I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 548 - 177: Three Textbook-Level Works!_3

Chapter 548: Chapter 177: Three Textbook-Level Works!_3

Profit is the only goal.

For competitions that evidently bear no fame or fortune, sending someone to claim a prize is not something worth boasting about; failing to secure a prize, on the other hand, could easily draw criticism from players.

However, the assistant didn’t dare to oppose Jia Xi’s decision, at most just pondering it in his mind.

Overtly, he nodded and responded, "Alright, I’ll make the arrangements right away."

"Fine, I’m a bit tired. You can go now," Jia Xi waved his hand, dismissing the assistant, then sank deeply into the soft lounge chair. As the rocking chair swayed gently, he gazed at the verdant lake in the distance from the villa and muttered to himself.

"I must admit I’m quite envious of you. Compared to the useless members of my own family, your grandson seems more dazzling than I imagined, Ke."

The older one gets, the more prone they are to nostalgia.

Whether it’s friends who have passed away, or enemies, they all resonate with memories of the past.

But resonance is just that, resonance.

The European and American market that Blue Ocean Paradise has already monopolized will not be relinquished, not even a fraction of it.

Your boy has organized this competition, isn’t it just to scout more young design talents?

Then I will have Hope Flute dominate every prize.

I’ll make sure the focus of the competition that should have been led by your top player is entirely on Hope Flute.

Monopolizing the major prizes also damages the competition itself.

It not only deters newcomers, diminishing their interest to compete, thereby impairing the healthy cycle of future events.

But also invalidates the so-called host’s advantage, snatching all the exposure away.

This time, it’s just a small warning to your top player.

Stay in Huaxia Nation, and I can’t touch you.

If you dare extend your reach into our European and American market.

I’ll cut off all your greedy arms!

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"Tsk... How could this happen."

Top player, general manager.

Ke Jin frowned deeply as he looked at the computer.

Gou Chehua stood by his side with a resigned smile on his face.

A week had passed since Ke Jin had an open confrontation with his old man.

After speaking his mind, Ke Jun had only warned Ke Jin to steer carefully for a very long voyage and to always keep an eye out, without interfering too much with his child’s subsequent decisions.

He didn’t rush around seeking credit, dying to get a position for himself within the company for his child.

He still left early on Monday mornings, clutching his tattered office bag, heading off to school.

Even when Ke Jin offered to give some money to the family.

Ke Jun repeatedly waved it off, saying the family had enough money, advising his children to spend cautiously now that they had some, in order not to develop a habit of lavish spending.

After gaining his father’s understanding, Ke Jin was finally free to go all out and make a push.

In the past week, the top player had announced with great fanfare the upcoming Game Designer Conference to be held in Jianglin, and welcomed designers from all over the world to participate.

The competition process was straightforward.

Over a one-month period, contestants could release their entries at any time and make them publicly available online.

It’s worth mentioning that the authors were allowed to set their own prices and sell the entries.

After all, people had put in hard work to develop their games, the product of their labor.

Just snatching it up and hanging it on the internet for everyone to play for free didn’t seem quite right.

Otherwise, it might even be copied by smaller companies who’d then make a tidy profit.

So once a game was showcased on the top player’s official website, a price tag was attached, ensuring that even those designers who didn’t win any prizes but put in the effort could still see some return.

However, to prevent any possibility of underhanded deals.

This time, players only had the right to download and try out the games, but they did not possess the right to score them for the competition.

That is to say, players could play the game, sure.

They could even score it themselves, fine.

But the top player wouldn’t acknowledge it.

The ultimate score and who would advance was at the top player’s discretion.

Only after a month of preliminary rounds.

Designers who passed the preliminaries were allowed a chance to optimize their entries before opening up the final live voting across the internet to determine the ultimate winners and hold the award ceremony.

At first, Ke Jin had quite an idealistic view.

Not to mention far and wide, just within Huaxia Nation itself, there should have been a considerable number of designers participating.

The competition was supposed to be a fierce battle of dragons and tigers.

Picking a selection of outstanding works, offering exposure to talented game designers, gaining some notoriety, they would be happy.

Seeing a small prize coming his way, completing the task, he would be happy as well.

The players would have access to more high-quality games, making them happy too.

This was a triple win situation, akin to Emperor Qin Shi looking into a double-sided mirror!

However, after a week of preliminaries had gone by.

Ke Jin stared at the heap of game submissions close to bursting the company’s email inbox and was dumbfounded.

The sheer number of submissions was only a secondary issue; since the top player had yet to start a new game production, they could draft employees to help with the selection process.

The major problem lay with the quality of the entries...

Within the themes of ’Meat Pigeon’, ’Platform Jump’, and ’Sidescrolling Levels’.

Each theme was a calamity zone...

There wasn’t a single game worth a glance.

The theme of ’Meat Pigeon’.

Although it seems the core gameplay involved randomness.

But even randomness must be handled with care.

It’s not enough to slap a random AI on to take care of randomly drawing equipment, Skill, and rewards for the player and call that a ’Meat Pigeon’ game.

Nor can you switch up monsters’ values, appearances, characteristics at random and claim it’s ’Meat Pigeon’.