About me and mine clearance.

Minesweeping is my first game with remarkable achievements, but I haven't had a chance to write an article about it. Not long ago, a game media asked me to do an interview on mine clearance and listed a long list of questions. Looking at these questions, many memories can't help but come to mind ...

Let's take these questions and tell you something about mine clearance.

the charm of mine clearance lies in the eternal uncertainty. Because you never know how it will end until the last grid is opened. It is possible that the journey will be smooth and smooth, and the result will eventually die in the second guess; It is also possible that the road is bumpy and the situation suddenly becomes clear. Our real life is the same. The so-called achievements and setbacks are just a short fragment in the process of life.

China Minesweeping Network should be the first minesweeping website in China, which was probably closed before 27. Players who participate in the ranking above should have an impression of less than 1.

China Minesweeper Network is just a static ranking page, without any interactive function. Players can only get in touch with the webmaster by email, and then the webmaster will update the results regularly. Because there is no communication channel between players, it is impossible to form a community, so it is impossible to eliminate the loneliness inevitably brought about by playing niche games, and it is difficult to find a sense of belonging on the website.

In my opinion, the closure of China Minesweeper Network is because the operation of the website completely depends on the time and energy input of the webmaster, and there is no mechanism designed to involve Lei You. As a webmaster, you need to spend a lot of energy on video auditing, data entry and sorting, and it is difficult to gain a sense of accomplishment by doing these mechanical jobs. After the initial passion faded, the stationmaster spent less and less time, and the frequency of updating gradually slowed down, and finally closing the station was an inevitable result.

Although Ruan Xiaoer, the webmaster of China Mine Clearance, was suspicious, he didn't question it further after I sent the improved cheating video. Until the gateway station of mine clearance in China, my cheating results were recognized. I chose to disclose my cheating experience after SUB5, mainly to unload the burden in my heart and face my friends calmly.

At present, the main cheating methods are acceleration, UPK (playing the same map many times) and software scanning.

Because mainstream mine-sweeping software has built-in clock (anti-shifting) and video encryption and verification mechanism (anti-tampering), the threshold for forgery is very high. However, there are still a few software developers who have the ability to bypass these two mechanisms.

Mine-sweeping networks at home and abroad analyze and judge videos through manual audit. The moving way of software scanning is very mechanical and easy to be recognized; The mouse pressing time of accelerating video recording is particularly short, which can be analyzed by mouse behavior diagram; Only UPK can not be detected by manual means in theory, but it depends very much on the actual level of the player himself.

I have no qualms about saying that my original intention in setting up the mine-sweeping network is to show off my achievements. As for providing a communication platform for the majority of thunder friends and building a community, it was an idea that came into being later.

in mid-26, I played gold digging in QQ game (a mine-sweeping game) and joined the MS gold digging group family. There are many mine-clearing enthusiasts in the family, and everyone hopes to record their achievements. So birdy and I (Ma Jing, one of the elders of Minesweeper) manually maintained an ugly webpage ranking, and all the people who joined the ranking were family members.

after there are more than a dozen people in the ranking, we find that the workload of manually maintaining the ranking is too heavy and it is easy to make mistakes. At that time, I happened to be in charge of website development in the company and had technical ability, so I had the idea of making a ranking website myself. According to the model of the international mine-clearing network, the prototype of saolei.net was made in a few days.

it is mainly defined by me, and of course, I refer to the opinions of my friends. The purpose of setting up a title is to make the master look more distinguished, so as to stimulate everyone to improve their performance. At that time, there were only a handful of senior SUB6 people, so they were divided into two worlds: man and god in 6 seconds. At that time, my vision was that the gods were similar to the NBA Hall of Fame, which was a supreme honor. Later, there were more and more people in SUB6, so the title of Lei Sheng was designed for SUB5 players. However, there are many people in sub-5 and even sub-4 now ...

Because of the language threshold, most domestic players are out of touch with the international minesweeping network. Many Leiyou really became interested after searching for "Minesweeper" in Baidu on a whim and then finding a minesweeper network. Minesweeping network provides them with a platform to communicate with each other, so that many mine-clearing fans find a sense of belonging and existence. They watched the videos uploaded by the experts from the mine-sweeping network, learned from the experiences published by the experts, and organized a group to brush their scores together ...

When I set up the mine-sweeping network, China people in the TOP1 international mine-sweeping network could count with one hand. Today, nearly half of China people are in the TOP1 international mine clearance ranking, and I believe this number will continue to rise. Some time ago, China players occupied the TOP1 in the world women's ranking, which became big news.

it was there at that time. Because the most critical equipment for mine clearance is mouse and mouse pad, we often discuss topics such as who uses what and the characteristics of different mice in the group. So I added these two items when designing my profile.

when I won the first prize in the country, the mine-sweeping net didn't exist yet. At that time, there was only one unnamed webpage ranking, about twenty or thirty people.

when I set up the minesweeping network, I decided to register by real name. This was very advanced at that time, and many people chose to leave because they could not accept it, including some excellent players. However, I firmly believe that real-name registration system will give players a stronger sense of belonging, bring them closer together, help create a harmonious community atmosphere, and in addition, it can restrain the situation that experts play the trumpet more to a certain extent.

Compared with other games, the interface of minesweeper can be described as simple and crude. People who like to play mine clearance are difficult to be understood by the people around them, so they often feel lonely. The emergence of minesweeping network made them finally "find the organization" and became loyal users one after another. So it didn't take long for Minesweeper to complete the monopoly occupation of users' minds.

Minesweeping is, after all, a niche game with limited liquidity. Lianzhong's online mine-sweeping operation soon went offline, and not many people were playing gold mining in QQ games. In such an environment, no company or individual has the motivation to build a mine-sweeping website. Therefore, in 28, the mine-sweeping network with updated functions was stopped, and there is not even a competing product so far.

The international mine-clearing network we are talking about now generally refers to the mine-clearing ranking created by Damien. There are also many mine friends in China Minesweeper Network to participate in the ranking there. Because they are two independent websites after all, the rules and details of the two rankings and the scope of accepting videos will inevitably be different.

For the convenience of promotion and communication, China Minesweeping Network only accepts videos produced by one of the most popular minesweeping software (once Clone, now Arbiter), while the international minesweeping network has a long history, and even winmine's video recordings have been recorded. Therefore, the results of the two rankings are doomed to be incompatible.

In addition, the video evaluation standards adopted by China Minesweeping Network and International Minesweeping Network are different in different periods (for example, the minimum intermediate 3bv is different, etc.), but the final standards tend to be the same. Clone .97, a mine-sweeping software that was first promoted in China, was banned by the Internet because of the leakage of 3bv, but it was the only official mine-sweeping software recognized by the mine-sweeping network at that time. It has been popularized for several years and accumulated tens of thousands of videos, which is very popular among the masses. After repeated discussions, the management team decided to overcome various difficulties and change the official software to Arbiter.

Although the international mine-clearing network has widely accepted mine friends from all over the world, most Chinese people still stay away from it because of the language barrier. Nevertheless, China Leiyou also occupied nearly half of the seats in the TOP1, with many active members. Occasionally, experts from the international network (such as Kamil, the world's number one) are unwilling to be lonely and come to our QQ group to join in the fun.

In order not to repeat the same mistakes of China Minesweeping Network, I designed the administrator role to be responsible for the daily video review, forum and QQ group order maintenance at the beginning of the establishment of Minesweeping Network, and openly recruited from enthusiastic Leiyou. So far, the management team has maintained a scale of about ten people, and the blood is changed regularly. Administrators who have left their posts also remain in the management group as elders and help make decisions on some important matters.

since I retired in 28, I no longer participate in the daily maintenance of the website, only dealing with sporadic users uploading avatars (I am too lazy to develop this function) and regular administrator recruitment review. Only when there is a major or unexpected event will I come forward to deal with it.

At the end of 213, I wrote a new version of the prototype for Minesweeper, but it ran aground shortly after I started working. Due to the disrepair of the website, Lei You (such as Guo Jinyang, Zhou Ke, etc.) who have the development ability grabbed videos through crawlers and made many interesting rankings with Excel. I would like to thank them here.

is my personal name, but these names have become history. Today's first-class players are thinking about the overall situation on the premise of ensuring local optimization operation. At present, there are two main schools: pure NF stream represented by Guo Weijia (using only the left mouse button) and comprehensive operation stream represented by Zhang Xianyao (using left and right buttons together).

as long as the computer configuration is not stuck and the mouse can't move, it has nothing to do with grades. Mouse and mouse pad, at least before SUB6, may not have a particularly great impact on grades. If you want to go further after SUB6, there are certain requirements for the positioning accuracy, speed and stability of the mouse, as well as the key stroke and feel of the keys. Trash mice often lose frames when moving at high speed, and the long keystroke is not suitable for quick combo. Long-term use of non-ergonomic mouse can also cause hand discomfort.

of course. But the goal of modifying the resolution and adjusting the mouse speed is not to speed up, but to improve the accuracy of operation.

when we play shooting games, it is often difficult to aim at distant targets, but we can shoot with high precision after opening the scope of the sniper rifle. The interface of mine-sweeping game is too small on the current 18P resolution screen, but after the resolution of the screen is reduced, the interface of mine-sweeping will be displayed larger, which is more convenient for observation and mouse positioning.

We can often move the mouse from the leftmost part of the screen to the rightmost part of the screen with a wave, but in the interface of mine-sweeping game, the mouse may move only a short distance. If you don't slow down the mouse, it means that your hands have to move and fine-tune repeatedly in a small interval, which makes it difficult to locate and operate accurately, and it is very easy to get tired.

of course, it depends on luck to set a new record, even to open a game. Because most situations require at least two inevitable mine guesses.

Most of the time records should be completed in a situation where 3BV (a parameter for evaluating the difficulty of the situation) is small. However, most of the 3BV/s (a parameter to evaluate the operation efficiency of players) records are the opposite, and should be completed in a larger situation of 3BV.

The so-called luck is nothing more than being ready when the time comes. If your strength is not enough, even if you encounter a good game, you can only waste it. If the strength is in place, as long as you spend enough time playing the game, good games will always come.

Minesweeping is a very old game with no music and sound effects, and the picture is extremely simple. Although many people have played minesweeper, it is only because Windows installed it by default. People who love to play mine clearance are often just pursuing the feeling of constantly breaking through their limits. They may yearn for pure spiritual experience more than gorgeous sensory stimulation.

In minesweeping, there is no hands-on teaching like in today's games, but you are directly faced with a real dangerous world, and you need to explore and summarize the rules and play of the game yourself. Most people will choose to give up in this boring process, and those who persist in the end are people who are curious, willing to ponder, thoughtful and patient.

At that time, it was the world's first, and it was also the world's first in active service: Kamil.

after SUB5, it becomes more and more difficult to break the record. After SUB4 in February 28, I didn't get any results for a month in a row, which made me very discouraged. Invest a lot of time, and most of the gains are disappointment. I can choose to put more time and energy into it, but the input-output ratio is too low.

At that time, I had already started playing Rubik's Cube and won the top ten in Guangzhou Open in 27. The investment time can be significantly improved, so that continuous positive feedback is naturally far more attractive than continuous negative feedback in mine clearance. So I gradually turned my energy to the Rubik's Cube and gave up mine sweeping.

in 27, I organized the first gathering of Lei You in China in Shanghai (the base camp of MS Gold Digging Group). Nearly 3 Lei You attended, including four or five Lei You who came from other places. A crowd of people were waiting to mine in the Internet cafe, which attracted many curious audiences. Compared with mine sweeping alone in front of the computer, it is quite exciting for someone to watch PK on the spot. Cheers after a successful start, swearing when a good game was missed ... The atmosphere was unprecedented.

In 21, I participated in the recording of Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Always Ready" program, and was invited to perform live mine clearance. At that time, I hadn't played for two years, and it took me a week to recover my touch. In order to ensure the effect of the program, the custom mode of 8 thunder (standard 99 thunder) was adopted at the scene, and it was a success.

After 213, I also participated in two or three small-scale Leiyou gatherings in Beijing, but the focus of attention has become the current Lei Di Guo Weijia. Looking at the youthful teenagers, I can't help but feel a strange feeling floating in my heart. Is that jealousy? Is it envy? Or joy?

I know that I have created a memorable history, but a person's time will always pass, and the key lies in whether he has left anything useful to others.

since the laptop was changed to MAC, I basically bid farewell to mine sweeping. The last time I played should be at the Leiyou party in Beijing, and my score was about 6 seconds. I installed a mine-sweeping APP on my mobile phone, and occasionally I will play it.

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