Reborn to create a virtual world

This morning, Beichen's young technical director issued an inexplicable task to the game testing team.

He asked everyone in the test group to stop testing the new expansion of the game, and instead started to try a stand-alone game that came from nowhere.

This stand-alone game called "Three Kingdoms Ideal" has been uploaded on the Internet recently. Half of the test group has heard of the name of the game, but only three or two people have played this game.

People who have played the game heard Yang Ziqi's request, but they began to speculate with their colleagues, thinking whether Yang Ziqi had taken a fancy to the game's creator and wanted to recruit him——Based on everyone's speculation, "Three Kingdoms" has at least one good-quality artist , a good level of copywriting, and a very capable data planner and program... Considering that the size of this game group may not be large, these identities may overlap.

For a game that is expected to be profitable, the most important thing is undoubtedly creativity, data planning and grasp of market psychology, while art and copywriting are not important.In this regard, the creators of "Three Kingdoms" can be said to have done an excellent job.For a large-scale game, there are never too many talents with accurate data planning and market grasp, and the game "Three Kingdoms Ideal" itself is just a small and medium-sized original game released online, and it doesn't look like it is behind the scenes. What a powerful background and financial resources, but it is a suitable target.

Although some people in the testing group were skeptical about Yang Ziqi's order, since it was assigned work, it was fine to do it, but there was no need to figure out the cause and effect—they were not decision-makers.

After playing the new game all morning, to be honest, everyone's mood is quite happy.The first is that the type of this game is very novel, and its development direction is different from most of the popular stand-alone or online games at this time, so that the employees who are repeatedly testing the functions of their own online games every day have a pleasant feeling of rest and play.The second is that the whole game is really well done, whether it is the difficulty design or the content setting, it is very just right. In terms of difficulty, it can keep people entertained and easy to learn, and it also contains many challenging items, which makes people addicted to it.

After playing the game all morning, many people found it incredible.

There really hasn't been a game of this level produced in China for many years.Although the technical difficulty of the game itself is not very high, and the graphics cannot be said to be particularly exquisite, it can only be said that the style is pleasing to the eye and has its own characteristics, but what is rare is the creativity and smoothness of this system.

In the afternoon, Yang Ziqi held a special meeting on this game gathering several departments under his command.He called all the employees of the planning team and technical team together, and then asked everyone who had previously tested "Three Kingdoms Ideal" to express their thoughts on this game one by one.

"The data planning and plot fluency are set very well. Whether it is a strategic plot or a plot content, it can be said to be just right, and it will neither make people feel impatient nor make people feel too pale."

"I think the data planner must be a veteran, or at least an experienced veteran who has a good grasp of the market is doing overall planning and guidance."

Another female tester stood up and said: "I really like the plot content. The characters are very charming, explosive, and cute, but at the same time, the personality changes are very natural. The writing skills of the main writer are very good. But not too old. That kind of light and wanton style, it is difficult for people who are too old to write."

Yang Ziqi nodded, and said: "So now we can basically guess that there should be at least two people in this production team, one of whom has at least ten years of experience in game design, and is very familiar with various elements in this area, as well as the market. The other one is very young, but has a very solid writing skills, and may be in the position of the chief writer of the plot or the text planner."

"But there is one thing that is strange. Normally, for such a game, it only needs to contain one of several selling points to attract attention. As an original free game, it is too refined... a bit wasteful. If you are a novice , it is likely to put all the settings that I think are interesting, but just looking at the structure of the game, it really doesn’t look like a novice’s handwriting.”

On this point, Yang Ziqi also realized it.

If you just use a game to make the first shot, to accumulate capital or to sell it for a price, in fact, there is no need to achieve this level at all-a game of this level can be directly marketed and sold, so uploading it on the Internet will make people Free to use... always feels unreal.

It's like walking on the road and someone distributes an egg tart for you to try. Most people think it is a very normal thing.But if someone gives you a Nokia Vertu to try out, unless you're really hoping for something to fall in the sky, you're going to have to feel something is wrong.

An activation code for an expansion pack worth 20 yuan, in Yang Ziqi's opinion, does not match the quality of "Three Kingdoms Ideal" itself.He didn't know that Lin Shu didn't find the setting of "Three Kingdoms Ideal" very novel, but thought it was a classic setting so he used it casually.But even for this kind of classic setting, he just took the corresponding concept, and did not directly use the setting that he had seen before, but designed and improved it himself.On the one hand, it simplifies the setting to make it more in line with the current hardware conditions; on the other hand, it improves the original design, making it more perfect and smooth in Lin Shu's idea.

Creation is also like academics, like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.Lin Shu doesn’t want to use technologies or settings that she has seen before, firstly because such plagiarism lacks innovation, which makes people feel boring and lacks passion; acuity.However, Lin Shu's behavior, which he thought was not an excessive use of "black technology", caused Yang Ziqi and others to have a serious misunderstanding because of the error in their mutual understanding.

Yang Ziqi made two different judgments on this: Judgment one is that the creator himself may be an idealistic game fanatic, and making such a game may itself be to satisfy his own hobbies, just like most original game creators Like a novice, he did not consider the rate of return.The only difference is that this fan's skills are particularly good, and his own preferences are more attractive to mainstream players; the second judgment is that the other party may have other attempts, or encounter some accidents or difficulties, and have to release the game for free , and sell activation codes at low prices.This may be due to some problems with the R&D company or the developers themselves, which resulted in the game having to be sold at a low price.

But no matter what kind of explanation, there are some unreasonable places.

At the end of the meeting, Yang Ziqi told the other two departments to learn about this stand-alone game in their spare time, and absorb what was worth learning from it, so the meeting was dissolved.

He felt that if he wanted to understand the specific situation, he had to personally add the designer himself, so that he could judge more accurately.

But Yang Ziqi tried to send an email to the game's official mailbox, but he never received a reply.

But he didn't know that as soon as Lin Shu saw this email, he remembered the experience of his previous life, so he almost ignored Yang Ziqi's email with a glance of his eyes. When Lin Shu was about to graduate, it was keyboard games. A critical period for the transformation of virtual online games.At that time, Beichen was still the largest keyboard online game production and operation company in the industry. A sci-fi-oriented "Road to the Stars" and an oriental fantasy-oriented "Nine Heavens" were popular all over the world. At a time when all keyboard online games were shaky, only it was still Stand upright, as stable as Mount Tai.

Lin Shu still liked Beichen very much.Although Beichen's virtual technology research and development was not smooth at that time, and the progress in this area was more than one step behind several other companies in the same series, Lin Shu felt that in the game industry, technology sometimes did not represent some, culture and spirit. is the core.

And he really liked Beichen's attitude of making games with heart and creating the world with heart, so during the internship period, Lin Shu's first choice of applicant company was Beichen Games.

In Lin Shu's opinion at the time, his grades were second to none in Binda University, he was the president of the student council, and he had a very representative work in his hand. His resume can be said to be glamorous. Beichen had no reason not to admit him.

However, in order to increase his chances of winning, he also deliberately handed in a special report, which he deleted, deleted, and edited for three or four days, and wrote a detailed analysis of the future game industry, Beichen's strengths and weaknesses, and He believes that Beichen can choose the direction of reform.

But that's the report that went wrong.

If you look at it ten years later, Lin Shu's report is almost astonishingly prescient.However, from Yang Ziqi's point of view at the time, Lin Shu's report prediction completely deviated from his own cognition and expectation.He was very disapproving of Lin Shu at the time, thinking where did the stunned young man want to come to Beichen to give advice on Jiangshan's writing before he graduated, so he decisively let Lin Shu lose the election.

About four years later, when Lin Shu's Xingze Group was rising like a star in the world, Beichen began to decline.At that time, when Yang Ziqi met Lin Shu, he had an unlucky look on his face, but Lin Shu didn't feel relieved—in retrospect, Lin Shu actually liked Beichen very much—the game under its name accompanied Lin Shu. At least half of my teenage years.

Therefore, he was particularly angry at Yang Ziqi's self-willedness.

Now the anger has actually subsided, but the subtle contempt for the other party still exists, so seeing the suspected solicitation letter from Yang Ziqi in the mailbox, Lin Shu rudely ignored it.

After Yang Ziqi sent the email, he didn't even stir up any splashes, and he was somewhat depressed.But he didn't give up, so after a simple data search, he quickly found an IP address.

Lin Shu has never been a hacker in his previous life or this life, so he is not keen on hiding traces of online activities.Due to commercial confidentiality reasons, his own computer has done a good job of security measures, but when Du Sitong uploaded games and posted posts, he didn't pay that much attention. He also felt that there was nothing on Du Sitong's computer that required commercial confidentiality. relationship of things.

So Yang Ziqi quickly found Du Sitong's IP address, and then searched many of her browsing traces and personal information through Du Sitong's IP address, and then found her real location.

"A small town in the center of Lake West, Du Sitong...?"