"Wait a moment, wait a moment, let me take a moment..." Xiang Shan temporarily cut off his vision and said, "What did you call me?"
"Father," the individual replied.
Xiang Shan was a little confused: "What the hell is this? Is this because I want to be my father? Why?"
"Do you need me to explain it again from the beginning? Father." The individual replied: "In 2031, the Rama Project project launched the 'Yi Qian' project, aiming to confuse the public, and will package the leaked parts into a symbolic puzzle game for
Mass promotion.”
"This project can explain to a small number of people with technical skills the code that does not conform to the general laws of computers on Earth. At the same time, this is also your first attempt to use other people's brains to explore human understanding of 'non-human symbol systems'
learning ability.”
"You use that large piece of leaked code as a puzzle game..."
"Stop it, stop it, stop it." Xiang Shan waved his hand: "I remembered, this is what happened."
He even found an "unnamed rich man" three years ago to provide a prize worth five million US dollars for this puzzle game.
In 1982, the legendary game company Atari successively released a game called "Quest for the Sword" on the Atari 2600. The game designer proposed the concept of "combining games with reality". Therefore, "Quest for the Sword"
"Sword" is not only a video game, but also a series of treasure hunt activities based on this series of games.
In this activity, players need to solve puzzles in the RPG of the "Sword Hunt" series, and then mail the clues they find to Atari's corporate headquarters - that was an era when "game servers" did not exist. The company
Among these players, the fastest and best ones will be selected and these players will come to the company for the finals.
The winner of the first chapter of the rpg "The Earth World" will receive an "amulet" made of 18k pure gold, set with 12 diamonds, and engraved with the zodiac signs around it. Chapter Two "The World of Fire"
The winner will receive a Holy Grail, made of platinum, decorated with diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls, jaspers, etc. The prize in Chapter 3 "Water World" is a crown made of pure gold, decorated with diamonds, rubies, etc.
, sapphires, and aquamarines. In the final "Qi World", the prize is a "Philosopher's Stone". The body is a large piece of pure white jade, wrapped in a layer of 18k gold, and inlaid with yellow sapphires, rubies, and diamonds.
The costs of these four treasures are all in US dollars.
And at the end, the winners of the four worlds have a final battle to find the final treasure, a sword. The handle of the sword is made of 18k pure gold, and the sword body is made of pure silver, decorated with diamonds, topaz, and sapphires.
and rubies, worth up to $50,000 - which is why this event is called the "Sword Hunt."
However, due to the plummeting reputation of Atari Corporation in other projects, this activity was not completed in the end. "World of Air" was directly aborted, and the final "Sword Hunt" could only become a legend.
And this activity has also set off waves around the world.
Then……
This data was severely broken by the "rich man who did not want to be named".
Even taking into account the "numerical inflation"... ahem, "inflation" factor, the numerical reward given by the "unnamed rich man" is still a numerical reward that crushes the "Sword Hunting" activity.
It is true that the prize pools of some popular e-sports projects will be higher than this. The prize money of the championship team is also higher than this. But that is usually the income of one team.
And this is "the decryptor directly received five million US dollars."
Moreover, "Rich Man" also provided a complete set of solutions. If the final decipherer's decryption process cites the staged achievements of other puzzle solvers, then the discoverer of each staged achievement will receive an additional sum of money.
award.
"Rich" has also set up a dedicated player community for players to publish decryption strategies and mark the release time.
Finally, the "rich man" happily claimed that he had a lonely best friend who hid his soul and his gift to mankind in this game. He hoped that humans could successfully interpret the painstaking efforts of an autistic genius.
Achievement.
Such a gimmicky story is naturally very conducive to dissemination.
That game once became one of the most famous games in human history.
In the following years, a group of players explored an unfamiliar symbol system with a "game" attitude, which also gave professional researchers countless inspirations.
Some researchers who have nothing to do with Project Rama have indirectly completed research on alien languages by studying the behavior of those player groups.
In the following years, Ingrid also completed some meaningful projects.
However, this project has never been abandoned.
In fact, the "five million U.S. dollars" was just a blank check. What Xiangshan really did was to convince the person in charge of the big country behind the Rama project to give him the power to "write a blank check."
This is actually not easy, but at least it is easier than directly asking for five million US dollars.
And as more and more professionals enter the game, players also begin to believe that there is really an autistic genius who, deep in his heart that no one can understand, has created such a stylish game world.
——At least the decryption system and symbol system that are the main gameplay are quite "hardcore" and "professional".
And then……
The time came to the fifties.
As the Superman Enterprise is in full swing, this game has become popular again.
Everyone has realized that the "difficult puzzles" in this game actually come from aliens.
Taking advantage of this trend, Xiang Shan simply continued to speculate. He announced that all consumers of several game companies he controlled could obtain the latest version of the puzzle game for free with their consumption vouchers. And they were playing
During this game, part of the computing power will be contributed to train specialized AI to understand.
This is actually a project that is more gimmick than reality. AI cannot perfectly handle human natural language, let alone alien language. However, "generative adversarial network" is a toy that is easily addictive.
Even people like Xiang Shan, who has escaped from low-level taste to a certain extent, are inevitably attracted by it. When they think of a good topic, they can't help but try it.
Then……
Unbeknownst to Xiangshan, this project actually continued to run until the eve of the Sublimation War. The last batch of programmers of Superman Enterprise fully opened this project to the Internet. On the eve of the destruction of the old Internet on earth, this project once became an important part of popular culture.
The game was also packaged into data and escaped to the new Internet in the solar system built under the leadership of Yawgmoth.