Otherworldly Architect

That night, the Blue Star studio was brightly lit.

In the lounge dedicated to overtime work, several people casually lay sprawled on the sofa.

When Mingyan came out of his small dark room, he saw this situation and called the intelligent robot helplessly.

Soon, the robot found a few camp beds from the locker next to it, and filled the lounge to the brim.

During this period, Mingyan saw a form hanging on the wall.

——It is the work schedule of the programming team. It looks like it was changed just today, and there are still traces of smearing.

Schrödinger wants to have all the major systems of Mortal Soul complete by March.

The background of this schedule is an original art drawing of the NPC "Adam" in the game.

They also need to go a little faster...

It would be nice to be able to go faster.

……

In late January, "Mortal Soul" released two promotional videos.

The first promotional film is called "Heroes", and it tells the story of a brave team from a third-person perspective who go to an abandoned temple to steal a small tinder.

This faint light can only illuminate an area of ​​a dozen square meters, but it has saved the entire village.

A little girl fell to her knees on the ground, with tears streaming down her face, and prayed with her palms together: "Gods in the sky, please bring the light down again..."

In the first promotional video, the fighting techniques used by these warriors are partially shown.

Someone used a spear to open the way in front, and someone used a crossbow to clean up the monsters behind.

Some people brought a lot of props and used precious poison to break the back at a critical moment.

There were also people in armor, who stepped forward to delay the monster as if they were dead, and created opportunities for their teammates to steal the fire...

The second promotional film is called "Mortal", which takes the priest Sisyphus as the No. 1 perspective, telling the story that the fire in his temple is about to go out, and a large number of human beings either die in the dark, or degenerate into monsters.

Sisyphus swallowed the fire and let it burn his soul, thus continuing.

However, the camera turned around.

Decades passed, and Sisyphus' soul was exhausted, leaving only a body in the desolate church, turning into a completely depraved monster.

After watching the two promotional videos, the melon eaters began to speculate about the plot.

【Sisyphus must have become a BOSS】

[Aren't the names of these two promotional films reversed?I really think Sisyphus can be called a hero...]

[This setting, is it saying that the soul can be consumed as fuel?The protagonist can be resurrected infinitely but will lose san value, in fact, he is constantly consuming soul...]

That last guess was pretty accurate.

After the protagonist of Mortal Soul exhausts his San value, he will turn into an empty shell (that is, a monster) wandering in random wilderness.

During this time, time flies by.

But until mid-February, Blue Star Studio didn't make any big moves, not even news.

Players also found that several employees—even the personal account of the chief designer—have not spoken for a long time.

It looks like it's missing from the world!

The players are still a little puzzled: Isn't Blue Star not always working overtime?Then these people should not be very busy, where have they been these days?

He clearly stated that he was "missing", and even the automatic reply of the communicator changed to: "Hi, I'm not here now, please leave a message if you have anything to do."

Xia Cheng probably knew the situation and didn't bother him.

He just silently sent the private doctor to Mingyan again.

Varian is also missing, and he didn't even play Sisi's video, which made netizens miss it.

Schrödinger lived directly in the company dormitory and didn't go home for a month, turning from a technical nerd into a sloppy little prince.

After taking off the clothes and throwing them on the ground for a week, you can wear them again; if you don’t take a shower for a few days, you can spray perfume to deal with it, and it’s not too late to take a bath after the pickling smells.

Even Ling Xiaoman disappeared voluntarily, and she went to study at the music academy next door.

But she was still a student after all, and her parents looked for her very worriedly.

Then they discovered that Ling Xiaoman was sitting obediently in the classroom, listening to classical music with earphones and eyes closed.

— Classical music!

Ling Xiaoman, who claims to be a rock and roll genius, hasn't had this muscle since he was a child?

If she could appreciate it, she wouldn't have had such a quarrel with her family back then.

But never expected that Ling Xiaoman burst into tears at this time.

After listening to a piece of music describing hopeless love, she seemed to have a sudden enlightenment, and she was very moved.

Finally, she stomped her feet and said, "I tried my best, but I still can't do anything...I hate it so much!!"

Then, she dropped the earphones and hid in the small room where she was creating.

Just in the first ten days of March, Blue Star released the third trailer of the new game, called "Inheritance".

In this promotional film, the protagonist "Undead" finally appeared.

The protagonist climbed a pitch-black mountain and entered the ruins alone.

He passed a big withered tree, the rough branches were covered with the outlines of many shriveled corpses, and many bat monsters emerged from it to attack the protagonist.

At this time, the angle of view turns to the near, and it becomes a screen similar to the actual game, but there is no game interface.

The protagonist uses a machete, a long stick and a corrosive prop to solve the bunch of mobs.

Soon, a figure appeared from the darkness, and it looked like a little girl who had once prayed to the gods.

There was a big black hole in her chest, and inside that hole was the kindling that had kept the village alive for many years, and it still retained a faint residual warmth.

But the souls of all the remaining people have been consumed by it, and they have all been reduced to corpses hanging from trees, now hacked to pieces by the protagonist.

The girl took a step forward and said, "Pass down the light..."

The next second the camera zoomed in, the last orange afterglow disappeared.

Everything returned to darkness, and the little girl raised her head while weeping.

From both sides of her cheeks, blood vessel-like structures spread up, quickly invaded her pure eyes, and ate up her eyeballs.Many rotting bat wings grew from behind her, and many pairs of crying eyes appeared on her limbs.

She has been corrupted by darkness.

And the protagonist drew out his scimitar, solemnly promised: "I will."

The scimitar finally flashed past in the darkness, turning into a headline——

"Mortal Soul", April 4, waiting for a new light.

Will you pass it on for them?

As soon as this promotional film came out, there was a public outcry on forums, on the Internet, and even on news media sites.

[Why is it rescheduled to April 4?what happens? 】

[I've only heard of game skipping to the next month or even the next year, never heard of skipping and jumping forward!Zhao Ritian is completely convinced by Blue Star's operation! ! 】

[Recently, the leader has disappeared, so he was working overtime to play games? 】

[I just said why there were two promotional videos at once last month, Blue Star has always been slow in doing things!It turns out that the new game is about to be released in advance?I saw that the official website is ready to open a reservation! 】

The official pre-sale channel of "Mortal Soul" has been opened after the announcement.

The final price of this game is 328 yuan, which is a very cheap figure for a 3A masterpiece of Interstellar, and many Interstellar people still think it is cheap.

Pre-ordering "Mortal Soul" can get a set of special skins and a specific expression in the game, which is also very conscientious.

Within 6 hours after the opening of the pre-sale, the official website traffic fluctuated significantly.

At the same time, the number of online users increased by more than 160% year-on-year, and a large number of players came straight to the pre-sale of "Mortal Soul".

At the same time, the hot topics related to #令性之身前销# appeared on all major websites, and they climbed up to the hot news in various places at a super fast speed.

Even the editors of some portal websites directly took the headline "Blue Star's new game is on pre-sale!", and a piece of news came - not to mention, the number of readers was really good.

Because there are still many fans who have already blocked the relevant news, fearing that they will repeat the lessons learned from the past, and wait for "Mortal Soul" like waiting for "Blue Star Doom"...

At this time, they saw some news and blogs saying "The Mortal Soul is pre-sold in advance!", a bit like a goose that was suddenly awakened, and stretched its neck to check the situation.

The news affects more than just players.

There are also some companies and studios in the industry who are just preparing to release games at a similar time.

This afternoon, I don’t know how many teams started a meeting urgently, and the content of the discussions was similar.

"Hurry up and evaluate whether our game will be impacted by "Mortal Soul" after it goes online... Forget it, I'm afraid it's a [-]% thing, let's directly estimate how much impact it will be."

"We can directly discuss the issue of rescheduling the game."

"Why don't you follow Bluestar's lead and delay the ticket? If it is delayed, firstly, the players will feel dissatisfied, and secondly, no one knows when the sales shock of "Mortal Soul" will end."

"According to Blue Star's usual level, at least within half a month after the release of Mortal Soul, we'd better not take any action."

So, after the New Year's Eve this year, there was chaos everywhere.

March is called "Miracle Month" by players, because more than 80 games, big and small, were released this month!This is the number of games for almost two months in the past.

If they are all crowded together, it will affect the list and recommended positions, but everyone is like a duck being caught on the shelf, and they have released their works in a hurry.

This can be said to affect the whole body. A promotional film just released by Blue Star, no one expected that it would have such a wide and far-reaching impact.