Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 91 The Joy of Stealing Vegetables

After Zhou Chu entered the platform, he was a little confused the moment he saw the game.

Regardless of quality, the games under Fumei Platform are endless.

There are a variety of game genres, from puzzle games to fighting games, from turn-based to real-time strategy games.

Zhou Chu was so dazzled by what he saw that he almost forgot the purpose of coming.

But soon, Zhou Chu came to his senses and directly found a game that could get the most gold coins in a short period of time.

""Happy Farm"? If you sign up, you will get a hundred gold coins. Every time you upgrade, you will get additional pet gold coins as a reward. That's it."

Zhou Chu directly locked his target.

Double-click the icon.

Load the game.

A melodious organ sound slowly sounded, the rhythm was gentle and relaxed, giving it a pastoral and rural feel.

The entire background map looks very healing.

Blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and green waters, a few pieces of wasteland full of weeds, and an empty kennel next to it.

"There is some feeling of healing, but what is the gameplay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a system prompt popped up.

【Creating wasteland...】

He completed the task step by step according to the system prompts.

Cultivation of wasteland, planting of grass, harvesting when mature, watering, weeding...

"It looks a bit like a small business game." Zhou Chu muttered to himself.

In just a few minutes or so, Zhou Chu had figured out how to play the game.

"Happy Farm" is a very simple planting and management game.

There are 12-yuan wastelands on the map. Players can unlock one wasteland at the beginning. As the level increases, players can spend gold coins to unlock additional wastelands.

Players can spend a certain amount of gold coins to buy seeds, and then wait until the seeds mature, collect crops and sell them to gain gold coins and experience.

The gameplay is very simple and easy to understand.

Zhou Chu glanced at the level in the upper right corner, which was level three.

He scratched his head and said doubtfully: "I don't think this game is fun. Why is the platform so heavily promoted?"

After receiving several hundred pet gold coins, he looked at all the plants that had been planted. Just as he was about to quit the game, Zhou Chu saw a list on the right with little red dots.

As a senior Leopard Head player, Zhou Chu subconsciously opened the door and wanted to see what benefits he could get for free.

But after opening it, he realized that it was just an ordinary friend list.

"I thought it was just a friend list..."

"No, damn, didn't I just register an account? Why do I have more than 100 friends!"

Zhou Chu was just about to close his friend list.

But looking at the more than 100 people in the friend list, they immediately started to be stunned.

But then, he understood where these friends came from.

"The Supreme Emperor Wuji, the day does not understand the darkness of night. If you destroy my wings, I will destroy your paradise...Yarema, isn't this a good friend from Laozi's "The Three Kingdoms"!"

"Oh, that's right, it's all Fumei Technology's game, and information sharing is normal."

Originally, Zhou Chu wanted to log out directly, but when he found out that these were all his friends in the game, he instantly became interested.

"Let me see how old you are."

Zhou Chu excitedly clicked on a friend's farm - level four!
"WTF? Why is your level higher than mine? Impossible, absolutely impossible."

"I understand. He must have played the game right after it came out, so he is one level higher than me. After all, the game upgrades very quickly in the early stages."

Zhou Chu found a reasonable explanation and clicked on another friend's farm - Level [-]!
Zhou Chu: "Meow meow meow?"

Looking at my friend's level [-] farm, everyone in Zhou Chu was dumbfounded.As Zhou Chu, nicknamed "Eternal White Whore·Leopard Head·Lin Chong", he has an extraordinary sensitivity in various game data.

After all, only by rationally using the rewards given by the system can we catch up with the large army of krypton gold.

And Zhou Chu is the best among them. As a free prostitute, he can catch the tail of the second echelon.

For a game like "Farm", Zhou Chu only played it for 10 minutes and came to the conclusion that it could be upgraded to level five at most in 24 hours.

But now, only a few hours after the platform went online, someone had already reached level five, which made Zhou Chu doubt his computing power.

So he quickly opened the communication group and asked:

"(Game screenshot), are you guys cheating? How come you level up so fast?"

"? You don't know that you can get an additional 5% experience and gold coins by activating yellow diamonds in this game."

Zhou Chu: "Yellow diamond...what is that?"

"Just think of it as a kind of VIP privilege. Would you like to open one? It's only 30 yuan a month."

Hearing this, Zhou Chu was shocked:

"Damn it, you're crazy. Aren't you determined to die not to make money in the game?"

The full name of the exchange group is 'Who's a Kryptonian and Who's a Dog', and the people here are all a group of players who claim to be free prostitutes.

Behaviors like this krypton gold will be publicly punished in the group.

But soon, the group of friends replied confidently: "I didn't spend money in the game. Yellow diamonds are the VIP privilege of the Fumei platform. What's the game?"

Zhou Chu: "..."

MMP, what you said makes sense, but I am speechless.

Huang Diamond is a privileged VIP on the Fumei platform. He can set up a separate VIP room, has the authority to kick people, and will also have bonus effects in various games.

The most important thing is that yellow diamond users will add a shiny yellow diamond logo before the user name, which looks extremely conspicuous.

This has led to many people buying yellow diamonds without hesitation on the first day of experience.

Zhou Chu said: "Whoever wants to buy it will buy it. Anyway, I won't buy it."

"By the way, you haven't said how you reached level five. Even a 5% experience bonus is not enough."

"Oh, well, if you go help your friends with fertilizing, watering, and weeding, you will get extra experience, but I'm warning you, don't steal my food, I have records here."

But Zhou Chu had already closed the group chat at this time.

"Helping my friends water, fertilize, and weed will also give me experience bonuses. I asked them how they can level up faster than me..."

"I have to see."

Zhou Chu reopened his friends list.

I found several icons on the friend list, a heart icon and a white glove.

After a short period of research, Zhou Chu understood what these icons represented.

The heart icon indicates that the player's farm needs help with watering, fertilizing, and weeding.

White gloves indicate that the crops in the player's farm are mature and other friends can steal the vegetables.

Then he clicked on a friend's farm and looked at the farm that had been transformed with his help. Zhou Chu felt proud in his heart.

I'm such a nice guy.

But... Zhou Chu couldn't help but clicked while looking at the little hands that appeared on the mature crops.

"I'll just give it a try."

Then...looking at the food that was 'stolen' into his backpack, a strange feeling suddenly surged around him.

A little ashamed, a little shy, a little self-blame, but at the same time mixed with a sense of inexplicable joy and satisfaction.

"I'm not stealing, I'm collecting part of the reward." Zhou Chu found a suitable reason for himself.

Then... he began to collect the reward with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)