This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 134 - 113: Winning Feels Worse Than Losing
As we all know.
Match-three games are essentially about matching three identical patterns together for automatic elimination, hence the name "match-three" games.
Three identical patterns/colors/blocks are the basic requirement for elimination!
However, in match-three games, aside from the most common three identical patterns being eliminated, you might also encounter situations with four, five, or six identical patterns being eliminated.
In such cases, some games do not allow multiple block elimination. Some games offer extremely high "scores" for elimination, along with more glamorous sound effects and visual effects.
Garbage Disposal Fun allows multiple identical-pattern blocks to be eliminated simultaneously.
When more than three blocks are eliminated simultaneously, different sound and visual effects are provided based on the number of blocks eliminated.
At the same time, the underlying garbage cleaning program of the system will also determine the level of "cleaning power" based on the number of blocks eliminated.
This was the plan set up by Chen Ba.
During game testing, he also took into account the situation of "multiple blocks being eliminated simultaneously."
But he overlooked one thing.
And that is the variable of "character skills" in the game, which, after satisfying certain conditions, allows for over 10 identical-pattern blocks to be eliminated using character skills.
Eliminating over ten identical-pattern blocks simultaneously is something nearly impossible in traditional match-three games, even with "pay-to-win items."
But Garbage Disposal Fun can do it.
Because the character skills are varied, some blow up a portion of blocks, others change the position of blocks, and some even directly swap out the pattern of blocks...
This results in, using the appropriate character skills at the right time, multiple identical-colored blocks being eliminated become a very easy task to replicate.
And the underlying code of the system turns out to have logic that dictates the more blocks eliminated, the greater the garbage cleaning power.
According to testing standards, eliminating nine blocks of the same pattern and color simultaneously already maxes out the cleaning power. After all, during testing, the game characters were not yet complete, and the possibility of more blocks being eliminated simultaneously was non-existent.
So...
"How is this even possible?"
Yang Dong scratched his head, utterly perplexed: "How did our garbage cleaning program end up erasing people’s software?"
He has used many kinds of garbage cleaning software, generally, those so-called "deep cleaning" are more for laughs and hardly deep at all.
But the cleaning Bug triggered after eliminating ten blocks at once in Garbage Disposal Fun is genuinely "deep cleaning."
The software completely wiped out, isn’t that deep enough?
"I have no idea!"
Chen Ba shook his head, looking utterly bewildered.
Waking up early, he initially wanted to check how many real users had been converted from yesterday’s ads.
Little did he know that waking up would stun him with various player feedback. When blocks simultaneously eliminated exceed 10, the software represented by those blocks would "vanish" from the phone!
In the game Garbage Disposal Fun, the blocks eliminated are common software icons on the market, with very similar patterns.
For instance.
If you eliminate ten WeChat icons simultaneously in the game, WeChat will be uninstalled and disappear from your phone.
Who can handle that?
Players complained one after another, saying, "I asked you to clean up WeChat’s garbage, not happily send WeChat away!"
"I tested a bit..."
Lu hurriedly reported, "Over 10 blocks eliminated simultaneously triggers the Bug, executing the uninstall command for the target software."
True physical elimination!
No need to clean up the garbage; buddy just helped to send the garbage generator away.
"There’s another scenario!"
Lu gasped as he said, "In the player-eliminated patterns, there is also the Garbage Disposal Fun icon." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
"What that means is if players in the game eliminate ten Garbage Disposal Fun icons simultaneously, the game will auto-uninstall!"
Chen Ba/Yang Dong: "..."
I’m killing myself?
It’s fine to joyfully carry away other software, but how can it carry itself away too? Hosting your own funeral is simply unheard of!
"It’s... it’s fine."
Seeing Ba’s face looking quite unpleasant, Yang Dong tried to console him, saying, "This shows that our game treats everything equally, impartially, and does not condone rogue software behaviors."
"If you put it that way, it certainly is impartial; rogue software won’t be as ruthless as us, even sparing itself."
Chen Ba said gloomily, "Yet I haven’t seen any antivirus software define itself as a virus, nor any garbage cleaning software treat itself as garbage."
"..."
How do you even respond to this?
Yang Dong and Lu exchanged glances, seeing the bewilderment in each other’s eyes.
Isn’t this thing created by Ba himself? Why does Ba’s face look so bad, as if he’d stepped in dog poop?
...
Chen Ba’s face indeed looked bad.
But Zhang Jianhua’s face looked even worse because, due to recommending Garbage Disposal Fun to his coworkers in the office, the whole office ended up playing this game.
The game has a PK mechanism.
Apart from randomly matching opponents, players can create rooms and pull friends together for a PK.
During a lunch break, Zhang Jianhua invited his colleague Old Wang for an exciting and thrilling match of Garbage Disposal Fun.
Old Wang paid for something!
He somehow got hold of a character, looking like a seductive fox, wearing revealing clothes and moving seductively, extremely indecent.
The indecency of the character isn’t the main issue, but the problem is, this character has a skill that can reorder blocks in a certain area.
