An Expert Is actually By My Side

Chapter 342 Sandboxed Continent of Azeroth

"Brat!"

After reading the game plan written by Mr. Hao himself, Li Zongzheng couldn't help but let out an admiration.

As expected of Mr. Hao!

Every planning plan for a new game can bring him different surprises.

According to the description in this plan, this game called Warcraft will adopt a dynamic running world, and at the same time incorporate the concept of sandbox in MMORPG.

Although these design concepts sound a bit unconstrained and even whimsical, in Li Zongzheng's view, they coincide with his understanding of perfection.

According to the design of this planning plan, for "World of Warcraft", players will not just be a passer-by in a hurry, but a member of this world.

In this world, every move of the player will affect the progress of the entire game world.

Or to be more specific, they designed not just a game, but a living world!

Is there anything more exciting than being a game designer?

However……

This sounds interesting, but it doesn't seem so easy to implement it.

Thinking of this, the expression on Li Zongzheng's face gradually calmed down, and the turbulent emotions in his mind also changed from initial excitement to overwhelming, to quiet contemplation.

After all, what kind of world counts as a living world?

There are many elements that Li Zongzheng can think of.

The first is the player's sense of substitution.

This world has to have the change of day and night, mountains, rivers, trees, rivers and even fish in the river. All environments will be dynamically affected as the game progresses.

And that's just the basics.

Not just a dynamically changing map, those NPCs that accompany the player's game progress must also be like a living person, not just a piece of data.

They will get hurt, they will cry, they will celebrate their victories, and they will be together because they love each other. They not only have to have their own lines, but also have their own logic of behavior, and even their own life!

only……

In this way, another problem is involved.

After all, the positioning of World of Warcraft is MMORPG, and it is not just a player who participates in the game.

If it is a stand-alone game, it may be difficult to achieve these elements, but it is not impossible. But if it is a multiplayer online game, the amount of engineering is not just a little bit.

After all, for game designers, the player is an uncontrollable factor. If player choices are allowed to affect the game's progress, the behavior of a group of players will turn the game into a more chaotic system than atoms moving randomly.

"It's a bit difficult."

Li Zongzheng was puzzled, sighed, pushed the chair away and stood up, walked outside the office, took the elevator to the company's rest area, planned to have a cup of coffee and rest for a while, and read a book to refresh his mind.

Then at this moment, he suddenly noticed a strange man standing here, arguing with Du Ziteng, the director of the operation department.

Vaguely, Li Zongzheng heard what he said.

"...I can swear to you that my program will not affect the normal operation of your business. I just need a little data to improve my research."

Looking at the man in front of him, Du Ziteng said with a embarrassed face while holding the coffee.

"Even if you say so, I can't decide this kind of thing..."

Suddenly, Du Ziteng saw Li Zongzheng walking into the lounge, his eyes lit up, and he looked at him as if he had found a savior and said.

"Mr. Li! You came just in time. This Mr. Wu has something to do with you."

Li Zongzheng stared at him for a while, feeling familiar, but couldn't remember his name when he was a freshman.

At this time, his eyes fell on the badge on the man's chest that said Yunmeng Technology, and he reacted instantly.

"Are you Wu Fan?"

Seeing Li Zongzheng looking at him, Wu Fan smiled shyly and stretched out his right hand.

"It's me, you are Mr. Li, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"What a pleasure to meet, we are all in the same group, so don't be so polite," Li Zongzheng coughed lightly, and continued, "I heard you say data, experiments and other things, what is going on?"

"The thing is like this, aren't we researching brain-computer interfaces? One of the key projects requires long-term analysis of social data of a certain number of samples. We originally planned to purchase this service from Sea Lion Group. But they felt that we were collecting users' privacy so they rejected us...although I feel the main reason is that the price was not negotiated."

"You are indeed collecting users' privacy." Li Zongzheng couldn't help complaining.

"This is different!" Wu Fan argued, "Although we are collecting user privacy, it is not for pushing advertisements."

"Can it be for science?"

"For science, of course!"

Li Zongzheng was just joking casually at first, but he didn't expect Wu Fan to immediately nod his head and admit it in a natural tone.

Coughing, he couldn't help complaining.

"Aren't you guys doing brain-computer interfaces... What's the use of user data?"

Wu Fan said with a serious face.

"The brain-computer interface is a systematic science, or a scientific research project. What we study is not just a plug that can connect the human brain to a computer, but also the processing of brain wave signals and the reimagining of the nervous system. structure, allowing consciousness and computers to understand each other."

Li Zongzheng was stunned when he heard it, and he didn't understand what this guy was talking about.

The same was true for Du Ziteng who was standing beside him, staring at him blankly.

"Can you make it simpler?" Scratching the back of his head, he had forgotten that he was Li Zongzheng who came to drink coffee, and couldn't help but continue to ask, "So this allows the consciousness and the computer to understand each other... What exactly do you want? What's the deal with that data?"

"Of course it matters! What is the premise of understanding? It is observation! It is imitation! It is learning! To build a network that can analyze the spiritual field, we must first let this network understand our emotions. To achieve this, we It is necessary to observe the social behavior of a large number of samples and establish an algorithm model for the observed results."

"At the beginning, our idea was to use social platforms to complete data collection, but later we found that there is a more reliable option than social platforms!"

"You mean... a game?" Li Zongzheng asked tentatively in an uncertain tone.

"That's right! That's right! It's a game. I need you to help me design a game, preferably a multiplayer one! When players form a miniature society, we can learn from their actions and judgments. Gather the data necessary to perfect our experiments!"

Wu Fan nodded vigorously, his voice became more and more excited, his thin shoulders and body seemed to be filled with infinite power.

Although he basically didn't understand what he was talking about, Li Zongzheng still vaguely caught some key words from his words.

"The experiment you mentioned is to design an intelligent program that can understand human emotions... Can I understand it that way?"

Nodding his head, Wu Fan said.

"Of course it can be understood in this way. What we have to do is actually such a thing."

"That's easy to say," Li Zongzheng continued with a hearty smile, "I suddenly thought of a wonderful idea, which can solve your problem, and it happens to solve my problem."

Wu Fan asked in confusion.

"your problem?"

"That's right," Li Zongzheng cleared his throat and continued, "In fact, we happen to be designing a next-generation game. This game is not only the multiplayer online gameplay you mentioned, but we also happen to have players It is planned to develop the interaction with AI and community functions as the core gameplay."

"It's just a hypothesis, maybe we can work together."