Otherworldly Architect

"Master, have you ever considered dating a fan?! Super sweet, super sweet!"

Mingyan hasn't reacted yet.

The fans in the audience burst out with good-natured laughter.

Someone else booed: "Promise him!"

"No! The leader belongs to all of us!"

In the auditorium, Zhou Liye was dumbfounded and said "Hold the grass?"

A lion-type orc with a frayed tail.

A snake-shaped orc threw down his pen and crumpled the page of notes in his hand.

But as everyone expected, Ming Yan calmly rejected him.

"'The Xiongnu is still alive, so what is the family for?'" Ming Yan said, "This sentence means that I haven't exhausted my inspiration for making games, and I don't think about falling in love for the time being."

The host was overjoyed and said, "Could it be that Mr. Ming means that you can't have both playing games and falling in love?"

Mingyan opened his eyes wide and asked, "Isn't that so?"

The lion orc sat back silently, looking up at the ceiling without a word.

Yes, the chief designer of Ming is still the chief designer of Ming.

Talk to him about anything else, and you'll definitely end up back in the realm of "games"...

Fortunately, the next player questioning session is quite satisfactory.

A player asked: "Master Ming, I just cleared the Blue Star Doomsday game, and found that the final ending is that Russell and Louis are still on the road to save themselves. So I am very curious, what is their ending?"

Mingyan: "..." I don't know either.

Well, this brings up a problem.

Sometimes, players think that the designer always thinks about the whole story (including the ending) before writing and then making it into a picture.

But that's not the case.

Designers are also very smart, they will modify the plot based on player feedback.

And a lot of times, they'll also take inspiration from the player's reaction to determine how the next installment/chapter/series will go.

This leads to a very interesting phenomenon:

When the player thinks that the story has already set the ending, it is time for the designer to present it to him.

In fact, the designer has no idea what will happen next!

Some designers only know the ending of the story a few months ahead of the players;

Some designers are even more exaggerated, only a few days earlier than the players...

Well, this is all normal.

Of course, there are some abnormal situations.

For example, on the day of the closed beta, players saw the ending and felt very dissatisfied, giving the game a very low score.

When the designer saw that this was not working, he immediately decided to modify the plot on the spot.

However, this kind of behavior is quite damaging to the image, so it is generally not so straightforward to say "I want to eat books!".

("Eating books" refers to the behavior of the designer to greatly modify the original plot and pretend that the settings he made before do not exist.)

It is more likely to smooth the flaws in the plot through the follow-up plot.

Mingyan at this time, although he himself does not know what Russell will end up with.

But this does not prevent him from fooling... oh no, fooling... oh no, responding seriously to the players.

Mingyan responded solemnly: "The ending of Russell and Louis is still a secret, please allow me to keep it secret."

After the answer, the player who asked the question still had a vague understanding.

Some people have already reacted.

Zhou Liye's eyes lit up, and he muttered involuntarily: "Wow, could it be that Blue Star Doomsday will release a second part..."

A man next to him heard it and immediately slapped him on the shoulder.

"Fucking brother, you are talented! You guessed it all! It sounds really promising. If there is a second part of Blue Star Doom, I'll treat you to a drink!"

Zhou Liye's mouth was crooked in pain, and he hurriedly said, "No, thank you!"

The grand occasion of the release of Blue Star Doomsday is still vivid in my memory. All the data can be said to be booming. It is a sure-fire hit game and one of the strong contenders for the best game of the year.

It is entirely possible that Blue Star will make it into a series.

And it has already aroused the expectations of countless diehard fans!

Of course, follow-up questions about the end of the blue star will be thrown back to Kevin, the corresponding designer in charge of this game.

Kevin: "..."

He is just planning to make the first expansion piece of Blue Star Doomsday, and he can tell the story of his favorite supporting actor Coster.

However, he never expected that "Blue Star Doom 1" has only been released for more than a month... The boss actually gave him the news of "Blue Star Doom 2".

devil!

On Mingyan's side, he still had to deal with more questions about the latest game.

"I want to ask the leader, why is the new game codenamed 'Soul'? Is there any special meaning?"

Ming said: "This is because our protagonist can be resurrected infinitely, but every time he resurrects, he will lose some san value. It can be said that the life value is empty, and the san value is the body. Strictly speaking, the protagonist of this game It's not a complete person, it doesn't include the body part, it can only be said to include the soul part—so it's code-named 'soul' first."

"Will the new game be scary?"

Ming Yan said: "I'm afraid it's scary or not, it should vary from person to person. This game doesn't particularly emphasize scary images, but it may appear darker in terms of the story. But in the end, the main idea is still for the protagonist to defeat those monsters. We especially encourage players to try to use different weapons, different strategies, observe and summarize the different weaknesses of different monsters, and finally successfully conquer them."

……

The 15-minute question-and-answer session quickly timed out.

In the end, after about 25 minutes or so, the host had to politely terminate the dialogue between Mingyan and the players.

There are 45 minutes left, all of which are given to the rest of Blue Star.

Mingyan, on the other hand, walked off the stage amidst the applause of the players.

Among the people left on the big stage, besides the current managers of each game, there are also several familiar "big shots" from Blue Star.

The leader of the art team, Varian Wrynn, is also the veteran of Blue Star Studio, and participated in the production of "League of Legends" throughout.

The small Internet celebrity "Vivienne" in the music group, whose real name is Ling Xiaoman, participated in the production of the soundtrack of "Blue Star Doom" because of his obvious optimism, and became popular overnight.

And Schrödinger, the leader of the programming team, came up wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and holding his two-dimensional wife in his arms, which was quite unconventional.

The cheers he received were almost second only to Mingyan.

Because the player knows that the technical team led by him has been fighting against cheaters.

And Blue Star's attitude towards cheating is really very attractive!

In addition, the players regard the leader of the program team as a kind of "executor of justice", or the kind of cool and domineering one, and they can't love him.

Ling Lingqi followed Schrödinger on stage.

His avatar has wings, and his figure is very light, as if he can fly anywhere.

Because he first worked as a mod in the "Minecraft" forum, and later joined Bluestar directly because of an explicit interview invitation, so he is also a "legendary figure" among players, and his popularity is quite high.

However, he himself is quite shy, and he doesn't dare to go on stage directly.

Or tell him clearly, "As an employee of Blue Star Studio, it is both an honor and a duty to be on stage"—well, I really tricked this honest young man into it.

Compared with other talents who entered Bluestar Studio through school recruitment, social recruitment, headhunting, etc., Ling Lingqi's application method is really unique.

The players' favorability towards him is like being curious about the "princess from the folk".

Someone asked him: "Excuse me, do you have any special feelings in Blue Star Studio?"

Ling Lingqi smiled and said: "The biggest feeling is freedom.

"Take me as an example. I work about 6 hours a day, five days a week, but I work flexibly. I only need to control the clock-in time. I don't know how other people arrange their schedules, because I am Working from home... I clock in at 01 o'clock every day, clock in at 30 noon to have lunch, and the lunch break ends at [-]:[-], and I start working again at any time.

"I often look at it on weekends, and I find that I don't know when the working hours are exceeded again. The boss - the chief designer of Ming, sometimes sends emails to 'question' why I worked overtime again-"

Speaking of this, there was a burst of disbelief from the audience.

Ling Lingqi touched his nose embarrassingly, and said: "The boss really cares about each of us. He remembers the working hours every week, and he will give people who work too much overtime—such as Mr. Varian— Give him additional annual leave. By the way, when working in Blue Star, the annual leave must be taken on time every year, otherwise he will be 'publicly executed'."

The host couldn't bear it any longer and asked him: "What is 'public execution'? Is it deduction of bonuses?"

Ling Lingqi smiled and said: "Of course not. 'Public execution' is to let people perform on stage at the annual meeting, any performance is fine, but you must go up..."

There was another burst of laughter from the audience.

It seems like everyone has the same stage fright.

And when it was Varian's turn, he spoke in a different direction.

"I'm probably a foodie. One of the happiest things for me in Blue Star is to see what's delicious in the lounge every day." Varian said with a wry smile, "Boss is really 'excessive', he There will be at least three tea stations in each work area, and the coffee, juice and other beverages on them are self-service, and there are plenty of sweets..."

Having said that, he took out his terminal and projected a photo on the big screen.

In the photo, it is an ordinary tea station of Blue Star.

I saw a dazzling array of things on it, from small biscuits, cakes, etc. to snacks, melon seeds, peanuts, potato chips, to healthy fruits, yogurt; there is also a special beverage machine for drinking, which provides coffee, milk tea, Juice, milk.

...everything that fills the whole table.

There was a cry of envy from the audience.

Zhou Liye's saliva was about to drip down, he didn't even have such a rich snack cabinet at home!

The host also looked envious and said, "Blue Star's benefits are really good."

Varian let out a long sigh and pinched the fat on his stomach—his avatar was an exaggerated little fat man.

"Up to now, I have been employed for 32 months. I have gained 10 catties even though I keep exercising, with an average of 0.3 catties per month..." Varian said, "My wife is very fond of Master Ming. Opinion, saying that he raised me too white and fat."

"..." the host said, "Mr. Varian, you will be beaten for saying that you are so good-looking when you get cheap!"

The players were also super cooperative and made a "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" sound.

The microphone was quickly passed to the designer Kevin.

Unlike the previous programming and art masters, his work content is closer to Mingyan.

After thinking about it, Kevin said: "I have been with Blue Star for about a year and a half, and I was the first batch of people who participated in the production of "League of Legends."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was unexpected applause from the audience.

The players really liked the League of Legends. Every time they spoke with these four words, they began to applaud unprincipled.

Kevin waited for the applause to subside a little, and then said: "When I was working, I often felt that the boss, Master Ming, and Master Ming were the gods of game production.

"More than once, when I was faced with a design draft, I had no clue and couldn't solve the problem in front of me. Then when I mentioned the relevant problems during the design team meeting, the boss quickly solved the problem lightly.

"For example, a 'vehicle problem' that was very impressive to all of our members. At that time, the program team and the design team were helpless. I didn't expect that the boss would come up with a practical solution in just one night—and, this is still He took a long time on a puzzle.

"In most cases, Mr. Ming is in his hands. He only needs to think a little bit, and he can quickly answer any questions we have. So I have always believed that the boss is omnipotent in the field of game design... "

"Wow!" The audience sighed one after another.

The host laughed and said, "It seems that designer Kevin is really an admirer of the leader."

Kevin said: "If you come to our studio and ask around - I dare say that everyone is an admirer of the boss, especially the people in our design team. This person is really too trustworthy, it seems that there is no There is absolutely no day when he will run out of inspiration for problems that he can’t solve. Just thinking about the project being led by him makes us feel very reliable and promising. So if I want to talk about the feeling of working in Blue Star, That is, every day is full of hope, and when I think about going to work and playing games today, I can't help laughing."

The players applauded again.

The host also said: "This is a designer who really loves games, so he is so happy at work."

Yes, almost everyone in Bluestar Studios really loves games.

The difference is that they like all kinds of different types of games, and they play at different levels.

For example, Varian is an intelligent person. He can make a very powerful redstone device in "Minecraft", but his own operation level is terrible. He has not yet reached the gold rank of "League of Legends"... …

Of course, the players are also very curious about the game level of the studio members.

In their imagination: Master Ming, who is omnipotent in design, is definitely a king!

But the facts disclosed by Varian are shocking.

——Varian teased: "The Boss Positioning Competition was rated at the second rank of Silver, and he never climbed up since then."

The person next to him was also very happy, and added: "The boss usually doesn't have much time to play his own account, so he usually stays where he is rated. And our rating competition mechanism has decided that the first rating is It will not exceed the fifth rank of gold."

Master Ming, who made the game, is actually only Silver [-]!

It was unexpected, but within reason.

Players with good deeds immediately posted the news on the official forum.

Because the official live broadcast also showed that Mingyan had just stepped down, this post immediately became lively.

[Hahahahahahaha left tears of sympathy]

[You actually look down on silver?You must know that in the first season, Silver is the segment above the king, we call it the "leader" segment... No way, I can't make it up, let's laugh first]

[It seems to be able to see the future of the third season's positioning mechanism being greatly revised...]

Because it is clearly stated that this person is usually too low-key, and never discloses any information about his private life.

So it's rare to have such an official channel to learn about the other side of Mr. Ming's workaholic. Players are very interested.

——What, I heard that Blue Star Studio also has a League of Legends team? !

--What?I heard that Blue Star also has a Minecraft server, and all employees have their own small houses in it?

It is also the first time for players to discover that Blue Star Studio is really interesting.

When they are not working, they are also a group of very fun people-perhaps only such creative and talented people can make such a good game.

It's finally time for the designers to reveal each other's shortcomings at the meet and greet!

What is the rank of the chief designer of the Ming Dynasty as the second silver?

When Varian was playing Minecraft, he was once wearing a full set of diamond armor and was solo killed by a small zombie.

When Vivienne was writing a song, she was so excited by a melody that she couldn't help herself, and she fell down and rolled around on the floor of the office as if she was in no one's land.

After Ling Lingqi worked overtime late at night, his brain circuit was wrong, and he made a sand sculpture module that allowed players to throw shit at each other.

When Kevin was working on the plot of the end of the blue star, he once thought of a side plot of Coaster, but when he thought of his grief, he couldn't help crying with his golden retriever dog Sissi, and his eyes were swollen from crying.

Schrödinger also had one time where he accidentally pasted his treasured xx website URL into the code, and was surrounded by everyone in the program team...

……

There are too many sand sculpture operations by this group of talents, and the players couldn't help laughing when they said it.

They suddenly realized that the employees of Blue Star are ordinary people who are very close to life—well, no, they are geniuses who are close to life.

It turns out that a genius also has a side that is lacking in both, and can be so humorous.

The happy time was still so short, the meeting between Blue Star and the players had been extended to an hour and a half, but everyone still felt unfinished.

At the end of the meet and greet, it was Vivian who picked up her electronic piano and sang to the players on the spot as their farewell.

The players all stood up, raised their hands high, and let out their loudest cheers.

Someone shouted: "Blue Star is amazing! Long live Blue Star!!"

"we love you!!!"

After the online meeting, employees of Blue Star no longer have to participate in the project.

He clearly stated that he would give them the same holiday, go to offline venues, let them play whatever they want in the carnival, and let them expose their identities as they please.

For example, Kevin, the designer who enjoys playing with players, went straight to the League of Legends version 3.3 experience hall. He heard that he had a 5v5 fight with the players...

He played all afternoon, and all these games were made into videos and uploaded on the Internet, which actually became a small hit.

And Mingyan put on a mask offline, and rarely went shopping in the carnival.

He ended up standing all afternoon in the player gallery.

This hall is full of large electronic screens, displaying screenshots, messages and other screens uploaded by each player, and scrolling according to the number of likes received.

Mingyan saw that players organized many popular tags by themselves.

For example, there is a tag of #我的世界三年数据#, which means that Minecraft players are showing their archives for the past three years.

The archive with the highest number of likes actually spent tens of thousands of minutes in three years, building two bases from scratch by himself, and the main base had very tall walls and moats.

I really don't know how much effort was put into it.

The other archives are also, maybe not as beautiful as those videos dedicated to construction, but they are very warm, making it easy to think of the small homes they built.

In a blink of an eye, this game has been in operation for more than three years, and everyone has quite good memories in it.

Seeing that other people's small homes are as messy as my own, I don't know how to arrange the furniture, and the savings I have accumulated over the years of adventure are placed in the boxes... It really makes people feel a lot of emotion.

In the arena, there were quite a few people posting their pentakills in the League of Legends, and speedrun videos of playing Blue Star Doomsday...everything else.

When Mingyan sat on a bench and watched happily.

A person sat next to him and said proudly: "Look, the house ranked No. 13 was built by me."

Mingyan glanced back at the submission, and it showed that it was from the anchor Juliet.

——Well, the one who became popular because of the Tintin monster bombing the live broadcast?

Zhou Liye sat on the bench a little tired after playing wildly at the Blue Star Carnival all morning.

He didn't know who the people around him were, but he was in high spirits now, and he had just been squeezed out from the crowd of enthusiastic players.

He waved a Tintin monster toy, and said with a smile: "Master Ming is a devil, but the devil is as tall as one foot! I finally conquered all the Tintin monsters, hahahahahahahaha! The new game is difficult, I have nothing to fear!"

"..."

Mingyan narrowed his eyes after hearing this, and showed a kind smile.