Crossover: 2014

Chapter 275 The Game as an Easter Egg

After all, in Lin Hui's impression, the original people in the next few years will have nothing to do with the unscrupulous moving behavior.

In this case, although Lin Hui can understand the difficulty of melancholy swimming fish.

However, for the situation reflected by Melancholy の Youyu, Lin Hui couldn't come up with any brilliant ideas.

At least for the time being, Lin Hui can't come up with any clever tricks.

If you want to completely put an end to crazy moving, this thing not only needs institutional guarantees.

It still needs a lot of audiences to resist spontaneously, otherwise, no matter how clever the means are, it may not help.

As for trying to put an end to malicious competition, it is even more difficult.

People who are obsessed with profit do not care about malicious competition after being obsessed with ghosts.

Anyway, Lin Hui couldn't come up with any good countermeasures against Melancholic Youyu.

Perhaps this matter can only be discussed in the long run.

But fortunately, Melancholic Yuyu was just confiding.

After complaining for a while.

Melancholy Youyu suddenly asked Lin Hui mysteriously:

"By the way, Gray God, can I ask you a question?"

Lin Hui: "Just ask directly, why are you so reserved... Hey, it can't be some weird question, beware of ing"

Melancholic Yuyu said: "How come, I just want to ask if you have developed any new games recently?"

As if afraid of Lin Hui's reluctance to speak, the melancholy Youyu quickly assured:
"Don't worry, Gray God, I will definitely keep it a secret for you..."

"Please, please, Gray God, tell me quickly..."

Oh, woman, your name is Curiosity.

But things like game development don't seem to need to be kept secret.

Lin Hui looked at several newly created project files on his computer.

Reply affirmatively: "Well, it is under development, but it may take a long time before it is officially launched..."

The second half of Lin Hui's sentence was obviously ignored by Melancholic Youyu.

Just knowing that Lin Hui is still developing a new game Melancholy の Yuyu makes me very happy.

Even through the network cable, Lin Hui could feel that Melancholic Youyu's conversation was obviously much more intense.

"Uh, why are you so excited?" Lin Hui asked puzzled.

Melancholy Yuyu: "Of course I'm excited, you don't know.

I said from the senior game forum on the extranet that you plan to wash your hands.

To put it bluntly, I really thought that you would no longer develop games in the future!
To be honest, I got up at this time today to read Weibo, just to verify the news from domestic channels. "

Golden basin to wash hands? ? ?

Lin Hui is not surprised by this news.

It is impossible to wash your hands in a golden basin.

Gamers speak nicely.

At the same time, the game market is also Lin Hui's favorite cash cow.

Short term unless there are other strong and stable alternative sources of income.

Otherwise, Lin Hui is unlikely to give up the game field.

How can there be such a statement that Lin Hui will not continue to develop games?

Lin Hui asked in confusion: "What forum uploaded this news, do you have any screenshots?"

Melancholy swim fish: [picture] [picture]...

Although the screenshots are all in English, but because Lin Hui's previous life in English is not bad.

In addition, there has been a lot of communication with overseas people such as Eve Carly recently.

Therefore, the English on this screenshot will not be said to be difficult for Lin Hui.

I saw a bunch of screenshots sent by Melancholic Yuyu.

Only then did Lin Hui figure out the ins and outs of the matter. It turned out that there was a gossip on the extranet game forum that Lin Hui had sold the game "HILL CLIMB RACING".

And the turnover is very high, so there are rumors that Gray Forest intends to make a fortune.

After getting a lot of money later, it's less likely to continue developing the game.

From the description, it is indeed as Melancholy の Yu Yu said.

The narration has a nose and an eye, and it is easy to confuse people.

However, Lin Hui noticed that the key points of the description, whether it was the specific transaction amount or the transaction form, were vague.

Therefore, Lin Hui thinks that it is unlikely that the super cell or the third party, namely eGAME, leaked the news.

After all, according to the corresponding contract constraints, although the main body of the game "HILL CLIMB RACING" has been handed over, according to the corresponding regulations, the contract can only be announced after the contract is fully performed.

From the perspective of the spirit of the contract, it seems that the two should not be disclosed.

However, it is hard for Lin Hui to say whether the business matters are true or not.

As for such news, now Lin Hui thinks it's nothing.

A $[-] million deal is secretive.

What to do when there is more movement in the future.

In the past, he didn't want this matter to be exposed because Lin Hui didn't want some messy voices from the outside world to mess up this matter.

But now the contract has been officially signed, and part of the payment has also been in place.

In this case, it doesn't matter if the news spreads.

Even so, Lin Hui felt that it was necessary to further verify this matter.

Of course this is after.

Although I am more grateful to Melancholic Yuyu for taking the initiative to say this to myself.

However, Lin Hui did not respond to Melancholy Youyu regarding the truth or falsehood of the news.

Lin Hui said: "Don't worry, we will continue to develop games...don't worry..."

It is said that to listen to a person's speech is to listen to what a person has said, but more importantly to listen to what a person has not said.

Melancholic Youyu noticed that Lin Hui didn't even mention the high-value transfer of "HILL CLIMB RACING".

It seems to be the default, which means that the transaction of more than 1 million US dollars is likely to be true.

Melancholic Yuyu simply didn't know what to say.

Well, if one of your own games makes hundreds of millions of dollars.

Not to mention that the golden basin has washed its hands, it is nothing to care for the elderly in situ.

What game are you still playing.

Maybe something like Gray God is the pursuit.

Or is it pure interest?
Such people seem to be the real developers.

Melancholy の Youyu seems to think of some reports about GRAY FOREST that I saw before.

In the past, these reports of melancholy の Youyu felt that they were suspected of washing the manuscript.

Looking at it now, I definitely underestimated Gray God's integrity as a game developer.

Wait, think of the report about Gray God in the previous report.

Melancholy Yuyu seemed to suddenly remember something.

Melancholy Yuyu said: "Grey god, gray god, I remember that you were interviewed before, saying that as early as 2012, you made your first small game in your life just after freshman year of high school.

This mini-game has already been completed to a very high degree, but due to various reasons, this game has not been released to the public in the end, and it may be an Easter egg in later products. Why has there been no movement since then?

Grey God, you probably forgot, right? [Tangled]..."

Seeing this, Lin Hui was thoughtful.

Lin Hui really forgot about the previous interview.

After all, many of the things mentioned in that interview were made by Lin Hui.

However, the little game Lin Hui used as an easter egg is not completely fabricated. Lin Hui has many similar games in his mind.

As a small game with easter eggs, Lin Hui seems to be easily reminiscent of Google Chrome's offline dinosaur game.

A past life when a Google Chrome user tried to browse a website while offline.

The browser says it's not connected to the Internet, and displays a pixelated tyrannosaurus on the error page.

Judging from the pixelated painting style, this is the same sand sculpture painting style as the pixel-style bird in the game "FLAPPPY BIRD" developed by Lin Hui.

It can be said that this game style is still related to the games that Lin Hui has made in the past.

This is also the reason why Lin Hui thought of "dinosaur game" for the first time.

The operation of the game like the dinosaur game is not very complicated.

Users can start the game through the space key SPACE or ↑, and Android and iOS users can directly click on the little dinosaur.

Users can also go directly to the game page through a dedicated link.

Game over screen after the dino crashes into a cactus, with a replay button.

In "Dinosaur Game", the little dinosaur will continue to move from left to right in the black and white desert scene.

Players need to control the dinosaur to jump or squat to avoid obstacles such as cacti and pteranodons.

Players can press SPACE, ↑ or click on the little dinosaur on the mobile device to make the little dinosaur jump; press ↓ to make it crouch.

The moving speed of the dinosaur will gradually increase as time progresses until the little dinosaur hits an obstacle and the game ends.

When the player accumulates about 700 points, the game scene will change from the original white to a dark gray background, symbolizing the change of day and night, and the decorations such as clouds will become moons and stars that only appear at night, and will change during the day and night as the game progresses. Switch between the two scenes at night.

Players need to play continuously for 1700 million years (in-game time) to reach the highest score designed by the game.

The reason why the time is set to 1700 million years corresponds to the time when Tyrannosaurus (extinct in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event) existed on the earth.

"Dinosaur Game" was developed by the Chrome user experience team including Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes and Edward Jung.

The game was officially released in September 2014.

Gabriel designed the little dinosaur image in the game and named it "The Lonely T-Rex".

During the development stage, the game was codenamed "Project Pollan" to pay tribute to Mark Pollan, the lead singer of Tyrannosaurus Rex;
The reason for the game's dinosaur theme is that the development team likened the absence of an Internet connection to a prehistoric joke.

If it wasn't for the melancholy Yuyu's reminder, Lin Hui would almost have forgotten about this little game.

After all, this "dinosaur game" did not appear as a game when it first came out, but only as an easter egg.

Although the proverb says: "If a thing looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and tastes like a duck, then it is a duck."

But when it comes to games, when a "game" appears as an easter egg in a non-game product, its characteristics as a game are often greatly downplayed.

The reason why the features of the game are greatly downplayed is naturally to make it easier for users to focus on non-game products rather than the game itself.

Imagine a game suddenly appearing on a product that has nothing to do with the game. Wouldn't that be too disobedient?

Therefore, when a game appears in some irrelevant places as an easter egg, its game features are generally reduced.

In fact, this is exactly what Google/Google did in the previous life when they used the "dinosaur game" as an easter egg.

The team at Google has downplayed the gameplay characteristics of the game considerably.

Lin Hui remembered that many people who used Google/Google browser in the previous life encountered the little dinosaur icon that appeared in the offline state.

At the time, people didn't realize that it was a game at first impression.

The earliest people realized that this is a game was probably too emotional when the web page was offline, and accidentally held the space bar or the ↑ key when scrolling the keyboard angrily.

It was only after watching the "moving" little dinosaur that it suddenly realized that this was a small game.

Even after many people have come into contact with this game, it is difficult to accurately name the game.

When most people describe this game, they basically use the two vague names of "dinosaur mini game" or "Google/Google offline mini game" to refer to these two games.

If it weren't for Lin Hui's thinking being inspired by the word "easter egg".

It's hard to imagine this game if you just think about it in terms of games.

But having said that, if you ignore the fact that the previous dinosaur mini-game was used as an easter egg, and just consider this project as a game.

The game was still quite successful.

Lin Hui remembered reading a report in his previous life.

A mediocre parkour game like "Dinosaur Game" once had close to [-] million monthly active players.

There are countless people who have played the game.

Because of the special trigger state of the game "Dinosaur Mini Game".

Even many people use the Google/Google browser to deliberately "stuck" the offline state to achieve the purpose of playing this game.

Lin Hui remembered that he had tried this before.

In short, regardless of the attributes of easter eggs, it is purely measured from the perspective of the game.

The game "Dinosaur Game" is also a very successful game.

Although such a game had achieved great success in the previous life.

However, if it is launched as a single game, it is really difficult to replicate the success of the year.

And the difficulty is not small.

At the beginning, a game like "Dinosaur Game" could have a lot of monthly activity.

Being backed by Google/Google is a very important reason.

In terms of the huge user base of Google/Google browser overseas.

To be honest, it is a mediocre game that is so bad that it cannot be added.

Appears in the form of easter eggs on the Google/Google offline interface, and will also have a very good monthly activity.

After all, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree.

Of course, this is just a hypothetical inference.

The fact is that a mediocre game that is so bad that it can't get any better is not possible to appear as an easter egg in the Google/Google offline interface.

Except that some unsatisfactory search engines like to fiddle with their own pages.

An Internet company with a slightly normal brain circuit will not mess in some messy things in the main interface of its search engine.

Without the help of Internet giants like Google, it would be difficult to reproduce the original success of such a game if it is carried.

(End of this chapter)