all thought 'movies should never be shot like this', but we can't stand him surrounding you like a ghost every day, talking about it over and over again. After listening to it too much, we got used to it.”
“Oh no! Is this… is this called being brainwashed?”
Seeing that everyone was going to take the topic off track, Niunaitang interjected:
“N-Nani, I think President Lu let us learn from Teacher Spielberg because he hopes we can reflect what we have learned in the new work we are developing!”
These words immediately reminded everyone:
“That's right, Sister Niunaitang is right! President Lu, who is an old multi-layered cake, has been implying us like this in every previous project. This time must be no exception?”
“In other words, President Lu wants us to initiate a new game related to film shooting?”
Everyone's thinking instantly opened up!
Then, after a night of discussion, they summarized what they had seen and heard from visiting the crew these days and decided to initiate "Director Simulator".
In this small-scale game, the protagonist will act as the producer and director of a newly established film company. Starting from the script, they will go through investment, casting, and shooting to complete the shooting of the entire film until it goes online.
The audience's evaluation will affect the protagonist's box office revenue. The protagonist must make popular films and then use the development funds to continue to grow.
In general, it still follows the design ideas of simulation management games.
After everyone finalized the project plan, they began to develop it enthusiastically while in Hengdian.
After all, this is just a small-scale game, and the amount of development work is not that large,
Moreover, as veteran developers who have made many games, the cooperation between project members is already familiar. Not long after the project was initiated, they asked the operations department to arrange the listing schedule.
Afterwards, Shangri-La's official Weibo released a short teaser poster.
The background of the poster is a studio, filled with cameras and storyboards, with the following written below:
“Shangri-La's new professional simulation game brings you a different experience”
“Coming soon, please look forward to it”
Some fans left messages below:
“I wipe? New professional simulation? What new tricks is Shangri-La trying to play this time?”
“Thanks to Shangri-La, I have been a president in Africa, a building security guard and a Beggar Gang leader in the city, and a crosstalk master. No matter what you come up with, I am not afraid. Just bring it on!”
“GKD, GKD!”
Now, the mainstream attention of the media and players is all focused on the reports of the Tokyo Game Show and "Xie Yunliu Biography\
,"Even Shangri-La's own fans have focused their attention on the mysterious new work "Code CARD" that is participating in the exhibition,
So this teaser poster did not cause much waves.
The latest novel is first published on 69shuba.com!
However, on Weibo, a big V with 3 million followers named Qin Ming ridiculed this game:
“It looks like an ordinary simulation game for managing film studios. There are many such games on Steam. Even if it is on VR, the gameplay is still the same. What tricks can you, Shangri-La, come up with?”
Qin Ming's certified identity is "Principal of Daqin Media", and Daqin Media is the MCN organization behind "Zhongyuan Five Editors".
Qin Ming has a considerable influence in the game circle. Under his rhythm, the direction of this game has taken a sharp turn for the worse before it is even released.
Many neutral players worried:
“Indeed, the upper limit of the subject matter is already there. What tricks can Shangri-La play?”
……
After several weeks of development in Hengdian, the project files of "Director Simulator" were finally completed.
However, on the eve of the delivery to the factory for printing, an accident happened!
Client programmer Fang Qingjie said with a weeping face:
“It's not good, there is a big BUG. There is a problem with the audience NPC evaluation logic code in our game. It's all reversed. The audience NPCs are starting to like bad movies!”
“What the hell?” Others were confused and popped up in the development group one after another.
Afterwards, Fang Qingjie explained to everyone that their game had made a mistake in the evaluation logic of the audience. The more the plot was detached, the actors acted awkwardly, and the more bizarre the shooting techniques were, the higher the scores given by the audience.
And the better the movie is shot according to professional methods, the lower the audience score!
Yao Jun popped up:
“It seems that the rules and logic of the scoring were written in reverse from the beginning. How could such a low-level mistake occur?”
Shao Peng:
“No way, Brother Jun, think about it, we have never been idle for the past month since we came to Hengdian.
President Lu either took us to travel and play, or to picnic and camp, or he took us to the studios where major stars appear. We simply didn't have time to carefully check for BUGs.”
Fang Qingjie's voice trembled:
“Moreover, what's worse is that this layer of rule code was written not long after the project was initiated. All subsequent functional module development is based on this BUG code.
If we blindly modify it now, there won't be enough time, and it may affect the whole body!”
All the programmers in the project team turned black.
Here it comes, the classic program can only run normally because there is a BUG.
Everyone couldn't make up their minds and quickly pulled Liu Mengyuan into the group.
After listening to everyone, Liu Mengyuan said:
“I think everyone should calm down. It's not the first time that our company's project has had a BUG before going online. We only need to ask Doraemon for help… oh no, ask Director Chu for help.”
Yao Jun:
“I'm afraid it won't work this time. Chu Xiong's artificial intelligence server is being upgraded and maintained, and he can't help us now.”
Liu Mengyuan pondered for a moment:
“Although Chu Xiong can't do anything, we can continue his past ideas to help us solve problems, that is—to forcibly package the BUG as a game feature!”
After she said this, everyone's eyes lit up:
Shao Peng:
“Liu is right! Package the BUG as a game feature. This is the only place where we have a BUG right now. We can slightly change the copy and art to repackage this BUG,”
"This time, no resource confusion. I don't even need AI's help."
Sun Rou: "The problem now is, how do we package this BUG to make it look less out of place?"
After everyone pondered for a moment, copywriter Hao Shuwen unleashed the ultimate move:
"Let's base our protagonist on Teacher Shi's studio. We can do it like this..."
...
Soon, it was the game's launch day.
Peach Garden Land officially posted information about the new game on Weibo:
"《Divine Drama Director Simulator》 is exclusively launched on the Peach Garden Game Platform today, priced at 99 yuan!"
The announcement didn't generate much buzz on Weibo because the top trending searches were bought by other friendly companies participating in the Tokyo Game Show.
The top trending search on Weibo right now is the escalating commercial war between Longteng Group and Liu's Group.
It is said that in many first-tier cities, physical altercations have occurred between employees of the two groups' stores.
So, initially, the game's sales were crawling at a snail's pace without any noticeable presence.
...
Peach Garden Light-Year Streaming Platform, game streamer "Yin Zi's" live stream.
Yin Zi was originally a well-known game streamer on the Douyu streaming platform, with high popularity.
However, Douyu has had a lot of issues recently. The CEO went in, Xu Xu Baobao left, Shuyi's scandal broke, PDD ran away to Japan, and Xiao Tuantuan seems to be heading to jail too.
Therefore, foreseeing the danger, Yin Zi terminated his contract with Douyu after it expired and joined Peach Garden Light-Year.
Yin Zi's joining Peach Garden Land is not only because of Douyu's negative publicity.
The previous game streamer G Jiang, who jumped from D Station, gained more than 2 million followers with just one game, 《Final Line》.
The gift revenue during the game live stream even reached the top 10 on the entire platform.
Everyone envied that traffic and money.
However, Peach Garden Land recently introduced new regulations that only the Peach Garden Light-Year platform can stream games under Peach Garden Land.
So, Yin Zi's jump was also to ride the popularity of Peach Garden Land's games.
Today, as soon as 《Divine Drama Director Simulator》 launched, Yin Zi couldn't wait to buy it and start streaming.
This is Yin Zi's first stream on Peach Garden Light-Year, and his former VIPs are very supportive, frantically spamming gifts, quickly pushing him to the top of the game category.
"Hello everyone, today we are streaming Peach Garden Land's new game. I see that the discussion about this game online is very small, so today I'll take you all to try it out."
On the screen, Yin Zi puts on his VR glasses.
The game quickly enters the title interface, the background is a seemingly ordinary studio.
But after looking around, Yin Zi quickly discovered the key point:
"Look, the words 'Divine Drama' are highlighted, and the props and sets in these studios look a bit... how should I put it, bizarre. I guarantee that this game is definitely not as simple as just making a movie."
The audience laughed:
"Indeed, I don't dare to believe any of Peach Garden Land's pre-launch promotions and game titles now."
"New type of Peach Garden Land PTSD, hahaha!"
Thus, under the expectant gazes of the audience, Yin Zi entered the game.