Vol 2 Chapter 594: Crazy farm

Chapter 594 Crazy Farm

Ma Huateng looked at the words clearly marked in "black" on the display with a look of wonder.

QQ Farm + Plants vs. Zombies, what is this game? Ma Huateng thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a reason. QQ farm is very simple, grow vegetables, harvest vegetables, steal vegetables. Plants vs. Zombies uses a variety of plants to resist zombies and defend their homes. The two games are completely different types. How do they blend?

Ma Huateng thought about it for a long time, but couldn't think of a reason, so he didn't bother at all, and just waited for Lin Feng to explain.

Lin Feng smiled. I also played qq farm before rebirth, and I was crazy. I remembered to guard and steal vegetables every day, but after playing for a period of time, I got bored. Lin Feng often lamented that qq farm was too monotonous, guarding and stealing vegetables. The pleasure of the game fades easily, which makes it hard to play for a long time. Later, when I played Plants vs. Zombies, I was crazy at first, but then I always challenged the "infinite mode", which was boring for a long time.

After playing these two relaxing and casual games, Lin Feng often fantasizes about whether the two games can be combined, so that the fun of the game will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced, such as using the money from growing vegetables to cultivate plants to guard the farm and defend the home. Prevent others from stealing vegetables. But there is also a problem. How can others steal it? What methods are used to steal? This question has been perplexing Lin Feng until he saw the children at the next table playing Plants vs. Zombies in the restaurant just now, and when he saw the porridge in his hand, Lin Feng suddenly flashed in his mind and had an idea.

"Ma Dong, my idea is like this..." Lin Feng came with his own idea.

Lin Feng conceived that all players will initially have a small island with only six fields on the island. Players can rely on these six fields to grow crops. Like the qq farm, they can grow radishes, cabbage, apples and the like. Can be sold to the system in exchange for money. This part is the same as qq farm. The difference is that the Plants vs. Zombies mode is introduced later.

Players want to keep their hard-grown vegetables from being stolen. Under the QQ farm, they only have to "guard vegetables", and they must act fast to avoid being "stolen vegetables". However, in this game conceived by Lin Feng, players who want to "shoucai" must synthesize "defense plants" through the crops they plant, and then use "defense plants" to build a defense system to resist other players' "steals". Dish" behavior. The types and functions of "plants" are the same as the plants in Plants vs. Zombies. There are plants that can be sprayed with "beans", plants that can be sprayed with "ice beans", and plants that throw watermelons.

Of course, after growing vegetables and keeping vegetables, the most important and exciting thing is stealing vegetables. Stealing food takes a brand-new model. Since each player is on a small island, if a player wants to steal food, he must first buy a raft from the system, and then buy the "zombie" who steals the food, use the raft to reach the island of the person who wants to steal the food, and put it down "Zombie", direct it to steal vegetables. Of course, to buy "zombies" not only requires money, but to feed them, they must supply their "food" every day. If the "zombies" do not have food, they will attack their own farmland to obtain food.

Ma Huateng's eyes lit up.

"Ma Dong, I temporarily named this game Crazy Farm. It has three selling points. One is that it combines the advantages of QQ Farm and Plants vs. Zombies, and the'defensive plants' can only be synthesized by planting plants. The game is more interesting and playable; second, since each player has an independent island in the early stage, if you want to steal other people’s food, you must calculate the time on the road. It’s too early to arrive. Wait, it may be acquired too late, and at the same time you have to worry about whether other people will come to sneak attack your own farm. And the player has to calculate whether his'zombies' can break through the opponent's defense, which increases the strategy of the game Sex; Third, because all players are on the vast ocean, all players are on the same big map, so players can establish guilds, conduct mutual transactions, jointly steal food or conduct defenses and other behaviors." Lin Feng Excitedly explained.

Let players grow vegetables on the island and build defense measures, which not only increases the fun of the game, but also makes the game more playable, especially this time stealing vegetables is no longer an invisible behavior of the player, but can be seen with your own eyes" "Stealing food" is the player’s boat, which is even more exciting. When I think of it, if more than a dozen players are rowing a boat at the same time, carrying "zombies" who come to steal vegetables, and they are waiting for the "Normandy Landing" when the crops are ripe, the scene must be quite spectacular.

The charm of online games lies in the alliance and confrontation between players, and Crazy Farm has the greatest feature of online games, which solves the previous lack of interaction between QQ Farm and Plants vs. Zombies.

Afterwards, Lin Feng and Ma Huateng had a detailed discussion on Crazy Farm, and called Wu Zhaopu and others. Under joint consultation, various rules and systems were formulated one by one, and the rights and interests were divided.

Crazy Farm is developed by “Second World” and owns the ownership of the game, while Tencent is responsible for its operation. “Second World” and “Tencent Holdings” divide the profit between 50 and 5.

When Wu Zhaopu and others learned about the idea of ​​Crazy Farm, they were amazed at how to describe it. This crazy farm has been confirmed by Cui Mingze, Qiu Xin and others that the difficulty of developing the entire game is extremely low. Since all the data is readily available, it can be developed within a few months at most. However, 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 drawbacks of the two games. If they are listed, they will surely cause a sensation again. What's more, with "Tencent" now in the country, it's hard to think of Crazy Farm or not.

As for Lin Feng, who conceived and designed the crazy farm, Wu Zhaopu and others admired Lin Feng. They don't know what the head of the chairman is made of, there will always be whimsical ideas, but it is always so amazing.

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

Later, when Tencent and the "Second World" jointly held a press conference to announce the joint development of the crazy farm, the domestic players were boiling.

If we say that the world’s most online game is definitely not the full house of Audition, which has the highest online number of 5.01 million, nor is it a legend that has just exceeded 100 million registered players. At present, the world’s true game with the most player base is definitely The QQ farm launched by Tencent is none other than the white-collar workers in the office, the blue-collar workers in the factory, or the national cadres of the government agencies, or the students who go to school. According to incomplete statistics, there are no less than 200 million people in the country who currently play QQ Farm.

A game is played by 200 million people, and this data is enough to make all game companies jealous. Especially this game is so simple, not only does it have no gorgeous graphics, but also has no plot. Just grow vegetables and steal vegetables, which can attract hundreds of millions of people. All game critics are shocked and speechless. Many foreign game companies have also plagiarized the qq farm's creativity, and released it after a slight modification. It has also gained a lot of popularity and support from players. It can be said that it is the most popular game after Tetris and Minesweeper.

However, after playing QQ Farm in China for more than a year, everyone’s enthusiasm has gradually faded. At this time, Tencent and the "Second World" announced the development of a new crazy farm, and it was combined with the most popular web game qq. The farm and the once-popular Plants vs. Zombies, just this gimmick evokes everyone's fantasy. After all, everyone is still playing in the qq farm, but Plants vs. Zombies are once fond memories.

However, how does QQ Farm and Plants vs. Zombies merge, and what kind of game is it? All Tencent users are looking forward to it.

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For many people, they don’t like pk games like legends, fierce battle games like counter-strike, or turn-based games like magic baby. They just want to play simple and relaxing web games, qq The farm and Plants vs. Zombies are very much in line with their requirements. If you want to play, you can play, and you don’t need to worry about it too much.

While all players were waiting, a week later, the first short game video of Crazy Farm came out. In this game video, there is only one island. The players planted six fields on the island, and the "defensive plants" in Plants vs. Zombies were built around the fields.

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

After all, different "defense plants" must be planted with different crops for synthesis, and the same "defense plant" can be synthesized by different types of crops. Such a setting undoubtedly makes the combination method ever-changing. In addition, the crops have different maturity times and different prices. How to plant the most crops at the most effective time and synthesize more "defense plants" will become the object of research for all players.

And everyone who has played Plants vs. Zombies knows that each type of "defensive plant" has different functions. There are also large and small powers, as well as "bullet" time, as well as fast and slow. Therefore, when building a defensive front, you must consider both the formation The decoration also needs to consider whether the money and the power of the plants can withstand the enemy's attacks from all directions. Undoubtedly, the strategy of this crazy farm has been greatly increased, adding more fun to all players.

Of course, there are only "six fields" at the beginning of the game. On the cliffs, there are only six simple straight roads, and the player's defense is relatively simple. However, in the future, as the player reclaims more and more fields, the player's farmland will be attacked from all sides. At that time, the correct placement of the "plants" will further test the player.

After watching the first video of the game, many players have a question. This is just the player defending the position, so how can the player steal food? Is it still stealing vegetables like the qq farm? If so, what role does this defensive measure play?

A few days later, the second video game came out.

In the second game video, a player is creating a "zombie", then loading it on a ship and transporting it from the sea to other players' islands. As a result, when I arrived at the destination, I accidentally discovered that there were other players around. After greeted each other, negotiated to wait for the crops to mature, and then landed together to "grab food".

After watching this video, all the players shouted in excitement on the spot, and some were so excited that they even screamed from the sky. In the past, when "stealing vegetables", although it was very exciting, the time was too short. Either the owner was "guarding the vegetables", or the owner was asleep. You can steal whatever you want. There is still some fun at first, but it will become boring after a long time. Now not only steal the food by yourself, but also other people steal the food together, and you can see who is stealing the food, which is full of fun in itself.

The biggest reason for the popularity of online games is the large number of people, and the excitement and fun of everyone playing together. Now "steal vegetables" are all stolen together, which is undoubtedly a very interesting thing. Thinking of the scene where dozens of players steal vegetables together when the crops are mature, many players are excited and almost want to play Crazy Farm immediately. The scene of dozens of players rushing to the island at the same time must be very spectacular.

Of course, due to restrictions on game settings, it is impossible for hundreds of players to steal food together. After all, it takes time to travel from your own island to the islands of other players, and the "zombies" need food. If the distance is too long on the way, the "zombies" will starve to death. This setting is to limit the collective "stealing" of large-scale players, which can prevent some players from being gangsterized in the game because they offend others, and secondly, it can also limit large-scale stealing of food that causes excessive weight on the server. burden. After all, this is not a qq farm, and the burden on the system's server is not great when stealing vegetables. This is a real online game. If hundreds of gamers steal food at the same time and dispatch the transported "zombies" to steal food, the burden on the system at that time will be no less than that currently operated by the "Second World" The essence of the swordsman love is loyal to serve the country.

Tencent currently has more than 200 million QQ users, and the maximum online users exceed 30 million. If these restrictions are not imposed, assuming that one-tenth of the 30 million people steal food from a player at the same time, I am afraid that ten sets of supercomputers will not be able to load. Crazy Farm itself is a relaxing and casual game, it is to make money rather than lose money. Now this setting can not only satisfy the player's ability to steal anyone's food, but also through various restrictions, it will not cause the game to cause too much load on the system server. It can be described as the best of both worlds.

After watching the second video, players are already very eagerly looking forward to the third video. There is a video of growing vegetables in the front, and there is also a video about stealing vegetables on the way. The third video is naturally how to steal vegetables.

With much anticipation, a week later, the third video was finally available. In the first time, more than 3 million people downloaded the video. After 24 hours, this data has reached 20 million times. The popularity of Crazy Farm is already a certainty.

In the face of this situation, in addition to staring at the bosses of other game companies, they can only say nothing. Although they can also plagiarize the idea of ​​Lin Feng, a very important problem is that there is a huge QQ user base behind Crazy Farm. At present, Chinese netizens can go online without watching the news, watching movies, listening to music, or playing games. Even if they are connected to the Internet with their computer on, they are not at the computer, but there is one thing they will definitely do, that is, turn it on. qq, chat when people are there, hang up when people are not.

In this case, Tencent can hang the QQ farm under the main window of QQ before, and the player can do just one click. Then it is natural to put Crazy Farm under the main window. In this case, how do their game companies compete with Crazy Farm.

Well, forget it, it's not the first time, this **** Lin Feng, I don't know how many ideas are still in his brain, we don't care anymore! ——It doesn't matter if many game company bosses sing Yang Kun in unison.

In the third video, after the players discover that other players have matured, they dispatched "zombies" to log in, and start the game screen of the invasion by selecting the weak point of the opponent's defense. As for the battle, it is the same as Plants vs. Zombies. But the difference is that before Plants vs. Zombies, players challenged the computer difficulty, but now they directly compete with other players, which is even more exciting.

Watching the "zombies" controlled by the "stealing food" player in the video continue to attack the stronghold of the "shoucai" player, all the players who watched it were full of enthusiasm, especially at the end of the video when other food stealing players also rushed to the whole scene. It's very popular. Under the "zombies" of many "stealing" players, they finally succeeded in breaking through the defensive line of the "shoucai" players. When they succeeded in stealing food, all the players cheered.

However, at this time, all players also noticed a new problem after successfully capturing the stronghold of the player on the "guard" side. Although the player in the video broke through the defense measures of the "Shou Cai" player, it is also a troublesome thing to transport the successfully stolen crops back to his island.

Each raft has a certain storage space and can only hold a certain amount of crops. It is undoubtedly a very painful thing if you try your best to break through the defenses, but in the end the crops you “grab” cannot be transported back to the island. What's more, can you grab enough crops to make up for the loss?

Obviously, this involves a strategic element-is the effort proportional to the gain?

But no matter how many players will worry about this issue, the popularity of Crazy Farm is doomed, just waiting to be listed!