Chapter 17: Ordering Fried Rice at the Bar

At seven o'clock in the morning, Chen Ba woke up.

When he got up to wash, he saw Yang Dong sitting in front of the computer in the living room eating breakfast.

"Brother Dong, what do you want to eat?"

“Sticky rice!”

Yang Dong raised the takeaway in his hand with one hand and gestured to Chen Ba, "The glutinous rice here is pretty good, with bacon, pickled radish, and oil residue..."

"Oh? There's some oil residue?"

When Chen Ba heard this, he immediately became interested: "It sounds a bit like what we do in my hometown. We like to have a bowl of glutinous rice or a bowl of mutton noodles for breakfast."

"You guys have a strong taste, shouldn't you have a lighter breakfast?"

"It's okay!"

Wiping the newly grown stubble on his chin, Chen Ba shook his head and said, "We eat noodles and glutinous rice in the morning. Apart from adding some chili peppers, it's already very light."

"The main reason is that we can't eat without chili."

"By the way...your sticky rice looks good. Which one did you order from? I'll order some to try too!"

"Here! This is the one!"

After sharing the glutinous rice shop with Chen Ba, Yang Dong picked up a piece of diced carrot and put it in his mouth to chew, saying: "The art outsourcing you found is quite efficient. They sent the preview picture last night."

Oh? So fast! After quickly ordering the takeaway, Chen Ba walked to the computer next to Yang Dong and sat down, then opened the preview picture that the other party had sent to the connection group.

The first two pictures are original drawings of the protagonist.

Divided into two genders: boys and girls!

Chen Baxian looked at the original character painting of the male protagonist. According to the game plan, the male protagonist is a 16-year-old thin boy.

The painting is okay!

Judging from the refinement and details, it is worthy of the offer, but the face is too "two-dimensional".

"Could it be that they hired an artist for a 2D mobile game? This face looks just like the male protagonist in an anime!"

"It's possible."

Yang Dong agreed deeply: "Not only the face, the head-to-body ratio also looks quite two-dimensional."

How can a normal person's head-to-body ratio look like this? I can only say that it's well drawn but not in the style they wanted. This style is suitable for a 2D mobile game, but it's weird to use it in "Living Under Someone's Fence Simulator".

"I'll tell them..."

There was a big problem with the first picture. Fortunately, it was a preview line drawing, not a real finished product, otherwise the problem would be serious.

"Don't make it so two-dimensional. This is a simulation game that takes a realistic experience route."

"The protagonist doesn't have to be that handsome, but he must be sunny and energetic, just like this "High School Selfie.JPG""

Worried that the other party had no reference materials and was drawing entirely based on his imagination, Chen Ba even dug out his high school photos and sent them to the painter.

If you send a message at this time, the other party will basically not reply, or there is no one in front of the computer at all.

After all, these pictures were sent over last night, and the artist also needs to rest, so he is probably still dating Zhou Gong's daughter right now!

Chen Ba didn't care. After sending his suggestions for revision to the other party, he then reviewed the original drawings of other characters.

There are basically no problems.

If I have to find fault, it would be that you get what you pay for. Original paintings at this price point do have many shortcomings in terms of details.

But it’s enough.

After making sure there were no major issues with the art resources, the glutinous rice and Lu Jingquan that Chen Ba ordered arrived, so he ate breakfast while arranging today's work.

The core framework of the new game "Living Under Someone Else's Roof Simulator" is basically copied from its predecessor "Studying Hard Simulator".

To put it bluntly, nesting dolls!

An author of online novels can write several books with one outline. Apart from changing the name of the protagonist and the background of the story, the plot is basically the same.

This nesting doll phenomenon also exists in the gaming industry. Mature template frameworks can produce a large number of "skin-changing" games like an assembly line.

Otherwise, why do you think there are so many crappy “Legend-like” games on the market?

These games, which may not even bother to change their names or art resources, are all from the same family after all! Although "Living under Other People's Roof Simulator" is not a copy of "Studying Simulator", the general framework is definitely the same, and the core game mechanics and gameplay are also similar.

This means that making this game will save a lot of work, especially the coding part...

While everyone was busy with their own things, Chen Ba opened the system page and checked the project document of his newly created "Living under Someone Else's Roof Simulator".

[97%…98%…]

[Core generation completed! ]

As the progress bar reached the end, Chen Ba quickly clicked to extract.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

When he heard the prompt tone of "Extraction Completed", he saw lines of new codes appearing on the computer screen in front of him.

This is the game core automatically generated by the system according to the specified goals, and can also be understood as the underlying client code.

Originally, he could have used the underlying code of the "Hanchuang Kudu Simulator". After all, that framework is universal and can be used after just some modifications.

But he didn't dare to use it! The core code generated last time already had a bug. Who knows if there will be new bugs if he continues to use that core?

So Chen Ba is very conservative.

To be on the safe side, even if it would waste some time, he chose to regenerate the game core instead of continuing to use the underlying core of "Study Simulator".

The new core will definitely not have bugs like the "cattle herding incident conflict" again.

This can be guaranteed.

After all, after the code is extracted, Chen Ba will run it himself.

He also tried to see if there would be a problem where, when game events conflicted, old events would block new events, causing the game to be unable to proceed.

The result made him very satisfied.

This time the system is obviously much more powerful. There is no problem with the new game core at all, and all tests passed in one go.

"No, we need to test it again!"

"What if I really meet someone like that who runs to a bar and orders a bowl of fried rice?"

Thinking of a joke about a test engineer that was widely circulated on the Internet, Chen Ba's smile suddenly disappeared.

Although from the current perspective, the game does not have any major problems and the testing and development work is going extremely smoothly.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be prepared for one!

You should spend more time on game testing, even if it takes more time. After all, some bugs are hidden very deeply and cannot be found without careful investigation.

That’s not all.

Chen Ba also decided to create an "early access" version specifically for bug testing before the game is released, allowing players to find bugs together.

As the saying goes, a test engineer working for ten days may not be able to find as many bugs as ten gamers playing for one day.

The saying that there is strength in numbers is absolutely true when it comes to game testing.

This is also why large-scale online games will conduct the first and second tests before they are released to the public... and the internal tests without deleting the files.

This kind of testing is necessary! After all, for some bugs, the test engineers may have lost all their hair before finding the triggering conditions, but as soon as the players come, they are triggered...

(End of this chapter)