Cannon Fodder Genius Game Producer

In the female dormitory of Beijing University of Science and Technology, Lin Xiaotong was sitting cross-legged in front of his desk, holding a plush doll in his arms, and clicking on the game he had just downloaded.

"The name of this game is so strange, it's quite interesting, but I don't know what kind of game it is..." Lin Xiaotong was talking with her roommate while sipping milk tea.

"Probably a horror game? The introduction only has one sentence - 'If one day, your life is stolen...'"

The two clicked on the game page, but frowned.

"Why does it feel a little rough?" Lin Xiaotong sipped the milk tea, feeling dissatisfied.

"Probably in the style of horror games. I've seen many horror games look very rough, but the result is actually scary..." the roommate analyzed.

Next, the game started, and the screen switched to a shaky scene, a embarrassed boy curled up in the dormitory, with all kinds of abuse in his ears - thief, plagiarist, disgusting, trash...

In the narration box is a paragraph of text introducing the background of the game.

[Not long ago, a game called "Graduation Carnival Season" swept the campus, and you were horrified to find that this game was exactly the same as the game you were making in terms of creativity and content. Unpublished, as the original creator, you have already been dubbed a plagiarist...]

[You can't explain why you, as the original creator, failed to release the game first. 】

[In the face of the infamy, you need to seize every opportunity to get rid of your charges—first of all, you have to find enough evidence! 】

When the first narration introduction popped up, Lin Xiaotong looked back at her roommate in surprise.

"Feifei, this game!"

The girl named Jiang Feifei was also surprised.

Both of them are deep users of the campus network, so of course they know what the background of this game alludes to.As contemporary students who have experienced original and genuine ideas, the two of them are also plagiarism resisters.

Because Jiang Ziye's plagiarism incident broke out before, the two of them also spoke for Senior Lin Cheng on the Internet, and even viciously despised Jiang Ziye's behavior.

In "The Stolen Life", there is no doubt that the protagonist's identity is directed at Jiang Ziye.

But looking at the narration introduction of this game, and the name of the game, it is clear that Jiang Ziye is the innocent victim...

How can this be? !

Just like what this game said, Jiang Ziye's so-called game plan and conceptual drawings of various scene settings are exactly the same as Lin Cheng's completed game content. This kind of plagiarism is almost at the pixel level. One is a semi-finished product and the other has been released. Who can believe that Lin Cheng is the plagiarist?

"This game..." Lin Xiaotong turned to look at Jiang Feifei hesitantly: "Jiang Ziye probably made it himself to clear himself of the crime, why don't we stop playing it?"

Jiang Feifei stopped her, her willow eyebrows stood on end, and said angrily: "Don't! Keep playing! I want to see how he will clean himself up!"

Lin Xiaotong hesitated for a moment, then nodded vigorously: "Yes! I want to see it too!"

While talking, the two received the first game task - to collect evidence.

After clicking here, Lin Xiaotong and Jiang Feifei discovered that this game is really simple, and it seems that the plot is obviously set with a ready-made game template.

Including the task is actually very simple, just a small game of finding similarities.

Lin Xiaotong was stunned when he saw it.

Two comparison pictures, one is the loading picture of "Crazy Graduation Season", and the other is obviously a color comic converted from a photo, but this color cartoon looks like the loading picture of "Crazy Graduation Season", which is [-]-[-]% similar.

Lin Xiaotong quickly remembered—oh, by the way, some classmates had analyzed it before. Senior Lin Cheng’s crazy graduation season was to commemorate his four-year college life at Beijing University of Science and Technology, and many of the details of life came from science and technology Universities, including the desktops in this loading picture, are the standard desktops in the male dormitory of the school.

Lin Xiaotong frowned: "This Jiang Ziye, is he going to use the loading picture of senior Lin Cheng commemorating his college life to say that his desktop looks like it? It's too bad!"

"I want to see what other excuses he can come up with besides this!"

While speaking, Lin Xiaotong began to circle the same scene objects in the left and right pictures.

A desk, a small bookshelf with two partitions, a silver laptop, a red and blue handheld, Jiang Ziye's professional books on the bookshelf...and the book "Game Design and Development: Where Dreams Begin".

At the beginning, Lin Xiaotong circled these objects with a feeling of indifference. She knew that it was normal to have some similar content on the desktop of the dormitory when she was in college. It would be too reluctant to use this as evidence. up.

But circling around, Lin Xiaotong felt something was wrong.

It's just a loading picture, how similar is it to Jiang Ziye's desktop? !

Lin Xiaotong quickly raised her head to look at her roommate Jiang Feifei: "Feifei, this..."

Jiang Feifei's face was also a bit serious, but she still didn't quite believe it: "Maybe Jiang Ziye deliberately set up the table according to the loading picture and then posed for the photo?"

During the conversation, Jiang Feifei finished all the items first, successfully cleared the customs, and then harvested 5 evidence clues - the original picture of the desktop photo of Jiang Ziye's dormitory, the original picture of the desktop photo of Lin Cheng's dormitory (source Lin Cheng's internal interview), Jiang Ziye's 2019 live broadcast Screenshots of the video, screenshots and tracking numbers of Jiang Ziye’s purchase of a certain treasure in "The Place Where Dreams Begin", Jiang Ziye’s conversation with an unknown user (I’ve figured it out! One of the loading pictures is on my desktop, haha, the epitome of youth for 4 years in college It's all here!).

Even those who firmly believe in Lin Cheng will inevitably be stunned for a second after seeing these five evidence clues.

These 5 evidence clues can all be clicked to view a larger picture. Jiang Ziye’s desktop is basically the same as the loading picture, and Lin Cheng’s dormitory desktop... If I have to say the same, I can only say that they all use boys from our school. Standard table in the dormitory.

"Feifei, this... is this a coincidence?" Lin Xiaotong was at a loss, but apart from this evidence, it was difficult to find any other evidence to prove Jiang Ziye's innocence.

Jiang Feifei's original firm expression also became hesitant.

After a pause, she gritted her teeth and said, "Go ahead and play!"

On the intranet forum of Beijing University of Science and Technology, this game called "The Stolen Life" did not attract too many people's attention at the beginning because the introduction was too simple.

But there are still people who are interested in horror games or the tricks of the landlord who clicked in.

Then some impulsive people came to spray the host after reading the side.

10L: [Fuck, you are the host, Jiang Ziye, right?How dare the rats crossing the street try to whitewash themselves? ? ? 】

13L: 【It's so funny, "A Stolen Life"?What have you got stolen? ?Is it just your half-finished game that you copied?Stop trying to fool yourself, okay? ? ? 】

There are quite a few buildings in a row who are swearing at people, but some people also said that they want to play Jiang Ziye's game to see how he can clean himself up from other angles.

In dormitory 716 of the male dormitory of Beijing University of Science and Technology, Jiang Ziye did not turn on the lights, but sat alone in front of the computer, quietly refreshing the forum page, looking at the IDs who scolded him one after another, with a calm face.

Finally, after more than twenty floors, the first person with a different attitude appeared.

27L: [Grass, is it real or not? !The students in front stop scolding, go and play this game! ! !I am stupid! 】

Not long after, someone left a message.

33L: [...I'm checking, I just lost a few pieces of evidence in the game, but...it's all true. 】

One after another, new messages popped up, and each message was extremely shocking.

In the girls' dormitory, Lin Xiaotong and Jiang Feifei had already played more than half of the levels of this game—it was indeed a game that took a very short time to assemble, but each level seemed so thrilling to them.

Another level of thrilling.

It's like a complicated process in which the original firm trust was destroyed, and then the anger was melted away, and guilt crept back into my heart.

There seemed to be raging waves rushing through their hearts, and the rumbling sound made them dizzy.

After collecting the evidence of the first level, they mastered the [preliminary evidence], then the second level, the third level, and the fourth level...

All the reference images are from the game screenshots of "Crazy Graduation Season", and all the evidence comes from Jiang Ziye's or Lin Cheng's behavior or interpersonal relationship itself.

In the second level, the angry professor, the devil-like instructor, the eldest child and the fourth child in the dormitory...all the characteristics of the characters can be woven into a huge net with Jiang Ziye as the core.

The angry professor was the professor of a professional course who went berserk on the spot because Jiang Ziye’s circle of friends recorded too low a class’s attendance one day—and this professional course had nothing to do with the department Lin Cheng studied in.

In order to ensure the mental health of each student under his command, Jiang Ziye's instructor once went to each dormitory to "talk" with each student. His attitude is so gentle and amiable that he can be called a hell-level social death. His "devil psychology master" The good name of "instructor" has spread throughout the Polytechnic University.

And this mentor has nothing to do with Lin Cheng.

In the game of "Crazy Graduation Season", regardless of gender, the protagonist is the third child in the dormitory by default - this is Jiang Ziye's ranking in his dormitory. The 3 roommates are more or less similar.

In addition, when an exam result was announced in "Crazy Graduation Season", Jiang Ziye's exam results of the same subject in the corner flashed past. All the graduation thesis topics submitted by the protagonist were also submitted by Jiang Ziye. Select topics for all graduation thesis of the supervisor...

If all this is not enough to make people feel thrilling, then in the last level, there are two results of searching posts and replies of Jiang Ziye's school net forum account, and results of searching posts and replies of Lin Cheng's forum account.

The time is limited before Lin Cheng releases "Crazy Graduation Season".

There are 1762 entries in Jiang Ziye's forum, including game reviews and game-related discussions.

There are 12 articles in Lin Cheng's forum, including game evaluation and game-related discussions.

One of them reads:-

Friend: [Hey, Brother Cheng, I have a game disk here, but it’s a stand-alone game, are you interested? 】

Lin Cheng: [What's so fun about stand-alone games?Lao Tzu is only interested in games that can bring girls. 】

Just two short conversations are like heavy artillery that breaks down the last line of defense in everyone's mind.

After the two clues came out, a dialog box popped up prompting - [You have completed all the mission collection, have you seen the stolen life of the protagonist?If you see it, are you willing to retweet it and get his life back for him? 】

Lin Xiaotong and Jiang Feifei, who were originally filled with righteous indignation at the beginning of the game, involuntarily clicked to share the game to Moments before they recovered.

After posting and sharing, Lin Xiaotong seemed a little nervous and regretful. She looked up at Jiang Feifei, but saw that Jiang Feifei's eyes were a little red.

"Xiaotong...he said thank us."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Feifei shed tears for some reason.

Lin Xiaotong looked down at his mobile phone.

After sharing the game, a very gentle cartoon avatar popped up on the page, with Jiang Ziye's name tag stuck on his head, and said to her with a very happy smile: Thank you for your willingness to help me find my life - Jiang Ziye.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaotong only felt a chill on her cheeks, and before she knew it, two lines of tears also flowed from her eyes.