Chapter 396: Chapter 251: Nine Out of Ten Divinations Are Accurate—No Charge if They’re Not!
The developnt work for "Mountain Village mories" primarily focuses on refining the ga storyline and level design.
This is also the norm for horror gas.
After all, in such gas, the sense of imrsion and involvent is the most important aspect, to the extent that so gaplay elents can even be sacrificed to enhance imrsion.
Of course!
That’s easy to say, but during the actual developnt, plenty of problems and challenges arise. For instance, the "Divination" system that Chen Ba has been diligently researching since after the Lunar New Year.
This chanism is actually quite simple.
The player triggers divination, and a screen resembling an Eight Trigrams Compass pops up, followed by an animation of casting Copper Coins, displaying the corresponding trigram for the player.
Speaking of which, creating this interface and system is about as challenging as making a "Hello World"—there’s really no difficulty involved.
The real challenge lies in how to produce an "accurate" trigram. How can this divination system be perfectly integrated with the ga content?
That’s quite tricky...
To write a code for random trigrams, Chen Ba could do it with his eyes closed. But the trigrams calculated this way tend to be quite random, lacking a certain degree of reliability and accuracy.
If your fortune-telling isn’t accurate, then what’s the point?
Accuracy is a must.
And on the basis of accuracy, the ga’s storyline or content must be pushed to change according to the trigrams, achieving a better effect.
For example, if a player divines and the trigram indicates that this journey will "offend evil" and be highly ominous, then this trigram must not be re nonsense but should reflect sothing truly present in the ga.
How can this be demonstrated?
The answer is that while the trigram can appear randomly, once it does, the ga content must change accordingly to validate the trigram’s accuracy.
Moreover, multiple divinations at the sa ti must result in the sa trigram.
A highly ominous sign one second, and great fortune the next?
What a joke!
Even though we’re dealing with taphysics, it can’t be that abstract, can it? At least in the short term, the trigram shouldn’t change too drastically; great fortune wouldn’t suddenly beco highly ominous.
"Let
think..."
Chen Ba picked up a pen and scribbled on paper, muttering to himself, "The trigrams aren’t entirely random; they’re pseudo-random."
The results of the trigrams will be influenced by the player’s previous actions and the storyline. The storyline change is controllable; the only uncontrolled elent is the player’s factor.
This ans the divination system needs to be combined with so "known" clues to predict the player’s future. And it’s not about random predictions; there needs to be so basis and accuracy.
For example, if the divination system indicates that it’s not a good day for the player to go out, and the trip will be highly dangerous...
The result is fine, but how was this result derived? Was it all dependent on randomness?
Complete randomness is impossible.
Divination, by its nature, belongs to a type of "fortune-telling." Since it’s fortune-telling, it definitely requires so prior information or knowledge of the diviner’s birth details, etc.
Thus, Chen Ba had an idea.
Utilizing the Iron Fool System’s coding capabilities, first, create a main frawork that can operate, then incorporate a bit of "learning" capability into it.
Don’t get
wrong, this isn’t AI!
Not everything can rely on AI. It’s okay to use AI for drawing and photo editing, but using AI for fortune-telling and divination? Oh co on.
What Chen Ba refers to as learning capability is actually providing this divination system with a "guaranteed fault tolerance rate."
Simply put.
The first divination might not be very accurate, since at that ti, the divination system has limited information, so the results it provides are rather ambiguous.
The second and third tis...
As it continues to be used, with the system’s continual learning and iteration, the trigrams displayed will only beco more precise, significantly enhancing accuracy!
"Isn’t this sowhat like a weather forecast?"
Upon learning from Ba that this divination system is impressive but can’t achieve 100% accuracy, Li Qizhen, the assistant, remarked: "When a weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow, it’s quite likely to rain, but there’s also a small chance nothing will happen."
"That’s right..."
Chen Ba thought about it and realized this analogy was quite vivid and accurate.
The logic of running this divination system is just like the weather forecast model! Because teorological satellites have observed rain clouds, predicting rain is reasonable.
But this result can’t guarantee 100% accuracy, as the forecast for rain is due to rain clouds lingering over the city.
However, there’s also a possibility that these rain clouds could suddenly drift away to another city, leaving a person who prepared with an umbrella and raincoat waiting in vain for rain all day.
If even the weather forecast is like this, imagine the divination system within "Mountain Village mories."
Players are dubbed the fourth disaster; their actions are uncontrollable. Even if the divination system is comparable to a weather forecast, it’s impossible for everything to be predicted flawlessly.
"Not only that, regarding the trigrams, I think it should be articulated more conservatively, leaving a little room for interpretation."
Chen Ba explained: "For instance, when there’s an on of great misfortune, instead of saying outright that it’s hopeless, warn the player of risks; however, it’s not entirely without hope..."
Just like the old fortune-teller!
Those who often get their fortunes told under the bridge know that those swindling fortune-tellers have an extraordinary gift of gab.
"The Art of Speaking"
"Listening to your talk is worth more than listening to another!"
If there were levels in the literature of empty talk, the highest level would certainly belong to bureaucracy, with fortune-tellers coming second.
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