Recently, there have been more and more customers in the experience store. By the end of the weekend, the PC experience area on the first floor is more than 90% full, leaving only a dozen empty machines.
There are fewer people in the mobile game experience area and vr experience area, but they can basically occupy half of it.
The holographic projection viewing area is surrounded by people who are interested in this equipment every day, but after all, this thing will get tired after watching it too much. At the beginning, if you look at it freshly, you will get used to it later.
The lobby on the first floor of the experience store.
Today is Thursday, not too many people.
Chen Mo was sitting on the sofa with a glass of drink in his hand, flipping through a batch of new books that had recently arrived.
There are two large bookshelves next to the lobby wall on the first floor. There are many books related to games. Of course, they are mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc. There are also some professional books on game design knowledge, but few people read them.
"The store manager." A twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old office worker in a suit swiped his ID card at the front desk and greeted Chen Mo.
Chen Mo nodded in greeting: "Isn't today Thursday? Didn't go to work?"
The office worker nodded: "Well, I asked for leave."
This office worker is called Zhao Lei, and he is also a frequent visitor to the experience store. The North Drifters are currently working in a financial company with high salaries and high work pressure.
Unlike other players, he doesn't come to the experience store just to play games, sometimes just to sit in the lobby for a while and chat with everyone.
Zhao Lei is a person with no social circle, and most of his work circle is socializing, but in this experience store, he found a sense of comfort that he had not seen for a long time.
Therefore, Zhao Lei often came here on weekends, and over time, he became acquainted with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu, and some regular customers of the experience store.
Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa next to him, ordered a cup of iced coffee, and took a comic from the nearby bookshelf.
Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked, "Why, you've been under a lot of pressure recently?"
Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, I don't know why recently, I always meet evil spirits at work. I also have a lot of entertainment. I drank three or four meals last week, and I have to work overtime this weekend. I really can't hold on today. I ask for leave. rest."
Chen Mo said sympathetically, "Well, your body is important. Take the time to do a physical examination."
Zhao Lei smiled, and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Physical examination? Don't dare to have a physical examination, for fear that some serious problem will be detected, and there is no money to treat it."
Chen Mo said, "No, your body is more important."
Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, of course I know that."
"By the way, the store manager, there hasn't been a new game for a while, is it because I've been busy with the game platform recently?"
Chen Mo said: "There is part of the reason, but having said that, "Minecraft" has been online for less than two months, how can new games be developed so fast, and you have to let go of breastfeeding."
Zhao Lei was stunned: "Oh, it's only been two months? Sigh, I kind of lost the concept of time. It always feels like half a year has passed."
Chen Mo said with a smile: "You are under too much pressure at work, it's time to reduce the pressure appropriately. It is easy to cause problems if you are always in this high-pressure state."
Zhao Lei said: "There is no good way to reduce stress. I don't have any friends, and I don't have any special hobbies. I usually have nothing to do except work hard to earn money to support my family. I just come to you occasionally , and relax a little bit."
Chen Mo thought for a while: "Actually, I just happen to have a game that suits you. Do you want to play it? New game."
Zhao Lei was a little surprised: "New game? Didn't you say it hasn't been developed yet?"
Chen Mo stood up and smiled: "Don't you know what efficiency I am? To say that it has not been developed means that the game has not been launched yet, but it is ready for trial play. Come with me."
Zhao Lei hurriedly stood up and followed Chen Mo to the PC game experience area of the experience store.
After asking Zhao Lei to find a computer to sit down, Chen Mo logged into the management background and downloaded a newly developed game to this computer.
Zhao Lei looked at the name: ""Stanley's Fable"?"
Chen Mo nodded: "Yes."
Zhao Lei was a little puzzled: "You said this game is more suitable for me? What kind of game is it, a puzzle game?"
Chen Mo shook his head: "You will know after playing."
Zhao Lei clicked the game icon on the desktop with some doubts to enter the game.
There is no cool loading picture, no big scene cg, just enter the game screen directly.
On the upper left of the screen is the title of the game "Stanley's Fable", and on the lower left are [Start Game], [Options], [Creator] and [Exit]. The whole screen is extremely simple.
However, Zhao Lei quickly noticed the weirdness of this scene.
The picture shows a desk with a phone and a computer on it, filing cabinets on the left, and a decorative painting on the wall, like most companies would hang. A boring looking painting is better than nothing.
The strange thing is that the screen displayed on this computer in the game is the same as the game screen, with the game title, options, and even a small mouse cursor.
This feeling is like a picture-in-picture. All the operations the player does on the desktop will happen synchronously on the computer screen inside.
Zhao Lei moved the mouse to click [Start Game], and the same operation was performed on the computer screen in the game.
This made Zhao Lei feel a little weird, but he didn't think too much about it, he just thought it was probably some kind of bad taste of Chen Mo, just an interesting little easter egg.
In the process of loading the game, the screen is completely black, but there is a line of gray English: "the end is never the end is never the end... "
This is an infinite loop of English, which extends from the far left of the screen to the far right of the screen. If it were broken into a complete sentence, it should be "the end is never the end", which means "the end is not the end", or "the game never ends".
It's just that this sentence overlaps "the end" at the beginning and the end, causing such an infinite loop.
These clues make Zhao Lei a little puzzled, what kind of game is this
With many doubts, the game began.
Before the picture appeared on the screen, the narration was already sounding in Zhao Lei's earphones.
The narration is a low-pitched male voice with clear articulation, moderate speed and good rhythm. There is not much emotion to be heard from the voice, as if it is telling a very ordinary story.
[This is the story of a man named Stanley.]
[Stanley works in a company in a building, he is employee 427.]
Accompanied by very light bgm, the game screen began to appear, and the camera crossed the corridor of the company and came to room 427. In the room, a man is sitting with his back to the camera. His desk is the same as the one seen in the game start screen, including computers, phones, and file cabinets, all of which are exactly the same.
[Employee 427's job is simple: sit at a desk and press buttons on a keyboard.]
[The screen will display the corresponding instructions: which button to press, how long to press, and in what order to press.]
The camera switches to the monitor screen at the top, specially giving a close-up of the hand movements of the characters in the game.
Stanley stared blankly at the computer screen, his right hand monotonously pressed the buttons on the keyboard, lowering and raising his head from time to time, like a machine on an assembly line.