Play Game of Life

Friday, January 19.

Lu Zhixing is happily building in the virtual space of the deep world of 'Taiqing'.

He had already tossed about in the original virtual space before, and made a test level of the first version of "Walking with Darkness", but with the development of the subsequent game, that level has long been abandoned.

Now that the game has been roughly developed, and all kinds of materials and resources are complete, there is not much work to do afterwards.

Lu Zhixing was finally able to spare time to make a good use of this virtual space.

The specific layout of the virtual space is a bit like some management and construction games. You can arrange it however you want, and you can clear it and rebuild it at any time if you are not satisfied.

But there are only two caveats:

First, the location of the key must be hidden.

The key can be regarded as the core of the entire virtual world. If it is an unowned virtual space, the key can be easily hacked. However, even in a virtual space with an owner, hackers can still locate the key through certain means.

The key can also be understood as the core code in the program. Once the entire virtual space is compromised, it will fall apart and will be tampered with and stolen soon.

Second, the basic rules of the virtual space should be set as perfect and strict as possible.

The virtual space has some underlying rules. Hackers can find loopholes, cheat the rules, or exploit loopholes to a certain extent. The more perfect the settings, the harder it is to exploit loopholes.

Just like when hackers invaded the virtual space before, they could only bring guns, because the virtual space has similar restrictions.

Of course, since it is a basic rule, this rule will also restrict other people indiscriminately, including the owner of the virtual space.

If the owner of the virtual space opens a back door for himself, then this back door may also be found by hackers and used in turn.

In short, in the deep world of "Taiqing", anti-hacking is a very complicated technology. After all, the technology itself is still immature, and hackers naturally take the initiative.

Most people's choice is to open it directly. I don't bother to make too complicated decorations, or even just make a virtual office scene, and use it as an online office location.

Because the virtual space itself is not a particularly precious thing, a large virtual space is not easy to manage, but many people in the research group have the most basic virtual space.

As for the security measures, we can let the official help to fix it. If you don't have permission, you can just run naked. After all, the possibility of this small virtual space being located or invaded by hackers is very low.

If you really encounter it, you will consider yourself unlucky.

But for Lu Zhixing, he has a lot of coquettish ideas, waiting to be verified.

First, nest the two virtual spaces and place the small virtual space inside the large virtual space.

In this way, the keys of the two virtual spaces can be embedded together and hidden in this overlapping space.

Then, through the function of random map generation, all the randomly generated difficult levels in "Walk with Darkness" are filled in the large virtual space.

If it is cracked from the outside, it needs to go through a large space first, and then try to squeeze into a small virtual space.

In this way, the entire virtual space becomes a huge maze.

Not only that, Lu Zhixing also intends to make this maze move at any time, just like a Rubik's cube, different blocks move, combine and change according to certain rules.

Finally, the most stringent bottom-level settings are made for the entire virtual space, no weapons are allowed, and there are still a large number of dangerous zombies and mechanical hunters inside.

Because the more bottom-level restrictions you have on yourself, the more bottom-level restrictions you have on hackers. It's just that hackers can exploit loopholes, so the force value is probably higher than the owner of the virtual space.

Under such strict restrictions, hackers can carry some ordinary firearms at most, which is not enough firepower at all.

The reason why Lu Zhixing struggled was, of course, that he was cautious on the one hand. Although the probability of encountering hackers was not high, what if? Although the official will also provide a certain amount of security, it depends on the level of the official in the previous motion capture competition... I am afraid that it is not very reliable.

On the other hand, of course, because...he has nothing to do.

Take the virtual world to practice your hands, and test the generation of this random level by the way, let the AI ​​run through the clearance path, and conduct in-depth debugging, which is also quite meaningful.

"Okay, almost done!"

At the core of the nesting of the two virtual spaces is an ordinary room, where the keys of the two virtual spaces are placed.

Lu Zhixing ran in this virtual space when he had nothing to do, on the one hand to test the game, and on the other hand to continue to improve and consolidate his parkour skills.

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Sunday, January 21.

Lu Zhixing was lying on the sofa in the rental house, drinking ice-cola and watching TV while checking his account balance, thinking about how to spend the money in the future.

As soon as he came to this world, he encountered the financial crisis of Internet cafes, and then Professor He Cheng's homework, the establishment of 404 Studio, recruitment, and a series of other things. Time-limited role-playing missions...

Lu Zhixing was basically so busy that he didn't have time to think about these problems.

Now that "Walking with Darkness" has been basically developed, it is waiting for the official release next week, and finally I can take a little rest.

So far, Lu Zhixing has developed four games: "Zen", "You in My Eyes", "Ordinary Life", and "Overcoming Difficulties with Mao Mao".

Among them, "Zen" and "Overcoming Difficulties with Maomao" are both released on the personal accounts of foreigners. The price of the former is very low, and the latter is directly free, so the income of this piece is basically negligible.

The accumulative profit of "Zen" is only about 200,000 yuan. After all, its price is only five or ten yuan, and it has to be shared with the official platform. It is already a miracle that it can sell so many copies.

Some of the money is used to maintain the normal turnover of the Internet cafe, and some is used for various expenses of the performance. In short, there is not much left.

The money earned by "You in Eyes" is just close to one million, which is not a lot. After all, it is a drama game, and many people have passed by in the video, so the sales volume cannot be too exaggerated.

But this game has relatively strong stamina, and it should continue to earn good income for a long time in the future. When it catches up with the official platform to hold special events for drama games, it may become popular again.

And "Ordinary Life" is the big money maker. This game has sold more than 400,000 copies in two months after its release. After counting the platform share, tax deduction and other factors, it has already brought nearly 35 million yuan to Lu Zhixing. income.

This is thanks to the healthier stand-alone game market in this world. In Lu Zhixing's previous life, selling 100,000 copies of this game in China would be enough to celebrate with drums and drums. It would be difficult to recover the cost.

Of course, the production of these games is not completely free.

Although Lu Zhixing, the material for making the game, can be exchanged directly with the life-playing game and then used for consciousness generation, which greatly saves the funds required for game development, but there are still a lot of places to spend money.

For example, when the amount of resources is not enough, you have to borrow from the group, or spend money to find other people to buy. Moreover, if the generated material wants to be transported out, the transport fee must be paid to the group.

Of course, other designers will also come to buy these resources from Lu Zhixing, some are settled with points, some are settled with money, and they can also return a lot of blood.

In addition, the scale of 404 Studio is now large, and the company's daily expenses have also risen sharply, such as renting office space, staff salaries, etc., which cannot be ignored like in the past.

Although Li Rushan took part of the investment, Lu Zhixing also had to contribute some money.

In short, the funds currently lying in the 404 studio account have reached 29 million, and with the release of "Walk with Darkness", this number should continue to expand rapidly.

For a start-up company, this is already a terrifying speed of absorbing money.

As long as "Walk with Darkness" becomes popular, the role-playing task of the invested myth should be completed immediately.

There was so much money that Lu Zhixing didn't know how to spend it for a while.

But he is not in a hurry, anyway, he has plenty of time to plan slowly.

Just then, his cell phone rang.

It was an early warning message from the system background that his virtual space had been invaded!

This is the first time he has received an early warning message since he completed the layout of the virtual space three days ago.

Lu Zhixing was a little surprised: "Huh? There really are hackers who have thrown themselves into the trap!"

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