Otherworldly Architect

While the players continued to experience the game, Ming Yan was eating with Ning and Feng.

The chairman from League One is very unassuming, and keeps in touch with Mingyan by email.

He also gave Mingyan inspiration for the previous vehicle problem.

So I asked him out for a meal as a thank you.

They had lunch at a certain seafood restaurant.

Ning and Feng smiled and said, "Blue Star Doomsday's sales have exceeded [-] million. Congratulations, the new game has achieved another success."

Mingyan touched his nose: "Where is it, I'm still far away."

"Although I don't have time to experience it in person, I also cleared the level via video." Ning and Feng said.

The so-called "video clearance" actually refers to having a certain degree of understanding of the game plot by watching other players' video clearance process without playing the game.

He nodded in understanding.

Ning Yufeng supported his chin with one hand, and there was a smile in his dark brown eyes.

He looked at Mingyan and said: "I heard that every work and every protagonist of the creator is actually a reflection of his own personality... I have been thinking about it for the past two days.

"I think Russell is your strong, responsible, tenacious, lonely courage of 'Though there are thousands of people, I will go'.

"Louis is your stubbornness, self-confidence, and the fighting spirit of 'I can't help myself'."

Ming Yan blushed and said, "I didn't think about it so much, these two characters are the images I dreamed about."

"Then I am very interested in your dream." Ning Yufeng said, "If possible, I would like to ask you out on weekends."

This statement seems to be uncommon, but it is clearly stated that I didn't think too much about it.

He thought for a while, and said sincerely, "I'm busy with work this week, so I'll have a chance next time."

Ning and Feng: "..."

He carefully looked at Mingyan for a while.

It was finally confirmed: Mingyan was really single-minded, and he refused because of work problems!

The man had no other thoughts at all.

"I understand the young master of the Xia family a little bit now, no wonder you have been good friends for three years." Ning and Feng said.

Ming Yan said cheerfully, "Yes, we are very good friends."

Ning and Feng smiled: "Well, it's an enviable friendship."

After the two of them finished the meal, they clearly felt that the atmosphere at the dinner table was warm and comfortable.

Well, Chairman Ning is such a good man!

Mingyan said goodbye to him happily, and then hurried back to Blue Star Studio.

— Time to get on with the work!

This month's Blue Star Studio, because a big project has finally come to an end, and the follow-up results are also very gratifying, so it was declared a small seven-day holiday.

All staff are allowed paid time off.

Even the designers who are resident in the League of Legends, as well as the person in charge of the old game, just need to stay at home.

Unless something goes wrong, this week is their carnival, the bonus-no-work kind!

Blue Star's bonus system has always been very attractive.

30% of the net profit will be distributed fairly to everyone in the production team according to performance.

The rain and dew are all covered, even the interns have a share.

A super-successful game like Blue Star Doom can bring more than 20 to [-] bonus income to the main creators every month.

At this moment, they who received the first sum of money just wanted to pay homage to Mingyan.

——Long live the leader!

And Mingyan said that when he returned to the studio at this time, he mainly contacted the outsourcing company.

It's almost time for Blue Star Studios to move...

Now on the seventh and eighth floors of this building, it is not a problem to accommodate the team of more than 100 people, but it is not enough to accommodate large servers and workstations.

Today's Blue Star has tens of billions of players in each game.

In the main control room with a pile of servers, the total cost of zero and zero has already added up to hundreds of millions, and this does not include the monthly maintenance electricity bill and other bills.

With the release of the card game and Blue Star Doomsday, another sum of hot money will soon be in Blue Star's account.

He made a clear calculation and planned to use the existing funds first to buy a "Blue Star Building" in a better business district.

He has already contacted many intermediary companies, and has taken a fancy to three plans.

They are all buildings with about ten floors. The highest third floor continues to be used as office space, the middle part is used for servers and workstations, and the third floor is used as a cafeteria.

The first floor is Blue Star's service desk and store, and the second floor is dedicated to players to visit and experience.

——Hey, with this calculation, the entire building is already full.

The experience hall may be a little later, and it is clearly stated that the custom-made VR luxury game cabin is still in the interstellar transfer station.

Today's major game production companies generally have game experience stores all over the place.

When the new game has not been officially released, or the expansion pack of the old game has not been installed, you can try it first in their experience store.

This is very helpful to consolidate the player base, and it is also one of the early offline promotion channels for new games.

Of course, the construction of the Blue Star Building was not accomplished overnight.

According to the fastest plan, the family will not be able to move until after the summer vacation.

But when this round of bidding is over, construction can begin immediately.

So Mingyan has already ordered a batch of new servers and VR game cabins.

After this major event, Blue Star still has more than a billion in funds on its books.

Compared to other small studios, even some local companies, Blue Star was extremely rich.

It is clearly said that if you want to buy a small different world, it is enough to wait until the summer vacation.

——Blue Star Doomsday is now a cash cow that is making a lot of money every day!

……

Amidst the busy schedule, Lan Xing's long vacation soon came to an end.

The employees returned to the studio one after another, all of them feeling well physically and mentally, and getting fat soon.

As a veteran, Varian used this time to look at more than a dozen houses with his wife.

In the end, he chatted with Mingyan, and then decisively delineated a house that was closest to the future Blue Star Building.

With a down payment of 60, Varian took it out without blinking, and left arm in arm with his wife, talking and laughing.

The other people in the sales office saw that they bought so simply, and they never heard the envious eyes all the way.

When Varian returned to the studio, he was joking with his colleagues.

Everyone didn't envy or hate, but talked about buying a house peacefully.

Everyone is used to working in Bluestar!

What is the level of income, what kind of things to buy.

It's just buying a house... Most of the colleagues already have hope, and they are silently looking at the real estate near the company.

From time to time, someone will spread the good news of "moving to a new home" and send everyone a snack.

But the interns are different, they are more able to chat.

Chattering, but not talking about real issues such as buying a house, investing, and major life events.

——They were talking about whether Blue Star Doomsday could win the "Best Game of the Year" award of this year's League One!

Almost three months have passed this year. Judging from the major rankings, there is no game in the sixth star province that is the enemy of Blue Star Doomsday.

However, other star provinces still produced two phenomenal masterpieces, both from well-known manufacturers.

From the perspective of player reputation, the most popular game this season is most likely to compete among the three.

After working in Blue Star for a period of time, most of the students gained some weight.

Ling Xiaoman's jaw is round!

Not to mention, Blue Star's treatment is too good, there are tons of drinks and snacks that you can grab at your desk.

There is a lot of food within two steps.

Young children can't control their mouths at all, and some people have gained ten catties in just two months... Now they continue to eat while wailing "I want to lose weight".

And during this week, other staff members went home to accompany their wives—including three-dimensional and two-dimensional ones.

Ling Xiaoman returned to school and went to take elective courses with his classmates very bored.

Who knew, she stole the limelight this week.

The classmates surrounded her and asked:

"Have you met Chief Designer Ming? Is he really as handsome as in the photo?"

"How does the leader make games? Does it mean that you get a wonderful inspiration when you pat your head, and then after staying up all night, a super hit appears?"

"Ling Xiaoman, you are so fat! I heard that Blue Star's cafeteria is super delicious. When will it be open for inspection?"

"I just cleared the end of the blue star! Woooooooooooo did you write the last theme song? I saw your stage name!"

Ling Xiaoman: "..."

It's only been a week since she returned to school, and even people from other majors have come to see her.

Looking at her expression is like looking at a giraffe in a zoo.

God knows she was an invisible person in the class a year ago, and everyone mentioned her retro rock music with a sympathetic face that hesitated to speak.

Ling Xiaoman was even a little unaccustomed to school life.

In Blue Star Studio, she actually works for a short time, but she is very close to the style here.

The atmosphere inside Blue Star is very relaxed and cheerful, perhaps because as the boss, he is very approachable.

Or maybe it's because everyone is full of confidence in the future, so they will naturally feel peaceful and treat others with extra generosity.

After all, most of the conflicts and problems in this world can be solved with money.

If it can't be solved, it means that the money is not enough.

Just like now that the holiday is over, every employee is happy to come back to work, and no one has any resistance to work.

It's not because of a large bonus to get...

Mingyan saw that everyone was so happy, and probably didn't want to work this morning, so he simply asked everyone to come to the conference room for a small meeting.

"It will be the third anniversary of the establishment of Blue Star Studio soon, and we have to prepare to share this joy with the players." Ming Yan said with a smile, "If you have anything you want to do, please speak freely, don't treat this as a formal meeting."

While he was talking, the secretary moved in a large box of snacks by the way.

So, everyone started talking about ideas while eating snacks.

Varian said: "Let's set up a peripheral showroom! We have a lot of peripherals that have just left the factory, as well as original posters. They are all used in the studio and have not been released yet."

Ling Xiaoman said: "I can invite the best band in our school to play live. There is a teacher in our department who really likes Hachiko's soundtrack. He arranged a symphony version himself. It sounds very good... "

There is a colleague next to me, laughing and recording their thoughts.

Another designer said: "Let's hold an offline entertainment competition, like League One."

Every year after the provincial competition of the League One, there will be an entertainment competition, which will use some entertainment modes that are not used in regular competitions.

For example, what about players swapping game characters, what about the 1v5 mode of the big devil, and so on.

"That's a good idea!!" Someone immediately raised their hands in agreement, "Why don't we invite some well-known players."

"Yes yes yes, I invited the goddess's kiss, and then invited the last champion team..."

"It would be even better if we could invite Odin the Great Demon King. Oh, what a good thing I can think of!"

"It's not necessarily true. Let's hold the S competition for a few more years, and the popularity will spread across the stars. At that time, we can invite as many League One champions as we want."

A few members of the marketing team discussed it, and also came up with an idea: "Let's also hold a player creativity competition, and compare the best paintings, music, and cosplay of the players."

Programmers raised their hands: "Don't forget mods and redstone circuits!"

"By the way, we have to add the creative meeting."

Someone suggested: "Players have a lot to say, and the posts on the forum are usually processed and conveyed by customer service. We haven't had close contact with players yet."

"Yes, let the boss come on stage too! Let's see the power of players to urge changes!"

Clearly stated: "..."

"Do we have any new projects in the pipeline?"

"League of Legends is preparing an alien version of the game, and the main body can be completely transplanted by then."

"But there is no new project planning. Although there are many small ideas, there is no outstanding work this year."

Having said that, everyone turned their heads to look at Mingyan.

Mingyan thought for a while, then smiled and said, "I only have two immature thoughts at the moment..."

Before the words fell, everyone showed the expressions of "don't pretend we know you have two masterpieces".

Ming Yan said: "The recent mod of 'Apocalyptic Age' gave me some inspiration. The resilience of players is still stronger than I thought, so we can try some games with higher difficulty."

Then everyone's expressions changed: Here we come!The devil is about to start his show! !

Everyone in Blue Star Studio will give newcomers a set of "boss slang words".

For example, when saying "I have high expectations for players", the subtext is actually: "I want players to suffer".

When it is clearly stated that "the difficulty is relatively high", the subtext is: "You can only pass the level after suffering."

When it is clearly stated that it is "adapted from real events", the subtext is: "Cry to me".

When it is said clearly, "After all, I am not a devil", the subtext is: "I can be more devil"!

It can be called the devil itself!

At this time, with a kind face on his face, he talked to everyone: "I haven't officially decided on the name of the next project, but I am going to write a darker story with a slightly obscure narrative method. This new game will It's an action-adventure genre, with an emphasis on combat skills and strategy...um."

He thought for a while and said, "Let's use 'soul' as the project code name first."

鏉ヤ 钖楋纻

The devil who aims to harvest the "soul" of the spirit...

I'm afraid this game doesn't want players to want to die!

Everyone's heart trembled slightly.

The art team leader was the first to react, raised his hand and said, "We have no problem. But before the third anniversary celebration begins, we need to rush to make a batch of concept drawings."

"It's not a requirement." Ming Yan smiled, "Our players are very reasonable. Even if you upload the manuscript, I believe there will be no problem."

Of course, that's based on Blue Star's current reputation.

Changed to another small studio, you take two draft pictures to the official press conference, it's no wonder you don't get sprayed to death by players!

That is to say, the chief designer who is favored by the players in the palm of his hand, dares to do such an act in such a "proud" way...

This meeting lasted all morning.

Everyone spoke enthusiastically, and the atmosphere was very lively.

Mingyan happily wrote "Blue Star Carnival" on the whiteboard and said, "From now on, the annual celebration will be called 'Blue Star Carnival'."

Everyone immediately applauded enthusiastically, almost knocking over the snacks on the table.

Then, no one cares about the cafeteria at noon today, because everyone is full of snacks.

Anyway, the weather has gotten hotter recently.

Mingyan simply treated the guests to ice cream, rented an ice cream truck directly, and parked it downstairs in the studio.

Everyone cheered and got off the elevator with Mingyan.

Mingyan took his own portion and sat on the balcony of the cafeteria on the second floor to eat slowly.

It's rare to be leisurely these two days, life is really beautiful.

...If he hadn't seen another Creely staring at him on the balcony.

Mingyan waved: "Good afternoon."

Cleary: "Hmph."

Mingyan pushed a box of ice cream next to him towards him, and said, "At least I have been a 'neighbor' for two years, young master, this is my invitation to you."

Kerry was stunned for a while, then walked over and sat down opposite Mingyan.

He opened the ice cream, but didn't eat it, but suddenly raised his head and asked him, "What do you mean, are you going to move out? The company has no money, and it's about to go bankrupt?"

Mingyan shook his head and said with a smile, "I'm going to move out, go to a bigger place."

For some reason, Kerry got angry again, and said, "The small temple can't accommodate the great god, do you think you have been wronged here?"

Mingyan said: "It has nothing to do with this place."

He finished his ice cream and stood up to leave.

Behind him, Creely was still sitting, without looking back, he said, "Hey! Since you are leaving, I invite you to dinner, will you come?"

Mingyan: "?"

He was a little surprised, why everyone wants to invite him to dinner recently.

but……

"Sorry, there are a lot of things this week." Mingyan said sincerely, "There will be a chance next time."

Cleary: "..."

He didn't make any more noise, just lowered his head, maybe he was eating ice cream.

……

Saying clearly that I am busy is really busy, and it is definitely not an excuse.

This matter waiting to be dealt with is more serious, and he did not call all the staff of Blue Star Studio for a meeting.

Instead, I had a small meeting with several team leaders and designers in the afternoon.

——Mainly the relevant personnel of the League of Legends.

"Recently, everyone should know that a batch of well-made cheats have appeared in the League of Legends, and they come from a well-known cheat production team called 'You Mo'." Mingyan said straight to the point, "This is the latest data on cheating."

He projected the data into the conference room.

It can be seen from this that in the past three months, the number of effective cheats in the League of Legends has almost doubled compared to last year.

The sudden increase in the number of cheats, on the one hand, is of course also because the heat of the League of Legends itself is still growing fiercely.

But there is also a very important factor, that is, the game itself is being targeted by a large cheat production team.

Plug-in will seriously damage the balance of the game.

Some small plug-ins may help players see through, allowing them to gain important information advantages in competitive confrontation.

And some serious hacks may directly lock the blood—that is, make the game character impossible to kill.

The nature of this kind of cheating is extremely serious, ranging from causing dissatisfaction among the player groups to directly destroying a game!

This is not alarmist talk, but something that has happened in history.

The more promising and popular games are, the easier it is to cause the game balance to collapse due to the proliferation of cheats.

Once the technical team has no way to completely ban cheating, things will quickly take a turn for the worse.

The word-of-mouth has declined sharply, and normal players have left collectively, which eventually led to the helpless termination of the game operation.

——Game producer, cheat maker, player, three parties die together!

A game that may have the potential to reach 100 billion sales may be completely destroyed because of the proliferation of a cheat that only sold 100 million.

The maker of the plug-in was smiling.

But I don't see a team that has made a good game with heart, and years of hard work are ruined like this.Not only was he helplessly disbanded, he was burdened with debts, and he was also abused by the players.

Maybe it just fell into a slump and completely withdrew from the game industry.

And this team called "You Mo" is a notorious cheat production team in the Sixth Star Province.

You must know that being able to achieve a well-known cheat among the player community is not an easy task in itself.

It has a complete technical team behind it, and there will be corresponding publicity personnel.

Even, it has its own user base.

Some players who like to get something for nothing, like to open cheats when playing games, and enjoy the illusory pleasure of "crushing other people without effort".

The plug-in thing is good for stand-alone games, after all, it does not affect normal players.

But for online games, especially online games where players compete, it is highly poisonous.

Like a moth parasitic in the trees, it uses its fangs to stab into the main artery of the game, greedily absorbing the nutrients in it to grow itself.

It has everything from the mouth to the digestive organs, and it can pluck a piece of meat from your palm.

But they just don't want to hunt by themselves!

It is to carry out destructive parasitism. After a game is smashed to the bone and sucked out, and wiped out, its own life will also end.

After the League of Legends was targeted by this "You Mo" team.

Every time the game is updated, their plug-ins must be updated to ensure that their users are difficult to be detected.

Their plug-ins don't particularly affect the game balance, but they are very good at exploiting small loopholes and making auxiliary functions such as "ultra-long-distance vision" and "automatic burst skills".

In other studios, you may not bother to do this kind of cheating at all.

But in Mingyan, his core principle is: "Never tolerate, even if you are far away, you will be punished!"