I'm not surprised to see someone using it as an avatar;
? Outside the cup? It is a programming contest initiated by YCY's fan community, which requires participants to develop programming works with YCY as the theme. As soon as the incident was exposed, it became the first hot list in Weibo, Zhihu and Post Bar with the strange combination of YCY and programmers.
On the day before the final, YCY personally called them on the Weibo.
Knowing that the game is a well-deserved protagonist in this competition, I became interested in it after eight of the 10 works entered the final.
Is it grass roots? Absolutely grassroots. As soon as I joined the group, a senior three girl named Shanshan, age 17, asked me to write a paragraph: beyond your fans of the student party, shine for you and the motherland. When a teenager is strong, the country is strong?
Moreover, Shanshan is obviously not the youngest player, because Ada, a former Ali programmer and now an auxiliary programming teacher in the children's primary school of migrant workers, guided four third-grade primary school students to play a parkour game "Beyond Rush" and reached the final.
The standard of winning the game is also very basic: voting. Because the voting link is hard to find (I searched online for 10 minutes), the number of people who participated in the voting was limited, and the barrage even revolved around several projects. Did you brush the ticket? There was an argument. Some players complained to me: Voting consumes a lot of enthusiasm. We are reluctant. Now we have to vote again. Some members were particularly inactive and ran away.
The barrage of the live page is refreshed very quickly and never stops.
But you can't say that the cup is unprofessional, because many old drivers are hidden between teams. In addition to the original painters who worked in 10 and the bearded American financial industry programmers, programmers from Tencent and Netease can also be seen everywhere, and several projects they participated in have entered the finals.
For example, the hardcore ACT produced by Unreal 4: Beyond Legend was created by Netease's Intern. Before, I tried to play games such as eating chicken with cold weapons, FPS and TPS independently, and now I am a graduate student in computer graphics at Zhejiang University. He said that he tried to incorporate some elements of black soul and wolf nature into his works.
Tencent's participation is more direct: Tencent Classroom is the on-site supporter of the Beyond Cup final. They invited Tencent's technical experts as judges (such as a technical director of Rubik's Cube Studio Group), and invited experts to explain Tencent's experience from T 1 to T6 after the project demonstration. Programmer upgrade road? . Even if the host laughed at himself for taking the job, the organizer said to give me 2000Q coins? , also can't alleviate the depressing atmosphere at the beginning of the career.
Tencent games Rubik's Cube Studio Group Engine Center, technical director, game engine architecture translation.
This conflict between grassroots and majors is also reflected in the prizes provided by sponsors. The winning team can not only get Clinique skin care products, Master Kong milk tea, Dove shampoo and YCY peripheral gifts, but also get cherry keyboards or computer peripherals, Tencent classroom course packages and Tencent internal places. The combination of FMCG, entertainment circle, hardware and workplace products is so strange that I am afraid only YCY-related activities can do it.
Before the final, I interviewed the creator of the final work Beyond Fantasy. As a junior studying foreign languages and literature, she has never been exposed to game development, but because of this competition, she began to try to make a game with professional thinking. In her words, you can learn more about the contestants' participation in this magical competition and their hearts.
Blue muttered: we are completely burnt now, and even eating melons is watching the game. We can't win the first prize anyway, okay? Hey, why is it suddenly our turn to do an interview?
After entering the finals, people voted every day. We used to be third, but now we seem to be fifth? Really, it's just. When there is no mechanism to prevent the brushing of tickets, my god, there are big brushes everywhere. Originally, we just wanted to digest it inside the fan platform. Later, we found that everyone was canvassing, so we asked parents for help. Some players sent voting links for grades and school groups in order to vote. It doesn't matter now, who likes to vote for who.
The first time I learned about the Super Bowl was on March 7, when I went on a hot search. I just want to see if any team will accept us. As a result, we didn't find it, so we became a team ourselves. There are now 10-20 players. Everyone is like a family, entertaining themselves there every day and bragging.
This group of us is amazing. Most of us are students. We don't know each other in reality. We are all fellow villagers? Villagers, do you know what this means? I am a fan (YCY once introduced himself as the hope of the whole village, and later his fans claimed to be villagers, and the fan circle was Yangcun).
Do I study computer? Please, I study foreign languages and literature. But I usually like to write novels, draw pictures, play games and help me get into the position of king, so I always want to be a derivative of YCY, such as novels, comics and games? I like games very much, because it can partially simulate life.
Based on her personal experience, Beyond Fantasy tells the story before her debut. I just left home for work in the spring and entered the workplace in the summer, and gradually got to know the anchor and modeling industry. Join the brokerage company in autumn and create 10 1 in winter. In this process, she will meet many friends, have different development routes, and improve her numerical value. She will even try to make a debut in C for a few weeks, or organize a group overseas.
The biggest innovation of our project is the public opinion system. The current popularity and fan rankings will determine whether she can debut. Every black incident will make the discussion of the program hot and make her suck powder. We have set up many algorithms and models for this system, hoping that players can think about the relationship among idols, public opinion, society and fans.
Many contestants like to surpass their sisters, but they are not fans. What they do feels soulless, you know? For example, most of the materials are found in shopping malls, and only a model of transcendence is made, which is still very unlike transcendence. They are playing a good game, but why should they surpass the cup?
We don't want to use the model in the store directly, and the system is original, so we have to start from scratch and spend a lot of time to make up for our unprofessionalism. 10 minutes What do people say offline? We have to talk for two hours. Moreover, I only have my own time after 9 pm, and the seminar lasts until 2-3 pm.
For a whole month, I went to work at 9 o'clock and went to bed at 3 o'clock. My heart is tired and my mind is not clear. In the preliminary competition, I skipped class for two weeks in order to catch the first video. The teacher said you wouldn't have to come if I skipped class again, so I hung you up. But this competition has a deadline. I can only say that all the classes that should be skipped have been skipped, so I didn't think too much.
When developing, I will first finalize the general framework with you, what functions to achieve and how to arrange the work, then meet with the copywriting team and the art team respectively, write an outline, divide the plot, see who is the lead writer and who is responsible for designing the transcendental image, and then unify the style. Later, the copywriter who had nothing to do after writing the story was responsible for issuing announcements, writing slogans and advertising words, doing promotion, and issuing test qualifications by lottery. Weibo Chaochao caught fans.
Now "Beyond Fantasy" has more than 20 scripts and tens of thousands of words drawn by Zhang Li, and its functions and system architecture have been completed. A programmer who has been idle for a long time writes code and runs programs? We also considered orange light, but we don't want to give them all the traffic, but we still want to do it ourselves. I hope this work can? Develop indefinitely? Go down and do it slowly.
I dare not let people around me know that I like YCY. In reality, it is a shame, embarrassment and great pressure to let others know that your YCY fans have done a project and need other people's support. Everyone thinks she has no strength, so people who like her will be labeled as cults and idiots. Many people even say that the programming contest started with her name, which is an insult to the contest. But this competition is for her life, because of her, nothing is worth it.
I was in a bad mental state for a while, depressed or something. After seeing YCY, I found that she also worked hard. Although she still can't do many things well, she is still doing well, so I feel particularly relieved. If one day this society allows such imperfections, I think it will feel much better.
I had a chance to surpass myself, but I never dared. She means too much to me, even a little symbolic, just afraid of being close to home? She is my spiritual hometown. I'm worried that after meeting her, I find that she can't bear the strong feelings I give her. If one day I don't have any problems and just regard her as an ordinary idol, maybe I will be willing to meet her.
I'm not a big fan. I don't use Weibo very much, and I can't give financial support to Chaoqiang. But I will use my skills to make novels, cartoons and games to give back to her. In the process of idolization, the most important thing is to find the value and truth of your existence in the virtual.
Conclusion Many people have interpreted YCY, which carries too many complicated symbols and motifs: Can grassroots units counterattack? Is it useful to work hard? Does being liked mean being excellent? Can modern social life be true and willful? Therefore, she may have the most complicated fan base on the Internet, which is also the reason why the Beyond Cup programming contest was popular before.
Some people think that Beyond Cup is a good exposure opportunity for developers and has the opportunity to promote the development of indie games. I don't expect this complicated and chaotic competition to do this, but I can be sure of one thing: these players have really turned their love for YCY into one work after another.
Runner-up works YCY Secret Grocery Store
To tell the truth, even if they reached the Super Bowl finals, the performance of many teams was only unsatisfactory: most VCRs were rough, and their explanations were often stuttering, and explaining their works was like reciting texts. But as you can see, games have become their expression. They are using virtual works to express their true selves, their true existence and their true enthusiasm for virtual symbols.
What does an idol mean to people? What can fans give back compared to giving? Different times have different answers. However, an introduction to Beyond Cup answered this question: We exist to create something for ourselves and the people we like.
With this in mind, I really like YCY a little.