Game Design: Is that okay, CaiGou?

Chapter 46 Cai Gou: Does the story end here...?

Final score of zero?
  Is it over before it even begins?
  Both water friends and anchors were dumbfounded!
  No!

What a fool I am!
  I don’t understand the game at all!
  Friends who have recovered from their fatigue have posted barrage——

"Is it really an animated video?"

"The plot of the animation is very touching, I like it, but... the promised solution to the puzzle? Where is the puzzle?"

"I watched the animation again and got a zero score? Can anyone tell me what's going on?"

"Old thief Cai Gou, let me advise you, Mouse Tail Juice, whose studio makes a game like Nima during the Chinese Valentine's Day!"

"I don't understand the game, I don't understand it at all! It seems that singles are not suitable for playing couples' games!"

Da Sima was holding his teeth at the moment and thinking about a question——

Zero points?

I am the gold medal lecturer, the Great Sima of Wuhu, and the first Fishing King of Terraria. Are you going to do this for me?

Game anchors on all major platforms fell silent.

What about the couple games we agreed on during the Chinese Valentine's Day?
  It’s just a small activity, there’s no need to make a big move, right?

I'm in the anti-Cai Gou alliance, don't I want to lose face?
  Da Sima did not believe in evil and returned to the game details interface, hoping to find some clues.

A water friend saw the game type column and curiously asked——

"Hanting? What does ARG mean?"

Da Sima is familiar with game types and explained:

"ARG translated into Chinese is a parallel reality game!"

"It is a multimedia interactive game that uses the real world as a platform and integrates various virtual game elements so that players can personally participate in role-playing..."

and many more!

Da Sima got stuck mid-sentence.

wrong!

Twelve out of ten points are wrong!
  When Da Sima was explaining the game types to his friends, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind.

He remembered that the biggest feature of this kind of game is that it blurs the boundaries between the virtual world and the real world.

The general gameplay is to bring players together through communication methods such as websites, blogs, text messages, phone calls, and fax machines to jointly solve interlocking mysteries.

It brings players directly from real life into a relatively virtual space, playing games in life scenes that players are familiar with.

Players receive tasks from the Internet and solve the puzzle independently or collectively within the specified time limit according to the requirements.

The clues to the puzzle are hidden in every corner of the online world or the real world.

Let’s look back at the game name——

Kong Ming’s trap? !

Yes, it all makes sense!

I understand!
  Da Sima, Thousand Layer Cake Form is activated!
  "Snapped!"

Da Sima slapped the table and said, "I know how to play this kind of game!"

"Everyone, let's watch me warm the wine and kill the old thief!"

As soon as these words came out, the live broadcast room immediately boiled.

"Isn't it? Arthur! Do you really know?"

"Da Sima Qian makes me look stupid like this!"

"The Korean Hall deserves to be the Korean Hall. I am a deputy, do you think?"

The news that Da Sima wanted to warm the wine and kill the old thief quickly spread to all major live broadcast rooms.

When the other anchors heard this, all they could think about at the moment was am I a fool?

As soon as I heard the news, I quickly rushed to Da Sima's live broadcast room and waited for the good news.

Da Sima explained to everyone:
  "This arg type game has different video specifications. The author can insert a jump link button at any position at any second!"

"This function is not complicated. It is usually placed at the end of the video by the up owner to guide the audience to watch other videos of the up owner!"

"But there is a problem with this function. Viewers cannot see which buttons are in the video. Based on this feature, the old thief set up countless secret connections in the video!"

"Kong Ming's Trap is indeed an animation, but it is also a video interactive puzzle game covered in animation!"

After explaining the gameplay, Da Sima pulled the animation back to the ending and explained:
  "When you saw the boy and the girl hugging each other, did the game console light up? Are there two gold coins in the room?"

"Since we have really passed the level, why does the continuation screen pop up at the end of the video? Why does it show that we only have zero points?"

"That's because boys and girls didn't escape the game at all!" After listening to Teacher Ma's analysis, the water friends took pictures of the rainbow farts one after another——

"It has to be you, Teacher Ma!"

“The Korean Hall deserves to be the Korean Hall!”

"Big Thousand Layer Cake Sima: Ji Cao, no six!"

"Hahaha, I laugh at Cai Gou for his incompetence, an old thief with little wisdom!"

Da Sima clicked to replay the video and analyze it carefully.

"Crack!"

When the animation played to the girl pulling the boy to escape from the game world through the spring, Da Sima directly pressed the pause button.

After thinking for a moment, Da Sima clicked the spring to escape the game.

In full view of everyone, the web page went black, and then a series of codes popped up.

When they returned to the animation interface, the yellow spring turned into a red spring with three times the speed of thrust, and the two finally returned to their home in the real world.

The most important thing is that in this ending, the living room is intact and not damaged at all!
  As the credits roll, the game appears to have a happy ending.

When the water friends saw the boy and girl holding hands, they waved to the player to express their thanks.

Fans in the live broadcast room were instantly excited, with countless gifts flying in the air, and the rolling barrages densely packed.

This is the first time that players have completed Cai Gou's game so quickly and easily.

Is Cai Gou’s undefeated myth going to end today?

Da Sima really accomplished the feat of warming wine and killing the old thief!
  really!

An old house where a treasure!
  Da Sima proudly raised his hands and said:
  "Thank you for the gifts, young bosses. How do you think? Isn't Lao Ma handsome today?"

"How about telling the truth this time? Is it interesting?"

Excited water friends responded one after another——

"Da Sima: Veterans never die, they just wither!"

"Hahaha! Today is a good day, anything you want can come true!"

"Master, you are worthy of being the commander-in-chief of the Anti-Cai Gou Alliance. You are so handsome!"

Major anchors were also excited after seeing this scene.

Will the Anti-Cai Gou Alliance become famous all over the world starting today?
  But what everyone didn’t expect was——

At the end of the animation, the continuation screen after the death of the girl still appears.

Until the settlement interface pops up at the last second——

[GAME OVER (game over)]

[FINAL SCORE-1 (final score-1)]

When the water friends saw this scene, their hearts suddenly tightened.

what's the situation?
  Something is wrong!

At this time, Da Sima also fell into deep thought.

It shouldn’t be!

The living room is intact, but why is there still a continuation screen at the end?
  Is it possible that girls and boys still haven’t escaped from the game world?

At this moment, many water friends sent messages one after another——

"Hanting, the old thief just renewed his scarf!"

"What the hell, that's a naked provocation!"

"Just take a look!"

Upon hearing this, Da Sima immediately clicked on Huang Tian's studio's official account.

The latest scarf released by Cai Gou.

The accompanying picture is from Da Sima's live broadcast room, where everyone is in high spirits, just like a New Year's celebration scene.

The accompanying text only has one sentence——

Does the story end here...?

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