When it comes to "bullet screen games", everyone should be familiar with them, and they often had contact in arcade halls when they were young.
During the game, bullet attacks from both sides of the game will appear on the screen for a long time and are very dense, which is very challenging for the player to use small gaps to dodge during the enemy's release of a large number of bullets.
Series like "Raiden", "Thunder Dragon", "Bugs", "1942", "Fury Boss Bee", "Oriental Project" series are all very famous bullet screen shooters, and they are also the game memories of many friends.
However, just in recent years, there seems to be another "bullet screen game" boom on the Internet, and it is becoming more and more common, but it should be noted that... This "bullet screen" is not another "bullet screen".
01. The wonderful barrage skill has been added again
Friends who often love to visit the live broadcast area of station B, this time should have paid attention to a live game called "bullet screen interactive game", right?
The most special thing about this mode of play is that the audience netizens can control and operate the game content by sending a bullet screen, the specific principle is that the system will capture the keyword bullet screen entered by the audience, convert it into instructions through custom rules, and map to the live screen to achieve interactive effects.
One of the more common interactive games is "Exploding Planet", which is very interesting when you hear it, the size of the planet is so large, is it not er and other mortals who say that bombing can be fried?
But even so, everyone's hearts will still yearn for the Super Saiyan's combat power to destroy the world and the earth, and since it is not possible in reality, then enjoy it in the game.
The rules of the game are simple, just enter the "launch" command barrage directly, the audience can participate in the game, and then constantly launch missiles from all directions to bombard the planet until its core is destroyed.
The netizens who successfully destroy the planet will be selected as the next target of the national attack, and it will continue to be carried out.
Don't look at this game seems to be very single, in fact, the points and tips in it have added prop functions, such as consuming points to launch more powerful enhanced missiles, and rewards can summon battleships to continue to attack around the ground.
As a planet lord, the netizens here are not always sitting still, and the main tip gift can summon a group of "dog head" satellites to protect themselves to delay time.
The attacker's side can also rely on continuous reward gifts to summon more warships to destroy the lord's defense, and some local tycoon netizens can also tip all the time.
In this way, the entire game process can be controlled by the player, and both civilians and local tycoons can have enough sense of participation.
In addition to this very brain-opening "Exploding Planet", there is also a very realistic "Squeeze the Subway".
Friends who usually commute to and from work have this experience is definitely not unfamiliar, a large group of people desperately squeezed into the carriage, the intensity is simply fresh in my mind.
In the game, the player will play a group of small white people walking around in the waiting area, and can also issue love command barrages, and when the train arrives at the station, everyone will shout "Rush!" on the public screen. ”
Looking at the countdown to open the door on the screen, there is also a real scramble screen, which fully explains what is called "this time I can't rush!" ”
Unconsciously, interactive games like this are becoming more and more common in the live broadcast area of Station B.
It is said that this highly interactive live broadcast gameplay was introduced to China by the foreign video game platform Twitch in 2020, and some domestic anchors began to try to carry out this type of live broadcast, of which the most used game is "Plants vs. Zombies".
Originally a person to layout the battlefield, now into a group of people to work together to layout, each person is an independent individual, have independent ideas, this full of "three monks" set of the game mode thus attracted a lot of netizens curious onlookers.
In addition, the popularity of "Plants vs. Zombies" is also high, and it also has a variety of interesting mini-game modes, which makes this bullet screen interactive game more interesting.
In fact, in the past year, the live broadcast form of bullet screen interactive games has already taken root in the live broadcast area of station B, but it was not until last year that it began to be concerned by the masses.
In the live broadcast of "Lin Yi LYi", a well-known up owner of Station B, he played "Cyberpunk 2077" in a bullet screen interactive way, trying to let 1,000 people operate a car.
Let a large group of people drive a car, thousands of people in front of the screen can imagine how chaotic the picture will be, the car will drive like drunk.
Not long after the live broadcast began, more passers-by netizens quickly attracted more passers-by to participate, perhaps by coincidence or direct factors, the number of onlookers and bullet screens in the live broadcast area grew rapidly, and the server of the B station suddenly collapsed halfway through the live broadcast.
Although the live broadcast process overturned, but through this experiment up master also saw the feasibility of it, so in October came a larger-scale bullet screen interactive live broadcast--- 5,000 people sharing an account to fight the original god!
The game "Original God" has a very high topic heat at home and abroad, so this live broadcast quickly attracted tens of thousands of netizens to watch, and everyone's performance from the beginning of a scattered sand, to the back of the slow unity, until the completion of the game's task challenge, fully proved what is called "concerted efforts".
This "experiment" also quickly appeared on the hot search, attracting the attention of many melon-eating netizens, and also allowing the form of bullet screen interactive games to get more extensive attention than before.
Since ancient times, the human imagination has been endless, and behind the rise of this "bullet screen interactive game", it reflects the --- of the "infinite possibilities" that people can find in the process of groping for a small function.
02. Do you know that bullet screens have several ways to play?
In the early B station before the rise of "bullet screen interactive game", there were individual imaginative up masters who used the characteristics of "advanced bullet screen" to make a very interesting mini-game--- "bullet screen dodge".
The gameplay is very simple, just like standing in place and repeatedly dodging bullets, except that these "bullets" are bullet screens sent by audience netizens.
According to the rules, as long as the content with the word "coin" is sent in the bullet screen input box, the player can start the game with the arrow keys to control the "small TV" below to move left and right, press the S key to enter the slow mode to predict the position, and the longer the game time, the faster the bullet screen falls.
Seemingly simple mini-game, behind it reflects the unique personal creativity of the up master, but also the new interactivity he has excavated in the bullet screen function, which can't help but remind people of the scene when playing air combat games when they were children.
Unfortunately, due to the long time, the preservation of the high-level bullet screen is poor, and now watching this video is a black screen, except for the bullet screen left behind before, there is nothing inside.
Although there are few such interactive games now, people's attempts at bullet screen interaction have begun to reach a new level.
In 2020, the domestic game company Brainhouse Technology developed a game --- "Interactive Party" specifically for live interaction, which takes "changing the game result with bullet screens and gifts" as the core gameplay, encouraging the audience to use bullet screens or gifts to control the props or encounters used by anchors in the game.
During the game, the anchor is responsible for playing the human-machine adventurer, and the player is responsible for playing the zombie, creating obstacles for the anchor in the game by sending bullet screens and gifts, thus greatly improving the frequency of interaction between the anchor and the audience.
It is reported that the game was first tested in the Huya live broadcast, and the results found that the "number of gifts" and "the total number of bullet screens" in the live broadcast room have increased significantly compared with usual.
However, the game form of "Interactive Party" is too conceptual, there is not much market-oriented basis, like an impromptu one-time network experiment, which did not set off too much storm.
In the past two years, the bullet screen interactive game began to be officially popular on the B station platform, so that the bullet screen interaction was officially concerned by outsiders, and step by step out of the world outside the circle.
The first real circle of the bullet screen interactive game is still counted as the "cloud bungee" at the end of last year, it is said that a creator named "Xiugou Nightclub Owner" used his spare time to develop a game "Xiugou Nightclub", the character image of the game is designed in the appearance of the net red Shiba Inu cheems, the user can get the image and participate in the hall as long as the bullet screen is sent in the game.
Initially, the live broadcast room could only accommodate 200 people, but because the gameplay of this game was too interesting, the number of people pouring in at a time was as high as more than 3,000, so the boss was constantly renovating and expanding, and adding new ways of playing such as DJ interaction.
In the game lobby, all the "cheems" gather together to collectively send a bullet screen bubble brush presence, and the DJ position can control the whole scene, so that everyone can shout with the ta's conductor, such as "XX world first", "tomorrow holiday", "wish to pass" and so on, as if it is really experiencing bundy.
The most convenient and interesting part of this interaction is that you can provide contribution points as long as you send a bullet screen, as long as you send a bullet screen that can satisfy the pleasure of brushing existence, and also have the opportunity to run for the first list and become the DJ who dominates the whole field!
Later, the boss came to the B station live broadcast, the game also brought unexpected popularity, every day there are hundreds of thousands of popularity, the whole screen "dog mountain dog sea", just like the previous play DNF, the street is crowded with players, all kinds of chat, shouting occupies most of the screen.
There is no gorgeous scene design, no complicated interaction mechanism, and some are just a group of netizens gathering in a simple hall, but it is such an interactive game that has become a carnival party in the corner of the Internet, especially in the real world hindered by the epidemic.
It is understood that virtual nightclubs like this have a lot of competitive advantages in the current live entertainment, among which some anchors earn an average of 200 yuan per day by just the income of tipping.
For example, the nightclub owner shows that the data given by the new station shows that he can forward a dynamic estimated quotation to 5300 yuan, and a customized video can reach 24000 yuan.
Behind these high yields is the enthusiasm of the masses for the participation of the bullet screen interaction.
The reason why this seemingly simple and uncomplicated interactive game has such a high level of participation is that--- the core behind it is only the most basic collective social needs.
The reason why the video barrage of Station B was so popular at that time was because it narrowed the distance between the netizens in front of each screen, as if there was an invisible line implicating them, giving people a feeling of "you are not alone".
The reason why human beings need to socialize is because they are afraid of loneliness, because they don't want to stay alone, so they want to find more people to get along with, even if it is a group of people who want to communicate with themselves, so a social circle is formed.
The essence of the bullet screen interactive game lies in this, everyone wants to integrate into the group, become a member of this majority of participants, it is this demand that prompted people in the Internet age to begin to meet social needs in new forms.
It is worth mentioning that in recent months after the rise of "Yun bundi", Station B has given birth to a Renaissance called "Bullet Screen Werewolf Killing".
The game method is very simple, players participate in the game by sending bullet screens and assigning them to the human ghost camp, and vote to advance the game process according to the way of a real board game.
Such an online werewolf killing live broadcast is said to have dozens of participants in each game, which shows its high participation, indicating that everyone loves this kind of bullet screen game with strong social interaction.
Although this new live interactive game has only appeared for a short time, many things have not been set up with specific rules, and there are even illegal interest inducement behaviors, resulting in its future development is full of uncertainty.
But just as the so-called "there is a demand, there is a market", the enthusiastic participation of the masses also reflects the development prospects of the bullet screen interactive game form.
Maybe one day in the future, game developers will really create an orthodox game that is really based on the "bullet screen interaction" gameplay, and officially lead players into that unknown "oasis"...
03. Conclusion
With the prevalence of modern Internet culture, the "bullet screen" has become one of the important cultural carriers of modern young people, and on this basis, a variety of new entertainment methods have been derived.
From the initial message punch card, brushing the sense of existence, to the later group warming, the national carnival, and then to today's live interaction, the seemingly simple and ingenious small function of "bullet screen" is being given more charm by the world.
In the future, what kind of development will become of the bullet screen interactive game, we need to wait and see how it changes.