Reborn to create a virtual world

Lin Shu looked back, and found that Fa Xiao, who only showed up when asking for gift money ten years before his death.

No matter how flirtatious and realistic this guy is ten years later, but at this time the other party is still a cute lady, and the relationship with Lin Shu is not bad.Thanks to him, Lin Shu successfully avoided the crisis of being surrounded by a group of lolitas, and successfully found the gate of the cafeteria.

...He will never admit that his memory is so bad that he can't remember where the door of the cafeteria is opened.

Lin Shu's nickname is Xu Liangqi, and he and Lin Shu were barely childhood playmates, and they were very bearish since childhood.When I was a child, I was a bear, and when I grew up, I was a bear.The two have been classmates since junior high school, but they are in different schools in high school, and there is even rare contact in university.

But when this guy got married, he sent an invitation letter to Lin Shu and received a large gift from Lin Shu.

At this time, he asked Lin Shu to occupy a seat, while he rushed into the crowd with great momentum, and when he was about to succeed in jumping the line, he was grabbed by the guarding teacher and dragged to the end of the line, and began to line up.

After a long while, Xu Liangqi brought back his lunch. Anyway, he bought not all his favorite food, but also a plate of stewed eggplant that Lin Shu likes.

During the meal, Xu Liangqi said to Lin Shu: "Lin Shu, can you come to my house to play after school today?"

Lin Shu was taken aback for a moment, and then said, "Today? It's not convenient for me..."

He was still in a hurry to go home and figure out a plan to make money.

Xu Liangqi then said: "Please! There is a mission in "Twilight of the Gods" that I can't survive. The boss is too difficult to fight. I fought it several times, but I always died. Come and help me. If you beat it Alright, I will lend you my set of "Headless Ghost" comics for a month."

Lin Shu had no need for the manga that Xu Liangqi was talking about, after all, he had already read the ending.But hearing the game "Twilight of the Gods" reminded him of something. After thinking for a while, he agreed to Xu Liangqi: "...Okay. I'll go to your house in the afternoon."

After school in the afternoon, Lin Shu followed Xu Liangqi to his home first, and then started to read the archives after turning on the computer. Afterwards, Lin Shu relied on his powerful calculation and planning skills to successfully use Xu Liangqi's not-so-powerful cards to help him. He passed the BOSS battle.

Yes, Ragnarok is a card game.

Compared with various large-scale games that have generally begun to work hard on the screen and mechanism at this time, the volume of "Twilight of the Gods" can be said to be quite small, and the mechanism is relatively simple.But it has a setting that is very characteristic of Western-style games, that is, self-made modules.

In Lin Shu's impression, the mainstream of the domestic game industry this year was still filled with all kinds of kimchi games with empty screens and no content.Webpage games that intend to grab a ticket and leave are flooding the entire market, while large-scale online games have always kept copying me and copying you, or simply repeating their own process over and over again.Although there are some classics that stand out in the later stage, both the momentum and the operating conditions are still mediocre at this time.

However, no matter how impetuous the online game market is, at least it is possible to make a profit.

On the contrary, the stand-alone market is shaky, and only a few of the most classic series are still struggling in the fast food market full of money bubbles, and finally each tries to find a way out in different directions.

The means of survival they are looking for include mod functions, networking mechanisms, and selling virtual items, etc.

This kind of change is not ineffective, but it can only be regarded as maintaining its own profits, but it has not revitalized the stand-alone market.What really brought the market back to life was the "open game" that appeared on the market after several years of evolution.

From this time until the era of holographic projection and neural connection virtual online games rampant in the market, the mainstream of keyboard games has always been "selling engines" instead of "selling games".

Before Xu Liangqi mentioned "Twilight of the Gods", Lin Shu was always thinking about how to find a suitable project to make an excellent game and get the first income.In fact, there is nothing wrong with this idea, except that Lin Shu has no start-up capital, and there is a gap between the technology he understands and the background of the times.

You must know that the computer technology and programming language used at this time are actually quite different from what Lin Shu learned and used later.In addition, the hardware level and software foundation may not be able to meet Lin Shu's minimum requirements.

At least at this time, it is completely hopeless for Lin Shu to build some of the company's main game projects.There are also more practical difficulties in making a game that meets the current standard and slightly exceeds it.

Re-learning the technology at this time is not a problem for Lin Han who has an updated technological foundation and brain system assistance. The more realistic problem is that a large-scale game often represents a huge workload-and this workload cannot be done by One person finishes, so the problem goes back to the beginning-funding.

Without a lot of money, everything is empty.

However, the game Xu Liangqi was playing gave Lin Shu a whole new way of thinking.

As I said before, "Ragnarok" is a relatively small game.

The meaning of mini is not only that it has a small capacity and a simple picture, but also that it has a small amount of code and a small number of pictures and images.

Such a small game, unless the idea is particularly unique or the system is particularly interesting, basically it will not have a big impact.If it is done particularly well, maybe the word of mouth will be good and the sales will be relatively high, but it is still unlikely to cultivate a large number of loyal consumers... Unless, it has something that other games do not have, especially outstanding, especially attractive. Eye-catching features.

However, it is not so easy to design a particularly eye-catching function. It is not a novel idea, an interesting concept that can easily attract everyone's attention; It's amazing.

To do this, it takes time.

Your creativity should just tickle the itch of contemporary gamers, and meet the desire of the times.

Lin Shu didn't have such big ambitions at first, but he remembered it when he saw the mod function of "Twilight of the Gods".In terms of the development trend of stand-alone games in the past few years, it has actually revealed some clues—several series such as "The Elder Scrolls" and "Fable" have swept the world, and "GTA Grand Theft Auto" is famous for its openness and gameplay. Acclaimed... The expansion packs of "The Sims" are becoming more and more diverse, and there are more and more self-made modules; a "Sims" occupies a classic position with its petite tens of M capacity in the era of tens of G capacity games. Ilona is arguably the strongest proof; and the slow and steady emergence of various self-made game engines further illustrates this point.

The trend of domestic games has actually been verified in this regard-some games such as the "Gu Jian Qi Tan" series have begun to sell expansion plot plots, and some games such as the "Star Volunteer" series have begun to sell character settings and plots... But domestic games It is obviously more difficult to let go, so even if this is done, the overall degree of openness is far less than that of foreign countries.

However, for Lin Shu, this incident opened his mind.

As I said before, during the time before Lin Shu came back from rebirth, the keyboard game had completely undergone a subversive change.What game designers sell is no longer a story or a plot, but an entire engine and related characters. On the contrary, the main story that was originally the main selling point, or even the core content, has become a bonus.

And this point, in fact, most domestic game designers are not unable to do it, but they just can't turn their minds around this corner and are unwilling to do it.Because a good engine can generally be used for several generations, and the open module function may prolong the life of the game and enhance the overall playability, but it will reduce the competitiveness of subsequent games with the same engine.

This is legitimate business thinking, and there is nothing unreasonable about it.Lin Shu also admitted this.However, for games, an industry that grows and changes very rapidly, such a complacent attitude will only sit back and eat.

Therefore, when walking to a place of poverty, some people will naturally start to seek a new way out.

The "open game"—or the engine-based game production model—was born under such circumstances.However, as the market of the traditional game industry was squeezed by virtual games in the later period, this new model gradually replaced the old game sales model, opening a new door for the traditional stand-alone game market.

Twenty years later, there are all kinds of fool-like game engines on the market. Any player can choose a preferred engine to create independently, and these created modules can be uploaded to the Internet, and the price is clearly marked. Sales, while related game engine designers rely on extracting copyright fees for each module transaction and selling various human models and enhanced engine functions as their main profit income.

When this kind of system is about to be formed, the extraction of copyright tax is very high, and the highest once reached 50.00%.However, when Lin Shu paid attention to it for the last time, the collection of copyright had tended to be unified.Liberty World, known as Asia's largest game creative trading platform, officially collects 10% of the copyright tax, plus the 5% transaction fee charged by the platform itself, module creators can already enjoy 85% of the total transaction revenue alone.

Regardless of the fact that the royalties collected by game designers are not much, but multiplied by the huge total transaction amount, this income is quite considerable.Compared with the somewhat dead stand-alone market that Lin Shu is currently facing, it is a world of difference.

Lin Shu currently does not have a sufficient financial budget, including planning, plot, design, programming...etc. The only staff in the position is full of staff. He is the only one, and he cannot expect new blood in the short term, so it is for him to do what he can. It is very important to say.

Ingenious settings become very important when the outcome cannot be determined by factors such as picture, sound quality, and impact.

Lin Shu's calculation ability is naturally relatively powerful. The strategy difficulty of "Twilight of the Gods" is not too high, maybe a little bit difficult for a ten-year-old child, but in Lin Shu's hands, it is easy, even if it is a boss battle.

After helping Xu Liangqi pass the boss battle, the boy was immediately very excited. While showing star eyes full of admiration to Lin Shu, he said, "Lin Shu, you are so good. I can't beat him every time."

Lin Shu then said: "The main problem is rhythm. You should control the frequency of attack and recovery a little bit. Try to control the blood volume between 20% and 90%. Use small recovery cards below 60% and use large recovery cards below 30%." , Just use it, don’t be greedy for output. The five-star big move is luck, if you encounter it, you are unlucky, just restart the game. Anyway, the frequency of this thing appears is low.”

Xu Liangqi nodded again and again, that's serious.

Lin Shu thought for a while, and said to him, "Speaking of which, you can't play games well, it's because you can't study well."

Lin Shu looked at him and thought of Xu Liangqi's terrible academic performance.When they graduated from elementary school, they made an appointment to go to the same middle school. Neither Lin Shu nor Xu Liangqi even mentioned this topic when they graduated from middle school. In the end, everyone knew that it was impossible to continue to be a classmate.

Xu Liangqi's father later taught Xu Liangqi a lesson because of his grades, and he said: "Don't mention Lin Shu to me! Lin Shu plays games, and you play games, and you play games in the same way. Every time someone gets a high score in the exam, you can't even pass the exam. arrive!"

Xu Liangqi was still not convinced at that time, thinking it was because of Lin Shu's cleverness.But in fact, Lin Shu felt that Xu Liangqi was not stupid.

Even if Lin Shu plays a game, she never misses homework and exercises. In addition, the absorption of extracurricular knowledge and the reading of popular science books have never been reduced.When Xu Liangqi played games, he was just addicted to it, and he didn't care about anything.

Lin Shu was relatively independent when she was a child. Even when she was a child, she had no interest in being an old mother. Disciplining others' study and leisure habits belonged to the typical personality of "everyone sweeps the snow in front of the house, and don't care about others' roofs".

In fact, even after he was reborn, his personality didn't change much.Even at the beginning, he didn't even think about the fact that he had a close relationship with Fa Xiao.If Xu Liangqi didn't run out by himself, Lin Shu would probably just pretend that he never existed.

But now that he has seen it, and faintly realized the problem that he hadn't noticed before, Lin Shu said this in passing.

After hearing this, Xu Liangqi was a little furious, and argued, "What does playing games have to do with studying!?"

But Lin Shu said solemnly: "Of course it's related. It's better to say that you have to study well to play the game well." He stretched out a finger and shook it, attracting Xu Liangqi's attention, "Take this game Let’s talk, a small reply card restores 30% of the blood volume, you have a total blood volume of 1274, and a current blood volume of 823... Tell me, if you can react immediately, should you use a small reply now? Card, if you use up your HP, will it be full?"

Xu Liangqi counted with his fingers for a long time, only to feel that mosquito coils appeared in his eyes, and he was very dizzy.

Lin Shu patted him on the shoulder and said, "So if you can't play games well, it's because you don't learn math well."

Then Lin Shu went home calmly.

After he returned home, Xu Liangqi was in a daze for a while, unable to figure out whether 1274 (1-30%) was greater than 823 by mental arithmetic, and finally couldn't help but took a pen and scratch paper to calculate, and finally Finally calculated the result.

Does he have to put a pen and scratch paper next to him to count his blood when he fights the boss next time? ?Xu Liangqi looked at the computer screen and sighed adultly in distress.