Guanghua City, Guanghua Art Institute.

GGAC, also known as the Global Game Art Concept Competition, entered the official selection stage after the preliminary competition screening.

During the preliminary selection, the contestants only need to submit a demo, or submit the design concept draft and accept on-site questioning, and then pass the test. However, after entering the formal selection stage, all the entries will be competed with real swords and guns.

Is there a bug in the game?

Are there alternative resources?

Is the art style not novel enough?

Failed to achieve the expected results in the design draft?

The details in the game are not done properly?

None of them can do it.

When the official selection stage is reached, all games must be required to be completed with the highest degree of completion. Any small flaw in the game may be deducted points by the judges.

Zhong Ming still came to the venue on time. This time the venue was no longer the slightly stingy student activity center before, but was replaced by the central auditorium.

Guanghua Art Academy will choose here when hosting some evening parties or large-scale events and competitions.

There were many audiences on site, some were students from Guanghua Art Academy, and some were audiences from Guanghua City and even other cities. They all wanted to see if any interesting new games would emerge in this Global Game Art Concept Competition.

In the past, GGAC has also held many games that won first prizes, some of which are popular and some are not popular, but no matter how they perform in the market, at least in terms of artistic value, they are not low.

Some unpopular games may not be able to sell a lot of sales because they are not novel enough or have insufficient depth, but the art level of these games is definitely very high.

Most of the audiences who came to see GGAC were aimed at the word "art".

The judges also entered the game early. The competition has not yet begun, and the judges are also exchanging their views on the competition.

Wu Zhicheng looked at the official list of selected items and sighed: "There are more good games this year. Last year, I could feel that many contestants still mainly play tickets, just to get a prize, and the games they make are not very serious. But this year, the completion rate of most games has been very high. Even if they don't participate in the competition, they can be taken out as an independent commercial game and be paid attention to by players. Alas, Professor Jin, which one do you like?"

Du Mingxian laughed: "Why does Lao Jin want to ask which one is better? It must be "Ink and Clouds". The producer didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup he gave Lao Jin to this game last time, which made Lao Jin highly respect this game. Oh, strictly speaking, it should be a big favour! Not only he played it himself, but even other people from the Calligraphy Association have been promoted by him. You say it's evil or not."

Jin Xi snorted: "Old Du, you have something to say. I tell you that you don't do calligraphy, so you don't know how valuable this game is! This producer is a genius calligraphy master, and even President Qian praised it! I tell you, be careful when rating, if you score too low, that means you can't get along with our calligraphy association!"

Wu Zhicheng laughed and said, "Not it, Professor Jin, are you here to support this game?"

Jin Xi nodded: "What, can't you do?"

"Of course, we are all judges. They evaluate both gameplay and artistic. If it is a work with particularly good artistic quality, of course we should focus on it." Wu Zhicheng said, "However, the specific performance of this game depends on the effect of the trial display."

"Anyway, I'm optimistic about "Ink and Wash", and the display effect... it will definitely not be bad." Jin Xi said.

Having said that, Lao Jin didn't know whether the specific display effect was good or not.

After all, it is different to writing a good game design draft and doing a good game.

Just like a movie, if the script is good, will it definitely look good when it is shot? It's not necessarily true.

I can only say that if the script is well written, the movie will have the possibility of good shooting, but if it is handed over to a bad director, then the good notebook will not be saved.

Making games is similar to filming movies. Many times, even if the designer has no problem with his ability, the project's art is not good and the program is not good, and the games he makes are still bad, and often a good idea will be wasted.

There are many ways to drag your legs.

The judges on the scene have never seen the final version of the game. Even if Lao Jin likes "Ink and Wash" very much, if the effect of the on-site display is too poor, then he can't be too partial.

Soon, the competition officially began.

The host first conducted a simple show, thanking the organizers of the competition, various cooperative units, audience members, judges and contestants.

The organizer's leader gave a relatively brief speech, which slightly increased the value of the entire competition.

After that, there will be a formal review.

The order of the finals is not based on the original registration order, but is comprehensively evaluated by the judges.

According to the submitted demo and the results of on-site inquiries, the entries were roughly sorted from poor to excellent, ensuring that the good works were evenly distributed throughout the competition, while ensuring that the overall level was gradually rising.

This is to ensure the performance of the competition and save yourself from being the best game first. As a result, one crab is worse than one crab, which is boring.

The judges were very tired and the audience was drowsy, which had a bad impact.

The first producer is on stage.

"Dear judges, audiences, hello everyone. My participating game is called "Deep Sea Journey"..."

The first game has a good response.

"Deep Sea Journey" is an independent game, based on ocean scenes, with many unique scenes and monster designs, all from some scenes in the ocean and biologically, making people feel as if they are in the blue underwater world, and the scenes are beautiful.

The second game has average performance and mediocre response.

In the fifth game, the sleepy audience became interested again and there were applause.

The order is arranged in advance, to a certain extent to ensure the performance of the program, but the specific score must be performed in the stands.

The review of each game is divided into three aspects: producer display, explanation, audience voting, review comments, and rating.

Finally, the audience voting and judges score are combined to determine the final ranking.

There were 340 audience members on site, and there were 16 reviewers.

The voting for the review is 10 votes per person, so the full vote is equivalent to 500 votes.

In the end, if there is a flat vote, the number of votes of the judges will be preferred.

This rule is fair. On the one hand, the audience has more votes than the judges, which can avoid favorable votes and shady to a certain extent. On the other hand, the judges' votes are also heavy, which can ensure that the artistic nature of the game itself is comprehensively considered.

Many of the producers on stage are very nervous.

After all, many people are used to playing games alone and are indeed not very good at facing this kind of scene.

Games will pass by soon.

Du Mingxian poked Lao Jin next to him: "The quality of this batch of games this year is good."

"Yeah." Lao Jin responded perfunctorily, thinking to himself, Lao Du, don't keep saying nothing about it.

Du Mingxian looked at the order of the competition: "The next one is "Ink and Wash Clouds and Smoke".

"I'm not blind, I can read the order table myself, are you annoying?" Lao Jin was speechless.

Since Lao Jin's attitude towards "Ink and Wash" and Zhong Ming last time, Du Mingxian has always joked about this, which makes Lao Jin annoyed himself.

Just wait for Zhong Ming to come on stage and educate these people with the finished product of "Ink and Wash Clouds and Smoke"!

Of course, Lao Jin himself is also very looking forward to "Ink and Wash Clouds and Smoke". After all, this is the first work he has ever seen that has incorporated the art of calligraphy into the game content. Of course, he doesn't want to see Zhong Ming mess it up.

...

"The next entry is "Ink and Clouds" from Weiguang Studio. Please ask the producer to come on stage!"

Zhong Ming stood up and tidied up his clothes a little, and went on stage.

There were some viewers talking about it in the audience.

"Glitter Studio? It sounds familiar."

"They did it all!"

"Oh, "Work Dog Singles Manual", I have an impression."

"What singles manual, survival manual! Can you remember your name wrong?"

"It's indeed a very famous studio, and I've actually come to participate in this competition? This game should be quite exciting!"

"I also think that "Landing Red Path" is a masterpiece! I always think that this producer is a genius, and I don't know what this game will look like."

"Is this the producer? Looks so young."

Weiguang Studio is also well-known.

Two independent games with a lot of reputation have made the name and logo of Weiguang Studio engraved in the hearts of many players. Before introducing the game, they added a lot of impression points to themselves.

On the stage, there is a large screen that will display the game screen in real time and a small window that will display the operations on your hands.

Of course, for most games, this small window is useless. After all, there are only a few ways to operate, such as hand rubs, keyboards, mice, or handles.

However, for "Ink and Wash", this small window is still relatively important.

Zhong Ming did not say too much or over-introduce it. Many places were simply mentioned in one sentence. More importantly, players could feel the unique charm of "Ink and Wash" through their eyes and ears.

...

Entering the game, the first is a opening CG.

CG is not complicated, it is displayed in the form of an ink and wash style scroll. As the scroll unfolds, the black clouds of the ink and wash style gather, and a ferocious beast was born, with teeth and claws dancing, and the distant city was shrouded in its shadow...

Meanwhile, a low voice tells the background of the story.

"According to legend, in ancient times, there was a kind of evil beast in China called Nightmare."

"The birth of the nightmare beast is unknown. There are rumors that the nightmare beast can weave dreams..."

Zhong Ming told the judges about the background of this story when questioning it, but now it is presented to the players in CG.

This simple dynamic CG costs no money and is not difficult to do. You can just ask the dubbing actor to record it, but the effect is excellent.

When talking about "a scholar uses his brush and ink to fight against the enemy, using the power of mountains and rivers in his paintings, and using poetry and calligraphy as a sword", the background melody suddenly became excited, and the picture on CG turned, and the scene of a scholar fighting with a monster in a nightmare appeared.
To be continued...