Chapter 60 Is this a BUG?
This long comment triggered a strong response among the player community, especially the application of fake-AI, which is simply a stroke of genius!
There are even several senior game review organizations and game producers who have expressed high praise for this.
Game design has always been an art of "dancing with shackles".
In ancient times, top game producers used only tens of MB or even hundreds of KB of capacity to create games.
Use pixel-style graphics and 8-bit music to bring players an impressive gaming experience.
In modern times, as game development technology becomes more and more advanced, game graphics become more and more realistic, and game capacity gradually expands, game producers have gradually lost this valuable ability.
They began to rely on powerful technology and could not even do the most basic optimization of the game, let alone exploit the shortcomings of this technology to create unique designs.
Just like the technology of fake-AI, it is the most powerful artificial intelligence chat program invented by mankind since ancient times. Under certain conditions, it can even replace humans in some simple artistic creations.
But even with such a powerful technology, currently no producer can perfectly apply it to the game.
Many people make excuses, saying that this is because of technical limitations.
But obviously, this is actually a lack of design level.
When designers used hundreds of KB of capacity and 8-bit music to create classic games, no one complained about the lack of technical level. But now, with technology like fake-AI, designers can’t. Utilization, this is obviously not because of the existence of "shackles" such as technical limitations, but simply because the current designers' ability to "dance with shackles" has declined!
On the other hand, "The Legend of Destiny Crouching Dragon" can use the game mechanism to perfectly integrate this technology into the game, and even produce unprecedented program effects!
This kind of innovation is certainly worthy of serious study by all game producers!
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Early the next morning, Zhou Yang came to the company yawning listlessly.
He has not yet recovered from the failure of "The Legend of Destiny Crouching Dragon".
That’s what making games is like. A game is made by the whole company after a long time and a lot of hard work. When the game succeeds, it will give people an indescribable joy and pride. When the game fails, it will also give people an indescribable depression and loss.
For some designers with strong self-esteem, the failure of a game is enough to make them sleepless for a month or two.
Last night Zhou Yang was in bed before 11 o'clock, but he never fell asleep. Today he had to get up early to squeeze into the subway, so he felt a little groggy.
The location of Nitiantian Game is still a bit out of the way. It would be fine if you happen to live in the north of the Imperial Capital, but Zhou Yang lives in the east of the Imperial Capital. It takes an hour every time to take the subway, which is really inconvenient.
“Forget it, I guess this company won’t last long. If it really goes bankrupt, I’ll find a way to find a company closer to where I live for my next job...”
Zhou Yang While thinking this, he sat down in his seat, opened his laptop, and casually browsed the web page to read the reviews of the game.
However, after just a few brushes, he straightened up suddenly.
The sleepiness was swept away, and suddenly I wasn’t sleepy anymore!
"What's going on?
"No, something happened to the kidney? It's only been one night, how come our game has become "mostly praised"? ! ”
Zhou Yang looked around in shock, but today he squeezed the subway so smoothly that he came a little early. It is only half past eight, and there is still half an hour before the official start time, and no one else has arrived yet. to.
Therefore, this shocking discovery cannot be shared with others immediately.
Zhou Yang knows very well that despite so many bad reviews before, this game can still get "mostly good reviews", which means that players have given a lot of good reviews recently, and many have already Players who had given negative reviews also changed their reviews to positive ones.
In other words, although it is still "mostly well received" at the moment, as long as this momentum is maintained, it won't take long for this game to become "rave reviews"!
All this gave Zhou Yang an extremely unreal feeling. He even felt that he had not yet woken up. The scenes on the way to the company by subway were all hallucinations.
He hurriedly checked the ins and outs on the Internet, and soon he figured out what was going on.
To put it simply, it’s because of a BUG! Players can use the "Tips" to activate the "Stargazing" effect for other NPCs, allowing the fake-AI of these NPCs to see other generals' seven-dimensional attributes, disliked generals, and biographical information, thus affecting the decisions of these AIs. , so players can easily do many things that they couldn't do before!
A large number of players successfully supported the Han Dynasty through this method and made up for the regret of Prime Minister Zhuge.
And they continued to play happily after completing the level.
"The Legend of Wolong" has become a life simulator for players. In this world, players rack their brains to perform various tricks, change some key nodes in the Three Kingdoms, and then Record the special AI plots and dialogues triggered by yourself and post them online.
There are also fancy tricks, giving Zhuge Liang a star until he is more than a hundred years old, and then giving it back to Liu Bei and Guan Yu...
In short, this game seems to contain too many possibilities, and you can only think of them. Nothing is impossible!
Although sometimes the generated plots are too outrageous, and sometimes the generated plots fail to meet the players' expectations, as long as one or two surprising plots appear, it is enough to support the players over and over again. play.
Under such chain communication, the popularity of "The Legend of Destiny Crouching Dragon" continues to soar, and its reputation quickly reverses!
As for why Zhou Yang knew this was a BUG?
Very simple, because this is completely outside the development plan!
He himself is the mastermind of this game. How could he not know what the original design was?
There is no mention in the design draft that "Wolong strategy can be used nested", and according to common sense, "Stargazing" and "禳星" are both Wolong strategies, and should only be used by Zhuge Liang. , what if it was used by other generals and even demons!
Now the whole Internet is confused and everyone is discussing, is this a BUG?
If it wasn’t a BUG, why didn’t you tell everyone from the beginning?
But if it is a BUG, it would be even weirder, because in that case, all the fun points surrounding this BUG, including using fake-AI as generals, AI dubbing, monsters and destiny people, etc., will all be meaningless, and even It will become a purely disgusting design.
It can only be said that this is in line with the consistent style of the game.
This is true from "Hell Tracks" to "Sisyphus", and from "Heaven Cube" to "Destiny Wolong Legend". A mechanism that looks very much like a BUG has become the core gameplay of the game. It also echoes other designs in the game.
They really want to catch an employee of Nitiantian and ask him, is this a bug? You guys have made me so confused!
As an employee of Nitiantian, Zhou Yang himself is more confused than netizens.
Yes, is this a BUG? I don’t know it myself!
Judging from internal information, this is undoubtedly a BUG:
It was not written in the design draft;
The entire company, from planning to art to testing, did not expect anything. This kind of operation;
Even when the prospects were not good after the game was released, the boss encouraged all employees and said that no matter what happens, we will not lay off employees.
No matter how you look at it, this looks like an accident!
But this accident somehow coincided with the content of the game, and it had the finishing touch and the Midas touch effect...
Zhou Yang scratched his head vigorously, feeling that his scalp was itchy, and he might be about to die. Got a brain.
At this time, 9 o'clock in the morning was approaching, and other employees of the company were sitting at their work stations one after another and starting to work.
And their mood at this time was the same as Zhou Yang's, ranging from astonishment to shock, then to surprise and doubt, and finally to complete confusion.
Happiness comes so suddenly that everyone is not used to it!
Only Su Tong was relatively calm. After all, she had experienced the same situation twice. As employee No. 002 of the company, she had seen more of the world than other employees.
In this joyful and confusing atmosphere, Gu Fan arrived.
As usual, he walked upstairs slowly and calmly with the coffee he ordered from downstairs.
(End of this chapter)