Xu Piao moved house in a few days.
Because she bought a lot of things after she came here, she asked Ajin to help her when she moved, and also to show her the way so that people could look for her in the new place if they needed her in the future.
As for cleaning up after the move, she didn't have to worry about it. 079 cleaned it up quickly, and it was the kind of cleaning method that would make someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder ecstatic. Even if she wanted to help, she wouldn't know where to start.
Xu Piao simply discussed the terms of the cooperation agreement carefully with Lake over the past few days, and finally finalized it after making some slight modifications.
[ch: When will it start?] Xu Piao asked after signing.
After a while, Lake replied, "I need four months to prepare. I'll come back to you after four months."
——It was only at this time that Xu Piao realized that the process of making games by others seemed to be a little different from hers.
They need to plan the game area they will need first, and then... uh, use formulas to deduce and calculate the motion trajectory, gravity, buoyancy, and various forces that will appear in the game, as well as clothing fabrics, human body movements, facial features spacing, expressions, etc. There are special formulas for all of these. It is said that importing the formulas before constructing can save more than half of the mental energy, so generally academics will prepare all the formulas and data before starting to construct.
This is also one of the reasons why Lake can remain independent and produce games without having to bow to major companies and rely on the teams trained by the companies.
After hearing this, Xu Piao took a deep breath, shrank back silently and stopped talking.
...It's so scary.
Fortunately, this formula data flow construction method did not cover the entire game production process, otherwise she would not have to struggle after coming through, and could just lie down and wait for death.
If she doesn't know physics and mathematics, it's useless even if you put a knife to her neck.
However, since Lake's chicken-killing game requires four months of preparation, she can still use these four months to make the farming and sea-hunting leisure game according to her original plan.
The prize money for the first place in the Innovation Plan was transferred to Xu Piao's account after the interview. She did not plan to use the money she earned during the "Shan Hai Lu" event. "Shan Hai Lu" itself needed to expand many maps, and Lich and Fengshen were not here yet, so she had to reserve it just in case. Xu Piao planned to use the prize money from the Innovation Plan to make a farming game.
Compared to "Shan Hai Lu", this one does not require as much game space, all it needs is a village nestled in the mountains and beside water.
Because of some interesting ideas, Xu Piao finally decided to build a secluded village based on Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring".
However, the villagers are not initially present. At the beginning, there is only the player character in the village. After the player unlocks the first villager housing building, the [Traveler] gameplay can be started.
In "Peach Blossom Spring", there is a small cave entrance for people to enter. Xu Piao plans to make full use of that small cave entrance. Players cannot go out of that cave entrance, but after the traveler gameplay is turned on, from time to time some "outside" travelers will mistakenly enter the village through that small cave entrance.
These travelers could be famous figures in history, or nameless individuals. Because they were travelers, some free-spirited individuals might stay and become residents of the village, while others, like Xin Qiji, who was enlisting in the army, would not stay, but would instead stay for a while before departing to continue on to the battlefield.
Players can obtain information about the outside world from these travelers and learn the stories of the dynasty behind them from their words.
If it were any other subject, Xu Piao might not be so confident, but history is her area of expertise, and she had a special method of remembering time and years when she was studying, so she remembered time very well.
Xu Piao considered the feasibility of these operations, entered the holographic cabin and went to creative mode to open a new blank game world to try it out.
However, if there were only a story without any rewards, some players might be too lazy to spawn different travelers, and might stop after spawning enough people to stay in the village. Therefore, Xu Piao added a lot of benefits to the traveler gameplay.
For example, rare recipes and rare pendants that travelers may drop with a certain probability.
In that case, Xu Piao felt that the most visited traveler must be Su Dongpo. After all, there are more than 60 dishes named after him, such as Dongpo pork, Dongpo elbow, Dongpo tofu, and Dongpo soup, each of which can form a cuisine of its own.
Xu Piao thought about these detailed settings, just like when he created the world of "Shan Hai Lu" at the beginning, a small world slowly took shape in this new, blank game space.
Houses, fertile fields, bamboo forests, peach trees, a stream running through the village, a small bridge, the sea and beach to the east, and the mountains and forests behind the village...
With the experience of building "Shan Hai Lu" for the first time, Xu Piao was particularly adept at building this new game world this time. In addition, the area of the village was not as large as the entire world of "Shan Hai Lu". In just the first construction, Xu Piao had already built the prototype of a village nestled in the mountains and by the water.
And she didn't feel any mental fatigue at all.
In other words, there is still room for improvement.
Xu Piao was walking across the small bridge over the stream in the village. Seeing the peach trees on the other side of the bridge blooming brilliantly and warmly, his heart moved slightly. The peach trees that were originally full of peach blossoms now grew one round and plump peach after another.
Xu Piao picked a peach, washed it in the clear stream water, and then took a tentative bite.
At that moment, the sweet juice bloomed on the taste buds, and the ripe flesh, which was just the right softness and hardness, left a slightly sweet aftertaste after being chewed and swallowed by the teeth.
Xu Piao originally thought that the sense of taste of the interstellar people who survived by drinking nutritional supplements should have deteriorated to some extent, but surprisingly, this body projected into the holographic world based on the real physical condition was extremely sensitive in taste, which magnified the original deliciousness to thirteen points.
...Is it possible?
Is it because they haven't tasted anything since birth, so once they do, their taste is magnified many times over? If all interstellar people are like this, then doesn't that mean everyone has the tongue of God?
Xu Piao stood by the stream, holding a peach with a bite taken from it, and pondered. While thinking, he ate the peach bite by bite.
It felt like if this were the case, it wouldn't matter whether she could eat proper food in reality. After all, if she wanted to eat something, she could just create it in the holographic world and eat it herself. In this way, drinking nutritional supplements in reality wouldn't be a big deal...
Although it is essentially all about data, it sounds a bit like empty promises that are only meant to appease hunger and quench thirst.
——But at least it has taste, so she is just craving for the taste.
Xu Piao decomposed the peach pits left after eating, thinking that he would do the same before drinking the nutritional supplement in the future, and then continue to add content to the game while he still had energy left.
Some casual farming games, while marketed as idle, liver-nourishing games, are truly hard-working. Since the setting is ancient times, Xu Piao doesn't plan to provide unlimited supplies of scallions, ginger, garlic, salt, cooking wine, cinnamon, Sichuan peppercorns, oyster sauce, and soy sauce. Initially, players are given a generous spice pack, but the ingredients are rationed and only available for initial use. After that, players must dry their own salt, plant scallions, ginger, garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, and cinnamon trees, and go to the sea to collect oysters and make oyster sauce.
...Isn't this a bit too much?
After Xu Piao finished the settings, he realized that there seemed to be too much work to do.
Well...but after mastering the method, maybe some players will find those things in reality or make those seasonings.
Xu Piao hesitated for a moment but still did not cancel the setting that required him to make the seasoning himself.
The remaining more troublesome thing is the recipe... After all, Xu Piao is better at eating than cooking, and she is very good at eating and has a clear understanding of the taste. She knows the cooking method alone, but she doesn't have much practical experience.
That is, they have rich theoretical knowledge but average hands-on ability.
Generally speaking, cooking sometimes seems to follow a formula. When cooking chicken, duck, fish and meat, add cooking wine and ginger. When cooking vegetables, no cooking wine is needed. When making braised dishes, sugar color and soy sauce need to be added... Xu Piao knows all these things.
But the word "moderate"... you know, people who have never done it themselves can't grasp it.
"I don't know if the robot's data computing ability can calculate the appropriate amount..." Xu Piao muttered to himself.
Thinking of this, she first exited the creative mode, called 079 who was installing a fence outside the house according to her idea, and then entered him into the creative mode assistant, and asked 079 to enter the creative mode with her.
Humans need a holographic game cabin to enter the holographic world, but the core of the robot itself is data and programs, so there is no need for a holographic game cabin when entering the data world.
079 didn't find it strange. After all, when Xu Piao was constructing "Record of Mountains and Seas" last time and the facial modeling inventory in his mind was insufficient, he used his face as a base for fine-tuning. So when he was pulled here this time, he just asked:
"What do you need me to do?"
"Something's a bit troublesome." Xu Piao sighed and created a chef and placed him in front of 079—just a fictional chef. "First, learn the concepts and basic techniques of cooking from him, and get to know the ingredients and seasonings. After you've learned, I'll need your help in figuring out the recipes."
She planned to let 079 learn how to cook, and then she calculated and changed the proportion of seasonings little by little, and then she tasted them one by one.
If the taste is right, it’s the right recipe.
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Of course, Xu Piao could just ignore the seasonings and proportions and let the players throw all the necessary ingredients into the pot, and then just open and open the lid to make a perfect dish.
Anyway, all food-related games are like this, and only a few of them care about the seasoning ratio.
But what Xu Piao was thinking was that this time she was making a holographic, close-to-reality farming and food game. Maybe some StarCraft players would like to cook by themselves?
So she planned to divide the places in the game that require manual operation into two options, one automatic and the other manual. Players who don’t want to cook by themselves can choose the system to cook automatically, and players who want to try cooking by themselves can also try this feeling by themselves.
Operations including salt drying, soy sauce brewing, and rice planting can all be selected to be automatic or manual.
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