Part41

  The testing department is a relatively low-tech department in the online gaming company, and ordinary positions only require experience and enthusiasm for games to be competent. Weiwei is also an online game expert, so doing this job is still easy for him.

  The work of a game tester is actually very dull, perhaps having to constantly talk to the same NPC to see if there are any bugs, or maybe having to walk through the same map over and over again... it's absolutely not as fun as outsiders imagine, just playing games all day.

  Today, the testing department just happened to be doing a large-scale task test, and there were not enough people on hand. One more person would be perfect. The members of the testing department were originally worried that this legendary beauty, said to be the boss's girlfriend, was here to slack off at the company. Who knew she had simply gotten familiar with the operation of Dreamweaver 2 a bit and quickly got the hang of it.

  The head of the testing department was overjoyed and quickly identified with Weiwei as his future boss's wife.

  She was so absorbed in the game that she didn't even notice "Jianghu people call me Mei Ge" excitedly running over to watch her, and didn't have time to respond. Mozha was left standing alone and walked away dejectedly. At noon, Xiao Nai asked casually while they were eating outside: "What did you do this morning?"

  Her eyes lit up instantly: "I've done the water disaster task test."

  Because Dream Walker 2 simulates the weather changes in real life to the greatest extent, there are sunrise and sunset, wind, frost, thunder and lightning, as well as fine days. Of course, there is also continuous rain. Since there is continuous rain, it will inevitably lead to flooding in some areas, so the flood task comes from this.

  After a certain town was flooded, the system issued a notice calling on players to rescue NPC children and elderly people, rescue NPC property, and then receive a certain reward. Players need to learn swimming skills, and within a limited time, send NPCs to a safe place, because in the water, blood volume is continuously decreasing, if they cannot be sent in time, the player will die and the task will fail.

  There are also derivative post-disaster reconstruction tasks, and corresponding drought transportation water source tasks. I have played a lot of online games, but it's the first time I've seen such an interesting multiplayer task.

  During the test, I also heard from the testing department about tasks such as feeding children in kindergartens, street performing tasks, and male farming and female weaving in family systems. Although I have only touched on one corner of the game's iceberg for now, the ingenious task system of Mengyou 2 has already left me slightly amazed.

  But what gave me the biggest shock today was the scenery of Dream Journey 2.

  The beautiful mountains and rivers, the vast and majestic rivers, the lush and dense bamboo forests, and the quiet and secluded valleys, these ordinary scenery, in Dream Journey 2, seem to be even more ethereal and distant.

  Of course, it's not just about the scenery, but also the smooth and elegant moves, realistic and varied character expressions...

  I had a hunch that the 3D engine for "Jade Dynasty 2" was written by the great god himself, rather than directly purchasing an overseas one. In terms of graphics and action performance, it must be extraordinary. But before seeing the game with my own eyes, I never thought that the great god's engine would make the scenery so beautiful and the actions so gorgeous to this extent.

  But thinking about the great god himself and his gorgeous team, it feels normal again...

  To think about it, with such a good engine, in the future, there's no need to mention how much money "Dream Journey 2" will make from operations. Just selling this engine to other online game companies for use, and the divine company will make a killing just from royalties alone.

  After dinner, I went back to the company with Xiaonai. In order to avoid being taken to yesterday's "crime scene" by Dashen, I proactively and enthusiastically went to visit my beautiful senior brother who was hurt by her this morning.

  Xiao Nai smiled and didn't stop her, he wasn't the type of person who liked being mushy in public. However, when a bug was found during the game test that afternoon, he appeared at the testing department and helped debug the program issue.

  At that time, the employees in the testing department were very complicated in their hearts. They were all silently shouting: Actually, we can also solve it! Boss, you don't have to come personally!

  After working on the test for a few days, Weiwei always felt that Journey 2 was fundamentally different from the games she had played before. It wasn't just because of its exquisite graphics and deep historical background, but also some other aspects. However, she couldn't quite put her finger on how it was different until one day when she saw some of Journey 2's detailed design documents, and suddenly everything became clear.

  Sleepwalking 2 has a temper.

  In the world of Dream Journey 2, nothing is fixed or absolutely still. Flowers bloom and wither, the moon waxes and wanes, people rise and fall. A peony in a courtyard may have been budding just a few days ago, but when you go back to look again, it may be in full bloom. A wine shop in the capital may have been bustling with customers yesterday, but suddenly decline and change hands. A woman in the west of the city may still be waiting for marriage this month, but next month she may already be married and living in the east of the city. Even the NPCs in the pharmacy and general store take shifts and go on vacation.

  It's just a small change in scene and NPC, but it gives people a sense of dynamics and development, sweeping away the dull feeling of previous online games.

  The dream journey 2 has clever ideas in each link, such as the wedding link's rush marriage, the self-designed moves of the martial arts system, and the occupation design of the scholar-official class (reading books and becoming an official, then summoning guardians to fight according to their rank, which can be referred to as a Western-style summoning system)

  Various wonderful ideas run through the entire game, but the biggest feature of Dream Journey 2 is that it truly integrates the life system and Jianghu system in parallel. Players in Dream Journey 2 can either be a proud wanderer or a completely ordinary player who lives a life far away from Jianghu.

  This is extremely rare in online games. Online games have always been clear-cut, fighting is fighting and living is living, even if a combat game has a life system, it's just a small auxiliary game.

  Online game developers are not unwilling to do so, but they can't. Domestic developers in order to save money and effort, mostly directly purchase foreign engines, while foreign engines either focus on combat upgrades or life classes as secondary, or focus on life nurturing and combat adjustments, so after domestic online games use foreign engines to make products, naturally also inevitably subject to restrictions and constraints, becoming a uniform pattern.

  But Xiaonai is a self-developed engine, so it can completely break out of this mode and freely create what it wants.

  No matter what, these innovations are still limited to the game category. The truly strategic innovation is the life system of Sleeping Jianghu 2, which combines C/S and B/S.

  In simple terms, it combines online games that need to be downloaded and installed with web-based games that don't require any downloads or installations.

  Let me give you a simple example to illustrate this.

  For example, you planted a flower in your Dream Journey 2 home garden, but it blooms when you're at work. What do you do if you can't play the game in the office? Just open the web version of Dream Journey 2 and you can collect the flowers while sitting in the office.

  For example, if you have a son and he needs to eat three meals a day, but you don't want to put him in a nursery, what can you do? Feed him online during work hours.

  It can be seen that in the future these functions will also extend to mobile phones.

  Currently, major game companies are focusing on developing web games that are suitable for working people and players with low computer configurations. However, there is not a single game in the market that combines 3D online gaming with web-based gaming.

  Mengyou 2 took the lead in this regard.

  This is absolutely genius innovation.

  "It's not just that, why don't you think about it in reverse?" One day on the way home from work, listening to the faintly endless praise, Xiao Nai was extremely calm, at least on the surface.

  "Huh?"

  "Before the online game's internal testing, Dream Journey 2 Life System web version will be opened in advance."

  "Huh? This is quite refreshing, but what's the point of this?"

  She began to think slightly.

  She didn't seem to have thought of it for a moment, and Xiao Nai further reminded: "Then before the internal test of Dream Journey 2, we will promote the video of the home in the 3D online game on the web version."

  Suddenly understood.

  Players who see their gardens so exquisite and perfect in 3D games will definitely have the urge to go online and take a look, and then...

  Everything can be inferred from this.

  The great god's strategy is really too ambitious, it's going to catch all kinds of players in one net.

  A faint sense of excitement and enthusiasm, extending the thought further.

  What if players who don't like fighting enter the game? Of course, they can choose not to fight monsters or level up, but instead plant and harvest vegetables, raise pigs and ducks, weave fabric and make clothes, research cuisine... However, when you get bored with being a farmer, no one will stop you from going out to find a master to learn from and travel the world. Moreover, the system will try every means to entice you, for example, planting vegetables might yield a spiritual elixir that increases your power when consumed, or tilling the land might uncover a secret manual, or making clothes might produce excellent equipment... And unfortunately, these things can't be sold...

  Then...

  So, it turns out that the great god is actually a conspirator.

  No, maybe it should be said that they are good at digging pitfalls and letting people watch the pitfalls jump down.

  She was so absorbed in Dream Journey 2 that she almost forgot to eat and sleep, and one time Xiao Nai walked up to her without being noticed, so Xiao Nai got teased by the testing department.

  "Xiao Ge, how does it feel to lose to your own game?"

  Xiao Nai felt very annoyed, and had been feeling that way for several days already. Who could tolerate a girlfriend who hadn't seen him in a long time constantly nagging about games in his ear? In desperation, Xiao Nai bluntly forbade: "From now on, don't mention the word 'game' outside of work."

  She felt a little happy and a bit wronged in her heart, and argued: "That's your game!"

  Sleepwalking 2, it's your world.

  A game cannot be completed by one's own strength, a game will condense the wisdom of the entire team, but Xiao Nai as the ultimate designer of this game is the soul of the entire game.

  Sleepwalking 2, to some extent, is his world.

  What is reflected inside is his outlook on life, his values, and subtly in this game, sometimes even feeling like flying in the vastness of his heart.

  He is omnipresent, perfect and powerful.

  Seems so.

  Like him even more now.

  After staying in the testing department for a week, Xiao Nai brought Wei Wei to one of his directly managed departments, the Planning Department, where she started doing assistant planning work.

  I have no opinion on this transfer at all.

  She wanted to go to the planning department, almost eagerly, wanting to add something of her own in his world.

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