Otherworldly Architect

"I used to be a proud iron-headed kid, until later, I played a Blue Star game..."

Maynard said sadly: "Hey, brother, have you heard of "Xia Ke Xing"?"

Chris said: "The best game of the year, who doesn't know? And after winning the award, the League One even changed the score."

These days, remarried men and women are quite common, but it is not common for a game that can change the score of League One.

With such a big card in League One, changing the score is equivalent to eating back what he said with his golden mouth and jade teeth... Everyone who plays games has heard of this.

"..." Maynard was silent for a while, "I am the evaluator who changed the score."

Christon's mouth opened into an "O" shape.

The two former iron-headed children coincidentally sat at the same table, chatting and having dinner.

When Maynard talked about his own experience, Chris also felt the same way: "Some things are indeed... wonderful after aftertaste."

Maynard smoked a cigarette and said vicissitudes: "Sometimes the reviewers and players have been working for a long time, they will have a kind of arrogance, feeling that they are above the producers, they can criticize and even point out the country, layman command Experts make games. But they often forget the original intention of doing this industry. I just liked playing games... I took this fun as a job. After a long time, my thinking went wrong.”

Chris had the same thoughtful look on his face.

Maynard added: "I was the same at the time. After only a few minutes of playing, I made a wanton and condescending judgment on a game. This is actually very unfair and disrespectful to the production team. It's like you go to The restaurant eats steak, but just after taking a bite of the pre-dinner bread, he recklessly gave the chef a one-star rating, saying that his cooking has no meat flavor..."

Chris Tong drooped his head, took two mouthfuls of food in frustration, and said dejectedly, "You're right."

At [-] o'clock in the evening, all the test feedbacks had been sorted out, and the players left the Blue Star Building one after another after dinner.

The production team also withdrew from the team building site outside one after another. Most of the people had a good time eating, drinking and having fun, and went home after picking up some things.

Mingyan and another group of people didn't want to go back for the time being, so they stayed to check the test feedback.

This is the last test before the launch of "Assassin's Way". A total of 200 players were invited to conduct three rounds of tests: online-cooperation, online-confrontation and challenge missions.

Judging from player feedback, it is considered a pretty good S-level result.

Especially for the battle design of NPC Odin, all players who finally thought of picking up the nerve ring were full of praise for this design and were extremely impressed.

This gave the designers a lot of incentives, because it was an important attempt for them.

In fact, a certain degree of confusion between game content and reality is called a "meta element".

Where the term originated is temporarily unclear, but it has actually been around for quite some time.

Games that use meta elements are often called "meta games", also called "meta games", and some people call them "games within games".

The simplest example, for example, a game looks like a love game, but while playing, the characters in it suddenly realize that they are characters in the game, and then ignore the protagonist of the game, and start to interact directly with the players... It is a kind of "meta game".

Similarly, what else is playing the game that prompts that it crashes, and suddenly becomes another horror game;

There are also some games that may require players to make phone calls outside, check information, or even go to a certain place in reality to decrypt.

These are "meta games".

When fighting NPC Odin, let the player take off the nerve ring and switch to the classic handle, which is of course a "meta element".

As soon as an example like this appears, it can often arouse the player's interest.

They suddenly changed from "I am controlling the protagonist to play the game" to "Hey! I participated in the game process myself", and the whole sense of substitution came out.

The sense of substitution is a very important part for games with a plot experience or a heavy sensory stimulation component.

Therefore, when Mingyan got the test feedback, he couldn't help showing a kind smile.

In the conference room, the designers were all happy.

"The players accept it quite quickly! It seems very interesting!"

"Hey, I can't wait, when will the horror game be approved, and the meta elements will be added..."

"I think you can't wait to see the scene where the player is scared to pee?"

……

What kind of evil meeting took place in Blue Star Studio, the players don't know yet.

All they knew was that after the two-day final test, Chris was on fire from another angle as an e-sports player.

After returning home, Chris took a short video by himself and posted it on each of his social media accounts.

The title of the video is called [About recent evaluation events].

In the video, Chris appeared on camera in person, and calmly said to the camera: "... Regarding the recent video of me circulating on the Internet, I would like to explain to you first. It was at the class reunion, and I drank too much , the nonsense you said when you were dizzy..."

"Yes, it's nonsense, it can't be taken seriously."

"I must severely condemn those who filmed me without permission and posted the video on the Internet. I will use legal means to protect my legitimate rights and make you pay the corresponding price."

"At the same time, many people asked me, how did Blue Star Studio react to this matter? Did they retaliate against me?"

Having said that, Chris took out two pieces of paper together.

"...No, they didn't. I'm still testing in the Blue Star studio today, and no one has ever deliberately mentioned this matter in front of me. When I asked the relevant personnel, he said to me: 'Don't worry about the outsiders My point of view, anyway, the game will be released soon, and only by speaking with strength can more people hear it.'”

"So, with the consent of Blue Star Studio, I will publish my own test feedback report today. This report contains my true views on "Assassin's Way" - it is the result of careful consideration after in-depth play , instead of talking nonsense after being drunk."

Blue Star actually had quite a lot of test feedback sheets, and Chris took out one of them.

On the above, in the face of the option of "Please rate this game experience", Chris checked the option of 10 points/10 points early.

At the same time, in the face of the option of "Please rate the difficulty of this game, moderate is 5 points, too difficult is 10 points, just follow your intuition", Chris Tong also ticked 10 points/10 points... …

Oh no, it seemed that he struggled for a while, and finally he used a pen to erase it and changed it to 5 points/10 points.

God knows what kind of ideological struggle he went through when scoring!

Anyway, at the end of the video, Chris also said:

"Believe me, never say the words 'too easy' to a game produced by Bluestar Studios, otherwise you will experience a painful lesson... Ahem, the game "Assassin's Way" is a PvP game. Whether it’s PVE or PVE, it has great difficulty and depth! From shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, it can make people have a very intuitive experience!”

"I used to be a proud iron-headed kid, until I participated in Blue Star's game test..."

"All in all, when you don't know enough about a game, don't rate it self-righteously—especially when you are facing a game produced by Blue Star, otherwise your face will be swollen by yourself."

Almost, I just ate all my words yesterday.

——It’s really the same as Maynard back then.

Regarding the change of Chris Tong, there are naturally various voices on the Internet.

Most people still recognize and understand this, because they have also played Blue Star games.

Only a small number of sunspots are still clamoring, and there are even conspiracy theories, thinking that it is a big problem for Chris to return to the Blue Star test this time, because Blue Star may have brainwashed him...

This is of course nonsense, but such a conspiracy theory is also very difficult to defeat.

For this kind of thing, Blue Star's official approach is to deal with it coldly.

Because in this world, speaking with strength can be heard by most people.

On September 9th, "The Way of the Assassin" will be officially released!

On this day, the game industry has once again shut down across the board. No matter whether there is a holiday or no holiday, almost no one will continue to work in their positions.

Everyone fooled around and filled in any reason and asked for leave, and then rushed to play games...

This may be so obvious in other industries.

But in the game company, maybe there are not many people sitting on the whole floor, and those who don't know think it's a legal holiday.

This time the game is released, mainly through several channels at the same time.

First of all, the Bluestar official website released the pre-orders very early. Players who pre-ordered will be automatically delivered by drones today, and a set of pre-order benefits - a special bluebell flower bookmark will be given as a bonus.

Then there is the normal online sales channel, which cooperates with Ijia, Ajia and other platforms, and several large multimedia websites also have download channels.

Finally, there are offline channels.In the interstellar era, very few people would buy things offline, but the enthusiasm of the players for the physical version and the collector's version is too high... Some people come to buy things directly by spaceship, and no one can stop them live.

At this time, the designers of Blue Star Studio were waiting together in the largest conference room.

What they are most concerned about is not the issue of sales, because they have been quite calm about it.When a studio has a name like Blue Star, as long as the previous work does not collapse in word-of-mouth, the sales of the next work must be guaranteed.

——"Xia Ke Xing" is obviously a work with excellent reputation.

Therefore, what the designers are staring at now is how players and the media evaluate "Assassin's Way", and can it wash away those unfavorable comments on the Internet?