Chapter 60: Is This a Bug?
This long comment has sparked a strong response among the player community, especially the application of fake-AI, which is simply a stroke of genius!
Even several veteran game review agencies, as well as game producers, have expressed high praise for this.
Game design has always been an art of "dancing in shackles".
In ancient times, top game makers made games with a capacity of only a few tens of megabytes, or even hundreds of kilobytes.
With pixel-art graphics and 8-bit music, it brings players an impressive gaming experience.
In modern times, as the technology of game development has become more and more advanced, the game graphics have become more and more realistic, and the game capacity has gradually expanded, and game producers have gradually lost this valuable ability.
They began to rely on powerful technology, and they couldn't even optimize the game at the basics, let alone take advantage of the lack of technology to make unique designs.
Just like fake-AI, it is the strongest artificial intelligence chat program invented by humans since ancient times, and it can even replace humans for some simple artistic creations under certain conditions.
But even with such a powerful technology, no producer has been able to use it perfectly in the game.
A lot of people make excuses, saying that it's because of the limitations of the technical level.
But obviously, this is actually a lack of design level.
Back then, when designers used hundreds of KB of capacity and 8-bit music to make classic games, no one complained about the lack of technical level, but now, with fake-AI, designers can't use it, which is obviously not because of the existence of "shackles" due to technical limitations, but just the decline in the ability of designers to "dance in shackles"!
On the other hand, "The Legend of Destiny and Wolong" can use the game mechanics to perfectly integrate this technology into the game, and even produce unprecedented program effects!
This kind of innovation, of course, deserves serious study by all game producers!
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Early the next morning, Zhou Yang yawned and came to the company listlessly.
He has not yet come out of the defeat of "The Legend of the Mandate of Heaven and the Dragon".
This is how making a game is, a game is made by the whole company for a long time, and a lot of effort is condensed. When the game is successful, it will give people an indescribable joy and pride, and when the game fails, it will also give people an indescribable depression and loss.
For some designers with strong self-esteem, the failure of a game is enough to keep them from eating for a month or two in a row.
Zhou Yang lay in bed before 11 o'clock last night, but he never fell asleep, and he had to get up early to squeeze the subway today, so he felt a little groggy as a whole.
The location where the game is located is still a bit off, if you happen to live in the north of the imperial capital, it's okay, but Zhou Yang lives in the east of the imperial capital, and it takes an hour to take the subway every time, which is really not very convenient.
"Forget it, I guess this company won't last long, if it really goes out of business, let's find a way to find a company closer to where I live in my next job......
While thinking like this, Zhou Yang sat down in his seat, opened his laptop, and swiped the web page casually to see the game's evaluation.
However, after a few brushes, he straightened up suddenly.
The drowsiness is swept away, and suddenly I am not sleepy!
"What's the situation?
"No, what's wrong with the kidneys? It's only been a night.,How did our game become "mostly positive"?! ”
Zhou Yang looked around in shock, but today he squeezed the subway so smoothly that he came a little early. It's only half past eight, and there is still half an hour before the official start of work, and the others have not yet arrived.
Therefore, this shocking discovery naturally cannot be shared with others in the first place.
Zhou Yang knows very well that in the case of so many bad reviews in the past, this game can still get "most of the praise", which means that players have given a lot of praise recently, and many players who have already given bad reviews have also changed to good reviews.
In other words, although it is still "mostly positive", as long as this momentum is maintained, it won't be long before this game becomes "rave reviews"!
All this made Zhou Yang feel extremely unreal, and he even felt that he hadn't woken up yet, and the scenes on the way to the company by subway were all hallucinations.
He hurried to check the ins and outs on the Internet, and soon, he figured out what was all going on.
To put it simply, it's because of a bug!
Players can use the "Tips" to activate the "Stargazing" effect for other NPCs, so that the fake-AI of these NPCs can see the data such as the seven-dimensional attributes, disgusted generals, and biographical information of other generals, thus influencing the decision-making of these AIs, so players can easily do many things that they couldn't do before!
A large number of players successfully supported the Han family through this method and made up for Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's regrets.
And they're still having fun playing after beating the level.
"The Legend of Destiny of Wo Long" seems to have become a living simulator for players, in this world, players rack their brains to engage in all kinds of riotous operations, change some key nodes in the Three Kingdoms, and then record the special AI plot and dialogue triggered by themselves and post it online.
There are also fancy ones, giving Zhuge Liang Yuxing to be more than 100 years old, and then returning it to Liu Bei and Guan Yuxing......
In short, this game seems to contain too many possibilities, only the unthinkable, nothing impossible!
Although sometimes the generated story is too outrageous, and sometimes the generated story does not meet the player's expectations, as long as one or two surprising stories appear, it is enough to support players to play again and again.
Under such a chain of communication, the popularity of "The Legend of Destiny Wolong" continued to soar, and the word-of-mouth quickly reversed!
As for why Zhou Yang knew that this was a BUG?
It's simple, because it's completely outside of the development plan!
He's the game's dog planner himself, so can he not know what the original design was like?
In the design draft, it was not written at all that "Wolong Ce can be used nested", and according to common sense, "stargazing" and "stargazing" are both Wolong Strategy, which should only be used by Zhuge Liang, and it is used by other generals and even demons.
Now the whole network is very confused, and everyone is discussing, is this a bug?
If it's not a BUG, why don't you tell everyone about it in the first place?
But if it's a BUG, it's even weirder, because in that case, the cool points around this BUG, including the use of fake-AI as a general, AI dubbing, demons and destiny and a series of settings are all meaningless, and even become a purely disgusting design.
It can only be said that this is very much in line with the consistent style of anti-heaven games.
From Hell Trail to Sisyphus, and from Heaven's Cube to Destiny Wo Long, a bug-like mechanic has become the core gameplay of the game, echoing the rest of the game's design.
They really want to catch an employee who is against heaven and ask, is this a bug? You've made such a mess of me!
can be an employee of Reverse Heaven, Zhou Yang himself is more confused than netizens.
yes, is this a bug? I don't know!
From the inside information, this is undoubtedly a bug:
It is not written in the design draft;
The whole company, from planning to art to testing, did not expect this kind of operation;
Even when the outlook for the game was not good after its release, the boss encouraged all the employees and said that no matter what happens, we will not lay off employees.
No matter how you look at it, it looks like an accident!
But this accident inexplicably corresponds to the content of the game, which plays the finishing touch and turns stones into gold......
Zhou Yang scratched his head vigorously, feeling that his scalp was so itchy, and he might be about to grow his brain.
At this time, 9 o'clock in the morning was approaching, and the other employees of the company also sat at their workstations and started to work.
And their mood at this time was the same as Zhou Yang's, from stunned to shocked, to surprise and questioning, and finally to complete confusion.
Happiness came too suddenly, and everyone was very uncomfortable!
Only Su Tong is relatively calm, after all, she has already experienced the same development twice, as the company's No. 002 employee, she has seen more of the world than other employees.
In this joyful and confused atmosphere, Gu Fan arrived.
As usual, he went upstairs slowly with the coffee he ordered from downstairs, and he had a rather unfazed demeanor.