Build a game empire from scratch

The trial of Homeward Bound actually opened five areas——

[Mushroom Forest], [Underground Stone Forest], [Miner Town], [Surface Station] and [Huangliang Town].

[Mushroom Forest] and [Underground Stone Forest] are connected together and can also be regarded as an area. The main content is jumping fun-that is, platform jumping and parkour.

[Miner Town], the theme is exploration and puzzle solving.

[Surface Station], it’s jump music again.

[Huangliang Town], another exploration and puzzle solving.

The difficulty spirals upward.

The unlocked areas at the back are also arranged in the same way - there will be a mix, but the emphasis is obvious.

However, the difficulty of cooperative puzzle solving is cumulative, but the difficulty of jumping music increases by leaps and bounds!

As for this spiral of difficulty, Ye Xiaohe did it for five rounds!

This is just counting the difficulty of the main plot, some achievements and props in special locations, jumping for fun will directly turn into jumping for crying, the difficulty is off the charts!

However, these are not reflected in the demo.

The trial part only accounts for 20% of the main game, and of all the explorable content in the game, it accounts for less than 10%.

The increase in difficulty is not obvious yet.

This caused misunderstandings among the media and players.

Ye Xiaohe’s goal is: players in the early and middle stages will be relaxed and happy, but players in the middle and later stages will need more attempts and efforts, exchanging their own sweat for the joy of clearing levels.

Of course, with internal trials, the overall difficulty is still controllable.

If that doesn't work, players can switch to the simple mode and go through levels with a single cat or walk with two cats. Because they can climb and are more resistant to falling, they can take a simpler route.

In short, it will definitely be no problem to pass the customs.

But in the middle and later stages, once players want to take a shortcut, or leave the main line to pursue special decorations or props, or even collect them all...

——That’s so embarrassing!

Come and feel the upper limit of Homeward Bound!

Ye Xiaohe smiled sinisterly while watching the optimistic discussions between players and the media, looking forward to the exciting scenes after the game is released.

*

Also on this night.

Fried Rice Immortal Shi Lei had been busy all day and didn't have time to log into the virtual world until evening to try out the new game Homecoming.

Jumping underground is not difficult for him.

When solving puzzles and exploring the town, he randomly encountered a super smart border collie, so he didn't have to worry too much about it, and he successfully found the old rescue channel to the surface.

Afterwards, the jumping music at Landmark Station took some time. Under Shi Lei's physical sense, it probably improved from kindergarten difficulty to elementary school difficulty.

Two and a half hours later, Shi Lei arrived at the deserted town of Huangliang.

When Shi Lei came to a new place, his first reaction was to climb up and look far, so he took his dog to climb the rusty Ferris wheel.

This action alone took him more than an hour.

——When Lin You was dragged here by the little princess, they finished solving the puzzle, restarted the Ferris wheel, and then took the cockpit up together.

But Shi Lei didn't expect this. He climbed up hard, and the difficulty was naturally different.

But he still got the dog tag in the center of the Ferris wheel.

Of course, that's not the point.

The real point is: when he climbed to the highest point and looked at the city in the distance, Shi Lei felt a subtle sense of familiarity. He always felt that the outlines of some buildings there seemed to have been seen before somewhere.

Where have you seen it?

He squatted on the cockpit at the top of the Ferris wheel and thought hard for a while before he got an uncertain answer——

It seems... a bit like a time and space fragment that I smuggled into?

That piece of Chang'an Heavy Industry?

No wonder he couldn't remember clearly, the difficulty of entering that fragment was too high, and with the release of a new game, he had been putting it down for a while.

But after he thought about it for a long time, as time passed in the game, the sun set and the night gradually became darker, and looking at the rising fog and flashing neon in the steel jungle in the distance, he felt that the two places were very similar for no reason. .

If it's really the same place, doesn't it mean that these game worlds are all connected together?

A desire arose in his heart——

Go there and have a look.

Although the main line of the game in Homeward Bound is to go to the pet paradise in the sky, rather than to a strange city far away.

But Shi Lei felt that with Yunmeng's behavior, since the city appeared somewhere, as long as the players could get close, they would definitely be able to enter.

The only problem is: the next stop in Huangliang Town is to find a way to climb up.

How should he get to a distant city?

The car we took when we arrived obviously didn't work.

That car has a fixed track and can only travel automatically between the town and the station.

They only started the car at the station and did not gain control of the car, nor could they change the car's destination.

Shi Lei took Gouzi and searched around the town, trying to find a usable means of transportation.

But after searching around, he only found a scooter, and it was obviously not for cats...

Walk there?

Who knows how long it will take to walk!

Shi Lei pondered for a moment and decided to change the game and travel through the time and space fragments again, take a photo there, and then put it together with the photos here to tell netizens his guess.

He still had work to do, and he couldn't do something as outrageous as walking in a virtual world for several days and nights.

But there are many capable people online, and there is definitely no shortage of people with the time and energy.

In the worst case scenario, wouldn’t there be a game up master guarantee?

Those people will do anything for video material!

*

The next day, the popularity of Homecoming was still rising.

On the one hand, countless players have tried the game and found that no new areas will be opened after the exploration of Huangliang Town. They are now eager to see the game go online soon.

On the other hand, there are so many topics surrounding Homeward Bound, and hot topics are endless and dense, so players always have something new to talk about.

Shi Lei's discovery also caused some small-scale sensation. Players who have collected all the Homecoming Demo have already embarked on a journey to verify this guess.

Matching this popularity is the rising pre-sale sales of Homeward Bound.

A teacup dog jumped onto the conference table of a virtual office, held a huge sign on its head, and shouted out the numbers on the sign——

35 million!

Colleagues passing by applauded and squeezed into the front row, taking the opportunity to rub Ye Xiaohe's dog head.

Only Yu Gu, the leader of the Quiet Place development team, did not boo. After applauding politely, he quickly returned to the development team's office.

He clapped his hands vigorously to attract everyone's attention, and then said loudly:

The pre-sale sales of Homeward Bound have exceeded 35 million! We have to take action!

Everyone in the office immediately became nervous.

The size of their development team and the manpower and material resources invested are several times that of Ye Xiaohe's Caotai team, but now looking at the momentum of Homeward Bound, it looks like they are going to kill them!

Although it is said that the team of Homeward Bound is only a grassroots team in Yunmeng - because it was put together by Ye Xiaohe from various development teams, but outside, it is also a top-notch configuration in the industry.

But it was Ye Xiaohe's first time making a game, and the team size was much smaller than theirs, probably less than 50 people in total!

If you get crushed, it won't be easy on your face!

So Yu Gu announced loudly: The development team of A Quiet Place will live stream the concert and advance it to tomorrow! Everyone, be mentally prepared!

In the virtual office, expectant eyes looked at the unlucky guy who won in the electronic lottery.

The unlucky ones were not happy at all, but when faced with the looks of their colleagues, they could only force a smile...