This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 274 - 183: Optimizing Spaghetti Code
Jiang Bin’s special interview report quickly appeared on the homepage of the Game Starry Sky portal.
The accompanying photo was a group picture.
Chen Ba, wearing a gray hoodie, making a peace sign with his right hand, smiling and standing with Lu, Yang Dong, and others, with a large "Tianba Game" logo on the background wall behind them.
This report went viral.
Because although the news that Tianba Game is developing a AAA game was all over the internet, no one had managed to uncover the specific insider details.
Jiang Bin was the first gaming journalist to uncover the game’s details and conduct an exclusive interview.
Therefore, many netizens, including industry insiders, had to rely on this special interview to learn about "Global Evolution," which is said to be the third major domestically produced AAA game.
That’s right, the third domestic one!
So far, there have already been two AAA games in China, one is "Black Myth: Wukong," and the other is "Final Battle at Bright Summit."
Interestingly, the first two domestic AAA games are both high-difficulty, soul-like games.
Alright then!
Maybe it’s because these game developers have a particular love for soul-like games, anyway, that’s the kind of genre it is.
Compared to them, "Global Evolution" isn’t that difficult; it’s considered a relatively easy-to-master type, which is the main reason everyone is looking forward to it.
After all...
For some players, soul-like games are really unfriendly. Falling at the hands of a Boss countless times brings a strong sense of frustration and discouragement.
In fact, Chen Ba initially also planned to make a soul-like game.
It’s just that he gave up on this idea shortly after having it, due to being hampered by his own clumsy hands.
In hindsight, if the game were completed and he, as the developer, couldn’t clear it, how embarrassing would that be?
As it stands now, it’s quite good.
Moderate difficulty, focusing on an open-world grand adventure. With this relatively relaxed and casual gameplay, he wouldn’t find it so tough, nor would he be frustrated and quit his own game.
"If you’re bad, practice more!"
Lu said speechlessly, "You’re the first person ever who develops a game and still gets beat to the ground by it, Ba."
"How did I get frustrated?"
Chen Ba released the mouse and said disdainfully, "I just think the difficulty is too easy for me, that’s all."
"Really?"
Lu let out a cold laugh, clearly seeing through Ba’s bravado.
They had just finished creating a Fierce Beast Boss, and needed to test the Boss’s difficulty and skill cycle.
Ba volunteered, claiming he was a hardcore player, repeatedly emphasizing that he was an expert, and that letting him test it would be foolproof.
The group believed him.
The result was that Ba got crushed by the Fierce Beast Boss, turning red-faced with rage, pounding the keyboard, and angrily blaming Lu for the unbalanced stage difficulty.
Lu was speechless.
This difficulty has a problem?
To be honest, it’s fortunate that Ba is the boss, the one paying the wages. If it were anyone else saying this, Lu could demonstrate what it means to single-hand clear!
Ba is purely unskilled...
Being unskilled is one thing, but denying it is another. He’d rather blame it on stage difficulty imbalance than admit he can’t dodge even a single move like a headless chicken.
"Forget it, let me do it."
Lu sighed and said, "Ba, you take a breather first. It’s really asking too much to have you test the stage Boss’s difficulty." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
If Ba kept testing, even the simplest difficulty could turn into a hell mode, and if not for feeling sorry for Ba, at least the innocent keyboard and mouse deserve sympathy, right?
"I keep saying, the difficulty is too... huh?"
Having just left his seat for less than three minutes, Chen Ba was still muttering about the difficulty being too high, fearing it would drive away many players.
Turning around, he saw that Lu had already defeated the Fierce Beast Boss?
What does that mean?
Does this Fierce Beast Boss like to pick on the weak, deliberately going easy on Lu? It goes heavy-handed against him while lying down for Lu to slice?
Chen Ba felt genuinely frustrated.
In this office, he couldn’t stay for even a second longer, feeling that the others’ gazes were half-mocking, half-pitying...
Not looking anymore!
A frustrated Chen Ba simply went back to his own office, sat on the chair, and closed his eyes to study the system interface.
"Global Evolution" is still in the development phase, and all ratings are fluctuating, not yet stabilized.
What surprised him was...
In the [Programming] category, the detailed score for the code was shockingly low at 62 points, a score Chen Ba had never seen before.
There’s a problem...
Why is the score for the coding section so low? Could this be a pile of spaghetti code?
Chen Ba was somewhat troubled by this score of 62, so he called in Yang Dong, and the two of them began inspecting the existing code to identify the root of the problem.
After inspecting, Chen Ba suspected that the issue lay in code prioritization.
The main causes of spaghetti code are twofold: one is code interfaces, the other is code prioritization!
The former, that is, the number and format of old code interfaces, may eventually become inadequate. To put it abstractly, it’s like the elevators of a high-rise building, which may face the problem of insufficient numbers or load capacity.
At that time, either replace an elevator, which means rewrite that segment of code, or disregard the old elevator, and install a new one, effectively bypassing that segment of code with new code.
This problem mainly results from changes over time and isn’t actually that severe.
The low code score for "Global Evolution" led Chen Ba to suspect a problem with code prioritization, meaning the code’s scalability might be weak, potentially unsuitable for future series DLCs or version updates.
