Chapter 97 Two Key Issues in Construction Games (Please Subscribe, Please Vote!)

Gu Fan actually took all the blame for this, which is really a righteous act. Strictly speaking, this should be half for the design and half for the program. After all, Lilith only wrote in the design draft that the supervisor is very powerful, but did not specifically state that it will not die!

Gu Fan finally concluded: "So, there are a total of eight key bugs, of which I am responsible for two. Of these two, half of the blame is taken by me for moral reasons.

"In fact, in addition to these bugs, there are other incentives to create bugs. For example, the high walls of the Kingdom of God are full of Heaven Guards, but it is precisely because these guards triggered the fusion mechanism with the Lost Heart that the player crossed the last section of the distance and successfully flew to the wall, successfully escaping the prison for the first time.

"These Heaven Guards... you specifically requested them to be placed."

Lilith was dissatisfied: "But the original intention of placing these Heaven Guards was to prevent players from escaping the prison!"

Gu Fan nodded: "Yes, I understand, but in fact... if we use the simplest method, we can just add more air walls to the wall."

Lilith's eyes widened and she said in disbelief: "Then why didn't you tell me!"

Gu Fan spread his hands: "But adding air walls is actually not elegant, and it seems a bit too forced.

"Your design is more natural and more in line with the world view of the game.

"Besides, I thought you deliberately wanted to use this method to further increase the players' hatred of Heaven!"

Lilith was completely discouraged. She lay on the massage chair, and her whole body seemed to slide down like mud.

This game is different from the previous games. There is no particularly conspicuous and clear BUG, ​​but it is more like many harmless small BUGs that happened to come together and produced some kind of wonderful chemical reaction.

Therefore, even though Lilith was very unconvinced, she could only admit that it was unreasonable to let Gu Fan, a programmer, take the main responsibility!

Looking at the words "negative emotions reduced" that kept popping up in front of her, Lilith felt like crying but had no tears.

"So, what is the root of the problem..." Lilith was puzzled.

Gu Fan coughed twice: "This... In hindsight, I think the mechanism of this game is too complicated?

"You see, this game has adventure, survival, and construction. The mechanism is too complicated, and the probability of bugs is naturally greatly increased.

"For such a complex system, if you want to completely avoid bugs, only God can do it himself.

"Or... Mr. Li, next time you choose a game, try to choose a simpler mechanism?"

Lilith looked at him weakly: "You mean, I was wrong from the beginning? "

Gu Fan coughed twice: "It can't be said so absolutely, but... this topic does greatly increase the probability of BUGs...

"What did you say before? The more it is related to luck, the easier it is for angels to do it, so, could it be Michael..."

Lilith was speechless for a moment: "Then why didn't you say it earlier!"

Gu Fan asked back: "If I said it earlier, would you listen?"

"Damn it! How can this be all my fault!

"My designs are all good, no matter how you think about it, there are deviations in the execution!"

Lilith pulled her ponytails angrily and entered a state of impotent rage.

Then, she stared at Gu Fan: "Tomorrow night, I will go to the company for another inspection!

"Let all employees work overtime from 6pm to 9pm. I will ask everyone about the development details of the game!"

Gu Fan was shocked, but he said calmly: "No problem!"

Lilith said coldly: "Humph, you'd better pray that I can't find any clues, otherwise you're dead!"

After that, she disappeared angrily.

……

The next morning, Gu Fan came to the company on time.

It was obviously 9 o'clock when work started, but many people arrived at 8 o'clock. When Gu Fan came, the second floor of the cafe had become quite lively.

Zhou Yang stood on a chair and was vividly telling everyone about the various hidden mechanisms of the game "Fire Thief", which is commonly known as...BUG.

Just like a storyteller in a teahouse.

Obviously, Feng Hui, Zhao Haiquan, Guo Hongyu and others were still in a state of confusion at this time. They knew that the reputation of "Fire Thief" suddenly reversed, but why did it reverse?

Many details were still completely incomprehensible.

Especially since they personally participated in the development of the game, they have a vague impression of many functions, and they know how crazy the restrictions this game has imposed on players, so they have more doubts.

So Zhou Yang, the game designer, needs to explain it in detail for them.

Zhou Yang was beaming with joy: "So, this game has at least ten bugs! Which one did I just talk about? Oh, yes, the seventh one. After players who choose the imitator profession quit the game, "Lost Hearts with imitation skills" will appear in the Kingdom of God, and these Lost Hearts will imitate the behavior of the hard-working Lost Hearts!

"After Lecturer Ding and his team proposed this conjecture yesterday, many players have verified it and it is indeed feasible!

"So they created a large number of Lost Hearts with imitation skills in the Kingdom of God and caught them, letting them form a transportation assembly line, and the Comedian Lost Hearts accelerated it!

"Look, it's like this."

Zhou Yang jumped off the chair and opened the video.

In the video, dozens of Losers formed a long line, several meters apart, all carrying various materials to the destination.

At the destination, players can directly use these materials for construction.

You can build official buildings, or you can freely play around official buildings.

There are already many big players who like to play construction games and are ready to plan various projects!

Some want to build a Great Wall to connect all the buildings; some want to build a town filled with Chinese or Western style buildings; some want to build another high wall around the Kingdom of God, just to create some wonders; and some want to reproduce some classic buildings in the game.

Zhou Yang said excitedly: "Although there are many bugs in our game, in my opinion, this Loser's BUG is definitely the finishing touch!

"With this BUG, ​​two major problems of other construction games are solved at once: one is the problem of the world being empty and lacking people, and the other is the problem of moving too many bricks and needing to do it yourself!

"After solving these two problems, even if we use the same construction game template as other games, it is enough to stand out!

"What's more, we have also added adventure gameplay.

"Now, many players have realized the fun of exploring in the Kingdom of God, and the popularity of our game is rising steadily!"

The two major problems mentioned by Zhou Yang have always been the two pain points of survival construction games.

One is the lack of people, and the other is moving bricks!

Most survival construction games are relatively empty. Even if players build beautiful villages, there are not enough NPCs to fill them, so it still feels a bit like a dead city.

After all, in the later stages of this kind of game, it all depends on building houses to retain players, and villagers are also an important part of the house.

But there are heartless people in the game "Fire Thief", which means that players can customize NPCs according to their preferences!

Pinch a specific face, then make a heartless person, and then catch them in the Kingdom of God.

These heartless people can be used as hard labor to move bricks, or they can be placed in the built villages and towns, let them act as residents in the room, or stand guard in a specific area, or use the mimic skill to let them patrol.

This is equivalent to providing players with an NPC customization system in disguise. Even if players create a grand town, it will not be empty!

Of course, the Lost Heart itself has some ugly elements, such as closed eyes and traces of being burned by holy light.

But players can improve this problem by pinching their faces, such as deliberately wearing eye masks, or wearing hats, helmets, and wearing different clothes.

And as long as you don't look closely, you can't see these details.

In addition, most survival and construction games will intentionally control the output of materials in order to extend the player's game time.

If players want to build a sufficiently complex building, they must collect enough materials and process them step by step. Especially some rare materials, which often take a lot of time.

But the material output of "Fire Thief" comes from the Kingdom of God, and a large amount of materials can be obtained in one adventure. And the transportation can be completely handed over to the Lost Heart, liberating the player.

In other words, the hard laborers who stay outside the Kingdom of God can build freely as they please, without having to be responsible for those boring and repetitive labors!

These have become the unique advantages of "Fire Thief"!