The dance moves of this meme are still based on Elizabeth's movement data.
Last weekend, a player posted a tweet related to the old game "BioShock: Infinity", which suddenly attracted a lot of netizens to watch.
The player discovers that in the "Sea Burial" DLC of BioShock Infinity, the protagonist Elizabeth "comes" to the dream city of Paris, in which a young boy dances around the pillar holding aloft a baguette next to the poster post.
In fact, in the game's plot, the scene on the streets of Paris is fantasized by the protagonist with a blur of consciousness, and if the player looks closely when he is active in this scene, he will find that there are many strange details around to remind you that this is not reality. And if you feel it in the scene, this boy also has a strange temperament, but when he is made into a GIF and leaves the game, it seems that in the eyes of people, only magic and sand sculptures are left.
"What do you mean, aren't the French like that?"
While many netizens joked about this magical picture, old players said that they had long noticed the "bread boy". Although it seems to have another meaning in the game's plot, outside the game, bread boy is also an old terrier in the eyes of BioShock players. Even at comic shows, a "bread boy" outfit and action can attract many flashes.
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Or just give an impromptu section on the street.
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Soon, this inexplicably resurgent meme boom attracted Gwen Frey, a technical animator in charge of character design in DLC that year. The developer now works for another game company, but seeing that the character he designed is now popular in this way, he personally responds and answers the story behind "Bread Boy".
Gwen Frey said that in fact, the birth of "Bread Boy" is very simple - in order to make Paris in this scene "appear vivid", she decided to design a pair of boys dancing together in the scene, but due to production costs, "Bread Boy" does not have an AI system, so Gwen Frey directly used the data of Elizabeth's dancing in "BioShock: Infinity".
But due to the shape of adults and children, the picture of a pair of boys dancing is very strange, so she simply deleted a boy and stuffed a baguette in the other boy's hand - this has another meaning, although the player can see the Eiffel Tower when the player looks up, but the technical animator is afraid that the player will not notice and feel the French atmosphere, so the scene is full of foreigners' stereotypes about France - the boy holding the baguette is one of them.
Gwen Frey also said that he was a little crying and laughing about the sudden popularity of "Bread Boy", "I didn't think about anything at the time, but this is indeed the most magical thing I have ever made." ”