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Chapter 610 - 191: Making a Fool of Oneself! What is an Open World?_3

Chapter 610: Chapter 191: Making a Fool of Oneself! What is an Open World?_3

But before he left, Ke Jin still pointed out a small detail that the art department staff had overlooked.

"Those floral carvings etched into the tower bricks, the decorative patterns on the outskirts of the castle walls, it would be better to switch them from a metallic texture to a wooden one."

"Mr. Ke, wouldn’t a metallic texture give a greater sense of distance?" Ke Yu earnestly voiced her thoughts. "When people generally describe metal, they use phrases like ’casting a cold light,’ which emphasizes the castle’s design concept of ’grandiosity, solemnity, keep out’ more."

Despite Ke Yu’s usual bubbly and cheeky demeanor, calling everyone "Mr. Ke," "stinky guy," "big brother,"

she still knew how to differentiate between the proper occasions and priorities when it came to formal work.

Hearing their Chief Beauty speak, the other employees of the art department also nodded in agreement.

Actually, there had been a meeting in the art department discussing the rendering of the exterior decorations of the great towers with a metallic texture.

It was unanimously approved at the time, but now Mr. Ke was suggesting they change it...

And to replace it with a wooden rendering that didn’t reflect light at all...

Wouldn’t that just drop the classiness instantly?

In this regard, it seems that the younger Mr. Ke is right...

However, the sentence Ke Jin said next

completely conquered everyone in the art department, including Ke Yu.

And made everyone deeply realize.

Mr. Ke is still Mr. Ke.

The very soul of the top player, a role that nobody else could fill except for Mr. Ke!

"In the entire borderland, the soul and core that strings everything together is the Golden Tree. Most powers also abide by the Golden Rule. With this context, if we were to logically put ourselves into the worldview and imagine if we lived here, then we would inherently hold a deep-seated reverence for the Golden Tree. Thus, we would use gold-toned wood to carve and embellish the castle."

His words seemed to awaken everyone in the art department instantly. An employee’s eyes involuntarily widened with admiration, and exclamations filled the room.

"I can’t believe I didn’t think of this detail!"

"Indeed, if we carefully consider the setting of "Elden," the significance of the Golden Tree in the borderlands is almost paramount, as the sacred entity that directly influences the local culture, it is even more significant to us than the sun is in reality. So for the millions of ordinary people and even heroes living in the borderlands, having a ’Worship of Golden Tree’ complex is logical."

"This is what it means to truly immerse ourselves in the game world... Our previous view was just too superficial."

"Mr. Ke is amazing! He’s like the one who awakens the dreamers with a single phrase!"

"If we want players to feel completely in-character when they play, we need to design as if we were true residents living here, trying to mimic what the emotions of those residents would be."

"But what if I’ve never lived in such a place and can’t imagine it?"

"That’s where intuitive thinking becomes important!"

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Hope Flute headquarters.

The company’s monthly summary meeting for top management.

After summarizing the data related to the DFgame platform.

The secretary stepped aside, allowing Alexander Conna, the head of DFgame, to slowly walk up and stand in the middle of the round table.

Resting his hands on the table and surveying the circle of executives, he then began to speak.

"The 3D masterpiece, ’Dark Domain Realm,’ led by our company’s Design Director George, is now in the final stages of production and is expected to be released at the beginning of next February."

"Having been polished for three years as an ARPG masterpiece, ’Dark Domain Realm’ has received nearly 200 million in funding from us. The goal is to compete for the early-year Hugo Award and, ideally, to capture the Best Game Award at E3 in mid-year." (E3 has stopped in reality, but due to its high recognition and timing, the book continues to use it.)

In the last year, the major game awards were divided between Art Electricity and Blizzard, with Hope Flute continuously playing runner-up, only picking up a series of nominations.

Even though the three companies are all under Blue Ocean Paradise, the competition between them is still very intense.

Previously, as the focus wasn’t on game development, Hope Flute lacked the drive for awards.

But in recent years, with Art Electricity and Blizzard demanding higher dividends or threatening to break away and build their platforms,

And with the neighboring Microsoft also starting to stir, a force virtually as strong as Blue Ocean Paradise,

Conna decided to take several years to build a design team of his own for Hope Flute.

After all, no matter how strong the channel is, if you have no clout in the game resource sector, you will eventually be drained and assimilated by the two big brothers, Art Electricity and Blizzard.

Therefore, Conna set his sights on the start of the new year.

During this time, Art Electricity and Blizzard, having just released their annual titles before Christmas, swept the Golden Joystick, TGA, GDC, BAF, and other major awards,

Leaving a gap early in the year for the Hugo Award and around mid-year for E3.

Even if there were new awards, the quality of the awarded games would likely be weaker compared to the major awards at the end of the year.

This was Conna’s best opportunity to strike while the iron was hot.

Moreover, if they could win this time,

It would wipe clean any unpleasant minor controversies that had arisen last month.

"I believe ’Dark Domain Realm’ deserves the Hugo and the E3 awards hands down."