Chapter 73 Ideal Answers and Realistic Answers
Zhang Qifeng quickly wrote it down with his pen flying.
What he wants to do this time is a text interview. Although video interviews will be better in the new media era, text interviews also have advantages, that is, they are easier to be adopted by the authorities.
The official platform also has its own news station, and the current mainstream manuscripts are still text manuscripts. This time, Zhang Qifeng got some internal information from Shaowan Game Network, saying that the official platform may consider selecting a relatively good press release about the game Nitiantian from various game media and publishing it to the official news station superior.
Although this kind of manuscript has no actual benefits, it is a good opportunity for major game media to expand their influence. Editors like Zhang Qifeng and others often have corresponding indicators and requirements if they want to be promoted internally.
Therefore, he attached great importance to this interview.
After quickly memorizing it, Zhang Qifeng asked again: "What about the realistic answer?"
Gu Fan sighed softly: "The reality is that no matter how anti-nature and anti-human designs our company has made, it always inexplicably turns danger into disaster and turns danger into safety by relying on unlucky luck. It is really disappointing. It’s so sad!”
Zhang Qifeng: "Huh?"
This is really an unexpected answer. Is Mr. Gu admitting that Nitiantian Company has made many designs that defy heaven and humanity? And success depends entirely on luck?
Zhang Qifeng felt that his brain was a little smokey, and he hurriedly asked: "I was just about to ask this. Many players are very curious. Every game currently launched by Nitiantian has a very distinctive feature, that is, a game that can turn things around. Core gameplay.
“For example, what players have summarized is ‘Bullet Turn’, ‘Dragon Wings’, ‘Rotate Elimination’, ‘Wolong Strategy Nesting’ and so on.
"Then the question comes...
"Is this a game mechanism or a BUG?"
Gu Fan silently took a sip of coffee: "It's the same question again. Do you want to hear the ideal answer or the realistic answer?"
Zhang Qifeng was stunned for a moment, come again?
"An ideal answer?" He had no choice but to continue to cooperate.
Gu Fan said seriously: "Nowadays, many game companies like to serve semi-finished games directly to the table, euphemistically calling them 'early access', and many even run away midway. This is obviously a chaos!
“We at Nitiantian Games have always insisted on producing high-quality games, and have been working hard to ensure that ‘the design draft is not changed’ and ‘the game code is not changed’. Once the game is released, there will never be any subsequent updates.
"I think this is a kind of confidence."
Zhang Qifeng blinked, his expression a little confused.
Mr. Gu seemed to have given some hints, but he didn't seem to give them.
Zhang Qifeng tried hard to taste the implication of this sentence: "Mr. Gu, do you mean that the design level and game development level of Nitiantian Game are very high? Once the game is designed, no line of design will be changed? You are even confident that the game There are no BUGs in it, so there is no need for any subsequent updates?
"That means those core mechanisms are indeed designed long ago?"
Gu Fan showed a meaningful smile: "How about you listen to a realistic answer again?"
Zhang Qifeng nodded: "Okay."
Gu Fan sighed softly: "Those are indeed BUGs!"
Zhang Qifeng: "Huh??"
This time he really couldn't be tricked.
In fact, Zhang Qifeng asked Zhao Haiquan before, what are those game mechanics? Or a BUG?
And Zhao Haiquan's answer was: "I don't know."
In fact, Zhao Haiquan really wants to say that in his opinion, any mechanism that is not written into the design draft is a bug, but after all, he is just a background program and has not participated in the core program development of the game. For the code of "Wolong Ce Nesting" I don’t know exactly how it was written, so I dare not draw any conclusions.
That's why Zhang Qifeng planned to ask Gu Fan again.
As the boss of Nitiantian Games, Mr. Gu’s answer can always have the final say, right?
But when Mr. Gu said seriously, "This is a BUG," he was completely confused.
As if afraid that Zhang Qifeng wouldn't believe it, Gu Fan continued to explain.
"Yes, since my company's first game "Hell Tracks", it has been plagued by various inexplicable bugs.
“Although we have formed a very strong testing team and worked hard to test every line of code in the game and found 99.99% of the bugs in the game, in the end, everything is still a secret.
"But it may be due to luck. These bugs are not malignant bugs, and they do not have a fatal impact on the game.
"So, we didn't repair them."
Zhang Qifeng couldn't help but be stunned, he scratched his head: "Wait a moment, Mr. Gu, I'll give it a try.
"If these are all bugs...
"Then I want to ask, when you were designing "Hell Tracks", how did you plan to let the players pass the level? "Heaven Cube" does not have rotation elimination, so what is the point of lowering the probability of long bars appearing? "The Legend of Destiny Crouching Dragon" If you can't use stargazing for other NPCs, then this game can still be played??"
Currently, in response to this problem, players are divided into the "BUG faction" and the "Gameplay faction", and these problems are also the most unexplainable problems for the BUG faction.
If these are all BUGs, it means that the solutions to these problems were not considered in the initial design. Then aren't these games pure garbage games?
Gu Fan spread his hands and said: "At that time, we thought that the handsome players were smart enough and would definitely be able to think of a way to crack it.
"We choose to believe in players!
"I just didn't expect that the solution the players found was a BUG."
Zhang Qifeng scratched his head: "Then you mean to say that all the success of Nitiantian Game so far is based on bugs?
"Or does it all depend on the player's intelligence and improvisation? It has nothing to do with your design?"
Gu Fan nodded confidently: "Yes, it can be understood that way.
“But it’s not objective to say that the success of the game has nothing to do with our design.
"The success of the game is closely related to our design. The specific connection is... we conducted stress tests on players to stimulate their potential and found BUGs in the game."
"Pfft!" Zhang Qifeng almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, "Isn't that just a pure side effect!"
Gu Fan nodded: "If you insist on understanding it this way, you can't be wrong."
…
Zhang Qifeng felt that the interview could not continue.
He actually prepared a lot of questions before, but these questions all have a premise, that is: "These bugs in the game are not bugs, but carefully designed core mechanisms!" 』
It must be designed before there is any need to continue asking?
But now, Gu Fan says they are all bugs, so why ask?
You can't ask, "What was your mentality at the time when you designed such a BUG?" right? That's outrageous!
Zhang Qifeng never thought that one day he would be completely at a loss for words.
He racked his brains and finally came up with the last question.
"Then...Mr. Gu, can I ask a question that is not related to the content of the interview?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course, you can ask whatever you want."
Zhang Qifeng said curiously: "If you were interviewed by other media, would you answer this way?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course, no matter who asks, my answer will be the same. I also hope you can report it truthfully."
Zhang Qifeng nodded silently: "Okay, I understand!"
After that, Zhang Qifeng asked a few more questions, trying to save some situations, but no matter how he asked, Gu Fan insisted that these were BUGs!
In the end, Zhang Qifeng could only look at the contents in his shorthand notebook and said with embarrassment: "Okay, that's it for today's interview. Thank you Mr. Gu for accepting this interview. I also hope that Nitiantian Games can surpass The better!”
Gu Fan stood up with a smile and shook hands with him: "Then I'll lend you your good words."
Just walking out of the cafe, Zhang Qifeng felt worried.
How to write this interview script!