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

Because Zuo Zhen was considered rich now, he simply bought two NGS game consoles and dozens of boxes of game cartridges and put them in a rental house.

An NGS costs more than 1,500 yuan, and dozens of cassettes cost more than 20,000 yuan.

Zuo Zhen made a special trip to the Magic City to buy these. The seller was all smiles and left Zuo Zhen his phone number, guaranteeing that if Zuo Zhen needs any electronic products in the future, he will get them. I can think of a way.

After getting the NGS game console, several employees of Zuozhen were reluctant to go back to their dormitories.

If it weren't for the pressure from their studies, they might have wanted to just carry the bucket and have sex with Zuo Zhen.

"Played all night?"

"Hey, no, I just played until after three o'clock."

"If you fall asleep while working later, be careful and I will deduct your salary." Zuo Zhen said casually.

"No, no!" the man quickly assured, "I'm very energetic."

"Okay, do you have classes today? If not, just study new games with me first."

"Boss, do you want to develop a new game?"

The man became interested as soon as he heard it.

He had been practicing for a while and had not developed serious games. He had already felt a little itchy.

Now when he heard Zuo Zhen say that a new game was being developed, he became more energetic.

Zuo Zhen nodded: "Yes, I plan to develop a new game type this time, called a battle game."

"Battle game? Is it like the previous war chess game? By the way, boss, let me tell you, the teachers at our school are very fond of our Fire Emblem game recently, and they all praise this game."

Zuo Zhen was stunned: "Really? What did they say?"

Zuo Zhen really hasn't paid much attention to school affairs recently.

During this period, in addition to helping these people get started, they also continued to buy various things for rental houses.

Computers, game consoles, and all kinds of equipment are all provided when you have money, and the specifications are high.

"They said this seems to be like playing chess and requires serious thinking. They also said that they always thought games were just entertainment, but our Fire Emblem can improve our intelligence."

"Improving intelligence? Who said this?" Zuo Zhen had a strange expression.

Why does this smell like a pyramid scheme?

"It was said by a brain science teacher in our school that this thing is very suitable for training the brain. In fact, because of his recommendation, the teachers in our school are full of praise for this game."

On the school side, perhaps because the school has also noticed the speed of change in world technology, the computer room is no longer as restrictive as before.

As long as you wear anti-static and dust-proof clothing as required before entering, you can enter and experience the computer.

The country is also encouraging the entire population to have more exposure to such high-tech products.

Last year, it seems that the country also issued a national science and technology development master plan, hoping that all people can move toward high technology.

Zuo Zhen also remembered something.

Project 863.

Just last year, well-known scientists across the country jointly advocated the development of high technology. There were proposals for various high-tech industries, and computers were naturally included among them.

With this outline in place, the number of high-tech related units suddenly increased last year.

The form processing software that Zhan Weishan asked Zuo Zhen to help create also received special awards.

Zuo Zhen didn't ask for any credit, and just asked Zhan Weishan to disturb him as little as possible. He just wanted to play games quietly and make money quietly.

This made Jhanvishan very depressed.

You said that you are a very talented young man, how come you have gone all the way?

But this year, Zhan Weishan stopped talking so much.

I don’t know if it’s due to Fire Emblem.

Or...there are other reasons?

"That's good. It's good that the game can be recognized. However, the game I plan to make this time is still a horizontal version, but it is no longer a horizontal version of adventure, but a horizontal version of battle."

"Horizontal battle? What's that like?"

Zuo Zhen said: "Have you ever heard this saying: Fighting with others is endless fun."

The man shook his head: "No, but it sounds reasonable."

"This time the game is about fighting people."

"How to fight?"

"Don't worry, you first use programming to create a two-dimensional game scene according to my requirements. If you want a fixed frame, use the sprite method."

"It's easy. Doesn't it require scroll movement?"

"No, just fix the screen. It's a little early to use the scroll now, and the performance of NGS is not enough."

"Okay, then wait for me for a while."

The man immediately ran to one of the computers.

This time the computer no longer required a floppy disk to boot the system, this generation of computers already had a built-in system.

There is even the initial version of WINDOS 1.0 overseas.

This can already be expressed through a graphical interface.

However, everything is still very basic, which is very beneficial for some beginners to get started faster, but they are more mature programmers who are still more suitable for developing programs on the simplest DOS system.

If you want to be able to use Windows, you have to wait for the 3.0 era at least.

Zuo Zhen continues to plan this battle game here.

There is also a way to show the effect of battle in NGS.

Zuo Zhen remembers that a Dragon Ball battle game appeared on the Famicom in the later period.

However, due to capacity limitations, there are only a few game characters.

But that's enough.

According to the current upper limit of cartridge capacity on NGS, it is estimated that it can accommodate up to ten different types of characters.

At this time, the scene of crazy moves and magnifying moves appeared in Zuo Zhen's mind.

Battle games have been very popular for a long time, but they gradually declined after the emergence of FPS and other real-time games.

But in the future, there will still be a group of fanatical players who like this genre. This market is larger than that of war chess.

Now that you have the idea for the game, you need to consider the content of the game.

Create your own battle game?

Or use some mature game settings from the previous life?

The latter is more convenient.

The former is a bit challenging and requires numerical planning.

Battle games have relatively high numerical requirements.

First of all, the balance must be done well, otherwise some characters may be very popular and some characters may become useless.

Now that I don’t have such experienced numerical planners in my team, I might as well just use mature games from my previous life.

As for using the values ​​and settings from previous games, Zuo Zhen had almost no hesitation.

There is only one option.

King of Fighters.

This is my own childhood memory.

In the arcade room, insert coins and use big moves to battle.

This series of memories are deeply engraved in my mind and cannot be forgotten.

Although Street Fighter is more famous in the world, he still prefers King of Fighters.