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Chapter 126 Immortal Sword Demo First Edition

Although the Olympic bid was unsuccessful, life had to go on. Fortunately, Zhang Lexing gave everyone a day off in advance. When they returned to the office to start working again, everyone's mood was much better, and the work continued to move forward according to the schedule , the planners are setting the game scene and writing the dialogue script in the game, the artists are working hard to draw various game elements on the computer according to the requirements of the project manager and the main planner, and the programmers continue to work hard every day to write The code works.

On the first working day after the National Day, when Zhang Lexing came to the company and his butt was still warm, Zhan Jun hurried in.

"Boss, the first playable demo version of "Legend of Sword and Fairy" has been made, would you like to take a look?"

"Okay, take me to see." Hearing that, Zhang Lexing stood up happily. After almost half a year, he could finally see what kind of tricks the RPG engine Zhan Jun had been talking about was playing.

Zhan Jun led the way, and Zhang Lexing followed to the programming department.Zhan Jun coughed lightly, then came to his usual computer and started a program from the command line.

"Boss, just sit on my chair and watch. You can use the keyboard or the mouse to operate this game. For the keyboard, it mainly includes the arrow keys, ESC key, enter key, and space bar. If you use the mouse, just click directly OK."

"Okay, then I'll try." Zhang Lexing agreed, and sat down on Zhan Jun's chair.

A fog-shrouded mountain appeared on the computer screen, and several cranes flew slowly from the right to the left of the screen, and the words "Legend of Sword and Fairy" slowly appeared on the right as if written with a brush.Press the space bar once, and the screen will show the prompts "Fresher", "Memory Reappearance", and "Back to Reality". Zhang Lexing uses the direction keys to move the cursor to "Fresh", and then presses the space bar, the screen slowly changes. blacken……

With a sound of "铛", Li Xiaoyao was awakened from his dream, and found that he had fallen to the floor, and in front of him was his angry aunt holding a pot.

Aunt Li put her hips on her hips and roared furiously: "Li Xiaoyao! Your skin is itchy, you are sleeping late again!"

"Oh...it hurts so much!" Li Xiaoyao groaned while touching his head.

"I'm daydreaming again! You're not young anymore, you're crazy all day long, and you don't learn to do serious things!" Aunt Li pushed Li Xiaoyao who was lying on the ground with her foot: "Get up, don't pretend! "

Li Xiaoyao quickly got up from the ground, and said with a serious face: "Auntie, don't knock people with pots and shovels every time you wake them up, or you will die! Our wooden bed is not solid, If I fall to my death, our Li family will never be seen again!"

Aunt Li said disdainfully: "Won't this wake you up? Anyway, you have also learned carpentry from Master Lin for several months. If the bed is not strong, you can't repair it yourself! You can only sharpen some wooden knives and swords. I learn how to wield swords and swords like your father all day long, so I don’t know for sure, let’s see which girl is willing to marry you in the future!"

"Then how did my father marry my mother?"

"Hmph! Your mother looks just like your father. She married into our Li family, and she doesn't work as a needlework girl, so she knows she's going crazy with your father all over the world!"

……

Li Xiaoyao asked: "Are there any guests coming early in the morning?"

Aunt Li walked halfway, then turned around and said, "Yes, hurry up and help!"

After his aunt left, Li Xiaoyao stretched his waist, and said angrily, "It's really boring. I asked people to do this and that early in the morning. Fortunately, I was already prepared."

Li Xiaoyao pushed open the door of the secret passage, and was about to sneak away, when suddenly his aunt's voice came from outside: "Xiaoyao! What are you still doing in the room? Come out and greet the guests."

The aunt stared too closely, and Li Xiaoyao didn't want to be caught before he left the house, so he agreed, "Oh! I'll be right there."

After leaving his room, Li Xiaoyao came to the corridor on the second floor, and met his aunt and several guests dressed in Miao people's clothes after not walking far.After seeing Li Xiaoyao coming, Aunt Li scolded dissatisfiedly: "What are you doing, so slow!"

……

After dismissing a few guests, Li Xiaoyao accepted a task of delivering food and wine, and also received a tip of [-] Wen.After delivering the food and wine, he used the sweet-scented osmanthus wine that the guests didn't want to get rid of the drunk Taoist priest at the door. Li Xiaoyao received the task of buying fish and shrimp from his aunt again, and finally he was able to step out of the inn.

Here, Zhang Lexing also found something different. When Li Xiaoyao found out the fruits and glutinous rice cakes, he was scolded by his aunt. She also reminded Li Xiaoyao not to rummaging outside. Other people's things, or they might be wanted by the Yamen.

"Boss, this is a system restriction we deliberately added. After all, the protagonist is a future hero. If you learn other role-playing games and can randomly rummage in other people's homes, it will not look good." Zhan Jun said Next explained.

"It's very interesting." Zhang Lexing nodded and continued to wander in the game.

Li Xiaoyao left the inn and came to Shengyu Village.By the well at the entrance of the inn, there were two aunts washing clothes, and a woman beside them was feeding chickens.Zhang Lexing observed carefully for a while, and found that these NPCs were not like in ordinary RPG games, they just kept repeating fixed actions.After a while, the two laundry ladies finished washing their clothes and left from the well with basins in their hands. The woman also walked away after feeding the chickens for a while. Where did you go to play.

Zhang Lexing noticed that with the passage of time, the shadows on the ground seem to have changed. It seems that this game still has the passage of time, which is really interesting.

Just when he was proud, there was a sudden roar from behind Li Xiaoyao: "Li Xiaoyao! You slacker, why are you so dazed here? It's already noon. Where's the fish and shrimp I asked you to buy?"

Li Xiaoyao faltered and said: "Auntie, I am not in a daze, but actually thinking about life. What is the purpose of people living in this world?"

With a sound of "铛", a spatula hit Li Xiaoyao's head, and the aunt's roar sounded again: "Think about your size, hurry up and buy it, or it will be gone if it's too late."

"Boss, it's like this. We added a time control. Each NPC will have its own work and rest time. There will be a time period for doing anything. Once the time is up, the NPC will switch to other things. For example, at the well just now For NPCs who do laundry, we have set a laundry time of 10 minutes, so just now you will see them washing their clothes for a while, and then leaving with a basin. If you go down a certain distance, you can also see There is a new drying rack." Zhan Jun explained again: "As for Li Xiaoyao's aunt, it is because of the time control of the task. In this world we designed, there is time passing, and some people have time. Restricted tasks cannot wait without limit, so we added a task time limit, when the time is approaching, the NPC will take the initiative to come to the protagonist to remind, of course, different NPCs have different ways of reminding."

"It's quite interesting. I didn't expect you to actually make what was discussed at the beginning." Zhang Lexing continued to control the protagonist in the game to wander around.

Along the gravel road in the village, Li Xiaoyao walked to the vegetable market. On the way, he met Xianglan who was interested in him. After a few jokes, Li Xiaoyao came to the vegetable market.

The vegetable market in Shengyu Village is very small, with a total of six stalls selling vegetables, fruits, pork, seafood, fine wine, buns, etc.Li Xiaoyao came to the seafood stall to ask, only to know that due to the strong wind and waves these days, the prawns were not caught, and the number of fish was very small, so Li Xiaoyao had no choice but to buy a fish and go back to work. I cleaned up the meal, but my aunt suddenly fell ill.In order to save his aunt's life, Li Xiaoyao made some preparations and planned to go to Fairy Island to obtain the elixir.When they came to the pier near the vegetable market, Li Xiaoyao even asked several people, and they all said that the sea was too rough to go out to sea. In the end, the kind-hearted Fourth Brother Zhang agreed, and the fishing boat carried Li Xiaoyao slowly towards Xianling Island... …

On the fairy island, Li Xiaoyao didn't go very far, and began to meet some grass monsters dangling on the road.Picking one at random, Li Xiaoyao plunged into it, and the battle began...

Two grass demons are standing on the left, and Li Xiaoyao is standing on the right. There is a progress bar moving above the heads of both of them.

"Boss, this is the real-time combat system we designed. Both the enemy and the enemy have progress bars of different lengths according to different speed values. During the progress bar movement, you can set the attack method and target for the character. When the progress bar is full, the character will The attack has started according to the setting." Zhan Jun pointed to the progress bar on the screen and explained.

Zhang Lexing chose a normal attack, and the target was the grass monster on the upper left. Soon the progress bar on Li Xiaoyao's head came to an end and began to flicker. He swooped in front of the grass monster and stabbed the sword...

After beating a few grass demons, the end of the road ahead was blocked by a huge rock, and Li Xiaoyao had nowhere to go.

"Boss, in fact, this is because the image material behind has not been added, so we have made a limitation here. This version can only be played here, but we can already experience part of the system settings. In about five months , the second version of Demo can be completed, it is already a relatively complete demo version, basically everything that needs to be added will be added, such as different enemy encounter modes in the combat system (normal, first attack, enemy side raids, sieges, and flanks), large map modes, traffic systems, and more.”

Zhang Lexing looked at the picture on the screen again, although it was a little different from what he remembered, but it always brought back his own memories.Shaking his head lightly, Zhang Lexing stood up, came to Zhan Jun's side, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Work hard, you must come up with a good product."

Zhan Jun nodded and said, "Boss, I will definitely watch over it carefully, and promise to complete the task on time and with quality."

……

After seeing the situation of the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" project team, Zhang Lexing came to the next cubicle again, wanting to see what the American ARPG produced by Mike Ronald and John Fermax looked like. .Speaking of which, this game is really mysterious. It has been almost half a year, and even the name has not been finalized. There is only an internal development code name "Obsidian (obsidian)".

When Zhang Lexing came to Mike Ronald's workshop, he was busy debugging something on the computer. From the screen, it seemed like a turn-based RPG game.

Gently patted Mike Ronald on the shoulder, Zhang Lexing asked, "Mike, is this your obsidian?"

Mike Ronald looked back, and then said: "Yes, boss, part of it has been completed now, would you like to take a look."

"Okay, Mike, let's demonstrate."

Mike Ronald restarted the game running on the computer, and a beautiful medieval style background appeared on the screen, with some scrolling English in the middle, the text roughly reads:
"The Kingdom of Buffett was built on the Weeping Plain, protected by the Ninth Legion known as the world's most elite. The Kingdom of Buffett is composed of diverse cultures and nationalities, and most of the people worship the ancient hero Azunai , dwarves can coexist peacefully with humans, and the Zug people are allowed to have autonomy.

However, even with Archmage Merlin and the Ninth Legion defending the country, the kingdom is still in a great crisis. The king is imprisoned by the dark king Gant, and all parts of the kingdom are threatened by the Korgs, undead creatures and other monsters.

In this turbulent era, a young farmer (protagonist) in the village of Alber Heights, some distance from Depp Town, decided to set out on a journey to save the Kingdom of Buffett because of the entrustment of his friend Norrick before his death. Journey together with your companions to take up arms against the kingdom's evil enemies..."

The scrolling subtitles seem to be an introduction to the background of the game story, but it is too simple, there is not even a cutscene or anything, Zhang Lexing couldn't help asking: "Mike, this title is too simple."

"Oh," Mike Ronald sighed, and said, "Boss, there's no way. There are not many experienced people in our group. They can handle static pictures, but animations are not good at all. And there is also a lack of animation. I heard from Ms. Chu that the equipment was bought but could not be shipped in, so I had to adopt this form.”

"I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. I guess it's probably due to a technical blockade." Zhang Lexing thought in his heart, "Fortunately, there is already a computer CG production company with quite good technical strength in Hong Kong, otherwise the game will be released in the future. How can you make a move in the cutscene?"

Thinking of this piece of music, Lexing took out a business card and handed it to Mike Ronald, and then said: "Mike, I have established a company in Hong Kong that specializes in computer CG production. Now that the company's own strength cannot meet the requirements, why don't you The cutscenes portion of the project was outsourced.”

"Oriental Charm?" Mike Ronald took a look at the business card and asked suspiciously, "Boss, is the company's technical strength good enough?"

"Of course, I've heard of Industrial Light and Magic. Many people from the Oriental Shenyun company used to work in Industrial Light and Magic, and the equipment of Oriental Shenyun is even better than that of Industrial Light and Magic. Last year's Have you seen that "Terminator 2", the liquid robot in it was jointly produced by Industrial Light & Magic and Oriental Shen Yun, even if you want to create a Star Wars effect."

"No problem, boss, I'll contact you later." Mike Ronald's most worrying problem was solved, a smile appeared on his face immediately, and he happily continued to demonstrate his obsidian.

(End of this chapter)