This game is awesome

It’s simple, she just wants to be a good student.

As an old Beijinger, her high school life was full, rich and colorful. Gu Qingzhi, who was excellent in both character and learning, was a cadre of the high school student union and won many awards in competitions.

So Gu Qingzhi made a plan as soon as she entered the school - she wanted to continue her studies in graduate school.

The school has already given opportunities to freshmen who are determined to continue their studies.

"National College Student Electronic Game Development and Design Competition - Binary Award"

This is a high-quality competition specifically for college students, endorsed by relevant authorities, hosted by Oriental Union University, Tianjin University, Shuimu Imperial University and other universities, sponsored and supported by Yungong Network and Gulang Science and Technology.

It is divided into two levels, one is provincial level and the other is national level.

The entry conditions are also very strict, and are divided into individual and team competitions. Regardless of whether it is an individual or a team, registrants must be undergraduate students and under 24 years old. The total number of team players must not exceed 4, and the total amount of game resources must not exceed 500MB... In short, there is a limit on foreign aid and mindless stacking of resources.

With such stringent conditions, there will naturally be a huge reward.

Even if you win the lowest level provincial bronze award, it can add a lot of luster to your resume and add 5 points for admission to graduate school.

In such a high-stakes competition, Gu Qingzhi's opponents are naturally extraordinary.

Her opponents include senior students, undergraduate students with real development experience, and even young bigwigs who have presided over the development of independent games themselves.

She was under a lot of pressure. She stayed in school for more than a week, revising and editing her design documents, but was still not satisfied with them.

While having dinner with her family, Gu Qingzhi was still thinking about which parts of her game design documents needed to be modified.

Seeing that Gu Qingzhi was absent-minded while eating and ran back to the bedroom halfway through her meal, Grandpa Gu couldn't bear it, so he went to his granddaughter's bedroom door after dinner and knocked on it.

Boom, boom.

Gu Qingzhi opened the door, feeling sleepy with dark circles under her eyes.

"Grandpa, please don't knock on the door. I'm busy."

Grandpa Gu said earnestly, "Hey, my dear, what time did you go to bed last night? It must have been after three o'clock, right? I finished playing games and you were still awake. This is not good."

Gu Qingzhi felt embarrassed for making the old man worry.

"I'm writing the game documentation. I have to submit the game to the judging committee when school starts in March. I'm busy."

"That's not the way to be busy. You have to get enough sleep and eat well first. Health is the capital of revolution!"

Grandpa Gu was reluctant to scold his granddaughter as he did to his son, so he had to persuade her with both soft and hard methods.

But Gu Qingzhi knew this truth very well, it was just that she was a little anxious about the competition, and even if she wanted to take a break, she felt uneasy.

High school students in this world don't have much pressure, and high school life in the imperial capital is almost stress-free.

Qingzhi was having stress resistance training for the first time and she was a little overwhelmed.

Grandpa Gu also had a headache, but he felt that this was not a solution, so he said, "I think you should go out for a walk and relax."

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Today at noon, I was drawing a prize in the group. Because the skyline was unexpectedly deformed, I didn't draw the skyline. I changed it to the recently released "Peerless Martial Arts" (I played it, martial arts theme, sandbox, domestic, needs to be polished, the future is promising)

For specific lottery rules, please see the announcement in the book club.

Love you (?? 3 (???c)

Chapter 178 [Gu Qingzhi's Troubles]

Going for a walk?

Gu Qingzhi had a headache. It was not that she didn't want to go out, but if she went out to play, what would she do with her engineering files and design documents?

She stayed in school for a week just to prepare the design documents in advance so that she could start development during the winter vacation.

Although it is a small game of less than 500MB, it is quite difficult for Gu Qingzhi, a freshman.

Especially the thesis defense taught by many teachers in the college, who used PPTs that were not much younger than her to recite in class, and she really couldn't learn anything from it.

She followed several seniors to seek advice, and then studied textbooks and related works at Pilipala University, only then did she understand some basic theoretical things.

Then she chose a direction that was more suitable for her: tower defense.

Compared to action games that test the developer's skills extremely well, role-playing games with extremely high upper limits and extremely low lower limits, and first-person shooters that are completely beyond her ability to handle at her level, strategy tower defense games are indeed a good choice.

First of all, tower defense games have a very broad audience, from children aged seven or eight to people in their fifties and sixties, basically everyone can accept the educational game type of "tower defense".

Secondly, tower defense does not have high requirements for graphics and technology. Although there are many tower defense masterpieces with extremely high quality graphics, deep gameplay, most of them have cartoon style and simple gameplay. They are indeed one of the excellent options for developers with ideas but no experience.

In order to compete with those strong rivals, Gu Qingzhi naturally worked hard on the design and completed dozens of tower defense games in just a few months.

Her favorite tower defense game is a fixed-path tower defense game with a very cute apocalyptic theme.

The game combines tower defense and business simulation. There are ten levels in total. Each level has six small levels, and each small level will have 6-10 waves of zombies.

According to the different maps of each level, players can freely arrange their response strategies. For example, the first level "Lost City" is a commercial street, and the game will give players dozens of survivors at the beginning.

Players can take advantage of the zombie tide to have the survivors transform the floors on both sides of the street into towers to defend against zombies, and cars on the street can also be dismantled to use as barricades.

As long as you survive all the zombie waves, this small level will enter the settlement stage. New supplies and survivors will arrive depending on the number of survivors, and then the next small level will start on this map.

What Gu Qingzhi likes most is the design of this map, because the developers cleverly used the method of "large levels nested in small levels, and small levels nested in multiple waves of enemies", and they were able to make the game quite interesting with only ten small maps.

It not only makes full use of existing resources, but also enhances the fun.

When Gu Qingzhi first came across this design, she felt it was very simple. All she needed was hands!

So she copied the designs of several tower defense games she liked, extracted the essence of them, and wrote a design document herself, which was just a simple reskin.

The apocalyptic background becomes a Western fantasy background.

The war between humans and zombies turned into a war between humans and orcs.

It doesn't look difficult.

——Then, she found that things were not that simple.

Although this saves resources, the design of the map, numbers and feedback is suddenly elevated!

There are dozens of waves of zombies on a map. How should the gameplay be designed so that players will not get bored after experiencing more than a dozen waves of zombies?

How many types of zombies should be designed? How to set the skills and values ​​of each zombie to ensure a balance between challenge and fun?

How many small levels should be set in a large level? The number of zombies in each small level should be changed according to the design of the map, so what range should be chosen?

Finally, in order to complete so many gameplays on a small map, how should the map be arranged?

This time it was her turn to take action, and Gu Qingzhi's hair fell all over the floor.

Why is designing a game so difficult!

It was also because she truly experienced the difficulty of working part-time as a planner, artist, musician, developer, and numerical engineer that Gu Qingzhi did not want to travel at such an important time.

If I go out for a week, I might forget everything I wrote when I come back...

Seeing his granddaughter's hesitation, Grandpa Gu had to persuade her: "What can you do if you stay at home every day? Making games is the same as doing art. Maybe you can get some inspiration by going out for a walk."

Gu Qingzhi still didn't want to leave, but faced with Uncle Gu's persuasion, she felt a little shaken.

Everything in her mind had been drained out, and she really couldn't write anything.

She whispered, "Then I'll listen to you, Grandpa, and go outside for a walk."

"That's right!"

Uncle Gu was overjoyed and immediately said, "Then, Nannan, where do you want to go? I'll buy you a ticket and you'll be back just in time for the New Year."

"Beihai Villa." Gu Qingzhi said in a low voice.

Uncle Gu was stunned and couldn't help asking again: "Where?"

"Le'an..." Gu Qingzhi's voice became even lower.

Uncle Gu couldn't catch his breath and felt a little dizzy.

Le'an City, Beihai Villa...where else could this be? Starry sky!

Uncle Gu also knew that Gu Qingzhi had always regarded Gu Qingshi as her idol, so it seemed that she was just chasing her idol.

But Gu Qingzhi couldn't catch up with this star, because she had already taken her annual leave at this time. At the World Peace Summit, Battlefield won the bid, and Grandpa Gu sent congratulatory letters and notices on behalf of the organizing committee, but he had never met Gu Qingshi in person, nor did he know her contact information.

Even if Gu Qingzhi went there, she would probably just be able to wander around the empty Beihai Villa.

Grandpa Gu couldn't help but say, "Little ancestor, I told you to go out and relax, but you went to work for others?"

"Then I'm not going."

"You kid!" Grandpa Gu was speechless, and just pretended to be stern and said, "Forget it, it's up to you. But if you stay up late again tonight, I will tell your parents."

"Good~"

Gu Qingzhi acted coquettishly, then closed the door with a chuckle.

Although Uncle Gu gave a lot of useless suggestions, he did remind her.

Since you have no inspiration, why not seek help from others?

for example.......

Gu Qingshi?

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"Woo woo woo, here comes the train!"

Li Xiaomeng was wearing thick cotton gloves and playing happily in the snow. Little Lihua followed behind Li Xiaomeng clumsily, ran two steps and buried his face in the snow.

The old lady was sitting on the porch with a smile on her face, and the big cat was lying beside her, making purring sounds as the old lady stroked it.

The old lady said that Li Xiaomeng has a pure heart.

Gu Qingshi thinks that Li Xiaomeng is just a little stupid.

Of course, being able to get into Mocai does not mean being stupid in “learning ability”.

Rather, it means that Li Xiaomeng is the kind of optimist who doesn't worry about anything and doesn't want to doubt anything.

It’s pretty good, much better than Ai Li’s first-class roast chicken.