Although the friendship between the three has continued for six years, this is the first time they have spent the night together. Although it was a sudden idea, Xia Yuan still made a lot of preparations.
She brought most of the snacks in the house, as well as several sets of pajamas.
"Your parents should only let you stay for one night. Why bring so many clothes?"
"I put it on Youxi, why do you care?"
Xia Yuan rolled his eyes at Mei Fang, then pulled Lin Youxi to the inner room, "We're going to sleep in Aunt Mei and Xiaoya's room tonight, right?"
"Yes. But do you have to change clothes so early? It's only afternoon."
"How could that be? I was just putting something down!"
Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi had been tinkering in Mei Fang's mother's room for quite a while without coming out. Mei Fang didn't feel comfortable knocking on the door to ask, so after thinking about it she went to the study to look at the finished game she had made.
The game he has been tinkering with since the winter vacation was the "Flappy Bird" from his previous life, which is also known as "The Early Bird Gets the Path".
This type of game, which requires controlling the height to overcome obstacles, has a similar gameplay as early as the Symbian keyboard era. There were many games such as "Helicopter".
In Mei Fang's opinion, the earliest inspiration for this type of game should come from the horizontal scrolling shooting games of the FC era. In the famous Coremei Four: Graveyard, there are similar obstacle avoidance levels. It's not like games like Super Mario where you will be stuck when you touch an obstacle, but rather you will die on collision.
In 2008, Unity just started to support the Windows platform, and it was still two years before it could support Android for smartphones.
Mei Fang was thinking about accumulating technical experience in developing complete games first, so that he could get his share of the pie on the mobile platform as soon as possible.
Now, except for the configuration of art resources, the program functions are almost complete...
However, there seems to be no difference between playing helicopter games on Windows and those on Cyberlane, except that the graphics are smoother.
If you really want to be popular, the experience of wiping the glass of a touch-screen smartphone is essential...
"Afang, are you playing games?"
Xia Yuan went into Mei Fang's study without knocking.
"Why close the door in such hot weather? Let me see..."
Xia Yuan stared at Mei Fang's screen for a while. "What is this? Is it the code you studied? They are all rectangular and square. I don't understand..."
At this time, Lin Youxi also quickly walked to Mei Fang's side.
"Can you run already?"
"Do you want to operate it?"
"I'll try."
Mei Fang gave up her seat to Lin Youxi. After she sat down, she began to work seriously. "I kept encountering a bug when compiling before. Can you help me solve it?"
"That bug is hard to find."
Xia Yuan listened to Mei Fang and Lin Youxi talking in words that she couldn't understand, and felt like she couldn't fit in.
"Is this the game you guys made recently? It's all regular geometric shapes. It feels a bit boring."
“This is because the art resources have not been implanted yet. Once we find the materials and put them in, it will be a little more interesting.”
Lin Youxi thought about it and said, "However, compared with the games on the market, it is definitely not fun."
"Indeed." Xia Yuan nodded, "Two people can make games together, you are still amazing!"
Mei Fang was just taking advantage of his free time to deal with some other matters. It was rare that Yuanyuan was in such a good mood, and Mei Fang was not an unromantic person, so after Lin Youxi left, he quickly saved the program and closed it.
"So, what are we going to do this afternoon?"
"Afternoon..."
Xia Yuan raised her hand and said what she thought, "I want to rent a disc and watch a movie together!"
In 2008, there was still no cinema in the small county of Baimei County. If children without computers at home wanted to watch movies, they still relied heavily on video stores, or video rental agencies.
Although Mei Fang's family has a computer, the screen is too small and it is not in the living room, so the viewing experience is always inferior to that of TV, and one cannot watch it while eating on the sofa.
"But now all the audio and video stores that rent discs have closed down." Lin Youxi thought, "Do you know where to find one?"
“So you don’t even know where to go.”
Mei Fang shook his head. "The store next door where I bought Subor for Mei Ya last time rents DVDs. I'll take you there."
"good!"
Mei Fang and his group were traveling light, walking on the main road baked by the scorching sun of midsummer. The cicadas were chirping, and the hot air was so dry that one could see the heat waves. The three of them walked along the tree-shaded road and accidentally came across a convenience store. Xia Yuan grabbed Mei Fang and stopped him from walking any further.
"Ah Fang, go buy some ice cream or some cold drinks! I'm almost dying of heat."
Xia Yuan stuck out her tongue and fanned her face with her hands. Sweat stuck her hair and cheeks together, and her face was red.
"Why do you always make such exaggerated expressions?" Mei Fang couldn't help but complain.
"Hurry up and buy it, go, go, go."
The three of them were choosing items at the convenience store. Xia Yuan was about to pay when Lin Youxi took the lead and paid.
"I'll treat you this time."
"Well, you don't have to pay to rent the disc later!"
"No need. Treating is just treating. Don't associate it with anything else."
Seeing that there was no embarrassment in Lin Youxi's smile, Xia Yuan nodded.
"Well... that's fine! Ah Fang and I will go back next time."
Lin Youxi's change came this winter.
She told Mei Fang that she wanted to make money, and Mei Fang pointed out a way for her to become a substitute player. From then on, she made this her career in "Fantasy Westward Journey".
Now is the most popular era of "Fantasy Westward Journey". Early startups like Lin Youxi and Mei Fang, because they invested a lot of energy in the early stages, have many out-of-print babies and weapons with overflowing values. Everyone who sees them calls them big guys.
She goes online every weekend to take on coaching jobs, earning a maximum of five dollars per order, and can earn at least twenty or thirty dollars every week.
Lin Youxi's substitute playing skills and understanding of certain dungeons are now deeper than Mei Fang's, and he is slowly making a name for himself in this server.
After starting to make money on his own, Mei Fang could clearly feel that Lin Youxi was less timid and had more confidence in everything he did.
He always remembered the time when he took Lin Youxi to the cemetery to visit her mother, took out three coins from his wrinkled pocket, and timidly asked Mei Fang if they were enough to buy apples.
Perhaps Lin Youxi's childhood timidity and Lin Youxi's childhood compliance were not as complicated as imagined.
All of these are caused by the lack of confidence brought about by poverty.
At least, she looks much better now.
The group drank Coke and ate ice cream as they passed a street lined with closed shops. This scene under the bright sunshine suddenly gave Mei Fang a sense of inexplicable desolation.
In Mei Fang's memory, the small county of Baimei County has a very interesting side, that is, there are many shops there.
There is a street of Internet cafes, a street of boutiques, a street of bookstores, a street of barbecues, and a street of convenience stores.
It would be fine if there were some deviations in the service. For example, a food street would have shops selling different types of food, which is understandable as they are different tracks after all.
But a street in Baimei County is really just a street. The goods sold in the next door, the next door, the next door, the next door, the next door, are exactly the same. I don't know if it's because they are worried about their ideas being copied, but no one has any new marketing ideas, and they just force themselves to open stores here. I really don't know what's the point of following the trend.
Once upon a time, the street that Mei Fang was passing by now, and the shops there, were all prosperous and bustling audio-visual stores. But now, they are all caught up in a wave of store closures. However, it won't be long before this place becomes a prosperous milk tea street and bookstore street.
The wheel of time is always moving forward, as if nothing can remain unchanged forever.
Mei Fang stopped where he was, looking at the petite backs of Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan in front of him.
After being in a daze for a while, Mei Fang trotted after Xia Yuan when he called out.
I've noticed that the mood among people has been a bit bad recently, so I want to clarify something!
This book will only write about friendship before high school graduation, pure and sincere friendship! That does not conform to our values and review standards. Even if there is a little ambiguity, there will not be true love, so don't make up your mind too much!
(End of this chapter)