Otherworldly Architect

For various reasons, when Mingyan started to design new projects, many people had already approached him.

One of them is an official from the Sixth Star Province, and his general title is the director of the "Internet Information Propaganda Department".

He came over in person, and Mingyan had no choice but to pick him up in person. The two talked for four hours in the conference room of the Blue Star Building.

These four hours... how should I put it.

It is only about 3 minutes to expressly feel that the communication time is effective.

It’s like putting a skill on when playing a game. After two hours of forward shaking, it was finally released, and it was over with a click, and then started a full two hours of backward shaking...

But all in all, Mingyan still understood the meaning of this "Network Information Propaganda Department".

——Blue Star is going to make an AR game!OK, that's a great thing!

——But pay attention to the issue of review, because in the real world, you can't do things casually, and there will be safety hazards, so Bluestar should pay more attention to the "online game review rules".

——In addition, the government is vigorously promoting "offline health campaigns", advocating that every citizen can walk 1000 meters a day, and 1000 meters is enough, comrades! !

All companies and individuals who are helpful to the promotion activities can be rewarded, and there are rankings. Generally speaking, individuals are encouraged with funds, and companies are given a certain degree of tax relief policy.

"By the way, you can also show your face on the official news, which is a great opportunity to promote the company's reputation." The other party said.

Although Mingyan did not speak, the secretary standing behind couldn't help thinking: Master Ming still needs to show his face?Does Blue Star still need publicity?

Answering the call of the government is still a good thing, and I guess someone is very good at this kind of thing.

Mingyan went back to discuss with Xia Cheng.

Xia Cheng touched his chin and said, "It doesn't matter if you participate in something that has advantages and no disadvantages. This kind of activity is held every year. You can take a look at the situation last year."

He searched for information about last year.

Last year's first prize was given to an app that made public service advertisements, and the final result was to encourage the people of the Sixth Star Province to walk an additional 462677 kilometers.

Mingyan was stunned when he saw it, and asked, "I remember the number of people in the Sixth Star Province is tens of billions?"

Xia Cheng nodded heavily.

Mingyan: "..." The first prize has only encouraged 46 kilometers, how lazy you interstellar people are!How lazy! !

In fact, the sixth-star province is considered a relatively good province, at least most of the people are still active offline.

Like the second and third star provinces where virtualization is more serious, 80% of people have already started to work, have dinner, entertain and even sleep online.

Even on their provincial capital planet, you can often see empty streets in commercial districts, only environmental protection robots walking around, very desolate and deserted.

But the virtual networks of these two star provinces are extremely lively, and they are also the areas where the people have the best and most enthusiastic attitudes towards alien games and e-sports.

They don't care about the basic necessities of life in reality, or even their own health.They are only willing to feast and feast on the Internet, and cheer for their favorite e-sports players. This is the reality of those two star provinces.

In short, Blue Star Studio went online and reported their new project to the Propaganda Department.

When filling in the name of the project, Mingyan had to rack his brains to come up with a name first.

——God, he's really not good at picking names!Otherwise every game wouldn't be voted on internally by the studio!

Fortunately, there was Xia Cheng sitting next to him, and he leaned over and said, "Let's call it "Dragon Hunter". It's simple and easy to remember."

Mingyan seemed to be saved in an instant, filled in the name as it was, and said: "It fits the theme very well, I decided to be it!"

After speaking, he froze for a moment.

Xia Cheng: "?"

Ming Yan said happily: "I suddenly had a brilliant idea: let players name the little dragon, and then use similar words to summon their own dragon to fight, how about it?"

Xia Cheng said quietly: "You should fill out the form first."

Xia Cheng is already very used to it. Master Ming is worthy of being Master Master Ming, who can always come up with wonderful ideas at unexpected times.

It feels like a famous detective who can suddenly think of the key factors to solve the case from the completely irrelevant chat content of the people around him.

Although the famous detective is indeed very powerful, but the person you chat with will look confused, okay?

Having said that, the reason why Xia Cheng is in Blue Star Studio is mainly to run the business of Morning Star Game Incubator.

Although a young couple is a young couple, there are still necessary procedures.

It was stated that Xia Cheng was formally hired to serve as the CEO of Morningstar Incubation Park, and there was also a board seat by the way, and then Xia Cheng started to run around.

Although he said that he also wanted to help, but in this regard he is almost a drag...

Xia Cheng kissed him, and said: "You foolish baby, just be a director who only pays money but doesn't work hard. I have my career content, and you have yours - when is the new game going to be released? ?”

Mingyan said: "Dragon Hunter, the game volume is relatively small, and it will probably be released on New Year's Eve next year."

Unlike previous games, the new project is not prepared to do rich game plots, long mainline tasks and vast open maps.

In other words, the focus is still on the real experience, not on the construction of virtual content.

This is the policy that Mingyan had planned from the very beginning.

In his design, "Dragon Hunter" should be a lighter game, allowing people to take it out to play for a while on the way to work, or to challenge a certain dragon at a party or when climbing a mountain...

All in all, it is a condiment for travel and entertainment by the way, not an immersive 3A game that you can devote yourself to at home.

And "Dragon Hunter", the most important thing is of course the dragon.

This week, Blue Star has officially entered the first stage of new project development: the designers are furiously working on the design! !

The specific situation is that Mingyan led a group of designers into the small black room.

This kind of small black room designed by the group is different from the programmer's small black room. It is full of beautiful things, and there are all kinds of strange things.

The entire room is arranged like an entertainment room, with many lazy sofas arranged in a circle in the middle, and a large whiteboard on the ground in the middle.

There are many shelves and whiteboards around the room, and various toys, musical instruments, snacks and drinks, electronic equipment are scattered on the shelves and on the ground...everything.

These things are here for three reasons:

First, put more and richer elements to inspire designers;

Second, let the designers have something to play with when discussing;

Third, create a relaxed and fun atmosphere in the whole small black room.

Such a small black room is also a set of models finally determined by Bluestar's years of development experience.

Designers are brainstorming inside.

Some people like to lie on the lazy sofa in a strange shape, playing with a yo-yo in their hands, and discuss issues with the people next to them;

Some people are more classical, so they like to wear glasses and meditate alone in front of the whiteboard in the corner;

Some people are more playful, they may go to play the instruments one by one, or use crayons to scribble on the messy walls;

There are also people who are more jumpy in their thinking and will lie directly on the floor and play a brand new game of the same kind every 3 minutes...

There are two small meetings here every day to gather everyone's inspiration.

A small black room like this is also called "Rainbow Room" by some employees, because there are really all kinds of things in it, and because the designers can always burst out colorful and wonderful ideas in it.

Like this time when they came out, they all had dark circles under their eyes again, as if their bodies had been hollowed out.

But everyone was full of energy, as if the group had drunk high, and they were still in a magical state of mind.

They contributed 77 unique dragon species!

"Dragon Hunter" can be used as the first to promote and let players understand the game. Naturally, it is the most representative dragon species that exist in reality.

Gold dragon, silver dragon, three copper dragons (bronze, brass, copper), white dragon, red dragon...

Then in the extension of reality, the designers also imagined:

Red dragons born on Valentine's Day will have a chance to mutate into pink dragons;

The pairing of white dragons and black dragons will produce zebra dragons, which can only be hybridized without natural dragon eggs;

The day dragon and the dream-eating dragon can be crossed to give birth to the "daydream dragon"...

Everyone was so happy when they saw the original design draft!

Varian said: "The red dragon is such a majestic dragon species, hahahahaha what the hell is Little Pink! I guess they want to say 'mmp' to you now!"

He took this list and ran over to have fun with his art team members.

The game development life cycle quickly transitions to the next phase:

The designers continued to explode, transforming the initial inspiration into specific documents, which should include the shape, attributes, personality, habitat, habits, history of each dragon species in detail, etc., large and small Exhaustive, even including the linkage relationship with other dragon species.

The art workers also started to work, and realized the first few design documents that were determined first into the initial concept drawing, and then turned it into the original design drawing, and then determined the 3D image, and handed it over to the modelers to start the first The production of batch dragon;

Programmers are relatively leisurely at this time, mainly because the bosses are still working on the program framework of the entire game, and anticipate technical requirements and possible bottlenecks.

At this time, it is clear that you can consider the game demo.

A demo is a prediction of what a game might look like in the future. It's a bit like building a virtual model before building a bridge to show everyone what it will look like in the future.

This time is also because I have to report to the government department, so I have to do a simple demo.

Mingyan rubbed his hands together, showing a villainous boss-like smile, and said, "Then, let's put a black dragon on the Golden Gate Bridge first, and try some small procedures."