Chapter 54 Interactive Fiction
The game that Peng Jinkang remembers that he could try to make is a role-playing role. Every character has settings, scenes, etc. Anyway, it is nothing more than finding a essay to find programs, and then building a normal process to advance. For this kind of reasoning and suspense, it is nothing more than actions, dialogue, and collection of evidence and items. It is still quite a lot of work to change the current manuscript into a game script.
But Yue Qingyan didn't need to do this at all. His ideas are already very full now, but some process texts that he has not written yet need to be supplemented.
When readers enter this game, they are actually mainly reading novels, but they have the right to choose at some key nodes, which can lead the game to move in different directions and lead to different results according to the plot topology map set by Peng Jinkang. Peng Jinkang originally made topology maps to try and make mistakes to see which routes are not working: that is to say, if the protagonist follows this route, this timeline activity will not be able to reach the final best ending: survive, get external rescue, and catch the three murderers.
But the game Yue Qingyan talked about is not in this form, but is told through words. There are several options at critical moments, and most of the time I still read novels. When I can't understand it, you can refer to the architectural plan and character overview, which is ready-made anyway.
Ends that can appear include:
I went through a storm in a daze, knowing that someone was dead, maybe he was killed, but I perfectly avoided being involved in the incident;
Knowing the incident and participating in it, you cannot enter the core event, but you have successfully protected yourself;
Some core events were discovered, and several groups of affair were seen but they did not understand the murder;
Some of the truth about the murder was learned, but he was killed without success in reasoning;
One or two murderers were found, but they did not know the motive. They failed to reason and were isolated and suspected by their companions on the island. In the end, they did not persist until the rescue and died of an emergency;
One or two murderers were found, and one was successfully reasoned, and the other was angered, and the final result was to survive and not survive;
The three murderers were found, they were able to avoid them successfully, and they lived to the end;
Three murderers were found, but not enough resources were collected to survive;
The three murderers were found, and they were able to see through the relationship between everyone on the island, and survived;
...
There are about 20 different forms of endings, and it is okay to read this novel no matter how you read it. It is okay to change the route when you feel something is wrong halfway through participation, because there is enough space. However, changing your original intention means a bigger adventure.
Although they all follow the various topological diagrams and plot routes originally designed by Peng Jinkang, reading itself has really become an adventure.
After Patten finally understood the game form that Yue Qingyan and him talked about, it was difficult to get rid of the aphrodisiac.
"Damn it, there is such an operation." What surprised Peng Dingkang the most was that Yue Qingyan had this idea and such judgment almost instantly.
"This is the polyhedral text, or polyhedral text that we discussed in the literary theory group before. We have studied it from the beginning that the complexity of this text is that when the reader makes a choice, he enters a different section, and the text must be superimposed with sufficient possibilities to be established. Moreover, this possibility is not deduced, but must be achieved by exhaustive methods." Mooresheng sighed and said, "Although you are not a complete exhaustion of all possible polyhedral texts, at least you have already had some form. The main reason is that I didn't expect it to be what you wrote."
"Oh? But I just want to write the reasoning well." Peng Jinkang was actually confused. He spent too much stupidity on these deductions because it was really exciting to play.
"Don't worry about these things for now. I know you didn't understand it, but you don't really understand it so much now. Make it first, and then let's see the effect?" Kaka hurriedly said, "You can click on programming yourself, that's simple."
Yue Qingyan said: "There are many places in the novel manuscript that need to be expressed again. However, the workload is not large. Kaka, please help me correct it. I will study the topology diagram and see if there are still paragraphs that need to be supplemented. Ersheng, please contact Jin Yuan and Anxin to see if you can organize some art and music resources. Although you don't need to do complete art, the interface is always needed."
Peng Jinkang giggled and said, "You really want to do it? But this can't be considered my personal work. My mother, please take us to do it. This thing is ours."
"You really don't have to play like this, and you can't play like this. It's okay to do it together. I'm the plan. But no matter how you say this is the thing you made, we can't play without your preparation." Yue Qingyan said: "You are the main creator, there is no doubt about this. But if this thing is regarded as a novel, it's probably overwhelming. But if we play like this, we might create something fun. Let's do it first. If you are happy to pay some labor fees to those who are working hard, it's your freedom. If you can't do it, just treat it as cooperating with me to do a text experiment."
Yue Qingyan spoke calmly. He really thought it was fun. The things written by Peng Jinkang were a bit unexpected and could confirm some of his ideas. For example, this text can directly create many streams of novels that can be established. Is there a unique algorithm on Faust? If a route is a novel, this system can produce at least 20 to 30 independent novel texts with routes. Wouldn't it be forced to jump off the building? Of course, it may not be jumping off the building, after all, Faust has been cold for many years.
Even if there is no new algorithm and no more skills, at least I have explored a brand new text style. Although this discovery is not enough to make him excited, at least, it is still a bit fulfilling.
This text style actually attracted the greatest attention not only among them, but in Mooresheng and his major, in the literary theory interest group. Polyhedral texts were actually made out by an architectural department. Of course, this architectural department guy is very powerful, but where is Yao Wang, a Chinese department face?
Within a few days, Jin Chen was alarmed. Even he was helping Yue Qingyan sort out the entire topology diagram together and use this thing as the material for the next paper. In about 20 days, the topology diagram project was completed. Ka Ka, Mo Ersheng, and of course, Peng Jinkang himself, almost completed the completion of the entire text structure.
The program is of course very simple. The interface and other big shots did not touch Jin Yuan's level. Fang Anxin found a designer in Yinwen Company and got it done. However, Yue Qingyan's bold words, which he claimed to have been done in a month, did not do it after all. Their skilled group was busy until mid-September when they uploaded and released the polyhedral text called "The Rest of Life" in the game category.
At this time, Kaka's new book "First Cloud" was launched. With the succession of these two things, it basically marked that a small but powerful creative group with Yue Qingyan as the core had taken shape.
Kaka's new book was not signed directly with Mingqian Company, but with Yinyi Culture. Then it was signed with Mingqian Culture and published through Yinyi Culture. This was proposed by Lianxingjie, because the most core business of Mingqian is to operate several core authors such as Yue Qingyan, Miwu, and Du Xiao. They have energy for regular business such as publishing and distribution, but they are no longer able to do so in terms of operation and promotion and do not have enough resources to allocate. However, Yinyi Culture has this potential.
In fact, Kaka's new book has not been operated much at all, and it has gradually accumulated a terrifying influence through word-of-mouth marketing. In a month, it started to print 50,000 copies in the first print, and it was printed twice, soaring directly to 200,000 copies. It is estimated that the print volume is only digested for several months.
Although there is the high quality of the book itself, there is also the contribution of Dong Shiqiu to attract a group of old friends to promote it. Dong Shiqiu was extremely satisfied after learning that Kaka and Yinye Culture signed a long contract with the author. A five-year contract is not too burdened for Kaka. The conditions for the author's contract are very fair. After all, the core of Yinye Culture is to operate "Yinying Biography", which has enough profits and does not expect to make money by Kaka at all. However, these five years of contracts can ensure that Kaka receives continuous guidance from Yue Qingyan and continues to consolidate his writing foundation. When the level is improved, it is OK. The life cycle of an author is very long. Dong Shiqiu understands this principle, and Kaka also understands it.
Guan Xi's author contract was at the beginning of Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to think about it. Anyway, everyone had a happy cooperation, so it didn't matter which side they belonged. Before "The Rest of Life" was launched, another important thing was that Peng Jinkang registered a company called Polyhedral Culture Development Co., Ltd., and then reached an agreement with Yinwen Culture. Yinwen Culture exchanged 45% of the equity of Polyhedral Culture with the production resources of "The Rest of Life" and the promotion and operation resources.
Yue Qingyan refused at the beginning, which was clearly because Peng Jinkang wanted to share the benefits of this proportion with everyone. It was Kaka who convinced Yue Qingyan to agree that writing things, even if it was a multihedral text project, would they just play it a few more times in the future. Everyone is tied together to write things and do things, and there is no need to distinguish who is more or less. Moreover, God knows what will happen to the polyhedral text of "The Rest of Life". Maybe people who have a lot of games to play now will not buy it?
It makes sense... Nowadays, people who play with their mobile phones have to read 60,000 words, not to mention the text that still reaches the best ending of 460,000 words even after trimming and refining. If you want to play a few more endings or want to read the entire document, you have to read nearly 2 million words. Because it is not considered writing a story, but just helping to modify it, Yue Qingyan also wrote a plot line with the killer as the first person.
Basically, in this mentality of finally putting it online and watching it, everyone threw "The Rest of Life" on Apple's APP STORE without any pressure. The relevant work and review confirmation were entrusted to a friend's company.
Chapter completed!