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

Dai Min is one of Zuo Zhen's roommates, but he is not in the same major as Zuo Zhen. His major is a more partial one, called ancient writing research.

This profession may sound very traditional, but he himself does not look like this. He is considered very fashionable in this era.

He has a guitar and his hair has reached his shoulders. He is full of the aura of an artist. People in the dormitory often like to call him a singing ghost because he sings like a ghost.

"I arrived in the morning, and you're starting to play the guitar again. Be careful when the dormitories next door rush in and fuck you."

Dai Min chuckled: "Hey, they don't dare. They each owe at least one kilogram of food stamps for the poker game last night. If they dare to come and trouble me, be careful not to guarantee the food stamps."

He put down the guitar, then came to Zuo Zhen and said, "I haven't seen you for more than ten days. You seem to be in good spirits. How are you? Is Japan a fun place? I heard that there are all high-rise buildings there."

"That's it." Zuo Zhen replied nonchalantly.

Having witnessed the post-21st century modernization, Tokyo in the 1980s was only a few years ahead of China.

Moreover, in the foreseeable future, Japan should experience a round of economic bubble bursting. This is not just because the Plaza Accord was signed last year, the yen began to appreciate crazily, which can be regarded as Japan's last peak period.

"Tsk, tsk, as expected of someone who has been to a big city. Now he has become more discerning. Did you buy the things I asked you to buy for me?"

"of course I remember."

Zuo Zhen took off the schoolbag from behind, dug through it, found a notebook and handed it to Dai Min. Dai Min immediately took it with both hands as if he had found a treasure, and then excitedly found a few meal tickets from his pocket. Pass it to Zuo Zhen.

This is a guitar sheet that Dai Min asked Zuo Zhen to help buy in Japan. He who loves guitar is no longer satisfied with the pitiful domestic guitar repertoire. He is eager to learn more about foreign music.

It's just that it's not easy to get these things now, so I asked Zuo Zhen to help buy them.

"Hey, my baby~" Dai Min cherished the guitar sheet and held it in his arms. His appearance was comparable to that of the idiots of later generations.

Zuo Zhen immediately thought of a character that was very suitable for the current Dai Min: Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies. The current Dai Min is just like Gollum.

"Lao Zuo, I owe you a favor. I'll treat you to dinner later! Let's go out to eat! A restaurant has just opened in front of our school. No tickets are required."

Dai Min carefully put away the music score, then put his arm around Zuo Zhen's shoulders and prepared to leave the dormitory.

"What about the rest?"

"They have all gone to class. This time I invite you alone. Next time we will go together."

At the same time, in the computer room of the library building, a teacher had arrived, and the place where Zuo Zhen was sitting just now was surrounded by dozens of students.

"Teacher, this is this machine. A classmate just made a program on this machine, a program that can move in a plane."

"You are making too much fuss. There is nothing difficult about a program that can move in a plane."

This teacher is a computer science teacher. He was drinking tea and reading the newspaper in his office when he was suddenly called over by his students and told him that something big had happened in the computer room.

He was so frightened that there was a major accident in the computer room, but on the way he learned that students from other majors seemed to have come up with a program.

He was slightly surprised to hear this, but not too much.

He naturally has two skills to become a teacher. He is also one of the first batch of teachers majoring in computer science in China. He is fortunate enough to go abroad to participate in foreign academic exchange activities and gain more experience.

Just talking about the current domestic environment, computers are still in their infancy, and he does not think that domestic programming capabilities have made much progress.

But they are already out, and the library is not far away, so let’s stop by and have a look.

When he came to the computer room, he saw dozens of students gathered together, and he suddenly felt that it was exaggerated.

And according to their description, it only achieved the effect of plane movement. He could do it if he worked a little harder.

"But teacher, this student finished it in less than half an hour."

"In less than half an hour? What kind of thing can you make?" The teacher felt even more boring. What can he do with this little time?

This made him feel that these students were making a fuss even more.

It seems that my courses need to be more detailed, and we can no longer let them just understand some superficial knowledge.

He used to think that students' current understanding of computers is still in its infancy. Even if they turn on and off the computer, they have to be taught it again, and they don't dare to go into in-depth courses such as programming.

Looking at the fuss they make now, I feel like they were a little too kind before.

After the teacher walked in, the students who had gathered all moved out of the way. The teacher walked straight to the computer. The student who had just been sitting in front of the computer stood up from his seat with some reluctance. He kept staring at the screen as if he didn't want to. leave.

It was a simulation level without any interaction, just allowing the character to run and jump around the map.

But for someone who has never been exposed to video games, this simple interaction has magical power.

Even just being able to run and jump is very attractive.

"Teacher, all you need to do to operate this is press the up, down, left, right and space keys. You can run and jump, which is really interesting."

"Interesting? Let me give it a try."

The teacher began to operate according to the students' instructions.

This is a pure blue background. Well, it's relatively easy to implement color programmatically, and I can do it.

Um? Can this scene be moved? It's kind of interesting, I thought it was just moving in this limited screen space.

It turns out you can jump here, so I jumped...well, I fell down.

It's okay, just jump again.

The teacher operates the character to walk through the scene from left to right, and then jumps from bottom to top to the sky, followed by another section from right to left, from bottom to top and then from left to right, and finally reaches the end position.

During this period, he accidentally fell back to the ground several times, but because the difficulty was not high, he still reached the end of the scene map.

At the beginning, he still had time to think about how to implement this place through programming, how to implement the jump, and what to do if he did it himself.

But later on, he seemed to have forgotten about it.

All he could think about afterwards was that I wanted to reach the finish line.

After finally using the character to reach the final destination, he seemed to gain a sense of satisfaction.

But he soon realized something.

Hiss~ This thing is kind of interesting.

Although it looks very crude in all aspects, it is already complete.

At the same time, he finally realized what this was.

If he guessed correctly, this should be a video game.

When he went to the United States two years ago, he came into contact with this kind of gameplay by chance. At that time, he still didn't understand how this thing was implemented.

Unexpectedly, I saw exactly the same thing in China now.

Then he thought of something again and looked at the students behind him with a strange expression.

"By the way, I remember you just said that this procedure only took less than half an hour?"