Almighty Game Designer Chapter 270: “Stanley’s Fable”
Recently, there are more and more customers in the experience store. On weekends, the PC experience area on the first floor can be filled with more than 90%, leaving only a dozen empty machines.
The mobile game experience area and VR experience area are less crowded, but they can basically take up half of them.
In the holographic projection viewing area, there are people who are interested in this device watching melon-eating people every day, but after all, this thing will get tired after seeing too much. At the beginning of watching it fresh, it will become accustomed to it later.
The first floor lobby of the experience store.
Today is Thursday, not too many people.
Chen Mo is sitting on the sofa with a glass of drink in his hand, and is looking through a batch of new books that have recently arrived.
There are two large bookshelves on the wall of the lobby on the first floor. There are many books related to games. Of course, they are mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc. There are also some professional books on game design knowledge, just for people who read them. Rarely.
"The store manager." A 27-year-old office worker in a suit swiped his ID card at the front desk and greeted Chen Mo.
Chen Mo nodded in greeting: "Isn't it Thursday today? Not at work?"
The office worker nodded: "Well, I asked for leave."
This office worker is called Zhao Lei, and he is also a frequent visitor to the experience store. The Peipiao people are currently working in a financial company. They are well paid and work under great pressure.
Different from other players, he came to the experience store not only to play games, but sometimes just to sit in the lobby for a while and chat with everyone.
Zhao Lei is a person who doesn't have much social circle. In the work circle, he mostly socializes, but in this experience store, he finds a long-lost comfort.
So, Zhao Lei often came over on weekends, and over time, he got acquainted with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu, and some regular customers of the experience store.
Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa next to him, ordered a cup of iced coffee, and took a cartoon from the shelf next to him.
Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei's somewhat tired face and asked, "Why, there has been a lot of pressure recently?"
Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, I don't know why lately. I always meet shameless pens at work. There is also a lot of social entertainment. I drank three or four drinks last week, and I have to work overtime this weekend. I really can’t stand it today. , Ask for leave, rest."
Chen Mo said with a little sympathy: "Well, your body is important. Take the time to do an individual examination."
Zhao Lei smiled and said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Physical examination? I dare not take a physical examination, for fear that something serious will come out and there will be no money for treatment."
Chen Mo said: "Don't, it's still important to your body."
Zhao Lei nodded: "Well, of course I know this."
"By the way, the manager, but there have been no new games for a while, is it because you are busy with the game platform recently?"
Chen Mo said: "There is a part of this, but then again, it has been less than two months since "Minecraft" has been launched. How can a new game be developed so quickly, and you have to get rid of your breasts." /
Zhao Lei suddenly said: "Oh, is it only two months? Alas, I have lost the concept of time. It always feels like half a year has passed."
Chen Mo smiled and said: "You are under too much pressure at work. It is time to reduce pressure properly. It is always in this high-pressure state, which is prone to problems."
Zhao Lei said: "There is no good way to reduce stress. I have no friends and no special hobbies. Apart from working hard and making money to support my family, I don’t seem to have anything else to do. I also come to you occasionally. Sit down and relax a little bit."
Chen Mo thought for a while: "Actually, I just have a game for you. Would you like to play it? New game."
Zhao Lei was a little surprised: "New game? Didn't you say that it hasn't been developed yet?"
Chen Mo stood up and smiled: "Don't you know what efficiency I am? If it is not developed, it means that the game hasn't been launched yet, but it is ready to play. Come with me." /
Zhao Lei hurriedly stood up and followed Chen Mo to the PC game experience area of the experience store.
After asking Zhao Lei to find a computer casually and sit down, Chen Mo logged in to the management background and downloaded a game that was just developed to this computer.
Zhao Lei looked at the name: ""Stanley's Fable"?"
Chen Mo nodded: "Yes."
Zhao Lei has some doubts: "You said this game is more suitable for me? What kind of game is it, is it a puzzle game?"
Chen Mo shook his head: "You'll know after a little play."
Zhao Lei clicked on the game icon on the desktop to enter the game with some confusion.
There is no cool loading picture, no CG of the big scene, directly into the game screen.
The upper left of the screen is the title of the game "Stanley's Fable", and the lower left is [Start Game], [Options], [Producer] and [Exit]. The whole screen is very simple.
However, Zhao Lei soon noticed the weirdness of this picture.
The picture shows a desk with a telephone and a computer on the desk, a filing cabinet on the left, and a decorative painting on the wall, just like most companies hang it. Kind, a painting that looks nothing new and is better than nothing.
The strange thing is that the screen displayed on this computer in the game is the same as the game screen. It also has a game title, options, and even a small mouse cursor.
This kind of feeling is like a picture-in-picture, all the operations the player does on the desktop will happen synchronously on the computer screen inside.
Zhao Lei moved the mouse to click [Start Game], and the same operation was done on the computer screen in the game.
This made Zhao Lei feel a little weird, but he didn't think much about it. He just thought it was probably some kind of evil taste of Chen Mo, just a funny little egg.
In the process of reading the game, the screen is completely black, but there is a gray line in English: "THEENDISNEVERTHEENDISNEVERTHEEND......"
This is an endless loop of English, which extends from the far left of the screen to the far right of the screen. If it is broken into a complete sentence, it should be "THEENDISNEVERTHEEND", which means "the end is not the end", or "the game never ends."
It's just that this sentence overlaps the "THEEND" at the beginning and the end, creating such an infinite loop.
These clues make Zhao Lei a little puzzled. What kind of game is this?
With many doubts, the game began.
The screen hasn't appeared yet, and Zhao Lei's headset has already sounded a narration.
The narration is a low male voice~IndoMTL.com~ The words are clear, the speaking speed is moderate, and the rhythm is good. There was not much emotion in the voice, as if it was telling a very ordinary story.
【This is the story of a man named Stanley. 】
【Stanley works in a company in a building. He is employee number 427. 】
Along with the very light and very light BGM, the game screen began to appear. The camera crossed the company's corridor and came to Room 427. In the room, a man is sitting with his back to the camera. His desk is the one seen in the game start screen before, including the computer, phone, and file cabinet, all of which are exactly the same.
[Employee No. 427's job is very simple: sit at the desk and press the buttons on the keyboard. 】
[The screen will display the corresponding instructions: what button to press, how long to press, and in what order to press. 】
The camera switched to the monitor screen at the top, giving the characters in the game a close-up of their hand movements.
Stanley stared at the computer screen dumbly, his right hand monotonously pressing the buttons on the keyboard, and from time to time he bowed and raised his head, like a machine on an assembly line.