What It’s Like Being a Vampire

Xiang Kun wanted to play games. In fact, it was not a decision he made on a whim when he was in Tongshi Town a week ago.

He had already considered it earlier.

At the beginning, he was relatively conservative in his research and exploration of his mutation, and he didn't have any long-term plans. After all, he got too little information. He basically just took it step by step, and didn't have any big plans. The need for funds, survival and self-preservation are the first considerations.

But after encountering multiple mutant creatures, especially when he learned that "Shenxing Technology" was paying attention to mutant creatures and that there might be "vampires" controlling them behind them, he had a stronger sense of urgency and began to have more ideas. Ideas, and these ideas require a lot of money to support.

Xiang Kun has many plans on how to make money.

With his current ability, no matter what he does, given a certain amount of time, he can achieve certain results and make a lot of money.

But he also has to consider factors such as the time it takes, the energy it takes, whether it will reveal his specialness, and whether he can have sustained income.

After comprehensive consideration, the best way to "realize abilities" is through Alice.

Of course, it's not just about publishing Alice directly - although doing so would definitely explode the media and get a lot of money. But the excessive attention it brings is what he wants to avoid. Moreover, he has always felt that Alice has far more and stronger room for development than what is shown now, and there are still many possibilities that have not been explored. These "possibilities" may become his biggest trump card when facing crises in the future, or one of the keys to unlocking the cause of mutation.

There are many other ways to monetize "Alice".

After Xiang Kun's consideration, it was the most efficient way for Alice to integrate existing functions and create a game at his request.

Since the birth of "Alice", under the guidance of Xiang Kun, she has developed many functions. These functions can be separated to a certain extent and implemented independently of Alice.

It is too slow and inefficient to promote and sell these "functions" and show them to the public or investors one by one.

What's more, those functions, when taken apart, do not have a very obvious gap with the existing and existing related application functions. There is no way to directly shine in people's eyes and crush other competitors.

Therefore, in Xiang Kun's view, this game must demonstrate two key points. One is its own playability, which can attract users, retain users, form a reputation, and bring profits; the other is that it must be able to demonstrate what he wants to display. functions, so that the public and investors can notice and experience these stronger functions and know where they are strong.

In the end, Xiang Kun's idea was to create a game that uses sound as a carrier.

"Alice" has already made a basic game framework, and according to Xiang Kun's requirements, "learned" dozens of classic martial arts novels on the Internet, and integrated the plots in them for free matching.

Originally, Xiang Kun planned to make it more complete, with more functions, and to better reflect the core gameplay, and then find Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, Lao Xia, Zhang Qian, Chang Bin, Zicheng, and Yang Zhuo to come over and work together. Internal testing, and then we will discuss the details of investment and subsequent detailed research and development and promotion.

But after hearing what Tang Baona said today and knowing that she was planning to change jobs,

Xiang Kun changed his mind and directly offered to let them try it out tonight.

He wanted to give Tang Baona one more choice.

After taking the four people's mobile phones and operating on Lao Xia's computer for a while, Xiang Kun returned the mobile phones to them and returned to the living room together.

"Then what? How to play?" Yang Zhener couldn't wait to open the game and asked. The interface after entering was very simple. The few buttons looked more like a music player. There were no text logos or any character images. , people don’t know how to start.

"Wait a minute, let me introduce this game to you first."

Xiang Kun held his mobile phone, stood in the middle of the living room, and said to Yang Zhener, Tang Baona, and Lao Xia on the sofa:

"The carrier of this game is only sound. It will arrange a story according to the style you choose and the setting of your own character, and then use the voice engine to tell the story.

"You will participate in the story as it unfolds. When it comes to your characters, you can decide the direction of the story through your own choices. You can directly talk to the characters in the story or other players. These Dialogue also determines the development of the story.”

The three people on the sofa listened to his introduction with wide eyes and curious faces. After hearing this, Tang Baona couldn't help raising her hands and asked: "Is it the same as the 'radio drama'?"

"Yes, the form is pretty much what it means, but you are all participants in it." Xiang Kun said.

Yang Zhener asked: "You mean... the game will give you a script, and then we will 'perform' according to the script?"

Xiang Kun said: "No, there is no fixed script. The background and pre-plot of the story will be told to you, but the subsequent development is up to you to decide."

Yang Zhener immediately said: "I understand, just like that domestic game, "Invisible Guardian", at a certain stage, you can make several behavioral choices, and then different choices will trigger different plots."

"No, it's still different." Xiang Kun said with a smile: "The interactive narrative game you are talking about has many routes and plots that have been arranged, and then proceed according to your different choices. Their subsequent paths, It has been repaired a long time ago. You just choose the intersection. But my game is different. It allows you to decide how to repair the subsequent roads. Before you make specific choices, I, the producer, do not know how it will develop in the future. .”

Hearing this, Xia Libing frowned and said, "You mean, when the game reaches a certain point, it will rearrange the following plot according to our choices?"

"That's probably what I mean." Xiang Kun nodded and said: "Play a game first, and you will know. For the time being, there are only fictional martial arts stories, so you can only choose a character that fits this background. Uh, but you need As a reminder, the built-in voices in the game currently only have the voices of Nana and me, so you can only choose these two voices for the time being..."

According to Xiang Kun's request, Tang Baona and Yang Zhener both took out their mobile phone earphones from their bags and put them on. Then one stayed in the living room and the other sat in the dining room to avoid the sound from interfering with each other. Xia Libing also went to dig out her earphones. headphones, and gave Xiang Kun a computer headset.

However, Xiang Kun said that the three of them could just use headphones, but he did not need to. He did not participate in the first game, but assisted them from the side.

"You will experience a story that takes place in the world of martial arts. Next, please set the character you want to participate in the story. Within ten seconds, please speak the name you gave the character into the microphone or other sound recording device, and form The word then ends with 'OK'. Example: '李红, 李 of luggage, 红红, OK'."

Listening to her own voice coming from the headphones, Tang Baona felt a little weird and a little funny. The reading engine made with her voice that Xiang Kun gave her before, she would occasionally use it later. It was really fun. .

She followed the operation method Xiang Kun said before and selected another sound source on the game's simple interface. This time it was Xiang Kun's voice: "Please say the name of the character and end with 'OK'."

After Tang Baona considered it for more than ten seconds, she said: "Tang Ying, Tang of the Tang Dynasty, Ying of the hero, sure."

Next, following the voice prompts, Tang Baona set up multiple character conditions. When she finally finished setting up, she received a prompt: "A total of three players participated, two have finished entering information, and one is still entering, please wait a moment. ", nearly half an hour had passed unknowingly, but Tang Baona didn't feel it was too time-consuming at all. Instead, she was very interested and looking forward to it. She was very curious about what kind of experience this voice game would have. .

The tone of this prompt tone was so real that it felt like the real Xiang Kun was talking to her. Of course, because she has a lot of daily contact with Xiang Kun and is familiar with Xiang Kun's tone and rhythm, she can still notice some differences, but this smooth feeling is already quite lifelike, which also makes her have a strong interest in this game. Have more expectations.

After more than five minutes, the three "players" finally completed the input, and a prompt sounded from the earphones: "The first stage script is being generated, please wait."

This time, the waiting time was much faster than she expected. In less than thirty seconds, the prompt sounded: "Tang Ying, your adventure will begin in ten seconds. Please be prepared."

Ten seconds later, the whistling sound of wind sounded in the earphones, followed by a background sound that slowed down significantly and seemed to have a heavy tone and a sense of vicissitudes of life:

“You drag your scarred body forward in the desert with difficulty, your mouth is dry, your body is weak, you stumble, your vision is blurred, you may fall down at any time, you are barely holding on with only your willpower.

"Last night, you failed to assassinate Xia Libing, the leader of the Blood Hand Gang, in an inn. She and her men jointly injured you, and you barely escaped with the help of the hidden weapon Bengtian Lei. Although you took all the horses in the inn when you escaped, They all ran away, and they can't catch up for the time being. But you know that the big devil Xia Libing will never let you go. He must be behind you at this time, chasing after you. Before the next sandstorm comes, the traces are covered up. , the Bloody Hands are extremely good at tracking and are difficult to get rid of.

"Your horse has been exhausted. Because you escaped in a hurry and didn't bring any water, plus the injuries on your body are getting worse, it can be said that you are on the verge of despair..."

Tang Baona listened to the "story" told by the background sound with wide eyes. When she heard "Xia Libing, leader of the Blood Hand Gang", she couldn't help but feel a little funny. She didn't expect that Lao Xia was actually the "villain"? And is it the real name used directly for the character?

But she was a little curious. The tone and way the voice told the story seemed to be telling it to her alone? So what Lao Xia and Yang Zhener heard shouldn't be these words, right? Could it be that this story is happening simultaneously from different perspectives?

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