Sui Xiong was a person who was very good at imagining things.
This was not strange at all. When he first came to this world, he was alone in the vast sea, and he didn't know how many lonely years he had spent. If he wasn't good at using imagination to fight against loneliness, he would have gone crazy long ago.
To be honest, many people thought that he was basically a lunatic. However, compared to the true lunatics like the God of Madness and the God of Destruction, he still retained a lot of his rationality. He only occasionally went crazy.
Whether Sui Xiong was crazy or not was another research topic, but at least for him now, this kind of suspected crazy imagination was actually very useful.
For example, he thought from finance to online payment, then to online shopping, then to the Internet, and then to online games.
Well, he often thought about online games, not just once or twice.
But this time, he thought very carefully.
Sitting in the sanctuary of the God Kingdom, which was full of what looked like data lines, he looked at the wide lines around him and couldn't help but let his imagination run wild.
"Thinking about it, it's actually not impossible to make an online game …"
To make an online game, you generally needed three things: a platform, software, and server.
There was no way to do the platform and server. Sui Xiong couldn't even make a blast furnace, so naturally he couldn't make a computer with nothing. But he was a god after all, and if he didn't care about the cost, it was absolutely no problem to make a computer out of thin air that could receive and send signals. This meant that all the calculations were put on the server. If it was on Earth, the idiot who designed this would be thrown out of the window by the boss, but it didn't matter here. He could be the server himself.
He had to think about the software, because he wanted to design a popular and not stupid game. He couldn't just mindlessly kill monsters and level up, and he couldn't always have a small map with eight people playing all kinds of attacks.
"I remember that many online games have missions and dungeons. Maybe I can design it like this …"
He muttered and began to tinker.
Compared with the blast furnace, which he couldn't find a breakthrough, it was obviously much more interesting to make an online game.
As for the problem of the blast furnace … after studying it for so long, it seemed that he really didn't find the key problem. Edison's approach was obviously not suitable for him, so it was better to leave it to Palin. After all, Palin was a professional scholar, much better than a dabbler like him.
Strong action had always been Sui Xiong's strength. About half an hour later, he built the first "computer".
This thing had a screen (bullsh * t), a keyboard (bullsh * t), and a mouse (bullsh * t). The keyboard only had up, down, left, right, one, two, three, four, start, pause, and end buttons. The mouse also only had left and right buttons. The functions were so simple that it made one's hair stand on end.
When operating this computer, the player used the mouse to select the location that the character wanted to move to, and then used the various buttons to open and select the function menu. In general, it was a bit complicated, but it was easy to understand. Even an idiot could learn it.
This computer was actually an empty shell. It could only receive or send data. In terms of data, it wasn't zeros and ones, but actual instructions and images. In other words, although it was simple to the point of stupidity, the amount of traffic it took up was insane. If it was on Earth, it would definitely be cursed to death by the players.
But it didn't matter here. First, the server was powerful enough, and second, the number of players was small enough. Sui Xiong only planned to make no more than 500 computers. So even if only half of the people were online, 250 players was not a lot.
Anyway, he didn't plan to make any large-scale games. He remembered that when he was in college, their senior counselor, who had just graduated, had set up a simple private game server for them. He said that it was "the world's first graphic online game." That damn game usually only had about a hundred people online, and everyone still played it happily.
The game that Sui Xiong designed was actually similar to the one that the counselor had made. The player designed a character, and then the character would go on adventures in the game world and accept tasks. Some had to go to other cities to find people or go shopping, and some had to go to the underground maze to kill monsters, hunt for treasures, or save people. In short, it felt like the life of an adventurer.
In this game, the players could gain money, experience, reputation, and equipment through adventures. They could also buy props and upgrade their equipment. In general, although it was simple, the content was quite rich.
Designing this game took Sui Xiong a whole month. He had to depict each image, draw each map, and design all kinds of interfaces and dialogues. If it weren't for the fact that he was a god and could directly convert images and words into game content without programming, he wouldn't be able to do it even if he had a hundred times more time!
"Maybe … if I can return to Earth, I will be the world's strongest programmer, the well-deserved king of programmers in the game world, and the combination of second to tenth place!"
Sui Xiong said this with a smile, turning his ideas into the game content little by little.
A month later, the game test began.
He made 20 computers and chose 20 senior adventurers from the staff of the Void Mask Amusement Park to try the game.
As a result, it made a little joke. Those adventurers didn't understand how to play this thing at first, and when they started to play, they shouted. Someone shouted, "Oh my god! How can you imprison a living soul as a plaything! " Someone shouted, "My soul! Has my soul been sucked in? "
Sui Xiong had to explain to them one by one. After a lot of persuasion, he made these country bumpkins understand that this was just a fictional game, and the people and monsters in it were just fictional things. They were neither souls imprisoned in it, nor their own souls being sucked in.
Then, when they played the game, they also made many mistakes. More than one person tirelessly talked to the NPC repeatedly and then told Sui Xiong, "The characters in this game are too stupid, and the information they can provide is too little, so this kind of adventure is very dangerous." Some people were stunned when they went to the store to buy adventure supplies, saying that the things they could buy were too little, and going out on an adventure with so few things was no different from courting death. As for all kinds of mistakes when fighting monsters, there were countless, which made Sui Xiong anxious every day and made him feel that he lacked experience and imagination.
What made him most crazy was that at least one-third of the adventurers tried to pickpocket and rob in the store. The reason was very simple: there were so many things in the store, the owner didn't look strong, and there seemed to be no powerful guards in the city. If they robbed so many things, they would have enough to eat for a lifetime.
Hey! You are the dignified adventurers! You are the elites in this industry! Are you really not afraid to die and go to hell by showing such a mentality of a robber!?
For a whole winter, Sui Xiong was busy testing this damn game. Until spring came, he didn't know how many versions had been modified, and the public beta version, which was so different from the original version, was finally completed.
The public beta version was designed in a world called "Snake Mountain" — Sui Xiong originally wanted to call it "Dragon Mountain", but later he was reminded that it was not good to make fun of the dragon race, so he changed the name. This world was divided into three layers, and each layer had a main city, two sub-cities, and more than ten mazes. Players played the role of adventurers. They traveled the three levels of the world. They could accept and complete various quests, or they could simply go out and kill monsters without completing any quests. They could also rent a plot of land to farm, or even open a small shop.
Thanks to various information provided by the 20 senior adventurers, Sui Xiong designed this small world quite comprehensively, and the design of the combat system was relatively perfect. Except for the fact that the turn-based system was always criticized, almost all the other aspects had been approved by the adventurers.
But this was not enough. When he increased the number of testers to 100 and conducted the public beta, all kinds of problems appeared again.
Because many of the people who participated in the test this time were not adventurers, all kinds of novice level mistakes were common. Many players did not understand what was going on at all, and because of various mistakes, they lost their lives.
Sui Xiong found that it seemed that he should make a player's handbook to teach the players some basic knowledge of the game.
Compiling this player's handbook took him more than half a month, during which he consulted many adventurers, and finally came up with something that could be used as a guide for novice adventurers. It was astonishingly thick, and the content was astonishing.
In other words, if you wanted to understand and understand it, the requirement for a slightly high level of education was also slightly high …
Obviously, this thing had no practical value at all. Those who could read it naturally had the conditions to learn all the adventure knowledge. And if they could not even read it, what was the use of getting it?
Sui Xiong had to find a way to make a batch of magic tools, and instill the content of the player's handbook into them. As long as the players wore this magic tool that looked like a hat to sleep, the knowledge would be transmitted into their brains. In the future, when they used it, they would naturally have some impression, and through review and reflection, they would transform this knowledge into their own experience.
Finally, when the public beta was completed, there was a group of senior adventurers in the Void Mask Amusement Park who only knew how to talk on paper. They had rich adventure experience and perfect adventure knowledge, but not even a little bit of adventure practice. Faced with problems and difficulties, they could think of several solutions, but in fact, they could not do any of them.
In Sui Xiong's view, this was normal. After all, a game was just a game. But Leon, who knew about this, said that perhaps this game could continue to be adjusted.
"How about … designing the ability of the character in the game to be equivalent to the ability of the player themselves," Leon said. "Players can earn money and buy things in the game, but if they want to improve their strength, they must rely on real training to complete it."
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What's the use of this? Isn't that boring? "
"No, in this case, this game can be used to train adventurers," Leon said with a smile. "I think, with a little more adjustment, it will not be a problem to train soldiers."
Sui Xiong's mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, and his face was full of confusion.
"I just wanted to make a game to pass the time, how did it become a virtual military camp!"
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