"Aren't you asking for everyone's opinions now?" Wu Panpi asked with a smile.

Qi Linlin sighed, "Whatever, I hope this mentally handicapped version of the board game can be successful." ”

The former immediately expressed disbelief, "Someone doesn't seem to be able to beat the simple computer of this game, right?"

Director Qi immediately snorted coldly, "Yes, I lost all three battles, and my results are not as good as others' two wins in ten battles." ”

Wu Pan wanted to say, "That's me, I'm familiar with the rules", but after thinking about it, losing is losing, and it makes no sense to justify it, so he had to keep silent depressedly.

Thanks to Bee's abundant development materials, they quickly built a demo model of Map Wars. However, the results of the internal trial were a bit miserable, and all four of them were defeated by the simple computer, and it was not until they became familiar with the routine of the computer that they barely won the victory.

This also has something to do with the gameplay of the game, "Graphic Battles" looks like a territory board game, also set in a real or imaginary world as the stage background, players play a side of the force, each expanding their territory to compete for world supremacy, but the battle mode they choose for the game is real-time.

Limited to the size of the mobile phone screen, players can only "frame A past", but the opposite computer AI can fully play the advantages of micro-manipulation, even if the troops are not as good as the player, they can still use the kraft candy tactics of one blow to go, and exchange injuries for death, and finally take away in a wave.

Wu Pan's "secret to victory" that they explored was aimed at this, directly gathering all the troops A at the beginning, and then letting the troops fight on their own, not giving the other party a chance to escape, but having a greater chance of success.

All in all, this is a game of four dissimilarities, stripped of content such as resource gathering and technological development, and only retains pure war decisions, striving for "5 minutes to solve the battle".

Simple and brainless waves of battles are naturally difficult to be recognized by board game players, and no strategy and no micro-manipulation will not be accepted by real-time strategy players, which is quite embarrassing.

But this is the result of deliberateness, because times are different.

In the last century, board games using boards, cards (models), dice, and turn-by-turn games were quite popular in Europe and the United States, such as strong hand chess, Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, and other unique board games, which once dominated most players' spare time.

Then video games took off, and mainstream gamers were pulled away by video games with better audio and visual performance, making these table games all a thing of the past. In particular, video games such as Monopoly, Diablo, and Warcraft, which more or less borrowed from the board game, have caused tons of damage to the "teachers".

With the advent of the Internet era, players can communicate and communicate through the Internet, which has given board games a second spring, and the mode of online appointments and offline gatherings was once very popular, and many new board games similar to "The Fission of the Earth" have appeared.

However, the good times don't last long, the era of mobile Internet is coming, everyone is looking down at blogs and playing games even when they are eating, and it is naturally difficult to take a few hours to run a group and play a small black house with friends.

In particular, many board games have a complex and rich system of rules, which define the different consequences of player behavior, and the variety of strange and mind-blowing choices brings a rich and varied outcome that makes veteran players deeply fascinated and never get tired of playing. However, all of this is predicated on memorizing and mastering the ever-changing rules, which is tantamount to setting a high bar for newbies and soy sauce players to keep them out.

This is also the reason why many board games have launched mobile versions, which can be connected to players from all over the world at any time, but they are still becoming more and more niche. Let's make it simpler, old players will be dissatisfied, keep it authentic, and novices will say it's not friendly.

Therefore, the online board games that can succeed in the market are all original games that are easy to play and easy to use, such as Three Kingdoms and Hearthstone.

Shen Mo and the others decided to make "Picture Battles" because they were inspired by these successful people.

This game is so simple, no boards, no rule books, find a real war situation map in a history book or search engine, with the year, place name and faction name, after scanning or importing into the game, the system will automatically identify the participating forces, and put them on the simple 3 maps, and then all the player has to do is to pick a faction and command them to victory.

These factions have only a simple appearance and name, and no other information, not even a health bar. The official statement is to improve the sense of substitution, and the "5-minute battle" does not require too many rules and attributes, just choose a team to start directly, and everyone will just fight intuition and luck.

The real reason behind it is that the engine is unreliable and simply hidden.

The engine of this game is rather strange, and it is the "battlefield reenacter" of Bee Education, which is a product that does not value quality.

There have been tens of thousands of wars in human history, countless heroes have gone down in history, and technological progress has brought about new weapons and new arms. If we had followed the practice of general strategy games, carefully restoring every class, every general, and every war, I am afraid that bee education would have gone bankrupt long ago.

So they were lazy and chose to let AI do the work for them.

Bees have world-class neural network computers, and depending on the direction of training, AI with different functions can be born. The "battlefield reenacter" is an AI trained with a large number of typical battles, which does not understand war itself, but can pretend to understand it very well, and give it the beginning and end of the battle, and the system can automatically deduce the filling process.

This is certainly not true, but it looks decent, and the result is definitely in line with the historical record, which is sufficient for secondary school history, which emphasizes perceptual understanding. It is precisely by relying on such automatic tools that Bee Education can visualize and R all the big battles from the Yuanmou people's fight to the Battle of Jincheng in one year.

The biggest reliance on grinding research and development of "graphic warfare" is the ultra-efficient "reproducer". The only problem is that the attributes of the troops calculated by the AI from effect and cause often fluctuate, so in order to avoid trouble, the data is simply hidden.

If the game sells well, it will definitely launch its own original world view in the future, and you will have to figure out all kinds of values yourself. But before that, there will be all kinds of ambiguities in the historical battlefields they do, all kinds of numerical fluctuations, the same plastic surgery and tactics, it is normal to win last time and lose next time, of course, more of them are inexplicably lost, and the popularity is scolded for the mentally retarded.

Shen Mo tapped the cup and said, "There is no point in arguing about this at all, I don't think it will be considered a board game." ”

"Yes, it's too mentally retarded, and it will be despised to death," Qi Linlin still insisted on "simple = mentally retarded".

"It's not for these old birds to play, people don't look down on domestic living colors," Wu Pan changed the object of complaining, as if he remembered the bad memories brought to him by the university board game club.

Sun Yan suddenly spoke, "I'll talk about this after I go back, what about the rest of those albums? There are still more than a dozen boxes in the bee booth! You can't take them back to Ludao, right?"

"Relax," Shen Mo glanced at his phone and said leisurely, "Regarding the album, I have good news to tell you." We've been a blessing in disguise this time. ”

"Huh?" the other three turned their heads to look at him.

"I just looked at the company's official WeChat account and found that the attention has risen by tens of thousands. Hehe, the organizer can be a great help, and how to do a wave of advertising in vain. ”

The three of them were all stunned, and they all showed relieved smiles, "I really earned it now." ”

Before the eviction incident, Mopan Technology was just an obscure small company, and although "Super Transparency" had a small name, most of its users were abroad. In China, they are very low-key, mainly relying on spontaneous recommendations from players and forwarding from third-party download sites to acquire new players.

Not to mention that few players will pay attention to the copyright information on the splash screen, and even if they do, they don't know "." What the hell. The organizer's fanfare expulsion action not only made "Super Transparency" known to more people, but also established a connection between "Super Transparency", S, and Mopan Technology, which will cause a lot of search and attention.

In addition to the increase in the number of followers in the account, the number of download activations of Super Transparent has also increased significantly, which makes people even more happy. While the increase in fame will also have some side effects, the game will be cracked more vigorously, and the copycat versions will be more and more murderous, but everyone can still enjoy the good mood for a while before they actually appear.

When he was in a good mood, he was relaxed, and the tips that Shen Mo clicked casually when he paid also sent a good mood to some cooks and waiters.

With this pleasure, the four of them left the restaurant and walked towards the convention center.

It was nearly four o'clock, and the heat in the air was still baking the earth, but Shen Mo was in a good mood, holding his mobile phone and asking, "It's all free, right?"

They have already agreed that the remaining 14 boxes of albums will not be brought back to Egret Island, and they will be disposed of here later.

Shen Mo proposed striking while the iron was hot, promoting it on the microblog, and then giving it away for free. Wu Pan voted in favor, Sun Yan abstained from expressing his opinion, but Qi Linlin resolutely objected, believing that this was too hasty and could not achieve the best effect, and it might also annoy the audience who bought the book in advance.

"It cost 30 yuan at noon, but it was delivered for free after only two hours, what do you make others think?"

Shen Mo was still thinking about countermeasures, and Wu Pan had already said disapprenorantly: "Then return it to them." ”

"Then what if someone fishes in troubled waters and uses the album they received later to cheat and make up for it? What do you use to identify old customers?"

"It's simple, isn't it okay to stamp and sign the book at the back?"

"Well, do you know how much 280 books weigh?"

"Of course I do... Wu Pan choked for a moment, and had to relent: "Then what do you say?"

"Put it first, and send it out when you have time to go back. Standing on the street and distributing sales, aren't you afraid of the city management?"

Although Wu Panzui insisted that he was not afraid, Shen Mo still stopped the on-site scattering and asked instead, "What are you going to do tomorrow?"

"Of course, it's an official exhibition, no giveaways are not happy, no group photos are not complete!" Qi Linlin exclaimed.

Sun Xiang didn't have any grudges about the giveaway, but she was very interested in Disneyland, and when she said this, Qi Linlin also awakened the princess's soul, and the two men had to agree to delay their return to see the Ice Princess.