Chapter 31: Formal Testing
Before you know it, August 15, 2003 is a day that you are looking forward to for the people of Flame Team Software Development LLC. The revision, which has been busy for so long www.biquge.info, is finally about to usher in the test of the market.
Wu Kang got up early again, and this morning he also deliberately cooked his own breakfast, which is very difficult to see in ordinary times.
Even Wu Kang's sister Wu Yu was surprised to see her brother's behavior, and finally had the opportunity to eat her brother's breakfast. Jian Hao also came back from an early morning run, ready to welcome a new day.
"Jian Hao, let's go over together in the morning, at 10 o'clock this morning, the second version update of "War of the Three Kingdoms" was officially launched to the market." Jian Hao usually has his own rhythm of life, unless there is something to do, he will follow Wu Kang to the company, and he will go this morning no matter what.
"Brother, you don't know that I was called to your company for an internship, during this time, in addition to shopping, I just played games, and I became fat." Wu Yu saw that his brother invited Jian Hao to the company so early, and he also wanted to go out to breathe.
The three of them came to the Dingguang Building, which is where the Flame Team Software Development LLC is located.
Generally, when you need to go out for the version, it is normal to work overtime all night, but Wu Kang and they have already got the version two or three in advance, and it can be seen that they are still in place to plan their project schedule.
"Mr. Kang, morning."
"Mr. Kang, remember to get me a GM number during the test."
"Mr. Kang, they are all waiting for you."
After entering the company, the employees of Flame Team Software Development Co., Ltd. greeted Wu Kang, and everyone was in good spirits.
Jian Hao thought of when he was rushing to the project in his previous life, when he was at the worst, he went to work for 48 hours in a row, and the whole person was supported by his spiritual will, and if he didn't say it well, he was overdrawing his life. Maybe it's because the competition in the game industry is not so fierce now, and there is no need to rush so desperately, which is what Jian Hao hopes to see all the time in the future.
"I've already sent out an update ad a week in advance, and now it's three servers that have been tested at the same time, and today there is one more test server." After seeing Wu Kang and the three of them come in, Li Wei, director of operations, introduced the basic situation now.
"There shouldn't be any big problems with the content testing of this version, and every member of the R&D team has been testing it since the version was completed, and the evaluation is very high." Wu Kang himself has experienced it many times, and he is very confident that this version will produce a good result.
"All the preparations have been made, and now we are waiting for the official launch of the version update at 10 o'clock, and the three servers have now stopped running and are also being updated synchronously." Li Wei actually goes back to the forum every night to see what the players of his current game will say, and most of the time is still preparing for operations.
However, in Jian Hao's view, this is really one of the best times for online games, and it is still a blue ocean. The quantity and quality of games are far from keeping up with the needs of players at this time, and to put it mildly, as long as it is a game that can be played, there are fans at this time. I'm not afraid that no one will know about your game, it's basically players looking for games.
It's not like in the days after the previous life, where the average game was tested every day, and if you didn't advertise, no one really knew about your game.
The version update of the game went smoothly and there were no major problems, but it usually takes a while for feedback on the test effect of such a version update to come out. But that didn't stop the enthusiasm of the three founders, who just stood and watched the data change in the background, as if they were obsessed.
After staying for more than 10 minutes, Jian Hao felt a little bored, so he quietly went to Wu Kang's office, which is now half of Jian Hao's office.
After returning to the office, Jian Hao was still busy building the framework of his first game. A good map editor needs to think about a lot of things, and you need to write the program needs like writing a plan.
A series of editors, such as the Terrain Editor, Trigger Event Editor, Sound Editor, Object Editor, AI Editor, Campaign Editor, and so on, are combined into a complete map editor, each with its own function.
The terrain and elements that you can see in a map are basically added through the terrain editor, and there are also things like whether there is a sky and the ground, or the difference between the ground and the sea, which is also controlled by him.
Among them, Jian Hao thinks that the most difficult thing should be the artificial intelligence editor, a good artificial intelligence system can make the quality of a game have a substantial improvement. If the AI system is old-fashioned, then your entire game is ruined in half.
Why is the artificial intelligence system the most difficult, to use "League of Legends" as an analogy, when you play the computer, why do you think the computer is stupid? That's the problem with his AI settings, and AI reacts according to your AI settings, not for no reason.
For example, a computer hero should put what skill at what time, and the crude writing is to put the same skill whenever it is attacked, which is the simplest artificial intelligence. But in such a situation, players will not have fun playing the computer.
This is also where Jian Hao wants to focus on thinking now, reserving enough room for the expansion of the platform's artificial intelligence.
The three founders stayed in the operations office throughout the day, but there were generally no substantial changes on the first day. On the contrary, Jian Hao's efficiency is a bit high, and he already has a draft of the game artificial intelligence he wants.
It wasn't until the third day that the second version of the game was tested and the data changes really had a different response, as some players spent more than 30 hours experiencing the changes throughout the game to realize how different this revision meant to the game.
By the third day, the number of posts on the game's forums had increased exponentially, most of which were discussing the game's revisions, the most popular of which was the game's skills. For example, the following thank you letter almost brought the three founders to tears.
A thank you note:
I'm a veteran player of "War of the Three Kingdoms", and I don't know how many versions of the experience I have experienced since the first closed beta of the game. At first, I was attracted to the background and theme of the game, and after coming in, there were surprises and disappointments.
It can be said that before the last version, the disappointment was greater than the surprise. The game content is on the low side, and the game experience is relatively lacking, but I can still play it, so I stuck with it. As a hardcore gamer, I hope that some good game products can be produced in China.
But since the last version, I've experienced a different kind of change in the game, the game is going in a good direction, and there are a lot of innovative ideas. I thought it would be good to change here, but this version of the update really amazed me, I played for nearly 30 hours, basically always excited, words can no longer express my current gratitude, I will be your fan in the future.
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