Otherworldly Architect

After the successful release of "Yunxiang Clothes", Mingyan left Tulong Baodao studio again.

Compared with Blue Star, most of Tu Long's employees still don't know Mingyan's true identity.

Except for important matters, Mingyan rarely came to Tulong Baodao studio on his own initiative.

In comparison, it's really a bit like being raised by a stepmother, but fortunately, the employees don't really care whether the boss is approachable or not.

——It is enough to have a high salary and normal benefits!

——Even if there are no benefits, a super high salary is fine!

Blue Star Studio is very different here.

Many employees attached great importance to the word "dream" during the initial interview.

Most young people who choose to devote themselves to the game industry still have dreams—because the current generation is the backbone of gamers back then.

They like to play, like to watch, and then like to devote themselves to it and make a career they love deeply.

Many of their career goals are not salary, but a higher sense of self and social identity.

In other words: "I want to make a game that I love to play, a really good game!"

Therefore, when some editors in the media deliberately provoked the war, in fact, the studios on both sides did not pay much attention.

The Dragon Slaying Sword doesn't care about fame, as long as it has money.

Blue Star Studio has never been too lazy to compare with others, because what they pursue is not fame, but the work itself.

Those who pay the most attention to this kind of debate may be the individual fans who clearly stated.

Even Mingyan himself laughed it off.

For the new project "Assassin", there are still many problems that need to be solved by him, and now is not the time for leisure and entertainment.

After the New Year's Eve, the alpha test version has officially become a thing of the past, and now "Assassin" has almost laid out the entire large map.

By the way, the official name of the game has almost been drawn up.

People seem to be happy to call it Way of the Assassin.

——This is a passage written impromptu by the head of the copywriting team, and this passage was finally used as a declaration to join the Assassin Organization.

【Hear my oath, be my witness:】

[I will wear the night and walk in the silence of all things. 】

[I will have no name or surname, and I will not compete for all the honor and favor in the world. 】

[I will only believe in civilization, and never bow to the gods. 】

[We are assassins, dancers who hide deep in the darkness, sharp blades that split the light. 】

[Only the unintentional will live forever! 】

When Mingyan saw this passage, his reaction was similar to everyone else's.

"...Well, what a second grader." Ming Yan said, "But it's so emotional!"

Everyone nodded:

"Yes, yes, as expected, it takes a patient with the second illness to truly write that kind of ancient feeling of the Middle Ages."

"Although I don't understand it very well, it looks very powerful. Maybe this is the mystery of an assassin."

At this time, Lu Jia, who was eating bubble gum next to him, raised his hand and said, "I think it's cool too, very much like Master Master!"

His master, of course, refers to Odin, the Great Demon King and the God of Assassins.

After receiving Luke's words, everyone was overjoyed.

Just like Odin!Like Odin, it means that the direction is not wrong, which means that this passage should be able to impress the players!

So, this passage was decided like this, and it became a passage in "The Way of the Assassin" that players must swear when they join the Assassin Organization.

The hidden meaning of this passage, of course, has a strong connection with the content of the game.

The game "Assassin's Way" is set in a low-magic world, that is to say: there is a certain amount of magic, but it is not mastered by ordinary people. Only a few people have seen it, and even a few people will use it.

This can easily explain some of the abilities of their assassin protagonists, such as Hawkeye.

Because all people with eagle eyes (such as the protagonist and Odin) have a certain magical blood, they can stimulate some of their abilities.

The structure of the entire background story is established in the Middle Ages.

The Church of the Assassin's World is in full swing, but it persecutes those who possess magic—wizards and witches.

Here, magic represents a technological path that allows civilians to learn and master it step by step to become a more powerful individual;

But theology represents the feudal way, and everyone must dedicate all of themselves to God, that is, to the church that represents God, and no hidden behavior is allowed.

So of course the church would dislike magic, because it would shake the foundation of their rule.

Under such circumstances, wizards mostly kept their names incognito, conducting their own magic research silently, or imparting their knowledge to newcomers when appropriate.

And the assassin organization "Blue Bell Flower" is the assassin organization that has been passed down silently under such a background.

They will adopt some children with special talents, teach them some knowledge, and let them walk on their own suitable path.

They started out as mercenary-like teams to raise money.

Later, because of the pursuit of the church, they went underground and began to carry out more covert assassination operations.

The earliest founder of this organization was a talented person like Odin and players, and he taught more people how to use their assassin talents.

The long-term goal of the organization is obviously not to make money and raise children. Their dogma is actually to "inherit knowledge", to truly announce magic technology to the world, so that everyone can improve themselves, instead of being a church vassal who can only pray.

They firmly believe that there are no gods in the world at all.

——[Only the unintentional will live forever! 】

The meaning of this sentence is: all things, only those things that have no heart can last forever.

If the god the church believes in has a heart, he will die; if the god has no heart, then he can't care for the world at all, so what the church says must be false.

It is this attitude of "I don't believe in God, but I want more people to question God" that makes the church hate it to the bone. It has been committed to eradicating the entire Blue Bell Flower organization for many years.

The main storyline of "The Way of the Assassin" began in a certain year, when Bluebell discovered that the protagonist was a talented person, so she let him join the organization.

At this time, Blue Bell Flower is committed to protecting a wizard named "Copernicus", leading him to hide in Tibet.

This wizard is studying a rebellious school of magic, the principle behind it is "heliocentric theory"!

The "Earth Center Theory" that the church is currently explaining to believers is that the gods created the earth, and then pushed the sun, moon, and stars to move as they are now.

——Don't ask too much, don't question, don't wonder why the orbit of the sun and the moon is like this, anyway, it's just a gift from the gods.

But Copernicus' "heliocentric theory" completely overturned all this.

He said: Our earth is round, and the sun is the center of the universe.Everything revolves around the sun, and the sun doesn't move.During the entire astronomical process, there is no divine power involved in the whole process.

In other words, it is okay if God does not exist, and our world will continue to operate as usual without affecting us at all.

Moreover, his heliocentric model has a high degree of agreement with the observed results, explaining many things that the geocentric theory cannot explain.

It is conceivable that the church must hate Copernicus's "heresy" to death.

They wanted to catch Copernicus, tie him to the square in front of the cathedral, burn him to death in front of all the people, and put his "heliocentric theory" into darkness forever.

And Bluebell was busy moving Copernicus and his students to a safer place, and at the same time trying to pass on the heliocentric theory to other wizards.

——The research on "heliocentric theory" must continue!

——Civilization cannot be blinded forever in the hypocritical lie that "the gods show everything". The people must know the truth about the stars and the sea, and must have their own knowledge and power!

Therefore, to preserve, pass on, and share magical knowledge, and to fight against the church to the end, this is the original intention of the entire organization of Blue Bell Flower.

The entire background story was discussed through many meetings with the person in charge of Odin.

For a while, the boss of Blue Star's plot team would suddenly fall into deep thought when he looked at the information provided there.

He often sighs: "What a detailed world view, from epic myths to details of life are so complete, it saves us a lot of work! I almost think that Odin, the Great Demon King, traveled from the era when the blue bell flower existed. gone."

This is of course a joke, but many people feel sympathy for it.

There are still a few employees in Blue Star who are obsessed with Blue Star's ancient culture. At first glance, their dress and word habits almost seem to have traveled from the era of Blue Star.

The initial story will be reprocessed many times, and finally it will become the story line that is slowly presented to the players.

It's as if Bluestar Studio sampled a famous cathedral in reality and reproduced it in the game as it is, but it will add an extra ruin to its underground to give players more exciting exploration.

With the progress of the main story line, players will learn little by little about the past of Blue Bell Flower, the Assassin's Creed, and the efforts of all wizards.

The knowledge of the astronomical school was first passed on from the Ptolemy wizard, and then slowly passed on to Copernicus—and the process of passing it on was actually completed by Odin, the predecessor of the assassin.

In the game, players will watch Odin's phantom perform tasks with their own eyes. This is not only a kind of operation teaching for players, but also a unique narrative method.

Then in the game, the baton of knowledge will be passed on by players to more wizards such as Bruno, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton through various tasks.

Players will meet each wizard one by one, and then see the end of each of them.

Copernicus died of illness, Bruno was burned alive by the church, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment...

However, according to the heliocentric theory, in the end, like the sun shining on the earth, it will come unstoppably from dawn.

This is the power of civilization!

The ending of "Assassin's Way" will also end when the protagonist (player character) grows old.

At that time, the protagonist had already become a master-level assassin of Blue Bell Flower. He had experienced the main quests about the astronomy school, and there were many more side quests, and became a battle-hardened grand master.

He will finally travel by ship to the newly discovered "New World".

He firmly believes that there will also be seeds of civilization sprouting, and then being enlightened by great wizards...

Maybe, he can also see more traces of his predecessors, just like Odin once did.

The entire world view has thus become a closed circle.

The main story of "The Way of the Assassin" can be described as magnificent, based on the profound connotation of "knowledge enlightenment, civilization inheritance", which can make players full of sense of mission.

In fact, after reading the outline of the script, many employees were suddenly full of energy after changing their bodies.

"That's right, our civilization is passed down like this!"

"That dark Middle Ages didn't cut off the seeds of knowledge, woo woo woo, I suddenly feel that those scientists are really great."

"It's burning and cruel, ah, what an epic story... I suddenly feel that Odin's eyes are really suitable for such a senior assassin. He feels like such a story-telling person."

"Quick! Give me a computer! Give me a job! Now I feel like I have to study hard to save the world! Our ancestors exchanged their lives for the inheritance of civilization, we can't be so slack!"

A good story can make people feel very motivated.

The story of "The Way of the Assassin" also combines the past history and the illusory world view to interpret the history in a thrilling, romantic and exciting way, which can be regarded as a perfect display of the phrase "originating from life and higher than life".

Blue Star Studio started to invest in the production of the beta version with full motivation.

They have made a single-line narrative game "Blue Star Doom". The whole story follows a main line. Players will go through the map step by step, and there will be no reverse order of tasks.

They also made a completely open game "Soul of Mortals", but that game didn't have any main plot, only the plot of each NPC evolved with time, and players would only learn a little bit of the truth of the world—so There's also no quest order at all.

"Assassin's Way" is the first semi-open world that Blue Star tried.

The protagonist will be free to choose whether to do the main plot or the side missions. Even if the main mission reaches one stage, it is OK to suddenly drop it to do another mission.

In this way, when the protagonist is not in the main plot, the action lines of some NPCs have to be "temporarily frozen", so as not to happen that when the player returns, he has already been burned to death by the church...

Moreover, it is quite a headache to see how open the world is.

Mingyan’s initial design is that players can freely climb the entire city map, but they cannot leave the city where the mission is located.

Players can communicate, trade, and even conflict with designated plot NPCs, but they cannot communicate with passing civilian NPCs (that is, extras).

Players can decide how to complete a task, whether it is a face-to-face assassination (Kai Wushuang), an aerial attack, or an assassination by poisoning...but they cannot decide the ending of this task.

In other words, the task must be completed, and the target must be dead in the end.

If the degree of completion is too low, it will be regarded as a "task failure", and the entire task status will be reset, as if the protagonist has never done it.

During the development stage of the beta version, the studio members often finish a task and ask everyone to test it together.

This is not a formal process of testing, it can only be said to be a daily "version experience" to ensure that there are no major problems in the version made today.

Then during this period, the designers discovered that there were a lot of riots among their own employees——

Someone actually tried to massacre the city! ! !

"Insane!" (screams from the designers)

Because civilian players can't communicate, they look like AI robots, so they don't feel guilty if they kill them... But this can't be a reason for him to kill anyone he sees!

It is impossible for the great knowledge inheritor who was promised to become such a devil to get over it.

The designers were full of black lines, and added an additional setting: Assassins are not allowed to massacre civilians at will, and if one is killed, the completion of the mission will be reduced by 5%, until the mission fails, everything will start again!

There are also people who have done something slightly better than massacring the city...

He managed to kill every wizard he saw! ! !

"Insane!" (the designers screamed again)

The wizard in the middle of the task process is protected by the system, unless he is accidentally killed by the church during the escort task, and the task will directly fail and start over.

Otherwise, during the mission, they will not die, nor can they be attacked by the player - to ensure that the player's mission can continue.

But after the task is completed, it is possible for the wizards to link up with other side tasks.

One employee carried out a show operation. He first killed a civilian in the street, attracted the guards of the church, and then found Copernicus with the guards chasing him...

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Everyone interviewed this player one after another: "What on earth are you thinking! That is the great Copernicus, the initiator of the heliocentric theory!"

The old man took out a cigarette in a vicissitudes of life, and said: "I just want to try to be a diehard lackey of the church. After all, being a villain feels very handsome. A world of theism, I think it is very beautiful." .”

Everyone: "..." Come on, a villain has appeared in our studio! !

Players' choices in the game can't be taken seriously, of course.

But such vile behavior must be nipped in the cradle!

The assassins of Blue Bell Flower are a group of noble and great inheritors of knowledge, they can't do such a cheap thing, otherwise wouldn't that be a breach of the oath?

Mingyan heard about this, so he also took out an electronic cigarette, put on a more bossy air, and said coldly: "Once someone betrays the organization, we will send all our assassins to clean up the traitors."

Everyone: 0V0!

Then it was very happy, and everyone punished the player who did this kind of thing.

Unless you read the save file and try again, this player will be hunted down by both the Church and Blue Bell Flower!

There is no safe zone (Bluebell branch), no resource store (Bluebell's connector), no task collection point, anyway, there is nothing, you can only open Wushuang.

See how long you can be unparalleled!