Chapter Seventy-Three: There Is No End to This Game
'Game loading......'
Wei Kun looked at the progress bar loaded on the mobile phone screen, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how many years has he not played this game?
I still remember that when I was in college in my last life, my classmates were almost crazy, and even when the teacher was lecturing on it during class, there were many students in the audience who turned off the volume of their mobile phones and were parkouring, comparing who ran farther and who got higher scores.
At that time, "Temple Run" was similar to "Fruit Ninja", both of which were phenomenal stand-alone games that became popular in China.
For "Temple Run", Wei Kun only remembers the content of the gameplay, and it is impossible to completely write down the characters, scenes, etc., but the keywords of "explorer", "woods" and "temple" are enough for planning.
The original character in the game, the male explorer, is modeled after Professor Indiana Jones from Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a felt hat, a leather jacket, and a leather whip hanging from his waist......
The scene in the game is also very different from Wei Kun's memory, even the monster chasing the protagonist has replaced the model, listening to Wu Tong, this monster is called Qu Ru, described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" as a kind of bird with three legs, but the first born human face.
Compared with Wei Kun, who is accustomed to seeing the display effect of mobile games with one or two Gs at every turn in later generations, the picture quality of this less than 100 trillion "Temple Run" is naturally not very exquisite, especially limited by the display effect of the current smartphone screen, it can only be said that it can be seen, fortunately, players are not so picky now, and the game is fun enough.
Looking at Professor Indiana Jones on the mobile phone screen under the control of his fingers, swiping left and right, dodging the pursuit of tree holes, curves, fire snakes and monsters behind him, Wei Kun couldn't help but indulge in it, the mobile game is still simple and fun.
"Assi ......"
Seeing that the phone had been chased by monsters, and the screen displayed the words 'Game Over', Wei Kun's mouth couldn't help but burst out of Korean, is he a handicap? He ran less than 500 meters.
Wei Kun didn't believe in this evil and reopened a game......
The character had just run eight hundred meters, Wei Kun was tripped by the roots of the tree again, and then he was chased by the monster behind him, Game Over!
No, come again!
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Wu Tong came out of the boss's office and returned to his workstation, and several colleagues from the mobile game team surrounded him and asked about the situation just now.
"The boss said, let's streamline the installation package!" Wu Tong said Wei Kun's original words.
Hearing what his person in charge said, the faces of several people instantly fell, "Do you want to streamline?"
"It must be streamlined, otherwise such a large installation package is likely to scare potential players away. Wu Tong explained to his subordinates.
From traffic costs to smartphone performance, Wu Tong repeated what Wei Kun had said to him, and after speaking, looking at the suddenly realized expressions of his subordinates, he admired the boss's advanced gaze more and more.
As the old planner of Java games, Android mobile games are his new battlefield, but in terms of the psychological understanding of the player group, he asked himself that he was far inferior to Wei Kun, a young boss, after all, who can think of the players' traffic fees at a glance by the size of the installation package?
After coming to 69 Technology Co., Ltd., he had heard the story of Wei Kun holding a meeting to give lectures to everyone after the company opened, and the whole hours were about Wei Kun's own research on the psychology of player payment, and he was still a little skeptical about the authenticity of its content, but now he believes it a little, because his boss does have something in his stomach, and he has to accept this.
Because of this incident, Wu Tong also figured out a truth, you must not say that you look down on each other because others are young.
The more he thought about it in his heart, the more he felt that he had lived on a dog for decades in the first half of his life.
"Hello boss!"
"Mr. Wei, you're here!"
Hearing the greetings from around him, Wu Tong's head couldn't help but move away from the display screen, and he raised his head to look not far away.
Wei Kun walked out of the office and greeted everyone with the same smile, "You guys are busy with yours, I'll come out and take a look." ”
As he spoke, Wei Kun walked towards the mobile game project team, and when he saw Wei Kun walking towards him, Wu Tong and a few others hurriedly stood up and welcomed: "Mr. Wei, you are here, do you have any instructions?"
"I'd like to ask you a little bit. As he spoke, Wei Kun pushed a wheelchair from the workstation on the side and sat next to Wu Tong and the others.
"Speak, we listen. ”
"Sit down, it's nothing, I'm not an Android developer, I'm just from the perspective of my players, let's talk about some of the problems I found when I just played this game, you can see if what I said is right, and help me correct it. Wei Kun beckoned them to sit down and said with a smile.
"Don't dare, don't dare. Wu Tong hurriedly shook his head in response.
"Did you use a lot of scene materials in this game, which is why the installation package of the current game is so large?"
"Because we have to consider different scenes and mechanisms, there may be a little more ...... in the use of scene materials," Wu Tong explained.
"I'm not a program developer, I just want to ask if there is an algorithm that can randomly combine different road sections, mechanisms, and scenes? Can this be done? Can it save resources after implementation?"
"It should work. ”
If it weren't for a few trials, Wei Kun might not have found this problem, the current version of the game, Wu Tong is equivalent to planning a path for players, and all the mechanisms that appear on this road are the same every time, which means that the game lacks randomness and fun.
This kind of game is like looking at the scenery, the scenery is the same every time, even if the player is interested in this game, he will feel tired.
"Did you set the finish line in the game?" was Wei Kun's second question.
"It's set, but the conditions for achieving it are very harsh, and the end point is a small easter egg. Wu Tong raised his head and explained, he had seen many big games at home and abroad, and he would set menus in his own games.
Hearing Wu Tong's explanation, Wei Kun took a piece of paper and simply pinched the two ends together to form a 'Möbius Ring', "This game should not have an end, the fun of the game lies in the non-stop running......"
With his advanced understanding of this kind of game, Wei Kun also successfully pretended to be a force in front of his subordinates, which is not that he deliberately showed off, but the current version of the game does have these problems, if it is not solved, it is simply a joke to push this version out, and players will not buy it.