On the way home, Li Zhen was still thinking about some of the design ideas that Xu Rui explained to him today.

For example, Xu Rui said that all the trees in the open world can be climbed, players can climb to the top of the tree to pick apples, they will also find bird eggs on the trees, and even encounter hornet's nests, chased by bees, and can see farther from standing on the trees.

At the same time, thunderstorms can also chop down trees, and fallen trees are not waste, players can use tools to break them down and turn them into firewood, branches can be used as weapons, can also be used as torches to light bonfires, and even mushrooms and meat can be skewered to make skewers, and thick trunks can also use the slope to roll down to defeat monsters.

Just a simple tree has many applications, and these can actually be done in real life.

Li Zhen suddenly found that the previous open worlds really didn't seem to have studied this aspect.

Most of the trees in the game are actually just a texture, and at most add a collision volume to make it a little presence, even if it can be climbed, it is only that some specific trees will have a plot performance of climbing trees, and it is impossible for every tree to climb, and it will not take any effort to design these interactions.

But if you think about it carefully, if it is really as Xu Rui said, just a tree, there can be countless ways to play, and different ways to play can also affect each other, and these are all accompanied by the player's exploration.

Li Zhen imagined for a moment, a player, accidentally saw an apple on the tree, he walked over, found that his hand could not reach the apple, under the inertial thinking, he jumped up, still could not reach.

At this time, he came to the side of the tree, and found that he could climb up, and when he climbed to the place of the apple, and plucked the apple, he suddenly saw that there was a bird's nest in the top of the tree.

Climb to the position of the bird's nest, there are several bird eggs inside, the player takes it out, at this time, it rains, a thunderbolt splits down, which hits the tree just right, and the player jumps down in time to avoid the thunderbolt.

He picks up the burning branch and quickly runs to the bottom of a nearby rock to take shelter from the rain, and the player ignites the fallen leaves under the rocks that are gathered together by the wind, creating a bonfire.

At this time, he took out the pot in his backpack, took a little rainwater, took out the bird's eggs he had just taken away, made an egg soup, and gnawed an apple after eating.

The outside world clears after the rain, the sun leaks through the gaps in the clouds, illuminates the earth, and a new journey begins.

In a trance, Li Zhen has come to this continent, everything around him can be interacted with, and he can use items according to his own ideas, rather than following the designer's regulations, this is the open world in Li Zhen's imagination, a real and living world.

He let out a long sigh, Xu Rui actually didn't solve the problem of NPC interaction, he just simply and rudely removed most of the NPCs, and instead refined the interaction between the player and the scene, which is a point that Li Zhen didn't expect, compared to the complex NPC AI, the physical simulation of scene interaction is obviously closer to simpler, and the use of this feedback mode of curiosity and surprise can also prompt players to continue to explore.

Li Zhen knows that it is too difficult to truly achieve a complete and vivid world, Xu Rui's method can be said to be a different way, but it is very tempting, Li Zhen just listened, and he was eager to try and wanted to make it together.

But after all, this is just a preliminary idea, and if you really want to start production, you have to wait for the planning of the game to be released, and it will take a year or two to really be able to play this game.

Thinking of this, Li Zhen couldn't help but sigh, if Xu Rui had started making games a few years earlier, then he would have been able to play it now.

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At the same time as the animation of April was broadcast one after another, the annual animation selection also announced the shortlist of this year's animation of the year, and the "Classical Literature Society Series" was impressively listed, as well as four works by established companies such as Rainbow Media and Ai Craft Animation.

Since the martial arts director has been silent after "City of Giants", preparing a new work, his absence this year also makes the annual animation selection a little less suspenseful, because whether in terms of sales or quality, "Classical Literature Club Series" can pull up several other nominated works.

Despite this, there are still many expectations for this year's awards ceremony, and one of the biggest expectations is whether Xu Rui's "Classical Literature Club Series" can reach a grand slam.

Because "Madoka Magical Girl" did not have outstanding male roles that year, the award for Best Voice Actor was handed over without competition at all, in addition, "Madoka Magica" won other awards that year, and was regarded as the uncrowned king on the road to the Grand Slam.

This year, "Classical Literature Club Series" doesn't have to worry about the best voice actor, and there are almost no top works that can be compared with it in the same year, so it seems that this year's Phantom Electric Animation will win the Grand Slam, and Xu Rui just needs to wait for the award ceremony to arrive.

Previously, in the selection of the annual animation, there were only three works that won the grand slam, "Magical Girl Madoka" was still one award away, "Steel Magician" was also cut off halfway by Su Liyu of "Soul Eater: Zero", "City of Giants" and "Horizon Borderline" shared several major awards that year, therefore, this year, Xu Rui's fantasy animation is likely to continue to make history.

If he wins this award, then he will become the youngest director of a Grand Slam work in history, you know, Xu Rui has just entered the industry for four years this year, and "Classical Literature Club Series" is only his fourth full-length work and third original work.

With the announcement of the nomination, the disc sales of "Classical Literature Club Series" have continued to increase a lot, and the follow-up volumes have increased by 5,000, which has broken the "wall of masterpieces" made by Phantom Animation itself, making some people who laugh at the sales of "Classical Literature Club Series" obediently shut up.

In May, the junior high school students are in the final sprint, the gradually rising temperatures are restless, and the campus is silent, only the sound of the wind blowing through the test papers irritates people's ears.

It is very likely that the exams that will determine the future of their lives are just around the corner, which makes these teenage students extremely nervous.

Xu Rui was also a little nervous.

It's not that he also wants to take the college entrance examination, at this time Xu Rui was sitting in the waiting hall of the airport, and Yi Qianqian was sitting next to him, gently holding Xu Rui's hand.

The flight that the two were waiting for flew to Jingping, and there was still half an hour before the departure time.

Xu Rui didn't want to attend any industry conference, but to go to Jingping to meet Yi Qianqian's parents and family.

That is, commonly known, see parents.