A mature game, especially an online game, often has to go through several tests of different scales, from small to large.

The purpose is nothing more than to find bugs and bugs in the game, fix them and further improve the gameplay of the game system.

In the early days, it was often a small-scale closed test conducted within the game development team, as the name suggests, it was a test conducted within the game development team, which would not be available to the public and would be deleted by the server after the test.

After the internal closed test, the internal test will be conducted for the general public. Closed beta refers to a deleted test for the general public, and if players don't respond well to the game at this stage, there is a high chance that the game will be rebuilt.

After the end of the closed beta, the server will be deleted, and the bugs and vulnerabilities found in the repair test will be fixed, and then the game will be open beta. At this stage, there is no longer much difference from the officially operational version.

"The World with an Unknown Name" took five years to build, and after several rounds of closed testing, it officially launched its public beta today. This has not gone through any internal testing, and it has been directly tested after the closed beta.

Turned on at 8 a.m., until 9 p.m., 13 hours, number of registrations: 1287, number of online: 428.

This online rate is clearly not a pretty report card, and the number of online users is declining at a steady pace.

"It seems that there are a lot of players who can't accept it." It's game operations that are talking.,Five years ago, he was the one who contacted today's game planner.,If it weren't for him, this game wouldn't exist today.。

During the internal test, he thought the game was very good, but it was a bit difficult in the early stage, and after playing patiently, it was much more fun than those games on the market. Looking at the declining online rate on the screen, he was already prepared, and he had confidence in his game. What is the saying? It's gold that always shines!

"Hey, boss, look at this timeline if it's wrong."

On the first day of the game's beta, all departments of the game came together for this great moment. After the server boots up and the game is tested, things like game planning, game operation, art copywriting, etc., are idle and have nothing to do. The programmers who are responsible for program development have no time to spare, they need to stare at the data fed back to the background, analyze the data, where there are bugs and so on.

Friends of the game operation, one of the original three, the man in charge of program development walked up to the talking programmer. Stared at the screen for a long time and said, "Something did go wrong." ”

After speaking, he walked to the game operation and reported the situation to him.

In their development team, there is a clear division of labor and equal responsibilities. After the game is tested, any behavior that has an impact on the game must be reported to the game operation. It can be said that in the entire development team, the game operator has absolute power, but his salary is the least.

The same is true for game planning. In terms of gameplay content updates, the game operation has no right to interfere, and the game planner is solely responsible. When it comes to iterative updates, his power is absolute. And his salary is also the least.

In the development team, the highest salary is programmers, who work overtime day and night to write code, and the cost is far greater than the game planner opening his mouth and using his brain.

This was said by the game planner himself, and it was true.

"Is it serious?" Game Ops asked his friend.

"The impact is not big at this stage, but it will have a profound impact on the future."

"Ask the planner." After saying that, he walked to the planner who was sitting on the couch, and his friend followed.

The concept of timeline was proposed by the game planner, and the game operator felt that it belonged to the category of game content, and it was not good for him to be in charge alone.

After the game planner knew about it, his forehead twisted into a Sichuan character and said, "How many area blocks are wrong?" What is the error time? Can it be fixed? ”

Of the three questions, the program developer only answered the last one: "It can be repaired, but the result of the error cannot be repaired." ”

"How long will it take?"

"Immeasurable."

"What do you mean?"

"Almost all of the area blocks have errors, and the time difference of the errors is different, and I think it should be from the bottom of the way. This would require rewriting the underlying code, which I can't give the time for. ”

"Is there no other way? It's okay to top one temporarily, and you should know the importance of the timeline. The tone of the planner was a little unpleasant.

The timeline is a very important setting in the game, as it is tied to real time. In the planning setting, 6 hours of reality is equal to one day in the game, and one day of reality is 4 days in the game.

NPCs are like players, they are people in the game world, and the timeline is their real time. If the timeline does not match the real time, then a plot bug will occur.

For example, let's say the player is in place A and is being hunted down by NPCs in place B. It takes 2 days for an NPC to get from B to A, which is 12 hours in the player's real world.

As long as the server is still running while the player is offline, the NPC will continue to be active, and the player will go online again after 6 hours of offline, at which point a day has passed in the game, and if the player stays in place A and does not move, the NPC will only need 6 hours to get to place A.

If the player is offline for 12 hours and then comes back online, it means that the NPC is already in place A and asks for the player's location there.

If a timeline error occurs, its impact will affect the entire game world.

"You can correct the timeline, I can't say how long it can last, I will write the underlying code as soon as possible."

"Well, that's all there is to it. You look at it, I don't understand the program, I just don't want my ideal game to crash. I'm sorry I didn't speak in a good tone just now. ”

"It's okay, it's okay. I don't want to see that, so I'm going to work. After saying that, the man waved his hand away from the planning and operation, and left.

"Your tone should really be changed, you speak like a gun." Game operations patted the planner on the shoulder.

The game planner smiled awkwardly.

"Look at this online rate, are we wrong?" The game operation did not delve into the tone of voice, and looked at the declining values on the screen, and said in a somewhat lonely tone.

"Maybe."

"You can study and change it, the cost of operating the game is far beyond my imagination. Game companies make games for money, and I don't want to make money from this game, at least to be self-sufficient. ”

At the beginning, he was naïve, he knew that making games costs money, but he didn't expect that operating games would cost money, he didn't expect games to bring him wealth, he just hoped that games wouldn't let him make money. He has already spent 100 million yuan for this game.

In the northeastern part of the kingdom of Gauyas, the city of Valesgow. In the hall of the adventurer's union in the east of the city, there are those who fight shirtless, and there are those who don't want to fight. It doesn't matter to those who drink and watch the excitement, and those who take over tasks and hand over tasks, and the whole union hall is chaotic like a grocery market.

"Does your union have such a person as Lang Ao? Lenny Langao. It was a woman who spoke, and beside her stood a man who closed his eyes and said nothing.

A man and a woman stood at the front desk of the union, out of step with the scene of chaos behind them.

The woman in charge of the reception glanced at the woman who spoke, and then at the man next to the woman, and immediately felt that the identities of these two people were not simple.

The woman is elegant and the man is cold, and at first glance, she is either rich or expensive, and she is not the one who can be offended, so she must deal with it carefully.

"I'll check it for you, please wait."

"Okay." The woman replied softly.

After more than ten seconds, the reception lady said: "Hello, the union does have this person, Lang Ao has gone out to do the task and has not come back yet." Do you have a named assignment? ”

The woman shook her head no, then asked, "Do you know where he went?" ”

"The mission that Lang Ao received is "Destroy the Goblins of Mount Valar", and he should go to Mount Valharyar."

"Thank you." After getting the answer she wanted, the woman put 10 gold coins on the counter and turned away, and the man, who had not said a word all the time, disappeared into the union hall with her.

"Mount Valhauer, the boy is running a long way. Do you really think we won't be able to find you without this city? Miss Randy isn't the person you can get your hands on. The man next to the woman sneered, not only did he have a cold temperament, but he also spoke with a cold feeling.

"Let's go now, it's more than 200 kilometers away from Mount Valarya, and it will take a day at the earliest." The woman said, looking at the map in her hand.