The plot may seem a bit awkward, but it perfectly fits the game type of "Fitness Battle," so players won't find it strange or uncomfortable.

"Fitness Battle" is a casual game, and the art style leans towards cartoonish, so the overall tone is like that.

This opening plot transforms fat into a demon and eight fitness enthusiasts into warriors, using a traditional story background of warriors fighting demons. Although it's very traditional, it feels quite innovative when combined with fitness.

Moreover, this kind of plot is also quite funny, with a kind of dry humor that will make players feel more relaxed and less serious.

The opening animation is entirely made with real-time rendering, but because of the game's art style, it doesn't look rough at all. Instead, it has a strange sense of cuteness.

Immediately afterwards, the game enters the official story flow.

In the story, players will play the "Chosen One." The seer prophesies that the "Chosen One" is the key to resealing the fat demon. Only with the "Chosen One" can the warriors persevere, successfully drive away the fat demon avatars on their bodies, and ultimately face the fat demon in perfect form.

The game is played from a first-person perspective. The "Chosen One" played by the player will accompany eight warriors to different places such as glaciers and deserts. After expelling the parasitic fat demon avatars on their bodies, they will defeat the city lords in these different areas who are parasitized by the fat demon avatars, and finally defeat the fat demon through a sealing ceremony.

Characters are unlocked in a certain order. At the beginning, you need to choose one from two initial characters. After training this character to meet the conditions, you will choose one from three characters, and then choose one from three characters... and so on.

Players don't need to train all eight characters to complete the story mode, as long as they complete four of them. But after completing the story mode, there are more difficult challenges, and it will take a long time to train the characters to a perfect body shape.

Qiao Liang decided to go through the story first, chapter by chapter.

The first chapter is a beginner's guide level. On a green field, the attacks are all from relatively simple fat monsters.

During the battle, the character will guide the player to continuously make various fitness movements, and explain the essentials of these movements.

Most of these movements are completed on a yoga mat, such as high knee lifts, squats, push-ups, crunches, etc., and there are some difficult movements, similar to burpees, or other strange-looking movements.

It can be seen that these movements are designed by professionals and are indeed helpful for fitness.

Qiao Liang took out his yoga mat, which had been gathering dust for a long time, and spread it out in the living room. He projected the tablet screen onto the TV, and according to the prompts, supported the tablet with a stand and pointed the camera at himself, and then started exercising.

"Strange, how does it detect my movements?"

Qiao Liang was a little curious. Although the game did call the tablet's camera and required the player to always be within the camera's shooting range, with this camera's precision and sensitivity, can it determine whether the player's movements are standard?

Out of curiosity, Qiao Liang deliberately slacked off and made a few particularly non-standard movements.

Then he found that, obviously, it couldn't.

As long as he was moving, regardless of whether the movement was standard or not, the system would count him as completing the movement. Unless he left the camera area or stood still, the system could judge it and pause to wait for him.

"Isn't this a bit perfunctory..."

"But it's also very reasonable."

At first, Qiao Liang felt it was a pity. His hard work doing the movements had the same effect as just moving around casually. What's the point?

But now he is no longer simply considering the problem from the player's perspective. From the perspective of a game designer, this design may be a last resort.

First of all, this is a mobile game. Players use different devices, from flagship models costing several thousand yuan to models costing only a thousand or even a hundred yuan. To ensure that the game can barely run on most mobile phones, you must take care of the performance of the lowest-end devices.

Some mobile phones have such low front-facing camera pixels that it is too difficult to accurately locate player movements.

Moreover, although there is currently technology to accurately locate player movements through cameras, it requires professional cameras. Whether mobile phone cameras can achieve this level is still unknown.

It is very likely that a lot of effort will be spent on research and development, but there will be no results, which will seriously delay the game's release date.

Therefore, this design relies entirely on the player's self-awareness. If the player is lazy and wants to muddle through, then let them muddle through. If the player wants to train seriously, they will definitely be able to achieve results.

Evaluating it by the standards of a mobile game, doing this is actually quite satisfactory, and barely acceptable.

Qiao Liang exercised for a while according to the movements in the game, and soon he was sweating profusely.

Although they were all very simple movements, such as plank, crunch, or kneeling on the ground with elbows and knees touching, and stretching out hands and legs, he still felt quite tired after doing them for more than ten minutes according to the time and rhythm in the game.

"It seems easier to stick to than the apps, I wonder if it's just my illusion."

Qiao Liang bought a yoga mat before because he wanted to exercise in the living room, but after trying it a few times, the yoga mat had been gathering dust ever since.

The reason is that he couldn't stick to it.

In fact, the Tengda Life App has a module for托管 fitness gyms, which contains videos recorded by some professional coaches, which can be used to exercise along with. The Ellie Island website even has a large number of aerobic fitness and similar courses, but Qiao Liang tried a few times and without exception, all gave up halfway.

On the other hand, "Fitness Battle", although these movements are similar to those in the fitness apps, made Qiao Liang persist for a long time, and he was still enjoying himself, feeling that he could play another chapter.

Qiao Liang thought for a while, this is obviously the special effect of the "game" medium.

Because games are an interactive art that emphasizes player feedback.

If you just play a video, you can't do anything except fast forward and rewind, and there is no clear goal accumulation after practicing once.

But games are different. Games have colorful pictures, gorgeous attack effects. Every time players defeat a monster, clear a level, win a chapter, or watch a cutscene, they will gain a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

Therefore, it is easier to persist than exercising with videos.

"Clearing the first chapter can get some coin rewards, and it seems that you can also get a free lottery opportunity."

"Two more small levels to go."

"Forget it, let's take a rest first."

Qiao Liang wanted to continue, but his old arms and legs, which had been lacking exercise for a long time, couldn't hold on any longer.

Moreover, the game also limits the exercise time. The first time it reminds players to replenish water, the second time it reminds players to rest, and the third time it directly locks it, forcing them to rest for a period of time before they can continue to challenge.

Obviously, this is to prevent some players from getting carried away and causing over-fatigue.

Qiao Liang exited the story chapter and returned to the game's main interface.

Interestingly, after the exercise is over, the character in the game will count today's exercise volume, such as how many sets of various movements were done, and then convert it into how many calories were consumed.

After that, you can see some transparent bubbles flying out of the character's body, and the character's body shape changes a little, which means that a small part of the fat demon avatar has been driven away.

"This game is quite interesting." Qiao Liang couldn't help but sigh.

The idea of combining games and fitness is indeed novel, but like all other games, the idea is just a foundation. What is more important is the details needed to complete this idea.

All the details of "Fitness Battle" are done very well, including the character's art style, personality, modeling, and movements, the detailed explanation and guidance of various fitness movements, and finally the game's story packaging, gameplay settings, etc., all showing a meticulous attitude.

"Huh? What is this?"

Qiao Liang suddenly noticed a not-so-obvious button in the lower right corner of the game's main interface: Upgrade to Professional Version.

"There's a professional version? How professional is it?"

Qiao Liang couldn't help but be curious and immediately clicked to view.

After he clicked, a description page popped up.

"Purchase a smart fitness clothes airer and connect it to your phone via Bluetooth to upgrade to professional version game content."

"In the professional version of "Fitness Battle", you will get:"

"Dozens of professional fitness movements matching the smart fitness clothes airer;"

"The smart fitness clothes airer accurately detects the range of motion, corrects wrong postures, and provides better movement guidance;"

"Double calorie coin acquisition;"

"Professional version gift pack, including ten random rare props."

"Click the button below to jump to the purchase page."

Qiao Liang was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Ah? So this is what they were waiting for!"

"The game that CEO Chang said at the press conference that is paired with the smart fitness clothes airer is really "Fitness Battle"!"

Qiao Liang instantly understood the routine of this game.

The normal version of "Fitness Battle" is to attract as many players as possible, even if they are all free players, it doesn't matter, it can increase the popularity of the game.

Ordinary players can just do a few exercises on the yoga mat every day, brush some props in the game, and that's it.

But for those professionals who demand more and want to experience the best effects of this game, they have to get a smart fitness clothes airer.

According to the introduction on this, the smart fitness clothes airer can detect player movements, and also knows very clearly how much weight the player is using, how long it takes to complete a set of movements, and whether the movements are getting slower and slower, so it can more accurately grasp the player's training status.

In addition, the professional version will also give extra gifts, and has the advantage of double calorie coin acquisition.

This double calorie coin acquisition is obviously to prevent some people from deliberately using the mobile phone version to farm coins.

Calorie coins are obtained through exercise. The mobile phone version does not need to make the movements so standard. Moving around casually counts as completing the movement. If the efficiency of obtaining calorie coins is the same for both, many people may deliberately not connect to the smart fitness clothes airer in order to grind for characters or props, and only play the basic version.

This obviously runs counter to the design concept of encouraging players to exercise.

In fact, grinding coins doesn't matter, but if the fitness effect is affected in order to grind coins, then it's meaningless.

Therefore, while limiting players' exercise time and preventing over-fatigue, allowing the smart fitness clothes airer to obtain double calorie coins can avoid the situation of not exercising seriously to farm calorie coins, and it can also be regarded as a benefit for players who have purchased the smart fitness clothes airer, which can play a better promotional role.

Qiao Liang also watched the press conference before and knew about the smart fitness clothes airer.

But at that time, he was not very interested, and only thought it was an ordinary home fitness equipment, not much different from those fitness equipment sold online, so he did not want to pay to buy it.

But now, after the smart fitness clothes airer is combined with "Fitness Battle", it suddenly becomes something else!

Qiao Liang was suddenly very curious, what would it be like to play "Fitness Battle" with a smart fitness clothes airer?