"The first generation of online games is limited by the communication speed of the network, as well as the bottleneck of computer hardware, and can only be presented in the form of text, that is, multiple users play games together in a computer virtual space, in fact, it is somewhat similar to the community communication space on our official website, but the way users communicate is in the form of games, so the novel setting makes network users very supportive."

"A lot of MUD games borrow DND rules, where players are exploring a fantasy world, and they're actually typing instructions into a program on the server, and then seeing a message back."

Here's an example that is easy to understand at a glance.

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You come to a river, with a big tree under it and a sleeping old hunter to the west, and a cave to the east, where you obviously have only two paths to choose from, east and west.

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At this time, the player can enter go-east to enter the cave to explore, or enter go-west to ask the NPC for more information before entering the cave, at this time, the player's instructions will be transmitted to the server, and the program will process the new scene, and then return to the player's computer to start the next scene.

This is the earliest word game mode, Yang Yun vaguely has a little impression, he knows that in China, games such as "Heroic Travel", "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Journey to the West" carry the banner of MUD, making countless players obsessed, and it is the favorite game of the earliest hardcore netizens.

Yang Yun didn't actually play these because he was the wrong age, and he was still in elementary school when MUD was popular. He has never been exposed to those progenitor-level online games.

It wasn't until the late '90s and early '00s that he got into Internet cafes. At that time, Internet cafes were the world of stand-alone games, even if there were players who were online. Most of them are adults and rebellious young people who flirt in chat rooms in the same city, Yang Yun is still young, he can't play mud, and he can't operate "Stone Age", and the "Legend" that appeared later is the first online game he came into contact with.

But this did not affect his understanding of online games, so Zhang Guoqiang understood this principle as soon as he introduced it.

"Isn't there a MUD game that supports the Chinese version?"

"Yes, there are quite a few computer enthusiasts in Taiwan who have worked hard to change the MUD source code, and three years ago Zhang Mingxin, a student at Taipei Chiao Tung University's School of Management, made the first MUD game that supports Chinese display and Chinese input. Named "Anairet", it is the world's first Chinese MUD game. ”

"Hah! It turned out to be Taipei Chiao Tung University, or a student at the School of Management. Guoqiang, is your Tsinghua unaccomplished? ”

This question embarrassed Zhang Guoqiang, Tsinghua University is the most closely related university institution in China to Longteng Entertainment Game Company, but the first online game that supports Chinese was preempted by students in Taipei, and he really felt a fever on his face.

"Mr. Yang, in Tsinghua University, can afford to buy a personal computer. And there are few students who can connect to the Internet, which is not as good as Taiwan's ...... I heard that there is a relatively popular "Legend of the Wind" MUD game in the Shuimu community, but unfortunately it is not the Chinese version, and the popular domestic MUD game is the "Heroic Travel" series. It's not a ...... made by Tsinghua students."

Yang Yun laughed: "Look, this is your dereliction of duty, right?" We need a large number of passionate and creative young people and reserve troops to join us, you are a big brother who graduated from Tsinghua University. How can you not provide some convenience for the little juniors? You apply for a special grant from the Longteng Foundation to donate a public library to Tsinghua University. State-of-the-art computers are available, and they are connected to the Internet. ”

Zhang Guoqiang is happy. After thanking Yang Yun, he said with some embarrassment: "It's just that the coverage benefits one Tsinghua, so it doesn't seem like a favoritism, right?" There are so many well-known universities in the country, and we don't know where the creative students will be......"

Yang Yun waved his hand: "Start with the top 20 schools in the country, and synchronize with the WCG publicity!" ”

"Mr. Yang is mighty!" Zhang Guoqiang smiled and sent a sycophant.

Yang Yun happily accepted, thinking of the question he almost missed just now: "What is the situation of "Chivalrous Journey"? To what extent have domestic Chinese MUD games become popular? ”

Zhang Guoqiang turned a few pages of the report backwards, pointed to a line of content and said: "Chinese MUD "Chivalry Travel" became popular last year, it was created and designed by Ark Zi and others who studied in North America, and as soon as it was born, it caused a popular scene of thousands of people online......"

"Wait a minute!" Yang Yun interrupted Zhang Guoqiang and asked in disbelief: "You mean that the Chinese version of "Heroic Travel" was created and designed by Fang Zhouzi and others who studied in North America?" ”

Zhang Guoqiang blinked and nodded strangely, his attention was obviously not on the "ark word", but on the words "studying in North America": "Yes, I understand your regrets, but, hey, no way, this is the fact, our Tsinghua University is indeed a lot behind, ashamed, ashamed......"

Yang Yun couldn't laugh or cry, where did he care who first created the MUD game? What he cares about is the person of the Ark!

"I'll ...... This ark word is still a game lover? is still the originator of domestic online games? Disrespectful, disrespectful, disrespectful! Yang Yun kept echoing this sentence in his mind, and he didn't listen to Zhang Guoqiang's later introduction.

Fang Zhouzi is also a celebrity, especially in the fight against fakes, one by one, specializing in those public figures, is a thorn in the side of many people, hating him for a lifetime.

Do you want to recruit him? The creator of the first domestic online game! Recruiting him is more successful than recruiting Yi Zhongtian, and Yang Yun was moved for no reason.

"In January this year, the North American Chinese version of "Xia Ke Xing" was launched, which attracted strong attention from Chinese game fans in the world, but in June, the code of "Xia Ke Xing" was leaked, and many domestic college students and computer enthusiasts began to create a second or third time after obtaining it, and even the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a server set up."

Hearing this, Yang Yun was depressed for a while, this is a private service! China's first batch of private servers turned out to be from the Chinese Academy of Sciences! It really made him laugh off his big teeth!

"Are you involved?" Yang Yun asked.

Zhang Guoqiang smiled: "To tell you the truth, I also obtained this code myself, and I also designed a version of "Dragon Babu" in my spare time, but I went to Europe before it was released. Let me tell you one more thing, someone has set up a server within the company, and the IP address of the server is *****, if you are interested, you can also go and give advice! ”

Well, Longteng Company was also attacked by private servers, and it is still a supporter of private servers......

Yang Yun couldn't laugh or cry, but he keenly found that it seemed that all people were not aware of copyright awareness, and the leakage of the source code of "Chivalrous Journey" seemed to be a blessing in the world.

In the eyes of the first generation of netizens, the Internet is synonymous with sharing, sharing, and free, and there is no such thing as copyright, intellectual property rights, and interest protection. ”

Thinking of this, Yang Yun shook his head, interrupted Zhang Guoqiang's introduction, and said: "In this way, since you all love online games, you go and discuss with Shaoyun, isn't that Ark character in North America?" Let him contact the Ark team to see if they are willing to join Longteng as a whole and set up a Chinese MUD project team, and we Longteng will also participate in the development of MUD and get a share of the wave of online games. ”

Zhang Guoqiang became excited: "Great! I believe that Mr. Jiang will be very happy, and the Ark team are all Chinese students, they will definitely be willing to join Longteng! ”

Whether he can invite the word Ark to join is still two words, but Yang Yun knows very well that the text MUD must not be a long-term thing, and he knows that there will be a graphical interface online game soon.

He changed the topic and wanted to know if Yan Dao Inoue and Zhang Guoqiang could see this, and he asked: "The current online games are still like this, mainly based on text expansion?" ”

Zhang Guoqiang nodded: "At this stage, it is still the same for the time being, but there is no guarantee that there will be no changes next year and the year after that." In foreign countries, the network speed has reached a speed of 56K, and simple text chat is increasingly unable to meet the needs of players. We judge that the future of online games will be dominated by graphical interfaces, and graphics are far more attractive than text. ”

Yang Yun felt very pleased: "That's right, I have to add a point, the text input command is too troublesome, I hope to add some shortcut keys in the online game, the 1-0 keys on the keyboard, up and down, left and right, left and right mouse buttons, and commonly used letters, can be used to operate commands." ”

Zhang Guoqiang said: "Yes, this is also what we have thought, and this is an important reason why the Windows operating system is far more popular than the DOS operating system. Mr. Yang, please see, this is the content classification we have made for graphical interface online games. ”

Multiplayer online role-playing games are roughly divided into social types and battle types, among which the social type is like a community gathering like LongChat, which socializes by exploring a fixed plot, and focuses on chat and communication.

The battle is divided into PVE and PVP, in the virtual world under a certain DND rule, players can fight with NPCs, kill monsters during exploration, and get various rewards.

On the other hand, players play directly against each other in PVP, and many martial arts games that focus on fighting skills are in this mode, and "Meteor Butterfly Sword" is a typical example of this kind of PVP. (To be continued......)