Lake was puzzled and looked confused.
Lake tried to search for relevant information on the Star Network and the discussion forum to see what was going on. After searching for a long time, he barely figured it out. It turned out that it was not because he had been in seclusion for too long and was out of touch with the times.
It's because the producer worked on things too quickly. In less than four months of his seclusion, he had already made a game, even completed an internal test and started a public test.
No matter who sees the speed of making this game, they probably won't think that CH is a fresh product. Instead, they will wonder how much inventory he has accumulated during all these years of obscurity, and how he plans to release it all at once to shock the universe?
Especially when Lake saw the video of the Peach Blossom Spring gameplay, he was very surprised from a producer's perspective.
Of course, he didn't click on the longest collection at first, but instead watched a shorter live broadcast recording.
This is a screen recording of a player playing chess with a traveler named Yan Ziqing.
The player was obviously a complete novice. Yan Ziqing, who was known as the chess master, carefully explained the rules of chess to the player and slowly taught him the chess pieces.
Because when recording the screen, you can choose whether to record the barrage or not, and this screen recording does record the barrage, so Lake can see that when the chess master is instructing the players to play chess, the people in the barrage learn faster and have already learned a little, and tell the players where to make this move and that move.
However, at this moment, the traveler looked up as if he had heard what the person in the barrage had said, and said calmly, "A true gentleman watches chess without saying a word."
...The barrage suddenly fell silent.
…
"... He really deserves to be the person who made "Record of Mountains and Seas." After learning about "Peach Blossom Spring", Lake's eyes lit up and he gave a heartfelt praise. When he learned about these situations on Star Network, he unexpectedly discovered that many producers had also launched projects for some non-competitive games.
It can be seen that the success of "Shan Hai Lu" and "Taohuayuan" has also brought huge impact to the gaming industry.
After being inspired, many people began to try to explore new types of games.
You know, before this, they all felt that any game without competitive gameplay was like cooking without salt, as they say on Earth. Even Meihe added romance elements to the combat gameplay.
Although some people on StarNet also said that CH was not good at making competitive games, so they made games like "Shan Hai Lu" and "Taohuayuan".
In short, after learning about the new game released by CH, Lake could no longer suppress the urge to make a new game with CH immediately. He simply packed up and went to find CH.
There was no small talk, just a direct "Hello, I've made all the preparations and can start production. When would it be convenient for you to start?"
…
Not long after finishing two game activities, Xu Piao, who was now resting in his own paradise, had originally adjusted the weather to rain lightly and was planning to cover himself with a blanket and take a nap for a while, but before he lay down, he saw the message from Lake.
Wait, wait! More than three months have already passed so quickly. Is it almost four?
Xu Piao was stunned. He looked at the time and realized that so much time seemed to have passed.
She paused as she picked up the thin blanket and prepared to cover herself with it. After a pause, she sent Lake a message, "I don't have anything else to do right now, so I can accommodate your schedule. When do you plan to start?"
...Originally, Xu Piao guessed that it would usually take a few days to adjust to each other after starting cooperation, and no matter how urgent the other party was, they would probably start work tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
Who knew that the other party was waiting for this sentence from her? After she replied, he immediately said as if he couldn't wait any longer, "Then let's get started today!"
…
【……All right. 】
[Wait a moment, I'm in creative mode now, please pull me.]
Xu Piao covered his aching liver and looked at the follow-up activities of "Shan Hai Lu" and "Taohuayuan" that had been completed in the creative mode. Thousands of words turned into just one sentence, "Isn't it just liver? Help me up, I can still liver!"
——It’s the kind of thing that 079, who doesn’t need a break, would be left speechless after watching it.
However, when he entered the creative mode and received the invitation for collaborative creation from Lake, Xu Piao quickly got into work mode and, together with Lake, entered the creative space that Lake had prepared.
After entering Lake's creative space, the first thing Xu Piao noticed was not the astonishingly large area of this space, but the countless horizontal, vertical and vertical coordinate axes distributed in this vast creative space, as well as the thousands of formulas densely arranged in the list on the left.
And—he actually has an auxiliary line!
Those dense auxiliary lines have roughly outlined the spatial volume of various NPCs and buildings that may be used.
Xu Piao's pupils trembled.
She only took a few steps and passed through hundreds of auxiliary lines. She felt like she couldn't even build the world here.
Why make a horror chicken-killing game? Xu Piao thinks this creative space is already the scariest.
But she managed to keep her composure, and under Lake's expectant gaze, she calmed herself down and asked politely, "Are you planning to put all the content into this one space?"
Lake shook his head and said, "I have three more spare spaces like this. I can use them whenever I need them."
Xu Piao: “…”
"What I mean is, aren't you trying to create a one-on-many game?" Xu Piao explained to him, "I think—I mean, my personal feeling—that if the space is too large, it would be difficult to chase. The player with more space would have too much room to hide, but the player with fewer space would probably have a bad gaming experience."
Just like playing hide-and-seek as a child, it's best to limit your hiding area to a house, or if it's larger, a village. You can't just take a car and hide in a town or another city, right? What's the point of playing that?
"Hide?" Lake repeated doubtfully.
"Yes." Xu Piao nodded. "I think it's best for the side with more weapons not to use offensive means... I don't know if you can understand what I mean, but all fear comes from insufficient firepower. As long as there is an attack, it will eventually become a fight between the two sides against the boss."
She combined the rules of the two games, the Killing Chicken mode and Hide and Seek, and explained them to Lake in detail. Lake was thoughtful after listening to her, "In other words, we want to scare the players, right?"
"It's because you're scared that you're motivated to run away." Xu Piao nodded with relief.
Lake thought for a long time, and Xu Piao didn't rush him. He tried to figure out the usage of the formulas and auxiliary lines based on the marked explanations.
After Lake finished thinking, his first step was to make the entire empty space disappear, creating a dim house.
"Then, we need to separate the space that serves as the game content and make it into smaller, independent copy spaces, right?" Lake understood it very quickly and was able to apply it to other situations.
Xu Piao nodded, and suddenly an inspiration flashed in his mind. He snapped his fingers in the appearance of a panda man, "Right, I have an idea, let's try it out."
As she finished her words, a stage appeared in the dim room.
The curtain of the stage was closed, and the reddish light shining through from behind the curtain made the curtain translucent.
It was like the stage of a shadow play, reflecting the distorted figures behind it, like puppets on strings, hanging in the air in various postures.
In the air above the stage, there were dozens of mirrors broken into different shapes floating. If you looked for a long time, you could see some strange human faces flashing across the mirrors from time to time.
"Then we should be able to compress the dungeon entrance in those mirrors. When matching the dungeon, a random mirror will float down and appear in front of the player..." Xu Piao said as he thought, testing the brightness of the light and adjusting it to the brightness that creates the most terrifying atmosphere.
Lake's eyes lit up slightly, and he jumped onto the stage in one stride. As soon as he jumped onto the stage, his shoes were covered with blood that seeped out from under the curtain and flowed along the stage.
He ignored the blood and walked to the front of the curtain, wanting to pull it open to see what was behind it, but he couldn't.
"I haven't done anything behind the curtain yet. Right now, it's just an air wall." Xu Piao said helplessly, "Actually, there's no need to make anything. Just these shadows will be enough. People use their imagination. What we create might not be as terrifying as what the players imagine."
Lake's eyes grew brighter and brighter. He ignored the blood on the stage that flowed like a living thing, and his steps became faster and faster. Finally, he raised his head excitedly and looked at Xu Piao, "I think I've got it!"
"[Horror] is about secrecy, it is about atmosphere, it is about imagination, [Horror] is about the indescribable! Right?"
Xu Piao: “…Ah?”
Wait, what did you realize? Is this a Cthulhu-like realization?
"So...it's actually not wrong." She said after a pause.
"Then let's start making it!" Lake said almost impatiently.
"OK."
…
Finally, Xu Piao and Lake each chose two mirrors and went in to begin constructing the blank world inside, intending to discuss modifications together after the construction was completed.
After Xu Piao entered a blank world, he looked at the auxiliary lines and coordinates, hesitated for a moment, and turned them all off.
Looking at the completely blank world, she finally got the inspiration for construction.
Soon, a quiet, dormant water town took shape under Xu Piao's construction.
She built many old houses of different styles according to the familiar appearance of the village in her memory, as well as a long, damp bluestone alley.
The whole town is in a dark and gloomy tone, and it looks like it is haunted.
At the end of the bluestone alley is an ancestral hall with its gate wide open, and it looks pitch black inside from the outside.
Xu Piao randomly chose a surname, and the words on the plaque of the ancestral hall changed to the peeling and faded words "Xu's Ancestral Hall".
As for the butcher in this copy, Xu Piao quickly decided on his image.
——Yes, in general chicken-killing games, the butcher can be selected, but in this game Xu Piao plans to bind the butcher and the copy.
Killing a chicken might be more like the boss of a horror infinite copy?
But having said that, the holographic chicken-killing game does seem to be quite infinite, and even the gameplay... Since it is holographic, there are many ways to play it. Of course, Xu Piao did not intend to specifically make it into a machine-repairing mode like killing a chicken.
The author has something to say:
Xu Piao: After finishing this game, I can apply for the position of infinite flow master.
The first update in advance~
The origin of the chicken-killing game is "Dead by Daylight", which is divided into two camps: butcher and survivor. Those who have not played the chicken-killing game can substitute it for the infinite flow game.
Butcher = boss, survivor = infinite flow survivor. Isn't it simple and clear?
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