Otherworldly Architect

Mingyan just carried a new round of dragon eggs on his head, and continued to walk back to the Blue Star Building with Xia Cheng.

Obviously he doesn't exercise often, so he walked for more than 40 minutes for a short distance.

In the middle, they rested for a while in a dessert shop, and Mingyan continued walking again.

——Let’s be honest, if it wasn’t for being able to incubate eggs by the way, he would have thought of “I’d better take a taxi back if I’m tired from walking”.

—but no!Testing prototypes of new games is every designer's responsibility!

Therefore, when he finally made it clear that he walked to the entrance of the Blue Star Building, he was so tired that his back was sweating, and he drank a whole bottle of water.

He just wanted to go back to Lanxing's lounge to take a shower and lie down, but there was someone at the entrance of Lanxing Building that attracted his attention.

There was already a large circle of people around this person, many of them took out their mobile phones to secretly take pictures of him, and some whispered and laughed.

This man was wearing a very old-style robe and his hair was messy. He looked like he came out of the Middle Ages. He was sitting cross-legged under a tree at the gate of Blue Star.

Obviously he didn't have an invitation letter, so the security system of the Lanxing Building stopped him outside.

He had no choice but to sit by the side of the road outside, with a wooden board in front of him, with a few lines written crookedly with a marker——

[Please meet the Chief Designer of Blue Star!I have a good idea of ​​turning stone into gold, which can guarantee at least 100 billion profits. 】

Clearly stated: "..."

Xia Cheng: "..."

Xia Cheng tactfully pointed to his temple with his finger, then shook his head with a "very sorry" expression.

Ming Yan said: "This kind of thing...have you encountered it before?"

"I've met some people who are too presumptuous... I mean, people who don't know much about the rules of appointment, stopped my car on the main road," Xia Cheng said, "Just ignore him."

Ming Yan pondered: "Maybe he really has some brilliant idea?"

Xia Cheng was silent for a while, then continued to say tactfully: "I think you should have met a few amateur designers who are confident in their inspiration. Have many people sent their resumes to your mailbox? Or a design draft?"

"..." Mingyan understood in seconds.

Since Mingyan became famous, there are countless business cards and works like this.

It is a pity that there may be many confident people, but there are very few truly talented people among them.

Most of the works, after clearly reading the ideas, can only say an evaluation such as "the angle is clear and strange", but the actual implementation significance is basically zero.

A layman will come up with very novel ideas from time to time, but that's just novelty, basically not a good idea - if it is good, 99% of it has already appeared in the history of games; if it is very good, 99% There are already quite successful good game gems ahead.

However, there are still people who do not know themselves and think that they are the only smart people in the world.

So with regard to game design, people in the industry know two objective laws:

First, players don't actually know what they really want;

Second, no matter what the design is, there is always a plan to be scolded.

Even if it's Bluestar's game, isn't there still some sunspots active on the Internet?

The person sitting quietly at the entrance of the Blue Star Building may never know that Mingyan himself passed in front of him—wearing a mask and sunglasses.

After entering the door, Mingyan smiled and said to the security guard: "Don't pay attention to that person, and see if he is still there after dinner."

Security guard: "If it's still there?"

"Out of humanitarian spirit, give him a bottle of water." Ming Yan said.

Security guard: "Boss, he has been meditating for a day, what if he continues to come tomorrow?"

Mingyan thought for a while and said, "Then give him a chance."

He just looked at Xia Cheng beside him, who seemed to know what he was thinking, and handed over a business card to the security guard, saying: "This is the receptionist of Morning Star Game Incubator, let him search online Understood."

After solving this little episode, Mingyan can finally go into the lounge to take a good wash.

Xia Cheng also asked by the way: "Are there any arrangements for dinner?"

Mingyan was thinking about which restaurant to go to, when he suddenly received a communication from Tulong Baodao studio.

After answering the call, Ming said that the word "囧" was written all over his face, and hurriedly said: "I'll go to the Dragon Slaying Sword, and I probably won't be back at night."

Xia Cheng shrugged and said, "Okay, I'll work overtime by myself."

……

Speaking of which, Mingyan hadn't taken care of the affairs of Tulong Baodao for a long time.

Since the launch of "Yunxiang Clothes" last year, Tulong Baodao has been cheating money all year... oh no, robbery... oh no, in the cycle of encouraging recharge.

At the end of every month, a new style of appearance will be released!

Every festival will have a festival chapter, telling the story of the protagonist Xiao Yunshang.

By the way, there is also a set of activity card pools that will be changed every week. There will be an additional explosion rate increase in the card pool, attracting more local tyrants to krypton gold regularly.

Before "Yunxiang Clothes", few people thought of opening up the female player market;

Even if they thought about it, few people would know that the krypton gold ability of female local tyrants is no less than that of men!

In other words, women's spending power is even stronger than that of men!

Although the number of players is smaller, the average recharge amount is about half more than that of male players!

Not only other people underestimated this point, even the employees inside Tulong Baodao didn't expect it.

Before the release of "Yun Xiang Clothes", or even before the first event started, they were still a little worried: "Will it fail if you try to transform directly to the new market?"

"Are female gamers really willing to pay for a new set of virtual jewelry?"

Results one year later now:

"It's delicious!!!"

"Fucking female gamers are the real local tyrants! I spent tens of thousands on a set of clothes and I still can't get enough of it. The card pool has been emptied, okay?"

"Stop talking nonsense, just lick and finish. This is simply licking to the end!"

"Don't stop me, I will serve my aunts in the next game - I promise to do my best and die!"

Of course, although the new love direction (selling a man) work is already on the plan, and even the plot has been prepared in advance, but it is not a very suitable time yet.

Of course, when doing business, you can't just consider your own product cycle, but more depends on the market.

At present, in the female-oriented game market, the most popular game is of course "Yun Xiang Clothes", which alone occupies almost half of the country.

Of course, Dragon Slaying Sword can't launch a new game at this time, otherwise it would be to seize the market with itself - the art of mutual betting between left and right hands?

But the one-year silence to concentrate on licking female players has also caused dissatisfaction among some local tyrants on the other side.

[Tulong hasn’t released a new version of the krypton gold game for two years, what’s wrong, won’t we have fun? 】

[The money is in my pocket and I can't spend it, and the people are lying at home, and the trumpet opened in "Defying the Sky" has become the number one server again, what on earth do you want me to do to entertain! 】

【hurry up!Hurry up and change the skin of the placed hero, my mall is all sold out. 】

[It’s so boring, so boring, I’ve saved more than 30 five-star heroes and I can’t let it go, and I’m going to be bored to death if I don’t draw new card pools...]

This time Mingyan was called over by a phone call because the local tyrants were really impatient, and they organized a donation event...

Well, local tyrants are still local tyrants, and the way they urge changes is to spend money.

They formed a WeChat group, which was either the CEO or the rich second generation, and all of them were veteran players of the Dragon Slaying Sword game.

The group leader is responsible for checking the official website of Tulong Baodao every day: [There is still no news about new games today. 】

Then the brothers in the group started throwing money at the sponsorship page of Tulong Baodao!

[Oh, it's just a card draw for today. 】

[Small it a bit more, let Tu Long hire two more new employees, and the game should be played faster!Hurry up! 】

Everyone who slaughtered the dragon sword: "..."

Scared to pee, okay?

In this way, the new demand was handed over to Mingyan's case.

The deputy chief master of Tulong Baodao looked "a little scared and a little bit want to laugh", and sat opposite Mingyan strangely, and said: "...The basic situation is like this. I think to appease these players, you have to Just meet their needs."

Mingyan also had an "embarrassed" look on his face, and looked at the marketing department's portraits of these wealthy players.

——Successful people aged 20-40, well-educated and in excellent financial condition, with an average investment of about 20 yuan in each game; at least 10 hours of leisure time per day; most of them are managers, with superb team management skills ; The main achievement point of the game lies in "face", that is, the sense of vanity of the front and back.

In the small group of Tulong Baodao studio, someone once said with emotion: [The female players haven’t finished licking yet, there are still a group of bosses waiting to be licked...]

The deputy chief teacher asked tentatively: "Or just like "Ni Tian Jue", create a skin-changing game around the props in the mall?"

Mingyan propped his head on one hand, and did not directly respond to this question.

To be honest, he is not short of money, and it is impossible to make some garbage games for money; but at the same time, he knows the demands of Tulong's employees, and the new game must have extremely high commercial operation capabilities...

In other words, the bonus should be high.

Thinking of this, he said clearly: "I have a concept in my mind now, but it's not perfect yet. Give me some time."

The deputy chief teacher nodded immediately, "Okay, I understand!" The leader must be about to enter the small black room, and then miraculously pulled out a magical design draft like some kind of feline robot!

In fact, Mingyan really didn't enter the small black room.

That night, he and Xia Cheng went directly to eat steak.

While eating, Mingyan stared at Xia Cheng: "When you are 40 years old, you have a lot of people under your command, and you have money and leisure, what kind of games will you like?"

Xia Cheng: "??"