togophonebook #323 - With strange bugs, "The Strongest Crosstalk Master" is released, live broadcast by
#323 - With strange bugs, "The Strongest Crosstalk Master" is released, live broadcast by
Friday.
Milk Candy came to Lu Yu's workstation.
"Director Lu, our project is encountering research and development difficulties... we'd like to discuss it with you?"
"What is it?" Lu Yu raised his eyebrows. "Are the project team's perverts being too excessive?"
"No, no..."
Milk Candy shyly retracted her toes wrapped in white silk stockings.
"How should I put it? In 'Project Shinkansen', I want to create an NPC ecosystem within a closed train,
especially one with an intelligent language dialogue system.
After all, player interaction with train passengers is a major part of the game content.
So, I want the NPCs to have their own behavioral logic, but the current game engine's NPC language system can't achieve complete self-consistency.
And in this game that takes place in a closed environment, this shortcoming is undoubtedly magnified."
Lu Yu rested his chin on his hand, thinking: "I understand. Let me think about it."
...
Not long after Milk Candy left, Wan Xiaotong came over.
She pulled down her eye mask and spouted chuunibyou lines:
"Master, the Dark Flame Demon Dragon is attacking! We are ready to fight to the death! Give the order!"
Xu Qin translated:
"Director Lu, Sister Xiaotong is bored out of her mind. She's been making her subordinates play dark magic user role-playing games every day. Please arrange a new mini-game project for our studio to practice with."
Lu Yu thought to himself:
Hiss... Miss Xu Qin's translation has a bit of personal emotion mixed in.
It seems I need to arrange something for the Moe Girls Studio to do, or Wan Xiaotong will drive them crazy.
Of course, Lu Yu wouldn't immediately arrange any development tasks.
He waved his hand: "Alright, I announce that the company will start a new round of recreational activity team building!"
...
In the following week, Lu Yu planned to take the company employees to enjoy various sketch comedies, xiangsheng (crosstalk), and stage plays in Jianghai City.
First, everyone gathered at Jianghai City's famous "Happy Twist Sketch Comedy Theater."
The atmosphere in the sketch comedy theater was lively. Everyone watched all the signature programs in rounds, and each performance was full of laughter. Laughter and applause rose and fell.
Lu Yu selected the most central VIP seats for the company employees, enjoying various snacks while watching.
Next, the company came to Jianghai City's long-established xiangsheng theater, "Yun De She."
Stepping into the theater, a strong xiangsheng atmosphere filled the air. Red lanterns hung above the wooden gatehouse, and traditional rosewood grand master chairs were placed on the stage.
On the stage, a pair of xiangsheng actors in mandarin jackets told stories in a humorous and funny way, making everyone laugh.
In order to improve everyone's artistic accomplishment, Lu Yu also arranged for everyone to go to Jianghai City's "Yi Fu Grand Theater" to watch several high-level stage play performances.
The plots of the stage plays were tortuous and the performances were excellent. Everyone was immersed in artistic worlds that were sometimes happy and sometimes sad.
After the first day of the cultural and recreational trip, Lu Yu happily looked at the leisurely point income:
[300 employees appreciated sketch comedies, xiangsheng, and stage plays, triggering 912 critical hits and 663 combos, feeling happy, leisurely points +7800]
Nice!
Thanks to the system's "Spring Joy Gathering buff", Lu Yu was also able to farm points from everyone with ease.
...
After a week of fun, the company employees had a great time, but they were all confused.
Now is a critical moment for competition. Why is Director Lu letting everyone enjoy recreational activities at this juncture?
Is there any deep meaning behind Director Lu's actions?
In the company's development general group, after everyone raised this question, Liu Mengyuan suggested:
"Everyone can think about it. Which of our previous team-building activities hasn't been helpful for game development?
Director Lu is letting us enjoy ourselves, there must be a purpose!"
Hearing this, Xu Qin slapped her head:
"You guys, could it be like this,
Director Lu hopes that we can initiate a mini-game related to the projects we've been playing these days,
This game can both fill the gaps in our work schedule and provide NPC language system support for Milk Candy's game project.
After all, if we're talking about making an NPC language system, what's better than a language-based game?"
Everyone immediately felt that what Miss Xu Qin said made sense.
So, Wan Xiaotong and Xu Qin went to Lu Yu.
Hearing that Wan Xiaotong wanted to launch a language-based sketch-comedy game on Peach Garden Divine Travel, Lu Yu yawned and waved his hand indifferently:
"Your various studio groups now have the autonomy to initiate projects, just go ahead and initiate them, you don't have to ask me for approval for everything."
Anyway, in Lu Yu's opinion, language dialogue games on VR are still small-scale sketch-comedy works with little investment, and they will probably be very mediocre and won't cause any waves at all.
...
Soon, Wan Xiaotong shared her design concept at the project development meeting.
This game is called "The Ultimate Xiangsheng Master", and it is a VR platform exclusive.
In the game, players will play the role of a xiangsheng actor, personally experiencing the charm of xiangsheng performance and the joy of making the audience laugh.
Wan Xiaotong designed the following selling points for the game:
VR Real-time Interactive Actions: Allows players to use VR gloves to interact with the audience, enhancing the theater immersion of the game.
Relive Classics: The game includes some classic xiangsheng skits, allowing players to challenge classic funny lines.
Role-playing: Allows players to choose different types of supporting or lead roles, playing famous xiangsheng masters in history.
Special Scenarios: Set some special scenarios, such as the lead actor suddenly forgetting his lines or making a mistake, then the supporting player needs to cleverly help the lead actor smooth it over and complete the performance.
Or, for example, if the audience throws eggs or exposes the punchline, the player needs to defuse the situation in a timely manner to ensure the performance goes smoothly.
Skill Proficiency: Records the player's proficiency in different lines and scenarios. High proficiency will improve the performance effect.
Audience Reaction: Introduces the mood value reaction of the live audience, giving applause or boos depending on the player's performance. If the audience's mood value is deducted to zero, then the game fails.
Career Mode: Start as a xiangsheng actor who learns from a master and gradually become a big name in the industry. In career mode, you can manage theaters, operate box offices, recruit apprentices, and develop across industries.
After seeing the design plan written by Wan Xiaotong, everyone looked at each other in dismay:
"Hiss... you know what, you really know what, personally wearing VR equipment to perform xiangsheng in a theater, it sounds like it's... quite interesting?"
Liu Mengyuan nodded: "Okay, let's develop according to Xiaotong's ideas. Everyone, work hard, we must develop the richest NPC language system for 'Project Shinkansen'."
...
Three days later, Peach Garden Village officially released a new promotional poster:
In an ancient xiangsheng theater, dim lights spill through heavy red curtains.
The player is dressed in traditional xiangsheng actor's clothes, holding a folding fan in his hand, and is performing.
The lead actor next to the player has a funny facial expression.
Above the audience, some classic xiangsheng lines flutter, such as the iconic shout of "Your second uncle!" and the cheers of "One more!".
At the bottom of the poster, the game's promotional slogan is displayed:
"Visit the grand stage of the xiangsheng theater and experience the perfect fusion of classic culture and modern technology!
Real-time interactive actions, inspire performance inspiration,
Relive classic lines, challenge your limits of humor,
Career mode role-playing, create your ultimate xiangsheng performance journey!
Put on VR, step into the dream stage, you are the ultimate comedy master!
The latest masterpiece of the Peach Garden Village Moe Girl Studio Group - "The Ultimate Xiangsheng Master\
,"Peach Garden Divine Tour exclusive release, unified retail price: 95 yuan!
Children's Day, Happy Launch!"
...
As soon as this poster was released, the comment section exploded:
"I went, I thought it was 'Project Shinkansen' doing something fun again, so you really have a new game?"
"Speaking of which, will this game be fun? I don't know if I should buy it. I've been a little scared by Peach Garden Village recently."
"The 'Space-Time Moe Girl' made by Wan Xiaotong is actually okay, should I trust her one more time?"
Seeing that the players' attitudes were hesitant, Fan Langtao's mouth curved into a smile.
The advantage of VR game consoles is large scenes, large productions, and a sense of presence. You, Peach Garden Village, want to reverse the situation with such a boring sketch-comedy game?
Lu Yu, ah, Lu Yu, you are really confused, so confused that you are grasping at straws!
He timely ordered the public relations department of the Longteng Group to take action,
Soon, the Longteng Group's water army poured into the game's comment section, starting a mode of sarcasm and ridicule:
"666666, in this day and age, any subject matter can be made into a VR game?"
"This game sells for 95 yuan? I can only say that there is a 95% probability that it is not worth it!"
"Longteng's family is a fake next-generation high-tech war masterpiece, it can't compare to Peach Garden Village's high-tech xiangsheng masterpiece, I just don't know if Peach Garden Divine Tour's performance can handle this game."
"What else is there to perform? Isn't this product, or Peach Garden Village's recent series of showy operations itself, the biggest joke?"
While the Longteng Group's public relations department was frantically outputting, the Youyi Company's public relations department was not idle either.
They spread the short video awkward drama that recently put Peach Garden Village in a public opinion storm, and the poster of "The Ultimate Xiangsheng Master", all of which undoubtedly put Peach Garden Village in an even bigger eye of the storm.
...
On the eve of the game's release, Xu Qin suddenly found Liu Mengyuan in a panic.
"Director Liu, it's not good, the game project file of the Xiangsheng Master has another big BUG!"
Liu Mengyuan asked curiously: "What BUG?"
Xu Qin: "Because the game uses Peach Garden Kaiwu Engine's paper doll system, the audience NPC's body model and clothes are bound separately. When the audience listens to xiangsheng, when they laugh so hard that they lean back and forth, the range is too large, the clothes will laugh and fly off.
That's right - it's literally flying out.
Because the female audience's models are petite and the clothes are fluffy, the clothes on their bodies are especially easy to fly out.
Also, because the game's human body modeling refers to real humans and is very detailed, so..."
Liu Mengyuan was stunned, damn it, this is terrible?
Xu Qin sighed:
"Recently, Director Lu has often taken us to participate in cultural and recreational activities everywhere, which has led to us not having time to check the art resources at all,
Now, there is no time to completely fix this problem again!"
The two had no choice but to discuss with Chu Xiong.
Chu Xiong said: "It doesn't matter, the Melissa large model will turn this BUG into a game feature, don't worry, it will definitely be seamless!"
...
So, the project team waited for the game's release on June 1 with trepidation.
In this way, the Ultimate Xiangsheng Master was launched amidst various doubts.
In the evening, DiliDili UP Master "Xiaoyao Sanren" live broadcast room.
"Hello audience friends, the game we are playing today is Peach Garden Village's new "The Ultimate Xiangsheng Master". I also bought the first version. Same-city express delivery, it was delivered very quickly."
Barrage:
"Good evening, Teacher San!"
"What did Teacher San have for dinner tonight?"
"Hahahaha, Teacher San is originally from Tianjin, isn't playing this game exactly his specialty?"
The game start interface, the background is a simple xiangsheng theater, on the stage are two NPCs similar to Guo Degang and Yu Qian.
The game has several modes to choose from:
[Career Mode]
[Free Mode]
[Challenge Mode]
Sanren:
"Let's not talk nonsense, let's directly enter the career mode."
After entering the career mode, the first thing that appears is the face-pinching interface.
Sanren chose a set of dark gray xiangsheng mandarin jackets, and pinched his hairstyle and face to look like Teacher Yu Qian.
He gave himself a game ID called "Teacher San".
After pinching people, the game pops up an option:
[Please select the direction of development: Lead/Support]
Sanren: "I have heard some xiangsheng, so I know that the lead is easy to produce program effects, but today we will give ourselves a little intensity and play as a supporting actor."
The barrage laughed: "Hahahaha, Teacher San's unique self-challenge!"
Game subtitles:
[You are a budding xiangsheng actor, apprenticing for 15 years. Today, you have finally ushered in your first official stage performance in your career]
The latest novel is first published at Six Nine Books Bar!
Immediately afterwards, the scene in front of Sanren suddenly opened up.
He found himself standing in a small theater, densely packed with men, women, old and young, all looking at him with expectant eyes.
Sanren: "Audiences, the live broadcast screen is flat, you may not feel it, I really feel like I am standing on a stage now, this light, this temperature, and the noise of people, it's too real!"
After his partner appeared, there was thunderous applause!
Sanren: "Wow, my lead partner looks really like the young Teacher Guo Degang."
Barrage Tucao: "Not only does he look like him, his name is also Degang."
Game prompt:
[Your first performance officially begins, please pass this novice teaching level]
After Degang took the stage, he smiled: "Thank you everyone, today we two will give you a paragraph!"
Then, Degang looked at Sanren.
Game prompt: [Generating the lines you can support based on the career skills you currently have...]
Soon, two options appeared in Sanren's field of vision, used to answer Degang's words:
[Option 1: It's our turn.]
[Option 2: You say it yourself.]
Sanren noticed a [Audience Mood Value] parameter in the lower-left corner of his vision, currently at a full 100 points.
Below the mood value was a [Reaction Countdown].
This countdown bar was constantly ticking down.
The game continued to prompt:
[You need to react correctly to the comedian's words before the countdown ends. Failure to react in time will deduct from the audience's mood value.]
[You need to accurately use the VR microphone and gloves to perform your supporting role. The richer your expressions and movements, the better you can maintain the audience's mood value.]
[Game Goal: Successfully complete the first performance.]
[Bonus Objective: Maintain the audience's mood value at 100 at the end of the performance, and have more than 10 instances of climax cheers.]
Sanren hesitated for a moment: "What should I choose?"
Then, with his slight hesitation, the countdown reached zero, and the mood value was directly deducted by 25 points!
The audience below the stage shouted angrily:
"Refund!"
"Refund!"
"Refund!"
Sanren quickly responded, clearing his throat and laughing: "It's our turn."
It seemed that his support was correct, and the audience quieted down and began to watch the performance.
Degang:
"So many friends have come to see us today, I am very gratified."
[Option 1: Can't even see two heads in total.]
[Option 2: A lot of people have indeed come.]
Sanren: "Should I choose one and tease the comedian?"
The audience in the live broadcast reminded:
"Sanren, the show's effect hasn't built up yet, and the punchlines haven't been delivered. You have to follow the comedian's words."
Sanren: "A lot of people have indeed come."
[Audience Mood Value +10]
[1 Combo!]
Sanren said excitedly: "I see, I know how to play this game now. Everyone, watch me perform!"
Degang: "Seeing so many friends, I am truly happy from the bottom of my heart."
Sanren: "Indeed, very happy."
Degang: "After all, the two of us are useless. We can't do anything else besides performing cross-talk."
Sanren: "You are, but I am not!"
After Sanren said this, the audience's mood value plummeted by 30 points!
Some audience members started throwing eggs, but Sanren, wearing the VR device, nimbly dodged them.
[Egg Dodging Skill Proficiency +1]
Sanren complained in Tianjin dialect in the live broadcast: "What's going on? If I could, I really wouldn't want to train this skill."
The viewers in the chat went crazy with laughter:
"Hahaha, Sanren is still so good at creating show effects."
"Sanren, don't go against the comedian so early. The audience's emotions haven't built up yet."
Degang: "Actually, besides performing cross-talk, I have some other hobbies."
Sanren: "You have other hobbies?"
Degang: "I've always had a dream. I want to be a writer."
Sanren: "You want to be a writer?"
Degang: "To realize this dream, I write every day at home."
[Option 1: You have this kind of hobby?]
[Option 2: Definitely using toilet paper.]
[Option 3: Is this tickling the paper?]
Sanren chose three without hesitation, and someone else threw an egg!
Sanren said aggrievedly: "Hey, I have this bad habit of liking to tease people, but I think it has a good show effect."
The viewers in the chat laughed:
"Hahaha, I understand Sanren. I would choose three too. I can't help it. I just like to tease people in daily life."
Degang: "Soon, in the near future, I will be a great writer."
Sanren: "You're quite something."
Degang: "Look, I'll write a Water Margin first."
Sanren: "Just write two words?"
Degang: "I'll write a more complex Water Margin."
Sanren: "Change it to write three words?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the audience burst into laughter, mixed with applause and cheers!
[Audience Mood Value +20]
[4 Combo!]
[Rhetorical Question Skill Proficiency +1]
Sanren suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand. Build up a wave first, then be witty."
Suddenly!
Someone in the chat asked: "Have you guys noticed? It seems like a girl's clothes button popped off under the stage."
Someone replied: "Really? Are you seeing things?"
This unnoticed comment was quickly brushed away, and the game continued.
Degang: "Then I'll write about Ximen Qing and his women."
Sanren: "You're going to write a Jin Ping Mei first, right?"
Degang: "After I finish writing, I'll adapt it into a TV series, and I'll get rich after selling it."
Sanren: "This thing can't be broadcasted."
Degang: "Is there anyone here who wants me to sign an autograph? It's cheap now, but it will be expensive later!"
Sanren: "You're quite a big shot?"
Degang: "Before signing autographs for others, I have to learn to write my name first."
Sanren: "Who doesn't know how to write this person's name?"
Degang: "In other words, your hobbies have to be richer."
Sanren: "That's true!"
Degang: "I couldn't imagine it more than ten years ago. Back then, I decided to perform cross-talk in the theater, and the audience was always puzzled."
Sanren asked the live broadcast: "Can I tease him now? Are the emotions up?"
Sanren: "You still have an audience?"
Unexpectedly, this retort directly deducted 50 points of mood value from the audience!
The audience's mood value dropped to the bottom, and they shouted angrily: "Refund! Refund! Refund!"
Sanren was a little flustered, and didn't have time to say it again before the countdown ended.
Game prompt: [Audience Mood Value is zero, this performance has failed]
Degang said angrily: "The audience is all gone. I won't play with you next time."
The viewers in the chat went crazy with laughter: "Hahahahaha!"
Sanren: "I'm not convinced. I'm a gaming expert. Let's go again!"