Chapter 251: Zero Praise Contest!
A few days later, at Whale Leap headquarters, it was ten o'clock in the morning.
Lu Ming just set the next settlement date to four months later.
The development time of "Border Buddies" has been confirmed.
The investment has been confirmed.
Then it’s time to activate his long-held small treasury!
opposite,
Old Zhou was flipping through his tablet, reporting on his work as usual.
"Mr. Lu, first of all, the question is the location of the new Fu'an Experience Center."
"We have now completed the site selection for 13 floating shore experience centers. Some places are willing to waive the site fee, and others allow us to build them within cultural and creative parks."
"Sure! There's no problem with the location! I'm assured!"
"Um."
Lao Zhou crossed out the next page.
"The second item is a progress report on the negative review training class."
This is the focus of today.
Lu Ming became interested: "How is it? How many people are there now?"
"There are 31 people who have actually registered for the first class, 46 people for the second class, and the pre-registration for the third class has now reached 97 people."
"The first session is a refresher course for veteran game planners, mainly from within Whale Leap."
“The second phase is a training course for new employees, including those who are new to our company.”
"The third session is an external invitation class."
"The people here are mainly non-Jingyue students. Previously, most of them were college students, but now there are also many offline people who are interested."
"Also, Mr. Lu, a school even contacted us recently to talk about the negative review training class entering the school!"
Lu Ming nodded.
The scale of negative review training classes is getting bigger and bigger!
The lecturers of the bad review training class have also been updated a lot.
There are so many talented people!
Lu Ming's fingers tapped the table unconsciously, his voice sounding impatient:
“Are there any students who have performed particularly well?”
Upon hearing this, Old Zhou pondered for a moment, then tapped his fingertips twice on the tablet, as if he was flipping through internal evaluation records.
"I still can't tell at the moment..."
"oh?"
Lu Ming raised his eyebrows: "Still lurking?"
"Ah!"
Old Zhou smiled bitterly,
"Plus, there have been too many offline activities at the experience center recently, and I have to coordinate some operational resources. I have also assigned two teaching assistants to help with offline training, so the pace has been a bit scattered."
"So I don't have time to dig deep and pick out the ones that stand out."
"clear."
Lu Ming leaned back in his chair, nodded slightly, and lowered his eyes, as if thinking about something.
This progress is a bit too slow!
It is indeed not enough to rely on Lao Zhou alone to recruit talents!
The efficiency is really too low.
Lu Ming stood up and walked to the window, his hands in his pockets, but he had another plan in mind:
We can't wait any longer.
We can't wait for some genius planner to emerge.
"Talent, you have to take the initiative to let it surface."
"If you dig with a hoe one by one, how long will it take to dig out the treasure?"
Relying on recruiting, training and slowly nurturing people one after another, and then discovering that it is too slow.
Old Zhou murmured, "Then... Mr. Lu, how do you plan to get them to the surface?"
Thinking of this, Lu Ming looked at Lao Zhou and slowly uttered three words,
“Make a competition.”
“…”
"Contest"
Lao Zhou repeated it subconsciously.
"I was thinking..."
"Many of our students have already completed several rounds of training and have listened to most of the examples we've given them. Could we let them practice some of the examples?"
Lu Ming narrowed his eyes and said slowly:
"Let's have a competition."
"I've already thought of a name."
"It's called: Extreme Tolerance Challenge."
Lao Zhou was a little confused: "What the hell?"
Lu Ming smiled faintly, he already had an idea in his mind.
To the outside world, this is the Extreme Fault Tolerance Challenge!
And for him, this is the "Zero Positive Reviews Contest!"
Lu Ming looked at Lao Zhou,
"That's right! Let's have a competition!"
“The goal is simple: let’s test the limits of user emotions.”
"This is the best channel to combine theory with practice!"
“This is so important for the negative review training class!”
"Don't you always say that theory is theory, but practice must have a grasp?"
“Now, this is a great opportunity for us to use the game to experiment with user behavior!”
"Of course, the game itself is free of charge. We can declare that this is an internal test and user behavior observation project."
"This is just one of our internal training plans. All participants will register and then publish their works anonymously on the DeepBlue platform!"
"After a month, we will review the results together!"
Old Zhou nodded slowly. He had no objection to the competition that Mr. Lu mentioned!
On the contrary, I find it very interesting!
We have been studying for so long, we should be able to produce something!
"Then Mr. Lu, what are our selection criteria?"
“And what are the rules for this kind of game?”
Selection Criteria
Hearing this question, Lu Ming smiled.
He turned around, his hands still in his pockets, and spoke in a nonchalant tone, yet with a hint of ambiguous lightness.
"Well...we can't just look at the score."
"The current game rating system is no longer valuable. Look at any platform, the five-star reviews, the fake reviews, the bought reviews, the manipulated reviews—those things can be used as a reference, but they are not the final result!"
"And what we're holding this time is the [Extreme Fault Tolerance Challenge]."
"Essentially, we want to see whether, under non-optimal experience conditions, a design can truly stir up players' emotions, create topics, spark discussion, and even make people unforgettable."
"Like we've always said in theory class, when making games, you don't have to be afraid of being called unreasonable, unbalanced, or inhumane. You have to dare to try."
“The most important thing is to see whether the developer has fully grasped the theoretical knowledge of the negative review training class!”
Old Zhou nodded.
"So... Mr. Lu, you want to select based on public opinion."
"You could say that."
"Don't worry about the selection and scoring. I'll create a dedicated scoring system. When the time comes, we'll just input all the game data and give you a final score!"
"This scoring mechanism is our internal matter anyway, I can handle it myself! There's no need to explain it to the outside world!"
"Then Mr. Lu, what about the content restrictions of the game itself?"
Lao Zhou asked again.
"How do we decide on the theme for this challenge? We can't just do anything."
"Of course not." Lu Ming answered straightforwardly.
"For a competition, all contestants must answer the same questions!"
"So this time, let's unify the proposition."
Lu Ming paused, his eyes lit up slightly:
"Now, it's our first Whale Leap Negative Review Training Class Competition. The theme this time is called [Competition]."
Old Zhou was stunned: "Competition?"
"right."
"We asked all participants to create a game using the framework of 'competitive gaming'."
"It can be confrontation, survival, elimination, free-for-all, ranking... whatever you want."
"But our time is limited. We will have to select the final result in a month and a half!"
"We will also reimburse all the materials and expenses required by all participants. After all, they are all our own talents!"
"The one with the best performance will be directly appointed as the game manager. Whale Leap will provide funding to help them complete the game they want to make. Let's set the launch budget at 100 million this time!!"
Game Director
The budget is 100 million!
Good job!
Old Zhou's eyes trembled slightly, and an inexplicable respect arose spontaneously.
Mr. Lu’s emphasis on talent was beyond his imagination!
With this reward, he wants to participate in the competition!
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