Rebirth 86: I use games to kick open the door to the world

While Zuo Zhen was engaged in making the game, these students were also guessing about Zuo Zhen's identity.

There are not many people who know computers very well nowadays.

Of course, if you are really passionate about this kind of thing, there will still be a small number of people who can come into contact with it.

With the launch of the first personal computer by IBM in 1981, the veil of computers has become less mysterious.

"Do you know what this classmate's name is?"

One of the seniors turned around and asked several other students.

However, the responses he received were all unknown. No one knew Zuo Zhen's identity. The sudden appearance of this guy also disrupted the content of their original discussion today.

"Senior, this person looks a bit powerful. Could he be a student from the University of Science and Technology of China or Qingbei? He came here to exchange and study with us."

The senior frowned: "But I didn't hear our teacher say that students from other schools came to exchange and study."

"Either it is his personal behavior? How about we ask now?"

While talking, one person gestured to touch Zuo Zhen and ask him to answer his question.

But the senior quickly took the student's hand.

"Don't do that. Haven't you seen how people are so attentive now? If you concentrate on studying, do you want others to influence you?"

"Uh...that's right, then let's just watch here?"

The senior thought for a while and then said: "Let's do this. If you are interested, you can continue to read. If you can understand it, you can learn something if you are not good at it. If you can't understand, then others can discuss the homework. thing."

"Oh well."

A few people who couldn't understand Zuozhen's programming chose to leave and concentrate on their homework.

Then a few sophomores and a few freshmen were left to stand behind Zuo Zhen and watch Zuo Zhen's operations.

Zuo Zhen didn't know what these people were discussing at this time. He had more important things to do at the moment.

He has already decided what to make for his next game, whether it will be a side-scrolling game.

Because of his experience in producing Contra, Zuo Zhen is already roughly familiar with the production process of side-scrolling games.

So this time he put this game on the agenda.

The name of this game is: Squirrel War.

Overseas, this game also has a particularly long name, which comes from a Disney cartoon of the same name.

This game and the cartoon were both screened and released in the late 1980s. There is no concept of it now. Zuo Zhen even checked the information carefully during his stay in Japan to confirm that neither the game nor the cartoon has it. He chose to make this game only if there were any signs of it.

Otherwise, it will be bad if it causes any infringement trouble.

But now there is another problem, that is, Zuo Zhen is not familiar with the cartoon style of this game. When he gets the chance, he will have to find someone who is good at this aspect of painting and who also knows how to use a computer to help.

But such people must be quite difficult to find in China today.

If that doesn't work, you'd better do it yourself, find a place to learn art first, and then come back to make games.

Fortunately, I still have plenty of time this time. I can wait for Contra to make profits before releasing Squirrel War.

For now, I can put aside the art matters and use simple color blocks to represent the characters, monsters, backgrounds and interactive elements in the game.

This kind of thing is also very common when making games in later generations. First make a rough framework, and then use very simple modeling to walk through the game first.

After confirming that the game process can be smoothed, subsequent optimization of the game screen will be considered.

Less than an hour had passed, and Zuo Zhen had reproduced the first-level scene of the first level of Squirrel War through programming.

Squirrel Wars has many interactive elements.

Boxes, stones, apples, red balls, etc.

There are many details in the game. Completing one level in one day is Zuozhen's limit. No matter how powerful he is, he cannot become Superman.

So today he just wanted to simply test whether he could create the entire scene of the first level, and then complete the entire process using simple color blocks.

The next step is to fill in various contents in this scene to enrich the details of the game.

At this time, the computer majors had gathered behind Zuo Zhen and couldn't move away.

In Zuo Zhen's eyes, this set of game production processes has become commonplace and is the most conventional production method.

But in the eyes of these students, it was like magic.

It starts with a dizzying amount of code.

Then, after Zuo Zhen completed the last code of the first level and started running, a world full of colors appeared on the screen.

The green color block represents the earth.

The metallic color represents the background wall.

The deep blue represents the sky behind the wall.

Then red is the apple, brown is the squirrel image, and the metallic color of the triangle is the monster.

These images are quite abstract at the moment, but they have an extraordinary magic on these students.

"Senior...Senior, is it possible to achieve this effect through programming? Can colors appear on the screen?"

"This... is indeed possible. The teacher has taught it before, but the course has not reached this point yet."

The senior looked a little numb.

At the beginning, he could still keep up with Zuo Zhen's programming.

He was still a little complacent at the time, and at the same time he could tell that Zuo Zhen seemed to be using the assembly language that the teacher had taught before.

But the teacher hasn’t taught much yet.

So later on, he could no longer keep up with Zuo Zhen's programming.

When Zuo Zhen finally got the game framework running, he was already confused and thinking about how this thing worked.

He created a window, gave the window a resolution definition... and then set a squirrel with a height of 2... But why a squirrel?

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, making him, a senior, start to doubt his life.

The program Zuo Zhen ran was much more complicated than he imagined.

Turning around and looking at the calculator program that a group of people had studied before, it seemed that the gap was not just a tiny bit.

Where did this person come from?

"Senior, look at this color, it can move and follow the keyboard."

"I noticed."

"Senior, this is so interesting. It has colors that allow you to jump around. It seems you can also climb. Are you going to go to heaven?"

At this time, Zuo really uses the keyboard to control the brown color block representing the squirrel to climb.

In addition to being a horizontal scrolling game, Squirrel Wars also has a vertical extension.

This is a little more complicated than Contra. Zuo Zhen also wants to use this test to verify whether his program can run completely.

Now it seems that the effect is indeed good, the program is at least running...

Click.

The next moment the screen freezes and the software crashes.

Zuo Zhen:......

"Senior, is there a loophole? Finally there is a loophole. I thought the program he made was perfect."

Zuo Zhen was speechless for a while. As a programming veteran, he still makes mistakes sometimes~