Play Game of Life

For the homework assigned by Professor He Cheng, the time can be said to be quite tight.

The first screening will be conducted two weeks later, and this screening will directly eliminate two-thirds of the students.

Although it is possible to form a team with classmates who have not been eliminated after being eliminated, it is after all someone else's design plan, which is equivalent to starting a fight, and I have no right to speak.

When the school first started, the students basically carried out activities in the dormitory as a unit, and there were not many opportunities to contact other students. If the entire dormitory is eliminated, the situation will be more difficult.

Lu Zhixing must try his best to ensure that his design concept draft is in the first third.

It takes only two weeks to complete the design concept draft, which is quite urgent for some senior game planners.

Moreover, Professor He Cheng later added one point: This Friday, a few students will be randomly selected to check their homework completion status.

This is even more stressful for the students.

The reason why Professor He Cheng set such a tight schedule should be a stress test to see the ability of these students to quickly write design drafts. After all, everyone's time is tight, and the competition is fair.

Lu Zhixing has been busy dealing with Internet cafes and renting a house, and now there are only three days left before Professor He's spot check.

But for a business-savvy dog ​​planner like him, two or three days is enough time to produce a design concept draft.

"So, what kind of game should I design with these materials that will be available in the future?"

Lu Zhixing fell into deep thought.

After completing the role-playing task, he must use all the materials he got to make a game.

Professor He Cheng's homework must be completed on time.

Writing two different design drafts was too tiring for Lu Zhixing, and he didn't have enough time at all. Even if it is written, the follow-up production will definitely be very busy.

So, it's better to design a game that accomplishes both goals at the same time.

"If I can get that special reward, and I can get unlimited materials within an hour, I can have all the resources of Jinghai University and the surrounding area within a block or two.

"Combining the material that the two acting identities of 'beating a worker' and 'campus superstar' may give me...

"Well, there is!"

After thinking about it, Lu Zhixing wrote down the name of the game on the document.

"Ordinary Life".

This can be regarded as a simulation game, and the scene of the game is in Jinghai University and the surrounding area.

Whether it is Jinghai University itself, or the surrounding small vendors, shops, etc., it will be fully restored.

In the game, players can experience rich content:

You can go to various places to work and earn money, such as moving bricks, sorting express delivery, working as a security guard, setting up a stall, etc.;

You can eat, drink, play various small games, such as hoops, playing balloons, playing chess on the street, going to Internet cafes, etc.;

You can participate in some training activities to improve your professional skills and unlock more jobs.

Some elements of simulating survival will be added in the game, such as hunger, health, cleanliness and other concepts, which will affect the state of the character, and need to eat, bathe, wash clothes, and rest regularly to recover.

There are several different ways to play through the game:

The first is wealth clearance: earning a certain amount of money through your own ability is considered a clearance.

The second is cultural customs clearance: if you improve various professional skills to a certain level, or if college students advance their studies to a certain level, you will pass the level.

The third is identity clearance: through your own efforts, owning your own industry and becoming a boss, or a student becoming an outstanding cadre through organizing activities is also considered customs clearance.

At the same time, the game will also plan different difficulties, namely "game difficulty", "simulation difficulty" and "real difficulty".

The higher the difficulty, the faster the player's hunger, health, cleanliness and other attributes will be consumed, the more difficult it is to make money, and various risks will increase.

Players can play three different identities, namely: a worker, a college student, and a rich second generation who hides his identity.

The initial optional identities are worker and college student, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Workers are more energetic, more tolerant to various physical tasks, and have a strong psychological quality. Even if the cleanliness is low, eating dried noodles every day, and long-term heavy physical labor, they will not accumulate too much psychological pressure.

At the same time, migrant workers can completely control all their time without academic pressure.

On the contrary, college students have poor physical quality and relatively fragile psychological quality, and need to set aside some time to deal with their studies.

But the advantage of college students is that they can live in school dormitories, eat in school cafeterias, and at the same time have some exclusive activities in the university, such as holding evening parties, participating in debate competitions, and so on.

These are not only bonus points for identity clearance, but also can improve your various skills without joining training courses.

In addition, there is a hidden identity, that is, the identity of the rich second generation. Its activation condition is that the player needs to use the identity of a worker and a college student respectively to achieve any of the "real difficulty" clearance methods.

The identity of the rich second generation has a very exaggerated initial money, and the only goal of customs clearance is to spend all the money before the end of the game time.

The reason why this game is called "Ordinary Life" is because it focuses on the group of workers and college students. What the game content shows is not a luxury, but a real society.

Its source of inspiration is a similar domestic game that Lu Zhixing played in his previous life, but this game was taken off the shelves due to various problems. Moreover, the game production team lacked funds, capabilities, and attitudes. The gameplay and content of the game have great flaws.

In Lu Zhixing's view, this is a pity: players gave enough enthusiasm and support, but the game developer failed to respond to this support, and instead made this good idea blind.

Therefore, Lu Zhixing decided to give a more perfect answer based on the idea of ​​"showing ordinary life" based on his goal of acting this time and the materials he could obtain.

Of course, since Lu Zhixing can't predict the future, and can't be sure what kind of material he will give after finishing the performance, this is tantamount to a kind of prejudgment.

Presumably there should not be too much deviation.

As for what kind of material the paralyzed patient will play, Lu Zhixing can't guess at all, so it has not been included in the planning of this game for the time being. After I get the material, I can stuff it in if I can. If I can’t get it in, I can only make another game.

...

After having a general direction, Lu Zhixing immediately began to write game design concept drafts.

In the previous life, I did functional planning for several years, and writing design drafts can be said to be easy.

Lu Zhixing quickly tapped the keyboard with both hands, and the clear ideas in his mind quickly became the content of the design draft. It only took four or five hours to build a rough framework.

But at this moment, Lu Zhixing suddenly thought of a problem.

"Speaking of which, when Professor He Cheng grades the homework, will he also take the production cost into consideration?"

Although Professor He Cheng said that the designed game can be of any type and theme, and there are no restrictions on everything, but for a game designer, cost control is the first lesson in making games.

Those truly great game designs are the result of a compromise between design and objective conditions.

Just like very old pixel-style games, designers need to use a few simple pixels to describe different game characters, and need to use a cartridge with a very limited capacity to carry as much and rich game content as possible.

It can be said that from the beginning of its birth, game design has been an art form dancing with shackles, and the game content has always been limited by the hardware level.

Although the hardware conditions have gradually increased, and many game masterpieces have invested more than 100 million yuan, the game industry has never been too cold about this "stacking" method.

In the annual game awards, the jury often does not like this kind of large-scale productions that are purely piled up, but often prefers those games that are smaller in size but have huge gameplay innovations.

For designers, how to use fewer resources, better achieve design goals, and bring more fun to players is the real highlight.

Thinking about it this way, the production cost of the game itself must be an important part of Professor He Cheng's evaluation of the game.

Then, a big production like "Ordinary Life", which almost included the entire Jinghai University and surrounding streets, will definitely have to deduct points in this regard.

After all, for an ordinary game production team, this amount of resources is simply beyond the charts, and only people like Lu Zhixing who have cheats can be so unscrupulous.

then what should we do?

Salad!

Although Lu Zhixing knew that there might be problems, he didn't intend to modify it. Because this design plan was finalized in conjunction with the "playing game of life", as long as he can successfully complete the role-playing, all these materials can be obtained, and there is no need to consider the production cost of the game like other people.

If you change to another design plan, although you can get a higher evaluation from Professor He, a lot of materials will be backlogged and cannot be used.

That was a serious waste, and Lu Zhixing would never allow it.

Moreover, Lu Zhixing is confident that even though this design plan will deduct some points in terms of cost control, it is still good enough, and it is still very hopeful that it will stand out among all the design drafts.

...

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next morning.

Lu Zhixing revised the design draft of "Ordinary Life" for the last time, pressed ctrl+S several times, then picked up the Feizhai Happy Water on the table, and took a few sips.

Live together!

Just about to rest for a while, the doorbell rang.

"Hello, is there anyone at home? The courier has arrived!"

"Huh? It was delivered so soon?"

Lu Zhixing was a little surprised. He opened the door of the rental house and moved the huge cardboard box in with the courier.

"Young man, you just moved in recently? I haven't seen you before."

This courier boy is quite talkative.

Now there are not many couriers willing to deliver goods to your door, and Jingxi Express is one of them. This courier company is a local industry in Jinghai, so it got its name because its headquarters and largest warehouse are located on the west side of Jinghai.

Of course, the homonym of Jingxi is "surprise", and the couriers are all dressed in red, which is quite festive, so the express business in Jinghai is getting more and more prosperous.

The couriers of Jingxi Express are paid well. Basically, the couriers deliver to fixed areas all year round. This courier is obviously in charge of this community, and he comes to deliver couriers every day. He has never seen Lu Zhixing before, so he guessed that this is a new resident.

Lu Zhixing nodded: "Yes, just moved in, what's the master's name? Come, drink some water."

As he spoke, he took an unopened bottle of mineral water and handed it over.

"Thank you, I don't need it. My name is Qian Ziqiang. If you have any problems with the courier in the future, just contact me." The courier brother pushed the mineral water back.

"Master Qian, please add your contact information, maybe I will have to hang out with you in the future, and deliver the courier together."

Lu Zhixing took out his phone and scanned the QR code to add friends.

Then he took the paper cutter and prepared to open the box.

Although Qian Ziqiang added his contact information, he waved his hands again and again when he heard Lu Zhixing's words: "Hey, don't be joking, you look gentle, you should be a college student, right? College students should study hard, don't think about making money so early , look at us, we earn hard money, we are exposed to wind and sun every day, but we regret that we didn't study hard at the beginning.

"Hey, by the way, what's in this box? It's so heavy. Let me unpack it for you."

Lu Zhixing was startled, and hurriedly said, "Hey, no need..."

However, before he finished speaking, the courier brother was already very enthusiastic to help him take out the things in the box.

Looking at the wheelchair in front of him, Qian Ziqiang was stunned for a moment.

The room that was lively just now became quiet in an instant.

The two looked at each other, speechless for a while.

Lu Zhixing was a little embarrassed: "If I said that this wheelchair is for a friend of mine, you would believe it, right? After all, I have such good legs and feet, it doesn't look like I need a wheelchair."