Otherworldly Architect

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was also the New Year's Day.

This year's New Year's Day has also been announced, which is half a month earlier than in previous years, so everyone has no intention of working at this time, and the whole focus of life is almost "waiting for holidays, such as holidays, and other holidays."

On Bluestar's side, the release date of "Hunter World" is getting closer and closer, and the most busy people have become game testers and programmers who are still debugging bugs in the final round of testing before going live.

They invited a group of players again, basically at random.

Because of the sudden surge in traffic a while ago, the number of players who signed up for the test online also suddenly surged again. This time, the screening rate has reached 1 in 100,000, and almost all of them are "God's Chosen Sons".

In this test, the focus is on verifying the complete flow of the game, so the staff did nothing to help the players, everything was left to them.

The overall results were quite satisfactory, and the test engineers recorded some interesting data.

In this test, a total of 200 players:

28 people have died at the hands of the game's lowest level mobs;

79 people fell off the cliff and died, and 21 of them failed the mission;

16 people gave up resistance because they hated insects too much and were smeared by the mosquito monster. They also gave up the task after returning. 2 players tried to buy insecticides in the grocery store;

1 player was put in jail for trying to harass a female NPC;

The number of deaths of the 4-star boss Volcano Dragon is 0 - in a swipe game, no player can have enough accumulation to challenge the big boss in a short time, and most people can only defeat the 2-star final boss only.

One player didn't understand the meaning of the NPC while doing the quest——

The PC asked him to collect things and put them in the gondola, and he sat on the gondola himself and hanged himself in mid-air because he lost his balance.

The designer revised the task lines for him overnight.

In addition, 7 players tried to cheat at the slot machine in the hunter camp. 6 players tried to bypass the 10:1 game currency exchange mechanism and directly stuffed copper coins into the coin slot.

The remaining person didn't even want to pay this copper coin, but took out the mint candy in his arms...

Thin! load! sugar!

The designer added a handwritten note at the end of the slot machine rules: [Those who try to evade fares will be fined 100 times! Those who damage the coin entry of the machine are not allowed to go out without completing the punishment task! 】

All in all, "Hunter World" has been completely packaged after this test, and it's just waiting for the New Year's Day.

During this period, the propaganda department naturally followed closely.

Although they always feel that they may be the most redundant department of Blue Star, in many cases it is not that they promote and then fans cooperate, but players promote and they cooperate with players...

The second promotional video mainly introduces the hunter camp, and also demonstrates the differences between the various weapons used by the hunters.

Players have star eyes:

[Wow, the big sword is too handsome! 】

[No one can stop me from playing the big sword! A weapon with such a slow attack speed was born to install X! 】

Seeing the reaction of the players, the designers who had expected it for a long time showed a kind smile that understood it.

The third promotional video is mainly a demonstration of actual combat - [Master Ming joins hands with friends to challenge the four-star boss Volcano Dragon in person].

There are plenty of gimmicks, and the battle scenes are thrilling enough, so this promotional film came from behind and became the most impressive one among players.

In this way, the pre-sale version of "Hunter World" has also been on the Blue Star platform for a month, and the number of reservations has reached a terrifying number of nearly 70 million.

In order to reserve "Hunter World", many Bluestar players had to download and upgrade their own Bluestar launcher to become a member of the Bluestar platform - after all, it is an exclusive first game on the platform!

They are not idle either while waiting for the game to be released, and most of them will browse this emerging platform curiously.

As a result, they couldn't get out when they walked around...

【Ah ah ah ah my world is folded? Crazy! ! ! You can buy it for only three bucks, which is too much! ! ! 】

[Damn, I bought three Minecraft activation codes uncontrollably. It’s so cheap, so keep it anyway, you can give it to your friends in the future, and you’ll save nearly a hundred yuan all at once… (puff your chest out with pride)]

[Blue Star Doom 1 is half price! ! 30% off when you buy the Bluestar Doomsday 1+2 bundle! I blow up the Blue Star series! Pong friends, I beg you to start quickly! 】

[Wow, the promotion for the New Year's Day is really powerful, look at me, add one, add one, add one, add one, add one, add one]

[Is this platform poisonous? It gave me a farming game for nothing. Look at the discount games I just bought in my inventory, all of them are masterpieces, and all of them are the best of the year. Can I play them? ? ? …Let's go to the side, I choose to farm! ! 】

This incident even exceeded the designers' expectations: the players, for some reason, have a soft spot for this farming.

Maybe the entrance to the farming game is very approachable - you can see it when you open the door of the room, which led to a large number of drainage.

The average number of online users on the Bluestar platform is now in the billions, of which nearly half of the farmers are farmers.

A small New Year's Day has passed, and this ratio has even risen to 70%...

Players are simply planting vegetables... and stealing vegetables.

The function of stealing vegetables is simply poisonous, which directly causes the harvest time to be very important to them.

So a large number of players began to set alarm clocks, calculate when their dishes are ripe, get up in the middle of the night to collect the dishes, and go to the neighbors' houses to find something delicious...

What's more, after calculating which plant has the highest hourly income through the form, you will start a never-ending road to making money, and you can do things like getting up every two hours! It makes people suspect that this person is simply a robot!

In this situation of people stealing vegetables, things quickly got out of hand.

Raising dogs at home, installing fences and even power grids have become rigid demands for players.

If anyone doesn't have a dog, they have to come back to harvest the vegetable field within a few minutes of maturity, or wait for the vegetable field to be "ploughed" by thieves.

As a result, the sales of the corresponding props suddenly skyrocketed, almost scaring the designers—

They decisively chose to reduce the price!

At the same time, everyone is allowed to adopt a dog for free!

The mall now only sells some precious dog breeds - there is no functional difference from ordinary pastoral dogs, but each has its own characteristics.

And those who have bought dogs in the mall before will be compensated directly for a lot of pet props, as well as an out-of-print collar.

On the player forum, a super loud BB was quickly issued:

【Blue Star! ! ! You TMD don't eat! ! ! It's the first time I see mall items that are free! 】

[It doesn't matter if the game is discounted, the dog can be given away for free. Have you asked Xixi for his opinion? 】

【What are you doing! Blue Star is really relying on the fact that there is a dragon slaughtering behind him, and taking money is not money! After the year, is Tulong going to release a super krypton gold mobile game to make money to support the family...]

[Bluestar Games, buy early and enjoy early, buy late and get a discount, don’t buy for free? ? ? 】

Under various factors, the players of the farming stream even brought traffic to the Bluestar platform in turn——

They invited their own relatives and friends to try this little game on the platform together.

As a result, because of the function of stealing food, it suddenly became a place for friends and relatives to play and play.

Some small groups who have taken the opportunity to come down after graduation and have never been in contact with each other have become active again because of stealing vegetables.

Former classmates and friends went online one after another, and even had a new common topic: growing vegetables.

After planting the fields, you may be able to call your own little dragon by the way, play two "Dragon Hunters", and discuss the dragon species that may appear in "Hunter World";

Or revisit the blood of the year, gather five former friends, play the five blacks of "League of Legends", and feel that there are many heroes who are new or redone now, and everyone doesn't know much about it, but together The joy of fighting side by side is still vaguely the feeling of the past;

Or, go to "Minecraft" together again, a group of square people will start all over again, building small houses together, mining together, going out to find animals to bring back livestock, and reclaiming farmland together...

And then started to grow vegetables again (block version)?

No matter how small a game is, once such a complex network of social relationships is established, it is destined to become extraordinary.

After Blue Star designers realized this, they held a meeting together.

They discussed several similar proposals, and after they read it, they decided to say: "Let's use the No. 3 plan. Now that Kevin's team has finished "Assassin 2", they are temporarily free, and let them follow up on the development of this farm game. , which includes everything else creative - bringing together leisure content like farming, ranching, mining, fishing, cooking, and more.

"If it's a code name, it's called 'Farm' first.

"Now the farmland in the player's login device will not move, so that they can continue to maintain this social status on the platform. In the future, when the 'farm' is online, it will be linked here, and you can enter the game directly from the farm."

Blue Star is not very skilled in making high-quality mini-games, but it is definitely competent.

They have perhaps the most elite designer team in Chaoyang Alliance, and they are best at carrying out this delicate and mature architecture.

This unexpected little game is mainly started by the deputy team led by Kevin. It is expected to be completed within 5 months, and then it will be officially launched on the Bluestar platform.