Game Design: Is It Possible? CaiGou

Chapter 125: There Is No Tutorial for Beginners. Isn't This a Manifestation of Incompetence and Failure? (Subscribe)

[Select a destination]

[Location details: ——]

[Starting asteroid: Earth-like planet (a location with a balanced variety of resources)]

[Introduction: Earth-like planets meet all the needs of replicants for survival and are, without a doubt, an ideal location for a first attempt to establish a colony]

[Possibility of survival: ideal]

In addition to [Earth-like planets], there are also maps such as [Ocean Planets], [Frost Planets], and [Emerald Planets]. The original version has a total of nine maps to choose from.

Not only are the environments different, the types of resources are different, but even the difficulty is different.

But the old saying goes -

Listen to advice and you will have a full meal.

The game introduction clearly tells you that Earth-like planets are suitable for novices.

Liu Liu naturally follows the advice...

After all, so many people are watching!

After clicking OK, a prompt pops up as the reading bar ends——

[Select three clones and get ready]

[Lindsay]

[Interests——]

[Cooking: +1 cooking]

[Organizing: +1 strength]

[Supply: +1 strength]

[Traits——]

[No culture: Increase decoration morale bonus, cannot perform decoration tasks]

[Nervous weakness: cannot perform medical tasks]

[Stress reaction: Crying]

[Joy reaction: Post bombs]

[Gene traits: None]

[Introduction: Lindsay is a charming woman, as long as you don't mess with her friends]

It seems that the clones selected at the beginning of the game are the initial population of the base.

Liuliu fell into hesitation. After all, there are too many options, and it is different from the character introduction of most games on the market. This step must be cautious.

Liuliu kept refreshing the clones and found a problem. Cooking, mining, and research are often among the interests of the clones.

Combined with the fact that Oxygen Not Included is a space survival simulation construction game, in order to be stable, Liuliu chose three clones to each master a talent.

Finally, three clones were decided——

[Lindsay]

[Hassan]

[Niels]

Then we proceed to the last step, naming the colony.

Liuliu looked around and found that the anchors were looking forward to it. He smiled and named it——

[Half of the Country]

The live broadcast room fans saw this and complained crazily——

"Don't gather around Liuliu, log in too!"

"Yeah, why are you just watching? It's not difficult for you to look at the game options. I suspect that the old thief is lying to you."

"The above, your words are too clumsy, hahahaha!"

The anchors saw the barrage and ignored it directly.

Nonsense!

The game Oxygen Not Included has just been released. If you don't understand it when you get started, wouldn't it be embarrassing?

Let Liuliu try it out first to get an idea of ​​Oxygen Not Included, so that he won't be completely in the dark.

As the game screen lit up next to the portal of an underground cave, three clones appeared one after another.

There are many unconnected caves around the cave where the portal is located.

Each cave is different in size, with different types of resources, water sources, soil, plants, temperature, and oxygen content.

Except for the initial cave, most of the surrounding caves are illuminated by light, and there are all kinds of strange plants growing on the ground. The game's style is very cute.

But...

Including Liuliu, everyone has discovered a problem.

Where is the tutorial?

Where is the novice tutorial?

Where is my novice tutorial?

I spent money to buy the game, but there is no novice tutorial?

Isn't this a manifestation of incompetence and bad luck?

Could it be...

that you just have to play it hard?

"From Kerbal Space Program to Cities Skylines, from Cryptography Primer to Oxygen Not Included, I found that General Tiangong has no habit of making tutorials for beginners?"

"You can't say that. Kerbal Space Program has a tutorial for beginners, but the tutorial also requires reading the tutorial. Cities Skylines is just a simple guide. Cryptography Primer starts to be inhuman, and Oxygen Not Included is completely inhuman!"

"This is not a good habit, I have to change it. The game I bought with money has no tutorial. Isn't it equivalent to the summer homework I bought with money, and the teacher tore up the answers for me?"

"By the will of heaven, the old thief proclaims: Where are the conservative gods? Quickly develop a tutorial, this is my order!"

Liu Liu clenched his teeth and could only understand them one by one.

Upper left corner of the interface: in-game time, speed control, emergency state control, and an overview of clones, stress, disease, and food.

The first line of the top menu: provides some overall behavior control of clones.

The second line of the top menu: the view menu, which provides a variety of different view options.

Left: important information and tips.

Right: detailed information and settings of the currently selected function.

Lower left corner: Construction menu, used to build various buildings.

Lower right corner: Command button, used to assign tasks to clones.

After Liuliu got familiar with them one by one, he clicked on the ration box next to the initial portal.

[Ration box]

[Status——]

[Storage: 20/150 kg]

[Unrefrigerated]

[Information——]

[Store a small amount of food, food must be delivered to the box by clones]

[Inventory capacity: 150 kg]

[Decoration: +5 (range: 1 brick)]

[Ration box can prevent hungry animals from stealing food, but it cannot slow down food spoilage]

[Contents: 21.8° nutrition bars: 20 kg]

"This is the initial resource of the game, which is the same concept as the 70,000 colones of City Skyline."

Liuliu operated the clone while conducting analysis:

"It seems that our task in the early stage is to collect food and build basic living facilities."

"This concept is universal in any simulation management and construction game."

"Let's try it one by one. The early stage shouldn't involve too complicated subjects."

Liuliu moved the mouse to the cave aside.

【oxygen--】

[breathable gas]

【179.6 g (easy to breathe)】

【21.8 degrees】

"Each cave has an oxygen reserve. The name of the game is hypoxia. Even oxygen is one of the resource types."

"This cave has water resources. By digging through the two caves, we can obtain not only oxygen but also water resources."

"Kill two birds with one stone!"

Liuliu spoke in an unhurried voice, but his thoughts were very smooth.

It doesn’t matter that there is no beginner’s tutorial for hypoxia.

comprehend by analogy.

Utilize the underlying logic of games of the same type.

Always try to play.

Moreover, it does not involve too much or too complicated subject knowledge in the early stage, so everything progresses with ease.

This scene also made the anchors watching breathe a sigh of relief.

That's it?

Then I have to give it a try!

The anchors sat in front of the computer one after another and began to try out hypoxia.

When the fans in the live broadcast room saw this, rainbow farts filled the sky.

"Six-six is ​​indeed six-six, it's six!"

"Although there is no novice tutorial in the early stage, and the interface settings are a bit complicated, it seems to be within the range!"

"The rain has stopped, the sky has cleared up, and I feel like I can do well again!"

"Go, go, go!"

The first game plus education special exhibition has been held since its opening in the morning.

Countless players flocked to the exhibition, and it was a sea of ​​people.

It really allows other participating manufacturers to experience the charm of traffic.

"Hahaha, this game is too hot!"

"Combine dusting with games? It's really yours!"

"This game is not very playable..."

Each exhibition hall is crowded with players, because the quality of the participating games varies, and players' evaluations vary.

But overall, players were very satisfied on the first day of the game plus education exhibition.

However, most players, after wandering around, will target the central exhibition hall of Taiping Road.

after all……

If you don't know the way of peace in your life, even if you are a player, it will be in vain!

In the game plus education track, Huang Tiancai is the orthodox one!

only……

When the players poured into the central exhibition hall, they found a very hanging rail scene.

The number of players in other exhibition halls was mixed, but the atmosphere was cheerful.

How come the faces of the major anchors in the central exhibition hall look as ugly as constipation?

The melon-eating people watching looked at each other in shock, as if they had entered a hypoxic zone, and some were out of breath.

A player just arrived and was confused about the situation, so he asked the guy on the side:

"Brother, what's going on?"

The old man shook his head and smiled:

"Hypoxia is too confusing. The difficulty of the game is not high at the beginning. Most anchors start to try it out. Who knows the result? Hypoxia does not respect martial ethics..."

"Why don't you follow martial arts laws?"

"Which one do you think is more important, a simulation building survival game or eating, drinking, sleeping?"

"The first thing should be eating and drinking, right? The rest should be done slowly, isn't it?"

"I can't say it's wrong, but in the game of hypoxia... pulling is also very important!" The old man said earnestly:

"Brother, have you ever seen a clone defecating everywhere? Have you ever seen a clone vomiting and having diarrhea? Have you ever seen a clone working while vomiting and having diarrhea?"

The player smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Don't tell me, this is all caused by lack of oxygen? Lack of oxygen makes you completely inappropriate!"

The old man shrugged and said, "This incident teaches us that in a hypoxic environment, going to the toilet is the primary productive force!"

The player agreed with his face: "The game produced by the old thief will educate every player. Let them understand that it is not that they will not retaliate, but the time has not yet come."

The game of hypoxia can be roughly divided into 5 stages——

[Initial stage]: Starting from the selection of the initial clone to the stage where the basic needs of the clone are temporarily met. There are generally no difficulties at this stage.

[Early stage]: In this stage, the core base is gradually taking shape, which can meet the basic needs of the clones for a long period of time and establish preliminary industry, agriculture, and animal husbandry.

[Mid-term]: In this stage, industry, agriculture, and animal husbandry are improved, and a balance between supply and demand begins to be established.

[Later period]: In this stage, space exploration for scientific research purposes is completed, the supply and demand balance of the base is improved, and the second asteroid is developed.

[End Stage]: Develop other asteroids and complete the three ultimate game goals.

In fact, any simulation management and construction game, as long as it has survival elements, basically follows Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

At the very beginning of a game, players must face the first level of challenges in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory——

Physiological needs!

Including air, food, water, sleep.

These needs must be met to maintain human survival. If these needs are not met, humans will feel hungry, thirsty, tired and lose vitality.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory is vividly explained in the game hypoxia.

No matter which planet map the player chooses, he will face several goals in the early stages of the game——

[1]: Build a bed for each clone

[2]: Construction of temporary sanitary equipment

[3]: Construction of temporary water supply system

【4】: Collect temporary food

【5】: Construction of temporary power supply

[6]: Oxygen supply in the early stage of construction

[7]: Primary scientific research

The game "Hypoxia" looks strange and the operation is simple.

At the beginning of the game, everything seems not so urgent, and you can take your time.

But in fact, there is already a hidden murderous intention.

Players not only need to raise a bunch of clones in space, but also ensure that they can breathe fresh oxygen and take care of their daily food, drink, diarrhea and sleep within limited conditions.

Although the name of the game is Hypoxia, the crisis faced by players is not just the problem of scarce oxygen in the air.

How to deal with the carbon dioxide, natural gas, hydrogen and other waste gases generated during the operation and heating of various equipment, and how to rationally utilize them and convert them into useful electricity or other resources.

In an environment where water resources are scarce, hard-core technical issues such as how to purify water, convert water, and rationally utilize wastewater are the problems that hypoxia poses to players.

After all, everyone knows it.

Lack of oxygen, never lack of oxygen.

Famine, never famine.

Central exhibition hall.

Boss Yin looked sad.

I thought it would be simple to lack oxygen, but who knew, just because there was no toilet built, the replicants staged a drama of urinating everywhere.

What a coincidence, this scene was watched by the audience in the live broadcast room.

When Boss Yin hurriedly built the toilet, he later realized that the sink was placed in the wrong position.

This group of replicants did not wash their hands after going to the toilet, causing the replicants to become infected with germs and begin to fall ill.

I have no choice but to restart the game after a bad start.

Boss Yin couldn't help it. He immediately turned to look at the crowd of melon eaters and shouted:

"Are there any players who specialize in automation, oxygen production, human management, electricity, and pipelines?"

"Come on, everyone, come together and I'll form the head. I can't play this game without a counselor!"

The crowd watching the melon-eating immediately gathered in front of him.

"I, Master Yin, am majoring in automation!"

"And I, I know how to manage people!"

"I'm an electrical major!"

"..."

Since the old thief dares not to be a human being.

I dare to hire professional foreign aid.

Boss Yin glanced around and selected a group of people to form a staff group.

"From now on, it all depends on you!"

Staff Team: "Don't worry, bureau chief!"

When the water friends in the live broadcast room saw this, they even laughed and said——

"Secretary, Meituan's secret message!"

"read!"

"Your delivery is being attacked by riders!"

"There is no word left in this scene. The snow-capped mountains have been cold for ages, and Mount Emei shines alone!"

“Very romantic!”

"Emei Peak, you still fucking take a photo alone?"

As the game progress continued, Boss Yin frowned and shouted:

"High-pressure oxygen system? Who knows high-pressure oxygen?"

A staff officer immediately came forward and said:

"Don't panic, sir. I'm a professional in oxygen production!"

"I have a counselor, I am like a fish in water!"

Boss Yin pointed his finger and asked:

"Reconciliation of this situation?"

The staff officer analyzed it carefully and said with emotion:

"In the hypoxia game, the main components of the high-pressure oxygen module are [air pump] [exhaust port] [electrolyzer]. In addition, there are also [oxygen gas chambers] [hydrogen gas chambers] and circuits... "

"This game... is awesome!"

When Boss Yin heard this, he held the staff officer's hand tightly:

"Military advisor, save me!"

The fans in the live broadcast room burst into laughter upon seeing this.

“Not only the game style is weird, but the anchor’s style is also starting to look weird.”

"It's broken, this game... needs to grow brains!"

"Hypoxia perfectly illustrates the abstract spirit of being too tired to learn automation in class and going back to the dormitory to learn automation and relax!"

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