Otherworldly Architect

"At one time, I was also a proud iron-headed baby, until later, I played a Blue Star game..."

Maynard said bitterly, "Ah, brother, have you heard of The Knight's Walk?"

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

These days, it is quite common for men and women to remarry, but it is not common for the League A to change the score of the game.

With such a big board of League A, changing the score is equivalent to eating back what he said... Anyone who plays games has heard about it.

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

Chris Tong's mouth opened in an "O" shape.

The two former iron-headed babies sat at the same table by coincidence, chatting and having dinner.

When Maynard talked about his own experience, Chris also felt the same way: "Some things are indeed... It will be wonderful to look back on."

Maynard took out a cigarette and said vicissitudes: "Sometimes the evaluator and the player have been with the player for a long time, and there will be a kind of arrogance, feeling like he is above the producer, and he can criticize, even point the country, and the layman directs. Experts make games. But I often forget the original intention of doing this business. I just liked playing games at the time... I regarded this fun as work. After a long time, my thinking will go wrong. "

Chris looked thoughtful with the same face.

Maynard added: "I was too, just playing for a few minutes, and making wanton, condescending judgments on a game. It's actually very unfair and disrespectful to the production team. It's like you go to The restaurant eats steak, and as soon as I ate a bite of the bread before the meal, I rashly gave the chef a one-star rating, saying that he did not taste meat..."

Chris lowered his head, took two bites of rice in frustration, and said dejectedly, "You're right."

At 8 o'clock in the evening, all the test feedbacks were sorted out, and the players also left the Blue Star Building after dinner.

The production team also withdrew from the outside team building site one after another. Most of the people had a great time eating, drinking and having fun. They came back to get some things and went home.

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

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

From player feedback, it is quite a good S-level score.

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

This gave designers a lot of incentive 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 word originated is temporarily ominous, but it has actually been developed for a long time.

Games that use meta elements are often referred to as "meta games", also known as "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 character in it suddenly realizes that he is a character in the game, and then ignores the protagonist of the game and starts to interact directly with the player... This It's a kind of "meta game".

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

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

These are "meta games".

When fighting NPC Odin, let the player remove the nerve ring and use the classic handle, which is of course a "meta element".

When a case like this appears, it can often arouse the interest of players.

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 heavy plot experience or sensory stimulation.

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

In the conference room, the designers were happy.

"Players accept it quite quickly! It seems to be very interesting!"

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

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

...

In the Blue Star studio, what evil meeting happened, the players don't know yet.

They only know that after the two-day final test, Chris, as an e-sports player, became popular from another angle.

After Chris went back with him, he shot a short video of himself and posted it to each of his social media accounts.

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

In the video, Chris appeared in person with himself and calmly said to the camera: "...about my video recently circulated on the Internet, I want 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, you can't take it seriously."

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

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

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

"...No, they don't. I'm still testing at the Bluestar studio today, and no one ever mentioned this in front of me. When I asked the relevant person, he said to me: 'Don't worry about it. Opinion, anyway, the game will be released soon, so more people can hear it by speaking with strength.'"

"So, with the approval of Bluestar Studio, I will also publish my own test feedback report today. This report contains my true opinion on "Assassin's Way" - the result of careful consideration after in-depth play , rather than the nonsense you take for granted when you're drunk."

Blue Star's test feedback list is actually quite a lot, and Chris also took out one page.

On the top, facing the option of "Please rate this game experience", Chris had to tick the option of 10 points/10 points early.

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

Oh no, it seems that he struggled for a while, and finally corrected it with a pen, 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 the games produced by Bluestar Studio, otherwise you will experience a painful lesson...Ahem, the game of "Assassin's Way", whether it is PVP It’s still PVE gameplay, there is a lot of difficulty and depth! From shallow to deep, from easy to difficult, it can make people have a very intuitive experience!”

"At one time, I was also a proud iron-headed baby, until later I participated in the game test of Blue Star..."

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

Almost, he just ate all his words yesterday.

——Really the same as Maynard back then.

There are naturally various voices on the Internet about Chris Tong's change.

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

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

This is nonsense, of course, but this conspiracy theory is also hard to thwart.

For this kind of thing, Blue Star's official practice is to treat it coldly.

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

On September 10, "Assassin's Way" was officially released!

On this day, the game industry has been shut down again. Whether it is with or without vacation, almost no one will continue to work in their positions.

Everyone just filled in a reason and asked for leave, and then hurried 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 is a legal holiday.

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

First of all, the Blue Star official website released the reservation very early. The pre-ordered players will be automatically delivered by the drone today, and at the same time, a set of pre-order benefits - a special bluebell bookmark will be given.

Then there is the normal online sales channel, which cooperates with multiple platforms such as I Home and A Home, and there are download channels on several large multimedia websites.

The last is offline channels. In the interstellar era, few people will buy things offline, but the enthusiasm of the players to want the physical version and the collector's edition for collection 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 Bluestar Studio were waiting together in the largest conference room.

Their biggest concern is not the issue of sales, because they have been quite calm about it. When a studio has a name like Bluestar, as long as the previous work does not collapse in word of mouth, the sales of the next work are guaranteed.

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

Therefore, what the designers are focusing on now is how players and the media evaluate "The Way of the Assassin", and can they flush out those unfavorable comments on the Internet?