Chapter 54: Interactive Fiction
Peng Jinkang's impression of the game that he can try to do is that kind of role-playing. Each character has a setting anyway, and the scene and the like are all there, it's nothing more than looking for an artist to find a program, and after the construction is built, the normal process is promoted. For this kind of reasoning suspense, it is nothing more than action, dialogue, collecting evidence and objects. It's a lot of work to convert the current manuscript into a game script.
But Yue Qingyan's idea is not like this at all. The idea was now very sufficient, and it was just that there were some process texts that he hadn't written yet that needed to be added.
When readers enter this game, they are actually mainly reading novels, but they have the right to choose at some key nodes, which can lead to the game moving in different directions, and according to the plot topology map set by Peng Jinkang, it will lead to different results. Peng Jinkang originally made the topology map for trial and error, to see which routes would not work: that is to say, if the protagonist follows this route and this timeline, it will be impossible to go to the best ending in the end: survive, get external rescue, and catch the three murderers.
But the game that Yue Qingyan said is not in this form, but relies on words to tell it. There are a few options at key moments, and then most of the time is still reading novels. When you can't read it, you can refer to the building plan and character design in turn, which are ready-made anyway.
Endings that can occur include:
Experiencing a storm in a muddle, knowing that someone died, probably being killed, but perfectly escaped being drawn into the incident;
Learned of the event, and participated in it, unable to enter the core event, but successfully self-preservation;
discovered some of the core events, peeked through several groups of adultery but did not understand the murder incident;
learned part of the truth about the murder, and was killed without successful reasoning;
One or two murderers were identified, but the motive was not known, the reasoning failed, and he was isolated and suspected by his companions on the island, and finally did not persist until the rescue, and died of a sudden illness;
One or two murderers were detected, one of the reasoning was successful, the other was angered, and finally the two results of surviving and not surviving;
Detect three murderers, evade successfully, and survive to the end;
Three murderers were identified, but no enough resources were collected to survive;
found out the three murderers, peeked into the relationship between everyone on the island, and survived;
……
There are about more than 20 different forms of endings, and besides, you can read this novel in any way, and when you feel that something is wrong in the middle of the part, you can also change the course, because there is enough space. But changing your mind means taking a bigger risk.
Although it is completely based on the various topological diagrams and plot routes originally designed by Peng Jinkang, in this way, reading itself really becomes an adventure.
After Patten finally figured out the game form that Yue Qingyan and he said, it was difficult to get his tongue down.
"There's still this kind of operation in the slot. What surprised Patten the most was that almost instantly, Yue Qingyan had this idea and such a judgment.
"This is the polysemy text that we discussed in the literary theory group before, or rather, the polyhedral text. As we have studied at the beginning, the complexity of this kind of text is that when the reader makes a choice, he also enters a different facet, and the text must be superimposed with enough possibilities to be established. Moreover, this possibility is not deduced and inferred, but must be realized by exhaustive method. Morsheng sighed and said, "Although you are not a complete polyhedral text that exhausts all possibilities, it has at least some forms. Mainly, I really didn't expect it to be this thing you wrote. ”
"Well, I just want to write a good reasoning. Peng Jinkang is actually still confused. He spent too much stupid effort on these deductions, because it was really exciting to play.
"Leave that alone, I know you didn't figure it out, but you don't really have to figure it out now. Let's do it first, and then we'll see the effect?" Coffee hurriedly said: "You can do programming yourself, then it's easy." ”
Yue Qingyan said: "In the manuscript of the novel, there are many expressions that need to be repeated. But it's not a lot of work. Coffee, you can help fix it together. I'm going to look at the topology diagram and see what other paragraphs need to be filled. Ersheng, you can contact Jin Yuan and An Xin to see if you can organize some art and music resources. You don't have to do a full art job, but the interface is always a good idea. ”
Peng Jinkang smirked and said, "Do you really want to do it?" However, this can't be regarded as my personal work, Lao Yue, you can take us to do it, this thing belongs to all of us." ”
"You're not bad for money, you can't play like this. It's no problem to do it together, that's what I'm going to do. But that's what you made, and we wouldn't have been able to play without your preparation. Yue Qingyan said: "You are the main creator, there is no doubt about it." But this thing, if it were a novel, would be in suspense. But if we play this way, we might be able to make something fun. Let's do it first, and then talk about it, and if you make it, you are happy to pay some labor fees for the people who are willing to give your strength, and that's your freedom. If you can't do it, you should cooperate with me to do a text experiment. ”
Yue Qingyan said lightly. He himself really thought it was fun. What Peng Jinkang wrote was a bit unexpected, and it just happened to confirm some of his ideas. For example, if this text can directly produce how many kinds of novel story lines that can be established, is there a unique algorithm on Faust's side? If a route is a novel, this system can at least brush out at least 20 to 30 novel texts with independent flow routes. Of course, it may not be a jump, after all, Faust has been cold for many years.
Even if you don't have a new algorithm and can't get more skills, at least, you've explored a whole new style of text. And this kind of discovery, although not enough to excite him, at least, is still a little fulfilling.
And this style of text, in fact, the biggest attention is not necessarily among a few of them, but in Morsheng's profession, in that literary theory interest group. There is such a thing as polyhedral text, which actually made an architecture department come out. Of course, this guy from the architecture department is very powerful, but where is the face of the Chinese department?
Within a few days, Jin Chen was alarmed. Even he was helping Yue Qingyan sort out the entire topology diagram together, and use this thing as the material for the next paper. Approximately, in less than 20 days, the topology map project was completed, and the entire text structure was completed together by Ka Ka, Mo Sheng, and of course, Peng Jinkang himself.
Of course, the program is very simple, and the interface and the like have not touched a big guy of Jin Yuan's level, Fang Anxin found a designer in the silver page company and got it done. However, Yue Qingyan's boastful promise of being done in a month was not done after all. Their capable team was busy until mid-September, when they uploaded and published the polyhedral text called "The Rest of My Life" in the game category.
At this time, Kaka's new book "Steadfast Cloud" has been released. With the succession of these two events, it basically marks the formation of a small but powerful creative group with Yue Qingyan as the core.
Coffee's new book was not signed directly in the Ming Qian Company, but signed in the Silver Page Culture. It was then published through the silver page culture and the pre-Ming contract. This is proposed by Lianxingjie, because the core business of the Ming Dynasty is to operate several core authors such as Yue Qingyan, Miwu, Du Xiao, etc., and there is energy in regular businesses such as publishing and distribution, but in terms of operation and promotion, it is no longer able to do so, and there is not enough resource allocation. But Silver Pages has the potential to do so.
In fact, Coffee's new book has not gone through much operation at all, and it has gradually accumulated a somewhat frightening influence by relying on word-of-mouth marketing. In one month, starting with the first printing of 50,000 copies, it was reprinted twice, soaring directly to 200,000 copies. It is estimated that this amount will be digested for a few months.
Of course, there is the extremely high quality of the book itself, and there is also the credit of Dong Shixuan pulling a group of old friends in the circle to promote it. And Dong Shixuan, after learning that Coffee and Silver Page Culture signed a long-term contract with the author, was extremely satisfied. A five-year long contract is not too much of a burden for coffee. The author's terms are very fair, after all, the core of Yinye culture is to operate "Yinying Biography", which has enough profits, and does not expect to make money from coffee at all. But this five-year contract can ensure that Kaka will receive Yue Qingyan's continuous guidance and continue to consolidate his writing foundation. The level goes up, you can do anything, and the life cycle of an author is very long. Dong Shiyu understands this truth, and so does coffee.
Guan Xi's author's contract was on the side of Ming Qian at the beginning, but he didn't need to use this brain. Anyway, everyone works happily together, so it doesn't matter which side they belong to. Before the launch of "The Rest of My Life", there was another important thing, that Peng Jinkang registered a company called Polyhedron Culture Development Co., Ltd., and then reached an agreement with Silver Leaf Culture, which exchanged 45% of the equity of Polyhedron Culture with the production resources and publicity and operation resources of "The Rest of My Life".
Yue Qingyan refused at first, which made it clear that Peng Jinkang wanted to share this proportion of benefits with everyone. It was still Ka Ka who persuaded Yue Qingyan to agree, writing something, even if it was a project like polyhedron text, they would just play a few more times in the future. Everyone is tied together to write things and do things, and there is no need to be too clear about who has more and who has less. And God knows what will happen to the polyhedral text of "The Rest of My Life", maybe people who have a lot of games to play now just won't buy it?
That makes sense...... Nowadays, all kinds of mobile phones have a hard time reading 60,000 words, let alone a text that still reaches the optimal ending of 460,000 words even after being trimmed and refined. If you want to play a few more endings, or if you want to read the entire document, you have to read nearly 2 million words back and forth. Because it was not a story, but just to help revise it, Yue Qingyan also wrote a plot line with the killer as the first person.
BASICALLY, IN THIS MENTALITY OF FINALLY FINISHING AND PUTTING IT ONLINE TO SEE, EVERYONE THREW "THE REST OF MY LIFE" ON APPLE'S APP STORE WITHOUT ANY PRESSURE. The work related to the listing and review and confirmation were still entrusted to a friend's company.