Chapter 4 Making a New Game: The Fourth Day of Game Making
Compared to Farm, according to Zhen Yuanzi's feedback, Yuan Yi almost completely remade the game this time.
Making a game is simple: you draw a diagram of formations, move the green squares on the diagram to the side of the red squares, and then watch the special effects that occur when they collide with the formations.
Choose the appropriate "transplant," "accelerate," or "move" options based on the situation, and help the green part annex the red part as much as possible, and the game will end.
It is even possible to choose "purification" based on the accumulated vitality of the spiritual field to reduce the range of influence of the calamity energy, allowing victory to arrive faster.
As for the numerical values, they are simply copied from the actual amount of calamity energy that each type of spiritual field can purify during its growth.
In less than a day, a small game that could be played on the main screen was easily completed.
"But this makes no sense at all!" Yuan Yi scratched her head in anguish, her fingertips accidentally getting caught in her hair. She tugged at it slightly and quickly let go to avoid damaging her precious hair.
She was a planner in her past life and went bald from staying up all night, so in this life she is determined to protect the thick, beautiful hair she has now.
Yuan Yi lay on the bed, his mind racing: "Suppressing the calamity energy through the life force generated by planting has proven feasible in practice. But how can we get players to plant through the game?"
Games are virtual, after all. Even if you plant a million acres of spiritual fields in a virtual array, it won't have any impact on reality. The reason Yuan Yi was able to use the array to disguise herself as a game and suppress the calamity energy is that her array is connected to the actual earth veins one by one.
“But the primordial world is so vast, I can’t possibly run to every player’s side to control the ley lines.” Yuan Yi buried his face in the soft blanket. His goal was to promote the game on a large scale, so he definitely had to choose a method with fewer restrictions.
However, it wasn't entirely without a solution. Yuan Yi took a deep breath of the plum blossom fragrance.
Attract players with high-quality games, cultivate their farming habits, and influence reality through virtual means, encouraging them to farm offline on their own.
In their past lives, many people got into the habit of logging in every day to complete daily and weekly tasks after playing games, making these a part of their lives.
Then you can also influence players to plant an acre of land offline every day, since planting with spiritual power is very simple.
Of course, in the beginning, one can use the elder brother's strength to force some tribes to farm.
Yuan Yi considered that there were dozens of small, prehistoric tribes, large and small, around Wanshou Mountain that relied on Wuzhuang Temple for survival. If all else failed, he would have each tribe cultivate a plot of land first, planting crops in all the surrounding areas that could be reached, to first clarify the ley lines in the vicinity.
However, this was a last resort. Yuan Yi shook his head, dismissing the idea.
It would be best to get them to farm voluntarily through the game, since simply forcing them can only affect this area. Her goal is to fill the entire prehistoric world with spiritual fields through the game.
Yuan Yi sat up in bed. Thinking wildly wasn't entirely without benefit; inspiration might just come without effort.
Yuan Yi opened the recording array and compared it with the questions raised by Zhen Yuanzi one by one.
“First of all, the ancient world did not have the habit of farming.” Yuan Yi repeated this sentence over and over again.
If not, then cultivate them. Most things in the world come from nothing. If the cultivators of the primordial world don't farm, then start from scratch in the game and teach them farming step by step through the tutorial.
Yuan Yi sketched out a formation in his hands. The games he had made in the past all emphasized entertainment and stressed that one should not become too addicted, and that one should distinguish between reality and games.
But this time, she wanted to make all players addicted to farming, and even after being kicked offline by the anti-addiction system, they would have to go offline to play the game again and farm in real life.
So it's decided, Illusion Array.
While enduring the pain, Yuan Yi connected with the earth's veins and cast an illusion array on the array diagram that was linked to the earth's veins.
After the formation was completed, Yuan Yi's vision blurred, and he realized that the sunlight was dazzling and that he was no longer in the cave.
Although he knew it was the effect of his own illusion array, Yuan Yi was still pleasantly surprised and wandered around.
The terrain here was exactly the same as that of Wuguan Village, except that it was barren and lacked the spiritual fields and cave dwellings that Yuan Yi had cultivated. She looked around until she bumped into the invisible walls of the four cardinal directions before she gave up.
The sky was so clear there wasn't a single gloomy cloud, and the grass was so green you could almost squeeze water out of it. Yuan Yi lay comfortably on the lawn, the fragrance of the green grass filling his nostrils.
With all five senses present, what's the difference between this and a holographic game? Yuan Yi never expected his sudden inspiration to have such an effect.
She had never seen such an immersive game before, and now she wished she could replant Wuzhuang Temple all over again (not really).
Of course, this is just a game after all, and the most urgent task now is to perfect and produce the game.
"Of course, we need to arrange a good tutorial for beginners." Yuan Yi sketched a chibi-style figure with three leaves on its head on the grass.
This is a short-limbed, fair-skinned, cute chibi-style cub wearing a red bib, with three ginseng leaves on its head and a red headband, and a pair of big, clear black and white eyes.
Yuan Yi blinked, and the ginseng child opposite her blinked back, revealing a sweet smile that was so cute it melted one's heart.
Yuan Yi was extremely satisfied with the little ginseng's adorable appearance. As a beginner's guide NPC, making players feel good about the game is the first step in retaining players.
"From now on, you'll be the farm's earth spirit. When the players arrive, you'll be responsible for guiding them to get familiar with the game." Yuan Yi pinched the little ginseng's cheek; it did indeed feel as good as she had imagined.
"Howl, no problem." The little ginseng nodded blankly, still giving a serious and accurate answer even after having its cheek pinched.
Yuan Yi emphasized, "We need to be lively and guide players to familiarize themselves with the environment after they enter." At that point, the little ginseng character will also need to improvise based on the storyline, standing in front of the players to earn them a lot of goodwill.
Is this dazed little ginseng really okay? Just as Yuan Yi was about to adjust the relevant formation, he saw it lively burrow into the ground and then pop out again, even performing two somersaults: "No problem, Master, Little Ginseng will absolutely help Master keep the players so they can spend more money."
This is too lively! Yuan Yi stared at his own unique Mind Awakening Array. He hadn't even set up any monetization points or monetization plans yet, and the NPCs were already proactively suggesting ways to trick him into spending money.
Has she ingrained the idea of monetization into her very being? No, I'm a conscientious game designer; this is just a reasonable way to enhance the player experience.
Yuan Yi frantically searched for himself, his hands never stopping forming arrays, arranging the initial plot and the subsequent planting rules for the spirit fields one by one.
All plant species, related values, and procedures can be copied directly from "Farm" with a single click.
Soon, a game called "Farm Battle," which focuses on farming and harvesting, was successfully completed.
Yuan Yi tried out the tutorial and the seeding process, and was extremely satisfied with the gameplay and the positive feedback the game provided.
Then, she very thoughtfully added an anti-addiction mechanism to the bottom layer of the formation, which limits players to 8 hours a day and 4 hours for unenlightened cubs.
Players who are forcibly kicked offline can only desperately seek alternatives in real life, which means they have no choice but to obediently farm.
Yuan Yichang imagined a future where players, unable to play the game, would have to obediently farm offline, and felt that life was becoming more and more hopeful.
After completing the preliminary steps for farming, the next step is to manage the soil's energy flow.
This step requires an extremely high level of spiritual power and is beyond the capabilities of ordinary players.
To release a large amount of spiritual power in an instant, triggering the vitality of spiritual plants to resist the calamity, and artificially reorganizing the earth's veins.
Does this mean we can only wait for the players to cultivate their fields and then have them or their brothers go over and purify them one by one?
The primordial world is so vast that spiritual plants are harvested wave after wave. Even if my brother and I ran until our legs gave out, we still couldn't keep up with the rate at which life force dissipated.
While simply planting crops can generate vitality to reduce the calamity energy, it's far too inefficient. Without the aid of a formation, it wastes a great deal of vitality.
Yuan Yi pondered deeply.
Meanwhile, the ginseng doll, buried in the ground, clumsily kneaded gold ingots with its hands, saying, "Spend money, spend money, I want players to spend lots and lots of money, pile it up into a gold mountain, and fill the master's warehouse."
Yuan Yi suddenly turned his head and looked at the little ginseng that had already fallen into the trap of money.
Yes, it allows players to continuously provide spiritual energy for storage, and then release the spiritual energy when purifying the calamity energy.
By putting himself in another's shoes, he realized that the power of life could also be stored. Yuan Yi's eyes grew brighter and brighter as he rapidly traced lines with his hands until their positions became completely obscured.
After a while, the ginseng doll, which had been kneading gold ingots all over the ground, suddenly met Yuan Yi's eyes and said in a panic, "Master, I wasn't trying to trick players into spending money. I was just familiarizing myself with the storyline." It subconsciously hid the gold ingots it had just kneaded behind its back.
The little ginseng still remembered being taught by its master that this was a fair game and would never trick players into spending money.
Although the little ginseng feels regretful, it will unconditionally follow its owner's wishes and strive to give players the best gaming experience.
"No, you need to get players to spend more money and use more spiritual energy." Yuan Yi looked directly into the little ginseng's eyes, "Try to squeeze every last drop of their spiritual energy out of them." More spiritual energy means more chances of moving the ley lines, and she believed that the players would understand her grand desire to save the ley lines.
"Yes, Master." The little ginseng happily jumped out of the soil. "I will definitely make players spend so much money that they have nothing left."
"...There's no need for that. All we need is spiritual energy."
Was the urge to spend money on in-game purchases really that strong? Yuan Yi fell into reflection.
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Night fell, the moon was bright and the stars were few, and a gentle breeze blew.
Having just finished developing the game, Yuan Yi sneaked out of the cave, using the earth's veins to conceal his presence as he walked, and even adding three more concealment arrays to the existing formation.
Under no circumstances should his brother find out. Yuan Yi walked with extreme caution.
Finally, she arrived at the ginseng fruit tree. The giant tree, which blocked out the sky, absorbed all the moonlight, leaving not a single drop of its essence on the ground.
It wasn't until Yuan Yi went around to the back of the ginseng fruit tree that he discovered that the dense foliage that had originally covered the sky had somehow created a small hole in the leaves.
The bright moonlight fell through the small hole and landed directly on the little ginseng fruit tree with only a few green leaves.
That is the essence of Yuan Yi.
The tree was small and frail. Even after Zhen Yuanzi's meticulous care for it for a hundred years, it only grew to the waist of Yuan Yi's human form.
Yuan Yi could count even the few leaves clearly; there were only nine leaves from top to bottom, which was not even in the same league as the lush green ginseng fruit tree overhead.
Yuan Yi tremblingly stretched out his hand. This was his original body, which only had nine leaves, and each leaf was extremely precious.
But thinking that her game was still missing the most important core of the spiritual root of heaven and earth, she closed her eyes and made a tough decision to pluck the smallest tender bud from the treetop.
The original body and the human form can sense each other, and at this moment Yuan Yi also felt a chill on the top of his head.
My only nine leaves, my hard-won green hair. Yuan Yi's heart was filled with tears. Do you know how much a head of thick, black hair can affect a game designer?
However, for the sake of the game and for his future health, Yuan Yi made the difficult decision to put the leaf into the formation.
I'm betting my hair out on the planner's success. "Farm Battle" plus "Eliminate the Qi" is sure to be a hit throughout the entire prehistoric world.
A note from the author:
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Yuan Yi: I even contributed my nine strands of hair to make this game.
Author: Okay, I got it. The planner only has nine hairs [doge emoji]
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