Chapter 73: The Ideal Answer and the Realistic Answer
Zhang Qifeng hurriedly moved the pen and recorded it.
This time he is going to do a text interview, although in the new media era video interview will be better, but text interviews also have the advantage, that is, it is easier to get official adoption.
The official platform also has its own news station, and the current mainstream manuscript is still a transcript. And this time, Zhang Qifeng got some internal information from the game less game network, saying that the official platform may consider selecting a better press release about the game against heaven from various game media and posting it on the official news site.
Although this kind of manuscript has no real benefits, it is a good opportunity for major game media to expand their influence, and editors like Zhang Qifeng and others who want to be promoted internally often have corresponding index requirements.
Therefore, he attaches great importance to this interview.
After quickly memorizing it, Zhang Qifeng asked again: "What about the realistic answer?" ”
Gu Fan sighed softly: "The reality is that no matter how anti-heaven and anti-human design our company makes, it always inexplicably relies on the luck of the sky to turn evil into good fortune and turn danger into disaster. It's really embarrassing! ”
Zhang Qifeng: "Huh? ”
This is really an unexpected answer, Mr. Gu is admitting that the anti-heaven company has made a lot of anti-heaven and anti-human designs? And success is all about luck?
Zhang Qifeng felt a little smoke in his brain, and he hurriedly asked: "I was about to ask this, many players are very curious, every game launched by Reverse Heaven has a very distinctive feature, that is, a core gameplay that can turn things around."
"For example, the players summarized, 'Bullet Turn', 'Dragon Flap Wings', 'Spin Elimination', 'Wolong Nesting' and so on.
"So here's the problem......
"Is this a game mechanic, or is it a bug?"
Gu Fan silently took a sip of coffee: "It's still that question, do you want to hear an ideal answer, or a realistic answer?" ”
Zhang Qifeng was stunned for a moment, come again?
"The ideal answer?" He had no choice but to continue to cooperate.
Gu Fan said seriously: "Nowadays, many game companies like to serve semi-finished games directly to the table, which is called 'early access', and there are even a lot of people who run away halfway, which is obviously a kind of chaos!"
"And we at Antiheaven Games have always insisted on making high-quality games, and have been working hard to achieve "no word for word in the design draft" and "one line of game code is not changed", and once the game is released, it will never carry out any follow-up updates.
"I think that's a kind of confidence."
Zhang Qifeng blinked, his expression a little confused.
Mr. Gu seemed to give some hints, but he didn't seem to give them.
Zhang Qifeng tried to savor the implication of this passage: "Mr. Gu, do you mean that the design level and game development level of the game against heaven are very high? Once the game is designed, don't change a single line of design? Or even confident that there are no bugs in the game, so they don't need any follow-up updates?
"So those are really the core mechanics that were designed a long time ago?"
Gu Fan showed a meaningful smile: "Why don't you listen to the realistic answer again?" ”
Zhang Qifeng nodded: "Okay." ”
Gu Fan sighed softly: "That's really all bugs!" ”
Zhang Qifeng: "Huh?? ”
Now he really can't be rectified.
In fact, Zhang Qifeng also asked Zhao Haiquan before, what are the game mechanics? Or is it a bug?
And Zhao Haiquan's answer was: "I don't know."
In fact, Zhao Haiquan wants to say that in his opinion, any mechanism that is not written in the design draft is a BUG, but after all, he is only a background program, and he has not participated in the development of the core program of the game, and he does not know how the code of "Wolong Ce Nesting" is written, so he does not dare to make conclusions.
That's why Zhang Qifeng planned to ask again when he interviewed Gu Fan.
As the boss of the game against heaven, Mr. Gu's answer can always have a decisive effect, right?
But when Mr. Gu said "this is a bug" with a serious face, it made him completely confused.
As if he was afraid that Zhang Qifeng would not believe it, Gu Fan continued to explain.
"Yes, since my company's first game, Hell Trail, I have been plagued by all kinds of inexplicable bugs.
"Although we have a very strong testing team, we have worked hard to test every line of code in the game and found 99.99% of the bugs in the game, but it is not a mistake.
"But maybe it's a matter of luck.,These bugs aren't bad bugs.,They don't have a lethal impression on the game.。
"So, we didn't fix them."
Zhang Qifeng couldn't help but be dumbfounded, he scratched his head: "Wait a minute, Mr. Gu, I'll take care of it."
"If these are all bugs......
"Then I want to ask, when you designed Hell Tracks, how did you plan for players to clear the level? "Reverse Heaven Cube" has no rotation elimination, so what's the point of lowering the probability of the appearance of the bar? If you can't use stargazing for other NPCs, then this game can still be played? ? ”
At present, in response to this problem, players are divided into "BUG faction" and "gameplay faction", and these problems are also the most unexplainable problems of the BUG faction.
If these are all bugs, then it means that there was no solution to these problems in the original design, then these games are pure garbage games!
Gu Fan spread his hands: "At that time, we felt that the handsome players had enough intelligence and would definitely be able to think of a way to crack it."
"We choose to believe in the players!
"It's just that I didn't expect the players to find a way to be a bug."
Zhang Qifeng scratched his head: "Then you mean to say that all the success of the Antiheaven game so far is based on bugs?"
Or is it all about the player's ingenuity and play? Nothing to do with your design? ”
Gu Fan nodded confidently: "Yes, it can be understood in this way."
"But it's not very objective to say that the success of the game has nothing to do with our design.
"The success of the game is still closely related to our design, and the specific connection is...... We stress-tested our players to bring out their potential and found bugs in the game. ”
"Poof!" Zhang Qifeng almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, "Isn't that a pure side effect!" ”
Gu Fan nodded: "If you have to understand it like this, you can't say it wrong." ”
……
Zhang Qifeng felt that the interview could not be carried out.
He actually prepared a lot of questions before, but these questions all had one premise, that is: "These bugs in the game are not bugs, but well-designed core mechanics!"
It has to be designed to be necessary to continue to ask?
But now, Gu Fan said that they are all bugs, how can he ask?
You can't always ask, "What was the mindset behind you to design such a bug?" That's not like that!
Zhang Qifeng never imagined that one day he would be completely out of words.
He racked his brains and finally came up with one last question.
"That'...... Mr. Gu, can I ask a question that is not very relevant to the content of the interview? ”
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course you can, you can ask casually." ”
Zhang Qifeng said curiously: "If you were interviewed by other media, would you answer the same way?" ”
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course, no matter who asks, my answer is the same." I hope you can report it truthfully. ”
Zhang Qifeng nodded silently: "Okay, I understand!" ”
After that, Zhang Qifeng asked a few more questions, wanting to work hard to save some fields, but no matter how he asked, Gu Fan was adamant, these are BUGs!
In the end, Zhang Qifeng could only look at the contents of the shorthand book, and said quite embarrassedly: "Okay, then that's all for today's interview, thank you Mr. Gu for accepting this interview, and I hope that Reverse Heaven will be able to get better and better!" ”
Gu Fan smiled and stood up to shake hands with him: "Then borrow your auspicious words." ”
Just walked out of the café, but Zhang Qifeng was worried.
How to write this interview!