Number One Game Designer

In northern France, the time has come to the end of October. Although the weather is still sunny and the sun is shining on the earth, the cold wind blows and there is no warmth.

Joe wrapped his clothes and walked quickly across the street, knocking on the door of his good friend Dandy.

Both Joe and Dandy are students who have just entered middle school. For them, the most important thing after school is still the game. Today is the most important game time for them. The usual practice is that Joe comes to Dandy’s house. Two friends, Ham and Jason, play a running group together.

It was Dandy who opened the door, looking like he had been waiting for Joe for a long time, and couldn't wait to pull Joe into the house:

"Hamm and Jason arrived early. We have been waiting for you for a long time. Come on, come and have new fun today."

Joe took off the slightly bloated windbreaker-this is his brother's, on the one hand because of the cold wind today, on the other hand, children always feel that this long windbreaker has a handsome feeling of a cloak.

He explained:

"I was interrogated by the police when I came. Damn it. He thought that my clothes were stolen. Can't you see my handsome cloak?" And asked: "What new fun is there today? Last time we were not on file. Alright, do you want to open a new story line? (Note 1

As soon as Joe's words fell, a thin young man walked out of the room, wearing a pair of big glasses and fluffy hair. He looked at Joe who was struggling to take off his trench coat and laughed:

"Oh, poor Joe, I've already said that you are not handsome at all in a trench coat, even a bit like an oriental celebrity CXK. It is not surprising that the police interrogate you."

Joe frowned and looked at Hamm. Hamm is the one with the most spooky ideas in their small group. He usually likes to study Eastern culture, but he says things that are difficult for others to understand. For example, just now, what is CXK?

Hamm continued on his own self: "We played a computer game this afternoon, which I found from a mysterious Oriental website, the third aunt. We played a lot of games before, but the code for this game is definitely God will marvel at it! The size of this game is only 64kb! And the entire upgraded version I gave you is only 200kb in size!"

It's a pity that other friends who are still in middle school don't understand what this memory means.

After Qiao put on his clothes, he followed Hamm to the back room. He was surprised to find that the big cushions on the floor of the back room were gone. Instead, there was a large table with three open laptops on it.

At this time, Dandy, who went to the kitchen to get a drink, also came over, handed out a bottle of Happy Water in his hand, and said:

"My friends, time is limited. Let's start the happy hour now."

Qiao was puzzled and followed Hamm to choose a computer to sit down. These notebooks were brought by Aiham. As for why there are only three, this is Dandy’s home. Two years ago, he asked his parents to study as a reason. A computer is assigned.

Opening the game, the first thing that catches Joe's eyes is a conspicuous icon. The entry point is a simple stroke of a planet, and the planet is wrapped in layers of lines, which looks like...

"Why is this game producer's logo a ball of yarn?"

The taciturn Jason spit out, and got the same feeling from the other three teenagers.

If Fang Xi knows this situation, I’m afraid he’s not crying to death. This sign was still thought of after a long time last night. It means the earth in the online world, but when he got here, he became a yarn ball directly. This is not blatant. Make fun of his drawing skills.

Click to select the online mode of the local area network. Hamm took the lead in building the room, and then sent out invitations to other friends. After confirming that the four-person team is complete, Hamm presses enter and the game begins!

After a long loading page, a simple selection page is presented in front of the four people. There are three characters in total. Under each character is a simple logo, which is a crossed double sword, a shield with complicated patterns, and one Represents the cross of healing.

After a brief discussion between the four friends, Dandy and Jason chose the cross swords representing offense, Joe chose a thick and stable shield, and Hamm chose the healing cross. This is almost the most common tactic in online games. A variant of animal husbandry, the output is matched with the front row and the treatment, a very stable triangle combination.

After entering the game, the four friends simply tried their skills. The three characters of the four candidates can still shoot, and the weapons are no different, but each character has different abilities. Among them, there are many characters with double sword symbols. It has the ability to launch small grenade. The damage is high and the range is large. The disadvantage is that the cooling time is a bit long. The role of the shield controlled by Joe has the ability to arrange a protective cover. The protective cover can isolate all damage. As a price, the protective cover lasts. During this period he cannot move nor attack. The only nurse on the team, Hamm, has the ability to heal the group, stop attacking, cannot move, and can slowly restore blood for the surrounding friends. The price is that other characters use long guns and short cannons. This character has only one like A pistol like a desert eagle.

"This is so cool," Hamm mumbled. "But I don't know if I can change weapons later. I am the core. Although Sand Eagle is very strong, I will be happier with an RPG rocket launcher."

Dandy checked the feel and sensitivity settings, and responded:

"Don't think too much, our enemy has already come."

The enemies in the distance are still generated automatically from the earliest time, and their appearance is also weird. The difference from the earlier version is that Fang Xi has set up a simple algorithm to claim the number and types of monsters based on the number of players and the distinction of roles. Generally follow a fun but not simple principle, which allows players to have the fun of challenge and the fun of cooperation. The original idea was to add skill slots to each character, and then play a roguelike mode where monsters have a chance to lose skills (Note 2) . However, this workload is a bit heavy and it is temporarily unavailable, so let's wait for the opportunity to do it later.

In the game, Joe and his team's adventure continues.

After several times of nearly surviving cooperation, Joe's team slowly began to have a tacit understanding, and in the process of exploration, they also found that this map was beyond their imagination, and the monsters seemed infinite, and they would retreat. There is always a new batch rushing out of the darkness, and the number of monsters is increasing and becoming stronger. Finally, after a huge monster appeared on the scene, the four people ended their journey.

The four people who were still a little excited looked at the points that popped up on the screen and looked at each other. They all saw the excitement in each other's eyes:

"One more?"

"I can do better this time!"

(Note 1: The running group is the board game of Dungeons and Dragons, or DND. Generally, three to five people can start a group, and the board game can also be suspended and stored in the middle, and then you can take it out when you want to play. "Archive".

Note 2: Chinese translation of roguelike is a dungeon game. The feature is that map monsters and treasures are randomly generated. The game process is one-way and can only move forward. Death ends directly and cannot be continued. )