Warcraft, as everyone on earth knows, is Blizzard's most classic work.

At this time, Warcraft 2 had just been launched in 1999, and in 2000, it spread to China.

I have to say that the strength of Blizzard. However, before Blizzard developed Warcraft 2, they weren't a very good game company. Even, although Warcraft 1 sells well, it has a lot of mold defense settings. Until, with the launch of Warcraft 2 in 1999, Blizzard gradually formed its own style. From this point on, Blizzard's new operating system, right-click to move, left-click to select, has been established.

At the same time, Warcraft 2 supports 8-player modem or LAN battles, so that more players who are tired of other strategic games can only fight with the computer, all of them have thrown themselves into the arms of Warcraft 2. The concept of "fog of war" was also introduced to real-time strategy games by Blizzard for the first time, greatly increasing the variety of battlefield shapes and the richness of strategy and tactics in the game. Since the player can only see a small area in the vicinity of their troops, once the troops leave the area, they will soon be shrouded in fog. If you can't constantly speculate on the psychology of the other party and guess the direction of the troop in the battle, then the opponent's sneak attack, ambush and other tactics will immediately make you suffer. This initiative was borrowed by a large number of games, and became a common standard for map manipulation in most strategy games later.

In addition, the opening of the Frozen Throne of Warcraft 3 in later generations has opened up the global e-sports boom. At the same time, later generations also emerged on the basis of Warcraft, and a large number of popular versions emerged. Like Dynasty Warriors, like the Three Kingdoms, like Dota, like the League of Legends with the highest number of simultaneous online players in the world in 2014.

Of course, when it comes to Warcraft, Zhang Ning can only be blushing.

This company, which can get rich by just selling cdkey, is not what Zhang Ning can expect now.

The reason why we talk about Warcraft is because Warcraft is also a game, but it is not an online game, but a stand-alone game.

If we talk about the history of games, there is no doubt that the history of single-player games is much larger than that of online games. At the same time, the profits of global stand-alone games are far greater than those of online games. It's just that because the technology of online games is too simple, this makes the public feel that online games are actually more profitable. If you develop a classic single-player game, you might be able to make a lot more money than if you were an online game.

There's something heartwarming in my heart.

Under the influence of Internet speed and computer hardware in China, Zhang Ning had the idea of entering a stand-alone game. However, Zhang Ning will not make any imitations of Warcraft for the time being. Like something, like something dota, and so on. These need relatively strong game development talents, where can Zhang Ning find them for the time being. To develop, you have to develop some relatively simple, and also, very popular single-player games.

To this end, Zhang Ning set his sights on the "Angry Birds" and Plants vs. Zombies in later generations. These two games are not particularly complicated, however, they are both very popular, and they are even more popular than Blizzard's Warcraft. However, Angry Birds cannot be developed for the time being, and this is a game that has only become popular on mobile platforms. Although the Angry Birds can also be developed for PC, no matter how it is developed, the PC version of Angry Birds is never as fun as the smartphone version.

Giving up Angry Birds for the time being, Zhang Ning turned to research Plants vs. Zombies.

Speaking of which, Plants vs. Zombies, like World of Warcraft, is also a tower defense game. It's just that his tower defense is to use all kinds of plants to fight zombies.

Recall that Plants vs. Zombies has five game modes, namely Adventure, Mini-Game, Puzzle, Survival, Garden, and Adventure Mode, with up to 50 levels from day to night, from pool to rooftop. At the same time, there are 26 different zombie enemies in the game, including sleigh zombies and catapult zombies with cars. Players can use a variety of selected plants to fight these zombies.

What's more, Plants vs. Zombies is a game that's easy to play and at the same time, there is no age limit.

This again has something like a puzzle game.

If it is promoted at this time, maybe, you can make a lot of money.

Licked his saliva, although for the time being, Zhang Ning has not found a game production team. But the key to this game is not in technology, only in creativity. As long as Zhang Ning writes out the idea, it is a matter of time to dig up some game technicians to come over and make this game.

"Yes, I'll write the setting of Plants vs. Zombies now."

For this reason, Zhang Ning did not go to the Pentium Internet café to investigate. The online game plan will wait until 2001, that is, after the domestic telecom companies will speed up. Before they did not speed up, Zhang Ning was ready to enter the single-player game industry first.

In a hurry, Zhang Ning returned to the company, opened the document, and slowly wrote down the specific game settings while reminiscing.

Botanical Facts:

1. Sunflower, function: produces a medium-sized sunlight every 25 seconds.

2. Pea shooter, which can be planted in grass, water lilies, and flower pots, functionally, shoot a pea for each attack.

3. Cherry bomb, function, explodes in the center of its own circle.

……

Here is some plant information.

In addition to the data, there are also various types of aggressive zombie materials.

1. Ordinary zombies, the most common zombies, have low health ability and slow speed.

2. Banner zombie, the banner zombie is an ordinary zombie holding a flag, and the speed is faster than that of ordinary zombies.

3. Pole zombies, zombies holding wooden poles, can jump.

……

These are the materials of zombies.

For several days, Zhang Ning was working on this information on Plants vs. Zombies.

Fortunately, Zhang Ning used to like to play Plants vs. Zombies very much, especially after the advent of smartphones, occasionally when he was fine on the subway, he would also play a few games of Plants vs. Zombies. Although there are some settings, Zhang Ning also forgot about them. However, Zhang Ning was originally engaged in games, and under the slow association, he also set up some other plants.

Of course, because Plants vs. Zombies is set in advance under its own rebirth. Plants vs. Zombies is no longer produced by foreigners, but made in China. So, on top of the classification of zombies. In addition to inheriting some of the original zombies, Zhang Ning also added zombies that belong to the domestic type. Like Iron Armor Corpse, Bronze Armor Corpse, Gold Armor Corpse, and Zombie King and so on. Even, the image of these zombies is set to be the zombies that are often seen on movie screens.

Just when Zhang Ning was almost finishing the entire setting, another person approached Zhang Ning.

Meeting room.

In the living room sat a middle-aged man in his 40s with a scholarly and elegant temperament.

Zhang Ning felt that the middle-aged uncle in his 40s in front of him seemed to have seen it somewhere.

However, for a while, Zhang Ning couldn't think of it.

Until, when the middle-aged man opened his mouth to introduce himself very modestly, Zhang Ning patted his head and knew it.

"Chi Mingyu."

This is Professor Chi Ming Yuchi, who has given himself a few public classes.

However, at that time, Zhang Ning only took a few classes, and there were few public classes, so he didn't remember it all at once.

"Hello, Professor Chi, I don't know, it was you who came to me."

"Mengying told me that Zhang said that teachers and students should respect each other. If I have something to look for you, I should come. I think you have a point, so I'm coming to you. ”

"This."

Zhang Ning was a little embarrassed about this.

Although he said this to Chi Mengying, when the professor in the school came to him in person, Zhang Ning still felt that he was too rude. However, Chi Mingyu did not dwell on this one issue. Instead, he quickly got to the point, "I don't know how much Zhang knows about search engines?" ”

"A little bit of it, but not much."

"Mr. Zhang is too modest, the fuzzy algorithm in your software has opened my eyes."

"Oh......"

With this said, Zhang Ning knew why Chi Mingyu was looking for him.

If you are an ordinary person, you may not be able to see how powerful that educational film search software is. However, when a professional sees, especially for artificial intelligence, he will definitely be surprised to search for this one person who has researched it.

"Where, where, it's just a nasty piece of software that I wrote."

"Haha, bad taste, there is indeed some bad taste."

Although Chi Mingyu is a professor at Yan University, he is not old-fashioned. Hearing Zhang Ning's words, I couldn't help but feel a tongue in my heart. This feat of using the world's top technology in an educational film search software is estimated to be impossible to find in the entire world. However, although Chi Mingyu is not interested in this bad software, he is more interested in Zhang Ning.

"By the way, you mean, you developed this software?"

"Yes."

Zhang Ning did not deny it.

"Admire, classmate Zhang, you have such a powerful technology, why don't you go and develop a search engine?"

Zhang Ning was a little embarrassed by Zhang Ning's question, "Search engines not only involve fuzzy search, but also involve many aspects. Like the grasp of the website, the inclusion and so on, this is a relatively big technical problem. Moreover, I don't have time for the time being. ”

"Don't have time?"

Chi Mingyu was stunned, but after discovering that this was Penguin Technology, he suddenly understood. But he said, "Do you think search engines are more promising than instant messaging?" ”

"Professor Chi, this is a difficult question."

This question stumped Zhang Ning.

Truth be told, the question of who is higher or lower than instant messaging or search engines has been debated in later generations. Whether it's instant messaging or search engines, there are successful examples in later generations. Google Baidu, represented by search engines, Tencent, represented by instant messaging, and MSN...... If you really want to compare, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish arguing for a day and a night.

"In fact, I am very optimistic about instant messaging and search engines, and if I have time, I will definitely enter this market."

Zhang Ning can only say this.