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Chapter 164 : Mod
Chapter 164: Mod
The development of hardware brought far more than just a technological explosion within games.
Outside the game, in the office, the architecture of development was also undergoing a drastic change.
It was almost impossible for one person to simultaneously master complex code algorithms, hardware, music, art, networking, numerical design, and all other aspects.
Unless they had a cheat.
E n ǔmа̀ .і d̃
The era where one person, a cup of coffee, and a PC could create a world was over.
"Remember when we developed *The Legend of Zelda*, just the two of us handled all the level design..."
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Sam looked at the busy crowd, feeling somewhat emotional for a moment.
Once upon a time, video games were in a precarious situation, about to be swept into the garbage dump of history.
Lin Lixin smiled and didn't say much.
Once 3D technology approached maturity, a large number of modelers and animation designers would inevitably join the battlefield.
Еn̄ ù ḿ а.. і̇ d
Programmers couldn't possibly cover everything after all.
Lowering the development threshold and allowing more developers with average technical skills but outstanding ideas to join the development was an inevitable trend.
Lin Lixin looked at the somewhat shy Kojima.
In this regard, the future 'Kojima Productions' did a very good job.
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Not rigidly adhering to fixed and stereotyped position planning, but broadly recruiting talents.
Besides the necessary positions, even talents from different fields like film and architecture were involved.
E n u̇ ṁ а̄
Appointing people based on merit and teaching them according to their aptitude.
Today's Lin Lixin was also trying to walk a similar path.
And the foundation of all this was built on a necessary condition: a lower development threshold.
"Sam, do you remember the 'game engine' I mentioned to you before?"
"Hmm... like a jigsaw puzzle, packaging mature modules together for developers to use?"
"Yes."
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Lin Lixin's gaze swept over everyone present and paused on Carmack for a moment.
id Software, or rather Carmack and Romero, were the pioneers in this regard.
After *Wolfenstein 3D*, id Software pushed on in one vigorous effort and directly launched the DOOM engine.
And this thing, along with its next-generation Quake engine, was the starting point where game engines truly got on the right track.
To be honest, Lin Lixin was a person living in the future. Although current technology allowed him to easily write the desired functions even using assembly language.
But whenever he thought of those completely out-of-the-box development tools in the future like Unity, Unreal, or even RPG Maker, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable all over.
Ẁе́_b̄n ōv̊ ӗl̆ Е́ nûḿ а̂
Why write a hundred lines for something that could be written in one line?
They could have used this completely meaningless repetitive labor to do something more meaningful.
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"Once the *Civilization* project is over, we will start officially developing this tool."
Lin Lixin's eyes burned brightly, directly making the final decision and setting the tone for this matter.
"So... this current spreadsheet configuration design is also an attempt by you to simplify the development process?"
Sam looked at the form in his hand, his heart greatly shaken.
Е̌ n̈ ům̂ а
Although he had been trying hard to catch up and constantly learning these newly emerging things.
But whenever he looked up, Lin Lixin seemed to always be running at the very front, even leaving them far behind.
"Hmm... you could say that, but its main purpose is actually for another gadget."
Lin Lixin's somewhat serious attitude from just now suddenly dissipated, and he chuckled.
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"What?"
"Gerald left a ROM slot on the NovaXeno. Guess what it's used for?"
Е̄ n̂ǔm̃а̄. і̊ d̈_
Lin Lixin mysteriously kept him in suspense and casually pulled out a small, packaged storage chip from his pocket.
This thing only had a capacity of a few dozen KB, completely a different world from the hundreds of MB CD-ROM drive used by the NX.
"Uh?"
Sam was stunned, frowned in thought, and tried hard to connect everything Lin Lixin had just described.
"Is it... an expansion pack? Like the expansion floppy drive used on the NovaBox?"
This was the most suitable explanation he could come up with.
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CD-ROM drives weren't as cheap as floppy drives. Even if they really made another expansion machine, it would be hard to recreate the brilliant success of the expansion floppy drive.
Not to mention how exaggerated the capacity of a CD-ROM drive was—that was 700MB. Where in the world was there a game that couldn't fit in 700MB!
The expansion pack technology first used in *The King of Fighters* in the past was essentially because the capacity of floppy disks was limited, unable to present all the content they wanted.
The money made from selling character packs was completely an unexpected joy.
Even Sam didn't expect this thing to be so reliable; it was simply a money printer.
Just the bunch of character packs for *The King of Fighters* had already created considerable profits for them up to now.
E n ü m̊а
"Bingo!"
Lin Lixin snapped his fingers and grinned.
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"It is indeed an expansion pack, but it's a bit different from what you think."
"How so?"
"I call it a 'Mod', which is short for 'Modification'."
"Mod..."
Ën ú m̄ȧ. id.
Sam repeated this very catchy word, trying to understand Lin Lixin's meaning.
"Is it a modification to the game content itself?"
"Hmm... not exactly. It's actually OK if you understand it as the previous supplement packs."
"Then what's its use?"
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"This isn't for us to use."
Lin Lixin smiled even more happily.
Ѐn̈ üṁ а
"Not for us to use? Then it's for... No way..."
Sam seemed to suddenly figure out what was going on. His eyes suddenly widened, and his whole body jumped up from the stool.
If what he thought was right, then what Lin Lixin was going to do this time was too scary.
Don't look at how Sam seemed like a mascot in GAMENOVA nowadays; besides handling accounts and a bunch of procedures, there were very few places where he could be of use in development work.
But he was a proper computer science graduate and a geek.
Sam had never done less of this kind of tinkering with games.
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"F**k! F**k! This is for players to use? A custom interface?! F**K!"
A channel that allows players to freely modify in-game mechanics, content, and even freely add new things...
The most terrifying thing was that this was a path officially opened by the developers themselves.
This meant that players didn't need to painstakingly reverse-engineer the game's source project files, nor did they need to try to understand what those obscure contents were used for.
Everything would be made public by GAMENOVA itself for players to consult at will.
Sam's eyes trembled as he looked at Lin Lixin in disbelief.
Е ñ u m а . іd̈
When he saw Lin Lixin's smiling face, he knew his guess was correct.
"Ugh..."
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Sam sat back in his seat blankly. When he looked at the document on the table again, he had a completely different understanding.
This wasn't just simplifying the development department's workload...
This was saving the players' workload too!
Just by filling in a few contents and modifying some text expressions, one could easily add a brand new civilization or leader to the game.
Ẃ e b nо̀ v ӗĺ Е ńu ḿӓ_
Good heavens!
"What the hell? Evolving without me?"
Sam suddenly felt like his brain wasn't quite enough.
[End of Chapter]
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