Chapter 5: The Reel Game
The booth of "Game of Destiny" is finished, and it is very elegant. Lin Yan walked out of the building, with his back to the entrance, and the sound of busy work inside was all cut off.
He plans to follow Chiba Yuki's advice and go to Mayu Riverside to see what she is doing. Even if it's not a lover, it's still a friend no matter what, and friends can't always die without getting along with each other, so they have to have some care. Otherwise, friends won't be called friends.
It didn't take long for Lin Yan to go to the place where he went to school, and every time he sent Mayou to the river. He looked up at the path that was sandwiched between the woods on both sides, all the way up, and from here he went up.
Climbing up the stairs, every ten steps, there is a small platform, and then up the staircase, there is a small frame made of lacquered mahogany. Even if Hayashi is ignorant, he knows what this thing is, and it is a torii gate used to denote the boundary between humans and gods.
Lin Yan continued to go up, although he exercised less, he was still a young boy. I can't say that I don't breathe when I go up to the top, but I just sweat a little.
From here, there is a large platform, and the building in the center is quite majestic, and each time there is a row of small houses. Not exactly symmetrical, on the left-hand side, there is a pool of water that can be drunk with a bamboo scoop.
This is her home?
Lin Yan thought a little strangely in his mind, he never knew that Mayou's house by the river was a shrine. I've never heard anyone else say it. Well...... Judging from Lin Yan's contact with Mayu Riverside for so long, she doesn't seem to have a good relationship with same-sex friends, and she always seems a little lonely, otherwise, she may not be reckless in writing love letters to herself.
The stupid boy in the original body didn't see it, and directly let the current Lin Yan see it. When he saw the love letter, he stupidly ran to the toilet to open it.
A slight smile appeared on Lin Yan's face. When you experience something, you often don't feel how much it is worth remembering, and often when you recall, you will have that faint sweet feeling.
Where is Mayu by the river?
Lin Yan searched around. I tried to find her, but I couldn't. Just as he came full circle back to square one. The little girl he gave candy appeared in front of him.
The little girl's expression was a little stiff, and her body was straight. They all looked up at the sky. She said to Lin Yan in a very stinky way. "Why did you kid come, I can't find Mayou, I'll take you to her."
As soon as her voice fell, she didn't give Lin Yan time to talk, so she took small steps quickly. Walk ahead.
Lin Yan looked at this energetic little girl, and felt that he was not too old, and the little girl walked away, Lin Yan hurriedly caught up with the little girl in a few big steps.
Following the little girl, he entered the big house in the center, and the corridor turned around and came to a room that was not too small.
Lin Yan saw the back of a woman wearing a red and white witch costume, her hair tied up, and her feet wearing white foot clothes.
I heard a voice behind me. The owner of the back turned his head and saw Lin Yan, first the stunned turned into surprise, she put down the object she was folding in her hand, stood beside Lin Yan, and said in a gentle voice, "Why is Yanjun here?" ”
Lin Yan was a little overwhelmed by the girl's series of intimate actions, he pinched the corner of his clothes, and said calmly. "Today is the collective activity of our game club, decorating the booth at the exhibition, if you don't come, I'll come and see you."
A riverside friend full of anticipation. A little lost, but it only lasted for a moment, and in an instant she regained her vitality, and she replied, "You have to help the family during the holidays, and you are not allowed to go out." I've wanted to go to Hiko-kun for a long time. It's a pity that I can't go out of the house, but fortunately, Yanjun can think of Mayou and come to see Mayou. ”
Lin Yan listened to the voice of Mayou by the river, and looked at the expression on her face, and suddenly felt that a very soft part of his heart was touched. I actually feel a little distressed. I feel sorry for such a girl.
"Are you a schoolboy? If you say you are not allowed to leave the house, you will not leave the house. Lin Yan said with a smile on his face, "It's heartless and heartless."
Lin Yan stretched out his hand and touched Mayou's head by the river and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
Mayu by the river walked over with small steps and picked up some things and walked over. It turned out to be a red piece of cloth, and some Chinese characters were embroidered with needles on the cloth, and it was all auspicious words when you read it together. Looking at the final product, it is probably something like an amulet.
"The talismans in the shrine are all shown by me." Mayu said by the river.
"Well, that's amazing, won't you get a prick when you make this?" Lin Yan asked again. Don't look at him when he swings the electronic components, he seems to be confident, in fact, he feels uncomfortable when he sees these small, pointed things from the bottom of his heart. He didn't know if it was a disease or not, and if it needed to be treated.
Originally, Lin Yan planned to just take a look at Mayou by the river and leave. But he stayed for a long time inexplicably, and stayed until the sun set and it was dark, and then he left for home.
On the way home, he passed by a street lamp, and under the illumination of several street lamps from different angles, Lin Yan reflected several shadows of different lengths, fat and thin, deep and shallow.
These shadows, in the process of Lin Yan's walking, will change very regularly, and in their company, he is not lonely and lonely.
Knowing that he had returned home, Lin Yan's mood was still a little delicate. He really felt a little unhappy, what did he do wrong? Whether it was him in his previous life or in this life, he seems to have kept a distance from people, and there has never been anyone who can be attached to or fight for.
In the previous life, it is good to say that he is just an ordinary person, the kind of ordinary game migrant worker who is not even qualified to participate in the "Game Developers Conference". However, in this life, he is the person who created the entire video game industry. It's not an exaggeration to say that you can leave your name in history, but why do you still feel lonely and lonely, and you will always be alone.
On this day, Lin Yan was an exception and did not write his "video game notebook". Instead, he rolled up the quilt and tossed and turned on the bed, not knowing what he was thinking, thinking about it, and before he knew it, tears flowed from his eyes, soaking the quilt.
fell asleep in a daze, and when he was in a dream, Lin Yan was still thinking that it would be okay for him to cry in private. If someone really finds out, I'll cry. What a humiliating thing that is.
The next day is fast approaching, and today is the penultimate day before the start of the "Video Gamer Conference". Game Pass is dedicated to the "Video Game Players Conference", which is an unprecedented event in the history of video game development. A special issue of the magazine was produced.
At the same time, this magazine is also a map. The specific locations of large and small booths are carefully marked above. It also indicates the owners of these booths and what games they have released, so that players who like a particular video game can enjoy it. Be able to quickly and accurately find the arcade machines they most want to see, as well as the game makers who oppose them.
In addition, a series of competitions have been announced, and basically there will be corresponding competitions at the big booths. The contestants, in addition to the players who came out of the emergency competition, will also compete for some places on the spot. People with real strength will not be allowed to participate in the exhibition, but they cannot participate in the competition. I could only stand under the stands and watch a flock of chickens pecking at each other on the stand.
Lin Yan didn't have much to do today. After the booth of the game club was arranged, he didn't have to go for the time being. There is no past him. Naturally, you won't know that the handicap for racing arcades and plastic gun arcades has become very big. Not only those game practitioners who eagerly follow the industry dynamics and keep their eyes on the big manufacturers, but even some players who came early have also invested in such a bad activity as gambling. Lin Yan wants to know about this, and he can't say that he will also press a lot of money, on his side. He is confident in himself and his products. Because, the products he took out in his hands were all mature and without fatal flaws. In another plane, the arcade that has proven to be a successful arcade.
I tossed and turned last night, and I haven't fallen asleep for a long time, even if I am asleep. The quality of sleep is not too good. Wake up early. After finishing what I was going to write yesterday, I began to lie in bed to catch up on sleep.
Lin Yan is not the kind of person who is very fragile, except for the last time he killed two people by fooling around, which made his will depressed for two days. Yesterday's mood swings can be regarded as the time when his will is the least evaluated.
He asked himself again. What is your original intention? Isn't it just to bring the joy of video games to more people? Although this road may be full of thorns, he is definitely not alone, there will always be like-minded people who will move forward along a road.
Perhaps, he and these people have never met, never spoke, and never communicated. However, if they don't know each other, what's the problem?
Lin Yan, who was in a good mood, began to do something very meaningful, that is, he began to use assembly code to write a game that will open a new era - "Super Mario".
Reeling play-through games have long been a staple of games on home consoles and arcades. It was popular in arcades for a long time until it was replaced by fighting games, and it was also popular for home console games for a long time, gradually being replaced by more in-depth, story-rich role-playing, and three-dimensional games.
Lin Yan wants to plagiarize the whole character, and it is completely impossible for the game that is famous in China to be pirated by Chinese publishers named "Super Mario".
You know, Mario, an Italian carpenter who doesn't have a name yet, is already a watchman in hell. It is said that the income from the copyright licensing of its peripherals is about to exceed the profit from arcade sales. If, at this time, Lin Yan copied all the designs of the entire game, then he would not be far from death.
However, despite this, there is not much that needs to be changed. Pipes can be kept, walls that can be broken can be kept, mushrooms can be kept, koopa can be kept. The only thing that needs to be changed is Princess Bichi and Mario's character.
It's not easy to design a character with distinctive characteristics and a likable character in today's video games.
Due to functional limitations, the characters don't even have noses, eyes, mouths, let alone ears, on their faces.
In the end, Hayashi designed a character with a hat and yellow hair, some like Mario, and some like Takahashi's celebrity in "Maplestory".
He is not particularly satisfied with the overall image, but it is really difficult for him to draw a lovely person. Let him draw something like a big octopus, and he'll have more room to play.
Write the code on paper little by little and outline the whole game world. This game was specially designed by him for his home game console, and the design of that home game console basically refers to the performance parameters of the "red and white machine" in his memory.
This game console, in fact, in order to compromise the cost, the performance is not particularly powerful. However, there is a very peculiar place, that is, Lin Yan has added the scroll mode.
For example, the vertical reeling game that Chubby Dun is working on is really demanding in terms of hardware. Every time the picture advances, the whole picture has to be reframed, which is a waste of computing space.
And the scroll mode that Lin Yan came up with is that it can pre-save some maps outside the current display screen. And when the player moves, it loads that part. As if they were actually dragging a tablecloth, the player is showing the same picture as the basin on the tablecloth.
As a result, the demand for hardware has dropped much, and reeling games, which increase the game space in disguise, will have more replayability.
The reason why Lin Yan did not continue to choose to make games with the theme of alien spaceships is because when video games have developed to a certain stage, players have a demand for a sense of substitution. A spaceship or a character, which is easier to bring in, and more enjoyable to enjoy the joy of breaking through, is naturally self-evident.
And this is also the trend in the development of games, and maybe one day, video games will become something like interactive movies. The joys and sorrows of the characters in the game affect the players off-screen. Players struggle for the love, hatred, and ideals of the characters on the screen. The result is a sense of satisfaction that is difficult to experience outside of video games.
Lin Yan has been writing code for a long time this time, and although the operation efficiency of the compilation is high, it is also a matter of self-cultivation and health preservation to write. Fortunately, nowadays, when writing video game programs, you don't need to write them with machine code, otherwise you will not be able to make a mistake if you write a bunch of bits and pieces. What if something goes wrong?
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Today, when I was collecting information on Zhihu, I saw a problem about the piracy of genuine online texts, and I felt a lot after reading it.
Xiaobai's book is really not good, but thank you for all of you who have been reading it from the starting point to the present. There is a saying, "There is no gentleman, no artist." "You are Xiaobai's food and clothing parents, there is nothing to repay, only to find a way to write a good book.
Thank you! Thank you! (To be continued.) )