Touching the night talk, every day nonsense and game-related farts, ghost things, new things.
What else can be done? (Photo/Xiao Luo)
Since I have to travel tomorrow, I had to go to a nucleic acid test today. For convenience, I made an appointment for a hospital closer to home, but I didn't expect that the nucleic acid test in this hospital was all open-air, and there were still many people queuing. As a result, although the doctors were actually quite efficient, I was frozen into a popsicle and secretly prayed that I would not catch a cold.
It wasn't until the return taxi that I had the spare time to pull out my phone and brush up on the game news. After the TGA last weekend, the game-related news also seems to be a little weak, there is nothing eye-catching content, even if there is, it is often not a good thing - for example, a news said that after the introduction of a new "anti-addiction" policy, a parent in Zhejiang found that although his son could only play games for 3 hours a week, he would save the game process video on the mobile phone and short video platform to reminisce repeatedly, "Parents cry every day, and the family is almost destroyed." So they asked the game operator to ban their son's account and wait until a year after the end of their son's middle school entrance examination to resume it. The game company agreed.
Excerpt from the report, slot point self-seeking (coding place for game operators and short video platforms)
It's not the first time I've seen this kind of news, either before or after becoming a game editor. By now, this kind of news has given me the feeling of no anger, excitement, ridicule, only a sense of powerlessness that "you can never wake up a person pretending to be asleep"... It can only be said that in order to wear the shoes of "protecting minors", the game industry has cut its feet many times, and it is difficult to say how much is left to cut it. Of course, it would be better if all aspects could really protect the rights and interests of minors.
Another piece of news that I find interesting, but not good news, is that the new legacy released by well-known producer Peter Molyneux is an NFT game.
Peter Molinho, perhaps more familiar to domestic players, is his nickname "Magic Cow". "Magic Cow" has successively founded Bullfrog Studio and Lion Head Studio, making many well-known games such as "God Is Crazy" series, "Theme" series, "Fables of Gods", "Black and White", etc. For many old players, these games have revealed some nostalgia for youth.
Peter Molinu has worked in the game industry for nearly 40 years
However, the professional experience of the "magic cow" is also quite bumpy. In the days of "God Is Crazy Too" and "Dungeon Keepers", Bullfrog Studio represented a crazy, nonsensical, "talented can do whatever you want" spirit, and it was also a highlight moment for "Magic Cow" and bullfrog studio members, a spirit that was still remembered more than 20 years later after the release of "Double Point Hospital". But from another point of view, "Magic Cow" (and his team) also often encountered the situation that the development ability could not keep up with the brain hole, and during the development of the "Fables of the Gods" series, he had to apologize for the shrinking of the official release version of the game compared to the publicity.
The original God Crazy Was Released in 1989 and caused a sensation at the time, with some commenting that it "created a new genre of games overnight"
Perhaps because Magic Bull has indeed made a lot of "crazy" games, not just a utopian who only opens his mouth, many players are dissatisfied with him, but they are quite sorry for this kind of embarrassment of being creative but lacking in the means to cash. As a result, some players specially registered a high imitation account on Twitter, specifically to imitate the tone of the magic cow to propose some wild ideas. Later, there were also people around some of these ideas to do Game Jam campaigns - the indie game masterpiece "Donut County" is a product of a "magic cow Game Jam".
Donut County has been modified several times over the version of the Game Jam campaign, and the final product has been very different from the original idea
After 2012, Magic Cow began to start mobile games, and despite the ups and downs in word-of-mouth, the 22 Cans company he belonged to still had works such as Curiosity, Godus, and Godus Wars on the market. It can be seen that the "old man" who has been in the game industry for nearly 40 years is still understanding the market changes according to his own ideas, and then deciding what kind of game to make.
Therefore, at the moment when NFTs and metaversms are being hyped, it is not particularly surprising that the "magic cow" is doing NFT games. From the perspective of the "magic cow", he may not know that players are generally not optimistic about NFTs, the metaverse is just a concept, and he is not sure whether it is a new bottle of old wine, but after all, with these new concepts, he should still want to rush a few times on the cusp of the storm.
According to the description in the media report, the NFT game "Legacy" released by the Magic Cow does not look special. On the surface, it seems to be a business simulation game, but the simulation business part is described as very illusory, "players can build their own business in the game, design their own products, and create their own business empire", which is basically equal to not saying. But read further down, the face of the NFT game is exposed - if you want to operate in "Legacy", you must first buy a piece of land, and to buy land, you must use "legacy coin" (a virtual currency launched by developer 22 Cans).
Legacy is expected to go live in 2022, but now it has started selling land...
This once again repeats the "meta-universe speculation" routine that Teacher Yang Zongshuo once paid attention to. I don't know whether many "metaverse" speculators - I don't want to call them "players" - have liked this recently, or there is no better way to circle money in NFT games, or they have not yet found a way to make NFT games look at least like a serious game, for some simple cognition, I just think that if even the "magic cow" can only make such an NFT game, then the "NFT game" may still draw a small circle to play by itself.