This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

When the game was killed, Brother Dong was undoubtedly the saddest person.

In addition, Hu Zhong was also very sad.

During the deletion test, he was captured by the power of the AI ​​agent and immediately called his relatives and friends to play together.

As a result, as soon as the deletion test ended, there was no follow-up to the game. Even searching for relevant information on major platforms could not find many videos and reports.

If he hadn't really remembered his own experiences and experiences during the deletion test, he would have doubted whether he had remembered it wrong. There is no such game as "I Am a Big Internet Celebrity" in this world?

The Tianba community is the only place where video materials, game introductions, and player discussions are saved.

"Don't you have a version number?"

"It looks like it should be, otherwise Brother Ba wouldn't even say the specific date."

"That's strange! Didn't you say that the shortage of version numbers is over? Why can't you get a version number now?"

"What you call a shortage of version numbers refers to the suspension of version numbers. In fact, there are not many game version numbers issued normally every year, and the supply exceeds demand every year."

"Then "Time and Space Investigation"..."

Players in the community are still very considerate. After all, there is nothing you can do if you encounter this kind of thing, unless there is a big hand in the community who can help Brother Ba solve the version number problem.

Is there such a big hand in the community?

As far as Chen Ba knows, there really is such a big player, but they play "Don't Leave After School" and don't play other games. And since he wasn't familiar with them, he didn't have the nerve to ask them to do things for him.

Moreover.

The reason why the game was shut down is very complicated. It cannot be explained clearly with just one version number. Solving the version number will lead to new problems.

So this matter was just a few words of praise from netizens, but Chen Ba had never thought about it.

But what he didn't expect was...

You are such a big leader, but you still play games yourself? Even charged 150 yuan?

“Judging from the online time, I think it’s me!”

Yang Dong, who was gradually calming down, said quietly: "If it were a child or someone else playing at home, the schedule would not be so stable."

"This is nothing, there is something even more exciting! Look, who is this?"

While talking, Xiao Lu called up another player information for "Don't Leave After School: Pinball Storm".

I saw that this player was very low-key and had an English name called Pony. At first glance, he looked like a child from an ordinary family. There was nothing special about him.

However, if Xiao Lu can retrieve the information alone, it means it is not simple.

Chen Ba curled his lips and said, "I know this. I discovered it on the first day he registered an account."

Real-name information doesn't matter. You don't have to use your own identity to real-name. The key is the mobile phone number. Chen Ba also has a copy in his mobile phone. Wouldn't it be possible to guess who it is through this comparison?

"It's really...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!"

Lao Luo, who just joined Tianba not long ago, can be said to have gained a lot of knowledge.

He probably never dreamed that in the game "Don't Leave After School", there would be so many famous figures from all walks of life active.

What are these people here for?

You can't really play games, right? It feels like this is unlikely. After all, I like playing games, but I am so busy at work, how can I have time to play marbles?

"Part of them are here to inspect and learn the unique server contracting operation model of "Don't Leave After School", and the other part are advertisers who plan to place ads in the game or have already placed ads, and come to find out whether the advertising costs are worth it."

As the general person in charge of the operation department, Yang Dong slowly explained: "There are more of the former. For example, Mr. Ma is most likely attracted by the unique operating model of "Don't Leave After School" and came to see what was going on."

"Don't Leave After School" is weird.

It's so weird that you can't find it anywhere in the world. It's the second online game that operates using the same model.

The game's player praise rate has always remained at a high level of over 99%. It can be said that everyone who has played it says it is good!

The abandonment rate of the game means that there are very few players who stop playing after registering an account.

Maybe in real life, if you are busy, players will temporarily put down the game, but they will pick it up and continue playing after a while.

There is no such thing as not playing for a while, and then stopping playing completely...

By the way!

Regarding the abandonment rate, which means that if you don’t play for a period of time, you will never play again, several Mi games are quite high.

The data is lower, but it is like League of Legends. It seems that summoners are going to face life, but in fact there are many people who will most likely "cheat corpses" once or twice during holidays.

Being able to fake corpses shows that you haven't completely let go of it. If you can't even fake corpses, that would be really cool.

"Don't Leave After School" is not a scam. Players who play this game will find time to play it unless they are so busy that they go home and fall asleep.

Players are very enthusiastic about playing!

As long as friends and businessmen are not stupid, they will come to study such an alternative game to see if they can learn a thing or two.

Not just friends and businessmen.

Many people who have nothing to do with the game industry, or even computers, will become curious and want to check it out after hearing about this game that has almost 100% positive reviews.

"...What's more interesting is that some middle-aged male entrepreneurs, or maybe uncles with successful careers, originally did a casual inspection, but ended up getting ahead of themselves by just playing around."

At this point, the entire conference room burst into laughter.

"Is it that outrageous?"

Xiao Lu asked curiously: "At this age, do you still get addicted to playing games?"

"So, why did games like Zhengtu earn a lot of money back then, and why did Blue Moon have so much money?"

Chen Ba smiled and explained: "Don't underestimate how good these middle-aged men are at playing games!"

"That's still different..."

Yang Dong explained: "The reason for their superiors is probably because the benefits of ascending to the throne in this game far outweigh the investment!"

So far, the average recharge flow of "Don't Leave After School" has completely stabilized.

Take popular area servers as an example.

If you can serve in a popular area and be a game partner for a month, the bonus alone will be around 1.5 million a month.

Isn’t this money exciting enough?

If you work for two months, you will be worth a first-prize lottery prize. If you work for one year, you will have wealth and freedom, and you can go wherever you want.

Such a stable business will naturally be watched.

The game's darker side also emerges.

A player in Area 2 got the idea of ​​kidnapping his friend and forcing him to hand over the marbles because he knew the owner of the marbles in real life.

Fortunately, his plan was discovered as soon as it was implemented, and it did not have too bad impact.

However, this also serves as a warning to the majority of authorized marble holders, especially ordinary people who have no background or identity in reality.

The authority status granted by the authority marble only takes effect in the game. In reality, it is still possible for someone to have evil intentions.

After this, everyone pays more attention to privacy protection in the game. They do not want to leak any personal information to other players to avoid being targeted by bad guys.

This is not a mountain made out of molehills.

The importance of the marbles under the authority of "Don't Leave After School" and the interests they represent are enough to make many people take risks.

After all, some cases involving human life only cost a few thousand or even tens of thousands of dollars.

The authority marbles are more than tens of thousands of dollars?

…

Arbor Day, the outskirts of Jiangning.

In order to take the depressed Dong Ge out to relax, Chen Ba simply called everyone from the studio to plant trees in the suburbs.

Planting trees is a means, the purpose is to make Brother Dong happy and to build a team.

However, during the process of planting trees, a foreign news story told by Xiao Lu gave Chen Ba the idea of ​​a new game.

The news Xiao Lu was talking about was actually a special tree planting service provided by a foreign cemetery organization, that is, planting a tree after the deceased is buried.

Most of the nutrients for the growth of this tree come from the decay of corpses...

This sounds pretty special.

Chen Ba was the first to hear about this news. At that time, many netizens made fun of it and made many interesting jokes.

For example:

"Mom, why is this apple so sweet?"

"Silly boy, your second uncle has diabetes, of course this apple is sweet!"

At first, like ordinary netizens, he regarded this as an anecdote and listened to it casually without taking it too seriously.

But now that Xiao Lu mentioned it again, and he was planting trees, Chen Ba suddenly had a wonderful idea.

How about making this into a game?

"How to do it?"

Although Xiao Lu was the one who inspired Brother Ba, he just told a foreign anecdote casually to liven up the atmosphere. How could he know what Brother Ba was thinking of?

"Have you ever heard of Yu Gong moving mountains?"

"There are endless needs for descendants! With the efforts of one generation after another, even towering mountains can be moved."

Chen Ba explained: "My idea is that the protagonist has a mission that must be completed, and this mission may not be completed even if it takes a lifetime, or even a hundred lives."

"Then he will die while pursuing his dream and turn into a fruit tree bearing abundant fruits, waiting for those who come after him to pick it."

Adventure game!

The protagonist is not a person. To be precise, as long as he dies once, the protagonist's seniority will be lowered by one generation.

Similarly, every time the protagonist dies, a tree will grow at the place where he died. Each tree has some special props or abilities that the protagonist had before his death.

"The levels are very long, but you can't save in the middle... Do you understand what I mean?"

"I guess I understand!"

Yang Dong said thoughtfully: "Although these trees left behind by ancestors after their death are not save points, they are better than save points."

Because the trees transformed by these ancestors will provide future generations with various props, abilities and other assistance that they acquired during their lifetime, and can also restore blood for treatment and so on.

So in theory, an expert can beat this game in one life.

But in fact, most people pass the level by passing it down from one generation to another, and then planting countless "ancestor trees" on the way to the level.

That’s right, you really win!

What should I do if a certain level is particularly difficult and very difficult?

Then die!

If you die a few times in this level, and the map of this level is covered with your "ancestors", wouldn't it be enough to pass the level if you have the skills?

Therefore, because this game cannot be archived, it sounds as scary as "Dig to the Top". If you are not careful, you will lose all your previous efforts and fall back to the starting point of the dream from the clouds.

But in fact, because of the setting of "all eighteen generations of ancestors turned into trees", this game becomes easier as you play.

On the map of this level, there are trees that grew up after my ancestors died. I really don’t know how to lose. I can pass the level with my eyes closed!

What if you can't get through this?

fine!

My son, my father, has also turned into a tree, and the difficulty of this level has been reduced again. Inherit my will, remember the glory of our ancestors, and stride forward!

"So the ending of this game is that a family has sacrificed dozens of generations in order to realize their dream, only for the last descendant to reach the end?"

"Dozens of generations?"

Chen Ba thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "It may be more than that! According to my assumption, it would normally take hundreds of generations of efforts to reach the final destination."

Of course, experts are the exception!

Experts usually don't think about it. After all, they are not in the same realm as ordinary players.

Experts who play this kind of game can basically pass the level if they figure out the mechanism and key points of the level by dying a few times.

Ordinary players don't have that dexterity or reaction ability, so they need to die a few more times and plant a few more ancestral trees...

In one sentence: If you want to be rich, plant more trees!

Death is not the end, but new life! The previous deaths are not useless, but provide the younger generations with solid support and motivation to move forward.

"What the game wants to express is that all happiness and beauty are hard-won. While enjoying the present, we must not forget those predecessors who helped us explore the way and finally turned into the ancestral tree."

When Chen Ba said this, he just finished planting the last sapling. He wiped his sweat and asked, "What do you think?"

"It's pretty good, but the difficulty of this level is difficult to control..."

Xiao Lu expressed his opinion: "There are no big problems with the theme and gameplay of the game. It is a very traditional level-breaking adventure game. But because of the mechanism of the ancestral tree, the level difficulty is difficult to adjust!"

The difficulty is too high. Even if there is an ancestral tree, dying too many times will inevitably produce a strong sense of frustration, leading to a group of players being discouraged.

The difficulty is too low. The existence of the ancestral tree has already weakened part of the difficulty. In this way, the sense of achievement of finally reaching the end and clearing the game will not be that high.

How to find the balance point of difficulty is the most difficult part of this game.

"Not only that."

Yang Dong also expressed his opinion: "You said that the effects of each ancestral tree are different, and they are props and abilities carried during life. Does that mean that this game has elements of meat pigeons?"

"a little bit!"

Chen Ba explained: "It's not a heavy game, it's a light game. It only randomizes the props and abilities obtained every time you pass a level. Maps and monsters are still the same."

"It might as well be completely random!"

Xiao Lu curled his lips and said: "The props and abilities are all randomized. The maps, monsters and traps are all randomized. Only the location and output of the ancestral tree remain unchanged."

Grandpa will give you accelerator shoes, but he won't give him anything else. Dad will give him shield reinforcements, and he won't give him anything else either.

This level of random elements is what Xiao Lu thinks is what a meat pigeon game should be.

As for light meat pigeons?

It's not so much a meat pigeon as it is a relatively basic carousel lottery system...