Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 7
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Chapter 7

An hour of gaming experience ended.

The host came to the stage.

"Okay, the game experience time is over! I don't know if you have found the game you like?"

"Then, the compet.i.tion continues to the next stage. Let us first look at the achievements of these 20 games, please look at the big screen."

The audience looked at the big screen, which showed the total online duration and recommendations for the 20 games.

The audience are stunned!

"f.u.c.k, seriously?"

"This, this ridiculous game? Crazy!"

"How could the data be so different?"

"This is unbelievable! Host, are you sure there wasn't any shady deal?"

On the big screen, everyone's eyes were attracted by the data of 《Flappy Bird》, which was written with a total of 349 hours of game duration and 544 recommendations!

The second game, 《Hunter Island》, only got 92 hours of game duration in total, and the recommendation times was 330!

The host was also surprised, he himself just found out about the data. Like the audience, his first reaction was that the data was wrong!

The three judges also looked at each other and couldn't believe the data.

What did this data mean? The total number of audience present was 700, and these people spent an average of half an hour on this game!

544 out of 700 people are willing to share this game with others.

This data shocked the G.o.d!

Chen Mo wasn't surprised. This data was basically what he expected.

In fact, the game 《Flappy Bird》 was not a very fascinating game.

On the contrary, it is a very self-abusing. If the game was published on app stores for users to play, most people would turn it off within five minutes after first playing.

However, now the audience was at the scene of the design compet.i.tion and the compet.i.tors of 《Flappy Bird》 were not the mature game works, but the introductory game works that were done in a mess.

Other works are basically unable to attract the audience for too long, so most of the audience will still choose to come back to try refresh game history to get higher points, and even some of the more persistent audiences spent all their time on 《Flappy Bird》 getting more points.

In this way, it is quite normal for 《Flappy Bird》 to harvest so many gaming hours.

The host whispered a few words pressing the headset. A moment later, he looked up and said to the audience present: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have just confirmed with the technicians that the data is correct. This is the final data of the 20 games."

There was still a commotion in the venue.

Many audience still couldn't believe that 《Flappy Bird》 can achieve such results, especially those who have no special feeling for this game, and immediately quit it after they started it.

However, most audience accepted this fact. 

"Is this game really so great? Such a simple pixel style game with such a simple gameplay, but it turned out to be first? And it even got a far better data performance than the second place!"

"It's actually not weird, try to think that how much time you have spent on this game?"

"…it must be about forty minutes." 

"It took me nearly an hour! I just tried to get more points and I still felt a bit dizzy."

"Yeah, when I close my eyes, I can still see that stupid bird there, I can't help but feel clicking it…" 

"Look, there are nearly 600 people on this list. The scores of the first two hundred have pa.s.sed 20, and there are a lot who scored 40 or 50. How long do you think it will take for you to get 20 points?"

"This… it would take at least twenty minutes? If you are not in a good condition while playing, you won't even succeed within an hour." 

"So, this is its real data." 

"This is so true… this game shocked the G.o.d…" The audience who don't believe this but now they began to half believe and half doubt this."

The host coughed twice: "Okay, since the technicians have confirmed that the actual results are all real, then our current first place is 《Flappy Bird》 by No. 7 designer!" 

"The next step is the review of the judges. After the review, the audience will have the next round of recommendations."

The host paused and continued: "There is a need to remind everyone that the current 《Flappy Bird》 game have a head start over the second place game in terms of game duration and recommendations. According to the rules, each recommendation of players is equivalent to 30 minutes game duration. That is to say, only the second game 《Hunter Island》 can exceed  《Flappy Bird》 if it gets 128 recommendations more, which makes it possible to compete for first place." 

"Then, we welcome the three judges to give their opinions." 

The host raised his hand and indicated that the three judges could start speaking.

The three judges looked at each other and Qiu Hengyang said to s.h.i.+ Huazhe: "It is better for senior to speak first."

These three people are all B-level designers, and they are not in the same company. There is no superior or inferior position. s.h.i.+ Huazhe is the oldest, so to express their respect for him, Lin Hai and Qiu Hengyang let him speak first.

s.h.i.+ Huazhe's face turned deathly pale, and he moved the microphone on the table towards his mouth and hawked with low voice.

"This can even be taken as a game?! I will be the first one who is against this! If this can be considered a game, then games are something that anyone can develop no matter who he is?!"

"Can you count the singer on the street as a musician?!"

"Can you count the graffiti on the wall as an artist?!"

"Press a few more return b.u.t.tons while writing essays, and you will be counted as a modern poet? 

"Farce!" 

s.h.i.+ Huazhe was obviously very angry and knocked the table with his knuckles.

"First of all, this game doesn't have any plots, the gameplay is simple, the picture is rough, and the game feel is very bad! So I would say that as a game, it even failed at the production level!"

"Secondly, this game completely relied on a loophole, relying on stimulating the players to compare, to stimulate the player's luck psychology, forcibly lengthened the game duration!"

"So, even the data like game duration and recommendations that everyone can see is good, these data are still all empty! Why? Because it is a dishonest practice!"

"In view of this, my att.i.tude is very clear, I strongly disagree that this game is the first place!"

After s.h.i.+ Huazhe finished speaking, he pushed the microphone to the side and snorted and gasped.

"Good! Teacher s.h.i.+ said it well!" 

Someone shouted, and then the audience started laughing. 

This applause came from the contestants, probably the author of 《Hunter Island》.

Chen Mo calmly unscrewed the mineral water on the table and took a sip. The reaction of s.h.i.+ Huazhe was also in his expectation.

Obviously, s.h.i.+ Huazhe is very disgusted with this kind of game, because his fingers are not so flexible while playing the game, therefore he can not fully experience the fun of getting new scores.

And Chen Mo's Super Focus made s.h.i.+ Huazhe forcibly get abused in this game for ten minutes, and it is reasonable that he is completely full of anger. 

The host apparently did not expect that s.h.i.+ Huazhe would be so fierce, and quickly changed the topic: "Okay, just now teacher s.h.i.+ Huazhe has put forward his own opinion, then, teacher Lin Hai, please tell us your opinion."

Lin Hai looked at s.h.i.+ Huazhe in a dilemma and looked at the game 《Flappy Bird》, he hesitated for a moment before turning on the microphone.

"This game… I agree with teacher s.h.i.+ Huazhe that its own gameplay is not very rich, and the quality is not very high. In terms of quality, it really doesn't deserve the first place in this contest."

Lin Hai paused, and continued: "But… I think that since it can achieve the current results, the game duration and the recommendations are both good, it means that players recognized it. So, I will still hold a reserved att.i.tude and give the final decision to the audience."