Chapter 594 Crazy Farm

197 Chapter Five Hundred and Ninety-Four: Crazy Farm

※ Ma Huateng looked at the screen and saw the words clearly marked in "bold" with a face like an example

"Farm" ten "Plants vs. Zombies" What kind of game is this? Ma Huateng thought for a long time but couldn't think of a reason. "Farm" is very simple to grow vegetables, harvest vegetables and steal vegetables. "Plants vs. Zombies" is to use various plants to resist zombies and defend their homes. How to integrate the two completely different types of games?

Ma Huateng thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a reason, so he simply didn't bother to wait for Lin Feng to explain.

Lin Feng smiled. I also played "Farm" before I was reborn. I used to be crazy about keeping food and stealing food every day, but after playing for a while, I became bored. Lin Feng often lamented that "The Farm" is too monotonous, the pleasure of ordering and stealing vegetables can easily fade away, making it difficult to keep playing for a long time. Later, playing "Plants vs. Zombies" was also extremely crazy at the beginning, but then I always challenged the "infinite mode." After a long time, it was boring.

After playing these two relaxing and casual games, Lin Feng often fantasizes about whether he can combine the two games so that the fun of the game will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced. But there is also a problem, how can others steal it? How to steal it? This question has always puzzled Lin Feng until he saw the children at the next table playing "Plants vs. Zombies" in the restaurant. When he saw the porridge in his hand again. Lin Feng suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"Mr. Ma. My idea is like this." Lin Feng narrated his idea.

Lin Feng conceived that all players would initially own a small island. There are only six fields on the island. Players can rely on these six fields to grow crops, just like "Farm". They can grow radishes, cabbage, apples and other crops that can be sold to the system. in exchange for money. This part is the same as "The Farm". The difference is the introduction of the "Plants vs. Zombies" mode later.

Players want to keep their hard-earned vegetables from being stolen. In "Farm", the only option is to "guard the vegetables." And they must move quickly to avoid being "stealed". However, in this game conceived by Lin Feng, players who want to "guard vegetables" must synthesize "defensive plants" through planted crops. Then use "defensive plants" to build a defense system to resist other players' "stealing vegetables" Behavior. The types and functions of "plants" are the same as those in "Plants vs. Zombies". There are plants that can spray "beans", plants that can spray "ice beans", plants that can throw watermelons, etc.

certainly. After growing and keeping vegetables, the most important and exciting thing is to steal vegetables. Stealing food is a new model. Since each player is on an island the players want to steal food. You must first buy a raft from the system, and then buy a "zombie" who steals vegetables and use the raft to row to the island of the person you want to steal vegetables and drop the "zombies". Command it to steal vegetables. Of course, buying "zombies." Not only does it cost money, but you must supply "food" every day if you want to feed "zombies". If the "zombies" have no food, they will attack their own farmland to obtain food.

Ma Huateng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Ma Dong. I tentatively named this game "Crazy Farm". It has three selling points. One is to combine the advantages of "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" and "defend plants. It can only be synthesized through planted plants, which makes the game more interesting and more playable; second, because each player has an independent island at the beginning. Therefore, if you want to steal other people’s food, you must calculate the time on the way. It’s too early, you have to wait too late, maybe you will be bought, and you also have to worry about whether other people will come to attack your farm.

Moreover, players have to calculate whether their "zombies can break through the opponent's defense, which increases the strategic nature of the game; 3. Since all players are in the vast sea, all players are in the same big map, so players can The Jian Guild conducts mutual transactions, jointly steals food or conducts defensive actions." Lin Feng explained excitedly.

Allowing players to grow vegetables and build defensive measures on the island not only increases the fun of the game, but also makes the game more playable, especially this time stealing vegetables is no longer invisible to players, but can be seen by "stealing" players The boat is even more exciting. Think about it, if more than a dozen players rowed boats at the same time and carried the "zombies" who came to steal vegetables and waited for the "Normandy landing" at the moment when the crops matured by the island. That scene must be quite spectacular.

The charm of online games lies in the unity and confrontation between players, and "Crazy Farm" has the biggest feature of online games, which solves the lack of interaction between players in "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies".

Afterwards, Lin Feng and Ma Huateng had a detailed discussion on "Crazy Farm" and called Wu Zhaopu and others to negotiate and formulate various rules and systems one by one and divide the rights and interests.

"Crazy Farm" is developed by "Second World" and owns the game ownership, and Tencent is responsible for the operation. "Second World" and "Tencent Holdings. Share 50/50 in profits.

When Wu Zhaopu and others learned of the idea of ​​"Crazy Farm", they were amazed and didn't know how to describe it. This "Crazy Farm" has been confirmed by Cui Mingze, Qiu Xin and others that the difficulty of the whole game is extremely low, because all the data is ready-made, so most of them can be developed. But although the game is extremely simple, the gameplay is extremely high. It not only combines the advantages of the two games, but also solves the biggest disadvantage of the two games. If it goes on the market, it will definitely cause a sensation again.

What's more, with the current status of "Tencent" in China, it's hard to think that "Crazy Farm" will not be popular.

As for Lin Feng, who conceived and designed "Crazy Farm". Wu Zhaopu and others admired Lin Feng. They, the chairman of the board, don't know what the head is made of, and they always come up with wonderful ideas, but they are always so amazing.

Maybe he is the Einstein of the gaming world! Everyone secretly guessed.

Later, when Tencent and "Second World" jointly held a press conference to announce the news of the joint development of "Crazy Farm", domestic players were excited.

If it is said that the game with the most online players in the world is definitely not "Full House of Audition", which broke through the highest number of online players, nor is it "Legend", which just broke through 100 million registered players on the Internet not long ago. At present, the real game with the largest number of players in Quanshu is definitely not "Farm" launched by Tencent. It is none other than white-collar workers in offices, blue-collar workers in factories, state cadres in government agencies, and students who are eager to play "Farm". It's fun. According to incomplete statistics, the number of players currently playing "Farm" is no less than B in the country.

The fact that someone else is playing this game is enough to make all game companies jealous. Especially since this game is so simple, not only does it not have gorgeous graphics, nor does it have any plot, it simply grows and steals vegetables and can attract hundreds of millions of people. All game critics are stunned and speechless. And many foreign game companies have also stolen the idea of ​​"Farm" and slightly modified it to launch it. It has also won a lot of popularity and support from players. It can be said that it is the most popular game after "Tetris" and "Minesweeper".

But after playing "Farm" for more than a year in China. Everyone's enthusiasm has gradually faded. At this time, Tencent and "Second World" announced the launch of a brand new "Crazy Farm", which is a combination of the most popular web game "Farm" and the once popular "Plants vs. Zombies". The gimmick evokes everyone's fantasy. After all, everyone is still playing "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" is a good memory.

but. What kind of game is "O Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" integrated? All Tencent users are looking forward to it.

For many people, they don’t like the game like “Legend” or the fierce battle game like “Counter Strike”, and they don’t like the turn-based game like “Magic Amber”, they just want to play simple and relaxing web pages. The games "Farm" and "Plants vs. Zombies" are very suitable for their requirements. They can play if they want to play, and just put it aside if they don't want to. Don't worry about it too much.

After a week of waiting among all players, the first short game video of "Crazy Farm" came out. This game video. There is only one island. Players planted six fields around the island and built the "defense plants" in "Plants vs. Zombies".

After watching this game video, players are already excited. In the past, it was only necessary to consider the time for simple planting and harvesting. Now it is not only necessary to consider when to plant vegetables, but also what kind of crops to harvest quickly. What kind of plants can be synthesized for defense and how to build defense measures.

After all, different "defensive plants". Different crops must be planted for synthesis, and the same "defense plant" can be synthesized through different types of crops. This setting undoubtedly makes the combination method ever-changing. In addition, the ripening time of crops is different. How to plant the most crops at the most effective time to synthesize more "defensive plants" with different prices will become the research object of all players.

And those who have played "Plants vs. Zombies" know that each "defensive plant" has different functions, and the power is large or small, as well as the "bullet" time. There are also fast and slow, so when building a defensive front. It is necessary to consider not only the layout of the formation, but also whether the power of money and plants can withstand the enemy's attack from all directions. Undoubtedly, this "Crazy Farm" has greatly increased its strategy and added more fun to all players.

certainly. At the beginning of the game, there are only "six fields" on the cliffs, and there are only six straight paths on the cliff. It is relatively simple for players to defend. However, in the future, as players reclaim more and more fields, the player's farmland will be attacked from all directions, and the correct placement of "plants" will test the player even more.

After watching the first game video, many players have a question in their minds. This is just the player's own defensive position, so how can the player steal food? Is it still stealing vegetables like "The Farm"? If so, what effect will this defensive measure have?

A few days later. The second game video came out.

The second gameplay video shows one player making "zombies." They are then loaded onto ships and transported by sea to other players' islands. As a result, when I arrived at the destination, I unexpectedly felt that there were other players around who greeted each other, negotiated and waited for the crops to mature, and then logged in together to "grab vegetables."

After watching this video, the players shouted excitedly on the spot. Some were so excited that they even looked up to the sky and shouted "stealing food". Although it is very exciting, but the time is too short. Either the owner is "watching the vegetables." Or the owner is sleeping. You can steal as much as you want, and it will be a little fun at first. After a long time, it will be boring. Now it's not only stealing food by itself, but also stealing food with other people. And you can see who is stealing food. That's a lot of fun in itself.

The biggest reason for the popularity of online games is the excitement and fun when there are many people playing together. Now "stealing vegetables" are all stealing together is undoubtedly a very interesting thing. Think of when the crops are ripe. The scene of several players stealing food together, many players are so excited that they almost want to play "Crazy Farm" immediately. The scene of several players rushing to the island at the same time must be very spectacular.

Of course, due to the limitations of the game settings, it is impossible for hundreds of players to steal food together. After all, it takes time to go from your own island to other players’ islands, and “zombies” need food. If the distance on the way is too long, “zombies” will starve to death. This setting limits the collective “stealing” of large-scale players. Firstly, it can prevent some players from being abused in the game because of offending others. Second, it can also limit the heavy burden on the server caused by large-scale stealing food. After all, this is not the burden on the system server caused by "Farm" stealing food It's not big. This is a real online game. If hundreds of gamers steal vegetables together and dispatch transported "zombies" to steal vegetables, the system burden will be no less than that of "Second World". The currently operating "Jian Xia Qing Yuan Zhi Zhong Bao"

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Tencent currently has the highest number of online users ever. If these restrictions are not imposed, assuming that one tenth of ten thousand people steal a player's food at the same time, even ten groups of computers will not be able to handle the "Crazy Farm" 》 itself belongs to the relaxed and casual game, which aims to make money rather than lose money.

Now this setting can not only satisfy the player's desire to steal anyone's food, but also prevent the game from causing too much load on the system server through various restrictions. It can be said to have the best of both worlds.

After watching the second video, players are already eagerly looking forward to the third video. There is a video of growing vegetables and a video of preparing to steal vegetables on the way. The third video is naturally how to steal vegetables.

After much anticipation next week, the third video is finally available. In the first time, I persuaded thousands of people to download the video, and after the time of divination, the number has reached 10,000 times. The popularity of "Crazy Farm" is already a certainty.

Faced with this situation, the CEOs of other game companies can only do nothing but stare blankly. Although they can also steal Lin Feng's idea. But there is a very important issue that "Crazy Farm" has a huge user base behind it. At present, Chinese netizens can surf the Internet without reading news, watching movies, listening to songs, or playing games. Even if they turn on the computer and connect to the Internet, there is one thing they will definitely do when they are away from the computer. Hang up when no one is around.

In this case, Tencent could hang "Farm" under the main window of the player and click on it. Then it is natural to hang "Crazy Farm" under the main window. How about this situation. How do these game companies compete with "Farm Frenzy".

Oh forget it. This is not the first time, this damned Lin Feng doesn't know how many ideas he still has in his brain. We don't care anymore! CEOs of many game companies sang Yang Kun's "It Doesn't Matter".

The third video shows players sending "zombies" to land after they find that other players are ripe. The game screen of launching an invasion by selecting the weak point of the opponent's defense. As for combat, it's the same as in Plants vs. Zombies. But the difference is the previous "Plants vs. Zombies". Players are challenging the difficulty of the computer and now it is directly against other players. It's also more exciting.

Watching the video of "stealing food. The "zombie ping" controlled by one player is constantly attacking the stronghold of the "guarding food". The "stealer" player and the "zombies" finally succeeded in breaking through the defense line of the "stealer" player. All the players cheered when they succeeded in stealing food.

But at this time, all players also felt a new problem after successfully capturing the stronghold of the "Shoucai Xiaofang" player. Although the player in the video broke through the defense measures of the "Shoucai" player, he wanted to transport the successfully stolen crops back to his own Islands are also a hassle.

Each raft has a certain storage space and can only hold certain crops. It will undoubtedly be a very painful thing if you try your best to break through the defense, but in the end because the "grabbed" crops cannot be transported back to the island. What's more, can we grab enough crops to make up for the loss?

Obviously. This again involves a strategic element: Is the effort proportional to the harvest?

But no matter how many players this question will worry about, the popularity of "Crazy Farm" is doomed to wait for the market!