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After a while.

Taylor sent a message: "Hey, vomiting blood. This road is much more than it looks. I walked two legs and trembled like jelly. I didn't know if I was halfway."

"Great, I am thinking about jelly now."

[Taylor busy]

Chang Xiuya had a good time, thinking that it hadn’t been back in an hour, and it really wouldn’t let the players wait so long. As a result, the information is speechless.

It turned out that it was only a matter of time to reply! Then it was busy again.

No way, Chang Xiuya continues to wait.

Finally, an hour later, Taylor sent a message again and asked if Chang Xiuya should go to the crew area or the cockpit.

Chang Xiuya thought about it. The previous plot hinted that I should try to find the survivors, so I chose the crew area.

In this way, Chang Xiuya and Taylor had a chat without a chat, the rhythm of the plot was well controlled, and it was always broken in a more critical place, so that Chang Xiuya was a bit sloppy and waiting for Taylor's reply.

Moreover, the pace of progress of the plot is also very suitable, not too fast or slow, Taylor in addition to the gag, will ask some key questions from time to time, let Chang Xiuya to make decisions.

Chang Xiuya guides Taylor to constantly search the spacecraft to help him find food and places to stay.

Taylor asked: "I want to go to the end of the ship, set up a tent in the engine, it will be warmer. However, the engine has radiation, can you check it for me, absorb 150 Rads of radiation per night, will not Will it die? My spacesuit sensor says that the amount of radiation is about this value."

Chang Xiuya was shocked, what? Let me check the amount of radiation?

It seems that this should be a more critical story. Taylor can choose a warm but radiant spaceship tail, or a very cold but unradiated spacecraft interior.

Chang Xiuya does not know how to choose, 150 Rad's radiation, how much is that?

No way, Chang Xiuya feels that this choice should be very important, only open the computer search: "150 Rade".

Soon, the search results came out: "The absorbed dose (Rad) below 150 has no short-term effects."

Chang Xiuya replied: "Go to the reactor."

Taylor replied: "To tell the truth, I am very upset now."

"I mean, thank you for helping me through today - definitely the worst day of my life."

"So I decided to believe you, as to whether this radiation intensity is really okay... I don't think I will know until tomorrow morning."

"With this happy thought... Good night, no matter where you are. May everything be fine tomorrow."

[Taylor busy]

Chang Xiuya dragged the screen, no more, and entered a busy state.

"I really have to wait for a night? I feel that I should not sleep well tonight..."

Chang Xiuya is really worried. Although there is no problem with the radiation of 150 rad on the Internet, who can guarantee that this is a trap? But worry is useless, it seems that it will take several hours to receive Taylor's reply.

Chang Xiuya stood up and said to Chen Mo: "The manager, ah, can I bring the phone back?"

Chen Mo said: "Well? The story of the first day has been completed? In fact, when you reply to the plot will progress normally, there is no need to reply in the first time."

Chang Xiuya nodded: "Well, I know, but... I still want to bring it back..."

Chen Mo smiled and said: "Okay, take it back, don't let Taylor wait too long."

Chang Xiuya said: "Okay, thank you manager!"

......

After seeing Chang Xiuya's reaction to this game, Chen Mo was relieved that the story of this game is reappearing.

In the past life, "Lifeline" was fired because of the recommendation of several famous writers such as Ma Boyong on Weibo.

After the Chinese version of the game, it quickly became the first place in the paid list, which is a great success for a simple text adventure game.

In fact, this game is not a novelty, it is nothing more than a chat-like interface, plus a chattering virtual character.

It's not as expressive as some of the adventurous games of a few years ago. If you extract all the text and read it, it will become uninteresting.

However, the real beauty of this game is that its narrative rhythm does not depend on the reader's reading speed, but on the real time flow rate.

Every step of Taylor's movement, players must wait patiently, a few minutes, a few hours, this form of expression perfectly fits the social rhythm of the Internet age, intermittent links, not only does not make people feel To get tired, the player is full of expectations.

Then, as the story progresses, Taylor will also encounter many difficulties, even many dilemmas, players can easily play bad endings, and every death of Taylor affects the hearts of players. .

Therefore, players should often check, or communicate with each other, carefully and for Taylor's idea, for fear of a wrong idea to kill him.

In this process, the players' recognition of Taylor is constantly increasing, as if he is not a virtual ai, but a real person, a person trapped in space waiting for his own rescue, a friend.

This sense of identity was sublimated in the final happy ending, and the players' emotions were released, just as they really saved a good life.

The triple stimulation of this rhythm + plot + identity makes this seemingly simple text adventure game a powerful vitality and a lot of praise.

......

The next day, Chen Mo released the "Lifeline."

In fact, this game is just Chen Mo's practice for Zheng Hongwei, but also to test the user volume of the Thunder game platform.

This time, "Lifeline" is not hanging in the official app store, but hanging on the Thunder game platform, the price is only a dollar.

At the same time, Chen Mo also sent a Weibo.

"The new game "Lifeline" has been hung on the Thunder game platform. This is a text adventure game, an astronaut's spaceship crash, and he accidentally contacted you. The whole process is that he and you continue to talk, no picture, The time inside and outside the game is the same. Everyone remembers to open the game's push."

There is no other publicity preheating, only one Weibo, and one push for the Thunder game platform. All players who log in through the Thunder game platform can see a new game, which can be played after spending 1 yuan.

"Hang up, wait and see 24 hours of sales." Chen Mo said to Su Yuyu and Zheng Hongyu.

These two people are also very embarrassed. The game is too simple. Secondly, there is no other channel promotion. There is no official recommendation. How many players can see and download?