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Chapter 540 - 175: The Fall of the Godfather of Gaming! (Worldview Completion - , Skip if Disliked)_3

Chapter 540: Chapter 175: The Fall of the Godfather of Gaming! (Worldview Completion Chapter, Skip if Disliked)_3

’No, you are not the founder of video games, the recently popular basketball game’s designer is,’

Whether it’s a series of mockery or genuine advice.

It made Ke Xiangyang feel the fierceness of competition for the first time.

And quitting his job to wholly immerse himself in game development had made his family’s already meager living even harder.

Shaken by the blow, Ke Xiangyang locked himself in the house for an entire month.

Every day, from the moment he opened his eyes until he went to bed, even while eating, he was thinking.

All the major sports and card games in reality had been done by others, what innovation could he still come up with?

And finally, when his wife complained one day that the TV was showing static again,

Ke Xiangyang was struck by lightning, metaphorically speaking, and thought of an entirely new approach!

This time, Ke Xiangyang planned to abandon the ancient programming methods.

He would use the more advanced assembly language available on the market.

Meaning, there would be no need to enter 0s and 1s to directly create the game graphics as before.

Instead, he could use the keyboard to enter corresponding commands, so the machine could understand human operations.

Thus converting the codes into pixel points on the grid.

And then utilizing these pixel points to generate game graphics.

The advantage of such a game was its higher graphic resolution and the ability to present a richer array of colors.

Unlike before, with a string of green zeros and ones that could nearly blind a player when they moved.

’Wow! Did we just enter the pixel era from the coding era?’ Ke Yu, who had emerged from the bedroom at some point, sat down next to Ke Jin.

With bright eyes as round as saucers, she looked as if she were witnessing history.

’Did our grandfather define pixel games?’ Ke Jin’s gaze was also filled with admiration.

Although Ke Jin, who had lived a second life, already knew about the journey of game development on Earth,

The history of games on Blue Star was inherently different from that of Earth.

And in any world view,

Those who can bring creativity are always great and deserve admiration.

Soon, Ke Jun spoke up once again.

...

After Ke Xiangyang had completed the innovation of pixel points,

He didn’t polish it as meticulously as the last failed work, ’Ping Pong Game’.

Sometimes, seizing the initiative is more important.

The invention of the second combustion engine came only 7 days after the first one.

He couldn’t guarantee that he’d be the first with this pixel game.

The heavy burden of family finances made him worry that if he polished the game any longer, pixel games would become commonplace.

Therefore, this time, the game Ke Xiangyang created was just a visualized pixel point.

On the pitch-black computer screen, a white pixel point would advance in a constant manner, until it absorbed another pixel point randomly generated on the screen.

Afterward, the two pixel points would merge.

Then another random pixel point would appear on the screen.

The player’s task was to use the keyboard’s arrow keys to move the pixel point in different directions to merge with the randomly generated pixel point.

To make the game more playable, Ke Xiangyang had added another mechanism.

Each time a player merged with a new pixel point, the movement speed would slightly increase.

And on top of the game, there would be a timer.

This timer would compile rankings that could connect throughout the entire local area network, allowing other players in the network to see this record.

’This game blew up in sales, didn’t it?’ Ke Jin spoke up, and Ke Jun was momentarily stunned.

’How do you know that, kid?’

’No, I was just guessing,’ Ke Jin said offhandedly, thinking to himself,

How could I not know?

This is the famous Snake game...

However, even if the same evolutionary variables occur in different spacetime planes,

There will still be differences in the details.

Sir Ke’s game, though almost identical in behavior to Snake,

Didn’t have the name Snake.

It had another name.

’Point to Face’

Which was quite fitting for the game’s imagery.

Originally a single point, as the player merged more pixel points, it gradually stretched into a thin line.

And when the line became long enough, the player’s movement range decreased more and more,

Leaving no choice but to start making circles in the limited space.

And there was only one ultimate outcome for the game.

That was a long line filling up the entire screen, until it formed an entire face of pixel points.

The game, as expected, blew up on Blue Star.

For Ke Jin, who had played countless games and had a profound understanding of their mechanics,

Snake-like games, no matter placed in any parallel universe, whether 3A blockbuster games were popular on that world, regardless of astonishing graphics quality, even if virtual fusion technology existed,

As long as a Snake game had never appeared before, its debut would sweep across the globe.

The reason was simple.

Its friendly learning curve meant anyone could figure out how to play at a glance.

Next, was its very simple and direct feedback on growth.

If you ate a pixel point and moved faster, in a sense, you did become stronger.

And what followed was a naturally perfect difficulty setting.

Eating the same pixel points made each subsequent one increase the difficulty level by one, bringing a fresh challenge to the player.

So even if it was primitive and rudimentary, these elements alone could make it an age-friendly casual game.