When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

As we all know, the construction system of this game is very complete, but this is a ready-made template. Although it is as high as 750,000, there are not many companies that can afford it.

If it is just such a system, it will not actually motivate players to buy.

But on top of this complete construction system, "Fire Stealer" has added two key factors: "Working for the Disheartened" and "Team Adventure in the Kingdom of God", which really produced a wonderful chemical reaction with the construction gameplay. Make players want to stop!

In fact, the original Kingdom of God adventure itself is also a good gameplay.

Players team up to steal things and avoid monsters, especially the unique voice system, which is very effective.

But the problem with the original gameplay was that it was too difficult and the pressure to steal materials was too great!

Monsters are too densely distributed and player mortality is too high.

In normal adventures, except for those particularly powerful skilled workers, the speed at which ordinary players steal materials simply cannot keep up with the consumption of the outside world.

But now, players can control the Heaven Guard, which has become a "game balancing mechanism."

For more experienced players, they can turn all five of them into heaven guards, and then directly enter the Kingdom of God to rampage and sweep away.

If you want to retain some of the excitement of the adventure, you can bring only one Heaven Guard and play "Butank Synergy" like Professor Ding and others.

If you go one step further and want to give yourself a little challenge, you can also skip the Heaven Guard at all and experience the original high level of difficulty.

All in all, after a series of BUGs appeared, Zhou Yang was surprised to find that "Fire Thief", which originally had fatal flaws in both "survival" and "construction" fields, not only inexplicably made up for its shortcomings, but even The short board was extended and turned into a long board!

Especially when playing in a team, it’s a lot of fun, and it’s also great for making into video slices!

These factors made the popularity of "The Fire Thief" soar due to the spread of various anchors and UP hosts, and the review changed almost overnight!

Feng Hui's expression was complicated: "So, there are many bugs in our game, but none of these bugs are vicious? Instead, they are all bugs that are beneficial to the gameplay?"

Zhou Yang thought for a while: "This...how to put it, it depends on how we define malignant bugs.

“If we follow the standards of general games, our design draft clearly prevents players from climbing over the wall, but if players do climb out, this must be considered a vicious bug.

"But who made our design draft unreasonable from the beginning... So from the player's perspective, this is a very benign BUG. Even without this BUG, ​​the game would be completely unplayable."

At this time, he suddenly saw Gu Fan walking up to the second floor with coffee.

"Mr. Gu, don't get me wrong! I'm not saying there's something wrong with the design draft, it's just..."

He scratched his head and was at a loss for words for a moment.

So far, Gu Fan has not publicly said the source of these design drafts, so everyone thought that these design drafts were designed by him alone.

Zhou Yang spoke ill of Mr. Gu publicly in front of the whole company. Although it was unintentional, it was enough to make him feel bad.

But Gu Fan didn't care. The design was Lilith's. What does it have to do with me?

What's more, he had done so much preparation before, just waiting for this day.

Thinking of this, Gu Fan came to the crowd, raised his hand and pressed it gently to signal everyone to be quiet.

"Everyone, please be quiet, I have something important to say.

"Please, please work overtime until 9 o'clock tonight, because a very important investor of our company is coming to inspect and may ask you some questions."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was surprised.

Working overtime is nothing. The game has magically come back to life, and it will probably become more and more popular in the next month. What's the point of working overtime until nine o'clock?

It’s okay to stay up all night!

But... what the hell is an investor?

It turns out that there are still investors in our company?

Before this, all employees thought that Nitiantian Games was a wholly-owned company funded by Gu Fan himself.

Zhou Yang looked at Su Tong subconsciously.

Su Tong nodded: "Our company does have an investor, and he has been here. But... I don't have a very good impression of her."

Everyone looked at Gu Fan again and keenly smelled something strange in the atmosphere at this time.

Gu Fan coughed lightly: "Sorry, I haven't explained it to you before, but our company's situation is indeed very special.

“In the earliest days of the company, before the first game was launched, I signed a very demanding investment agreement with this investor.

“So strictly speaking, this investor has absolute control over Nitiantian Games, and I, strictly speaking, am just a senior worker.

"It's just that she doesn't appear often because she is busy with other things."

Gu Fan paused for a moment and continued: "As you can see now, all the ideas for our company's games come from this investor.

“She has her own unique set of concepts and ideas about game design and rarely accepts other people’s opinions.

“Even I can only give her some very limited advice, and it may not be adopted.

“She was so confident in her ideas that she couldn’t change them.

"So, once our design draft is finalized, no modifications can be made. Especially for the core concept of this game, there cannot be any deviation.

"When she comes to the company this time, she will talk to you alone and ask some questions about project development. Of course, she may also ask some questions involving me.

“Everyone has no work at hand right now, so I have one day to think carefully about how to answer.

"Okay, that's all I have to say, everyone can move around freely."

After Gu Fan finished speaking, he returned to his seat and browsed the web page as if nothing had happened.

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, completely confused as to the intention of Gu Fan's words.

Are all current designs coming from this investor?

Is Mr. Gu just a tool?

What questions do investors want to ask us? Why do we still need to spend a day thinking about how to answer?

strangeness.

Mr. Gu's words may sound calm at first glance, but upon closer inspection they seem to contain a hidden mystery.

Everyone continued to do their own things, but they were all a little absent-minded and subconsciously thinking about Gu Fan's problem.

…

noon.

Zhou Yang and Zhao Haiquan went to dinner together.

The situation of "Fire Thief" has improved, and its popularity has continued to increase. The initial sales were already good, and now it is expected to hit new highs. Naturally, everyone's worries have disappeared.

But the words Gu Fan said still lingered in everyone's minds, lingering.

"Tell me...what do you mean by what Mr. Gu said?

"I can tell that Mr. Gu attaches great importance to the fact that investors want to ask us questions, but what exactly do investors want to ask? What does Mr. Gu want us to answer?" Zhao Haiquan looked puzzled.

At this time, the person who is most loyal to Gu Fan in the entire company is probably Zhao Haiquan.

Who wouldn’t be confused if this bonus comes down?

Then you must sacrifice your life and blood for Mr. Gu!

Mr. Gu’s problem is our problem. If we can’t solve it, do we still deserve to eat the bowl of rice rewarded by Mr. Gu?

But Zhao Haiquan really couldn't figure it out, so he wanted to ask Zhou Yang if he had any ideas.

Zhou Yang picked up a chopstick and picked up the free pickles provided by the restaurant, and said seriously: "I really have a guess, but I'm not sure if it's right."

Zhao Haiquan raised his eyebrows: "Huh? Tell me."

Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "Don't you think it's strange? There are five games. Five! Each one was in a lot of trouble when it was released, and was scolded by players, but each one is good at it. One or several BUGs appear.

“Obviously they were all design loopholes and unexpected situations, but in the end they became the core gameplay and brought the game back to life!

"If this problem occurs in one or two games, it can be said to be pure luck. After all, who doesn't win five yuan when buying scratch tickets? It's not surprising that there is European Emperor in this world.

"But five games in a row have this kind of bug? How to explain this? There is no explanation at all!

"If I believe these are all bugs, then I'm a der!"

Zhao Haiquan's eyes were a little confused: "This... purely from the perspective of code and probability, this is indeed outrageous. However, besides BUG, ​​is there any other more reasonable explanation?"

Zhou Yang nodded: "This problem has troubled me for a long time. From the first day I joined the company, I couldn't figure it out.

"Anyway, I think there must be a monster when something goes wrong, and there must be a ghost when something goes wrong. What ghost? There must be someone behind it!

“Most of these bugs were deliberately written and stuffed into the game code.

"There are so many game codes. As long as they are hidden carefully enough, it is normal for our company's testers to be unable to find them. With millions of players playing our games, the probability of finding bugs is naturally greatly increased."

Zhao Haiquan was even more surprised: "Someone deliberately inserted a bug into it?

"It's impossible. There are only two front-end programs in our company, one is Brother Dahui and the other is Mr. Gu! Brother Dahui only came in halfway, so it's definitely not him, so doesn't it have to be Mr. Gu?

"But isn't Mr. Gu taking off his pants and farting? He is the boss, so what if he just makes these mechanisms generously?"