Chapter 178 - Presentations (1/2)

The moment Chen Mo entered the venue, he heard someone call out to him.

It was Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo walked towards him to introduce himself, “You’re here too?”

Qiu Hengyang nodded, “Yeah, I was going to let you know, but it seems that we’ve ran into one another. I’ve seen the news the past few days, too. You’ve really done it, you’ve managed to generate a huge news topic through a mobile game.”

Chen Mo laughed, “What do you mean a huge news topic. I just thought it’d be a good idea to make a game for the players to fidget with since the conventions were usually quite boring. Anyways, it’s my first time here, so it’d be great if you could introduce me to others.”

Qiu Hengyang nodded, “Of course, follow me.”

The two walked as they chatted.

Chen Mo asked, “Heard your new game did pretty well, you’re A-grade now too?”

Qiu Hengyang nodded, “Yeah, but my move to B to A-grade took four to five years, unlike you who managed that in a year. Your year has been quite insane huh, how many games have you made? Warcraft, Wulin, Onmyoji, Anipop… I doubt there are many others in the industry who could manage four games like you did.”

Chen Mo tried to explain himself, “I started working on Warcraft since October last year, and that took a bit more than half a year, so don’t count that in. And among those games, only Warcraft was the more notable one, the others were more like side projects.”

Qiu Hengyang laughed, “Either way, you’ve been pretty quick on your feet, and the main point is that the games were quite well received.”

The two of them walked as they chatted, towards the venue.

“The main events for today and tomorrow during the day are networking events and talks, most of the talks have been organised by the Game Committee,” explained Qiu Hengyang.

Chen Mo asked, “Are you doing a talk?”

Qiu Hengyang shook his head, “Me? I’m still lacking a lot of experience. Usually only S-grade videogame designers are invited to those talks, and usually have a few VR games behind them.

“Of course you could give a talk about more classic games. You could probably give a talk yourself based on your results in the mobile industry this year, but I think that because you aren’t an official committee member yet, they didn’t organise one because they don’t know you too well.”

“I don’t really want to give one anyways,” said Chen Mo.

Qiu Hengyang laughed, “It’s not bad to give a talk. You can only have so much inspiration alone, it’s when you interact with others that you gain more inspiration.

“Which talk do you want to join?”

Chen Mo discovered that there were many different talks. There were over ten talks a day, each two hours on average. He had to decide which ones he wanted to attend as there were a few happening at the same time.

And if they didn’t want to listen to talks or presentations, they could join networking events. These networking events are started by designers themselves, and the designers could pick and join events that had other similar video game designers.

Chen Mo gave it some thought, “I think I’d like to listen to a presentation.

Chen Mo didn’t want to argue with other video game designers at networking events, which was why he chose to listen to talks.

There were three different talks going on, “The use of lightrays and scenery in levels”, “Casual games design concepts and experience exchange”, and “How to make a high quality VR FPS game.”

Qiu Hengyang asked, “Do you want to go to the casual game one?”

Chen Mo was speechless, “What’s the point in that, I’ll tell you anything you want to know.”

Qiu Hengyang laughed, “That’s true, it’s probably a bit insulting to listen to others talk about casual games with you right by my side. You made games like Plants vs Zombies and Anipop that sit at the top of the casual games leaderboards after all.”

“How about VR FPS games?” suggested Chen Mo.