Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 414 - 415 Too Unlucky!

Chapter 414: Chapter 415 Too Unlucky!

Gu Fan couldn’t help but slightly frown, "President Li, I need to emphasize again, I am just an ordinary programmer. You ask me to find problems in the code I’ve written myself and maybe I could barely manage, but to find issues in someone else’s code, that is truly too..."

Lilith furrowed her brow and said decisively, "I’ll give you a bonus!"

"Alright!" Gu Fan immediately opened the source code of "Heartbeat Dream" on the computer and began to look through it carefully.

The night was long, and Lilith had a lot of time, so she was not in a hurry at all, just waiting with a stern face.

It was clear that "Heartbeat Dream" had issues!

Although currently, Lilith did not quite understand exactly where the problems lay.

Was it just about the plot inexplicably triggering players to fill in the gaps with their imagination? Absolutely not.

Because "Heartbeat Dream" visibly had many features that went beyond Lilith’s expectations, even including those functionalities Zhou Yang had once reported, such as the psychological horror elements, meta-gaming elements. Even when all these features were accounted for, "Heartbeat Dream" still had some "gilding the lily" features.

And it was precisely because there were too many of these superfluous features that an ordinary grass snake had been bizarrely embellished into a dragon!

What Lilith now wanted was for Gu Fan to compare meticulously and root out all of these "gilding the lily" parts, to see if Zhou Yang, as the producer of this project, had any second thoughts!

"Start with the last GM mode and check from there!

"I remember, such a thing was never mentioned in the design document!"

Lilith came on strong.

Obviously, this was the biggest flaw she could see.

The early design content of the game "Heartbeat Dream" was substantial, including the folder in the game root directory, which of course Zhou Yang had designed on purpose.

Players would make changes within the game by deleting, copying, and pasting files from this folder. This was the "meta element" Zhou Yang had mentioned before.

But the problem was, the so-called GM mode was never mentioned in the design proposal!

Anyone could tell by thinking with their toes that once Elios successfully activated GM mode, players could adjust various data in the game, even skipping or prolonging the horror content entirely at their whim, which was definitely contrary to Lilith’s original design intentions.

Because what Lilith wanted was for the players to contribute negative emotions, and the existence of GM mode would inevitably greatly reduce the production of negative emotions.

This meant that players who didn’t enjoy horror content could skip it, while those who loved it could experience it over and over, everyone eliminating the parts they disliked from the game, and wouldn’t the production of negative emotions inevitably decrease?

It was absolutely intolerable!

Lilith now wanted to seize irrefutable evidence that Zhou Yang had set up this "GM mode," therefore proving that this man must not stay!

Gu Fan first flipped through the design document, then said, "There’s no mention of this GM mode anywhere in the design document."

Lilith was not surprised, "Mm, look at the code!"

It seemed that Zhou Yang was a well-trained double-crosser, knowing that such things should not be explicitly written in the design document to leave evidence behind.

Although theoretically, all designs of a designer must be completed through the design document, and programmers are utterly unwilling to work on functions not included in the document, in practice, there are still many loopholes to exploit.

Especially in a company like Nitiandang with a rather flat structure, where the designers and programmers have a good personal relationship, it’s not impossible that adding features verbally happens.

If it’s not in the design document, but the code contains it...

Then Lilith wouldn’t just find one traitor in Zhou Yang, but also have to thoroughly scrutinize the programmer who wrote that piece of functionality!

Gu Fan looked through the lines of code with a grave expression, then went to the editor to find the various functional interfaces of GM mode.

Afterward, he fell silent.

Lilith sensed that the situation seemed complicated and asked urgently, "Did you find something?"

Gu Fan pondered for a while, unable to come to a firm conclusion, "I need to think it over."

Lilith frowned, "You either find something or you don’t, what does ’think it over’ mean? You’re not trying to cover for them, are you?"

Gu Fan couldn’t help but chuckle, "How could that be, President Li? You are overthinking it.

"Okay, since you’re so impatient, I’ll get to the bottom of it first and think about the specific reason later. I’ll just report to you what I have observed. As for the actual reason, you figure it out."

Lilith let out a mocking laugh, "Hmph, that’s how it should be. I’m much smarter than you. If you can’t figure it out, don’t bother. Leave it to me."

Gu Fan nodded, "Of course, President Li, you are wise and mighty, unparalleled in wisdom.

"Here’s the thing, I have scoured the related functionality’s code, but I have to admit that there is also no direct reference to ’GM mode’ in the code."

Lilith was shocked, her eyes widening dramatically, "What are you saying, Gu Fan? Are you sure you’re not talking nonsense? How could a function that’s not in the code implement itself? Are you suggesting this is some kind of miracle?

"Oh, it’s a miracle!"

Her eyes showed a deep mistrust, clearly, Lilith began to doubt whether this was some kind of clumsy cover-up by Gu Fan.

Gu Fan quickly clarified, "President Li, please let me finish."

He hurriedly opened the interface of the so-called "GM mode" in the editor.