Almighty Game Designer

Recently, there have been more and more guests at the Experience Store, and by the end of the week, the PC Experience area on the ground floor will be more than 90% full, leaving a dozen empty machines.

There are fewer people in the hand-to-hand and VR areas, but it's basically half full.

Holographic projection viewing area, there is also a crowd of gourds interested in this equipment every day, but after all, it gets tired of watching too much of this stuff, it starts to look fresh, and the back is used to it.

Experience the lobby on the first floor of the store.

It's Thursday, not too many people.

Chen Qiao sat on the couch with a drink in his hand and was looking at a new batch of books that had recently arrived.

There are two large bookshelves on the side of the first floor of the lobby, and there are many game-related books, of course, mainly novels, comics, game albums, etc., as well as some professional books on game design knowledge, although few people read them.

“Store manager.” A 278-year-old working man in a suit brushed his ID at the front desk and greeted Chen stranger.

Chen Qiao nodded his greetings: “Isn't today Thursday? Not at work? ”

The worker nodded: "Well, I'm off. ”

This worker, Zhao Lei, is also a frequent customer of the experience store. The North Floating Nation, currently working for a financial company, is well paid and under a lot of work pressure.

Unlike other players, he doesn't come to the store to experience games, sometimes just to sit in the lobby and chat.

Zhao Lei is a person who has no social circle and deserves a lot of reward in the work circle, but in this experience store, he found a long disobeyed comfort.

So, Zhao Lei often comes over on weekends, over time, and gets acquainted with Chen Yu, Su Jinyu and some of the frequent visitors of the experience store.

Zhao Lei sat on the couch next to him, ordered an iced coffee and took a comic from the bookshelf next to him.

Chen Qiao looked at Zhao Lei's tired face and asked: “What, have you been under a lot of pressure lately? ”

Zhao Lei nodded: “Well, I don't know why these days, I've always met Shapen at work. I got paid a lot, I drank three or four drinks last week, I have to work overtime this weekend, I really can't hold up today, take time off, rest. ”

Chen Jiao said a little sympathetically: "Well, the body is important. Take the time to do a medical exam. ”

Zhao Lei laughed, half joking, half serious said: “Medical examination? I don't dare to have a physical examination, I'm afraid to detect something serious, I don't have the money to cure it. ”

Chen Qiao said, "No, it's still important. ”

Zhao Lei nodded: “Well, of course I know that. ”

“By the way, the manager hasn't played a new game in a while, is it because he's been busy with the game platform lately? ”

“There's a part of this reason," said Chen Qiao. "But then again," My World is online. It's been less than two months. How can a new game be developed so quickly? Even if you eat milk, you have to break your arms. ”

Zhao Lei suddenly said: "Oh, only two months? Alas, a little bit lost in the concept of time, it always feels like it's been a little over six months. ”

"You're under a lot of work pressure, so it's time to decompress properly," said Chan. "It's always in this state of high pressure, and you're prone to problems. ”

Zhao Lei said: “There is no good way to decompress. I don't have any friends, I don't have any special hobbies, I don't seem to have anything else to do besides work hard to earn money for my family. Just come and sit here once in a while and relax a little bit. ”

Chen Jiao thought about it: “Actually, I just happen to have a game for you. Do you want to play? New game.”

Zhao Lei had some surprises: “New game? Didn't you say it wasn't developed yet? ”

Chen Qiao stood up and laughed: “What efficiency am I? Don't you know? Said it wasn't developed. That means the game isn't live yet, but it's ready to try. You come with me. ”

Zhao Lei hurriedly stood up and followed Chen Qiao to the PC Game Experience area of the experience store.

After letting Zhao Lei find a computer to sit on, Chen Jiao logged into the management background and downloaded a newly developed game onto the computer.

Zhao Lei looked at the name: "Stanley's fable"? ”

Chen Jiao nodded: “Yes. ”

Zhao Lei was somewhat confused: “Do you think this game suits me better? What kind of game is that, a puzzle solving game? ”

Chen Jiao shook his head: “You'll see when you play. ”

Zhao Lei entered the game by hitting the game icon on the desktop with some confusion.

No cool loading diagrams, no big scene CG, straight into the game scene.

At the top left of the screen is the game title "Stanley's Fables", and at the bottom left is [Start Game], [Options], [Producer], and [Exit]. The whole picture is very concise.

However, Zhao Lei soon noticed the strangeness of this image.

The picture shows a desk with a phone and a computer on it, a file cabinet on the left, and a decorative painting on the wall, just like most companies would hang, a painting that looks novel and talks better than nothing.

Strangely enough, the computer in the game shows the same image as the game screen, with game titles, options, and even a tiny mouse cursor.

This feeling is like an in-picture, where everything that the player does on the desktop happens in sync with the computer image inside.

Zhao Lei moved his mouse to click [Start Game] and did the same thing on the computer screen in the game.

This made Zhao Lei feel a little weird, but he didn't think much of it. He just thought it might be some kind of bad taste from Chen Jiao, just an interesting little colored egg.

While reading the game, the screen is completely black, but there is a line of gray English: “THEENDISNEVERTHEENDISNEVERTHEEND...”

This is an infinitely looping line of English that extends from the far left of the screen to the far right of the screen. If you cut it into a complete sentence, it should be "THEENDISNEVERTHEEND”, meaning “the end is not the end”, or “the game never ends”.

But this sentence overlaps the beginning and the end of "THEEND", creating this infinite loop.

What kind of game is this that makes Zhao Lei a little confused?

With a strong doubt, the game begins.

The screen hasn't shown up yet, and Zhao Lei's headphones have made a confession.

The narrative is a low male voice with clear bites, moderate speech and a good rhythm. You can't hear too much emotion in your voice, as if you're telling a very ordinary story.

[This is the story of a man named Stanley.

Stanley works for a company in a building. He works for 427.

Along with a very light and faint BGM, the video of the game began to appear and the camera crossed the company corridor to room 427. In the room, a man is sitting on his back against the camera, and his desk is the same as the one he saw earlier in the game start, including computers, phones, filing cabinets.

[Employee 427 has a simple job: sit at the desk and press the button on the keyboard.

[The corresponding instructions are displayed on the screen: what button, how long, and in what order.

The camera switches to the monitor screen at the top, deliberately featuring a hand action for the character in the game.

Stanley stared at the computer screen with his right hand single-handedly pressing the button on the keyboard and from time to time lowered his head and raised his head like a machine on a pipeline.