Otherworldly Architect

——Xia Cheng, he cares about my feelings very much.

Mingyan noticed this, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

This is very rare for him.

He and Xia Cheng have known each other since the time when Blue Star and IPP cooperated.

Xia Cheng has been helping him and accompanying him in all aspects, and he is a very important friend in Mingyan's heart.

Mingyan often invites him to spend time at home during the holidays, and even cooks for him to experience Blue Star's cooking.

This kind of friendship is neither close nor far, and has been maintained to the extent that Mingyan feels very comfortable.

Until today, he vaguely realized that Xia Cheng's feelings for him may be a little deeper than his feelings for Xia Cheng.

Mingyan, who was extremely bad at socializing, was stunned by this.

He slowly finished the chocolate ice cream brought by Xia Cheng, and then said, "...Thank you."

Xia Cheng smiled and said, "There will be a concert tomorrow, it's Master Weber's original work, are you interested?"

Mingyan looked at him, still feeling a little weird in his heart, so he politely declined: "No, the recent development tasks are quite tight..."

Well, he no longer knows how many times he has rejected Xia Cheng for work.

People are used to what they hear.

After sending Xia Cheng away, Mingyan stood at the door for a while.

He looked at the girl at the front desk beside him, and said, "What kind of person do you think Young Master Xia is?"

"He's so handsome." The girl at the front desk said with a smile, "And I think he really likes the boss."

"Oh, that's right." Mingyan touched his nose.

Today, it is probably because he himself is not in a good state, and his senses have problems.

Xia Cheng is just a good friend who likes to play with him very much.

What do you think about those who have nothing?

……

The new year will soon be half over.

In early June, the ALPHA version of "Blue Star Doom" was put into studio testing.

About [-] Bluestar employees participated in this test, and they will give the most direct and effective feedback.

The production progress of the entire game has reached about 20%, and the game process of the first large map is basically completed.

The game mainly tells about a journey of redemption in the end.

The protagonist Russell is a supernatural being who lost all his relatives in the last days, including his youngest son who was only six years old.

One year after the doomsday, she received a mission from the leader in the survivor base, asking her to lead a team to escort a "Holy Son" to the base of the Trial Cult.

According to the language in the scriptures, the "Holy Son" will save the world in the near future and end this doomsday.

And this holy son named Louis is a 13-year-old boy with a perverse personality.

Russell must lead him across many obstacles and reach the target point a thousand kilometers away...

The game is divided into three large maps. The first one mainly tells the story of Russell leading the entire team and driving across a large province.

They encountered many difficulties and dangers on the road, and of course also encountered many interesting things.

The main body of the game is still fighting zombies, fighting mutant monsters, exploring maps, and collecting supplies.

Russell's ability is that after throwing a special beacon, she can teleport herself or the items in her hand to the beacon, so she can be regarded as the safest person in the team.

Saint Louis followed her, of course.

And the combat system of the game is also unique and interesting because of this ability.

Players can choose to use melee weapons, use Russell's abilities to move around, and perform "teleport dodge" at critical moments to beat monsters.

But this method still has the threat of being attacked to a certain extent, and it is suitable for high-end players who are very self-conscious about themselves.

You can also choose a long-range weapon. Russell (player) has pretty good marksmanship, and he shoots ordinary zombies one at a time.

There are even bazookas in the team.

Once the gun goes down, the smoke and dust are scattered, which is very enjoyable.

But weapons and ammunition are very expensive things, and it is necessary to judge whether to take risks to collect resources as the convoy moves forward.

Well, stockpiling food is part of the end times!Don't play if you are upset!

There is also an alternative weapon called "Blast", Russell can shoot the beacon at the monster in advance, or stick close to the target location.

Then teleport the explosive gunpowder over there.

With a snap of the fingers, the whole area seemed to burst into continuous fireworks.

And Russell, with his long braid fluttering, walked towards the convoy without looking back.

She's a goddess with long legs.

In-game supplies are divided into food, ammunition, medicine, equipment and miscellaneous items, a total of five types, in descending order of importance.

Every building you pass by may hide a large number of zombies and mutant monsters.

Of course, there may also be a large amount of materials hidden.

It is a danger and an opportunity.

Players can make decisions at any time, whether to let the convoy stay in place, and then send a few NPCs to stay at the base, let a few NPCs follow him...

Of course, the most important thing is that Saint Louis.

Louis is a little withdrawn boy, often sarcastic to others.

But Luo Su is the goddess of Yu Jie Fan, who will discipline him severely.

In the plot of the first big map, the relationship between the two was not very good, but there were also some hilarious conversations.

At times, Louis said: "The Inquisition is unreliable, and I'm not a son of God! You idiots, you've been tricked by others... If I were you, I would expose their deception to the public!"

And Russell was expressionless: "If you were one of us, you would have been beaten to death long ago."

Louis: "..."

Of course, the plot of the first big map reached the later stage, and the two gradually got along well.

Although they still quarrel unconsciously, they have a considerable degree of tacit understanding and trust with each other.

Louis will also help them fight with a gun, and Russell has accepted him as a member of the team.

Louise steals a small cake for the "cold woman" to celebrate her birthday, and then learns that her son died in the apocalypse.

That night, Louis pretended it was too cold and slept with Russell in his arms.

Russell didn't say anything, just said: "I must send you to the Judgment Church, you are the last hope of mankind."

At the end of this episode, there is a big bombing from another base.

No one knew why they dropped the bombs, but the whole city was in flames.

Under such a mighty force, the convoy fell apart, and the team members died one by one in the dangerous sea of ​​fire.

The player controls Russell and protects Louis from running in one direction.

This climactic scene is incredibly tense.

Russell can only choose between saving the team and Louis - this choice will be left to the player to make.

But the team members will sacrifice themselves in the end, so that Russell must take Louis away.

"How many people here joined because the mission was going to be successful?—No, not a single one. None of us knew whether the mission would succeed, or whether humanity would perish. But we had to join for the mission to happen possibility of success."

Relying on his own abilities, Russell finally led Louis out of the flames.

The city behind was completely destroyed in the flames, and the pungent smell made the two survivors burst into tears.

Along the way, the survivors who helped them, the civilians rescued by them, the army trapped in the city, the mutated monsters who were obsessed with death, and even the passers-by who traded supplies with them... all died.

Some people already have a will to die.

Some people rekindled the hope of survival because of Russell's help.

But it was useless, their will was insignificant, their efforts were in vain, and they could not resist the disaster.

Louis was pulled forward and said, "Look, it's no use. It's no use asking anyone for help..."

Russell turned his head, and two meandering tears could still be seen on his embarrassed face.

"Weak and small ants, don't they have the qualifications to struggle to survive?" Russell said, "Don't be naive, we have long known that we are weak."

She tore off her clothes, bandaged the wound, and regained her icy appearance.

"I will take you to the Trial Cult, you are the last hope," she said. The plot of Chapter 1 came to an abrupt end in a tragic atmosphere.

The overall experience process lasted more than ten hours, so batch tests were carried out.

Most players are quite emotional after leaving VR games.

The overall evaluation given by the players responsible for the battle process experience is:

[Very interesting fighting style, full of imagination]

[The appearance of the beacon explosion is really cool, no matter how difficult it is to use, it will make people unable to give up]

[The sword feels good, but the feedback from the monster's strike is a little weaker]

……

All feedback will be fully recorded and become the first difficulty for the production team to overcome next month.

Players responsible for the process experience will evaluate in batches.

In the first three hours of the game, most people's feedback is:

[The end of the world is very real! !Seeing the city that has collapsed into ruins, covered with moss, and wandering around strange creatures... I was shocked when I entered it]

[The survival base is very messy, but also very real.Every NPC has a story, and even the location of the damaged clothes is full of details]

[The background story is so grand, I can really feel the despair of trying to save myself in the doomsday]

After Russell led the team to set off, most people had a deeper experience of the plot.

【Russell is a real goddess!The prestige in the team is so high! 】

【Hahahaha I like that supernatural being who can use water, he recites poetry very well】

[Louis, kid, wants to spank his ass.The character creation is very real, and I suddenly think of my little nephew]

The last ones to experience the end of the first plot are selected employees who know the outline of the story.

Most people end up with tears in their eyes.

They knew that boss Mingyan was a ruthless person, but they didn't expect him to be so ruthless...

Except for the two protagonists, all were killed! !

Those life-and-death acquaintances who supported each other along the way, comrades-in-arms who could trust their backs, and close friends who talked and laughed happily at night...all died in the tragic sea of ​​fire.

When those two tears appeared on the face of Russell, the goddess of the iceberg, many people's psychological defenses collapsed in an instant.

One designer filled out the questionnaire in tears, and then went straight to Mingyan.

The statement being recorded: "...you calm down."

Designer: "Wow! Boss! I don't want Coster to die! Please bring him back to life!"

Ming Yan said: "Resurrection is difficult. But you can consider doing a branch about him, since you like him very much." After all, I am not a devil.

Designer: "..." Devil! ! !

……

During internal testing, the production team took a short break.

And Mingyan also had a little time to call the remaining members for a small meeting.

The operations of several other games are very smooth without any problems.

The official website continued to attract traffic, and the cumulative number of registered users finally exceeded the one billion mark.

This means that Blue Star Studio has joined the ranks of high-end game production companies with only two phenomenal games.

In addition, during this period, with the presentation of the achievements of the two responsible persons, the Redstone Party of "My World" finally became a big hit.

The first is the "Redstone Music Conference" led by Blue Star.

Through redstone signals of different strengths in the game, the music box will emit sounds of different frequencies.

In this way, put thousands of music boxes in order, and then lay out logically rigorous redstone signals. Once activated, you can hear the sound of "ding ding dong dong" music!

In this way, players create what is called "redstone music" within the game.

Then there is the "Redstone Machine Award".

The redstone circuit looks very primitive, but as long as there are three basic circuits of AND, OR, and NOT gates, it can theoretically simulate the operation of all machines!

The Redstone Party is a group of people who love circuits, and it can be said that there are many capable people.

During this month, excellent projects emerge one after another.

Someone made an automatic logging machine, and even took advantage of the property of a BOSS monster that can smash trees, kept the BOSS in his own tree planting field, and used redstone circuits to control it to keep logging.

Someone made an automatic iron brushing machine, which is even more ghostly.

He raised more than 100 NPC villagers in captivity, let the villagers form a village to automatically refresh a monster, and then used the redstone circuit to trigger the trap, burn the monster to death in the magma, and leak all the drops into the box.

But in the end, the winner of the "Redstone Machine Award" is a god-man named "Linglingqi".

He is not only an excellent modder, but also an ultimate redstone boss.

The machine he made was the first generation of computers! !

That's right, that computer!

Completely simulated using redstone circuits, the size of the entire machine towers into the sky, comparable to a city.

It can add, subtract, multiply and divide three-digit numbers, while playing the classic game of bees.

Everyone was blown away when they saw the computer in this game!

Players almost want to kneel and worship.

[Grass-holding god! ! ! !This is basically making a computer from scratch by hand! 】

[It’s not just starting from scratch, he took the most basic electronic components, directly soldered a CPU, and a computer motherboard...]

[This nima is really a game?Is it a game?I can't even make the simplest telegraph in a different world. Someone actually simulated a computer in a VR game? !Am I crazy or is the world crazy? 】

[Ma Ma asked me why I was kneeling to play games.I explained that what the chief designer is doing is not a game, but really a "world". 】

[I finally understand why this game is called the world.But this is definitely not my world, it is someone else's world...

In the forum on Bluestar's official website, there is finally a "Treasure of Town Station".

The post quickly garnered attention, became a blog hit, and even got news coverage.

It sounds very shocking, someone actually made a computer in a VR game by hand...

This redstone competition is simply brilliant and dizzying.

But the final champion, everyone already knows.

Blue Star Studio will soon prepare to distribute the championship reward to this "Lingling Paint".

The mod author also had excellent mod products before, so he has received bonuses twice.

This time, the staff contacted him with admiration.

However, it was the first time Ling Lingqi asked a question: "Excuse me, can I have a chat with Chief Designer Ming?"

The staff was startled, and thought: This person will not come to urge the progress of the Last project too!

Mingyan happened to be free, and he was not in the small black room.

He quickly contacted Ling Lingqi personally.

I thought that Ling Lingqi wanted to make some suggestions, or had some other requests to make.

Unexpectedly, Ling Lingqi asked a little shyly: "Excuse me, is there any job opportunity in Blue Star Studio?"

His question seemed to be the attitude of a job seeker.

Mingyan felt a little surprised.

This Ling Lingqi has always been a loyal fan of "Minecraft".

He has made best-selling modules, and he has also made things like redstone computers.

It can be said that he is a great player with both technical level and work attitude.

Unexpectedly, he was also very interested in working in Blue Star.

Ming Yan immediately said: "Yes. Is it convenient for you to come to Blue Star for an interview recently?"

Ling Lingqi said: "I'm not very well. Can you interview online?"

Said clearly: "Yes, just sign a non-disclosure agreement."

Ling Lingqi immediately agreed.

Mingyan said goodbye to him happily, and then called his secretary when he went offline.

Well, Mingyan is too busy now, so he also assigned himself a secretary.

He asked his secretary to set up an online interview time for Ling Lingqi, and then sent a formal interview invitation letter to the other party.

The secretary quickly took care of the things he personally ordered.

By the way, they also investigated what Ling Lingqi had said on the forum.

I found this person quite shy, as if he was a technical geek who never left home.

Blue Star Studio has many technical nerds like this, all of whom are people who really love games—for example, the figure enthusiast programmer who once made great contributions to the studio.

This little episode was quickly put aside by Ming Yan.

However, there were quite a few reactions in the forum.

Because Ling Lingqi put a sentence on his signature: [All modules will not be updated for the time being, the author is going to prepare for the interview at Blue Star Studio. 】

One stone caused a thousand waves!

Many people immediately gathered under Ling Lingqi's post.

——It turns out that if the module is well done, it can be appreciated by the Bluestar official!

It is said that the chief designer of Ming had a meeting with Ling Lingqi in person, and then sent him an invitation letter for an interview.

Astonishingly, even the written test was directly waived.

... Later he did join Blue Star Studio, but that's another story.

Many players did not expect to be able to do this before!

If they had known that there was a chance to enter Blue Star Studio through this route, they might have given it a try.

Even if the interview was screened out in the end, at least the chief designer Ming personally sent an invitation...

"Mod maker appreciated by Bluestar Studio" is a good qualification in itself.

Finally, in addition to the "Redstone Music Conference" and "Redstone Machine Awards", Bluestar also hosted a long-term event of "World Customs Clearance Record".

In fact, a long time ago, some players tried to clear the level with the fastest speed. This is an activity that has been spread among the people.

But this time the world record has been broken to less than 3 minutes, which caused quite a stir in the forum.

So Mingyan simply asked the official website to record it.

This kind of activity does not use many resources, but it is easy to cultivate player loyalty, so why not do it.

Of course, the biggest action on Bluestar's official website is not the successive activities of old games.

It's the first trailer of the latest project "Blue Star Doom"!

This is a concept trailer released when the game was not yet fully developed.

The whole tone can be said to be full of literary and artistic style, and all use the freeze-frame pictures of metal-like cool colors.

Amidst the gentle music, black and white subtitles appeared first.

[On the first day, the arrival of zombies caught us off guard.We took up arms. 】

Then the first stop-motion 3D scene appears:

In the small interior, the woman with her back to the camera hugs her child in horror, the boy's mouth grows, and the man stands at the door with a steel pipe in his hand.

And the blood-stained people outside the door clutched the door chain desperately, as if begging them to open the door.

In the darkness behind him, countless cold green eyes flashed.

[On the second day, I lost everything and woke up. 】

The woman hugged the boy's body and knelt on the ground, looking up at the sky, as if she was screaming heart-piercingly.

Beside her, the limbs of countless zombies spread all over the ground.

[On the third day, following the 'plague' and 'war', the 'famine' came. 】

The woman still turns her back to the camera.

She stood in front of another mother and child, as if to give them a sack of flour.

However, the mother hugged her child tightly in fear, tears streaming down her face.

The screen flashed away, and the bloody subtitles floated up.

【She thought I would exchange flour for her son. 】

【—He is meat. 】

As the blood-red words disappeared in the darkness, the music amplified melodiously, and the sacred female voice sang like an elegy.

The final stop-motion 3D scene depicts a city covered in green.

The impact of human beings on the natural world was wiped out in an insignificant moment, and urbanization was reduced to ruins, which were quickly replaced by greenery.

Among the broken walls and ruins, the woman stood with her back facing each other, looking up at the sky.

The voices of countless people sounded at the same time, or excited, or calm, or desperate.

"I am willing to give up my life for the continuation of mankind!"

"We're so weak...everyone is very weak..."

"Things that human beings can rely on simply don't exist in this world! I told you a long time ago!"

"Raccoon City survivor makes final statement: We're out of ammunition..."

"...As long as there is one human being alive, civilization is still moving forward! We still have hope!"

"...Find that hope!"

In the last frame, a woman and a boy are frozen, and the two silhouettes stand opposite each other.

A dark and cold headline appeared in the middle:

"Blue Star Doom: The Last of Us".