Chapter 15: The Real World?
Lin Yan's plan passed the review without exception. In fact, as the "emperor" of Chiba Games in terms of games, even if what he said was extremely absurd, there would be many people who would come over to hold stinky feet very willingly.
This is not because they feel that their lives are not tasteless enough, but because, with the accumulation of previous things, they have understood that no matter how strange what Lin Yan does, he will still succeed in the end.
Moreover, Lin Yan's actions often lead the trend. Just like the launch of SimCity, it led to the release of a large number of related games.
Many players fall in love with this game as soon as they play it. However, the process of this game is only about 70 hours in total.
Even if you complete all the challenges, it will only take 200 hours.
At this time, players are often obsessed with this type of game and are addicted. They are desperate to play the same type of game.
This is the driving force behind the development of genre games, and it is also the scientific basis for following the trend.
This phenomenon can be seen in any entertainment industry. For example, Hong Kong movies often become popular in a genre, and this genre will be filmed and beaten badly until no one watches it anymore.
The same is true for games, not to mention platform-jumping games, take a more familiar "zombie" as an example, doesn't it evolve from "Resident Evil" to "Zombie Siege", "" The Road to Survival, "The Last of Us" and other games.
Although they are of the same genre, the connotations of these games are very different. The presentation of the game also varies. "The Last Survivor" is also "The End of America", which is more about the mental journey of the protagonist Joel. Opening with a germ outbreak. The daughter was beaten to death, and later met Ellie. After a period of getting along, he hid it deep in his heart. The love for her daughter was transferred to Ellie.
In the end, the choice of sacrificing Ellie to save all mankind or sacrificing all mankind to keep Ellie has made countless players feel sleepy.
Compared with "The End of America", a game with a relatively complete plot expression and a plump character image. "The Road to Survival" is much simpler and rude.
It's kind of a shooter, and the whole game is immersed in a stressful environment all the time. It seems that as long as you are not careful, you will be swallowed by the tide of zombies.
In such a crisis. What emotions are all, dead people have no feelings, and being able to survive is the most important thing.
followed the "SimCity" series, and the most popular one was the "Grand Voyage Series".
Because of this series of games, it is well-researched and uses a lot of settings that are found in the real world. For example, the wine in a certain place is good, the spices in a certain place are great, and it can entertain and educate everyone, so that everyone can play the game. Learn a lot about geography.
With the enrichment of the game system and the improvement of the platform function of the game console. Even the real things that exist in nature, such as ocean currents, have corresponding expressions.
Such a careful game, even if there are indeed some minor flaws. But. The players still paid for him.
Because, such a game, they feel good. Great and felt like it was worth the money they spent. As well as the time spent playing the game.
Lin Yan once heard the argument that players like to top up online games. And the reluctance to buy stand-alone games is that players in this country do not appreciate it at a high level.
But is that really the case? Actually, not necessarily.
If you think about it carefully, you will know that the time that a game of 300 yuan can be played is only one or two hundred hours. Even if you get all the achievements, it will be 500 hours to the sky.
Games like Dota and League of Legends, which only have a base map, are easy to top up hundreds or thousands.
It's because of the long hours of playing the game. According to half an hour of a game, there are really a lot of people who play a thousand games, and some people even want to play hundreds or thousands of games if they can't wait for a hero.
A thousand games is 500 hours, and some people just play one hero for so long. At this time, the price of this hero's skin or accessory is one hundred or two hundred, in fact, players don't care.
Because they like it, they don't care about the money.
The most important point is that most single-player games are not as good as online games. That is the online game, which can be "played" first.
When you first start playing, it doesn't charge. Even, it is enough to have a computer with a very average configuration. The threshold is low enough.
And playing a single-player game is often not possible to try. Even if you can try it, the trial part will not make players feel particularly refreshing.
The main thing is to watch the comments of the media, as well as the various people on the Internet, or live or recorded game videos.
If you really want to play, you have to buy another console and buy another game. Although it is not too much money, the vast majority of people can afford it.
However, this kind of game has not been played, and it costs a lot of money, which is really uncomfortable.
Another is the social nature of the game.
When a game is played by many people, there is no need for official publicity, and it naturally enters a virtuous circle.
More and more people play, more and more influence. Games like Dota and League of Legends. Of course, you can't let players play blindly without a rush.
As a result, artificially created hierarchies, ranks, and ladders appeared. On top of that, there are a series of large-scale game events to maintain the popularity of the game.
This is a very sound and mature game operation system, and under such a game operation system, many people will have a bite to eat.
or become a pig on the tuyere, perhaps because he is very good at playing a hero, he has become an idol in the hearts of millions of people. It is not a dream to earn tens of millions a month.
Because, these people who play games and go out are often younger. So, the counterpart to their rapid rise is expansion.
Lin Yan has always believed that when a person is not fully mature in his mind, he will become popular. Not a good thing.
Because there are many people holding it, they really feel that they are floating in the sky.
But. How can things be so simple, when you are young, everyone holds it. But no one praised it. Lonely because I used to be too arrogant. blocked all his retreats and steps, and then he found that he was not on the sky, but on the rooftop.
Lin Yan has no experience of expansion, in fact, even now, he is a well-known game producer. His life still hasn't changed much.
He doesn't have a sports car, and his daily life is not the type of poor and extravagant.
The simple life is forced to live as before.
Because. He is engaged in a career that does not require him to prove his strength to others all the time. In fact, when there are many people, he is still a little shy.
Don't look at the fact that sometimes it looks very free, the clouds are light and the wind is light, but in fact, I am trembling in my heart, feeling that I am walking on thin ice.
I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, I'll fall into the cold ice hole.
There is no personal insult to the staff of the company. It's a matter of facts. If things are done beautifully, bonuses will be given, and praise will be given.
Things are not done so well, and criticism should be criticized, not because of some of their own preferences. Engage in some dogskin stuff.
When you make yourself happy, you make others very, very unhappy.
Secretly, many employees said that Lin Yan was too serious. It doesn't look like a young man in his twenties at all, but like an old supervisor in his forties and fifties.
There is nothing utilitarian. I don't care too much about what other people think. Just do your best to accomplish what you want to accomplish.
The eyes look at the nose, and the nose looks at the heart. It seems like that's all he's having. And the rest of life is just a spice after work.
Therefore, except for the formal gathering of Chiba Games, Lin Yan almost never participated in the private gatherings of employees.
The living circles of white-collar workers in Tokyo, or the living customs, are very interesting. Even if the economy is not good now, it is easy to encounter all kinds of robberies and robberies at night.
However, they are still happy to linger in the izakaya taverns, going to the west after drinking from the east and going to the north after drinking from the south.
Lin Yan himself doesn't like to drink very much, and he doesn't like to drink too much. I don't like to please others or be flattered by others. Therefore, he did not go to such an occasion, and he did not feel anything bad.
Because, I am such a person. If the "previous life" was not because of such a temperament, how could he use such an age to still struggle on the front line.
I can't say that I have been talking and laughing with Wallace in the United States for a long time, and maybe I have already had the money to invest in the games I want.
However, this kind of game that you want to make is often not easy to succeed. Lin Yan has also seen this matter.
You must know that although the game industry as a whole is in an atmosphere of "learning" from each other. However, there are many "people of vision" who really want to make a good game and "save the game industry".
These people love to play video games and got into the industry because they liked it. It is precisely because they like it that they are afraid that the industry is finished.
However, for various reasons, this kind of game, which is full of feelings and idealism, often ends in failure. There is no such thing as a profound principle.
The actual principle is actually relatively simple, after all, their needs do not meet the needs of most players.
It is precisely because of this that Lin Yan has basically made games in his mind so far, and there are successful prototypes.
Didn't do any "Wenqing" games. Even if it is applauded or not, it is a bad thing for him.
What Lin Yan is thinking about now is when to let the game "Minecraft" or "Mining Battle" be interviewed.
This game is a simplified version of his ideal game world.
His ideal game world is also all built by players, and players can build whatever kind of game they want.
There are fantasy planets, planets where you don't bully young people and poor people, there are fantasy planets, planets where fireballs are riveted and steamed, and there will also be planets where you can cultivate truth, and there will be planets where everyone has exercises.
In short, whatever you want to play, you can create a world you want. Everyone is a game maker, and everyone is a game player.
Everyone is perfecting such a game, such a game, it will be the ultimate game in this world. With a multi-billion team of developers, everyone can make the game go their way.
Of course, there are no rules, and naturally there need to be corresponding rules. For example, there are some things that cannot be had, and some planets that are inappropriate for few people require special permissions.
In Lin Yan's imagination, such a game felt that it would be a successful game. However, to build the basic framework of such a game would be another game revolution.
This is a game revolution that is more radical than the current two-dimensional game to a three-dimensional game.
As soon as this game comes out, it seems that the world doesn't need to have another game. Perhaps, other games were born in this game.
For example, a special electronic pet or something, a pet that can learn, can learn like a real animal.
Then, you can also write a science fiction article like "The Life Cycle of Living Software", which is actually a factual.
Even, as long as one wants to, one can build a planet on his own.
Make everything the same as the real world, and then go back to decades ago and fulfill your wishes that you never wanted.
It's like a butterfly, a little flap of its wings makes the whole world dance.
The more Lin Yan thought about it, the more he felt that he was not in such a game world. Although, in this world, there is a feeling like the "real world".
The tongue can taste, the nose can smell the fragrance, the eyes can see, the reception can touch, and the ears can hear.
But who knows, that real world is also a game world.
In the world of the game, I created a game world, then entered this game world, created another game world, and then in this game world, created such a game world again.
Could it be such a cycle.
An infinite loop that crashes people.
Life after life, just in such a basically similar ordinary world.
Perhaps, this is the mystery of life and death.
The whole world is really a world of video games.
As for what the "real world" looks like, no one knows, and no one understands.
Lin Yan sometimes wonders if his head is broken, thinking about this strange question every day.
Even if the world is really such a game world, what will happen.
Isn't it just living in a dream!
Isn't it just living in a dream?
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Happy New Year to all of you in advance!
Hahaha! (To be continued.) )