Otherworldly Architect

On February 2th, it was still during the New Year's Eve holiday.

"Blue Star Doom: The Last of Us", which has been delayed for half a month, is finally officially launched.

On the day of launch, the homepage of the official website of Bluestar Studio ushered in a new revision.

A beautiful water-blue planet leaps out, rotating with the sunlight.

The gathering and spreading of the atmosphere seems to be her breath, and the boundary between the sun and the moon seems to be her cloud.

From the green plains to the vast and majestic sea, they are all so beautiful that people worship them.

——This is Blue Star, the third planet in the Sora Galaxy.

The animation ended after three seconds, and Blue Star turned into a shooting star, which jumped into the upper left corner of the page and became the logo of Blue Star Studio.

On the home page, a line of large characters was displayed:

"Blue Star Doom: The Last of Us".

Behind the subtitles, there are two silhouettes of Russell and Louise.

In the background, the theme song of "Blue Star Doom" also sounded - it was a song composed by "Anonymous" and assisted by Ling Xiaoman, called "The Earth TOPOLOGIUM".

12 noon.

Accompanied by the ethereal female voice, the option to download the game finally appeared on the game homepage of Blue Star Doom.

As early as a month ago, the game opened the purchase of activation qualifications.

More than 1 million players who pre-ordered came early, and they have been waiting for this day for a long time, and they are almost going to be blackened.

In the first hour when the download was open, even though Blue Star was well prepared, it was taken aback by the oncoming traffic frenzy.

On average, 80 to 200 people are requesting links every minute!

This is a huge burden on the server. Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, it was stated that two more supercomputers were purchased, otherwise the official website would almost explode at this time.

The traffic curve is also very obvious, which is an exponential rise.

"Blue Star Doom" has directly entered the 24-hour paid game download list based on the download volume in the first hour!

According to objective laws, the download volume in 24 hours is about 15-20 times that of the first hour, which is predictable data.

With the soaring of various indexes, Bluestar's internal forecast for sales on the first day of sale has also exceeded the one billion mark.

It's very possible!

In the Blue Star Studio, the space was emptied early.

The whole crew sits together, listening to soothing background music, and having a party together.

The Internet workers are not so serious, and they directly ordered a lot of pizza, fried chicken, beer, cakes... whatever is delicious.

The big project of nearly a year has finally been completed, and today is the day for everyone to revel!

"Huraaaaaay!!"

"Long live the boss!!!"

"Long live Blue Star!"

"We're going to make money again—!"

The slogans were shouted loudly, it was really like a party, everyone was eating, drinking and having fun.

The open space in the middle was cleared, and a couple of male colleagues danced in it.

Champagne was sprinkled everywhere, and no one cared about it. The beer bottles collided directly with the beer bottles, creating a drunken atmosphere in the room.

They lifted Mingyan up and bounced it three times in the air.

Sisi, the big golden retriever in the corner I was watching, was so frightened that he barked like a bark.

On the large screen hanging in the center, various data of "Blue Star Doom" are being displayed in real time.

There is also a large long screen directly attached to the ceiling, which is scrolling players' messages and related reports from major news media on a split screen.

Real-time player rating: 10.0 points!

Almost all of them are fans of Blue Star. They haven't played the game yet, and they can't wait to give full marks when they just downloaded the game.

This is the normal state of a studio with a super high reputation. As long as it is clearly stated, some players will brazenly close their eyes.

——It can be said to be real in the world.

In addition to the channels of Bluestar's official website, the major platforms that cooperate with Bluestar also launched this game at the same time.

IPP fulfilled Xia Cheng's promise and pushed "Blue Star Doom" directly to the homepage at the level of an S-level contract.

This risky behavior just proved that this big platform recognized the strength of Blue Star Studio.

And Blue Star did not live up to their expectations!

Within 6 hours of being online, "Blue Star Doom" broke through the A-level data barrier across the board, and directly entered the game club with sales of [-] million.

In just 6 hours, it airborne almost all 24-hour charts.

Including downloads, sales, and player ratings, they are all like tanks, crushing everyone along the way.

GameBlog's homepage posted news in scarlet letters: [That man is here!His journey is the entire New Year's Eve schedule! 】

News related to "Blue Star" on the entire network has increased by 150% year-on-year.

And the search volume for the keyword "Blue Star" has directly increased by 1200%!

Throughout the New Year's Eve period, the number of newly released games in Sixth Star Province reached more than 200.

But hardly any of them can match the limelight of "Blue Star Doom".

Compared with the data of the same period, under the data of the same day of release, none of them can get the players' expectations like "Blue Star Doom".

Under its impact, all other games that day dropped at least 20% of attention and online volume.

The game industry in Sixth Star Province is really in a state of "wolf is coming" panic.

Blue Star's influence and expressive appeal really made many people call it a "miracle".

The benefits of the Spring Festival schedule are also real.

Everyone doesn't need to go to work, they have rested at home for a long time, and urgently need something to vent their energy.

And for players, there is no better gift than Blue Star's new game!

Most people just put away all the schedules for the day, drew the curtains, and concentrated on nestling at home, preparing to play games for the day.

6 hours after the launch of "Blue Star Doom", the data shows that 70% of the players have been online in the game for 6 hours.

Most people only paused once or twice, which can be said to be playing games with their ears closed.

At this moment, some players finally have to quit the game one after another to solve their physical problems.

And the belated peak of comment growth has finally appeared.

——Right under everyone's noses, the player comments of "Blue Star Doom" are growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Early comments:

[As expected of Blue Star!The plot at the beginning made me cry. Is Russell's son really dead? 】

[This is the first time I encountered a special type of infected zombie called the Screamer, and I couldn't get through it. 】

[Pleasing to the eye!From the picture to the music, from the plot to the battle mode, I get goosebumps and my scalp explodes, the leader is still the leader]

[The authenticity of this ruin!The detail of this NPC, even a collection of poems has a story connotation!Compared with the Blue Star Doomsday, last year’s apocalypse is nothing short of scum]

[Do you think this year's game of the year is Blue Star Doomsday?Just played for 1 hour, it’s so cool]

Comments after 6 hours of experience:

[Louis' AI is really good, I just wanted him to help touch the lever, and he automatically came to solve the puzzle]

[This plot is full of ups and downs, and my heart is beating accordingly. I hope the game process will be longer. I want to live in Blue Star for a year]

[Isn't Louis Russell's own son?Tears]

[After playing in the depressing atmosphere all afternoon, I just couldn’t stop, it’s like watching Berg’s new top-notch movie... The future fate of each character is affected by the future, and they all seem to have lived in Blue Star... 】

[Be sure to turn on the blasting mode!promise me! !The real goddess never looks back at the explosion!So handsome that I wish I could just kneel down in front of her! 】

[When you passed the second town, did you choose to go in and search for medical supplies?My Coster died inside, I just cried like a dead dog]

With the gradual deepening of the game experience, major portal websites have also issued initial evaluation articles early in the morning.

For "Blue Star Doom", a masterpiece with high expectations and popularity among players, they have already prepared several strategy specialists and editors.

As soon as the game is released, they will enter the experience with the first batch of players.

Raiders are very powerful expert players, the goal is to quickly clear the level and dig out the main system of the game.

The supporting editor started to write the evaluation in situ according to the game flow.

Early news like this must be released as soon as possible, so as to bring more attention to the website.

In the future, if the game's various data are excellent, these websites will also send more careful guides.

Subsequent strategies will be more detailed, and even choose to dig deeper into some highlights in the game.

And the complete video will be released, and a more concluding article will be written by the gold medal editor.

According to the default rules of the Interstellar Age, if the game is released for less than a week, without the permission of the game producer, it is not allowed to stream the actual play video.

Therefore, the Raiders team can only prepare in the dark to seize another wave of traffic a week later at any time.

It's only been six hours now, and the game portals have already sent out manuscripts with pictures and texts.

The titles of VRGamer are:

[Another shocking game comes out? "Blue Star Doom" was first released, and the player scored 10.0 in tears]

PolyDrake:

[The airborne leaderboard is not without reason!Blue Star Studio is another masterpiece with double-explosive sales and word-of-mouth]

GamingStudio:

[Is "Blue Star Doom" fun? 99% of players gave 10.0 points]

GameBlog:

[The initial evaluation of "Blue Star Doom" is released: the plot is superb, the details are excellent, and the experience is excellent! 】

Of course, the combined weight of all the websites is probably not as good as the final evaluation of the father of the League One Association.

But League One also has a very important feature: they only evaluate games with certain results.

It can also be said that their reflex arc is very long.

After all, the First League spans the six provinces of the Chaoyang League, and there are not so many excellent testers who can watch so many games in the six provinces, so there must be a choice.

Basically, they only watch masterpieces that have already become famous.

Generally, games with the potential to be a masterpiece will emerge in about a month and join the billion-dollar turnover club.

No one will doubt the qualifications of "Blue Star Doom"!

Just from the results of the first day of launch, people in the industry can completely guess its future.

The airborne 24-hour leaderboard is only the first step. This new year's festival must be the end of Blue Star's light.

With Bluestar Doomsday's own strength and player reputation, it is certain that this month's best game topic will be featured, and then it will be the TOP10 in the first quarter of this year.

The only question left is how many works can compete with it in the future, but it is definitely no problem for Blue Star Apocalypse to occupy the top five.

As long as follow-up sales and word-of-mouth can keep up, it may also be able to directly book this year's best game of the year nomination.

——It’s only the end of February!

……

With the sudden increase in the popularity of the "Blue Star" keyword.

A series of chemical reactions are taking place one after another in the sixth star province, and many related people and things have been affected to a certain extent.

First of all, the words "adapted from real events" are marked on the opening CG of "Blue Star Doom".

Therefore, many players who love the plot searched for related events during the gaps in the game.

Although Blue Star's news was unpopular, in the final analysis it was still there.

It's just that with the character of Chaoyang Alliance, organizations like the Blue Star Research Institute are rarely exposed to the public eye.

But even so, the enthusiastic players still tried their best to find a staff member of the Blue Star Research Institute with a curve to save the country.

She is also a nurse lady at the institute.

Unlike the old professors, the young lady still prefers to post information online, so netizens accidentally discovered it.

This time it was out of control.

Players started anonymous fundraising through the accounts of young ladies.

The player who just came out of the game is in the role of empathy, and is maintaining a considerable degree of affection for Blue Star.

The azure planet in the game has basically returned to its lush green color after a few years of apocalypse.

When the player left the smoky human settlement, he came to the outside world and saw the boundless greenery without seeing zombies and mutant monsters.

The green and clean color seems to be able to wash away all the depression.

The beauty of nature made everyone feel refreshed and left a deep impression.

[Blue Star really did a great job!Is there really such a beautiful planet and such a beautiful scenery in the world? 】

[wok this scene modeling, I can really boast for a lifetime]

While the players were deeply admiring, some people couldn't help making donations to the Blue Star Research Institute.

Don't forget that "Blue Star Doom" is adapted from real events!

At first glance, this Blue Star Research Institute is the excavation site for the prototype of the story!

There are not many donations, but there are still many people who forward it.

It's as if "The Story of Hachiko" suddenly aroused heated discussions among netizens, and Pito's plight has been greatly improved.

The Blue Star Research Institute, who has always lived in seclusion in the mountains, was suddenly notified to open donations, and was a little dazed for a while.

Maybe no one can think of it.

The research institute was poor, and when the project was about to fail, the one who saved the project... turned out to be a 4000-year-old fossil player dug out by himself.

When Mingyan slowly woke up from the dormant cabin, no one could have expected that he would achieve what he is today.

In turn, he made a game for Blue Star, letting so many players in the Sixth Star Province know that there is still such a beautiful planet in the world.

The project leader still feels very emotional when he thinks about it now.

Blue Star is so popular now that the popular science articles published by the institute several years ago were suddenly dug out.

【Wow! !The little flower I saw in the game actually existed!Call Daisy!Such a cute name! 】

[Too serious, Blue Star is really too serious about making games, even the place names are found out by archaeology]

[I just want to ask the leader, is there really a hero in the underground of City S, he sacrificed for the future of mankind, his name is Coster...]

[An ancient and mysterious planet, I want to go to see it]

And Mingyan's personal account, of course, was blown up by the players collectively.

Some people are infected by the plot and want to ask Mingyan about the next fate of the characters, or express their love for the characters;

Some people come here for consultation because they have doubts about the game itself;

There are also people who come to urge more...

[When will the leader release the next game? 】

【Reminder! !Waving a small leather whip, I want the leader to continue to do it!Do it all my life and I will play it all my life!Be there or be square! 】

This is just insane.

Mingyan has just led the team to produce a masterpiece, and it has not been released for 24 hours.

Someone immediately urged the next game?

Mingyan: "..." You are the devil!

#On the love and killing between architects and players#

Nowadays, Mingyan's individual fans are already very large.

They call themselves the "Mingjiao Congregation" and refer to Mingyan as the "leader".

They also drew the symbol of Mingjiao—the Order of Light!

On the pattern of the design draft, there is a smiling expression :)

There is also the slogan of Mingjiao, which has also resounded through the forum and various comment areas——

[Production by Blue Star, it must be a high-quality product.With the presence of the leader in person, the world is invincible! 】

Those who didn't know thought it was a cult organization.

Expressed clearly: You interstellar people still know how to play.

With the release of "Blue Star Doom", the followers of the Ming Cult were "dancing wildly with joy".

They are collective incarnations of tap water, expressing their support for the leader through various means.

Some people even reposted the lottery at their own expense to gain more popularity for the game.

In addition, Mingjiao held an offline gathering for the first time.

They elected the most famous fans among the fans online, and these people took the lead in carrying out the activity.

The content of the activity is of course to play several games produced by Blue Star together.

There are quite a few people among them, who not only appeared in the king rank of the League of Legends, but also created the historical records of Minecraft.

——This is not only because of worshiping Mingyan, but more importantly, they love these games very much.

Games and gamers should complement each other.

Such a meeting also prompts the manifesto.

With more and more games and growing reputation of Blue Star Studio, it is almost time to consider "Blue Star Carnival".

Organized by the official, a large-scale offline event with the theme of the studio itself is held every year.

Distribute invitation posts widely to allow players to participate.

In such a carnival, there can be brightly lit performances, entertaining competitive competitions, close interaction between designers and players, release of new games for the next year, invitation of players for internal testing, and even visits to the offices. environment……

Very helpful in cultivating player loyalty.

Soon, after this summer vacation, it will be almost the third anniversary of the establishment of Blue Star Studio.

Mingyan thought that it would be on that day, and it would be fixed as the studio's holiday in the future.

Let's invite a group of players to visit this year, as a kind of publicity...

Well, it's time for an expansion.

Because the income from "Blue Star Doom" keeps pouring in, it can be predicted that in the next three months, large sums of money will directly fill Blue Star's account.

Time to buy a small alternate world and get ready for League of Legends alienation!

……

As soon as the game was launched, Boss Ming started to keep his feet on the ground again.

But other studio members are enjoying their vacation comfortably.

Several well-known team leaders of Blue Star Studio - the ones in bold in the "Creator List" have also established their own fan groups.

Most people's accounts have at least tens of millions of followers.

This is scary, especially when some devil players urge more on their heads.

[Trouble reminding the head teacher to design a new game quickly~]

[We want to play two games a year!Blue Star's current progress is too slow!explain!Could it be that Mr. Ming already has a bunch of ideas for new games on his desk but is too late to make them? 】

[It's fine if you don't finish it on time, why are you skipping tickets this year?Confessions are lenient! ! 】

The newly joined Ling Xiaoman was taken aback.

She originally had very few fans, but suddenly her number has increased by tens of thousands of times, which is really overwhelming.

She has been urged even more these days. When she is playing freely in the recording studio, she will suddenly howl a strange line of lyrics——

"It will be done right away! I can hand it in tomorrow!!

Excuse me!Timeless! ! !

Coo coo coo coo coo..."

But the old people in the studio were very calm.

At least Varian Wrynn is quite used to it, and chatted with several other designers about it with a smile.

Then they calmly carried out the studio's mascot, the golden retriever Sissi.

Varian posted a blog post on his personal account.

[I'm a great swordsman: please ask the exclusive press spokesperson of Blue Star Studio to answer the question about skipped tickets. (attached: video)]

Then the show operation came.

When the player clicked on the video, he saw a microphone lying on the table, and a female voice came out from it: "May I ask why the Blue Star Doomsday skipped the ticket?"

The scene changed, and it turned into a golden retriever lying innocently on the news platform, looking at the camera blankly.

Sissy: "Wow?"

The faceless female voice said, "So that's the case, that's really understandable!"

Player: "..."excuseme?Does this dog talk?

The microphone continued: "Then, what is the next game of Chief Designer Ming?"

A hand stretched out from the screen, teasing the big golden retriever with the dog food.

Sisi immediately straightened up happily and wagged her tail.

"Wang Wang Wang!"

Then, a very excited voice came out of the microphone: "Great, it sounds very fun! Then, players, please continue to look forward to it!"

Player: "..." What?what exactly is it? !You have a way of speaking! ! !

This sand sculpture operation is really too coquettish.

Even the interstellar people laughed to death for a while, and couldn't help reposting it one after another.

So this created a hot topic that left others desperate.

——A video of a dog being interviewed became popular!This is what makes it impossible for others to live.

——What the hell is Blue Star, even dogs can catch fire?