Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 93

Facts have proved that when a person concentrates on doing one thing, he cannot feel the passage of time.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the studio officially started work, and in a daze, Ethan felt hungry.

Turning his head, he realized that it was noon. He called the pizzeria next to his home and asked them to deliver two pizzas. After finishing his lunch, he devoted himself to work and fought until dark .

Then he discovered...

I drew fifteen map sketches by myself, and then converted them into computer codes of 0101!

If this kind of work attitude was placed in Ethan's previous life, it would be something unimaginable!
After all, in the era when there is no room for advancement, no matter how many migrant workers do, it is just to help the boss buy a house and change a car. When tomorrow's life can be discerned at a glance, learning how to fish in the workplace is the way to master life.

But now...

Whatever you do is your own!

In this case, if you can't muster your energy and work hard, then you really deserve to be unable to make money!
However, although this state of not hearing things outside the window can improve a lot of work efficiency, but at the same time, it will also make people ignore many things. For example, when the time came to November [-], Thomas and Linda When he appeared in front of him with a cake, he realized belatedly that today was his birthday.

"Happy Birthday Ethan—"

Thomas gave Ethan a big hug and a gift.

"Happy Birthday Ethan—"

Linda was no exception, and while holding up the cake, she smiled and said: "Oh Ethan, I know you don't like cream, so I specially made you a fruit cake with a chiffon base , with kiwi, strawberry and mango on top, I hope you like it."

"Oh thank you! Thank you!" The appearance of the two surprised Ethan.

And the ones who were more surprised than him were Evelyn and Woz.

"Today is your birthday?"

The little fat man Woz stared wide-eyed.

"Oh my god! Brother! Why didn't you say so sooner? I didn't even prepare a gift for you!"

Evelyn, on the other hand, was embarrassed, she spread her hands and said, "Ethan, I'm sorry, I forgot about this..."

Ethan smiled and waved his hands, "Oh, don't do that, I actually forgot about it myself."

What Ethan said was the truth. He hadn't celebrated his birthday for many years.

In my previous life, I was away from home, and all I received were blessings from the Telegraph Union, but in this life...

Who would remember the birthday of the original owner of the body?

However, since the sound of celebration sounded, Ethan would not spoil people's interest, invited Thomas and Linda to have dinner at home, and then took the initiative to go out to buy ingredients. His girlfriend and Jobs called and asked Evelyn to see if Barbara and the others had time. Although the short-term notice was a bit inappropriate, the surprise was actually more interesting.

Because NO.30 is a weekend, everyone is very generous. That night, a group of people gathered at Ethan’s house to celebrate his birthday. Even though the dishes were not rich, Thomas and Linda helped prepare many of them for the celebration. The props were not in place. Apart from singing the birthday song and blowing out the candles, there were no other arrangements at all, but the atmosphere of the party made Ethan very happy.

And with the end of November, the whole of [-] came to an end.

When December rolled around, Ethan did two things.

The first, that is, the case collection of Professor Barbara Babcock is finally on the market.

Because he promised to the other party before that he would buy the case book and donate it to the school, when Ethan got the news, he asked two executives in the company to handle the matter. He asked Damio Dean to buy it for $29.99. Five thousand copies, and then packaged together with some case reports written by the other party, so that Julis Noble and the schools on the west coast can contact the library and donate to the outside world based on [-] copies.

When he threw away 30 yuan in order to keep Barbara's book in the library of the school on the west coast, the mage who got the news immediately called to thank him, and at the same time, she brought Ethan a book. good news--

"Ethan, the discussion on the revision of the copyright protection law has ended. Next year, the federal government will amend the content of the copyright protection law to clearly distinguish the copyright protection clauses of companies and individuals. I have read the final draft, and it is best for you to register copyright in the name of a company. Favorable, so after the provisional patent application for "Snake Game" expires, you can directly register the copyright in the name of Destiny Game."

"Oh thanks, Barbara, I love the news." Ethan thanked with a smile.

The second thing is Christmas.

Although "Pac-Man" is in a critical period of development, Ethan doesn't want to celebrate any festival, but as an annual celebration day in North America, Ethan can't violate the voice of the mainstream society, so, before the festival is approaching, Actually, he gave the company employees a holiday in the usual way, and drove Woz, a guy with father, mother and relatives, back home. At the same time, he also asked him to come back to work after the New Year in January.

On the day of Christmas Eve, Ethan did not work overtime against humanity, but returned to Thomas and Linda's house with Evelyn, had a big meal with the two old people, and then the family reunited. In front of the TV, I watched "It's a Wonderful Life" that has been replayed for many years.

This is an inspirational movie. It tells the story of a protagonist who loses confidence in life and prepares to commit suicide when Christmas is approaching. God, who receives the news, sends an angel down to earth in an attempt to save his believers from the fire and water.

After experiencing some setbacks, the protagonist regained his courage and faced all difficulties in life with a smile.

Because of its religious theological overtones, this movie has a very high rating in North America.

Although Ethan is not very interested in this kind of story of the advent of the Gospel, he still read it with great interest, and when the clock struck midnight, Ethan, who entered Christmas, also faced the list he had prepared in advance, and Friends wish each other happy holidays.

As for why Ethan complicates simple things?
Very simple!
Because people like Jobs, Woz, Barbara, and Chuck Paido can receive blessings at Christmas.

But people like Spielberg, Ralph Bell, they only celebrate Hanukkah.

When this kind of differentiation occurs, it can only be treated in special cases.

And when Ethan finished maintaining the relationship around him, he felt for the first time that email was really a great invention.

Because you can send a group message with just a click of the mouse, it is much more efficient than making a phone call!
And just when he was feeling that he would have to carry out such cumbersome greetings for many years to come, the closed door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and he turned his head to see, good guy!Evelyn actually got in like a thief!
"What are you doing?" Ethan didn't understand.

Evelyn jumped to his side and said, "Let's go back."

"What?" Ethan didn't understand.

"Let's go back and write code..." Evelyn said, "Staying at home is so boring! Why don't we go back and write code!"

"Now I feel that watching movies and watching TV is really a waste of time. How can this be as interesting as playing games?"

"And I'm almost done writing the code for the first ghost, I really want to see how it runs!"

What the hell!

Ethan was shocked!

He never imagined that there are still workaholics in this world who take the initiative to work overtime on the first day of the Lunar New Year?

Think watching movies is a waste of time?
Suffering from not writing code?
What is this ghost?

but……

Ethan was only surprised for a second, then jumped up from the bed, "Okay, let's go."

Yes, he is also suffering now.

Because I'm free!

Maybe it's because God bless.

On the second day after they went home, that is, on December 26, Evelyn successfully finished rubbing the red ghost's chasing code.

When the yellow Pac-Man ran wildly in the maze on the monitor connected to APPLE 1, followed by the ghostly red figure, Ethan and Evelyn were delighted by the inseparable pursuit.

Especially when they found out that no matter how the yellow Pac-Man runs away, the red ghost will hunt him down at the shortest distance instead of following the rigid path. born.

"Oh Evelyn—we made it, right?" Ethan exclaimed.

"I think it is!"

Evelyn laughed loudly, "Not to mention anything else, at least my algorithm is no problem in map No. 1!"

Xiaohong's success in map No. [-] made Ethan very excited.

Since he has finished all 255 maps, he next turned into Futukang No. 255 quality inspector, driving a yellow Pac-Man, and roaming in [-] maps to test Xiaohong's performance in different maps.

Although he also found many bugs in the process;

For example, when encountering a long maze passage, if Pac-Man is too far ahead, he has already drilled out of the passage at the other end, while Xiaohong has just entered or only entered a quarter of the time. , this guy may retreat from the channel because of the algorithm's closest principle, giving the player a feeling of 'I just have God's perspective';

But this kind of BUG that can be modified can't affect his excitement at all.

You know, what he is doing now is one of the most awesome pixel games in his previous life!
Being able to imitate a shape is already a success!
The next tinkering, it's not a problem at all!
And when Woz came back after the festival, the little fat man was immediately overwhelmed by the work progress of the two of them...

"Oh! Sxxt! You guys finished Xiaohong?"

"Oh! No! The test is also done?"

"Dxxn! Don't you rest?"

"Time is money, my friend!" Ethan was in a good mood, and directly cos-ed up the goblin in World of Warcraft.

"If we don't speed things up, how are we going to make money?"

Hearing such words, Woz was dumbfounded.

Evelyn gave Ethan a fist, and then smiled and said to Woz: "Oh Stephen, the main reason is that the development of "Pac-Man" is so interesting. It is different from those boring jobs. It can bring us Come to be happy, so... we're addicted..."

Woz can accept this explanation.

And after seeing the development progress of Ethan and Evelyn's outstanding development, he also got motivated, rolled up his sleeves and swore to God that within a week, the AI ​​code of Xiao Orange, a wandering ghost, would be fully distributed. come out.

When the technical tycoon came up with the energy of preferring jade to pieces rather than tiles, the development of "Pac-Man" also entered a period of high-speed operation.

On January 1976, 1, the first version of the chase code for the little orange ghost written by Woz was officially completed.

On January 1976, 1, Ethan controlled Pac-Man and spent four days running the code of Little Orange Ghost on all 19 maps.

On January 1976, 1, the first version of the ambush code written by Evelyn was declared complete.

On the 25th of the second day, the group rested, because this day was Evelyn's birthday, and Ethan accompanied her to Anaheim.

The next day, continue working.

On January 1976, 1, Ethan controlled Pac-Man and was blocked by the little red ghost and the little pink ghost on 29 maps for four days.

On February 1976, 2, the containment code written by Woz was officially completed, and the most difficult little blue ghost finally came out.

On February 1976, 2, Ethan controlled Pac-Man, and was beaten to the ground by Xiaohong, Xiaopin, Xiaolan, and Xiaocheng in 24 maps.

And in the last concentrated test, they also found endless bugs.

For example, because the behavior patterns of Xiaofen and Xiaolan are somewhat similar, the former is ambushing on the player's route, while the latter cooperates with Xiaohong to encircle, so when they encounter some simple terrain, the path feedback they appear it's the same.

If it is a single channel, there is no problem, but if there is a fork in the road, the strange path feedback may turn the artificial intelligence into an artificial mental retardation, forcibly giving up a problem-free path to the player.

So here, it must be changed. Evelyn decided to add a judgment to Xiaofen, which is to give priority to the path where the companion is not present.

For another example, Xiaocheng's algorithm is to roam and garrison unconsciously, and only when the player appears in his area will he hunt down.

At this time, if the player is stuck on the judgment side, he can easily play with Xiaocheng.

When Ethan played the operations of 'Hey I came in', 'Hey I came out', 'Hey I came in again', 'Hey I came out again' in the game, Xiaocheng's feedback in the game was that It becomes the silly behavior of "going forward and chasing", "stopping", "going forward and chasing", and "stopping".

When Xiaocheng was played by Ethan like Erha, Evelyn's imagination for Ethan was amazing, but Woz...

The little fat man can't sit still!
He couldn't bear the fact that the AI ​​he wrote became mentally retarded!
He directly decided to add an additional algorithm to Xiaocheng. If within a short period of time, for example, within five seconds, the figure of the player appeared many times in Xiaocheng's range detection, then it would enter a runaway state, and Xiaohong Same crazy chase.

Xiao Orange will return to nature only when the player escapes its detection range and keeps within ten seconds.

And when these gaps were singled out one by one, related revisions were also put on the agenda.

Then, there are endless rounds of tests.

When the time came to March 1976, 3, after Ethan finished level 20 with the normal difficulty of the game, the WIN that popped up suddenly told them a fact...

After five months of...

The "Pac-Man" project has finally been successfully developed!

And when it took them five days to successfully build the circuit board embedded with the game CPU, and put it into the arcade case with yellow Pac-Man and four ghosts...

The world's first "Pac-Man" arcade machine was born!

"It's done!"

Ethan put his hands on his hips, looking at the game interface with five colors of light full of emotion.

"Next..."

"That is to announce your existence to the world..."

Ethan patted Pac-Man.

A look of joy.

(End of this chapter)