Chapter 573: Let's go, classmates, let's pick up garbage!
Yes, it's "Our World", not the famous "My World".
"My World" is a game that everyone knows, it is a game that controls a block villain to smash blocks everywhere in a pure square world, making things, although the game is small, but the content is rich, the playability is extremely high, and it is suitable for all ages.
And the "Our World" that Leon will make is a survival game.
Yes, there is also a survival mode in "My World", which will refresh all kinds of zombies to threaten the player's completeness, but in essence, it is not a survival game, but a simulation construction game, because these zombies are very easy to deal with, you only need to dig a hole to hide yourself, and they will immediately cease to threaten, and more players play, or creative mode.
What are the survival games? In fact, there are many now, such as "Ark Survival Evolved", such as "The Long Night", such as "Rotten Country", such as "This is My War", such as "Famine", such as "Desert Island: The Rest of My Life", such as "Deep Sea Trek", ......
They are all survival games, but the background themes are different, "Ark: Survival Evolved" is an ancient dinosaur science fiction theme, "Long Night" is a wild ice field survival theme, "Rotten Country" is a zombie theme, "This Is My War" is a war theme, "Famine" is a fantasy theme, "Desert Island: The Rest of My Life" is a lonely island theme, and "Deep Sea Trek" is an ocean science fiction theme...... They are all different, in different forms of expression, and different in how they play, but all of them have their own unique features that attract their own fans.
"Our World" is also a survival game, specifically, a survival virtual reality online game.
Yes, online games, in the true sense of the word, are not small maps for every 120 players like "Little Adventure", nor are they online modes like other survival games where you open a room and wait for other players to join in and play together, but a large-scale online game with the same global server where all players act on one map!
Then the key point comes, as a large-scale survival online game, what kind of background theme should it be?
As we all know, the vast majority of survival games are single-player games, and even if there is a cooperative mode, there are almost a few, and more than a dozen people play together, which is far from being an online game.
Among them, "Ark Survival Evolved" is known as an online game, but it is actually a single server mode, players can choose one of the servers to join the game, and because of its own limited map size, so a server can accommodate less than 500 people at most, and even reluctantly, there are 200 people online at the same time, the materials in this server are not enough, and each other will have to fight dog brains. So, strictly speaking, it can't be considered a large-scale online game in the true sense of the word.
What kind of background theme should be used for a real large-scale online game?
First of all, the map should be large, after all, the map is not big and can not accommodate so many players, now the number of users of the dream helmet has exceeded 100 million, the vast majority of them are active users, basically sleep every day will enter the virtual reality world, this new game is launched, there will inevitably be a large number of players, conservative estimates, there will also be millions of people, that is, on this map, must accommodate millions of people at the same time!
As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of people, boundless, traditional computer-side online games, most of them are divided into servers, even the most popular games, in a server, full of 10,000 people are rare, one is technically unable to do so many people in the same server action, second, it is also because the map itself is limited, if the number of people is too much, thousands of people grab a monster, then how to play the game?
Fortunately, making a map large enough is not difficult for a third-order AI lifeform, and even if the virtual reality is completely realistic, it will only take a few minutes.
Since there is no limit to the map, it is the main theme and gameplay of the game.
As I said before, this game is to allow more players to cooperate with each other, and the main promotion is to help each other with love. In reality, what kind of emotions are there most of this kind of mutual help between people?
Undoubtedly, in collective work. Nowadays, most of the work is collective work, and the whole factory or company is a big collective, and everyone performs their duties in the studio, helps each other, and completes the company's work tasks throughout the day.
Just like a production line, someone is responsible for pouring raw materials into the machine, someone is responsible for checking the status of the machine, someone is responsible for transferring the semi-finished products made in this machine to another machine, someone is responsible for finding out the unqualified semi-finished products and throwing them away, someone is responsible for the quality inspection of the final finished products, someone is responsible for packing the finished products, and some people are responsible for forking the boxes of finished products to the warehouse or truck...... Everyone has their own tasks, and everyone cannot do without the help of others.
However, for a large number of people, this job, this mutual help, is not something they want to do.
Who wouldn't want to lie down at home and go around playing? Or is it not to make money, to earn that salary to let yourself and your family survive?
Therefore, the gameplay of this game is about to come out, that is, players help each other to survive in the game together!
It's not hard to get there! Because the theme chosen by Leon is the theme of "Doomsday Wasteland"! This is a large-scale survival online game with a post-apocalyptic wasteland theme.
When it comes to the theme of "Doomsday Wasteland", the most famous is the "Radiant Shooting" series of games, starting with a gun, a dog, and a lonely invasion of this brutal world.
However, it was a single-player game, a purely single-player game, and it didn't even have an online mode.
Even so far, there is not a single large-scale online game with the theme of "Doomsday Wasteland"! Yes, at most, it's just a mini-game with an online mode.
Is it difficult to do a large-scale online game with a post-apocalyptic wasteland theme? It's really hard to do! There are many difficulties and many problems that need to be solved. But that doesn't mean you can't do it! What Leon is doing now is such an attempt!
If there is a problem, then solve it one by one, first of all, we must clearly know what the "Doomsday Wasteland theme" is.
"Doomsday" aside, the word "wasteland" originated from a game called "Wasteland" released by the United States in 1988, which depicts the background of a nuclear war in the near future, the whole world is shrouded in radiation fallout, human beings are almost dead, civilization is basically destroyed, and the only remaining human beings survive through some shelters, and then struggle to survive in this desperate world.
In a sense, such a world is indeed not much different from the "end times".
Of course, such a theme did not appear for no reason, it was a theme that was bred by the invisible existential pressure that pressed heavily on the heads of the two countries and the people of the two alliances during the decades-long Cold War between the two largest superpowers on the planet, the United States and the Soviet Union.
Now, although the Soviet Union has disintegrated and split into Tsarist Russia, Ukraine and other countries, it is no longer as brave as it used to be, but the invisible pressure is still shrouded in everyone's hearts, and the reason is very simple, because there are still countless nuclear weapons in this world, and these dangerous things may still fall on everyone's heads because of a certain madness or accident, and the vast majority of mankind will be slaughtered!
Everyone knows this, but they rarely think about it.
The pressure has always been there, the stone that has pressed on everyone's hearts has always been there, but everyone has become accustomed to it, and it is so used to forgetting it.
It is precisely because everyone is used to it, so for all kinds of works with the theme of "Doomsday Wasteland", whether it is film or television, or games, they all have a unique love, and even some people's love can be called fanatical.
No one wants to die, almost everyone wants to live well, and everyone's subconscious is looking for the possibility of surviving in this apocalyptic wasteland, what will that world be like? What can I do to ensure that I, my family, survive? Everyone wants to know, so the theme of "Doomsday Wasteland" has endured until now, and almost every game that has been released has been a big hit.
In the same way, this theme is not the patent of Westerners, or the people of the United States, after all, such a thing as nuclear war may happen in the United States, and it may also happen in China, and the 1.4 billion people in China also have "If China is attacked by a nuclear bomb, what should I do to survive?" "This question.
Therefore, the problem of the map is solved, it is after the nuclear war, or rather, after the end of the nuclear winter, of course, in order to avoid it, some place names on the map still have to be modified.
Once the map is decided, the next step is the player, that is, in what form the player will appear in this world.
Speaking of apocalyptic wasteland games, we have to mention the famous "Radiation" series of games in the country of Rice, according to the premise of this, the player comes from some kind of place called "shelter", which is a kind of shelter that can provide shelter conditions, so that a small group of people stay in it and hide until the end of the nuclear winter, usually buried deep underground.
Moreover, this "shelter" is not as simple as everyone seems, it is actually part of a huge social experiment, there are many shelters in the game, distributed in various places on the map, and because the people who enter each shelter are different, and the system inside is also different, so each shelter has its own unique place.
For example, a shelter with 999 women and 1 man; For example, at certain times, a collective vote must be cast to execute a member's vault; For example, all members stay in a shelter in the virtual reality world; For example, the shelters that are all about children and researchers, and the shelters where researchers use children for experiments ...... provide players with a lot of fun to explore this wasteland world, and become an indispensable part of the game.
And the protagonist in the game also comes from a shelter, but it's a normal kind, and then due to the game setting, the water purifier in the shelter is broken, the air purifier is broken, and after opening the door of the shelter, the bandits broke in and took their wives and children away, and so on, the protagonist had to leave his shelter and go to this apocalyptic wasteland.
Shelter is certainly a good setting, but it's great for single-player games, but not necessarily online.
Online games, this kind of thing,At the beginning, what you asked for was a fair environment.,Just imagine,You and 999 rough old men are locked in a shelter.,Another lucky person is locked up in a shelter with 999 female players.,Do you have a balance in your heart?
What's the point of every shelter if it's perfectly normal, without those weird social experiments?
Moreover, the key is that the current map is Huaguo, how can you still play Lao Mi's set on the land of Huaguo?
After all, those bizarre or tragic social experiments in the shelters in the United States may be led by their government, after all, who can spend so much money to build so many shelters on their own land, which force but the government can do it?
The national conditions of our country are different, our government is completely for the people, and will not engage in the capitalist set, the government-led nuclear war refuge setting, of course, is to save as many people as possible and protect more civilizations.
Moreover, everyone knows that the people who take refuge in the shelter are able to move freely, and everyone has a clear division of labor, some are responsible for taking care of the crops in the darkroom, some are responsible for repairing various life-sustaining equipment, power equipment, and power generation equipment, and some are responsible for the location order and management of the shelter, and everyone helps each other to survive this difficult nuclear winter, and survive until the radiation outside is normal, and human beings can move freely out of the shelter.
If it's also set up like this in the online game, it's not suitable, after all, the shelter is too small, just walk around and get familiar with it, and after playing for some time, you'll inevitably get bored, how many players are willing to stay in this boring shelter all the time, and play with other players?
In the first place, when the Vault is opened, the player will feel confused and unsure of what to do.
In fact, in a sense, this shelter is also the novice village of the player in the traditional online game, which is responsible for handing over the player to the player if they play in this world and explain the background of this world.
In addition, in Leon's opinion, the setting of the shelter is a bit unreasonable, because it is too wasteful of resources! No matter how you think about it, it takes a lot more energy to maintain 1,000 people who move freely than it does to maintain 1,000 people who hibernate in cryopoly, and the same amount of energy, if all of them are used to maintain hibernators, it may not be impossible to maintain 3,4000 people, of course, the maintenance of equipment is also a problem, but this problem can be solved by waking up certain players at regular intervals and allowing them to perform maintenance.
Therefore, in Li Ang's setting, Huaguo's nuclear war refuge facility is not a refuge, but a hibernation nest! There is no place for the evacuees to live freely, only a small nuclear power plant, and thousands of hibernation chambers!
All the evacuees or players lie in these hibernation pods, and only when the hibernation nest detects that the radiation level of the outside world has dropped and the environment is suitable for human activities and habitation, will all the evacuees be thawed, wake them up from hibernation, walk to the surface, and rebuild civilization!
This kind of setting, compared to the shelter, is also more suitable for large-scale online games, after all, a player creates an account to log in, that is a hibernation nest is awakened, and a shelter thaws up.
Of course, the hibernation nest will also provide some production tools, production equipment, and production knowledge inquiries at the beginning, as well as a small number of weapons to help these evacuees survive the most difficult period in the early stage.
There are three or four thousand people in a hibernation nest, and everyone can freely form an exploration team, open the door of the hibernation nest to the surface, enter the world of the apocalyptic wasteland, and start picking up garbage happily.