Chapter 44: The plagiarist appeared
Experience in-store.
Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya are fighting against Jia Peng and another boy.
"Senior sister, help me build a nut wall here!" Chang Xiuya said.
"How many zombies have you saved? Come, put it here with me, and steal this corn cannon from Xiuya first. Jia Peng said to another boy.
Chang Xiuya panicked: "Hey, Jia Peng, you can't do this!" ”
Wen Lingwei was expressionless: "It's okay, I still have two corn cannons waiting here." ”
Chang Xiuya screamed: "Ah!! Jia Peng, why don't you play your cards according to the routine! Didn't you say stealing my corn cracker, how did you eat my sunflowers! ”
The experience store was very lively, Wen Lingwei and others were playing the latest multiplayer battle mode, and the fight was inseparable.
Su Jinyu is using developer tools to design new plants and zombies, of course, mainly in terms of appearance. Her hand-painting level is much higher than Chen Mo's, and she has already drawn two or three new plants.
All three of these plants are full of chinoiserie, namely wheat machine guns, sweet potato bombs, and bamboo walls.
The in-game community function of Plants vs. Zombies has also begun to gather more and more players.
Nearly two months after its launch, Plants vs. Zombies currently has more than 800,000 users, and more than half of the players are still active.
Some die-hard Plants vs. Zombies fans are very fond of developer tools, especially those who are already interested in game design and are trying to make new mods.
At present, there are more than a dozen mods, but these mods are basically simple changes to the values, such as infinite sunlight, increased plant rate of fire, etc., although there are many people who play it, but obviously it can't last long.
However, Chen Mo is not worried, there are many mods, and there will naturally be excellent mods, so let players spontaneously screen them.
As for the multiplayer mode, it has indeed set off a craze among the player base, and in the community of "Plants vs. Zombies", many players are posting one after another, discussing the small routines of the battle mode, and even a three-person squad completed a twenty-game winning streak, posting in the community to show off, causing everyone to watch.
On major forums, players also praised this version update of "Plants vs. Zombies", and even triggered a wave of download craze again.
"I studied the developer tools today, and I feel that this tool is too powerful, and we can change anything, so let's develop it ourselves! Sit back and wait for the big hands to make a mod that is comparable to the original! ”
"I thought I had figured out the game, but now I think I'm too young...... If this game is constantly updated with mods, it will probably be able to play for a lifetime......"
"I can only say that I kneel to the designer, and there is no one who can do this level of a single-player casual game!"
"However, opening up the developer tools means that everyone can study the data of Plants vs. Zombies at will, and the designers are really bold!"
"It's just that, unlike other companies, the game data is all hidden and encrypted, for fear of being plagiarized."
"That's right, just for the author's opening up of developer tools, the road has turned to fans!"
Chen Mo looked at the players' comments and was basically relieved.
For him, the new version can do this to a certain extent, and this update has greatly extended the vitality of Plants vs. Zombies, and it is expected that Plants vs. Zombies should continue to dominate the puzzle casual game charts in the coming months.
Suddenly, Su Jinyu panicked: "Store manager, it's not good!" ”
"Huh?" Chen Mo raised his head, "What's wrong?" ”
Su Jinyu came to Chen Mo with her mobile phone: "Look, this game ...... Copy us! ”
Chen Mo took the phone from Su Jinyu's hand.
On the screen of the mobile phone is a game in the app market, and as you can see from the game introduction screen, the gameplay of this game is very similar to "Plants vs. Zombies", with five roads on the left and enemies on the right.
However, the art materials for this game are completely different from "Plants vs. Zombies", the name of the game is "Defense of the Moon", and the main content is that players arrange various high-tech weapons on the moon to defend against the attack of alien zergs.
Although these high-tech weapons do not bear any resemblance to plants in appearance, they are inextricably linked to the various plants in Plants vs. Zombies in terms of their specific role.
For example, the Pea Shooter has been changed to a machine turret, the ground thorn has been changed to a magnetic trap, the Sunflower has been changed to a supply base station, and the Corn Cannon has been changed to a nuclear silo.
The packaging of the zombies has also been changed, and they have all been changed to various alien creatures, all of which are all kinds of ugly zergs, some large and some small, and the attack methods are also different, but most of the zerg's attack methods can see the shadow of zombies.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Jia Peng also came over.
Su Jinyu said: "Look, this game called "Moon Defense" plagiarized us! ”
"What? So shameless! ”
Everyone opened their phones and found the game in the app market.
Indeed, everyone can easily see that this game is plagiarized from "Plants vs. Zombies", basically the entire art resources, music and sound effects have been changed, and the UI has also been changed, but the gameplay inside is exactly the same as "Plants vs. Zombies".
"Can this endure? I'm going to give it a bad review! Jia Peng said indignantly.
"Yes, brush up on bad reviews! I'm also going to get the rest of our community to brush it together! The crowd responded.
Chen Mo didn't speak, and first took a closer look at the data of this game.
The launch time is the day before yesterday, and it is completely free to download. The rating is very low, only 2.3, and most player reviews are one-star negative.
Obviously, these players have played Plants vs. Zombies and are very dismissive of this kind of plagiarized game.
The game is charged with built-in ads, and there will be a simple banner ad on the screen every time you clear the level.
Moreover, there are some value-added services in it, players can pay for energy supplies (that is, the sunlight in "Plants vs. Zombies"), and pay to get three resurrections after death.
The developer is Flying Limit Mutual Entertainment, and the designer is a C-level designer who has never heard of it.
Flying Limit Mutual Entertainment is a game company far away in the magic capital, and it can barely be regarded as second-rate. Before this, there were also a few very ordinary terminal games and mobile games, but none of them were big sellers.
This company has a poor rating on the Internet, but because it is so unknown, most people are unaware of its bad deeds.
Chen Mo also got a general understanding of the company's style after flipping through several games launched by this company.