Although video games are in the limelight, they have not been popular for long. As a result, those who specialize in video games, or who have experience in the industry, are not very experienced.

And, because it's still very easy to make money in the video game industry, most of the first-line game makers are in game production companies, not on campus.

Therefore, although this well-known school has set up a video game major, none of the teachers who teach the class have ever made a best-selling video game.

Most of them are teachers transferred from other majors in the computer department, and although they talk about video games, they don't know much about video games and look down on them.

This is the case with the usual class of Introduction to Video Games, where a professor who only reads from a textbook is eager to read the textbook over and over again ten times.

In addition, the scope of the exam in this class is large, and the exam is very difficult. Although everyone didn't like this class and didn't want to come, they had to come for the sake of their usual grades and test scores.

Luckily, however, the professor was sick and there was no need to listen to him anymore.

It's just that just when everyone thought that this class was self-study, suddenly a person appeared on the podium, this person was dressed like a teacher in the nineteenth century, with a strange beard, and he looked very funny.

Seeing him like this, the students in the audience began to despair.

Who would expect someone who looks old-fashioned to be able to understand video games?

Sure enough, the guy standing on the stage actually asked, "What kind of class is this?"

Standing on the podium, Takahashi found himself being taken to a real class, and he was a little flustered at first, but he calmed down in an instant.

As a tournament host with tens of thousands of people on the scene and millions of viewers watching the broadcast, Takahashi's psychological quality is actually quite strong.

Takahashi thinks that this may be a joke made by the seniors to him, and he wants to test whether his acting skills are really passing. If none of the following students feel anything abnormal, then they have already played a successful role.

"What kind of lesson is this?" asked Takahashi.

There were at least a hundred students below, and none of them answered. And the classmate who dragged him here didn't know where he went.

"Answer me!" Takahashi said, pointing at a random person.

"Introduction to Video Games!" said the unlucky guy who was lit up.

"Okay! Introduction to Video Games!" Takahashi breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the name of the course. Although I am not a researcher of video games, I still have some experience in the production of video games. Maybe there is a difference in philosophy from other good game makers, but it is enough to give lectures to students.

"Please be seated!" Takahashi said in his trained voice.

Then he asked, "Where did you go to the last class?"

This time, one of the students stood up and said, "Sir, it's page two hundred and three!"

Takahashi pretended to flip through his script, and the total number of pages of the script was not two hundred and three, and even if he did, he wouldn't be able to read the script.

So, he closed the script in his hand, slapped it on the table, and said, "Close all your books! I don't care what your former teachers said, but in my class, we don't need to read the textbook!"

Takahashi's appearance really doesn't look like his old-fashioned appearance.

However, the students also don't like the old pedants, so they find it a bit novel to see the teacher's unconventional move.

Those guys who buried their heads in books and didn't want to look at the teacher at all were finally willing to pull their heads up.

Takahashi looked at them all and asked, "What do you think video games are?"

"You stand up and answer!"

The hapless kid stood up and thought for a moment and said, "I think video games are games that people play with electronic devices!"

"Very good!" Takahashi said to the classmate, who had nothing to explain, "and what do you think the game is?"

"I think ......," he was still thinking, and the classmate next to him, tugging at his sleeve, he looked down at the book and said, "Play is a human instinct, a part of human learning. Gaming is a function of training and imitation. Not only humans, but also many animals have an instinct to play. For example, a game of a kitten scratching the tail of a cat mother is actually a rat catching exercise. ”

"That's a good answer! But I want you to close your books! Do you really think that's it?"

Takahashi glared at the owner of the book and continued to ask.

"I think ......" This unlucky child, without the aid of textbooks, never thought about what the game was, of course he didn't know.

"Sit. Takahashi didn't embarrass this student.

What is the game?

This question, let alone these students in school. Even the vast majority of practitioners don't know what a game is.

And the small group of people who feel that they understand what games are, they also have a variety of understandings of games.

The difference in philosophy is ultimately reflected in the difference in the game.

For students who haven't really only made games and are still in the stage of talking on paper, Takahashi's problem is actually embarrassing.

However, Takahashi is not trying to make things difficult for these students, he said, "The fact that people are able to take this class shows that everyone is still more or less interested in video games." You might as well think slowly, what is a video game?

Maybe one day you will figure this out and make a difference in video games.

Of course, I don't recommend fantasizing. I recommend everyone to do a little game when they are fine.

In the process of doing it, don't think too much, and make a summary after doing it.

Summarize the game you made and see if you can find the answer in the game.

Practice brings true knowledge, and everyone should keep it in mind.

Okay, I've heard that there are a lot of people who make their own video games, have you ever had any problems? I thought I could give you some advice!

I don't know who wrote the textbooks in your hands, I think you can read less!"

The students in the audience were surprised when they heard Takahashi's words.

However, everyone does try to make video games in private, on the one hand, they love video games, and on the other hand, there are too many people who have become rich overnight because of making video games.

No matter what kind of mood you are making a game, you will encounter many problems in the process of making the game.

And the knowledge learned in the classroom, because it is out of touch with reality, does not solve their confusion, and most video game students feel that taking classes here is a waste of time.