National Game Producer

"Word Game" is actually a game with meta elements.

The so-called meta element can be roughly understood as a form of expression in which the game breaks through the "boundary between virtuality and reality".

This includes but is not limited to:

Game characters know they are in a game;

The game NPC or narrator will skip the character controlled by the player and directly talk to the player;

The characters in the game will resist the established gameplay framework of the game...such as blocking the archive, destroying the game screen, etc.;

A multi-week game, each week will affect the process of subsequent weeks.

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Although "Word Game" does not have these elements mentioned above, the gameplay itself already has a strong meta meaning.

As for the game’s hidden ending…

Dong Lin returned to the world of "Word Game", and the game screen appeared at the ending selection of the final chapter.

In the previous game process, [I] failed to defeat the magic dragon, and [human] finally reached the final destination.

Since there is no "Dragon Quest" in this world, there is no similar game.

Therefore, whether it is the plot of the game or the gameplay, the game "Word Game" brought Dong Lin a feeling that he had never experienced before, which shocked his heart.

The only pity is that this game did not evoke a strong emotional resonance in him and did not move him too much.

'If this story were more touching, maybe I wouldn't be willing to continue to be a troll to attack you...'

Dong Lin muttered silently in his heart, and then controlled the [person] to move around in the ending scene.

At the end of the game, [man] defeated the dragon and saved the princess.

However, [people] also face two choices.

At the top of the screen, there is a sentence——

【Longing for the beauty of yesterday, as a brave man, I can only choose between the two——

[The steadfast savior of the world gave up the princess’ love and embraced the earth and all peoples. 】

At the bottom of the screen, there is a sentence——

【Longing for the beauty of yesterday, as a brave man, I can only choose between the two——

[The loyal guardian of the princess, who gave up the love of the world to defend the princess and happiness. 】

In the center of the painting is the sentence "Who do you want to be?"

Obviously, as long as [people] walk into any of the upper and lower places, it is equivalent to choosing the ending.

Dong Lin has completed these two endings before, and now he needs to find the third hidden ending.

After some attempts, he discovered that the "Ho" in "Becoming Who" could be cut off with the sword of Besbes, turning it into "Becoming the One".

[Becoming a human being] definitely won’t work.

Therefore, he had to find a keyword from the upper and lower sentences and insert it into the empty space.

The first thing he thought of was to drag the word "two" to make the sentence become "become both", which would perfectly achieve two endings.

However, the word [two] cannot be dragged.

The hope of having a princess and the world was completely dashed...

Then Dong Lin didn't bother to think anymore and just used the exhaustive method, "drag", "dismantle" and "join" word by word.

Finally, he succeeded in splitting the word "yesterday" into "日" and "Zha".

The moment he saw these two words, he immediately reacted.

[人] and [Zha] can form the word [zuo].

[Become an author]…

Dong Lin was a little stunned.

This unfolding seemed to suddenly become subtle.

And after he spelled out this sentence, a sentence also appeared on the game screen.

[The brave man chooses to find another possibility beyond the limitations of choice——]

Then, the game screen came to a very simple text editing software interface?

The content displayed on the software is the story of the brave man fighting the dragon in "Word Game".

At this time, the software popped up a prompt saying that there were seven conflicting editing conflicts in the file and needed to be modified.

Dong Lin was stunned when he saw this.

What are these?

Did he really become the "author" and modify the plot?

In other words, the current "he" in the game is already one dimension higher than the "brave"?

Then, he followed the software's prompts and modified the conflict plot in each chapter of the story.

When the last plot change was completed, the final ending of the game also changed.

But does such a modification mean anything?

Dong Lin is still a little confused.

With doubts, he continued to search in the software and finally found an unnamed file in the [Old Files].

[Which chapter? I don’t know, I can’t figure it out long ago.

[I had a nightmare again, dreaming about that two-headed...thing.]

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Dong Lin took a second look and found that this seemed to be a diary written by the "author".

The "author's" daughter is seriously ill, and there is almost no possibility of cure within fifty years. It may be curable in fifty years, but by then things have already changed, and she has lost her loved ones, so her daughter may live a very painful life.

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The "author" was not willing to let his daughter die like this, so he used a certain method to allow his daughter to live until fifty years later.

Judging from the way the "author" handed the princess in the story to the ice dragon later in the article, the so-called method was probably to let the daughter lie dormant in a freezer for fifty years.

'So, the story of the brave man fighting the dragon in "Word Game" is actually the 'author' fighting himself?'

Dong Lin murmured.

In the story, the ice dragon captured the princess and sealed it in ice, which corresponds to the reality in which the "author" put his seriously ill daughter into a cryo-sleep chamber.

The brave man in the story defeats the dragon... probably corresponds to the confusion and self-doubt of the "author" in reality.

And the more than 4,000 brave men who failed in the crusade naturally correspond to the more than 4,000 stories modified by the "author", as well as the more than 4,000 struggles in his heart...

At this time, looking back at the two choices in the ending screen, everything seems to make sense.

[Giving up the princess and embracing the earth and the people] represents the liberation of the daughter so that she will not have to face a world where things are right and people have changed fifty years later, and at the same time, she can start a new life for herself;

[Give up the world, defend the princess and happiness], which means protecting your daughter, giving up everything about yourself, and waiting until the day the other person wakes up.

The "author" transformed into a "brave" time and time again, trying to get a perfect ending, but ultimately lost to the cruel reality.

'This plot development...'

Dong Lin finished reading the diary in a daze, collected his thoughts, and closed the text editing software in the game.

The interface turned into pitch black.

After two seconds, a sentence appeared on the screen.

【I open my eyes.】

Then, Dong Lin was surprised to find that this game actually used words to create a realistic 3D study scene!

The "author" in the game wakes up at the computer desk and returns to the real world.

As the "author's" perspective moves, the text on the interface continues to scroll, perfectly simulating real pictures.

Immediately afterwards, Dong Lin discovered that he could actually control the "author" to move around!

This first-person 3D realistic perspective...

This is a real picture pieced together using pure words...

Is this really just a word game?!

Dong Lin was so shocked that he couldn't think straight.