Finally, Xu Piao, wearing a panda-like appearance, calmly sat down among a group of well-dressed producers. Following the organizer's instructions, he greeted the others and the audience watching the live broadcast. "Hello, I'm the producer of 'Shan Hai Lu'. You can just call me CH."

ch=Planning

Although he didn't know whether other people used their real names or online names, habit and caution made Xu Piao not easily give out his real name when reporting his name. Instead, he chose to give the abbreviation of the planner as his name.

Because StarCraft games are all constructed with mental power, there is no division of various positions, and producers are simply called producers. Xu Piao has never seen the word "planner" used, so he just used it directly.

...Anyway, she's used to being called a "dog planner."

Xu Piao estimated that if he continued with his style of making games, he would definitely be criticized in the StarCraft world, so he decided to just skip the process and do it directly.

When the time comes, the players will be scolding the planner’s family tree, so what does it have to do with her, Xu Piao?

At this time, the audience and players had no idea of ​​Xu Piao's sinister intentions. After complaining about the image of the black and white panda, their attention quickly shifted away from her image. They expressed their love and gave gifts in the barrage, and many asked questions. For a while, the number of active barrages was much greater than when the previous producers - excluding Lake - appeared. However, these barrages would not be seen directly by the producers, and only other audiences watching the live broadcast, the organizers and other staff could see them.

"Okay, now that the top ten producers are here, let's start the interview!" The host gestured to the staff on the side, and the internal structure of the virtual room quickly changed, from a plain blank space to a large European-style room. The ten producers who were originally sitting in their respective seats also changed their sitting positions, and became chairs with high backs, distributed in a circle around a large table.

To put it simply, it is the kind of long oval table that has a bit of a Knights of the Round Table feel, covered with a red velvet tablecloth.

Xu Piao looked around and found that the chair he was sitting on was a little different from the chairs of others. Everyone else's chairs were dark red, but his had a gold edge... Maybe this was the symbol of first place?

If Xu Piao was in the image of a normal human, it would seem quite impressive and glorious, but she is now in the image of a panda!

If people on Earth saw this, I'm afraid it would just be an emoji:

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Xu Piao tilted her head slightly and saw that sitting on her left was a young man with his hair covering his eyes. Just by looking at his appearance, one could tell that he was a socially anxious person who refused to socialize and just wanted to stay quietly at home and grow mushrooms. On her right was a short-haired woman with a tired face.

"Don't worry, producers. Our interview this time is very simple, and most of the questions we ask are what fans want to know..." The organizer began to introduce the general process of the interview. Since Xu Piao came to participate in someone else's interview activity, he would give due respect. He listened carefully to the interview process. When he heard that he would answer the fans' questions, he guessed in his mind what questions the players of "Shan Hai Lu" would ask.

As Xu Piao was listening, he suddenly heard a low and somewhat resentful voice coming from his left.

"Why don't you reply to me?"

?

At first, Xu Piao didn't think that this was spoken to her. She just thought that the person might be sending a voice message to someone else. She was also wondering whether she should move to the right to avoid hearing the message.

But after a while, Xu Piao, who was still listening to the organizer explaining the process, suddenly felt clearly that someone was staring at her.

Straight on...

"...Are you talking to me?" Xu Piao had no choice but to turn his head away.

After a little thought, Xu Piao guessed that this person should be Lake who had sent her a message before... The reason why she guessed it now was, of course, because Xu Piao did not immediately connect the image of the cold, arrogant, and indifferent boss mentioned by Lake's fans when she occasionally saw him, with the person sitting next to her who was obviously an introvert and socially anxious.

Except for the first-place chair which has a gold edge, the other chairs are exactly the same. It is impossible to tell who is the producer of the second-place winner and who is the producer of the third-place winner.

Lake nodded slightly.

"I'm sorry, I've been too busy these days and haven't had time to reply." Xu Piao gave a standard social polite answer, and attached an apologetic expression... Well, she didn't make it. When she was constructing the image of the panda man, she habitually made the expression the original panda man's expression, that is, the classic expression of Liang Ofan, so she couldn't make a big change in the expression.

Occasionally she would use the image of Director Kim's panda man, but that expression was too wild and sarcastic, and not very suitable for such a formal interview.

Lake stared silently.

Asking "Why don't you reply to me?" has already consumed half of the social interaction of a socially anxious person.

Xu Piao took the initiative to ask, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

The letter only said that he wanted to meet her, but nothing else. To Xu Piao, it was almost the same as someone coming to see her without saying yes and just sending a "Are you there?"

Now that we've met, we should just talk directly about anything.

Fortunately, Lake was quite normal when it came to business, and he straightforwardly told her the reason why he was looking for her, "I want you to work with me on a game."

"Cooperation? Can I ask why?" Xu Piao was a little surprised.

If it is a game production on Earth, cooperation and division of labor are inevitable, but in Xu Piao's opinion, the production of interstellar games is already a relatively private matter, because the construction of the game world relies entirely on the ideas in the producer's mind, and the ideas themselves are very personal.

If she collaborates with others, doesn't she have to ensure they have the same vision as she does? But how is that possible? Even if she's thinking of something specific, everyone's sense of beauty is different, and the images they envision will be different. Wouldn't the resulting game have different styles, just like the difference between flat and thick painting in painting?

Although in fact most StarCraft producers choose to cooperate with others due to lack of mental strength.

"Because your worldview isn't constrained by existing game modules; it's a completely free, personal concept." Lake said slowly, "I've had a brand-new, groundbreaking idea for two years, but I've always been just one step away from capturing inspiration. I've experimented many times over the past two years, including this time with 'L World', which I'm using to participate in the innovation program... but none of them have satisfied me. I'm wondering if collaborating with you might help me capture that spark of inspiration."

Simply put, it is a bottleneck period.

"In the "L" world, is it one to many?" Xu Piao thought of this immediately.

"The initial idea was a one-on-many setup," Lake nodded. "But I've noticed that both the single-player and multiplayer sides seem to lack a sense of motivation and tension. It's fine after a few tries, but there's no compelling reason to keep playing."

Xu Piao understood.

She had tried playing "L World" at first. The game, simply as a strong individual versus a weak group, was pretty good, and quite adrenaline-stimulating. But when it came to the most basic motivation for killing chickens...

Isn't that fear?

Moreover, the weaker party in "L World" can also attack the stronger party, but the attack power is much weaker.

Basically, people are not too afraid of things that can be attacked and defeated.

"Are you willing to cooperate with me? We can sign an agreement to share the income equally. It's okay if you want to write your name before mine..." The socially anxious boss was still thinking about something that could be used to attract Xu Piao's agreement, and he added whatever he thought of.

"Sure." Xu Piao said.

Xu Piao was planning to play the chicken-killing game.

But before that, Lake had indeed built the prototype of the chicken-killing model, so he was considered the first person.

Xu Piao felt that cooperating with Lake to make a chicken-killing game was a good choice. Not only could it avoid a lot of trouble... it could also save half the money on purchasing the game space, and perhaps he wouldn't have to worry about publicity and advertising?

But what are all StarCraft players afraid of?

Xu Piao saw that they were quite accepting of their slightly embellished and beautified exotic beasts. Interstellar seemed quite peaceful, without the Zerg setting. As for ghosts… it seemed no one mentioned them much either. With the advanced interstellar technology, perhaps there was already a scientific analysis of ghosts…

It's probably mainly because of the lack of horror atmosphere, right?

When it comes to horror, many images automatically emerge in Xu Piao's mind.

A small mountain village, a red wedding dress, paper figurines, coffins, paper money, mirrors, embroidered shoes, a dilapidated theater, and old houses...

Xu Piao doesn't like watching foreign horror movies, especially those in the United States that are full of dismembered bodies, blood, insects, etc. He is most exposed to Chinese horror movies.

It’s unlikely to pass the review.

But StarCraft has quite lenient game themes and age restrictions. Even R18 games can be put on the shelves normally. In other words, no matter how scary the chicken-killing game she and Lake made is, it will not be banned and does not need to be censored.

Lake had no idea that Xu Piao was already planning how to make a chicken-killing game to scare the players. After Xu Piao agreed, he loaded an agreement into his super action that was extremely inconsistent with his socially anxious personality and planned to sign it with Xu Piao on the spot.

Of course, Xu Piao did not sign it immediately. He said that he would first check whether there were any terms that needed to be modified according to the situation. After confirming that everything was correct, he would go through the process of both parties signing the agreement.

At this time, the organizer also came over to ask.

The host asked Xu Piao with a smile on his face:

"Looking back on the journey of making games, did producer CH encounter any difficulties when making Shanhailu? How did you overcome them?"

Hmm...it's difficult...

Xu Piao thought for a moment and said, "If there's any difficulty, it's probably because we didn't have enough funds in the early stages of developing Shanhailu. Expanding the game space is quite expensive."

When the other producers heard this, they all nodded, those who understood understood.

As for the question of 'how did you overcome it', Xu Piao brushed it off with other words and never mentioned it again.

——What a joke! If players knew that they are actually much smaller than normal in "Shan Hai Lu", how could we shock them with big scenes in the future?