The Creator of the Second Dimension

On the way home, Li Zhen was still thinking about some design ideas that Xu Rui explained to him today.

For example, Xu Rui said that all trees in the open world can be climbed. Players can climb to the top of the tree to pick apples, find bird eggs on the tree, and even encounter a hornet's nest and be chased by bees. see further.

At the same time, in thunderstorm weather, thunder and lightning may also knock down trees, and fallen trees are not waste products. Players can use tools to decompose them and turn them into firewood. Branches can be used as weapons, as torches to light bonfires, and even Mushrooms and meat are skewered to make skewers, and the thick trunk can also use the slope to roll down to defeat monsters.

A simple tree has many applications, and these are actually things that can be done in real life.

Li Zhen suddenly discovered that none of the previous open worlds really seemed to have studied this aspect.

Most of the trees in the game are actually just a texture. At most, a collision volume can be added to give it a sense of existence. Even if it can be climbed, only some specific trees will have a tree-climbing plot performance. It is impossible for every tree to be able to climb. , and don't bother to design these interactions.

But if you think about it carefully, if it is true what Xu Rui said, just a single tree can have countless ways of playing, and different ways of playing can influence each other, and these are all obtained with the player's exploration.

Li Zhen imagined that a player accidentally saw an apple on a tree. He walked over and found that he couldn't reach the apple. Under the habit of thinking, he jumped up, but still couldn't reach it.

At this time, he came to the side of the tree, found that he could climb up, climbed to the position of the apple, picked the apple, and suddenly saw that there was a bird's nest on the higher treetop.

Climb to the position of the bird's nest, there are several bird eggs inside, the player took them out, at this time, it was raining, a thunderbolt struck down, just hit the tree, the player jumped down in time, avoiding the thunderbolt.

He picked up the burning branch and quickly ran to the bottom of a nearby rock to shelter from the rain. The player lit the fallen leaves gathered by the wind under the stone and it became a bonfire.

At this time, he took out the pot in his backpack, caught a little rainwater, took out the bird eggs he had just taken out, made an egg soup, and ate an apple after eating. Recovery, the rain has stopped.

The outside world is sunny after the rain, and the sunlight leaks from the gaps in the clouds, illuminating the earth, and the new journey continues.

In a trance, Li Zhen has come to this continent. Everything around him can be interacted with. You can use items according to your own ideas, instead of following the designer's rules. This is the open world in Li Zhen's imagination. A real and living world.

He let out a long sigh, Xu Rui didn't actually solve the problem of NPC interaction, he just simply and rudely removed most of the NPC, and instead refined the interaction between the player and the scene, this is a point that Li Zhen didn't expect , Compared with the complex NPC AI, the physical simulation of scene interaction is obviously closer and simpler, and the use of this feedback mode of curiosity and surprise can also encourage players to continue to explore.

Li Zhen knows that it is too difficult to truly create a complete and vivid world. Xu Rui's method can be said to be a different approach, but it is very tempting. Li Zhen just listened to it and was eager to try it together, wanting to make it together.

But after all, this is only a pre-conceived idea. To actually start production, you have to wait for the game plan to be released, and it will take a year or two before you can actually play this game.

Thinking of this, Li Zhen couldn't help sighing again, if Xu Rui started making games a few years earlier, he would be able to play it now.

While the animations were being broadcast in April, the annual animation selection also announced the shortlist for this year's animations. The "Classical Literature Society Series" was impressively listed, and there were also four works from established companies such as Rainbow Media and Lovecraft Animation.

Since director Wu Yi has been silent after "City of Giants" and is preparing for a new work, his absence this year also made the annual animation selection a little bit less suspenseful, because "Classic Literature Society Series" can compare other animations in terms of sales volume and quality. Several nominated works got A.

Despite this, people still have many expectations for this year's awards ceremony, and the biggest expectation is whether Xu Rui's "Classic Literature Society Series" can achieve a grand slam.

Since "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" did not have outstanding male characters, the award for best male voice actor was handed over without competition at all. In addition, "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" won other awards of the year The grand prize is the uncrowned king on the Grand Slam road.

This year, "Classic Literature Society Series" does not have to worry about the issue of the best male voice actor, and there are almost no top works that can be compared with it in the same year. Therefore, it seems that this year's fantasy animation has won the Grand Slam. It was a certainty, Xu Rui just had to wait for the awards ceremony to arrive.

Previously, in the selection of the annual animation, there were only three works that won the Grand Slam. "Magic Girl Madoka" was still short of an award, and "Steel Magician" was also intercepted by Su Liyu of "Soul Eater: Zero". Hu, "City of Giants" and "The Boundary on the Horizon" shared several major awards that year, so this year, Xu Rui's fantasy animation is likely to continue to make history.

If he wins this award, he will become the youngest director of a grand slam work in history. You must know that Xu Rui has only entered the industry for four years this year, and "Classic Literature Society Series" is only his fourth novel. Work, the third original work.

With the announcement of the nominations, the CD sales of the "Classic Literature Society Series" have continued to increase a lot, and the follow-up volumes have increased by 5,000. Those who sold the "Classic Literature Society Series" shut up obediently.

In May, the senior three students were in the final sprint period. The gradually rising temperature made people restless, and the campus was silent, only the sound of the wind blowing through the test papers stimulated people's ears.

The exams that are likely to determine their future lives are just around the corner, making these teenage students extremely nervous.

Xu Rui was also a little nervous.

It's not that he is also taking the college entrance examination. At this time, Xu Rui is sitting in the waiting hall of the airport, and Yi Qianqian is sitting beside him, gently holding Xu Rui's hand.

The flight they were waiting for flew to Jingping, and there was still half an hour before the departure time.

Xu Rui wasn't going to attend any industry conference, but was going to Jingping to meet Yi Qianqian's parents and family.

Also known as, see the parents.