freeallnovels Chapter 14 What does it mean for an arcade to give out winnings?
Chapter 14 What does it mean for an arcade to give out winnings?
【Ding! 】
[Acquired Skill]:
[Combat Power Detector]: [A god whose combat power is only 5 million! Grants the user the ability to analyze the ability values of others.]
"Analyzing other people's ability stats?" Lin Lixin stared at the newly appeared ability in the skill bar, rubbing his chin. "It certainly came at the right time."
Arcades are, after all, just entertainment venues; they can only be considered the first step in his gaming empire.
If you want to grow bigger and stronger and create brilliance, then starting your own game company is only a matter of time.
Lin Lixin's gaze swept around the arcade, and he roughly understood how to use the skill.
Similar to the arcade-style flaw detection skill, it will automatically appear as long as the thought is clear.
Sam Weber
Overall Rating: D (Promising Future!)
[Programming Development]: 13 (Growth Value: B)
[Hardware Technology]: 15 (Growth Value: A)
[Administration and Finance]: 20 (Growth Value: A+)
Sam's stats are rather bleak from any perspective. Although his growth potential is not low, he is still just a naive and foolish college student just starting out.
What Lin Lixin was more concerned about was that this guy was clearly a computer science student, so how come his highest level of development was in logistics?
Just as he was about to check the attributes of the other people, a dazzling golden light suddenly pierced into his field of vision from the side.
That was Vivian, and at that moment she was completely enveloped in this dazzling light, with a line of equally golden words slapped on her forehead.
Overall Rating: A+
"Eat?"
Lin Lixin had always thought this girl was just a kind-hearted senior who randomly appeared on the roadside, but now upon closer inspection, it seems that's not the case.
Vivian Paley
Overall Rating: A+ (A genius with strengths in one subject but weaknesses in another)
[Technical Art]: 41 (Growth Value: S+)
[Graphic Design]: 32 (Growth Value: S-)
[Programming Development]: 10 (Growth Value: D)
The attributes aren't ridiculously high, but the double S growth value is still almost blinding.
Lin Lixin quickly turned off the attribute analysis ability, and his gaze towards Vivian changed.
Vivian was completely unaware of this at the moment, having just finished a tense and exciting game of Tetris, breaking the record for the highest score on one of the new machines.
She eagerly joined the last line, ready to try again.
"Senior Vivian," Lin Lixin approached and struck up a conversation, "didn't I say I could treat you to some fun for free? You've helped me a lot, haven't you?"
He handed over a box containing a lot of cents; arcade owners never lacked change.
"Junior Lin, this is simply unbelievable. A week has passed, and I thought I could forget about it."
Vivian's face flushed crimson, completely disregarding formalities, she gestured wildly to Lin Lixin, explaining his name with spittle flying.
"But I can't do it! Tetris is so much fun, just when I think I've got it, a new trick comes along!"
"Senior, are you planning to queue again?" Lin Lixin replied with a smile, pointing to the long queue in front of her.
It would take at least half an hour to finish queuing in this line.
"Yes, I want to play this!"
"Okay, I was actually planning to invite you to play my newly developed game."
Lin Lixin shrugged and silently walked to another empty copy of "1942".
Although "1942" was only completely finished yesterday, once we have the source code, burning an EPROM won't take much time.
"A new game?" Vivian paused as she was about to move forward, looking at Lin Lixin sitting down in front of the unfamiliar arcade machine.
Could it be that new work that used the scroll technique that we mentioned in the library before?
But this is too fast!
Vivian last saw Lin Lixin on Monday. How could he possibly have produced a decent new game in just one week?
She glanced at the queue and realized she was at the very end. She figured there was no harm in giving it a try.
"Wait for me!"
She sat down in 2P next to Lin Lixin, but before she could even settle in, she heard a heated conversation next to her.
"Brother, I'll cover the flanks, you go all out!"
"Alright brother, I'm entrusting my back to you!"
Sam and Neil, each with a plane, were frantically tapping their fingers on the buttons, their breathing rapid and their faces flushed.
Neil is now incredibly grateful that he managed to overcome his exhaustion and come to this newly opened arcade called GAMENOVA.
This was the first time in his life he had played a masterpiece that left him speechless.
If Space Invaders was the pioneer and Ironclad was the founder, then this work is undoubtedly the culmination of all of them!
Its gameplay is full of randomness; no two games are exactly the same, making you want to keep playing and keep getting more coins.
As for Sam, his situation wasn't much better than Neil's.
The more rounds he played, the more horrified he became.
The fighter upgrades dropped by those elite monsters are actually random!
Lasers, machine guns, missiles, sound waves, wingmen...
The various weapon upgrade combinations are ever-changing and compatible with each other, making each game's equipment setup a novel experience.
"Bro, you can have this POW. Mine is a laser cannon; its attack power is enough."
"good!"
Two heavily modified fighter jets roared across the sea, destroying the entire Japanese air force.
Vivian looked on with envy and turned back to stare longingly at Lin Lixin.
……
The best thing about the cooperative mode is that as long as neither player is wiped out, the player who dies can respawn after deducting their items, as long as they renew their currency in time.
Although it was Vivian's first time playing, she quickly got the hang of it with Lin Lixin's help.
A game can pass in the blink of an eye.
She sat blankly in front of the arcade machine, staring at the Game Over and score displayed on the screen. She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
Is this something someone who's only been learning computer graphics for a week could produce?
The scrolling is so smooth and fluid that it even switches to different scrolling modes such as vertical, diagonal, and horizontal in different levels.
She had expected to see a giant still image scrolling, a technique that was nothing new.
However, Lin Lixin made an extremely clever layering process.
Clouds, sea, islands, ships—each scene element is like a living object, complementing each other.
Their rolling speeds are all different, and although it is a flat surface, it presents an extremely realistic sense of three-dimensional space.
After a long while, she sighed deeply and glanced at the other machines in the arcade.
"What have I been doing for the past twenty years...?"
Previously, her understanding of video games was limited to "outdated toys" and "poison of consumerism."
Even when the Atari crash occurred, she believed it was because she was farsighted and had foreseen it.
Looking back now, I realize I've wasted countless years of my life.
I wish we had met sooner!