Chapter 65:
Their most direct impression is that of a pixel game with a poor picture.
But now these three MODs put into the workshop by Chen Xu and the team have completely subverted their concept of this game.
It turns out that after the game is marked with high-resolution materials and light and shadow special effects, the picture is so hanging?
How high is the upper limit of this screen, depending on how good their computer configuration is?
But even so, players still haven't thought that these are far from the whole content of "Minecraft", just the tip of the iceberg.
On the third day, many players were surprised to find that the Nebula Games team in the creative workshop was no longer uploading buildings.
It's a brand new thing, and this brand new thing makes all players unanimously make a sound: FUCK!
Not uncommon in real life, a very simple one - a calculator.
All Minecraft players were stunned when they looked at the calculator and its parts made of small pixel squares in the video, as well as the final demonstration of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Players who originally thought that the Forbidden City and Bianjing were already exaggerated, this time they can only admit that they are not the most exaggerated, only more exaggerated.
Calculators are not very rare, and even many games have their own calculators.
But the key is that those games have already been set.
In the MOD of "Minecraft" released by Chen Xu now, all these things are made by himself.
And this thing can really operate in the game, it is simply outrageous!
Of course, some high-level players who have studied "Minecraft" for a long time have actually seen it.
That's the calculator, made with the redstone system.
But how can this thing make a 'full adder' and an 'exclusive OR gate'?
This Nima is simply outrageous!
In this way, is it possible for the CPU to make it?
Can you make a computer in this game in the future, and then use the computer to play Minecraft in Minecraft?
Some more knowledgeable players are already too excited at this time, because in their minds, they have already figured out a lot of feasible ways to play.
As for ordinary players, it can only be described in one sentence: I don't understand, but I am shocked!
"How can I have no culture, I'll go all over the world with one word!"
"Can this game still be played like this? I'm totally stupid!"
"So the phrase in the cutscenes, 'only the imagination limits the gameplay' is completely correct!"
"It's an explosion, and I must make one by then!"
"Don't brag, Mom! You download a mod first, then disassemble it and put it back together!"
"Fuck, I downloaded the mod, and then dismantled a redstone component, which is now useless!"
The continuous MOD of "Minecraft" shocked players, and at the same time, it also appeared on the hot search list of the official blog.
This time, not only the major game media, but also many traditional media have reported it.
Even TVC specially introduced these mods of "Minecraft" through ten seconds of news, especially "Across the River During Qingming Festival" and "Forbidden City" during a certain time period with low ratings.
These reports also made "Minecraft" out of the circle smoothly.
The high popularity and this combination of punches directly blinded the industry manufacturers who had been concerned about "Minecraft" before.
It's been planned for a long time!
This is obviously a long-planned plan!
Many game makers turned their heads to take a look, and then they reacted.
This creative workshop, as well as the MOD of "Minecraft", obviously cannot be completed in one or two days.
It was the publicity strategy that Chen Xu and the others had determined from the very beginning of the Nebula game.
Otherwise, such a huge amount of work, even with the assistance of software, cannot be done so quickly!
But no matter how these people analyze it, one thing is doomed.
That's when Minecraft took off!
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A week after the game was released, players also discovered the deeper content of the game little by little.
Of course there were some tragic things along the way.
For example, if you die in the wild with a lot of materials, then you can't find the place of death and can't retrieve the materials.
I finally built a comfortable and warm home, and then went on an adventure in the wild, but could not find the way home. People are still alive but actually dead.
For this reason, many players are not clear about the compass and the map.
In order to be able to find the way home after going out and not to get lost, a tall building will be built as a beacon in your home, or a beacon indicating the direction will be set up after walking for a while so that You can find your way home.
At the same time, the content of "Minecraft" in major communities has also begun to massacre.
'Minecraft 477 novice teaching! ’
‘Teach you how to survive in Adventure Mode! ’
'In Minecraft, we recreated the Yuanmingyuan! ’
'One week after the liver burst, the first automatic chicken farm in the whole network! ’
From entertainment to novice guidance, to showcasing your creations in the game, and scientific research on the redstone system...
More and more interesting videos appear on the Internet, and this is also due to the specialness of "Minecraft".
Because it is different from ordinary games, the sandbox game "Minecraft" brings infinite possibilities. Some people can show architectural skills, some people can show some fancy gameplay, some people can explore the unknown world, some The research tech tree of...
Some even count on the creative workshop to live, and download any interesting mods shared by other players to experience the world of others.
It can be said that everyone's gameplay is different, and the content of natural output is becoming more and more abundant.
And the output of these content continues to drive the popularity of "Minecraft" and drive sales growth.
Soon, a series of related records came out.
Minecraft's first-week global sales: 4.11 million.
Global sales in the first month: 18.12 million.
All the people in the industry concerned were dumbfounded.
Although the running water did not exceed the original "Eldon's Circle", after all, the price difference between the two games was more than ten times.
The sales record has already broken the previous record set by "Ayrdon Circle".
The more critical point, that is the current "Minecraft", but only on the PC side!
In the future, how high can this game reach?
Many game designers don't even dare to think about it.
Chapter 102 Sales Miracle
A variety of video content related to "Minecraft" has also attracted many players who do not play "Minecraft" and feel the charm of this game.
With a little bit of exploration, players basically don't just delve into how to make pretty little houses.
Instead, I began to study the magic of the redstone system.
In fact, the principle of redstone is very simple and not complicated.
It is to use redstone torches, buttons, levers, pedals, redstone powder, repeaters, pistons, rails and other components related to redstone.
Build a complete redstone system to manipulate various organs to achieve complex linkage effects.
To put it more bluntly, it is nothing more than a puzzle. The redstone torches play the role of continuously sending signals.
Doors, music boxes, and transmitters are objects that receive a signal and open without a signal.
Pull rods and pedals are easy to understand, they are switches.
The repeater is equivalent to adjusting the signal, because after a certain distance, the redstone signal has no signal, and the repeater can add it to the maximum state.
Although no player has made any calculators or pianos.
But automatic chicken farms, small mine carts, and simple facilities such as signal gates have already been successfully made by players.
After that, on the major video websites, the most clicked are no longer just those architects.
Awesome programmers and tuners have also begun to perform on the stage.
Someone made a complete smart home with automatic doors and automatic lights.
Someone made all kinds of music out of redstone music.
Someone tried to build a huge playground in Minecraft, and things like roller coasters, jumping machines, Ferris wheels, etc. can all run automatically.
At the same time, Chen Xu's official calculator has been successfully reproduced before, and even more frightening is that some bigwigs are completely dissatisfied with the calculator.
They want to make a CPU in Minecraft and a computer that can actually run and play games.
After these great gods joined "Minecraft" one after another, the charm of this game was completely excavated.
‘Mom asked me why I was kneeling watching the video! ’
‘The same games are bought with money, why are yours different from mine? ’
‘I think I bought the wrong game, I’m playing Minecraft, what kind of world are you playing? ’
‘Seriously, selling this game to you Mr. Chen for 35 yuan is really a blood loss! ’
‘Fuck me, I’m still a caveman, in the Stone Age, and you’ve all begun to enter the Industrial Age! ? ’
'I just built my farm and it's still in captivity, and you've all started to go fully automatic? ’
Looking at the videos of various great **** shows, many players are also making fun of them online.
It means that they are playing "My World", and these people are playing "Other People's World". Are these two games at all!
Of course, it's all said and done, but it didn't dampen the enthusiasm of these players at all.
Because any player can find unique fun in "Minecraft".
And thanks to the "creative workshop", more and more interesting MODs have gradually appeared in it.
There are also dedicated players who have set up servers for various gameplays.
For example, the MOD of "Stonewell City" was introduced into it, and a range was planned to start playing hide and seek.
There are even players who build cars in the game and then race on the track.
The even scarier thing is that some players are re-engraving the use of firearms and vehicles, and are ready to play the battlefield in "Minecraft" at that time.
And some players are still thinking about reproducing the monsters and maps of "Ayrden's Circle", so that players can also suffer in "Minecraft".
The cartoon style and the way of building blocks have made many players find the long-lost innocence in "Minecraft", and at the same time, it also makes "Minecraft" much less hostile than other games.
The atmosphere and environment of the entire game are very positive, and the combination of these factors will naturally lead to the growth of sales.
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Miracle.
This is the definition of the game "Minecraft" by designers in the game industry in the past month.
Not only domestic game companies and designers, but also foreign game makers and designers, and even Nebula Games' own partner, York Lennon, were stunned.
Because in the past month, the power shown by "Minecraft" is simply amazing to everyone.
Simply incredible.
If the global sales of nearly 2,000 in the first month, people feel amazing and incredible.
The follow-up development of "Minecraft" has left everyone confused.
Because generally speaking, the first week and the first month are the best time periods for explosive growth in sales.
Subsequent sales slowly decline, which is a very normal thing.
But Minecraft is different, it seems to violate this law completely.
By the second month, sales, although down, were unusually stable.
For two consecutive weeks, it has continued to cut nearly 7 million sales worldwide, and it has no intention of stopping.