What It’s Like Being a Vampire

The dinner that Xiang Kun took over at short notice was naturally not as good as the feast that he had carefully prepared, prepared the ingredients in advance, and thought about the recipes.

Fortunately, the ingredients bought by Tang Baona and Yang Zhener are also very expensive, and the basic texture and taste are there. Xiang Kun only needs to cook them accurately, and it won't be unpalatable.

Moreover, the attention of those who came here tonight was now attracted by Xiang Kun's game. While eating, the content of the game was still discussed.

Not only those who had just played the game before eating, but also those who arrived later watched and listened to the "story" for a while. They were also very interested and eager to join the game after finishing their meal.

While Zhang Qian was eating, she asked Xiang Kun some things about the game.

To be honest, she was a little surprised when she got the invitation yesterday and learned that she was coming to Tang Baona's house to try out the game made by Xiang Kun today.

She didn't expect that the game Xiang Kun mentioned before could be made so quickly. Even considering that Xiang Kun may have found a team to help him, this development speed is indeed a bit fast - even if there is no rest at all during the Spring Festival, it has only been more than half a month since Xiang Kun said he would make a game in Tongshi Town .

Unless Xiang Kun had almost done it by then, but judging from what he said at the time, it didn't seem like it.

So before coming here today, according to Zhang Qian's estimation, the game Xiang Kun made in such a short time would most likely be a relatively simple or even crude "small game".

However, now is the era of mobile Internet, and many "mini-games" running on mobile platforms are very popular and earn huge profits. Zhang Qian also has no doubt about Xiang Kun's ability. Even if it is just a "little game", the "little game" Xiang Kun makes will definitely have something unique that will make people shine.

She still has great confidence in Xiang Kun's abilities.

But no matter how she thought about it, she never expected that what Xiang Kun would create would be such a "game" in the form of pure sound.

When she first arrived here and listened to Yang Zhener's introduction on how to play the game, the thought that came to Zhang Qian's mind was - isn't this just a group running game hosted by AI voice? This type of TRPG is still suitable for small circles and offline face-to-face play. Is it difficult to do it online?

But after playing for a few hours, Zhang Qian knew that the experience of this game was very different from group running games and other role-playing games.

It does not require everyone to have a detailed role card, define various detailed attributes in advance, or understand various specific and complicated rules first.

At the beginning, you only need to define the name of the character and some basic characteristics. The rest of the game will take care of the arrangements. You will slowly understand it during the game.

In this game, the traditional game features have been greatly reduced. Basically, players do not need to think and operate too much. Players feel like they are listening to a story in which they are also involved. As time goes by, the sense of immersion will become more and more intense. Come stronger and stronger. Coupled with various real-time sound effects and various BGM, it can arouse players' emotions. As the plot progresses, they may be happy or sad, cry or laugh.

When playing other games, no matter how great the story of the game is, players can rarely escape the feeling of "playing" the game because the "game" attribute is too strong.

But in this game made by Xiang Kun, the voice that tells the story is very suitable for what is being said. As I listened, I unconsciously became immersed in the plot and story, and then unconsciously began to "act" seriously. own role.

In different stories, different types of characters have different speaking styles. Generally speaking, it is difficult for ordinary people to express themselves with voices different from their normal state.

Even Zhang Qian was a little reluctant to let go at the beginning. In the story with a martial arts background, her words were still in a modern urban style. But as the story progressed, her participation increased, and she unconsciously began to use language suitable for martial arts style to participate in the game. She said "brother", "long admirer", "stay", "this seat", etc. "Presumptuous", "Die to me!"...

This kind of truly in-depth acting, which involves communicating with other people and integrating into the plot, will give people the pleasure of really living another life, and give people a strong sense of participation in the events in the story.

More importantly, Zhang Qian discovered that this model does not require knowing a group of players in advance, nor does it require integrating into a small group first, nor does it require face-to-face and seeing each other - on the contrary, it is better and more convenient to join in without seeing each other. , will not affect each other.

Such an extremely low entry threshold is indeed very suitable for making an online game, making it convenient for single users to join.

After the game ended, Zhang Qian thought about it for a moment and was surprised by the powerful technology embodied in this game.

The technology of speech recognition and conversion into text is not new. Many major manufacturers have this technology and it is very mature. But Xiang Kun's speech recognition accuracy in this game, as well as the accuracy of judging the recognized content, shocked her very much.

This voice engine is also the most human-like and fluent she has ever heard. The expressions of emotions are just right, and there are not too many abrupt and abrupt features.

There is also a story line that is constantly changing and formed based on the choices of all players. It is also very smooth, and the various logical chains are complete and clear. It will even lay down foreshadowing in advance based on some of the players' early dialogues, and then "reverse" it in the later stage to bring "surprises" to people.

This made her wonder for a while when she was playing the game whether there was a real person behind the game, responsible for arranging the plot and thinking about it...

After dinner, I explained the situation of the game to You Meng, Liu Caifu from Tongshi Town, and Zicheng who had been waiting for a long time through video connection, and then began to remotely teach them to install the game client and introduce how to play the game. .

It took two hours for more than a dozen people to experience a cyberpunk-style story together before everyone stopped and started to discuss the video.

You Meng and Liu Caifu basically had no other opinions except calling 666. They would invest as much as they could according to their ability. Anyway, they had already made the decision. Rather than investing in products or companies, it would be better to invest in Xiang Kun. It’s not more about how much money you pay, but a sense of participation.

Zicheng is also very excited. As an "industry insider" with the same professional background as Xiang Kun University, he is also very sensitive to the technology displayed in this game. He is a little doubtful whether this game was made by Xiang Kun himself. Could it be that Xiang Kun made it himself? Kun has actually cooperated with some giants. Was this game jointly developed? But if that's the case, where is the chance for them to enter?

The person who asked the most questions was still Zhang Qian. She is the one who cares most about this matter. According to the share previously negotiated in Tongshi Town, she will also be the largest investor.

"Xiang Kun, have you ever thought about how this game is charged? Should you sell monthly passes or props?" Zhang Qian asked.

Xiang Kun smiled and said, "This question will be answered by our Operations Director Tang Baona and Director Tang."

Tang Baoting, Gao Yao, Yang Zhener and others immediately clapped and booed: "Director Tang, please speak."

Tang Baona glared at Xiang Kun, then nervously adjusted her glasses and said, "I'm not a director, and I don't understand operations, but I have discussed this issue with Zhen'er, Lao Xia, and Xiang Kun in the past few days. , our idea is to make it completely free in the initial stage. After the number of players stabilizes, we will charge according to the number of games and charge a fixed fee at a time. This one time is the meaning of a game story. This fee can be very low, mainly to give players a way to spend money. The psychological suggestion of getting money makes them play each game more seriously. The main charging method is some personalized customization, such as modification of one's own voice, such as more narration styles, background sounds, special effects sounds, BGM Options, such as processing the game audio after completing the game and packaging it into a whole voice story for players to review, all of which can be charged."

Next to her, Yang Zhener looked at her laptop and said, "Hey, okay, the game we just played has been processed. Come on, come on, you guys have a listen." After saying that, through the Bluetooth speaker, Played the game they just played.

Because it was recorded through Yang Zhener's client, the beginning is from Yang Zhener's perspective. Everyone felt quite ashamed when they heard their own voices speaking through the speakers, pretending to be other characters.

But as they listened, they realized something was different from when they played the game before. The background noise of these sounds was completely removed when they were recorded, and they were completely integrated with the background sounds in the game, and the sound volume was also improved. It has been adjusted and modified to a certain extent, as if the voices of the narrator and other people were recorded in the same recording studio, and it is very harmonious.

Not only that, during the game, many blank paragraphs that need to wait for the player to select and pre-process have been reduced, and the entire audio story sounds smoother, really like listening to a radio drama or audio.

Yang Zhener said: "After the Huitou game is launched, we can also organize some competitions for player works, select better works with stories, give rewards, and even spend money to buy the copyright and make them into movies and TV series to further promote them. Our games can also improve players' motivation to seriously 'play' and engage in situations when playing games."

Zhang Qian nodded. This is indeed a way to further increase the player's level of investment. This function is really good. As a player, she would like to save that audio collection and maybe take it out to listen to again from time to time.

"What if there is someone who loves to cause trouble? For example, they just don't act seriously, they just don't get into the drama, they just want to make trouble by talking nonsense? After all, it's not a game played face to face or with people you know. If you match randomly, it's easy. You will encounter scammers." Yang Zhuo raised his hand and asked his question.

Xiao Min next to her also nodded like a chicken pecking at rice. The two of them played Honor of Kings together last night and were cheated by their teammates. If it weren't for poverty, their phones would have been broken several times.

"Old Yang, you answer it." Xiang Kun looked at Yang Zhen'er and said.

"Call me Director Yang!" Yang Zhener danced her fist at him, and then said to Yang Zhuo: "There will be a real-time reporting mechanism, and the system will automatically determine that if there are such troublemakers, they will continue to report If the background of the story is disturbed, it will be forcibly replaced by the system. At that time, there will be more control options for players to choose. For example, if they are tired and don’t want to play anymore, they can directly host the system, or let the narrator arrange the character. It depends on whether you die or get out of the story line in other ways. If you have something to do and you need to step away for a while, or you just want to simply 'listen in', you can also let your character be suspended temporarily and not be mentioned. Tell the chef , after players have played for a long enough time, they can even let the system imitate the player's voice, and when the player does not want to play, he can participate in the game according to the story line and complete the game."

"I think this can be used for social networking! You can establish a first impression through the voices in the story and get to know other netizens. This is a different experience from ordinary text communication!" Chang Bin said excitedly.

"Isn't that the YY from before?" Wang Han said.

"It's different. YY or other voice communication software, for people who are more introverted or not confident in their own voices, they are just listeners, not participants. Should they dare not speak or not? . But in this game, everyone will be naturally brought into it. There will be a theme and platform for voice communication, and there will be different stories and gameplay every time. Even introverts can use this kind of 'playing' To express." Chang Bin said thoughtfully.

Because during this period, Xiang Kun has told Tang Baona and Yang Zhener some specific ideas about the game. Some of them are even ideas derived from their experiences or proposed by them, so now they basically deal with it. When Zhang Qian, Zicheng and others asked questions, they were the two of them explaining. Everyone was discussing in a lively manner, but Xiang Kun slowly pulled away. Only when some technical issues were involved, he would come out to explain a few words.

He took his mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Lao Xia, because he had just discovered through the coin sensor on Lao Xia that she was still at the airport in this city, and according to the scheduled flight time, she should have arrived in Citong City. right.

Xiang Kun was a little worried. Did Lao Xia fall asleep in the waiting room? After all, he drank blood yesterday and woke up at noon today. During this period, Lao Xia stayed up all night and stayed up all night. It was normal for him to fall asleep in the waiting room.

I was hesitating whether to feel the pair of chopsticks given to Lao Xia and remind Lao Xia in my dream, when I received a reply on WeChat:

"late."

Xiang Kun breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the plane was delayed.

Xiang Kun: "I thought you missed the plane because you fell asleep. In fact, you should get some sleep and leave tomorrow."

A few seconds later, Lao Xia sent a reply: a panda expression with laser light spraying from its eyes.

This was telling Xiang Kun that she was in high spirits.

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