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The opinions on "Theme Hospital" mainly focus on two aspects. One is to hope to transplant the game to DC, and the other is to criticize Pete for being too shameless and having too big a brain and dare to do anything.

Yang Yun was quite interested and asked, "Let me tell me why everyone criticized Pitt unanimously? What things did he do that were unreasonable?"

Zhao Yongping is responsible for the quality management system of Longteng game. He smiled and said the first time: "Peter's taste is too heavy. His overall project plan has been changed five times in the past six months. He wants to add everything to the game. Every time he thinks of a good idea, he changes.

once."

"It's a good thing to keep adding good ideas, and it's normal. It's impossible for people to think of all the good ideas at once and modify them while designing them. Isn't this a common working model for our game production companies?"

"There is no problem with the work model. The key to the problem is what he added. This is also the place where we all agree that he has a heavy taste. Guoqiang, your R&D department knows this best, please explain it to Mr. Yang."

So Zhang Guoqiang laughed and told the details of the many changes to "Theme Hospital".

The original version of "Theme Hospital" is quite regular. The player plays a dean, arranges the hospital's decorations by himself, isolates different departments, arranges various equipment and equipment, hiring varying numbers of doctors and nurses, and treats them.

Patients make money, increase their influence, and strive to make their hospitals the top leaders in the industry.

The selling point of the game is all kinds of funny diseases, with a little spoof. This is bullfrog humor, which is consistent with the usual style of bullfrog studio works, such as melancholy. Patients have a very big head, so they need to use an inflator instead of an exhauster.

Treatment. It is an inflatable machine with the appearance of an automatic coffee vending machine. The reasons and methods of treatment seem absurd.

In addition, there are also crazy nose hairs. Cats with velvet legs with fuzzy feet need to be treated with a hair recovery machine. This simple thing can be solved with a pair of scissors. I have to go to the machine, and this machine cannot be treated.

For common disease such as baldness, none of the patients who appear are bald. What is the reason?

Tongue laxity is exclusive to women with long tongues, and requires a tongue treatment machine. The introduction in the game is that this machine can make the tongue knot. Of course, you will not be able to gossip if you can't speak, but is this really the best treatment plan?

?

The addicted bulb syndrome that is addicted to changing light bulbs is exclusive to men. Leave them a separate room to throw light bulbs to play with, and throwing 100 light bulbs can earn 100 US dollars. This disease is really a pleasure for players.

There is also the werewolf disease that spoofed King of Fighters Eight God. If the patient is not treated within the specified time, a moon will soon appear over the hospital. The patient becomes a werewolf and uses a three-combo strike against other patients and doctors. This disease is like foam.

Fire extinguishers come to spray.

In addition to these absurd types of cases, there are also general bone injuries, which require an operating table and a cold. Viruses can be used, but there is a certain chance that the patient will die.

These are the first version of "Theme Hospital", which was also discussed by Yang Yun and others. They gathered the collective wisdom of David Blizzard, Zhang Guoqiang, Ma Liang and others. They originally thought that these were enough.

But then Pitt kept sending updates from the Paris Research Center to add his ideas and ideas.

The second version increases the interaction between doctors and nurses. If the doctor and nurses appear in the lounge at the same time, the game will automatically determine the intimacy between the two. If it is an intimate relationship, the two will enter a

In the small area covered by the screen, do something that everyone likes. If the relationship between the two is average, you can try to adjust/love and increase intimacy.

Because this function requires recording the relationship between each person and others, it is equivalent to adding an additional character attribute and memory record stack, which is relatively large, so the update of this version is the largest and requires modification of the kernel.

Yang Yun was stunned when he heard this, interrupting Zhang Guoqiang and said, "Wait a minute! Do you think Pete has added erotic/erotic functions to "Theme Hospital"?"

Zhang Guoqiang smiled and said, "Of course there is no direct shot, there is only one more obscure hint, for example, the fatigue level of the doctor and the nurse are 90, but when they meet in the lounge, they meet the conditions of close relationship, and they will get into the screen.

Later, after more than ten seconds, the fatigue level of the two people will become 0. There is no need to wait 1 minute and 30 seconds to slowly drop from 90 to 0. This way the rest efficiency will become very high, which is more than simply letting people sit and rest.

It would be much more interesting to wait in the room."

Ma Liang deliberately sang a opposite tune with Zhang Guoqiang and cursed: "You're right, you're going to be the opposite. You should be even more tired when you do that behind the screen, right?"

Everyone was laughing, everyone was a man, and they all understood this kind of thing.

Zhao Yongping explained to Yang Yun: "Peter's idea is very interesting, with a little 'lustful but not lustful' meaning in it. Although we Chinese people seem a little shy, Marcos and the others have seen it and think it's great.

It is very consistent with the improvements of the European and American markets, so we passed the second edition of the review."

Yang Yun nodded. This kind of sexual hint actually exists in many games. Maybe the Chinese people didn’t like this at first, but with the development of the times, people’s ideas and ideas have gradually become accustomed to it.

The game has some erotic/erotic hints, and the novel descriptions are becoming more and more explicit. If you don’t talk or chat with some dirty jokes, it is not called an active atmosphere. People will change.

Zhang Guoqiang continued to introduce: "The third edition has added a large number of new levels. There are new cases and new emergencies in the new levels, but these levels are locked and cannot play. Only the game box series number of genuine users can be activated.

To activate, you must surf the Internet and connect to the Longteng server."

Yang Yun's eyes lit up: "Oh, this is a good thing. Those pirated users will definitely not be able to play these locked games. A genuine serial number can only be activated for a limited number of two to three times, and it will automatically lock it if it exceeds the number of times."

Zhang Guoqiang shrugged: "It's theoretically, but the actual operation is too difficult. First, not every single player has the conditions to access the Internet. Second, the program core algorithm for verifying the activation code is simple, and it is easy to be cracked by hackers and made into

Registering a machine, this verification code has become a burden to us. Those customers who buy genuine games cannot unlock them if they cannot access the Internet, but pirated users do not have these worries about genuine users.”

Yang Yun was speechless for a moment. Authentic verification of PC games is a problem that cannot be solved perfectly in the world. Network verification is a better method, but the key is that the PC networking technology is too weak now and there is no way to control it!

"How do you deal with this third version?" Yang Yun asked.

"Retain the function of networking communication between the game and the server. If the game wants to be upgraded in the future, we can cover the temporarily blocked verification module through the program downloaded on the Internet, and then verify it after the time is ripe."

Yang Yun nodded, he could only do this for the time being. The DC side is a little better. The particularity of the game disc ensures that the anti-pirated version is relatively difficult, but the PC is too difficult to control. "StarCraft" is such a terrifying real-time

The total sales of strategy games worldwide are only 1.2 million copies in a month, which is not as good as one-fifth of "Final Fantasy 6"!

But there are definitely no fewer players who really play "StarCraft" than those who play "Final Fantasy". What does this mean? It's pirated.

"Well, players are our parents of food and clothing. We can't spoil them, we have to respect them. The game with them is a long-term process. Let's do this for the authentic verification of "Theme Hospital". If they really support the game, they will find ways to do it.

What is the fourth version connected to the Internet?"

"The fourth version is more interesting, adding a random system. This randomization includes two patterns of randomization of lesions and drugs or treatments. For example, if the patient is a dual patient of tongue laxity and cold, it is very likely that it will cause

When the patient is not treated in time for a cold, a sneeze will come out and his long tongue will fall off, and then he will never be able to speak, and the treatment will fail."

"Forehead……"

Yang Yun was speechless and frowned: "Where is the drug mixed?"

Several people laughed and Zhang Guoqiang said: "Many diseases occur at the same time, and the medicines taken must be different. Pete added 18 drugs. If the patient gets the virus spirit that relieves the symptoms of colds, he has to face the foam fire extinguisher.

Eliminate the werewolf virus on your body, and then the virus spirit has a certain chance of becoming a gas-filled Mantos. If you eat it, you will get big head disease..."

Yang Yun pressed his temple, why is this Pete so complicated? Isn't it done "Theme Hospital 2" anymore? Leave some new ideas for the next version!

"Okay, let me know what exactly will happen in the last version, and hopefully not those weird ideas, I can't complain about this Pete anymore."

"This fifth version should be the most controversial place for us. Pete added eight extra mini games, similar to hitting mice, but it is more interesting. There are text games and operation games, which are very playable and interesting.

, Our controversy lies in this, and it is also the unanimous agreement of almost everyone. We hope to make this game into the DC version."

“Where are objections?”

Zhao Yongping coughed: "It's mainly because Lao Jing and I objected. We think some of the changes should be left in "Theme Hospital 2", but most people support Pitt, integrate these five versions and transplant them to the DC platform.

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"Oh! I understand." Yang Yun's consent was required to port the PC game to the DC platform, but it did not affect the release of the PC version. As for these new added functions, in addition to the complexity of the favorability and virus mixing, the Internet is connected.

Verification and eight extra mini games can be simply blocked, and the corresponding source code can be deleted.

Overall, Pitt's improvements were not inappropriate, and they were beneficial or harmless, so Yang Yun made a decision and immediately organized a manual transplant of the DC version. After all, six of the eight mini games were very suitable for controller and rocker operation.

After talking about "Theme Hospital", Zhao Yongping continued to report on the progress of "The Immortal Road: Ascension to the Immortality". (To be continued...)