Chapter 2: "The Tide"

When Wang Bu finally took the chopsticks, the temperature of the noodles was just enough to eat. He was also hungry and ate profusely.

Xia Ci sat on the other side of the table, holding her cheeks with her hands, and looked at Wang Bucheng quietly. I don't know what I'm thinking.

After a while, Xia Ci said, "Tomorrow Saturday, you will accompany me to Xinjiekou, okay?" ”

Xinjiekou is the center of the city. Wang Buqi said: "What are you doing there?" ”

"Princess Ben has a footwasher, and she works in a café in Xinjiekou. I'd like to check it out too. Xia Ci said with some embarrassment.

Wang Bufu automatically ignored the first half of Xia Ci's sentence, thought about it, and guessed what she meant. Q: "Do you mean a part-time job?" What kind of work do you do when you're so young? ”

Xia Ci stomped his feet and said, "My guardian spirit eats so much at once, and the money sent by my queen mother every month is not enough!" As your summoner, I have an obligation not to starve you! ”

Wang Buyi smiled dumbly, and couldn't help but stand up and rub Xia Ci's head, "Worry about it." I'm a big man, with hands and feet, why do I want you to raise it. ”

"But......" Xia Ci seemed to be very unaccustomed to other people's touches, his head was about to shrink into his neck, and his thoughts were in a mess, "but" for a long time, he didn't say anything.

"Don't. From today onwards, I will make you feel like a real princess. Rice to open the mouth, clothes to stretch out the hand is the princess's style. "The king does not live up to the promises. He didn't believe that he came to 2ooo because of Xia Ci's "call", but he believed that there must be some reason for this, which he didn't know yet.

"Hmm......" Xia Ci nodded, thought about it wrong, and discussed in a whisper: "Let this princess wear it herself......"

"Okay, wear your own." Wang Bu said, learning from the European aristocracy in the movie and stretched out his hand, "Please go to bed princess." Your guardian spirit should think about how to make our princess live the life of a real princess. ”

"Hmm!" Xia Ci also stretched out his hand and put his index finger on Wang Buful's palm, which was really a bit touching. Etiquette went back to the bed.

"Good night." Wang Buyi helped Xia Porcelain cover the quilt.

"The King is not to be disappointed, my guardian spirit. When I open my eyes tomorrow, I'll still see you, right? Xia Ci said with a wink.

"Absolutely." Wang does not bear the guarantee.

So Xia Ci closed his eyes with peace of mind.

Only then did Wang Buyi open his handbag and take out the laptop that he had come to this era with him.

The big words were thrown out, and Wang did not want Xia Ci to live a good life. How? When the notebook was turned on, Wang Bucheng looked at Xia Ci, who was asleep like a porcelain doll, and thought to himself.

With the sound of booting. Wang opened a shortcut icon on the desktop and went into a folder called "The game I made".

These are all games that Wang made in his spare time in college. There are F1Ash mini-games that are a few MB in size, and there are also 3D games that are 1GB in size.

Selling the games he once made to make money is the best way Wang Bufu can think of. But the key is, which one to sell?

Those petty games definitely won't sell, so well them out first. The rest, it's just two big games. One is an ARPG game similar to Diablo 2 adapted from Torchlight, and the other is an FPS game similar to Survival Road adapted from Counter-Strike 1.6.

At that time, Wang was in school, and although his grades were midstream, he was a famous technical nerd with the fierce skill of being able to make his own games.

The game he made had a mediocre response on the Internet, but it was very popular in school due to word of mouth among his classmates. And Wang is also willing to listen to and absorb all the feedback on his work. So at first, it was just to satisfy my own game, and with the continuous advice of my classmates, I gradually perfected the gameplay.

It can be said that the final version of these two games, although it is certainly inferior to foreign masterpieces in terms of graphics and music, has tended to be perfect in terms of the game's upgrade mechanism, plot, world view, and combat fun.

"You made a game, and I haven't deleted it until now. Absolutely complete the domestic three swords. This is what Wang Buyi said seriously at the class reunion two years after graduation.

Wang is also very confident in his work. In this era, as long as you turn Chinese into English, you can directly sell abroad.

"So, which one to sell?" Wang Bu looked at the two folders and couldn't make up his mind.

After all, it's the work of his own all-nighters. If both are sold, the king will be reluctant. He wants to sell one, in exchange for the first pot of gold, and then run the other himself.

Gradually, his eyes were set on a game similar to Survival Quest made with Counter-Strike 1.6's engine.

The name of this game is Frenzy. True to the game's name, the game's protagonist will have to fight against a frenzy of zombie attacks. The game is set in New York, and of course, Wang, who has never been to the United States, refers to the map of New York in "Torture Prototype". A circular map with a radius of 1.5 kilometers was made.

This is nothing compared to the triple-A masterpieces made by those game giants 14 years later. You know, like Ubisoft's "Far Cry 3" and "Watch Dogs", the map area is more than 1o square kilometers. The Elder Scrolls 5 of the B Society, with a map area of about 5o square kilometers. And R-star's "GTA5" is the most frustrating, and the map is actually over 1oo square kilometers.

The size of the map doesn't mean it's fun. But if it's a fun game, if you have a huge map, the fun it can bring to players must be unimaginable.

And when it comes to whether it's fun or not, Wang is absolutely confident in "Frenzy".

Frenzy is a sandbox game where characters are free to go to any corner of the map.

There is no time limit for this game. It's just that as time passes, the enemies in the game will gradually evolve from beginner zombies to more advanced monsters. By rescuing the human survivors one by one, the player expands his power and gradually gains more power.

Of course, the player can also choose to kill the survivors they encounter, but Wang has made various small settings to encourage the player to help them.

When it was first made, the game was only played by Wang's roommates. Wang listened to everyone's opinions, improved bit by bit, picked up insects, and repeatedly took time to grind, so that the quality of the game could be improved.

The other students in the dormitory went from being dismissive at the beginning, to then flocking to the USB flash drive to queue up for copying, and only Wang did not know how many all-nighters he had experienced.

However, the elaborate "Frenzy" did not bring Wang to fame and money. Except for the limited number of students around, most people don't know that there is a student who spent half a year crafting such a game. Even when he is looking for a job after graduation, these are not a plus in his resume.

The only reward may be that Wang lives up to the simple fun of operating the characters in the game.

What I didn't expect was that Wang Bucheng actually returned to 2ooo years.

He dares to assert that in this day and age, no game has the gameplay of Tide. He also believes that no player would say no to a well-crafted game like Tide.

Of course, it is unrealistic for Wang to single-handedly bring "Madness" to the market, especially in Europe and the United States. He was going to sell "Frenzy" to the company VA1Ve.

The Half-Life series launched by Villefort has always been a classic of science fiction games. Wang Buzhu wanted to sell "Crazy Tide" to the Villefort Company, not only because the current Villefort Company was wealthy, but he also remembered one thing.

It was around 1999 that two players made the expansion Counter-Strike based on the Half-Life. At the time, the two players had simply posted Counter-Strike on the Welfort's official website forum for other fandom players to download publicly.

Not surprisingly, Counter-Strike quickly became popular. The Villefort Company could have acquired Counter-Strike with the rights in its possession. But instead of doing so, they found the makers of Counter-Strike, bought them for a high price, and invited them to join Villefort. Both men eventually became executives at the Willfort Company.

It's a win-win story that is rarely seen in the gaming industry.

It is precisely knowing this anecdote that Wang is more inclined to trust the Villefort company.

After deciding, Wang began to revise the text of the game and convert Chinese into English.

Fortunately, there is no quest system in this game itself, and there are no items that are out of reality. Most of the translation work is about conversations. 1oo surviving human NPCs, each of whom has about 2oo sentences of dialogue and interaction with the protagonist, adding up, there are almost 20,000 sentences. It's not too much work, and it can be done in a few days at most.

However, he does not plan to wait for the complete translation to be published, but plans to publish the first edition tomorrow and the second edition the day after tomorrow. The final version is reserved and will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

As a programmer, Wang has devoured more than a dozen books in pure English, but now he still needs the help of a dictionary when translating. Fortunately, there is an English-Chinese dictionary on Xia Ci's desk.

While translating, Wang couldn't help but feel a little funny. 14 years later, it is common to sinicize English games, but "Anglometricization" of Chinese games is something that has never been heard of. "Anglometricalization" ...... How awkward the word sounds.

Immediately, a wave of pride was born in his heart. It sounds awkward because I hear less! Since he was brought into this world, sooner or later, everyone will become accustomed to the term "Anglomy". Wang lived up to this self-confidence.

Da~Dada~

In the quiet of the night, only the sound of Wang living up to the sound of tapping on the keyboard.

Occasionally, there was a "meteorite" outside the window, and the sound was much quieter. In two years, tonight was the most restful sleep for Xia Ci.

"Guardian Spirit ......" Xia Yan sat up in a daze, his originally waterfall-like head sleeping messily. She rubbed her eyes and muttered to Wang Buying: "Accompany me to the toilet......"