mousepad-d2 Chapter 11: Who exactly is this author?
Chapter 11: Who exactly is this author?
"Which little corner of the wood should I favor today?"
Cheng Guantian gently stroked the wooden pillow in his hand, its fluffy little face touching his fingertips.
This made him think of the female lead he hadn't yet won over yesterday.
Galaga, this is a game that appeared in the world at the beginning of this century!
Ten years have passed, and twenty years have gone by; it remains the best game in the world.
After all, the two-spined salamander has no corner to give wood, just as the West has no Jerusalem.
Don't ask why there's a Jerusalem in this world; it's just a parallel universe.
"Ding—We've started playing together! Stop playing in that corner and you'll get bored!"
My phone received a message from my best friend.
This friend is great in every way, we've been friends for over ten years, but he actually plays MMO games like dungeon crawling and gear farming.
It's shameful. At his age, he doesn't even know how to find a girlfriend.
you see me?
Behind Cheng Guantian, there were women everywhere.
I'm stuck with those ugly dungeon monsters every day. When will my aesthetic sense improve?
The sweet, arrogant, and yandere corner is still the most fun for wooden games.
He has already demystified MMO games.
Nowadays, he only enjoys reading a little bit of entertainment novels and keeping an eye on some new games on the market.
Of course, the most interesting content in entertainment articles is the kind with a touch of color.
Moreover, Chinese entertainment and Korean entertainment are the most exciting.
Japanese comes second.
However, in recent years, a type of plagiarist has emerged in literary and entertainment novels.
I recently came across a novel recommended by a friend in a group chat.
What was it called again?
Oh right, it drives players crazy.
Using a game to drive players crazy? I have no idea what this idiot creator was thinking.
【Ding! 】
[@All members: Come on, let me recommend a game to you, it's only ten yuan, I'll pay to test it!]
【Ding! 】
Soon, the group owner sent a red envelope in the group, and it was quite a large one, a whole thousand yuan!
There are only twenty or thirty people in this group.
A red envelope worth a thousand yuan—this group admin is truly a big shot!
"What game is this that requires the group owner to pay for a test?"
The group admin shared a download link in the group chat, which led to Steam, a well-known domestic single-player game platform.
As soon as the link opened, four large characters appeared before my eyes.
—Getting Ridge!
Wait a minute—something's not right. This game seems familiar, like I've seen it somewhere before.
Isn't this the game I'm currently following? The protagonist's first game?
Cheng Guantian's hand holding the mouse trembled slightly.
"What...what's going on?"
"The author of this dog story, did he have some kind of precognitive ability?"
"Holy crap!"
……
Inside the girls' dormitory, Hu Lianlian casually opened the Steam platform and searched for this game.
[Game Title: Getting Over It (English name omitted)]
[Game Type: Side-scrolling platformer]
[Game Price: 10 RMB (Donghuang Coins)]
When making the purchase, Hu Lianlian remained nonchalant, staring disdainfully at the game's download page.
The file size was small, and the download speed was not slow; it finished downloading quickly.
Before you start to appreciate this garbage game, first pray that the great god of games won't curse you.
This looks like a trash game, what kind of gaming spirit could it possibly have?
game!
It's the ninth art! How could it possibly be something a cricket artist like you could casually dabble in?
I randomly clicked on the game, and Hu Lianlian almost made me speechless by its rudimentary interface.
Upon closer inspection, it turns out there wasn't even background music (BGM)?
This game? Do people actually play it?
The novel describes the game in a fantastical way, claiming that only players who have played it can be called connoisseurs.
Bah! What makes this game worthy of being called a gourmet game?
As the game started, all those familiar words transformed into images displayed before my eyes.
Hu Lianlian was stunned.
He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "How come... every scene is exactly the same as what's described in that book?"
Could it be that this game is actually fun?
Hu Lianlian majored in game design in college.
She even considered that if she didn't pass this campus recruitment, she would go abroad to study.
I studied game design specifically.
For many years, the game market in Donghuang has been monopolized by two major companies, Heilong and Gangzi, and they have never been able to produce any good games.
If the opportunity lies in overseas markets, we can learn from them and then use that knowledge to support the domestic game market.
It is certainly possible.
Therefore, she played no fewer than several hundred games during her university years.
Whether a game is fun or not can almost be determined by looking at its initial design.
The game in front of me, in terms of both appearance and graphics, does not meet my criteria for a good game!
Click to start the game and get started!
I practiced a bit and found that I didn't make any mistakes in the games. Let's play!
Carefully maneuvering this old man named Bennett through each level.
That feeling couldn't be simpler.
Take it one step at a time, there's no need to rush.
In side-scrolling games like this, there are clever little touches from the developers. They must think that we players are just impulsive, right?
"This is too easy! You think this game can stump me?"
until--
We've arrived at the real challenge!
That thing blocking my way was a simple, clever idea.
An orange is placed on the table.
Bennett's goal was to get past the orange and climb up.
However, the moment he controlled Bennett to take a step forward with the prop in his hand!
Suddenly, the fulcrum was not found.
The hammer fell on the orange.
Then, a shooting star fell from the sky, and she felt as if everything in her mind had been destroyed in that instant!
"ah!!!"
send!
Hu Lianlian's vision went black instantly! She had spent half an hour painstakingly getting from the front to this current closed-off character!
He jumped straight down from above.
A song called "Cool" instantly soaked through my passionate heart.
What a surprise! What an amazing surprise!
"You damn author! You deserve to die!!"
Inside the girls' dormitory, Xiao Bing and her three other roommates stared blankly at Hu Lianlian behind them.
For a full half hour, she played this game without uttering a sound.
How could she have broken down so quickly, just half an hour later?
At this moment, Hu Lianlian was no longer the arrogant and disdainful figure she had been half an hour earlier, looking down on any domestic game.
One hand gripped the mouse tightly, while the other pressed down hard on the keyboard.
It was baring its teeth and looking like it wanted to rush in and eat the game's creator alive.