Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

In 2038, on August 15th, the advertisement screen in the elevator in front of me shows the time that appeared.

Then the camera slowly zoomed out, and Song Ren saw himself, a very young and handsome young man, wearing a black suit and tie, with an indifferent expression.

It's just that the circular mark on the temple proves that he is not a human, but a android.

"Incarnate as a human, so is the player playing a android in the game?"

Song Ren guessed.

The elevator is constantly rising, at this time Song Ren has not yet gained control of this character.

I saw the young man's hands very skillfully playing with a coin.

When the elevator arrived at the top floor of the seventieth floor, he put away the coins in his hand, adjusted his tie, and looked straight ahead as he waited for the elevator door to open.

After the elevator door opened, a heavily armed soldier with a gun at the door communicated with his superiors by radio.

'The negotiator arrives at the scene, repeat: the negotiator arrives at the scene. ’

So I'm a negotiator? But it's also quite reasonable.

After all, a negotiator is actually a high-risk profession, because you have to negotiate with hostage-holding and vicious gangsters.

Once the robber is provoked, the hostage in his hand cannot be killed, and the negotiator is the one who suffers.

And there must be something unusual about being a robot, so it's a good fit for this profession!

Song Ren showed a stunned expression.

Then he did not rush forward, but studied the operation in the game and observed the surrounding environment.

Now the house he is in should be a mansion with a very large area and even a huge aquarium.

On the table on the right side of the corridor is a group photo of the owner's family, as well as some documents and potted plants.

But what surprised Song Ren the most was that he found that everything around him was actually interactive.

After getting close to some obvious objects, you can jump out of the corresponding interactive observation UI.

In addition, there are some items that do not have interactive UI, but can still interact in the game.

For example, when approaching the water tank, Song Ren was able to get close to and observe the contents inside.

As for the control mode of brain wave reading, this unique operation method made him a little uncomfortable at first.

It's like a player who is used to playing with a mouse and keyboard and suddenly uses the handle to play the game.

However, it is indeed more convenient, especially with the immersive experience of the VR experience warehouse and the whole-body force feedback, giving him a feeling as if he is really doing these things.

While Song Ren was still experimenting with the new operating mode, heavily armed soldiers in the corridor were bringing out a middle-aged woman with tears on her face.

"Please, please, you must save my daughter..."

When the middle-aged woman saw the young man, she grabbed the young man with tears on her face and told her request.

But then he noticed the flashing mark on the youth's temple, and immediately staged a wave of face-changing skills.

"Wait a minute! You're sending androids? You...you can't do that! It's going to kill my daughter...why don't you send real people?"

"Don't let that thing get close to my daughter! Why waste time sending an android to negotiate!?" The woman wailed as she was taken away by the guards.

Only Song Ren was left with a confused look.

Did the android invite you to mess with you? Have you eaten your rice?

I'll let you know what a negotiator is later!

Do you know what an expert is?

Why let the androids come?

It is because everyone is an android, so no one can understand androids better than me!

Song Ren murmured in his heart.

Continue to walk forward, and a line of prompts appears in the field of vision.

[Scanning can be started at any time to find target information]

At the moment of opening, a light blue data stream swept over everything in front of Song Ren.

In this mode, all sounds around you are gone, and everyone's movements are still.

The space was divided into small squares by light blue lines, and at the same time, the current mission objective: looking for Captain Allen was displayed on the left side of his field of vision.

This kind of feeling is like Arthur Morgan in "Red Dead Redemption" who opened the Eye of Death time, and also added the eagle-eyed perception function in Wizard and Assassin's Creed.

In the digital world, Song Ren could see a dark yellow humanoid silhouette behind the wall not far away.

Obviously that was the target of his mission - Captain Allen.

After turning off the scan function, the time flow in the game also returned to normal.

Song Ren controlled the character to walk into the room.

At this time, the police officers in the room were actively preparing.

A corresponding basic information is also displayed above the heads of these people.

Apparently there is information about them in the bionic database.

Coming to Captain Allen's side, Song Ren lost control of the character and triggered a cutscene.

'Captain Allen, I'm Connor, the android sent by the mold-controlled life. ’

Song Ren also learned the name of the character he is currently manipulating from this introduction.

Captain Allen in the game didn't give Connor any good looks. Facing Connor who took the initiative to introduce himself, he just told him some simple situations very perfunctory.

At this time, a line of red values ​​appeared in front of Song Ren's eyes: the success rate was 48%.

Obviously this is the success rate of going directly to the negotiation.

If you go ahead and negotiate regardless of what you want to do, you will be betting on luck.

There is a 48% chance that the negotiation will succeed and the hostages will be rescued.

But there is also a 52% chance of developing into a Russian-style negotiation.

So the next step is to collect clues to learn more about the incident, and then negotiate to rescue the hostages.

Looking at the tasks on the android UI interface, Song Ren basically understood the situation.

Using Connor's android abilities to search the room, he soon found clues from the suitcase.

By analyzing the suitcase and the small box, it can be found that a pistol and bullets were originally loaded in it, and the data also reconstructed the model of the firearm and the bullet.

[MS853 Black Hawk, capacity: 17 rounds (.335 caliber), overall length: 22 cm barrel: 13 cm]

[.335 caliber bullet, velocity: 365 meters per second bullet kinetic energy: 659 joules, bullet weight: 115 grams Fire coefficient: 414K]

After parsing the clues, a prompt called Reconstruction was displayed, and Song Ren's eyes widened.

In the composition of the data stream, the previous scene was reproduced.

Song Ren clearly saw how a android composed of data lines took off the suitcase and took out the pistol.

This is what has happened here before.

"Fuck, there is such a black technology!?" Song Ren couldn't help but be amazed.

After finding the first clue and putting it together to restore the original scene.

Song Ren also found that the previous 48% chance had risen to 54% this time.

Obviously, it is necessary to continuously analyze what happened at that time, and then improve the success rate of the negotiation.

Standing up, Song Ren controlled Connor in the room and continued to search to see if he could find some useful information.

Inside the hostage's bedroom, there is some remaining information via the tablet.

Song Ren learned the name of the other party in this incident: Daniel, an android who had an abnormality.

Then he went to the hall of the first crime scene. On the ground, a middle-aged man who was hit in the chest was lying on the ground. Obviously, this was the poor victim.

Just like the previous scan of the box with the gun, accompanied by Connor's scan.

Data begins to change From Connor's perspective, the whole world becomes digital.

In this digital world, the scene at that time was once again reshaped.

However, Song Ren noticed that the victim seemed to be holding something similar to a tablet computer at the time, especially when the camera gave a close-up of the tablet computer.

Apparently this thing should be a useful clue.

Song Ren searched on the ground, and soon found a tablet computer stained with blood.

Swipe lightly to open, and an order information is displayed above.

'Your order for AP700 Bionic Man has been registered, and Modus Life would like to thank you for your order. ’

So this android is about to be replaced?

Song Ren wrote down this information while continuing to search for favorable information in the room.

At this time, a gunshot came.

Turning the camera to the direction of the gunshot, I saw a police officer who was shot and was helped out of the house by his companions.

At the same time, Song Ren also saw the body of a police officer who had died but had not had time to deal with it.

In addition to the corpse, there is a pool of blue blood on the ground. It is well known that human blood should be red, so this must be the blood of a android.

Through the blood of the android on the ground, Connor has obtained all the data of the android, including his model and so on, from the database of the simulated life.

In addition, Song Ren also found a pistol on the ground and put it away. It was obviously the pistol of the police officer who died before.

After searching for the information, Song Ren found that the success rate had reached 78%.

Either there are still clues he didn't find, or he waited until later to negotiate with the android, and made a real-time lift.

However, he did not continue to search, because the form on the field was very tense, and people were constantly being shot and injured.

Following the system's prompt, Song Ren walked outside, preparing to have a good talk about life and ideals with the android who took the hostages.

Pushing open the curtains to the open-air balcony, just as he walked out, a gunshot came.

In an instant, Song Ren's perspective shook, and the UI interface of the bionic man in front of him also burst into a red light.

Apparently he had been shot, and blue blood spattered on the adjacent glass door.

But fortunately, the hit was on the shoulder, not fatal.

Next, an option appeared in Song Ren's field of vision: [Call out the name of the anomalous android].

Obviously this is a game of reasoning and word decryption.

By collecting the corresponding clues, and then triggering the subsequent plot game through dialogue.

Brain games? He's so good at it.

Negotiation, right, leave everything to me.

No one knows androids better than me!