Build a game empire from scratch

"Gravity" has been in continuous production since Lin You returned to Earth.

At first, only he, Xiaomeng, and Zhu Cixia were producing, but soon Lin You realized that three people were not enough.

It's not a matter of work efficiency - Lin You doesn't care about work efficiency, his original idea was to do it slowly, and it is expected to be completed and released after "Pacific Rim".

But as they were doing it, they discovered that the aerospace literacy required for this game was significantly higher than their knowledge reserves-a lot of knowledge could not be obtained on the public Internet.

Of course, Lin You can make a simple shell, restrict players to only fixed operations, and follow the process all the way to black.

——The plot is more like the game, so it can’t be said that there is a problem.

But Lin You didn't want to do that.

Even in a game with a linear flow that takes place in space, the player doesn't have a lot of options, and he doesn't want to be hasty with [other options] outside of the flow.

He hopes that the various basic functional modules of the spacecraft are as real as possible. Even if the player makes a wrong choice—such as not choosing to escape, but trying to repair the spacecraft failure, he can continue to go down for a while until he encounters an insurmountable problem. problem, confirming that this route does not work.

And this requires a fairly high level of aerospace professionalism.

It's not that they can't learn - they are all people who learn things very quickly, but they still have to work seriously during the day to develop "Pacific Rim". If they spend a lot of energy for amateur interests, it will be too hard.

That's why Lin You finally decided—shaking people!

With a few sci-fi game departments and a few more in the Aerospace Academy, it is easy to form an elite team to solve these professional problems.

After all, "Gravity" is a story that takes place in space, and the game scenes in each link are relatively simple. After solving professional problems, the development speed was instantly put on wings and started to take off directly.

In addition, there is no upgrade system or skill system added to this game, and even the achievement system has only a few new achievements.

When the player successfully returns to the earth from space, the plot ends directly, and there is no way to play after the end. It is indeed not very big.

It is difficult to slow down when developing along the process.

As a result, the problem came——

It's been developed faster than Pacific Rim, and it's almost done!

What to do?

Release this first?

What a joke!

Now players all over the world are eagerly waiting for the mecha, and even bit the bullet to learn Chinese in order to be able to drive the mecha.

At this time, Yunmeng suddenly inserted a new game that has nothing to do with mechs...

What an outrageous person must be to do this?

"So... we still have to take it easy, the next game has to be "Pacific Rim."

"How about polishing it again?"

Lin You began to think about how to optimize the game, and discussed with the small team.

In the end everyone's decision was:

Add eggs!

By the way...you can do a little bit of covert work.

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On the first day of March, Xia Yi didn't rush to get up after waking up. Instead, she lay down on the bed and took out her mobile phone, looking at the list of honored players from last month, to see if she missed anything interesting.

In the past, the player's list of honorable players was mainly based on the mentality of "see who are the lucky ones", or "see if this group of people are qualified enough".

If anyone has bad deeds before, he must be severely exposed!

It doesn't happen that often, though—there were a few earlier cases where players on the list were stripped of their titles, and the last two episodes have completely gone.

This process is also the process of Lin You's thinking slowly changing.

In the early days, his thinking was essentially "player thinking" rather than "developer thinking".

His pursuit at that time was very straightforward [to give players the greatest freedom].

This concept overrides most rules.

So whether it's in the game, in the public world, or even in public events organized by the company, Lin You rarely restricts players, and he is too tolerant.

But this connivance also caused a considerable degree of confusion in the early virtual world.

Later, as his thinking slowly changed—and because of the rapid increase in the number of users, he inevitably became conservative. Yunmeng began to positively monitor the behavior of players in the virtual world and even in the game itself. guide.

The introduction of [merit value] is a landmark event.

However, Lin You did not give up giving players freedom, but "freedom" came at a price.

Although under normal circumstances, this price is not heavy and can be redeemed, but the "existence price" itself is a kind of guidance.

This is also the mode Lin You chooses now: give positive guidance to players, but also reserve the right of choice for players.

Today, players pay attention to the [Honorary Players] list, not only to see if they are on the list, but also to see what the people on the list have done, and have they missed any fun things or useful strategies.

Xia Yi focused on "Chang'an", mainly to see if the maker of "Nuclear Explosion" made it to the list.

If anything, she was worried that someone would detonate a "nuclear bomb" in the metropolis...

After carefully reading the 100-person list and confirming that those two people were not on it, Xia Yi let out a long sigh of relief.

"Is Yunmeng also afraid?" She muttered, putting down her phone and preparing to feed the spirit beasts.

But just as the phone was put down, it suddenly vibrated.

She picked up her phone again, and found that it was a message from the Yunmeng app, so she clicked on it.

Then the interface automatically jumps to the [Travel Kanna] section.

Xia Yi was not surprised by this.

Not to mention that Kang Na would run around when she was not in the virtual world, even if she was in the virtual world, she would often not be able to find where Kang Na had gone.

It seems that Kang Na has made a lot of friends and often travels around by herself. Fortunately, the little girl is also very obedient, and will send her letters and photos no matter where she goes.

In Xia Yi’s mobile phone album, there are photos of Kang Na standing on Dongming Mountain watching the racing car, photos of taking photos with dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island, photos of riding a hippopotamus in the wilderness, a selfie in front of the Berlin Cathedral in virtual Berlin, "My World ", and a selfie of the square cow—even herself transformed into a square figure.

Even after "Pacific Rim" was released some time ago, Xia Yi also received a photo of Kang Na trying on the mini combat uniform in [Hunter Base]...

Highlight where one wants to go, go there.

"Let me see, where have you been today?"

Xia Yi happily opened her mailbox and found a new photo sent by Kang Na——

In the photo, Kang Na is wearing the beautiful little dress she sent, chasing a pen curiously in a small space full of various instruments.

"?" A question mark immediately appeared on Xia Yi's head.

‘Konna and that pen, why are they floating in the air? '

Not only Kang Na and the pen, but also her hair, a shoe she threw off, Xia Yi's familiar pink mouthwash cup...

All floating in the air!

Xia Yi was dazed for a long time before she suddenly realized: "Kang Na has gone to heaven too!?"

"There is space in the virtual world??"

Almost at the same time, Shuihua was also staring at the phone in a daze.

In her app, this section is called [Travel Cats], which contains the cat girls she got after collecting all cats in Chang'an.

Now this cute cat girl has turned back into a cat form, and was tightly entangled in a ball of thread in the spaceship.

Tang Mingyue, Lin You's number one blackie, was also holding his mobile phone, looking at the [Travel Doll] section, Miss Mechanism was dismantling a sealed door of the spacecraft with a full set of tools.

On the edge of her skirt, the metal parts that have been removed are slowly drifting away.

"?!!" Tang Mingyue was taken aback, "Stop it now!! People will die!!"