In the case that the first two games have been recognized by the audience in the live broadcast room.

Josiah took the plunge and opened the third game, praying silently in his heart.

Ready Player One!

Lead Game Designer!

Please!

Don't be so good anymore!

These two of your works can already provoke the beam.

Give me some way to live, too......

Let me judge you!

That's a 200,000-meter knife!

How many days and months do you have to live stream to earn this money......

But now, it is only necessary to use the tongue to magnify the shortcomings of a game, so that players feel that the game is not fun, and it does not deserve to be called a textbook, or even attack it en masse.

You can easily get paid for 200,000 meters of knives!

This kind of pie-in-the-sky opportunity is not available all the time.

It's a pity that the first two games directly blocked Josiah's mouth.

The two brothers "Time and Space Fantasy" and "Dead Cells" are not impeccable in their perfection, but even if there are drawbacks, they are all small problems.

It belongs to the flawed and unconcealed.

And more importantly, it is indeed impeccable for the design inspiration of practitioners.

Josiah couldn't even say anything about the trial.

Therefore, he can only bet all his hopes on the last game at hand.

He took a deep breath, with a little panic, his fingers trembled slightly, and he immediately double-clicked to open the game folder.

Josiah's eyes widened, fearing that the next moment he would emerge with a well-made 3D masterpiece.

But what relieved him was.

Fortunately, it's not a 3D masterpiece.

Moreover, this time it's not even a pixel art.

The UI of the game in stick figure style is presented in front of him.

In the picture, a cartoon villain with a round head, a square body, and limbs described only with a marker pen is sitting in the spotlight and shivering.

It was accompanied by a few stick figure flies, hovering around the little boy.

Above its head, the name of the game appears as bright red as blood.

《The Binding of Isaac》

Besides.

Nope.

Nothing is gone.

There is only one hint left to start the game.

"Poof...... Josiah smiled unkindly when he saw this.

Could it be that God's desire has been heard?

This game, whether it's fun or not, we haven't played it yet, in order not to be slapped in the face, so I won't evaluate it first.

But just this ...... It's so naïve that it looks like a three-year-old kid drawing a UI interface......

No matter how you look at it...... It doesn't look like you can make a textbook, does it?

"Look, what I'm talking about." In the conference room, Comm patted Kate on the shoulder, and at the moment when Isaac's UI interface came out, his eyes suddenly became a little disapproving: "It's impossible for anyone to make a game that is popular, if he has this ability, he is not a small game manufacturer in China now, and Wei Wangdi has to pour him tea." ”

And Kate exhaled softly as relieved.

I really thought that you number one gamer could be a god in three of them, and I was scared of it.

As a result, the last one got me this?

You don't even bother to hire a game artist, do you?

Co-authored to hide the garbage in two other excellent works.。

I hope that after playing the other two titles, players will be able to raise their hands on the game "The Binding of Isaac", right?

Even if you can, but if you want to enter the Omega Market, you have to ask us if the Omega Market speakers will agree, right?

At this time, there was already a picture of Josiah starting to try the game in the live broadcast room.

"Isaac and his mother lived alone in a small house on a hill......" A deep and low narration slowly sounded, and the opening line was told in a fairy tale-like tone.

But the story told is not as beautiful as a fairy tale.

Isaac lived alone with his mother in a small house on a hill.

Although life is simple and plain, everyone lives happily.

Until one day, a religious mother hears a voice claiming that her son, Isaac, is an unclean thing and needs to be redeemed.

Mother then removed all the wickedness from Isaac's room.

In the player's point of view, the stick figure illustration is the mother's Isaac house, where toys, dolls, and everything that the child is interested in are thrown away.

Not long after, the voice rang out again.

Claiming that Isaac was still corrupted by evil, that he needed to turn away from it and repent of his sins.

The mother, who was deeply involved in religion, did the same, and Isaac locked himself in the room, regardless of his life or death, and the food that was sent into the room was moldy and spoiled.

And as time passed, the voice rang out for the last time.

It expresses doubts about the loyalty of the mother, and in order for the mother to prove her fidelity to the faith, it requires the mother to offer a sacrifice—her son, Isaac.

To prove that the mother's faith trumps everything.

The mother said yes again, and mechanically rushed to the kitchen with a kitchen knife, and walked towards Isaac's door.

Isaac, who had seen all this through the crack in the door, panicked and searched for a place to hide in the room.

Soon, he noticed a hidden compartment under the carpet in the room.

At the moment when the mother broke through the door with a kitchen knife.

Without hesitation, he opened the secret door and plunged into the unknown.

And the player's journey to the game begins.

Josiah first enters the game and finds himself in a dimly lit dungeon.

The perspective of the game is to overlook the flat structure.

The beginner's tutorial is also drawn directly on the ground in the way that children draw.

WASD controls the movement of the character.

↑←↓→ control the direction in which the character shoots.

E key to cast a bomb.

Space to use active props.

Q key to use cards/capsules.

The teaching is very simple and the presentation is very innovative.

More critically, Josiah found out after entering the game.

Isaac's art style isn't as clean as the game's UI.

Although it is still a minimalist children's painting style.

But this little dwarf Isaac, who has a slight white powder in his powder, stares at a pair of big eyes, and looks at the screen with tears in his eyes, but he looks a little cute.

"Well, this style of painting obviously can't be used as an attack." Josiah said in his heart.

Although he is not a game designer, as a game review blogger, he has played a lot of games.

This kind of game with excellent graphics, not to mention that the art style is excellent, but it is definitely not bad.

Attacking by grasping this point, in addition to looking like an idiot, will not be recognized by the audience.

Guided by the novice tutorial, he tried firing bullets.

To Josiah's surprise.

This game is a 2D barrage game from a bird's-eye view.

But the setting of the bullet is somewhat novel.

It's not the traditional gun, but the tears of Isaac, the little boy he controls!

Use drops of round and full tears as bullets!

When this setting appeared, it sparked a lot of cheerful discussions.

Most players find this setting very new and interesting, and it looks good.

Josiah quickly noticed the upper left corner of the game's interface.

There, there is a reddish dice that serves as Isaac's initial carrying prop.

"Take a picture of the space to use the active props, right, I'll see what effect this dice called D6 has." As Josiah spoke, he slapped the space.

On the screen, a cutscene with roll points appears.

Soon, however, silence returned to the entire initial room.

It's as if nothing happened.

"Huh?"

"What does that mean?"

Josiah scratched his head in confusion.

After waiting for a moment without answering, he simply ignored it and manipulated Isaac to leave the initial room and begin to explore the unknown room ahead.

After entering the new room, he also saw new enemies.

It was a few bodies that resembled Isaac himself, but had no head, bouncing back and forth on the ground.

In addition to this, there are several lumps of dark yellow stool that are coiled together to stand out.

"Oh shit......" Josiah's brows furrowed slightly when he saw this.

"No, what is this?"

"Headless bouncing corpses, and poop?"

"Is it possible to take out this element and make a game?"

"What did the Ready Player One designer think?"

I held back two whole works.

Now that he has finally found a point where he can judge, Josiah is mercilessly talking, but his hands are not idle.

He didn't want to be killed by these little sloppy jumps.

Manipulating Isaac to shoot tears while moving.

Since the monsters in this game don't have a health bar, Josiah doesn't know how many hits he needs to make to kill them.

Moreover, the landing point of these jumps is extremely unfixed, jumping here and there, and it is extremely difficult to judge their course of action.

Plus there is a stool in the way.

There were only three jumpers in the room, but Josiah fought hard for a minute before he killed one.

His blood volume has also dropped from the original three red hearts to only one heart.

also gained the reputation of 'vegetable force' sent by the barrage.

"Anchor, you're not right, I'm so anxious."

"You can't even pass the first level, right?"

"It's not right to play a game, how can you get it done?"

"When you really need to start with a real knife and a real gun one day, are you not right?"

Looking at the barrage, Josiah was directly annoyed.

"No, brothers, it's really not a question of whether I'm right or not, you know this game when you play it, it needs to be coordinated with the left and right hands at the same time, the left hand controls the direction of movement, the right hand shoots tears, the target keeps jumping around, you can't do it when you come!"

"Okay, okay, let's say your fans can't do it, right, it's closed."

Just when the barrage was joking and interacting with Josiah.

Suddenly.

"Po~"

A crisp sound of pulling onions on dry land sounded.

Josiah was in a hurry to manipulate Isaac, and the tears he emitted hit a lump of stool.

The latter was quickly blown up by bullets, not only did the obstacle terrain disappear, but also a bright gold coin burst out of the stool.

"Huh? Can this shit be exploded? ”

"Don't say it sooner!"

Barrage: "Tears are water, and water can wash away stool, which is very reasonable, isn't it?" :)”

"Then the question is, can you still buy gold coins that have been stained with?"

"Why not, if you're willing to give me a pound of-stained gold, then you'll be my best friend for life, XD"

"Why are you discussing and pee as soon as I entered the live broadcast room, is this the Omi Heavy Mouth Zone?"

Rather than the gags of the barrage, Josiah is more focused on the present.

This time, his goal is very clear, first clean up all the stool that is in the way around him with tears.

After a while, a few lumps of feces scattered throughout the room were cleared, and the room was instantly much more spacious.

At this time, even if you can't catch up well, because the bullet can look forward without barriers, shoot a longer distance, and you can hit it if you are lucky.

It took another minute for Josiah to clean up the room after another minute of this stupid play.

After the monster is emptied, the doors to the other rooms are also opened.

Josiah looked and found that the room he was in had doors on all sides.

Among them, the door on the far left is made of gold.

As soon as he walked in, he was attracted by a prop floating in the air on a stone pier in the center of the room.

The prop resembles a crying onion.

After picking it up, Josiah pressed the launch button again, only to find it unexpectedly.

"Oh! Shoot so fast! ”

Isaac in the picture is shooting tears out at this time, the volume of the tears seems to be smaller, but the rate of fire is very dense.

"Can the props in this game change the shape of tears?"

"I'll give it a try."

As if Josiah felt that he had been strengthened, he got back on the road.

New picture new monster,This time the monster seems to be a few Isaac after overeating.,Broad belly.,Movement speed is relatively slow.。

At a high frequency of fire, it is not a problem at all.

After some strafing, another room was cleanly cleared.

Soon, a twisted snake-like prop drops, catching Josiah's attention.

After picking it up, Josiah found it unexpectedly.

"Hey guys! How my tears are squirming this time! ”

In the picture, Isaac's tears are fired in a straight line in the direction of the face.

After a certain distance, it disappears.

But after picking up the 'Wriggling Snake' ornament.

The form of the tears began to sway left and right in midair.

Dancing bullets?

This scene can't help but make the barrage feel strange.

Before that, they had seen quite a few games that changed the way they attacked.

But those attacks are meant to better strengthen the character itself.

But at the moment, the role of this "Isaac", the role of props so far, seems to be purely changing the form of tears.

And what's even more interesting for everyone.

Isaac's character also seems to change depending on the items he picks up.

This can't help but make the barrage curious and urging.

"Quick, I want to see what other ways to shoot tears?"

And when Josiah cleared a few more rooms, this time another golden chest was revealed.

Through the monster cleaning in the rooms just now, Josiah also got a key, which was just right to open the treasure chest.

After opening, what is presented this time is a big eyeball with a sense of science and technology.

Pick it up and press fire.

The attack form has changed again!

It turned into a red laser that fires forward.

And it seems to be under the influence of the 'wriggling snake'.

Josiah discovers that the laser is also crooked.

After the onion blessing, the speed of the laser shot is quite fast, and there is a 'sudden and sudden 'sudden'

Moreover, the range of this laser seems to be infinitely long, and it can stand directly on the far left side of the room and shoot it at the far right wall in one breath.

Taking the laser and going to the new room to fight monsters is like opening a plug-in.

Find the right angle and hit the enemy from a distance.

Although the damage is a bit gua sha, it is better than the fun.

After clearing another room, Josiah's eyes widened as if he suddenly realized something.

"Wait, this game...... Could it be that all the items obtained can be combined with each other? ”

"I mean, every item has a purpose, and it's not just a stat that adds to you."

"You see, this happens in many meat pigeon games, after getting a variety of buffs that seem random, you only know that you seem to be stronger, the damage becomes higher, and the attack range becomes larger, but this strength comes from the value itself, and you don't care about the impact of the props."

"In 'Isaac,' if we pick up an onion, then our rate of fire will always be faster, whether you're shooting with tears or using electric shock prosthetic eyes like I do now, it's going to get faster."

"But the wriggling snake also plays its part in this process, and it makes our tears twist."

"I can clearly see which props play a role in this......

"What's more, these items seem to be able to merge with each other, if I pick up the worm this time, what I pick up is not this technological prosthetic eye, but another new thing, then the worm will also help me distort another attack......"

"In that case, the game seems to be ...... No longer fixed to having players explore a genre...... It's ......"

As if thinking of something incredible, Josiah's expression gradually became shocked.

He frowned as everyone watched him, but this time he frowned not because he was dissatisfied with the game.

Instead, he was thinking about how to condense the process he experienced along the way into a summary sentence.

Soon, he thought about it.

Josiah said with bright eyes.

“fuck！！ Everything we can see is a fucking genre! ”

“OMG！ What kind of bold premise is this? Is this a setting that can be made into a game? ”

"What do you mean?" Connor, who continued to watch the live broadcast, originally thought that the victory was in his hands.

However, after seeing Josiah's gradually changing attitude, Connor seemed to realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Kate.

Josiah's statement was too general and abstract, and Connor, the senior Vivendi, who was not in charge of designing the game, naturally couldn't understand what he meant.

But Kate, as a professional game designer, has certainly seen something more profound than herself.

"Josiah, is that a game fun? I don't understand something. Connor asked again.

And just after he looked at Kate, Comm panicked even more.

Because he found that Kate's brows were frowning very tightly at this time, and even began to subconsciously bite her thumb, staring straight at the screen, her face became a little ugly, and she was still muttering something that Connor didn't understand.

“…… If so, this will probably be a game that redefines what a meat pigeon should do...... No, it shouldn't be possible...... It's also crazy, how can such a game exist in the world? …… I don't quite believe ......"

Connor was numb.

No.

How come you are all riddlers!

The Riddler can get out of the Weiwang Flute, okay!

I don't understand!

How did you suddenly realize the horror of this game after only playing it for more than ten minutes?

Why does it look like a minimalist game, and you can pick up items and pass the level......

And the graphics of the game are very children's insoles.

What, pee, fart, flies, gluttonous fat people, and headless jumpers, monsters with bloody eyes and tears.

I really don't think it's awesome......

And finally, Kate, who came back to her senses, took a deep breath and slowly spoke.

"Sir, you should have heard of the meat pigeon type, do you know what its general gameplay is?"

Connor thought for a moment, then replied.

"It's probably a game that takes randomness as the core, and then relies on randomness to form many sets of system gameplay, so that players have a fresh feeling in each game."

"Well, before that, that's pretty much what it meant." Kai nodded and said, "Although it seems random, in fact, each system is fixed. ”

"I took the time to study Kill the Spire, a game that has been widely acclaimed in China, and it has been called the best meat pigeon card game by players."

"In this game, the cards that players get are random, the relics they get are random, the monsters they encounter are also random, and the routes generated are also random, it looks like a very traditional meat pigeon type, right."

"And then?" Connor didn't know why.

He hadn't even heard of Slay the Spire, and he didn't quite understand the nature of the game.

"However, its meat pigeon element, when you dig deeper, you will find that there are actually not as many as you imagined."

"It seems like you get random cards, and you build a deck at random."

"But in practice, if you're playing a set of attack streams, then you're going to have to avoid getting the decks at the core of the defense genre in the future. Because defensive decks don't play a bigger role in the attacking genre, they just take up your library, waste your card draws, and rot in your hand. ”

In other words, even the most fun meat pigeon card recognized by East Asian players is actually a fixed genre. Players need to build a fixed set of genres in random routes, random monsters, and randomly appearing cards. ”

"Once it's settled, the relics, decks, and shops you choose early on will all move towards the genre you want to build. As a result, your genre in the mid-to-late game can't be changed. ”

"If you want to try something new, you need to start the next round."

Connor continued to frown, "What the hell are you trying to say?" I just want to know why Isaac, the damn game, has only been played for more than ten minutes, and it makes you collectively make sounds like 'shit' and 'omg'? ”

"That's exactly what I'm going to say ......next," Kate's expression was also not relaxed, and there was even a hint of bitterness and discouragement at the corners of her mouth, as if she was too far behind her opponent.

The appearance of Isaac...... The original blue star's stereotypical definition of meat pigeons ......"

"All overturned."

“WTF？？” Connor's pupils constricted slightly.

He doesn't know much about game design.

But he knew the weight of the word 'overthrow'.

The ability to overthrow represents its almost unrivaled strength in the field.

This made Connor once again look at the live broadcast room on the computer screen.

Josiah is still trying out Isaac

The way the villain on the screen attacks seems to have changed a little more.

But in terms of these changes in attack methods......

What does it mean?

Is this overturned?

At this time, I heard Kate speak again.

"What Isaac is presenting at the moment is a whole new concept that hasn't been seen in any other meat pigeon game – inclusivity."

"Sir, it's still the example I just cited, after you focus on the attack flow in "Killing the Spire", you can't go through the defense flow."

"But the same phrase in Isaac becomes—"

"You can focus on the attack stream and defend at the same time...... Then you can add some ice, wind, and fire...... Then the fucking cauldron is staged, but you will magically find that all the ingredients in this pot stew are clearly visible, so that the player can feel their presence very well......"

Kate sat in her chair a little weakly: "In other words, it has no genre at all, no system. ”

"The scariest thing about this game is that."

"It's even the genre, it's all random......"

“WT…… Hissing......" Connor gasped, his eyes widened involuntarily, revealing a look of disbelief.

Now, he understood.

If we say that the previous meat pigeon type was in a fixed genre, players randomly encountered various systems, and then extended and expanded this system.

Then the advent of Isaac means that even the system can be random!

There is no such thing as a fixed system!

All items can be used in any system! They can all be combined with each other to create a wonderful chemical reaction!

What attack flow, defense flow.

As long as the player wants.

He could even create a shield full of spikes, which would then spray flames that would fly thousands of miles away to his grandmother's house and kiss the boot's butt fiercely.

Yes, it's so abstract and broad.

If this claim is confirmed......

What about the replayability of this game......

Little by little, Connor's gaze fell on the picture outlined by the minimalist lines, and his gaze was terrified.

Playability is ......

Infinite!

"Yes...... Theoretically, the random combination of such a variety of props should have a very serious BUG, right? After all, there is a lot of code conversion between them. Connor still didn't give up.

He couldn't imagine.

A small game factory from the East.

The three games announced at the same time, in the case that both are king bombs.

The third one was directly thrown up with a pound of king fried!

Is this something that a human being can do?

"Yes, that's the only thing we can pray about right now." Kate wiped her face, and smiled helplessly in her voice.

If you talk about the first two works, it can still give him the mentality of touching it.

Then his conjectures about "Isaac" will be implemented once they are implemented.

It's going to kill the game completely!

Create an absolutely crushing situation!

"The first point depends on whether the prop pool of his game is enough, although the big framework of the game is to develop towards infinite playability, but if the prop pool is not deep enough, players will not be able to toss."

"Second, how expressive is the interaction of each prop and whether the gameplay is fresh enough."

"Third, with so many prop interactions, will there be frequent bugs, which will seriously affect the player's game experience."

Connor swallowed, and asked in a tone that he couldn't even tell why he was nervous, "What happens if you meet all three of these things at the same time......?" ”

Kate looked at Connor and tugged at the corners of her mouth.

"Any negative publicity we've made to the number one player before...... It's all going to turn into a sharp blade and stab it back......"

"This ......," Connor said, and fine sweat began to ooze from his forehead.

Again.

"Let Josiah try it a few more times."

"You've only been watching it for less than half an hour, and it's too early to draw conclusions, I still can't believe that this game is really as amazing as you say."

(End of chapter)