There are many simple balls.

But not every kind of ball is popular, and not every kind of ball has been played by everyone, and most people are afraid that most people will not be interested in the ball that is too unpopular.

This is also Chen Ba's consideration.

As the three elements of gold, there are many options in the category of balls, and the more famous ones are basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, and so on.

It's a pity......

These ball games are too professional and competitive, and it may take ten days and half a month just to understand various professional rules.

If you want to use these popular ball games as materials to make a game, you have to prepare at least two or three years, or even three or five years, to collect and find out the bottom of the data.

The same goes for other ball games.

So when Xiao Lu mentioned the word "ball", he thought, is there such a simple and easy-to-understand, and at the same time very well-known, most people have played or heard of the ball?

"Are glass balls considered sports?"

"Look what you think!"

Chen Ba explained: "Theoretically, this is also a kind of competitive confrontation sport, but everyone feels naïve and has not been recognized. ”

Actually, there's nothing to dwell on.

Are glass balls, or marbles, considered ball games? Broadly speaking, it's true! If someone thinks it doesn't count, then it doesn't have anything to do with ball games, don't add this label!

Anyway, it's a game, and it's not an Olympics, so don't you care if it's a serious sport?

"That's fine."

Xiao Lu scratched his head and said: "Marbles glass balls, the mass base of this thing is indeed quite broad, I feel that the post-90s and even post-00s children have played it." ”

"The post-00s are not necessarily ......"

"My nephew is a post-00s, he played with all kinds of cool toys when he was a child, if you want to say marbles, there is really no such thing." Zhong Shengwei retorted.

Chen Ba waved his hand: "It's not important, the important thing is that there are many people who have played with this thing." ”

This is a special product of the times.

Only the children of the year will be interested in this thing, in other words, today, children are holding their mobile phones to play pesticide CPDD, who still plays with glass beads?

"That's the ......"

Xiao Lu nodded: "Maybe among the post-90s children, there are some people who have never played marbles, but most of them have just played." ”

100% played impossible.

But as long as half of the people have played, that's a scary number. Not to mention, the popularity of marbles in that year was definitely more than half of the people.

"Take the nostalgic route?"

When Yang Dong heard this, he couldn't help but reminisce: "Don't say it, if there is really a nostalgic game with the theme of marbles, I will probably play it." ”

Don't ask why.

Asking is to pay tribute to the lost childhood, in an old and young age, hide in a quiet room, light a cigarette and turn on the computer, and relive the carefree of youth.

Focusing on first-hand feelings......

Yang Dong still remembers that he was the little prince of marbles in the school back then, and his miraculous marble skills made him bulge in his pocket every time he went home.

His mother did his laundry, but he found a large handful of glass beads in his trouser pocket, and he thought he had paid for them, and he almost got beaten up.

Thanks to his facts, he proved that he didn't buy it, but won it back by real money, which is why he ...... Hit it a little lighter!

"Whoever wins is also beaten?"

"My mom doesn't care if you win or buy, anyway, if you don't study well, you'll be beaten up if you play these all day!" Yang Dong smiled bitterly.

"Then you're better, at least you won."

Chen Ba's face darkened, as if he remembered some bad memories, and said with a painful expression: "I was miserable at that time, I bought marbles with pocket money and then lost, and I had to be beaten by my father when I went home." ”

There is nothing more painful about childhood than this.

If you win, you won't be so sad and sad when you go home with a big bag of loot and get beaten.

But the key is......

When you go out with a big bag of glass beads, and when you go home, your pocket is empty, and you will inevitably be beaten, which is really a double blow to the mind and body.

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed.

If you were a child, everyone would definitely like to play with Brother Ba, after all, who doesn't like that generous classmate who always gives you glass beads?

"What's so funny about that!"

"Although I stink marbles, I can jump rubber bands! Do you know how to do it? ”

Chen Ba said proudly: "Back then, few girls in the class were better at jumping rubber bands than me. ”

"You're going to do this?"

Xiao Lu was shocked, he didn't expect that Brother Ba would hide such a craft, which simply refreshed his cognition.

How can there be boys who play stinky marbles and jump rubber bands better than girls?

"Actually, it's okay, I could have jumped at that time, but I've forgotten about it now."

Yang Dong also said that he was also a good hand at jumping rubber bands back then, and even met a group of girlfriends because of this, and he didn't forget to call him every time he jumped rubber bands.

"If you dare to love, Xiao Lu and I won't be able to?"

Zhong Shengwei quipped: "In this way, Brother Dong was so powerful when he was a child, he was able to mix well among boys and girls, and he was a proper campus figure!" ”

"Pretty much."

Yang Dong sighed with emotion: "Back then, I was indeed half a man of the hour, but now that I think about it, it was one of the few highlight moments in my life." ”

The whole class of boys and girls is circling around!

How long has it been since he grew up enjoying this kind of attention? The more people grow up, the more lonely they feel, and they miss their younger selves.

"Okay, okay......"

Chen Ba waved his hand to stop everyone's emotion, and if he continued to reminisce like this, he was afraid that he would not be able to finish it until the early hours of the morning.

Although he also misses the carefree time of his childhood, the reality is cruel after all, and no matter how beautiful his childhood is, he can't go back after all.

People always have to learn to face reality.

And the reality in front of us is, since Brother Ba has decided to make a pinball game, what should he do?

"Rules!"

Chen Ba pointed out the key question: "First of all, let's be clear, what are the specific gameplay and rules? ”

Marbles have been around for a long time.

If you go back in history, the development history of this thing is enough to write a paper of tens of thousands of words, and the materials and literature add up to a dictionary.

But these histories are of little significance.

The game they want to make, since it is a childhood nostalgia route, it must follow the gameplay and rules of childhood.

But there's a problem with that.

The distribution of marble games is too wide, let's not talk about foreign countries, just talk about domestic words, there is a big difference in the gameplay between the north and the south, and the gameplay may not be the same between various provinces.

"Don't talk about the provinces......"

"The gameplay and rules of this thing are probably different from one county to another." Xiao Lu complained.

That's the truth!

Marbles are not like games with a clear gameplay such as table tennis and jumping rubber bands, and the degree of freedom of gameplay is quite high.

The children of this village may like to play with marbles to see who can roll the marbles farther.

In the next village, a line was probably drawn and a small pit was dug to see who could roll the marbles into the pit......

There is no clear system of gameplay!

As long as you discuss it with your partner, both parties have no opinion, in fact, you can play it however, and no one says that you can't play like this.

"That's ......"

"The only thing in common is probably that although everyone plays differently, the rules of punishment for winning and losing are still the same, and the loser leaves marbles."

Chen Ba explained: "In terms of gameplay, there should be only a few more mainstream gameplay, right? ”

One is billiards.

Circle a range, then use marbles to knock the opponent's marbles out of bounds, and if you go out of bounds, you lose.

There is also a golf style.

The more popular thing is to dig a hole, or a small hole, and whoever has a marble that can go into the hole wins, and can take those marbles that don't go into the hole.

The other is the specific distance.

The farther the marble bounces, the more powerful it gets.

"More than that......"

Zhong Shengwei frowned and said: "There is also the kind of gameplay that simply hits other people's beads, I forgot how to play it, anyway, the marbles are aimed directly at other people's marbles, and you can take it away if you hit it." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"I also remember this kind of gameplay, which is very simple and crude, but it is also more direct and universal than those gameplay." Xiao Lu echoed.

When it comes to gameplay, everyone has something to say.

The employees of Tianba Studio come from all over the world and all provinces. Therefore, the game of pinball when everyone was a child is actually very different.

Chen Ba listened to them talk for a while.

He roughly came to a conclusion, that is, no matter what kind of play, except for the distance compared to marbles, other ways to play pay attention to a "degree of aim".

The more accurate you play, the greater the advantage!

"That's right, in fact, most of these various ways to play are competing for the accuracy of a marble."

Yang Dong agreed: "The collision of marbles with marbles, or the accuracy with which marbles are bounced towards the target area, is the core gameplay of the game. ”

It's about eyesight and ingenuity!

Not to mention eyesight, don't play with marbles if your eyes are not good, isn't that to send warmth to people?

Ingenuity is also key.

The force of the marble determines how powerful the marble is and how far it travels. At that time, there were no tools, and it was all a matter of hands.

"The eyesight is good!"

"But if we're going to make a game, how do we simulate the real feel of a marble launch?" Chen Ba asked.

It's a hard thing to do.

Strength is relatively idealistic, it all depends on a perception, and it is difficult to describe it in words, let alone use game simulation.

But without this thing, you can't do a pinball game, after all, you can't even simulate the most basic strength, so what kind of pinball game is there to do?

"Why don't you learn that kind of billiards game? I remember that in billiards games, there was a relatively controllable stroke force mechanism. ”

Zhong Shengwei made a suggestion.

He thinks he can learn from the elastic stick of the billiards game and control the strength through the mouse or keyboard to achieve the effect that the player wants to play.

"Resilience?"

At the mention of this word, Chen Ba suddenly thought of the physics engine in "Extreme Hurricane".

This physics engine should be able to simulate a similar elastic effect, right?

But then again.

Even if the game can restore a more realistic elastic effect, how can the device used by the player, that is, the mouse and keyboard, perceive it?

Again, this is not a handle......

The controller can also have powerful feedback, vibration feedback and other sensing, but keyboard and mouse players want to experience this, which is purely a dream.

"Forget it, we'll talk about it later."

Chen Ba shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it first, if you really want to make such a game, what the general framework will look like!" ”

Player VS Player is for sure!

Not only players vs. players, but also to support multiplayer, that is, multiple players participate in a game.

It's kind of similar to the battle-game, the room mechanic.

The host builds a room, which can be public or not, and other players enter the room and join the game.

Besides.

Homeowners can also choose a game mode, decide the maximum number of people in a room, and more.

"Crossfire?"

"Almost!"

Suddenly hearing the name of Crossfire, Chen Ba was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "It's okay if you want to understand it like this, anyway, the logic is the same." ”

Once players enter the game, they will be presented with a lobby page similar to that of CrossFire, and then select the room that suits them to enter the game.

You can also build your own house and become a homeowner.

The difference is that the game doesn't automatically end the game.

When you build a room, you can entertain yourself even if no players join. The addition of other players will not lead to the end of the game over time, and you can continue to play if you want to.

The key to determining whether a game is over or not is the number of marbles!

In the end, there are no marbles, why don't you run away quickly?

"How do you get marbles?"

Xiao Lu raised a very key question, that is, the source of the marbles.

If you can only get a little marbles every day, and you can only recharge to get it after losing, it is a free-to-play model, which is similar to the golden beans and happy beans of chess and card games.

In addition, the difficulty of obtaining marbles is very low, and if you don't need to top up to get them, it will cause another problem......

It doesn't matter if you win or lose!

Anyway, the marbles are endless, and I really don't feel like losing a little or winning a little, and I can't experience the feeling of losing a few marbles when I was a kid and coming home from school with a green face.

"Distributed every day!"

"If it comes too easily, people won't cherish it. But krypton gold doesn't have to, let's buy out the game, don't take the road of free games. ”

Chen Ba thought of a good solution.

Add a kiosk to the game, and you can go to the commissary to buy the marbles when you run out, but only if you have in-game currency.

How does the in-game currency come from?

It's impossible to work part-time, so let a child who plays marbles go to work? Don't you know that child labor is illegal?

There are other ways to do this!

For example, you can get praise from your parents, increase the amount of pocket money, and buy more marbles.

Of course, it's okay to herd cattle......

It's just that now when it comes to herding cattle, Chen Ba thinks of the cattle herding sect, which gives him a whole psychological shadow.

This time, he said that he would not join the cattle herding, completely destroying the hope of the cattle herding sect to reproduce and grow, and not giving them a chance to take advantage of it.

(End of chapter)