Chapter 784: Preparing for the Design Competition
Chen Mo held a design competition twice a year, in March after the New Year and July after the graduation season.
The design competition for graduation season is for all students in school, and all students with college or above can sign up for it.
The design competition in March after the New Year is mainly aimed at designers in the industry. Whether it is independent designers or designers under other companies, you can sign up for it.
The list of participants will be reviewed in advance. After screening out participants who do not meet the requirements, other participants will finally select the best designers after the preliminary, semi-finals and finals.
The preliminary rounds are distributed in more than 20 major cities across the country, and the semi-finals and finals are in the Imperial Capital. Chen Mo is considering renting a venue in the Imperial Capital. After the new headquarters is completed next year, he can go to the new headquarters to hold it.
These two times have also been considered. In July, graduates have just graduated and are still looking for jobs in a hurry. In March, there will be a routine wave of resignations in the IT industry, and many capable designers will choose to find another way out during this period.
Moreover, the two staggered time also ensures the fairness of the competition, so that the graduates will not get along with senior designers in the industry.
Unlike previous competitions, designers will only know the specific topics of the competition when they arrive on site, write the design draft on site and make it on site. If it is some super-large games, you can only write a more detailed design concept draft. If the judges are interested in the concept draft, they can continue to produce it later.
When the rematch and finals are reached, designers will design the game in the official venue, which may last for a week or even a month, which is enough for them to develop medium or even large games.
The judges about these design competitions are some senior independent designers on the Thunder Game Platform, such as Li Feng, Zhou Haibin, Qiu Hengyang, etc.
These designers have worked with Chen Mo on the Thunder Game Platform for a long time. They have their own representative works and are very happy to participate in this game design competition. On the one hand, they have made some contributions to the development of the entire game industry with Chen Mo, and on the other hand, they have also shown their faces in front of the public. After all, this game design competition may be broadcast live by then, and many players, game enthusiasts and industry insiders across the country will watch it.
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The specific competition rules must be formulated in detail, but Chen Mo's idea is very clear, which is to make Thunder Interactive Entertainment's game design competition the largest, fairest, most professional and best prospects in China.
He hopes that this design competition can attract outstanding graduates who want to enter the game industry and outstanding independent designers in the industry, so that this design competition can ignite people's enthusiasm for the game industry, and can also exist as a large-scale job fair for Thunder Interactive Entertainment.
As for the competition, the rewards are naturally the most abundant.
In addition to the regular bonuses and prizes, Chen Mo will review all the designer works that enter the finals and decide who to send invitations to.
Of course, there are many senior designers as judges in the competition. They have their own judgments on their works and the competition will also have corresponding rules. Chen Mo's preferences are independent of all judges. Even if a designer is not favored by all judges, as long as Chen Mo thinks it is OK.
These designers who are favored by Chen Mo can choose independently, either join Thunder Interactive Entertainment to become employees, or become independent game designers, and cooperate with Thunder Game Platform.
These two choices have their pros and cons. As an independent designer, the income will be very unstable, but the game can be designed independently. The Thunder Game Platform will have a special recommendation mechanism for these people, which can allow more players to understand these designers and their works.
Whether it is a Thunder Interactive Entertainment employee or an independent game designer recognized by Chen Mo on the Thunder Game Platform, you can gain a place in the new headquarters of Thunder Interactive Entertainment.
This is also paving the way for Chen Mo's future planning.
So far, Chen Mo's team has remained at a relatively small scale. When he makes games, he will also choose the most preferred ones based on the team's situation.
However, future games will inevitably develop to a larger scale.
Judging from the size of the office area of the new headquarters, the existing Thunder Interactive Entertainment employees may not be able to fill even one-tenth of a large floor, and the rest are space for expansion.
In the future, Chen Mo may develop an extremely huge world, or even a diverse collection of many worlds.
For example, in some networks, players can freely travel around and adventure in many worlds, each world has different tasks and mysteries, and there is a unified will in all worlds to control...
Obviously, no matter how complex or huge the game is, it is designed bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit, and there is no possibility of taking advantage of tricks.
If you want to develop such a game, Chen Mo would not be able to complete all the worlds by himself. This requires an extremely large R&D team to be responsible for each part in order to truly do it well.
Therefore, Chen Mo is now recruiting these excellent designers to prepare for the future. If he wants to independently design such a "unlimited stream" game world, then these excellent designers can each be responsible for one world. Chen Mo only needs to check the final exam and screen them one by one.
Even if these large-scale games are not produced in the short term, these designers can develop their own works, and it will not be delayed anyway.
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This is why, at present, Chen Mo is the only qualified to hold such a large-scale game design competition in China.
Because of appeal.
At present, no domestic designer can achieve Chen Mo's appeal.
Chen Mo has successful works in all gaming fields, has made popular competitive games around the world, and has also made high-quality VR games, and has won the best of the year. For other designers, Chen Mo is the strongest designer in China. At the same time, Thunder Interactive Entertainment has sufficient funds and powerful channels. With a large number of players in hand, its appeal is naturally self-evident.
After roughly finalizing the rules of the game design competition, you can almost start preheating.
It will not be held for the time being in March after the New Year because the rules of the competition for designers in the industry are more complicated and there is not enough preparation time.
Chapter completed!