Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1159: Chapter 1057: How can a game be more fun than being a designer?_1 Chapter 1159: Chapter 1057: How can a game be more fun than being a designer?_1 The steering wheel is evidently not an option.

In “Gravity,” we’re playing with realism.

A large number of pieces of equipment appearing in the game all have very detailed instruction manuals.

Players looking at these manuals could only feel overwhelmed.

But those who understand, especially practitioners related to the aerospace field, are all almost dropping their jaws.

The reason is simple: many of these pieces of equipment were, as of yesterday, stuff that must be kept secret.

But now, in a game, not only have they appeared openly, but they even have the manuals!

To make repair easier for players, the manuals often include detailed structural diagrams — though not complete ones, they maintain at least half of the overall completeness!

The generosity is off the charts.

Someone even couldn’t help but ask online, “Are these things really allowed to be made public?

Did Lincoln get approval?”
Lincoln’s fans — yes, Lincoln does have fans, retorted, “It’s not for you to worry about, perhaps these things are all forced out by Lincoln himself.”
With such absurd replies, netizens found it hard to refute.

Because everyone knows that Lincoln is absurd, but no one knows just how absurd.

It’s naturally hard to refute someone whose limits you can’t measure.

However, this is some negative news after all, the operation team of “Gravity” stepped forward to clarify that all the stuff that appeared was either unclassified or had permissions.

The Xiajing Astronaut Training Center also confirmed this in the comment section.

If it were in the past, they would indeed have to keep these secret, for the technological levels of the major space powers did differ somewhat, but overall, they are actually not far apart.

Thus, a high level of secrecy is indeed required, and every tiny aspect matters.

But with the full roll-out of [Focus Headband], even without Lincoln, the development in many scientific fields began to make breakthroughs like riding a rocket, with all kinds of new technologies and breakthroughs popping up.

——It’s just that some breakthroughs in sensitive areas are not announced proudly to the public.

The aerospace field, being one of the most competitive areas internationally, also made very rapid technological advances.

This stuff that was semi-public in “Gravity” has actually become somewhat outdated and, therefore, can be made public.

After the game goes on sale, these patents will be released, and some technologies that could be used by the public will also be handed down.

And all this, was traded by Lincoln using his reputation.

The objective then…

Of course, it wouldn’t be for messing with players’ mentality.

He just hopes to improve players’ scientific literacy a bit.

It’s all for space education, after all!

As for players who are racing against time and frantically flipping through the manuals, learning how to repair equipment or drive an escape pod on the fly…

That’s just something that they can’t avoid!

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As Xu Shenghan was anxiously flipping through the manual inside the continuously shaking escape pod, trying to find operating instructions, William was also busily flipping through a manual.

However, his goal differs from Xu Shenghan’s.

When he was nearing the Tiangong Space Station, the audience got excited all at once.

Because before the game went on sale, he made big statements, saying he wanted to try the [True Space Parachute], skipping all the plot procedures, directly parachuting to Earth, and speed-running “Gravity”!

However, at the start of the game, the satellite debris came too quickly.

He hadn’t even figured out whether there were parachutes onboard the spaceship before the debris wiped out his hometown.

He later learned that the spaceship had deceleration parachutes, but it was already destroyed by the debris and couldn’t be disassembled.

With Glen constantly urging, William could only join him in heading to the Tiangong Space Station.

Now eying the huge parachute and the “troublesome” teammate now out of sight, the [Space Parachute] plan was finally ready to be set into motion and couldn’t be put off!

So as soon as William entered the space station, he began to troubleshoot urgently.

The live-streamer community was eager to watch his space parachute, so no one disrupted and the fire hazard was promptly alerted by conspicuous messages.

Therefore, William was the first to resolve the loopholes —— not by mending the routes, but rather by unplugging the lines directly.

Afterwards, he began to flip through the manual, figuring out how to operate the parachute.

The parachute of the escape pod was truly colossal and had already unfolded, tangled around the space station, making it extremely cumbersome to salvage and repurpose.

Not to mention the countdown on the wristwatch was ever ticking, the imminent second round of debris attack, left him in a tight spot.

However, thinking about such large-scale tasks, they’re never a simple matter to begin with!

After William eliminated the threat of fire and read through the repair handbook for parachute failures, he decisively donned the spacesuit, switched to another air valve and exited the cabin once again to repair the parachute.

To other players, the space station and escape pod mattered most.

However, for William, he could abandon the space station and escape pod, but the parachute was the one thing he must preserve at all cost!

As for whether he would be successful once he jumped, and if the game would freeze,…

none of that mattered!

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On the other hand, Super Tomato was also conducting repairs against the clock.

But his goals were distinct from William’s and Shawn’s.

William only wanted the parachute, and Shawn only wanted the escape pod, and him…

he wanted everything!

He planned to resolve most of the emergency faults before the second wave of the debris attack arrived, then to start the 12 orbital engines, 38 attitude control engines and 6 Hall thrusters of [Tiangong Space Station], in one fell swoop, push the orbit of the space station away, and completely rid of the threat of the debris!

Returning to Earth?

He’s got a space station now, no need for a return!

Of course, Super Tomato’s space knowledge is fairly extensive, he knew quite clearly: although space travel is different from within the atmosphere, theoretically you can use minimal fuel, flying an astonishingly far distance, but thinking about interplanetary navigation is still unrealistic.

Moreover, whether Cloud Dream has truly created the distant planets, also requires a big question mark.

——Don’t even mention Mars, whether the nearest Moon even has a physical entity is another story.

But at the same time, Super Tomato also remembered one thing ——
The first batch of players that landed on Dinosaur Island actually caught Lincoln modeling the game scene in real-time in his last-minute efforts.

Given his temperament, if any player could truly land on the moon —— or even just get close enough, Lincoln might even scramble out of bed in the middle of the night, and build the moon on the spot!

Therefore, the space station, must be secured!

Even if the fuel is insufficient, and it ends up crashing on the moon, as long as it could force Lincoln to work out something, it would still make a fortune!

Of course, doing this is extremely difficult.

One prerequisite is, “Gravity” is not merely built with an Earth low orbit, it also has to own a perfect Earth-Moon gravitational system.

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Only then, can players rely on accurate orbital calculations and engine operations, to propel the space station to the correct orbit, then with the effects of the Earth-Moon gravitational pull, slowly approach the moon.

Super Tomato had everything planned out, as long as the space station could be preserved, he’d instantly find an expert to verify if the Earth-Moon gravitational system exists.

If it exists, there’d be nothing to dispute.

He’d kindly asked the expert to calculate the orbit, then set off for the expedition.

If it doesn’t exist, he’d openly make a video, explaining to the players about the loopholes in “Gravity” game design —— The gravitational system is abnormal!

He was willing to bet that, once the video was out, Lincoln had over 90% probability, to immediately modify the game, even if he had to work laboriously, he’d create the normal gravitational system.

After all, “Gravity” was the game he developed personally!

“Isn’t it way too boring to just play the game?” Super Tomato was explaining his ideas to the audience while tightening the screws.

“One must play with Lincoln too when playing!”