"Hey, Gamer, your father asked me to remind you of the time." Outside Julio's bedroom, there was a knock on the door, and then the door opened, and his mother stood in the doorway, looking at him with her hands folded.

"Yes, ma'am......" Julio replied casually.

After more than ten seconds, the mother still did not leave: "But I see that you don't seem to be moving." Then he walked over to his bedside: "Are you watching a movie?" ”

"No...... This is the game. ”

"This animation has been playing for a long time."

Damn "Metal Gear Solid 4", the CG is too long, Julio felt it at the beginning, and after asking a friend, I learned that the entire cutscene CG animation of this sequel adds up to 540 minutes, which is completely one movie, no, six movies.

"I need to wait until this animation is over to turn off the console." Julio explained.

"You know our family traditions."

"Yes, you have to go to bed before twelve, where's the handsome guy?" My mother is easier to talk to, but my father is not so good.

"He's already asleep, and I want you to remember the agreement between you and his man."

"Of course, never addicted to games."

The mother walked to the door, then turned back again.

Julio assured again: "I'll go to sleep as soon as I watch this animation, good night lady, have a good dream." ”

……

At the end of the animation, Julio quits the game as promised, and before turning off the game console, he sees that in the friends list, he is playing a game called "The Origin of Everything".

He is much freer than himself, and at the age of 17, his parents forced him to go to bed, and he may be alone in the whole of America.

The name of this game? I seem to be a little impressed......

By the way, Mr. Fernández recommended it when I was in a retail store before, and it seems to have given a good review.

As a clerk in a game store, Julio absolutely believes in Mr. Fernández's game experience and taste, but the salesperson's recommendation is generally half of the letter.

The chat function of the console's operating system was too cumbersome to type, so Julio turned off the machine without breaking his promise, and then sent a text to Stan: "How is the game you are playing?" ”

Julio then lay down in bed and waited until he fell asleep, receiving no reply from Stan......

When I woke up the next day, I saw a text message, the time was actually sent at half past two in the morning, that guy won't play until that time, right?

"Sorry I didn't notice your text just now, man, you know what, I'm going crazy playing this game right now, I've wasted hours of nights on it."

This time, it was quick to get a response.

"What do you mean? You mean it seems like a good game? Are you sure which one I'm asking? ”

"Of course, I've only been playing this one game for the past two days, and trust me, you've never played such a unique game, absolutely nothing."

"You woke up so early? Didn't I wake you up, didn't you go to bed at half past two last night? "It's only half past seven, and Stan has only slept for five hours.

"No, I'm continuing my work, I'm going to build it today."

"What do you mean?"

"Ah, it's not easy to explain, you'll know when you come to me."

"Then you wait for me."

……

Julio finished breakfast and went out, just in time to complete today's "No Stays at Home" mission.

Stann's house is only one block away from him, and the neighborhoods in the United States are still larger than those in China, but not much, and Julio came to Stann's house in ten minutes.

In his bedroom, Julio saw the game "The Origin of Everything" for the first time, and it was really similar to the cover he saw at the time.

Full screen of squares.

"You're playing a game like this? Your dark circles seem to be a little noticeable. ”

The peer in front of him didn't seem to be the hot-blooded young man he knew, and when he was playing "New Year's Calling", he rushed forward to do it as Stan.

"I'll show you this, the fruits of my labor." Stan zoomed out from the ongoing construction and looked down on him from a mid-air perspective: "Can you see where this is?" ”

"Can you still fly? Or are you cheating? ”

"No, it's a purpose-built creative mode available in the game, you don't need to fight monsters, just to create your own creations."

The current Origin of Everything has two game modes, one is adventure and the other is creation. The former is a real game with a variety of ways to play, adventure, monster fighting, gathering, synthesizing equipment, and exploring the world. The latter is an entertainment mode in which all resources are unlimited, flying freely and can destroy any block in an instant.

"It's ...... Parliament? "It's crude, but as a native Texan, Julio is instantly recognizable.

This is the Texas State Capitol, the tallest state capitol in the United States, and one of the pride of Texas. At 94 meters tall, it is 7 feet taller than the Capitol in Washington, D.C., and is a dead ......

Most notably, there is a 14-foot-tall Statue of Liberty on top of the dome, which was added in 1986 not for aesthetic or symbolic purposes, but simply to add a little more height to the building......

“Bingo！ I bought it on the day I first launched, built it for almost a week, and was finally finished. Julio was very touched by the fact that he could recognize it.

"Is this how this game is played? Build a house? ”

"No, but that's not all, this game doesn't have any goals or missions, you can do whatever you want." Stan flew back to the Parliament building, adding blocks and explaining, "It's just what I wanted to do when I bought this game, and who's to tell them to advertise it like this." ”

The publicity of the various channels launched by the herring network and Activision is mainly based on colorful buildings.

"It seems that the degree of restoration is not bad." Julio smiled: "Really, at least a magnificent building, it looks okay." He wasn't exactly complimentary, and he couldn't tell what it was when he got closer now, but at first glance at the far end just now, he was still a little shocked.

"Do you think it's good?" Stan asked, his tone not quite believing.

"Yes, I'm serious." Julio said solemnly.

"No, no, no, I know what level my work is, and this is just my test of the waters, and my next work will be a real masterpiece."

"Please, I convince myself that it takes courage to praise you."

As a result, Stan didn't appreciate it at all...... What kind of person is this, let others evaluate it, and refute it after others compliment it......

"You probably haven't seen the real buildings, that's the artwork." Stan got up and walked in front of his computer, then logged into a website from his favorites: "Show you this, and you'll know why I said that." ”

"What is this?" Julio asked, but it seemed that the answer was still relatively obvious, and what caught his eye was a screen full of screenshots of buildings, all kinds of styles, all kinds of materials, all-encompassing, and some of the real-world places that even Julio recognized.

"This is the Statue of Liberty!" Julio introduced like a tour guide: "And this, the Great Wall of China, at first glance, is uploaded by Chinese players. ”

"This is President Hill? Oh my God, I can see Lincoln's beard! Julio was stunned.

This is the official website of Qingyu Network North America, the official page of the "Origin of Everything" design competition. From the day the game was released, the event officially kicked off.

There are no realistic or overhead restrictions on the works, and the right to judge is also handed over to the players, and all players around the world can upload their proud works to the competition interface of the website, including Chinese players...... That big wall is an active blocking mechanism, and many domestic users can't go to the website just because it's on the block list, and foreign websites that are not on that list can still be accessed.

Everyone uploads screenshots of their works from all angles for everyone to comment. After a month, the work with the most thumbs up will be awarded the title of Honorary Designer, as well as a $10,000 prize.

The rules are fairly simple, the bonuses are not too big and they don't matter, everyone comes here mainly to show off their "genius", and the average player is attracted by these grandiose or whimsical creations.

Some people also add friends to each other, complain together, or exchange experiences.

Because of the time, after all, the game has only been on the market for a week, which is too short for a truly epic and super-large workload to appear, but for the eyes of these players now, it is shocking enough.

At the moment, the number one is a Titanic, which is not the point, the point is that this is the Titanic, which has already sunk half of its hull in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

The sinking is not the essence, the essence is that from the hull that has been cracked in the middle, from the angle of multiple screenshots, the cross-section of the crack, you can actually see the structure inside the hull!

Inside, the five decks, ceilings, walls, as well as doors and chandeliers, and even the watertight compartments on the lower part of the hull, these details are revealed.

Although he didn't know if it was a true restoration of the big ship in history, Julio was still dumbfounded.

It's terrible.

The work has now received more than 2,300 likes, 400 more than Stormwind in the second-place "Warcraft".

Although this Stormwind City is obviously too rough, some rooms have no doors and windows, and it is reluctant to squeeze into the top ten in terms of completion alone, but there are many players who can't stand "Warcraft", everyone recognizes it and likes it, and the score will go up.

But it's still a huge amount of work, I don't know how much time this player spends on it, you are so liver, do you still have time to play "Warcraft" recently......

"How does it feel?" Julio's smug expression was as if he had made it himself......

"It's amazing." Julio was amazed and told the truth. He's not a tsundere 17-year-old boy.

"These people did it in less than a week, and you think you could give them a month or two to polish and sculpt and polish it, what would it look like? Even if the work that is now the first place will definitely fall in the ranking, there will definitely be a lot of more interesting things uploaded. ”

Julio then looked back at Stan on the TV screen and said, "Are you sure you want to continue building......

The subtext is that you still have the confidence to build it......

"I told you, I tested the waters."

"When is this contest over?"

"There are still three weeks to upload the work, and then there is half a month to only score and finally decide. What's wrong? Do you want to try it too? ”

Julio flipped to the very last page, and now there are more than two hundred works uploaded to the site, and some are obviously shoddy: "Do you remember the Hasbro spaceship we played with in third grade?" ”

"Remember, you broke it."

"That's not what I meant......"

"Do you want to build it?"

"It's okay if I compensate you."

"Then I suggest you buy the PC version, it seems that there are already some mods made, and they are cheaper than the console version."

"I don't have a credit card ......"

"That can't be helped."

"I mean, can you lend me some money? You know my financial situation. ”