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

The feedback from this test was unexpectedly good.

The game's art style is a little childish, but it's not a lot of fun.

It's just this first level, these people play one after another.

The two people who played at the beginning had little experience and were just exploring while playing.

This also resulted in a very high number of deaths for two people.

So much so that the blood pressure of the person next to me spikes.

"Come down quickly! I'll come up, I'll come up!"

"Don't worry, we're ready to line up."

Upon seeing this, Zuo Zhen immediately said: "Everyone, let's set a limit now. Each two people can only play for half an hour, and it cannot be exceeded. Also, I will add a few new computers for you. You can also play on the new computers. Play this game.”

Now is a very good opportunity for free prostitution. Wouldn’t it be a waste not to take advantage of it?

So Zuo Zhen decisively installed several machines on the side with floppy disks, so that all these computers could run Squirrel War.

Squirrel War itself does not require too high a computer's performance.

Except for the outdated typewriter in this computer room, everything else can run Squirrel Wars.

When these people heard that they could play the game directly without queuing, they all showed happy expressions, and then they all sat obediently in front of the computer and started playing their own games.

After a while, these dozen people were clearly arranged by Zuo Zhen, and everyone could play the squirrel war.

Zuo Zhen looked at this scene and thought that if he could charge now, he would probably get dozens of dollars in one day.

It may take about ten days to resolve the problem of money owed.

However, this place is obviously not suitable. It can only be used for testing. Playing games in the computer room is not a long-term solution. We must find a better environment in the future.

Zuo Zhen estimated that this would need to wait until Contra achieved success.

I don’t know how Contra’s promotion is going on NGS now.

At this moment, China still lacks overseas information channels, especially since the electronic game industry is still a very niche type. Really realizing global information exchange will have to wait for the Internet era.

However, the director of the game department, Akira Nakamura, promised to notify Zuozhen when the game is released, and will communicate with Zuozhen once a week.

Now, in order to save money, I’d better not contact you as much as possible.

Nowadays, when making a phone call, not only the person making the call has to pay, but the person who answers the call also has to pay, not to mention the call from abroad. The cost even needs to be paid with foreign exchange coupons.

So if there’s nothing important, keep in touch as little as possible.

Wait until the game is released and you have money.

Zuo Zhen has been taking notes all morning.

He has basically figured out the level structure of Squirrel War.

Now it means that after Mengchen has finished the artistic work, Zuo Zhen will finish the soundtrack, and then conduct an overall test. The game is basically completed.

But speaking of it, the Contra that Zuo Zhen made before was somewhat rushed to the shelves.

But things happened suddenly at that time. If I had just taken out a pinball game to find NGS, I guess Akira Nakamura would not even look at me.

Making pinball games has become a child of the gaming industry.

Fortunately, Zuo Zhen made the entire game by himself, and he was confident that he could release the game without any inspection, but it was still a bit tiring to do it alone.

And this is only limited to the games he is making now. He can still handle it alone. In the future, when the second generation comes, that is, the 16-bit game console era, after the SFC and Sega Saturn game consoles are launched, the independent small workshop model will start to be a bit tight. .

He couldn't wait until then to recruit people, it would be too late.

The time came to eleven-thirty, and these students stood up from their seats with some reluctance after the noon bell rang.

"Zuozhen-san, is there any content behind this game?"

One of the students came to Zuo Zhen and asked with expectation.

"Of course there is, but it's not done yet. I made it in a hurry, so you don't have to rush. But if you want to make the game faster, there is another way."

"Huh? What can I do?"

"You guys are here to help. With your programming skills, can you run the game and find bugs?"

The student blinked: "Zuo Zhen, do you mean that we should continue to come here to play more often? Oh no, do you mean to come here frequently for testing?"

"That's right, but this test is no longer a simple pass. You have to think of any way to crash the game. As for what method to use, you need to use the programming knowledge you learned from the teacher. No matter how perfect the program is, It will eventually be possible to break through, and if any of you can find a loophole, I will get some extra rewards."

"What reward? You will know this by then. I will keep it a secret for now."

"Okay! It's settled! I don't have classes in the evening, so I'll come in the evening to continue the test!"

"Me too, me too!"

"I also……"

Outside the door, the gatekeeper looked curiously into the computer room.

He had long noticed the noisy noise in the computer room.

But he didn't take it seriously at that time.

But when the sound got louder and louder, he finally became curious.

When he poked his head in, he found that these students were very excited, which was really rare.

Usually when they enter the computer room, their most common expressions are distress, headache, and worry.

Computers are still a new thing in China, and all computer majors learn from scratch, and the entire education system has not yet been fully formed.

Therefore, sometimes even teachers will have questions that cannot be answered, which requires these students to use their own subjective initiative and actively seek solutions to the problems.

But today, the most common expressions shown by these students were excitement and happiness.

Have any major issues been resolved?

Forget it, don't worry about that, just be leisurely in front of the gatekeeper.

Hey, it’s dinner time, go get some food!

The janitor stopped caring about these students. He took out the rice bowl from the drawer under his desk and left the library towards the cafeteria.

The other students were also about to leave the computer room, but at this time a student came to Zuo Zhen and said, "Zuo Zhen, the teacher said in the morning that you should go to his office in the afternoon. He said he had something to do."

"Oh well."

The teacher the other party mentioned was his new teacher Zhan Weishan.

After successfully switching majors, Zhan Weishan did not come to him immediately. The other party seemed to be busy with something, and it seemed that he had taken some time off now.