Start being the boss today

HUD (heads-updisplay) is an extremely important part of video games.

Blood tanks, scopes, skill slots, item bars, and even mini-maps all belong to HUD. How to design HUD into the game so that they do not appear obtrusive when they function requires careful consideration by every game designer.

The video game industry has also been developed for decades. In the 50s, students in the computer rooms of some famous universities, or staff in military industrial units, were the first batch of people who wrote video games.Then with the emergence of arcade machines, home consoles, handhelds, and personal computers, electronic games have continued to evolve from generation to generation①.

For so many years, the two-dimensional HUD design has already had a system, or in other words, there are excellent predecessor designs, and the latecomers follow suit.

But in the immersive neural connection game, Star Whale Studio is the pioneer.How to do HUD design, they must use their own brains.

After a series of brainstorms that made people bald, Fan Yichun, the chief producer with receding hairline, took the case and canceled the design of the blood slots on the heads of various characters in the past games, etc., and concentrated all the HUDs on one side. On the palm-sized bronze mirror.

The protagonist of "Heavenly Knight" carries this treasure mirror with him. He can use it to check his attributes and adjust his skills. Put it in the mirror.

...actually, it's a cell phone.

Modern Azure Stars are very accustomed to using mobile phones, so using the mirror in the game should not feel awkward.

Xia Jiong thought the design was good, and after discussing it with Qu Wangsheng, he copied it.

Not only did he copy it, but he went one step further and told the players directly, saying that you are not mistaken, it is a mobile phone.

And the mobile phone is your main body in the game. If you want to release skills and so on, it all depends on the mobile phone.

"I'm really too smart to decide to tell the truth in terms of background setting," Xia Jiong plausibly said, "In this way, even if the player finds the woven rice bag I brought over in the game, it won't feel awkward, because The background setting is that Qinghua Road finds the Azure Star Realm to trade and help."

Qu Wangsheng didn't understand the game, the background setting, or the mobile phone addiction of the Azure Stars, so of course he followed him, and put the spiritual core that the players relied on as the immortal soldiers into the hand chicken.

Now, players are full of black lines on their foreheads, take out their mobile phones, and find that this is indeed very convenient.

Touch the screen to unlock the phone, and what appears is a simple page without frills.

The first APP in the first line: role.

The second APP in the first row: Wallet.

The third APP in the first line: skills.

The fourth APP in the first line: task.

The first APP in the second row: camera.

The second APP in the second row: Gallery.

The third APP in the second row: map.

The fourth APP in the second row: Beginner's Guide.

Then the entire interface is separated from the middle, one side is light red, and the other side is light blue, which is the blood bar and blue bar.The three apps at the bottom are friend record, call and message.

Azure Star’s modern young people don’t need teaching at all, they can know how to use these apps just by looking at them.

Players with quick eyes and quick hands have even clicked into the camera and started to tap, or clicked into the skill, and pressed it at the only flashing skill icon inside.

Like the camera, the image captured by the rear camera appears on the screen of the mobile phone, accompanied by a box similar to a QR code scan, prompting the box to aim and tap to release.

The player casually clicked on the screen, and the players in front of him were instantly blown away by a gust of air.

"Cool!" the player yelled, before being sent flying by another player's ability.

On the Tai Chi stage, it was like a pot of porridge cooked by a master of dark cooking, and the group of demons danced to a certain level.

At the altar of the Immortal Soldiers, Qu Wangsheng and Du Jian and Zhang Fangwei all watched with twitching eyes, but Xia Jiong was extremely calm and understanding.

"Senior brother," he turned around and whispered to Qu Wangsheng, "Give them a still, let them listen to me."

Qu Wangsheng pinched his fingers silently, stopping the frenzy on the Tai Chi stage.Xia Jiong punched his lips and coughed, attracting everyone's attention, and then said loudly: "This is the magic weapon introduced by Star Whale, and I also think it is very useful. But, I, Qinghua Kunyuan, after all, It’s not the Azure Star Realm, so it’s not that convenient to charge it.”

Qu Wangsheng: "..."

The script given to him yesterday didn't seem to be written like this?

"Why do the mobile phones in the game need to be charged?" Players are also puzzled.

"Don't ask, asking is setting." Some players also replied.

"Why can't I move!" Another player asked.

"It's probably a plot where you are forced to watch, don't talk." Some players continued to answer.

The players were buzzing, but Xia Jiong's expression remained unchanged, and he said:

"It is this Altar of Inviting Immortal Soldiers that supports everyone to come to my Qinghua Kunyuan, and to maintain the Altar of Inviting Immortal Soldiers, you need spirit beads. Heroes, Qinghua's spirit beads are already unsustainable. "

"What is that NPC talking about?"

"It should be a task."

"Here comes the mission!"

The players understood immediately.

It's easy to get started, Xia Jiong thought, fortunately, those who came to repost the lottery and log in to the game for the first time are basically people who know and love online games, and there are very few completely new ones.

He tried his best to fool around, no, he was clearly telling the truth.

"Lingzhu needs to be planted in the spiritual field, but almost all of Qinghua's spiritual fields have been destroyed. Heroes, you have already learned the art of loosening the soil, why don't you reclaim a few acres of spiritual fields and plant fireflies and moons, Let’s keep the aura coming.”

Qu Wangsheng finally heard the familiar words, and he pinched the formula together to wake up the talisman that had been prepared.

When the players heard the ding-dong sound, they took out their mobile phones and saw a red dot representing new news appeared on the task app.

[When Qinghua Dao was in turmoil, you came here. Before you did much exploration, you were told by the head of Qinghua that you need spirit beads to maintain the descending of Tianxia, ​​and there are not many spirit beads left in the door.

The Lingzhu is the fruit of Yingyuejian. You need to plant the seeds of Yingyuejian in the spiritual field, wait for it every day, and wait for seven days before the Lingzhu can be produced.

As a Heavenly Xia who came to help the Dao, it was his duty to maintain his own descent.Go to reclaim the spiritual field, plant your Yingyuejian, work hard, and wait for the harvest. 】

【Reclamation of Lingtian (0/1)】

【Remarks: You can check the Lingtian area by opening the map】

"Wow! The first task turned out to be farming?"

"How to form a team? Can you form a team?"

"Hey? You can move, you can move, let's walk around."

"I want to browse the map first..."

"The scenery is so beautifully done!"

The players scattered in all directions, and at the same time, white light continued to fall, and the players walked out.

"Master, is this enough?" Zhang Fang asked in a low voice.

"... They don't seem to be hard-working people." Du Jian looked at them.

"It's definitely not possible to let them farm like ordinary people. But with skills, they should be able to play for a long time, right?" Xia Jiong was also thinking, "But it must be restrained. Can you two watch it?"

"Respect the words of the master." Du Jian Zhang Fang took the lead and left in two ways, taking away a group of players who followed them and wanted to interact with each other to get quests.

Xia Jiong warned the two of them in advance that once they answered the players' questions, things would become endless, but in fact, even if they didn't answer, the players' questions would still be endless, so now he can only pray for two Take care, kids.

After seeing off Du Jian and Zhang Fangwei, Xia Jiong turned his head and found Qu Wangsheng still standing behind him, feeling at a loss.

"Senior brother, why are you still here?" The young man remembered Qu Wangsheng's itinerary for the past few days, "Didn't you say that some fairy from Yanjing invited you?"

Qu Wangsheng opened his mouth.

He said slowly: "...Sorry."

"What are you sorry for?" Xia Jiong was surprised at first, and then he reacted, "Ah, do you mean that you didn't act according to the script? It doesn't matter. It's because I didn't think about it beforehand. Brother, you don't like to speak in public. I should say I'm sorry. .”

Qu Wangsheng shook his head.

"You shouldn't show your face, junior brother."

Xia Jiong didn't have the slightest cultivation level, but the players could use the spirit cores molded by immortal soldiers to use a few skills that were engraved into talismans in advance. Xia Jiong was only one person, but the players were overwhelming.

Although the talisman engraved into the player's spiritual core has only one soil loosening technique for the time being, but there are no useless spells in the world, just an impact from loosening the soil can also kill people.

So at the beginning, Qu Wangsheng didn't intend to let Xia Jiong come forward, but he didn't expect that after so many years, he still didn't make any progress...

Qu Wangsheng was in a gloomy mood.

"Is it okay?" Xia Jiong thought for a while, and said, "It's been a long time since I spoke in front of so many people, and I still feel a little nostalgic? I'm fine, brother, didn't you give me back so many magic weapons?"

"but……"

"But I am the head of the sect, I have the final say, la la la, senior brother, go to Yanjing!" Xia Jiong said.

"So why are you the head, can you tell me carefully, boss, boss." Fan Yichun said.

Xia Jiong froze.

He turned around slowly, and saw Fan Yichun, Su Qin, Ye Linyu, and Jiang Hai who also entered the game with helmets, wearing Huaqing Taoist robes, and holding mobile phones.

"Boss." Su Qin nodded in greeting.

"Boss!" Ye Linyu yelled. He obviously has foreign blood, and he is very conspicuous on this Tai Chi stage. Right? Who is the master of modeling? This is so beautiful! How do you say it in Chinese? Shangri-La, a fairyland on earth!"

"Boss! This is completely different from the feeling in "Heavenly Knight." Jiang Hai also looked left and right, his eyes were shining, and his face was flushed, "Is the technology in the laboratory updated? The fake roughness at the beginning is completely gone. The wind is very real, and the flowers and plants are also very real, and it can't even be seen that it is designed."

"...Yeah." Xia Jiong said.

"'Ah' you are tall!" Fan Yichun was furious, "I have been looking for you for a long time, and you are actually playing an NPC? And what is going on with this game? This is not the "Heavenly Knight" we made at all! "Heavenly Knight" It's impossible to change into this!"

"You haven't tried it, so how can you say it's impossible." Xia Jiong said.

"I also don't think it's possible," Su Qin said, "Boss, who did you invite to help revise?"

"Who are these people?" Qu Wangsheng asked behind Xia Jiong.

"Ah," Xia Jiong quickly introduced, "Everyone, this is my brother, the person who helped modify the game. Brother, this is Papa Fan."

"?" Qu Wangsheng tilted his head.

He said, "Uncle looks very young."

Xia Jiong: "...Ah."

Su Qin: "Oh."

Ye Linyu: "Pfft——"

Jiang Hai: "Hahahahaha."

Fan Yichun: "..."

Fan Yichun: "Boss, please go die!"