Sui Xiong is a person who is very good at random thoughts.
This is not surprising at all, considering that he had just traveled to this world and was alone in the vast sea. He did not know how many lonely years he had spent. If I hadn't been good at using random thoughts to fight loneliness, I would have gone crazy long ago.
...To be honest, many people think that he is simply a madman, but compared with real madmen such as the God of Madness and the God of Destruction, he still retains a lot of sanity and only occasionally goes crazy.
Whether Sui Xiong is crazy is another research topic, but at least for him now, this kind of random thoughts that are suspected of being crazy are actually very useful.
For example, he thought about online payment from finance, then online shopping, then the Internet, and then online games.
Well, he often thinks about online games, not just once or twice.
But this time, he thought very seriously.
Sitting in the Kingdom of God's "sanctuary" that was covered with what looked like data lines, he stared at the wide lines around him and couldn't help but think about it.
"If you think about it carefully, it's not impossible to start an online game..."
To play online games, you generally need three things: platform, software, and server.
The platform and server couldn't be helped. Sui Xiong couldn't even build a blast furnace, so naturally he couldn't build a computer with bare hands. But he is a god after all. If he doesn’t care about the cost, it is absolutely no problem to use divine power to create a computer that can receive and send signals out of thin air. This means that all calculations are placed on the server. If it were on earth, the second person who designed this would have no problem. He could be thrown out of the window by the boss, but it doesn't matter here. He can just be the server himself.
The software aspect needs to be considered, because he wants to design a game that is popular and not stupid. You can't just mindlessly farm monsters and level up, nor can you just use a small map and have eight people try their best to fight against each other.
"I remember that many online games have missions and dungeons. Maybe I can design it like this..."
He muttered this and started tinkering.
Compared with the blast furnace that has been unable to find a breakthrough, it is obviously much more interesting to make an online game.
As for the problem of blast furnaces... they have been exploding repeatedly after studying it for so long. It seems that he really has not found the key problem. Edison's approach is obviously not suitable for him. It is better to leave it to Palin to study. After all, he is a professional scholar and is better than him. This dabbler is much better.
Strong mobility has always been Sui Xiong's advantage. About half an hour later, he produced the first "computer".
This thing has a screen (nonsense), a keyboard (nonsense), and a mouse (nonsense). The keyboard only has eleven keys: up, down, left, right, one, two, three, four, start, pause, and end. The mouse also only has left and right buttons, and its functions are shockingly crude.
When operating this computer, you use the mouse to select the location where the character wants to move, and then use various buttons to open and select the function menu. Generally speaking, it is a bit cumbersome, but it is easy to understand and even a fool can learn it.
This computer is actually an empty shell and can only accept data or send data. The data is not zeros and ones, but real instructions and images. In other words, although it is stupidly simple, its usage of traffic is absolutely insane, and it would definitely be scolded to death by players on earth.
But it doesn't matter here. Firstly, the server is powerful enough, and secondly, there are not enough players. Sui Xiong only plans to build no more than 500 computers, so even if only half of the people are online, 250 players are still a lot.
Anyway, he didn’t plan to make any large-scale games. I remember when they were in college, their senior counselor who had just graduated had set up a simple private game server for them, and said it was “the world’s earliest graphic online game.” There are usually only a hundred or so people online for that damn game, and everyone is having fun playing it...
The game designed by Sui Xiong is actually similar to the one created by the counselor. Players design a character, and then the character goes on adventures in the game world and accepts tasks. Some go to other cities to find people or go shopping, and some go to underground mazes to kill monsters, hunt for treasures, or save people. In short, it feels like an adventurer. Our lives are pretty much the same.
In this game, players can gain money, experience points, reputation and equipment through adventure, and can also purchase props and update equipment... Generally speaking, although it is simple, the content is quite rich.
It took Sui Xiong a full month to design this game. Each image needs to be depicted, each map needs to be drawn, and various interfaces and dialogues need to be designed. If he hadn't been a god, he could directly convert images and text into game content without even programming, and he wouldn't have been able to do it well even if he had been given a hundred times more time!
"Perhaps... if I can return to Earth, I will become the world's strongest coder, the undisputed king of programmers in the gaming industry, and kill the second to tenth place in one shot!"
Sui Xiong said with a smile, turning his ideas into the content of the game bit by bit.
A month later, playtesting began.
He built twenty computers and selected twenty senior adventurers from the staff of Mask of the Void amusement park to let them try out the game.
It turned out to be a bit of a joke. The adventurers didn't understand how to play this thing at first, and then started to yell and scream after they started playing. Someone shouted, "Oh my God! How can a living soul be imprisoned and used as a plaything?" !", someone shouted "My soul! Is my soul sucked in?"
Sui Xiong had to explain to them one by one, and he tried hard to make these bumpkins understand that this was just a fictitious game. The people and monsters in it were just fictitious things. They were neither the souls imprisoned in it nor their own. The soul is sucked in.
Then, they also make a lot of mistakes while playing the game. More than one person tirelessly talked to the NPC repeatedly, and then told Sui Xiong, "The characters here are too stupid, and they can provide too little information. This kind of adventure is very dangerous." There were also people who were stunned when they went to the store to buy adventure supplies. There were too few things to buy there, and taking such a few things out for an adventure was no different than seeking death. As for the countless things that went wrong when fighting monsters, Sui Xiong was overwhelmed every day, feeling deeply that he was inexperienced and imaginative. Lack of strength.
What drove him crazy the most was that at least a third of the adventurers tried to pickpocket and rob in the store. The reason was very simple: there were so many things in the store, the owner didn't seem strong, and there didn't seem to be anyone powerful in the city. Guard, one job is enough for a lifetime.
Hello! You are great adventurers! But they are the elites in this industry! If you show your gangster mentality in such a clear way, are you really not afraid of dying and going to hell
For a whole winter, Sui Xiong was busy testing this damn game. When spring came, after countless revisions, the public beta version was finally completed, which was completely different from the original version.
The public beta version is designed in a world called "Snake Kong Mountain" - Sui Xiong originally wanted to call it "Dragon Kong Mountain", but was later reminded that it was not a good idea to make fun of dragons, so he changed the name. This world has three floors, each with one The main city and two sub-cities, as well as a dozen mazes. Players play the role of adventurers, traveling in this three-level world. They can accept various tasks and complete them, or they can simply go out to kill monsters without doing tasks, they can also rent a piece of land to farm, or even Yu opened a small shop or something.
Thanks to the various information provided by the twenty senior adventurers, Sui Xiong designed this small world quite comprehensively, and the combat system was also designed relatively complete. Except for the turn-based system, which has always been criticized, other aspects have almost given the adventurers the nod.
But this was not enough. When he increased the number of testers to a hundred people and conducted public testing, various problems arose again.
Because many of the people participating in the test this time are not adventurers, various novice-level mistakes are common. Many players did not understand what was going on and lost their lives due to various mistakes.
Sui Xiong found that he should make a player's manual to teach players some basic information about the game.
It took him more than half a month to compile this player's manual, in which he consulted many adventurers, and finally came up with something that can be used as a guide for novice adventurers. It is surprisingly thick and has an amazing amount of content. .
In other words, if you want to understand it and understand it, the requirements for cultural level are slightly higher...
Obviously, this thing has no practical value at all. Those who can read it will naturally be able to learn all the adventure knowledge. And if you can’t even read it, what’s the use of getting it
Sui Xiong had to find a way to make a batch of magic props and instill the contents of the player's manual into them. Players only need to wear this hat-like magic prop to sleep, and this knowledge will be transferred to their brains. You will naturally have some impressions when you use them in the future. You just need to transform this knowledge into your own experience through review and reflection.
Finally, when the open beta was completed, there was a group of veteran adventurers who were just talking on paper in the Mask of the Void amusement park. They have rich adventure experience and perfect adventure knowledge, but they do not have even a little bit of adventure practice. Faced with problems and difficulties, they can think of several solutions, but in fact they can't do any of them.
In Sui Xiong's view, this is normal. After all, the game is just a game. However, Leon, who learned about this, said that perhaps the game can continue to be adjusted.
"It's better... to design the abilities of the characters in the game to be equal to the abilities of the players themselves." Leon said, "Players can make money and buy things in the game, but to improve their strength, they must rely on real-life exercise. .”
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment and asked: "What's the use of this? Isn't that boring?"
"No, in this case, this game can be used to train adventurers." Leon said with a smile, "I think if it is slightly adjusted, it will be no problem to train soldiers."
Sui Xiong opened his mouth, widened his eyes, and looked confused.
"I just wanted to make a game for fun and entertainment, why did it become a virtual military camp?"