entertainment threesome

Happiness is always short-lived. Although everyone has a lot of fun during the holidays, life must continue after the holidays.

Especially when the submission date of the demo version is getting closer and closer, with only half a month left.

During the recent period, the entire Holy Grail Studio has been filled with a strong sense of tension that "the war is approaching."

Putting aside the influence of personal likes and dislikes, Chief Xu's ability to control the progress of the project makes Fatty Zhai sincerely admire him: in a state where multiple threads are working in parallel, he can always accurately capture the progress of each branch route and target it accordingly.

The results that have been achieved and the latest problems that have been exposed will be adjusted one by one in a targeted manner.

Before getting off work every day, the planning department will hold a progress report meeting. Each planner will give a simple and clear overview of the day's work results, focusing on the procedures they followed up and the work of the art department. Chief Xu's

The main task is to record the progress and constantly make detailed adjustments according to his predetermined plan. If some work progresses smoothly, new work goals will be assigned; if some work progresses slowly, various improvements will be given.

Please ask for help, or simply pause this part of the work and postpone it to the next version.

For example, in the planning of the demo version, relevant content of the equipment system needs to be added, and the design of the equipment system includes various functions such as wearing, removing, identifying, strengthening, tempering, drilling, and inlaying of equipment, but what is really needed is

There are only two things implemented in the demo version: putting on and taking off equipment. All other extended functions are classified into the scope of implementation in the next or even the next version.

Therefore, although the demo version planning is scheduled to be completed including scene system, NPC system, mission system, equipment system, prop system, combat system, dialogue system and many other contents, in fact, it is not necessary to complete all these systems.

It's just a small, relatively simple implementation, just as a demonstration to say, "Ah, our game will have these, these, and these things."

In this working atmosphere, most of the company's R&D personnel (mainly planning and programming) work more than twelve hours a day. They arrive at the company at nine o'clock in the morning and are busy until after nine o'clock in the evening.

, with only a few exceptions.

For example, Sophie, the only one in the company who lives in the city, can live a nine-to-five life like the company's administrative staff (Manager Bing, Ruo Ying, etc.). First of all, because she lives far away, no matter what

Chief Xu, the department head, is still her boss, System Cao, so no one can ask her to work overtime; secondly, unlike Fatty Zhai, who is also a new planner in the industry, she has not yet been exposed to substantive research and development work, but has only been assigned a "friend" from System Cao.

and "Chat", two systems that are not important, let her try to write and play by herself. According to Liu Kewei's private estimation - "This kind of system document written by a pure newcomer has not been changed over and over again.

"Every time, there is basically no value to be realized." Therefore, the progress of the demo version can be said to have almost nothing to do with her.

Sophie's main work recently is to refer to the relevant designs of other games, then write her own documents, and then submit them to Cao System for review. Then she is dragged to the conference room by Cao System to start a small stove, and then repeats the above steps.

The analogy goes round and round.

It is said that this is the correct growth route for executing the plan. The kind of fat man who directly participates in the specific work is simply a wrong way of opening up - these are Liu Kewei's original words.

So, at a progress report meeting after submitting his revised dialogue system planning document, the fat man who opened it the wrong way heard Director Xu say this casually.

"I took a look at the revised dialogue system, and there isn't much of a problem. Gong Zhucheng's work will be almost finished tomorrow morning, so Duan Shanshan, you can go to him tomorrow afternoon to talk about the dialogue. Regarding your player-based

Individual situations show different dialogue ideas."

It seems that what Liu Kewei said is absolutely correct. Although Xianxia Baojian was the first system planning document designed and approved by Fatty Zhai, it was postponed indefinitely because of its "unimportance". However, this person took over halfway.

The dialogue system will become a milestone for the fat man to communicate with the program for the first time.

"You just hide under the covers and laugh secretly. You have only been in the industry for a month and you are already talking about the realization of the design concept with the program department. You should talk to the supervisor level." On the way back to the dormitory after get off work, Liu Kewei half-moved. Jealous said half congratulatory, "It took me several months to get to this point."

"Why are you looking for the client's Gong Zhucheng instead of the server's Li Zhucheng?" Fatty Zhai asked puzzledly. He still couldn't figure out the functional division between the client and the server.

"Generally speaking, important data and calculation information should be placed on the server side to prevent others from cheating by simply modifying the client data." Liu Kewei glanced at Fatty Zhai with disdain and tried to be concise.

To explain it in an easy-to-understand way, "As for the data information that will not affect the game process, putting it on the client can effectively reduce the communication pressure between the client and the server, thereby reducing the communication burden on the server."

The fat man looked disappointed: "You mean the plot dialogue is not important after all, right?"

"It's not what you understand!" Liu Kewei explained in a fit of laughter and tears, "Who would modify the game dialogue when they have nothing to do? It's not sensitive data such as money or experience. Even if someone really has nothing to do,

Changing the dialogue will have no impact on the game or other players at all, so what’s the disadvantage of putting it on the client?”

"Oh." Fatty Zhai snorted, and finally he understood what Liu Kewei said. He meant that there was no risk of the dialogue system being modified, so it was placed on the client.

After returning to the dormitory, Liu Kewei pestered Cha Guanglong to learn Korean as usual. The fat man looked at the two of them angrily. It had been more than a month, but one of them was still very determined to learn Korean, and the other was also very good at it.

If he patiently taught me, he would no longer suffer from the stinky problem of spending three days fishing and two days drying nets, and he, as a forced auditor, had accumulated more and more Korean vocabulary.

If things continue to develop like this, maybe after this game is produced, Liu Kewei will be able to communicate with Koreans on a daily basis, and even the fat man himself can do some simple communication without making any gestures.

In the afternoon of the next day, after the meal break, Fatty Zhai, with the encouragement from Liu Kewei and others, walked to the Program Department alone with a printout of the dialogue system planning document.

Of course he knew Master Gong. He had worked in the same company for more than a month. If he couldn't recognize the head of the department next door, he would have killed him head-on.

However, this is, after all, except for Che Guanglong, Zhai Fatty's first formal communication with someone from the programming department - not even Che Guanglong. Although they communicate a lot in private, they really don't do business in official matters.

There has never been any interaction. Therefore, the fat man will inevitably feel a little uneasy. When he walked into the programming department, a ridiculous feeling of "going deep into the tiger's den" could not help but flow out of his heart.

Fortunately, Gong Zhucheng is a very gentle person. His fair and gentle face exudes a scholarly and elegant atmosphere. He does not look like an IT man who writes code at all, but rather like a Youth League counselor on a university campus.

Very humbly, he motioned to Fatty Zhai to sit down next to him, and listened attentively to Fatty Zhai's story, without any smell of fireworks in the process.

"I roughly understand what you mean." Gong Zhucheng nodded slightly, "You want to display different text information according to different conditions, right?"

Fatty Zhai thought for a while and settled on this summary: "You are right, it is like this."

Gong Zhucheng casually took a piece of paper from the table, took out a signature pen and leaned on the table and began to write in a flourishing manner.

"First, let's design a new configuration table to specifically handle your needs. Its name is... conditional display text table. The file name is ifthen.xls."

Fatty Zhai expressed no objection: "OK, no problem, please continue."

"Secondly, its header field needs the following content: first, the number; second, the judgment condition type; third, the condition and the corresponding display text are separated by ':', and multiple conditions are separated by '|'." Gong Zhucheng

He scribbled down the rules he thought of one by one, looked up at Fatty Zhai, and asked with a smile, "That's it, do you understand?"

The fat man raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "I can understand the writing rules you mentioned, but in fact I am still a little confused about how to operate them."

"It doesn't matter, let's give a practical example." Master Gong Cheng smiled, "For example, we now want to add the 100th conditional display text to display different information according to different occupations. Then in the number column, you can

Fill in '100'; in the judgment condition type column, you should fill in 'occupation'; and in the last column, you should write like this: 'Human male: man | Demon spirit female: demon woman', that's it. Then in the dialogue

Let’s agree on an identifier inside and outside..."

Gong Zhucheng put down the pen and paper, operated the keyboard and mouse to open a document on the computer, thought for a while and continued: "Well, the brackets are not used yet, we have agreed to use brackets to mark the conditional display text table, you are in the dialogue table

Fill in '[100]' where the conditional display text needs to be called. What is actually displayed in the game is the text information corresponding to the player's occupation, 'man' or 'witch'. Can you understand this?"

The fat man nodded sincerely.

"Then it's settled. Every time you update the conditional display text table, notify me. I will add the corresponding display rules to the game as soon as possible. After adding them, I will give you feedback and you can actually test it in the game.

Just do it once." Gong Zhucheng smiled happily and asked, "Do you have any questions?"

"No, thank you. That's it. I'll take my leave now." The fat man stood up and said goodbye knowingly.

Although he comes from the same company, the impression given by Gong Zhucheng is completely different from that of Xu Zhuce. From the beginning to the end, he is full of a sense of relaxation. In response to the concept of Zhai Fatty, he gave a complete and effective idea at the first time.

Organized solutions.

Fatty Zhai really didn’t expect that his first work communication with the programming department would go smoothly beyond expectations.