Otherworldly Architect

This game, which was born out of an internal running team, has now entered the testing stage, but it has not yet had an official name.

On this day, several designers entered the meeting room again and held a small meeting.

"I suggest calling it a domineering name, such as "Golden Ge and Iron Horse"?"

"Is it a bit too similar to the new game of Dragon Slaying Sword next door?"

"No, no, no, "Golden Ge Iron Horse" sounds like the game only has fighting and killing, but don't we also have a system for automatically generating bloody stories?"

"Or call it "National War Running Team"."

"It's too casual! And now it's not like running a group at all..."

"Emmmmmm, what about "National" or "Power"? After all, the player is directly playing a country."

"It's not bad to call it "Xinghe", or "Stars and Seas" or something like that."

"This is good, this is good, it sounds domineering."

I still remember that in the earliest days, Blue Star named the game and held a referendum very carefully.

Later, there were more games, and the designers had a certain amount of experience, so they were able to solve all the problems by holding small meetings.

After all, they also found that the name of the game is becoming less and less important.

Even if Bluestar made a game and directly named it ":)" and drew a hundred smiling faces in the game introduction, I believe many players would click in to buy and download it for the word "Bluestar".

Maybe there will be some players who didn't even play, and started blowing at the word "Blue Star" with their eyes closed.

In the end, the designers hurriedly notified the new names to various departments.

The art team hurriedly started working overtime again to make a mighty and domineering LOGO and cover for the new name.

By the way, the marketing team also made a special appointment for two posters.

These two posters also look very hardcore.

The first one is a screenshot of the current game directly. You can see rows of white text swiping the screen on the pitch-black interface.

These prompt texts are all events that happened in other countries within one round, and it is up to the players to use their brains to imagine and analyze.

In the late stage of the game, there are too many prompts, and it looks like garbled characters are swiping the screen.

Right above the garbled characters, there is the word "Galaxy". The lead-gray font is majestic and full of metal texture, which reminds people of steel creations at a glance.

The second poster uses a real photo of the starry sky, with special processing done on it.

Two pieces of starry sky were circled, drawing the border of the country, and were dyed red and blue respectively at the same time. It was obvious at a glance that they belonged to two forces.

On the border line that intersects in the middle, there are two densely packed arrays of space battleships.

The vastness of the battlefield and the large number of soldiers can make one's scalp tingle, as if witnessing a war of the century.

Then this poster does not have the word "Galaxy", but quietly put a button in the lower right corner:

【Next round】.

The two posters were quietly posted on Bluestar's official blog, and they were overwhelmed by enthusiastic players within a short time.

Comments abound:

[Mist grass caught off guard! !I was planning to update it today, but I saw the hot push just after opening the software! 】

【new game!new game!Reminder!Reminder! 】

[This should be supervised by the leader, right?Right? !I knew the leader didn't like to make a second game with the same theme! 】

[Blind guess is the sixth child, who remembers the sixth child? 】

[It looks very exciting, is it a national war? 】

[Don't be the one who scammed money like the dragon sword next door, I was really scared of being tricked, and I lost thousands of dollars in it for a day of playing.Don’t even think about people who don’t have a home in the mine…]

[This should be directly called Star Wars! 】

As we chatted on the topic, someone always mentioned that money-swindling ghost studio.

Although the final proceeds of "Iron Horse Glacier" were donated to Morning Star Science and Technology Park, and many excellent products were hatched through it.

But for players, this is still a game that cannot be played without mines...

Recently, I heard that the several "dynasties" in "Iron Horse Glacier" have basically swallowed up the casual players.

There are 100 sub-maps in the whole region, 88 of which are directly occupied by local tyrants and proclaim themselves emperors, commanding tens of thousands of player city lords under their banners, and managing tens of thousands of cities on their own territory.

It can be said that they are the princes of the game world.

The rest of the areas are all alliances formed by individual players who can't bear the tyranny. Although the structure is slightly looser than that of the local tyrants' dynasty, the advantage is that there are fewer rules, attracting a large number of middle-level players. .

There are more middle-level players than local tyrants, and there is no need to work for local tyrants.

They're just here to enjoy the game and are willing to put a small fortune into their league.

The so-called people are more powerful.

In this way, the Sanren Alliance can be regarded as a neutral force that should not be underestimated.

Recently, the scope of the national war in "Iron Horse and Glacier" has become larger and larger, and it is no longer imagined that tens of thousands of people are on the same screen.

When several great dynasties merged, tens of thousands of people were mobilized at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was not difficult to gather an army of hundreds of millions in the game.

Even, many actions of the dynasties are affecting reality.

A viscount title in the "Sunday Dynasty" is equivalent to a small white-collar worker with an annual salary of 20 in reality.

And during the war, if you are appointed as a marshal of a legion, you can write this qualification in your resume, go to a company under the dynasty to join the company directly, and start from a management position.

For another example, once the material cities of certain dynasties are destroyed, the lost materials may be directly converted into real currency losses, which can reach tens of millions.

In the end, no one dared to call this kind of game a virtual game.

It's simply a plutocratic war that took place in another dimension...

The civilian players who are too far away from the national war, now they have left the game world, but they can watch the show with a more leisurely attitude.

Today, the two dynasties started fighting again in the middle of the night. They fought for three days and three nights and destroyed more than a dozen cities.

Tomorrow someone will go to war, dig up the big dam built by someone last year, cut the resource harvest in xx district in half, and then the local snake will declare war again.

Last month, another local tyrant increased the war bonus, and now their xx dynasty ranks first in the contribution list at the end of each month, and they can directly choose to transfer a house from the boss...

The world of gold and iron horses is getting farther and farther away from ordinary players.

Now they are eating melons to discuss:

[I really don't know if Master Ming will come to experience this kind of game... He should be regarded as a hero! 】

[Could it be that the leader couldn't stand the robbery method of "Iron Horse Glacier" at all, so he decided to make a more conscientious national war game by himself? 】

[Wait for Blue Star's new game. 】

These players are like small animals who have been wronged in other houses, so they ran back and gathered at the door of Lan Xing's house, watching helplessly while waiting for the leader to serve dinner.

The rice is still steaming in the pot.

Mingyan looked at the time schedule and estimated that the beta version of "Galaxy" should be ready before May.

The beta version is basically able to complete and test all the stand-alone content.

As for the online version, it will take a little extra time - after all, the running group assistant program has not considered this aspect of the structure.

When "Galaxy" goes online, there should be two modes first.

The story mode is a cosmic sandbox prefabricated by the designers, allowing players to freely choose one of the countries, find breakthroughs in various situations, and lead their country to victory.

Sandbox mode, with maps and situations customized by players or randomly generated by the system, players can freely choose a country to be born in a certain place, and develop their own forces from scratch.

Of course, the so-called starting from scratch means that this country has just entered the era of the big universe, can use the most basic spacecraft and detectors, and has a technological level at the level of a second-level cosmic civilization.

Currently, there are four scripts for the story mode, and the rest are still being produced by the designers.

This alpha version of "Galaxy" has already made many beta testers mesmerized and unable to stop.

On the first day Luke came into contact with the game, he went straight through the night, playing for two days and one night.

In the end, he went over to pick him up in person in a funny way, and said: "If you continue like this, I'm worried that your master will come to trouble me."

Luke said pitifully, "I just, I just played one more round... It's all because of your artist, making the [next round] button too tempting."

Luke fell asleep directly in the lounge of the Blue Star Building, and when he woke up, he hopped around to look for Mingyan.

Luke sighed and said: "Master, do you still have test places? I want to take them back to the teacher..."

Mingyan was a little surprised: "Odin also likes to play turn-based strategy games?"

"Actually, my wife likes to play." Luke scratched his nose, "Although it may not be obvious from the outside, he is very powerful..."

He clearly knew who he was referring to. It should be Odin's legal spouse, Victor Li, the chairman of the Cultural Preservation Association of Second Star Province.

This is not the first time the two parties have cooperated. It is really normal to have one more game test quota.

Mingyan packaged an extra copy of the game and gave it to Luke to take back.

Comrade Luke was so happy that flowers almost bloomed on the top of his head. He said in a loud voice, "Thank you, Master, thank you, Master! Happy birthday, Master! Master Xian Fuyong enjoys a long life and will be equal to the sky forever to rule the world!"

It's smooth sailing.

Mingyan: "?" Was this guy tricked into joining some cult in "Xia Ke Xing" again?

When Luke returned, he happily claimed the credit: "Master, master, master! Master, master, master! See what good things I brought back? It's the top local product of the Sixth Star Province, and it's a new game from Blue Star!!"

Like a child returning from a spring outing.

And Victor was in front of the computer, as if he was busy with some work.

Odin walked over in his pajamas, took a look at Luke's suitcase, and took out the alpha version of "Galaxy".

The master and apprentice were very happy, so they sneaked to the game room with the game in their hands.

Luke: "Master, Master, let me play ten rounds for you at most."

Odin: "I'll give it to you next round."

Luke: "Master! Ten rounds! It's my turn to play for a while!"

Odin: "The last round."

Luke: "..." Q口Q