9:30 am.

Zhou Ruining, standing in the exhibition center, kept looking at her watch, and from time to time, tiptoeing and looking around. Finally, her eyes lit up, and she saw her boss, and quickly trotted over.

"Boss, you're here, and it's about to start."

"Don't panic, the judges are not us anyway, so it won't affect anything if they are not there."

Looking at Hao Yun's calm expression, Zhou Ruining looked helpless and didn't know what to say about him.

Please, this is a game you made by yourself!

Not worried at all?

After a long time, she was busy there, which made her feel that the emperor was not in a hurry to be anxious.

In fact, Zhou Ruining blamed Hao Yun wrongly. Hao Yun was not completely unfaithful about his games. In fact, he was busy upgrading the online community functions of the Magic Tower all day yesterday. It was not until three o'clock this morning. After sleeping for a while, he immediately came to the exhibition center.

He was also very curious about what kind of results "The Magic Tower" can achieve in the competition.

On the other side of the venue.

Tang Youxi was also lit up and looking around, looking for the familiar figure.

However, what made her a little disappointed was that the young lady who had been with them for the past two days did not appear. She had been looking around for a long time but could not see the familiar figure.

"Mr. Tang! Can our game be shortlisted for the final?" Seeing that Tang Youxi had been looking around there, Azhai, who was standing next to him in a cultural shirt, spoke.

Before Tang Youxi could answer, the science and engineering man in a plaid shirt standing next to him complained.

"It's a ghost to be shortlisted. Our booths are all squeezed out."

The Demon Tower was so popular these two days, and there were endless people queuing for photos and checking in. All the games at the booth next door were affected. At first, he thought that those who were queuing could bring some popularity to their booths, but the result was that the booths that were not already very crowded were even worse.

So far, less than sixty players have experienced their text adventure masterpiece that took them a year to develop.

Now it seems that there is no chance to stand out at the Shanghai Game Exhibition. I can only wait until the game exhibition is over and throw it on the electronic platform to try my luck.

"How can you say that!" Tang Youxi was unhappy and glared at him and said, "It's not entirely true that it depends on the popularity of the booth, and its taste of the art, fun and other dimensions of the game... What if our game is attracted to by any major judge?"

The aoka wearing a cultural shirt looked at each other with a science and engineering man.

"Mr. Tang, I think this probability is lower than winning the lottery."

"Yes, Mr. Tang, why not buy a lottery with the club's funds? If we win the first prize, we will be given!"

Tang Youxi's face turned red with anger? He glared at the two of them fiercely, turned his head and faced the stage of the exhibition center to stop talking.

The stage is located on the side hall of the exhibition center and was temporarily built last night. The layout here is like a U-shaped theater? It is divided into two parts: an infield with seats and an outfield without seats. It is a step-shaped stretching outward.

At this moment? Several judges have sat on the stage, talking and laughing, while waiting for the highlight of this Shanghai Game Exhibition to officially begin.

Finally? With the arrival of ten o'clock, a distant and long bell rang out in the exhibition center.

Almost at the same time, whether it was the friends who were laughing and talking, or the friends who were excited to discuss the game they liked, they couldn't help but lower their voices and turned their eyes to the stage directly in front of the exhibition area B.

The judges and special guests of the competition have already taken their seats? The host holding the microphone has already walked forward.

I saw him clear his throat? With an excited and loud voice, he announced that this Shanghai Game Exhibition has officially entered the most exciting part - the selection of the Golden Keyboard Game Awards!

In fact? In addition to the Golden Keyboard, there are also settings for multiple awards including Best Creativity Award, Best Picture Award, Best Music Award, etc. However, the value of these awards seems to be short of money compared to the Golden Keyboard.

After all, a game? No one will remember the names of runner-up and third place.

The only one who can leave a name in the history of the game is the champion!

Sitting in the seat in the inner field? Zhou Zhenyu clenched his fists? Li Zongzheng, who was not far from him, also sweated in his hands.

According to the competition process? First, the top 20 most popular works by players in the C exhibition area of ​​this game exhibition will be displayed on the screen.

The rankings are indefinitely. The rule on the list is to dynamically collect and analyze the "heat" stay data in front of each booth, and calculate the heat of each booth according to specific algorithm rules.

For independent game designers and small and medium-sized game companies in the C exhibition area, this top20 list is also a pretty good exposure opportunity.

Especially for works that have no fans.

Many players go to major platforms to play games later, and to a large extent, they will refer to this list to see if they can find treasures or something.

There is no suspense.

Both works, Dragon King and Immortal Cultivation Simulator, appeared on the list.

But what made Zhou Zhenyu look slightly gloomy was that the Magic Tower also appeared on the list without any surprise.

Not even just a magic tower.

Because the Magic Tower booth is too small and the popularity is too huge, even the two booths next door benefited from it and were arranged on the list by the system.

Seeing her game appear on the big screen, Tang Youxi almost screamed excitedly. Fortunately, several members of the club next to her controlled her, so this president who was out of line did nothing out of line.

According to the selection rules of the competition, after the thermal value list is displayed, the selection process will be entered.

In this session, each judge holds a judge's vote, and can elect a game to appear on the big screen, players vote, and finally decide the ownership of the Golden Keyboard Award.

If the same game is recommended by two judges, the number of votes received by the game will double. Similarly, if the recommendations received by three judges, the final number of votes for the game will be multiplied by three on the basis of the number of votes.

At first glance, this may seem a bit unfair.

But it is not.

First, the voting adopts a registered system, and second, the voting method is carried out one by one rather than announced at the same time.

When each judge nominates a game he recommends, he will come with a reason to recommend it to the players.

Under such a voting mode, the judges who spoke later were more careful to consider whether they should vote for the same game.

Or, if he feels it is not good enough to deserve two or three votes, he also has enough time to rethink and leave the opportunity to those who need it more.

As for fraud...

To be honest, it is possible to influence subjective opinions because of interests, but it is basically impossible to bribe the judges here.

Without exception, those who sit here are not big names in the industry. Each one has a net worth of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. It’s another matter of money, but a mere game company will definitely not be able to afford a bribe.

In contrast, it will be easier to buy players.

But then again, it is impossible to achieve absolute fairness.

It can only be said that this dual-track selection method in which professionals control weights and players decide on the voting base is still fair to perform talent shows compared to music that is completely controlled by several "mentors".

After all, if the right to choose is completely handed over to the players, the quality of the entries in the competition will definitely be worse than that of the other ones, either fan circles or fast food, so other small and medium-sized game production companies simply don’t have to play.

If it is completely handed over to the judges, it seems that it will also embark on the route of being separated from the people. Whether to win or not depends on the expert's mouth, and what he said may not convince everyone.

So is it to please "art" or to please "market"?

For those participating game producers, this is also a matter that must be carefully considered.

But now, someone has made his own judgment.

"I recommend the Dragon King."

The big guy who spoke is Wang Mingfeng, CEO of Pineapple Entertainment.

No one was surprised by his speech, whether it was the industry insiders sitting in the infield or the players standing in the outfield.

After all, there were rumors in the industry that Mango Entertainment was seeking a acquisition of Sunbird, and it is very likely that the two parties had reached some kind of agreement in private.

As long as the Dragon King's performance is not too unsatisfactory, he naturally has no reason to be stingy with the votes in his hands.

"The quality of the Dragon King is definitely unquestionable. Both the picture and the plot are amazing, which is obvious to everyone. Especially the rich moves and the combat system with extremely high freedom, it is simply a visual feast for me personally!"

"So I voted for it with the judges, and I hope Sunbird Studio can continue to work hard. I'm optimistic about you!"

Applause rang out in the venue.

Zhou Zhenyu, who was sitting in the infield, clapped and looked at the stage with a smile, giving Mr. Wang a grateful look.

However, Mr. Wang did not look at him. After all, the camera was facing here, and it was somewhat inappropriate to communicate with the audience.

"It seems that the previous rumors are true," Azhai, who was standing behind Tang Youxi, muttered in a low voice, "I didn't expect that Pineapple Entertainment actually bought Sunbird."

"It's probably because of helplessness," said the science and engineering man standing by the side. "After all, the Assassin's Biography series is too popular now. Originally, Sunbird and Fire Kirin were benchmarks for action adventure games in the industry. As a result, after Fire Kirin was acquired by the Rice Group, he threw Sunbird away to his grandma's house."

"What do you say?" Tang Youxi asked curiously.

“Nothing, gossip in the industry.”

“…?”

I don’t know if it was my own illusion, but Tang Youxi always felt that the members of his club did not seem to regard his future president as an insider at all...

The game is continuing.

The host standing on the stage nodded, smiled and looked at the audience, and then looked at the judges.

"Now our first judge has cast his precious vote. Has anyone chosen his favorite work?"

The judges were silent for two seconds.

It seems that Mr. Wang’s answer was so concise that no one else was ready.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a slightly fat figure said with a smile.

"It's very entangled. There are so many excellent works...you are still hesitating, why don't I do it."
To be continued...