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Streamer games, such as Getting Over It, which emerged at the end of last year, in December 2017, are a prime example of this type of game.

Playing it myself doesn't feel like much, but watching streamers play can keep me entertained all day.

That's the case with the 100 Programming Contest.

It's so entertaining to play with!

Because these individual competitions were so popular, the final awards ceremony didn't receive as much attention.

This is many people's first reaction.

"Huh? Didn't the results come out a long time ago? Why are they only giving out the awards now?"

"Eh, we have to choose the top 10 from the top 100 renderers!?"

Fortunately, The Scroll of Taiwu became an instant hit.

This has reignited players' interest in the award. After all, with The Scroll of Taiwu being so popular, what will the rest of the games look like?

This could be considered a contest of empty promises.

In addition to the Spark Games Awards Ceremony.

After the awards ceremony.

Then came the New Year's Eve program that everyone was looking forward to.

Report, Dear Shareholders!

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"Welcome to 'Report! Dear Shareholders!'!!"

Good evening, Spark shareholders from all over the world!

The so-called "Report! Dear Shareholders!" is also a new attempt at offline activities by Xinghuo.

After all, Spark has already done all sorts of offline events, so if they hold another concert tonight, players will get tired of it.

Innovation has always been the core spirit of Spark.

Therefore, Spark also made innovations for this year's New Year's Eve gala.

At its core, "Report! Dear Shareholders!" is actually a talk show, and in essence, it's a marketing campaign, but the target audience has become game developers.

Producers from over a dozen game studios around the world gathered together.

They took turns going on stage to "report" on their work from the previous year.

The series includes rants about the boss and about himself, interspersed with some rosy tales, all while conveying a humorous, witty, and player-savvy producer persona amidst laughter and lightheartedness.

The show was inspired by a stand-up comedy performance Lin Li gave at the end of the Summer Spark Festival.

That performance was excellent, so Spark's operations department plans to replicate and promote it.

Of course, for producers in various Spark studios, not everyone can be humorous on stage.

When Umineko heard about this project, he was absolutely blown away.

"No, no! Absolutely not, I'll die if I go on stage..."

However, they are not humorous.

That doesn't mean there's no one who can make them funny.

The Spark operations team collaborated with copywriters from various production teams, hired professional comedy scriptwriters, and collected feedback from many players.

The various complaints about the game, both online and offline, eventually coalesced into more than a dozen scripts.

Rather than saying these producers are doing stand-up comedy, it's more accurate to say they're on stage.

Rather than saying it was a well-prepared performance, this was a carefully planned show.

The producer of Spark is known for frequently appearing on the show "Torture Planner".

So even though Umineko was shouting that it was absolutely impossible, he actually had some experience with TV shows.

However, this was indeed their first time doing stand-up comedy.

For producers with basic public speaking skills, the operations team continuously refines the scripts and performance effects.

For example, today's first guest, Yanchuan

Good evening, fellow shareholders of Spark!

"I've always had this question: Where is my mother?"

"I've noticed that many players seem to care about this issue, especially those from China, because they often say, 'Yanchuan Fei Ma.'"

When Shiokawa uttered those four words, the audience burst into laughter.

Immediately afterwards, Shiokawa pointed to the area in front of him, and the camera focused on a middle-aged woman who was smiling as she appeared under the spotlight.

"That's my mother."

The laughter intensified, and applause erupted.

The camera then pans to the middle-aged woman's side, next to a middle-aged man who is also waving towards the stage.

“My dad can testify that she can’t fly.”

This can't even be described as hilarious anymore.

Judging from Yanchuan's tone, the entire online and offline world was filled with laughter.

"However, I am also very emotional. Even if my mother could fly, she should be able to enjoy her retirement this year, because my colleague, Shimoda Shota, has become the current project manager of FGO."

A huge murmur of doubt arose from the crowd.

"Many people may not know that in May of this year, Sho-kun had already started to take over FGO's work one after another, including the very well-received Summer Spark event in July."

"Of course, this also includes the dissatisfaction with the new version in September."

"Sho-kun, the mother flying in the sky back then must have been your mother!"

With another round of laughter.

On the stage, Shiokawa shouted out a sentence.

"Next, please welcome Shota Shimoda to present FGO's 2018 shareholder report!!"

Thunderous applause erupted from the audience.

Some things are just that magical. For example, when a producer is criticized for being a "producer's mom," some people care a lot, but others take it as a form of encouragement.

If you can bring yourself to say this kind of吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or witty remarks), then you should say it in this way.

Far from evoking any negative emotions, it can actually bring about a sense of reconciliation amidst laughter.

In fact, this happened when Shiokawa in the previous life discontinued the operation of FGO.

Indeed, many players feel it's a great pity.

"We can no longer call Shiokawa Fei 'Mom'..."

This statement contains both a joke and an appreciation for Shiokawa.

how to say?

A twisted love between producers and players?

In any case, Shiokawa's opening was absolutely explosive, especially when Shiokawa's parents appeared, which almost caused the barrage of comments to explode.

Chapter 137 Chen Rui's Sense of Crisis

With someone like Shiokawa, who can perfectly bring the script to life.

There will naturally be things that cannot be expressed.

But for those things that can't be expressed, there are naturally auxiliary methods.

Moreover, the methods are not entirely the same.

For those who have decent communication skills, they may rely on external assistance.

For example, Chen Anyu took the stage.

"Hello, fellow shareholders!"

Then I just stood there for a moment.

Just as the audience was confused, he continued.

"Excuse me, someone just said in my earpiece that I went on stage a second too fast, and the teleprompter wasn't ready yet."

"Huh? I can't say that?"

What appears to be a stage mishap is actually a specially prepared joke. These jokes have little to do with what is being said, so they are very easy to use.

Once you have a good opening, someone with a certain level of expressive ability can generally move forward smoothly.

Of course, there are also the most troublesome cases, such as those with semi-social anxiety like Umineko.

In the program where he interrogated the planner, he was a silent, unassuming man, rarely speaking.

However, as the saying goes...

As long as the money is in place, anything is easy to say.

There are professional screenwriters and a team.

They actually arranged a PPT talk show for Hai Mao.

It's basically Hai Mao giving a presentation at the beginning, and then the slides are cut off one by one.

All the jokes were arranged in the PowerPoint presentation.

So no matter how badly Hai Mao explains things, once the PPT is shown, the effect is immediate.

to the back.

Umineko's monotone voice, along with the PowerPoint presentation that followed, became part of the humor.

It wasn't just Hai Mao, but also familiar faces like Chen Anyu.

Representatives from the United States, Japan, and some newly established studios also took the stage.

After a "Report, Dear Shareholders" session.

The effect was phenomenal.

"My God, I laughed for two hours straight!"

"How can this be so funny?!"

"They are really looking at the community."

"They're so down-to-earth. Looking at them, I feel like there's real hope for this game."

"It seems like several studios haven't reported what games they're currently developing."

"Any insiders out here who can claim this studio?"

Actually, many people didn't pay much attention to the Spark New Year's Eve event, especially compared to previous Spark events.

This is a report from a shareholder.

It doesn't look like a large-scale event at all.

As a result, along the way...

The effect was so good that when Lin Li took the stage, the number of online viewers reached an unprecedented eight million.

This is mainly due to the good timing.

When Lin Li took the stage, it was midnight in China and midnight in the United States.

In addition, the content of the previous events was all related to games and even communities.

This naturally attracts the attention of players.

But even so.

The achievement of having eight million people watching a show online at the same time was reached.

This once again shocked the industry.