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 shines on the earth, the cold wind is blowing, and there is no warmth.

Joe wrapped his clothes tightly 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 games. This weekend is still the most important game time for them. The usual practice is that Joe comes to Dandy’s house to play games with others. Two friends, Ham and Jason, play a running game together.

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

"Ham and Jason are here early, we have been waiting for you for a long time, come quickly, we have new fun to play 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.

One side explained:

"When I came here, I was interrogated by the police. Damn, he thought my clothes were stolen. Can't you see my handsome cape?" He asked, "What new fun are you having today? Last time we didn't file Are you done, do you want to start a new story line? (Note 1)”

As soon as Joe finished speaking, a thin young man walked out of the room, wearing a pair of big glasses and with fluffy hair. He looked at Joe who was struggling to take off his windbreaker and laughed:

"Oh, poor Joe, I've said it all, you don't look handsome in a windbreaker at all, even a bit like an oriental celebrity CXK, it's not surprising that the police question you."

Joe frowned and looked at Ham. Ham was the one with the most ideas in their small group. He usually liked to study oriental culture, but ended up saying things that were difficult for others to understand. Just now, for example, what is CXK?

Hamm continued on his own: "We are playing a computer game this afternoon, which I found out from a mysterious oriental website called Three Aunts. We have played many games before, but the code of this game is definitely God will be amazed! The size of this game is only 64kb! And the 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 putting away his clothes, Joe followed Hamm to the back room, and was surprised to find that the big cushions on the floor of the back room used to run the group had disappeared, replaced by 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:

"Friends, time is limited, happy hour starts now."

With a puzzled mind, Joe followed Hamm to choose a computer and sat down. These notebooks were all brought by Hamm. As for why there are only three, this is Dandy’s home. To allocate a computer.

Opening the game, the first thing Joe sees is a conspicuous icon. The entry is a stick figure of a planet, and this planet is wrapped in layers of lines, it looks like...

"Why is the game producer's logo a ball of wool?"

The taciturn Jason made a complaint, which was unanimously shared by the other three teenagers.

If Fang Xi knew this, he might cry to death. He spent a long time thinking about this symbol last night. It means the earth under the Internet world, but it turned into a ball of wool when he got here. This is not open Taunt him for his bad drawing skills.

Click to select the online mode of the LAN, Hamm first built the room, and then sent invitations to other friends. After confirming that the team of four is complete, Hamm presses Enter, and the game begins!

After loading the page for a long time, what was presented to the four people was a simple selection page, with a total of three characters,

There is a simple logo under each figure, which are crossed double swords, a shield with complicated patterns, and a cross representing healing.

After a brief discussion between the four friends, Dandy and Jason chose the crossed swords representing offense, Joe chose the thick and stable shield, and Hamm chose the healing cross alone, which 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 solid 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 the same, but each character has different abilities. Among them, the characters with the double sword symbol are more The ability to launch small grenades has high damage and a large range. 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 shield. The shield can isolate all damage. As a price, the shield lasts During this time he cannot move or attack. The team's only nanny, Hamm, has the ability to heal groups, stops attacking, cannot move, and can slowly recover blood for the surrounding friends. The price is that other characters use long guns and short cannons. This character only has one like A pistol like the Desert Eagle.

"That's pretty cool," Ham muttered. "However, I don't know if we can change weapons later. I am the core. Although the Sand Eagle is very strong, I would be happier with an RPG rocket launcher."

Dandy checked the feel and sensitivity settings and responded:

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

Enemies in the distance are still automatically generated as they were in the earliest version, and their appearance is also strange. The difference from the earlier version is that Fang Xi has set up a simple algorithm, which will calculate the number and types of monsters according to the number of players and their roles. It generally follows a fun but not simple principle, allowing players to have the fun of challenging and cooperating. It was originally envisioned to add skill slots to each character, and then the roguelike mode in which there is a chance of losing skills when fighting monsters (Note 2) . But this workload is a bit heavy, and I can't handle it for the time being, so let's wait for a chance to do it later.

In the game, the adventures of Joe and his team continue.

After several times of near-death cooperation, Joe's team gradually began to have a tacit understanding, and in the process of exploration, they also discovered that the map was larger than they imagined, and the monsters seemed endless, killing them all There are always new batches rushing out of the darkness, and the number of monsters is increasing and becoming stronger. Finally, after a huge monster appeared, the four ended their journey.

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

"Another one?"

"I can do better this time!"

(Note 1: The running group refers to the board game of Dungeons and Dragons, also known as DND. Generally, three to five people can start a group, and the board game can also be suspended and sealed in the middle, and then taken out when you want to play, that is, "Archive".

Note 2: The Chinese translation of roguelike is a dungeon game. The characteristic is that the monsters and treasures on the map are randomly generated, and the game process is one-way. )