Chapter 254 Do you know what it means to stay awake for a long time?
"Look at the flow of the game."
Tang Ce pointed to the process diagram on the paper and explained it one by one:
"Start, choose a room."
“We assume there are three basic room types:”
"The first type is old, dilapidated, and small rental houses. They have few resources and many dangers, like aging electrical wiring, loose window sills, broken door locks...it's all there, making it incredibly difficult."
"The second type is a fully enclosed barrier-free room. It's incredibly safe, with corners covered. But the problem is it's too clean and boring. After just two hours in there, the child's mood plummets. It's mentally devastating."
"The third type is an ordinary small two-bedroom apartment. It has a living room, kitchen, and balcony. It has moderate danger and resources. It is the most recommended starting map for beginners."
Huang Chi nodded. "Now that we know the differences in room types, how do players develop strategies?"
Tang Ce: "In the initial configuration, players can choose 5 personal items to bring into the house, such as milk powder, iPad, toys, diapers, and snacks. You can choose any five."
“At the same time, the room environment will also have several potential hazards, and players can choose 5 to eliminate in advance.
For example: induction cooker, kettle, scissors, hair dryer, meat grinder."
"If you don't remove the kettle and your baby isn't paying attention when boiling milk, he or she might rush over and burn himself or herself."
"You thing..."
“It feels a bit like a parenting simulator…”
"But, your setting seems to be about survival after the end of the world..."
"That's right."
Tang Ce smiled very sincerely.
"I once babysat my sister's baby during my vacation. Let me tell you, every day I babysat for her, I felt like I'd lost a year of my life!"
"You really don't know how difficult it is to raise a child!"
"Those seven days were the darkest seven days of my life."
"Taking care of a child isn't a hassle, it's like heading to a battlefield!"
After Tang Ce said this, his eyes were filled with the desolation and determination of a veteran, as if he had just returned from the battlefield of parenting.
Huang Chi looked at him and didn't say anything for several seconds.
"Are you so experienced?"
"Of course!"
Tang Ce nodded.
"Of course, it's not mine, it's my sister's."
"Do you know what it means to stay up all night?"
"I used to think that the four-day, three-night power-off and internet-free survival challenge in the game was just a random play...but then my sister stuffed the baby into my arms and went on a trip to Yunnan.
That week… it was like the moment I opened my eyes, it was a new day, and the moment I closed them, it was already dark.”
"My baby's temper flared up and my CPU overheated."
"You want to have a quiet meal? Impossible."
"He can eat for two hours, and he sprays out one bite at a time!"
"Complementary food must be fine, he won't eat it if there are even a few particles!"
"If I'm not allowed to play with the remote control, I'll just roll around on the floor and cry for at least ten minutes!"
"The milk powder can't be delayed for a second!"
"And the whole thing has to be held, not in a stroller! It's even more troublesome to get her to sleep!"
"Not to mention he poops and showers!"
"Anyway, raising a child is a constant mental assault. There are new random events every day, and it's impossible to stop."
"Besides, these are still normal situations. If the child has a fever and diarrhea, it will be troublesome!"
"You tried your best every step of the way, but he just wouldn't give you a good result."
Huang Chi couldn't help but take a breath.
"...Is it so scary?"
"Brother, how do you express the competitive element of this game? Isn't this purely about development?"
Tang Ce had already thought about it.
"Although our game is a single-player game, the core gameplay is strategic confrontation."
"We can design a 'parenting ranking' and let each player upload their own child-rearing performance score."
"For example,"
"If you keep your baby alive for seven days, you will be rewarded with 100 basic points!"
"Bonus points for every original item you keep intact!"
"The baby didn't trigger the 'ghost crying wolf howling' event throughout the game, extra points!"
"The higher the average of your baby's health and mood, the higher the settlement score!"
"Every time you successfully handle a crisis, you'll be awarded the 'Excellent Babysitter' label!"
"You can even set a challenge difficulty mode, such as water and power outages, network outages, twin mode, flu mode... These are all in-game events."
“…”
Huang Chi's forehead was sweating.
He had already imagined the comments that players across the internet would post on the Deep Blue platform the day the game launched:
"It's not that I don't understand how to play, it's that this kid is unreasonable!"
"Now I feel PTSD when I see the word diaper."
"Did you really make something like this after taking care of a child?"
"See how I got my baby to the ICU in one day..."
"After playing this game, I immediately transferred a red envelope to my mother. Mom, I was wrong."
Huang Chi shoved the Coke bottle back onto the table and let out a breath.
"elder brother."
"I think you've really convinced me..."
"I always felt that this game started out as a joke, but the more I watched it, the more I felt that it was something real."
"Combined with different room types, different events, and even different child personality models, you can definitely create different experiences."
"Furthermore, according to the concepts learned in our negative review training class, this game seems to be completely suitable for us!"
“This game can definitely fully mobilize the user’s emotions!”
The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing at the same time.
"Then let's do it."
As soon as Tang Ce finished speaking, the two of them seemed to have reached some kind of silent consensus and immediately took action.
"I'll put the system logic into the framework first, and then run the baby's personality model again this week."
"Let's go through the first process tomorrow."
"First, get the core mechanics together, then we'll add the details."
Huang Chi nodded, turned on the computer, and started dragging out design tools and templates.
"Where can you find the material for your baby's crying?"
"Just look for publicly available materials online and make do with them for now."
"Real crying needs to have a rhythm, and there are different levels, such as normal crying, explosive crying, loop crying, and late-night ghost crying."
"Okay bro!"
“…”
In the following time,
The two of them were developing and complaining at the same time, and from time to time they heard:
"Brother, he's crying again. Is it because he's hungry or because he's hot?"
"Then do you think he threw the toy? If he throws the toy, he's messing with you. You need to divert his attention immediately."
"Wait a minute! I have a bug here. The kid was just stuck on the sofa."
"Baby, you see the induction cooker, you have to play with it!"
"Of course, the baby's hand speed is one of the fastest in the world!"
…
after a while,
Time passes by little by little.
Everyone's development progress is soaring,
In the competition group, all works for the [Whale Leap Extreme Fault Tolerance Challenge] have been submitted.
At this moment, Jingyue's [Deep Blue Platform] also quietly changed.
[New games on the shelves] section.
Originally, there were only one or two new works in small categories here every day, and no one paid attention to them normally.
But recently, the data in this area has suddenly skyrocketed, with dozens of small games added.
And they all have weird styles, strange names, and confusing gameplay.
The first player on the forum to notice the abnormality was a reviewer named "Qiyou Lao Wei".
He had always been in the habit of checking the Deep Blue new game section every day. One afternoon, when he opened the platform's homepage, he was stunned:
Public Toilet Manager: Peak Hour Impact
Reverse Drift Race
Livestreaming Simulator
Dehua's Week
Human Zoo
Standing for Survival
Who Spends Ten Billion First?
…
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