The testing department is a department with relatively low technical requirements in an online game company. Ordinary positions only need to be experienced and enthusiastic about games. Wei Wei is also an expert in online games, so this job is more than enough.
The job of a game tester is actually very boring. Maybe you have to keep talking to the same NPC to see if there are any bugs, maybe you have to walk the same map over and over again... It's definitely not what outsiders think, just play the game.
Today, the testing department is going to do a large-scale task test, and the manpower is insufficient. Of course, it is better to have more people. The members of the testing department were originally worried that this beautiful woman who was rumored to be the boss's girlfriend came to the company to hang out. Who knew that people were just a little used to the operation of sleepwalking, and they quickly got started.
The head of the testing department was a treasure, and quickly recognized Wei Wei, the future boss.
Wei Wei became fascinated as soon as she went into sleepwalking, and even "Brother Mei from Jianghu" excitedly came to watch her, but she didn't have time to answer, causing Mo Zhahe to walk away lonely. Going out to eat with Xiao Nai at noon, Xiao Nai asked casually, "What did you do in the morning?"
Wei Wei's eyes suddenly lit up: "I'm doing the test for the flood task."
Because sleepwalking simulates reality to the maximum extent in terms of weather changes, the game also has the rising and falling of the sun, the wind and frost, the thunder and the lightning, the wind and the sun, and of course, the continuous rain. Since there is continuous rain, it will of course lead to flooding in some places, so the flood task comes from this.
After a small town is flooded, the system sends out a notification, calling on players to rescue NPC children and old people, rescue NPC property, and then get certain rewards. Players need to learn swimming skills, and then send NPCs to a safe place within a limited time, because the amount of blood in the water continues to decline, if they cannot be delivered in time, the player will die and the mission will fail.
From this, there are also the tasks of rebuilding homes after the disaster, and of course, the tasks of transporting water sources during droughts and so on. Wei Wei has played a lot of online games, but this is the first time I have seen such a particularly interesting multiplayer mission.
During the test, I heard people from the test department talk about the tasks of feeding children in the nursery, street performing tasks, the men's farming and women's weaving in the family system, etc. Although I have only touched the tip of the iceberg of the game, the ingenious task system of Sleepwalking has already been introduced. Slightly surprised.
But speaking of which, what shocked Wei Wei the most today was the sleepwalking scenery.
The beautiful mountains and rivers, the vast rivers, the lush green bamboos, and the quiet deep valleys, these common sights that are accustomed to seeing, seem extraordinarily ethereal and distant in sleepwalking.
Of course, it's not just the scenery, there are also smooth and gorgeous moves, realistic and changeable character expressions...
Wei Wei has long known that "Dream in the Rivers and Lakes" is a d engine written by the great god himself, instead of directly buying ready-made ones from abroad. The performance of the picture quality and action must be extraordinary. But before I saw the game with my own eyes, I never thought that the engine of the Great God would make the scenery and action gorgeous to such an extent.
But thinking about the Great God himself, and his gorgeous team, Wei Wei feels normal again...
Speaking of which, with such a good engine, in the future, needless to say, how much money will be made from the operation of "Sleepwalking Rivers and Lakes". If this engine is sold to other online game companies for use, Dashen Company will make a lot of money.
After dinner, she and Xiao Nai went back to the company. In order to avoid being taken by the Great God to yesterday's "criminal scene", Wei Wei took the initiative and enthusiastically to visit the beautiful senior brother who was heartbroken by her in the morning.
Xiao Nai smiled but didn't stop her, he wasn't someone who liked being sticky in public. However, when a bug appeared in the game test in the afternoon, he appeared in the testing department and debugged the program problem smoothly.
At that time, the employees of the testing department were very complicated, and basically they were silently shouting: In fact, we can also solve it! Boss, you don't have to come in person!
After a few days of testing work, Wei Wei always feels that Sleepwalking is fundamentally different from the games she has played before, not only because of the exquisite graphics and profound historical background, but also because of other things. But she couldn't tell exactly how, until one day she saw some detailed planning books of sleepwalking, and she suddenly realized.
Sleepwalking has a kind of anger.
In the world of sleepwalking, nothing is static and absolutely static. Flowers bloom and fall, the moon is cloudy and sunny, and people rise and fall. A peony in the courtyard may still be in bud a few days ago, but if you look at it again a few days later, it may be in full bloom. A wine shop in the capital may be filled with guests yesterday, but in a blink of an eye, it will fail and change its owner. A woman in the west of the city may be waiting for her marriage this month, but she will be married to the east of the city next month. Even the NPCs in the pharmacy grocery store take shifts off.
It's just a small scene and NPC changes, but it gives people a feeling of dynamic and development, which swept away the lifeless feeling of previous online games.
"The Age of Rebirth"
Sleepwalking basically has ingenious ideas in all aspects, such as robbing a marriage in the marriage link, such as the independent move design of the martial arts system, such as the nobility in the occupation design (reading to become an official and then summoning guards to fight according to the level, you can refer to the Western Summoning system for understanding) …
All kinds of whimsy run through the whole game, but the biggest feature of sleepwalking is that it really parallels the life system and the rivers and lakes system. In sleepwalking, players can either be proud of the rivers and lakes, or be a life class that is completely far away from the rivers and lakes. player.
This is very rare in online games. Online games have always been distinct, fighting is fighting, and life is life. Even if there is a life system in a fighting game, it is only a small auxiliary game.
It's not that online game developers don't want to do it, it's that they can't do it. In order to save money and trouble, domestic developers mostly directly buy foreign engines, and foreign engines either focus on combat upgrades and supplemented by life, or focus on life development and adjust combat appropriately, so domestic online games After applying a foreign engine to make a finished product, it is naturally restricted and bound without exception, and it has become a cookie-cutter model.
But Xiao Nai is a self-developed engine. Of course, he can completely jump out of this mode and freely make what he wants.
In any case, these innovations are only limited to the category of games. What can really be called strategic innovations is the life system of "Sleepwalking Rivers and Lakes", which combines c\/s and b\/s.
A simple explanation is to combine online games that need to be downloaded and installed by yourself and web games that do not need to be downloaded and installed at all.
Give the simplest example.
For example, if you plant a flower in your garden, but it blooms when you are at work, what should you do if you can't play games in the office? Then you only need to open the web version of Sleepwalking, and you can squat in the office to collect the flowers.
Another example is that you have a son who needs to eat three meals a day, but you don’t want to put him in the system nursery, what should you do? Go to the web version at work.
It is conceivable that these functions will be extended to mobile phones in the future.
At present, major game companies are focusing on developing web games that are suitable for office workers and players with low computer configuration. However, there is absolutely no game on the market that combines d online games and web games.
Sleepwalking pioneered in this regard.
This is absolutely genius innovation.
"Not only that, you might as well think about it in reverse." On the way to get off work one day, Xiao Nai said very calmly, or at least superficially, listening to Wei Wei's endless praise.
"Ok?"
"Before the internal testing of online games, the web version of the Sleepwalking Life System will be opened first."
Huh? It's pretty new, but what's the point of it
Wei Wei starts to think.
Seeing what she didn't think of for a while, Xiao Nai further reminded: "Then before the sleepwalking closed beta, we will promote the video of the homeland in the d online game on the web version."
Wei Wei instantly understood.
Players of the web version will definitely have the urge to go to the online game to see how exquisite and perfect their garden is in the d game, and then...
Everything can be imagined.
This strategy of the Great God is too ambitious, and it will almost wipe out all kinds of players.
Wei Wei's blood boiled, and he extended his thinking.
What will happen to such players who don't like fighting and killing when they enter the game? Of course, they can not fight monsters or level up, just grow vegetables and collect vegetables, raise pigs and ducks, weave cloth and cut clothes, and study food... But, you need to I feel that being a farmer is boring, and no one will stop me when I go to apprentices to learn arts and walk around the world. Moreover, the system will try to seduce you, for example, planting vegetables to create a magic pill, eating it to double your skills, for example, digging out this secret book in ploughing the land, for example, making clothes and actually making good equipment... And unfortunately, these Nothing can be sold...
then…
So, the great god is a conspirator = =
No, maybe it should be said that it is Yang Mojia, who is best at digging traps and then letting people watch the traps and jump down >o