Otherworldly Architect

Due to various factors, when Mingyan started to design a new project, many people have come to the door.

One of them is an official of the Sixth Star Province, and his rough title is the director of the "Internet Information Propaganda Department".

He came over in person, and Ming Yan had to pick him up in person. The two talked for four hours in the conference room of the Blue Star Building.

These four hours...how to say.

It is clear that the effective communication time is only about 3 minutes.

It's like putting a skill when playing a game. After a full two hours of front shaking, it was finally released, and it was over with a snap, and then the back shaking action began for a full two hours...

But all in all, Ming Yan still understood the meaning of this "Internet Information Propaganda Department".

—Blue Star is going to make an AR game! OK, that's a great thing!

- But pay attention to the issue of review, because in the real world you can't do anything casually, and there will be security risks, so Blue Star should pay more attention to the "Internet Game Review Rules".

— In addition, the government is vigorously promoting the "offline health campaign", advocating that every citizen can walk one kilometer a day, and one kilometer is enough, comrades!

All companies and individuals that contribute to the promotion activities can be rewarded, and there are also rankings. Generally speaking, individuals are encouraged by capital, and companies are given a certain degree of tax relief policy.

"By the way, you can also show your face on the official news, which is a great opportunity to promote the company's brand." The other party said.

Although Ming Yan didn't speak, the secretary standing behind couldn't help thinking: Master Ming still needs to show his face? Does Blue Star still need publicity?

Answering the government's call is a good thing, and I guess someone's good at this sort of thing.

Ming Yan turned back to discuss with Xia Cheng.

Xia Cheng touched his chin and said, "It doesn't matter if you take part in something that has advantages or disadvantages. This kind of activity is held every year. You can take a look at what happened last year."

He searched for information about last year.

Last year's first prize was given to a public service advertisement app, and the final result was to encourage the people of Sixth Star Province to travel an additional 462,677 kilometers.

Ming Yan was stunned when he saw it, and asked, "I remember there are tens of billions of people in the sixth star province, right?"

Xia Cheng nodded solemnly.

Ming Yan: "..." The first prize only encouraged 460,000 kilometers, how lazy you interstellar people are! How lazy!

In fact, the sixth-star province is still a relatively good province, at least most people are still active offline.

For example, in the second and third star provinces where virtualization is more serious, 80% of people have already started to work, have dinner, entertainment and even sleep online.

Even on their provincial capital planet, the streets of the commercial district are often seen empty, with only environmental protection robots walking around, very depressing and deserted.

However, the virtual networks of these two star provinces are very lively, and they are also the regions with the best and most enthusiastic attitudes towards alien games and e-sports.

They don't care about their food, clothing, housing and transportation in reality, or even their own health. They are only happy to feast on the Internet and cheer for their favorite e-sports players. This is the reality of those two provinces.

In short, Bluestar Studio still reported its new project online in the publicity department.

When filling in the project name, Ming Yan had to rack his brains and come up with a name to deal with.

- God is pitiful, he is really not good at taking names! Otherwise every game wouldn't be voted on by the studio!

Fortunately, there was another Xia Cheng sitting next to him, who came over and said, "Let's call it "Dragon Hunter", it's simple and easy to remember."

Ming Yan seemed to be saved in an instant, filled in the name as it was, and said, "It fits the theme very well, I decided that it is it!"

After he finished speaking, he was stunned.

Xia Cheng: "?"

Ming Yan said happily: "I suddenly had a brilliant idea: let the player name the little dragon, and then use similar words to summon his own dragon to fight, how about it?"

Xia Cheng said quietly, "Fill out the form first."

Xia Cheng is very used to it. Chief Master Ming is worthy of being Chief Master Ming. He can always come up with wonderful ideas at unexpected times.

It feels like a certain famous detective can suddenly think of the key factors in solving the case from the completely unrelated chat content of the surrounding people.

Although the famous detective is indeed very powerful, the object of the chat will be confused.

Having said that, the reason why Xia Cheng is at Bluestar Studio is mainly to run the business of Morningstar Game Incubation Park.

Although the young couple is a young couple, there should still be some procedures.

Mingyan officially hired Xia Cheng as the CEO of Morningstar Incubation Park. By the way, there was a director seat, and then Xia Cheng started running.

Although he wants to help, he is almost like a fuel bottle in this regard...

Xia Cheng kissed him and said: "You stupid baby, just be a director who only contributes money but does not do anything. I have my career content, you have your career content - when is the new game going to be released? "

Ming Yan said: "Dragon Hunter, the game volume is relatively small, and it will probably be released next year's New Year's Day."

Unlike previous games, the new project is not prepared to do rich game plots, long main quests and vast open maps.

In other words, the focus is still on the real experience, rather than on the construction of virtual content.

This is the policy that Ming Yan had in mind from the very beginning.

In his design, "Dragon Hunter" should be a lighter game, allowing people to play for a while on the way to work, or when they are partying, or when climbing a mountain to challenge a dragon...

All in all, it is a concoction for traveling and entertainment, not an immersive 3A game that you can devote yourself to at home.

And "Dragon Hunter", of course, the most important thing is the dragon.

This week's Blue Star has officially entered the first stage of new project development: designers are bursting into design!

The specific situation is that Ming Yan led a group of designers into the small black room together.

The small black house designed by this group is still different from the programmer's small black house. It is full of dazzling and strange things.

The whole room was arranged like an entertainment room, with many lazy sofas arranged in a circle in the middle, and a large whiteboard on the ground in the middle.

There are a lot of shelves and whiteboards around the room, and all kinds of toys, musical instruments, snacks and drinks, electronic equipment... everything is scattered on the shelves and on the ground.

These things are here for three reasons:

First, show more and richer elements to inspire designers;

Second, let the designers have something to play with when they discuss;

Third, arrange a relaxed and fun atmosphere in the entire small dark room.

Such a small black house is also a set of models finally determined by Bluestar's many years of development experience.

Designers brainstorm inside.

Some people like to lie on the lazy sofa in a strange shape, play a yo-yo in their hands, and discuss problems with the people next to them;

Some people are more classical and like to wear glasses and meditate alone in front of the whiteboard in the corner;

Some people are more playful, and may play the musical instruments one by one, or use crayons to scribble on the already messy wall;

There are also people who are more jumpy in their thinking. They will lie directly on the floor and play a brand new similar game every 3 minutes...

There will be two small meetings every day here to gather everyone's inspiration.

A small black house like this is also called "Rainbow House" by employees, because there are really all kinds of things in it, and because the designers always come up with colorful and wonderful ideas in it.

Like this time, when they came out, they all had dark circles under their eyes again, and they looked like their bodies were hollowed out.

But the spirits are all full of energy, as if the group has been drinking high, and they are still in a magical state of mind.

They contributed 77 unique dragon species!

"Dragon Hunter" can be used for the first publicity and let players understand the game. Naturally, it is the most representative dragon species that exists in reality.

Golden Dragon, Silver Dragon, Three Copper Dragons (Bronze, Brass, Red Bronze), White Dragon, Red Dragon…

Then in the extension of reality, the designers also imagined:

A red dragon born on Valentine's Day will have a chance to mutate into a pink dragon;

The pairing of a white dragon and a black dragon will result in a zebra dragon, which is only hybridized, and does not have natural dragon eggs;

Crossbreeding a day dragon with a dream-eating dragon can give birth to a "day-dream dragon"...

Everyone was overjoyed when they saw the original design draft!

Varian said: "The red dragon is such a majestic dragon species, hahahahaha what the **** is Little Pink! I guess they want to say 'mmp' to you now!"

He took the list and ran over to entertain his art team.

The life cycle of game development quickly transitions to the next phase:

The designers continued to explode, turning the initial inspiration into specific documents, which should include the shape, attributes, character, habitat, habits, history, etc. of each dragon species in detail. , even including linkages with other dragon species.

The art workers also started to work, and materialized several first determined design documents into the initial concept drawings, and then became the original design drawings, and then determined the 3D image and handed it over to the modelers to start the first project. The making of dragons;

Programmers are more relaxed at this time, mainly because a few bosses are still working on the programming framework of the entire game, and they anticipate technical requirements and possible bottlenecks.

At this time, it is clear that you can consider the game demo.

The demo is a prediction of what a game might look like in the future. It's a bit like building a virtual model before building a bridge to show you the future effects.

This time, it is also because I have to report to the government department, so I have to do a simple demo.

Ming Yan rubbed his hands together, showing an extremely evil villain boss-like smile, and said, "Then, let's put a black dragon on the Golden Gate Bridge first and try the little procedures."