Otherworldly Architect

Two months later, summer is approaching.

The weather is getting hotter.

Blue Star Studio is also indulging in the atmosphere of work today, unable to extricate itself.

During this period, the two flagship mods of Minecraft have been formed and tested by internal staff.

The official website of Bluestar, which was handed over to the outsourcing company, was handed over early.

The account and community system is perfect, just waiting for a clear order to be opened to players!

In the past two months, Cruise Capital has also visited the negotiation team twice, hoping to negotiate with Bluestar Studio and re-discuss the possibility of cooperation.

In the eyes of businessmen, there are only interests and no friendship - if you give up one Li Sheng, you will give up one Li Sheng!

There are many people who are willing to get their hands dirty, and Li Sheng is one of them who has no talent, so there is no need to feel sorry for him.

However, until Li Sheng was detained for investigation and related funds were frozen.

Blue Star still did not let go.

Cruise Capital "deeply regrets this" and immediately turned around to support other games with potential.

The mode of "League of Legends" is very novel, and there are no qualified imitators yet - so they can't take a step ahead of Blue Star and immediately enter the development stage of the alien game.

However, "Minecraft" is a game that has been popular for a long time, and imitators with good results have appeared on the market.

Cruise Capital chose two of them to support them.

Develop a new version, hype it at the same time, and then invade the Minecraft market step by step, until the IP monopoly is finally achieved, allowing the vast majority of survival building players to only play their game.

This set of models is very mature, and only requires a certain amount of capital and an operator with a little experience.

Just when Cruise Capital felt that the victory was in hand, Ming Yan was still in the small dark room.

——Closed development is a nice name to describe the neurotic development model of "everyone shuts up in a small dark room together, if you don't finish your work, you won't be able to work out, you won't socialize, and you won't have fun".

The other members changed shifts one after another and stayed in the dark room for a period of time.

Ming Yan is there to guide the whole process, and personally participate in the production, fix bugs and test without sleep...

In every link, he has ensured a 100% participation rate.

Xia Cheng is often unable to contact Ming Yan, let alone other people?

In the end, Xia Cheng was so frightened that he sent a personal doctor to follow up with the little black house.

Medical devices keep an eye on Mingyan's health 24/7, forcing him to eat and rest at precise times.

In this way, the person's liver was kept from bursting...

On the day he left the little black house, Ming Yan felt a little dazzled when he saw the sun outside.

He hasn't been exposed to pure natural ultraviolet rays for a long time!

But the hustle and bustle these days is worth it.

Two mods were born, and received "S" and "S+" grades in the test group respectively.

This means that every player who was invited to the test gave a good review! Even the praise that exceeded the studio's expectations!

After the game test, these players all came to Mingyan excitedly to sign autographs.

They are players drawn from past Bluestar Studios fans.

Of course, certain rules are followed - there are talented game masters, well-known streamers, and professional critics... covering multiple age groups.

One of the game critics is a specially selected talent who is not very interested in the original version of "Minecraft".

As a result, when he was taken off the VR glasses, his hair almost stood up in anger.

"I will give it to me! I will give it to Rush for a minute! I have prepared two hours of quantum armor suit ah ah ah, ah,

Because the player was too emotional, the staff had to put the glasses back in his hands.

I saw this man put on his glasses impatiently, and then sat down on the chair.

Returning to "his world", it suddenly became quiet.

Staff: "..." Like a little baby who got a pacifier? !

This batch of test players, more or less, had this problem of "actively extending the game time".

After the end of the game experience, there are still many people who are still unsatisfied.

When they answered the questionnaire, they were even emotionally driven by the gaming experience.

Many people waved their arms and said:

"I'll be able to defeat another boss in no time!"

"I've just entered the era of mass production of quantum chips, and have a great plan for a nuclear power plant!"

"The new magic is so much fun, you don't know what I've done! Combining the two properties of 'transform' and 'touch', I made a 'super-transfiguration' that can touch all animals I've touched Become a teapot! Teapot, you know? Hahahahahaha..."

Couldn't stop laughing.

The scoring table is completely unable to accommodate the enthusiasm of these players.

They even spontaneously wrote a small composition in the "Suggestion Feedback" column that they freely played at the end!

【Chief Designer of Ming Dynasty! I am your big fan! Super fan! supersuper super iron powder! The game you made is really great, I have a month to play it every night and play it...]

This is plain and simple.

【Oh my god, what kind of game design is this! Mr. Ming must be the **** of games! This mod is as addicting as poppy shells! I can't find it anywhere in the world anymore...]

This is flashy rainbow shit.

(Ming Yan secretly pressed the camera shutter.)

【Go online soon! You want us to wait another week to play such a fun game. Are you deliberately torturing players? Mr. Ming, I hope you can have eight more heads and ten arms, and you can play twenty games a month! If you can't, then I have a small dark room club that I can recommend to you...]

This is pink to the brink and naturally black...

Ming Yan silently put down the evaluation report.

The results of the evaluation were a bit beyond his own expectations.

The mod of "Apocalypse Era" is a very difficult mod, and the more you get to the later BOSS, the harder it is to conquer, and the harder it is to acquire and upgrade magic.

But I didn't expect that after these players experienced it, they got a great sense of satisfaction because of the higher acquisition difficulty.

They unanimously gave the "era of the end of the law" a higher score! Some people directly punctured the scoring table!

No way, the evaluation team can only violate the principle.

They added a plus sign to the top "S" rating, making it an "S+" rated mod.

Seeing the players' compliments, Ming Yan moved in his heart.

It seems that the upper limit of the ability of the interstellar people to endure hardship is higher than he imagined...

He thought for a while and smiled kindly.

...

At the end of the month, the 2.0 version of the official website of Bluestar was officially updated.

And on their homepage, the option to "register a Bluestar account" finally appeared!

After almost three years, this pure and unpretentious studio has finally given fans a way to go home.

The players are about to burst into tears!

Immediately, I am delighted to hear, delighted, celebrated in the whole world, and run around to tell each other... The four in a row are going!

What is even more touching is that the chief designer of Ming has disappeared for nearly half a year out of thin air again.

He made a new move——

It's not a new game release, but it's a big move.

Minecraft has been updated with a new version, which opens up the download of "Mod Maker" for free, and opens up game-related forums, allowing players to play, discuss, and share new mods on their platform.

Don't rush to ask "what is a mod?" The two flagship mods made by Bluestar have been updated below.

——That is the "medieval technology" and the "era of the end of the law".

Moreover, on the production list next to it, apart from Varian, the leader of the art team, the leader of the programming team... and so on, who are already familiar to the players.

And a clear name!

He is the designer and producer of the mod!

So what is the difference between these two modules with a capacity of 30G and Mingyan who made two expansions?

Not at all! !

The enthusiasm of the players was instantly ignited.

In recognition of Mingyan's design capabilities, the downloads of the two modules on the first day of release exceeded expectations.

——In the past two years, "Minecraft" has accumulated up to 20 billion downloads.

It has broken through the historical records of "indie game downloads", "indie game sales", "indie game highest game ranking" and so on.

Its players have also contributed historical records such as "longest single game time", "fastest clearance", "most popular game commentary video", "most popular game forum", "longest in-game walking distance" and so on.

The surrounding forums are also very hot, and many communities have been brought on fire because of this game.

All of this was unimaginable in the past.

Just like how this game rescued a small platform that was on the verge of death, it is a magical deed that players enjoy talking about.

It is precisely because of the accumulation of these reputations that "Minecraft" can be said to be an IP that has already stood on the altar.

Compared with the 3A-level works of those big manufacturers, the only thing it lacks is the capacity.

No matter how much you cherish and play, and how to use your architectural imagination.

The vast majority of players' game journeys will end within 100 hours.

At that time, they had beaten most of the bosses, visited all the unique terrains, and built the buildings they wanted. The materials at home were piled up into mountains, and they were no longer used.

The lifespan of the original Minecraft game is almost over.

The two new modules, however, can again provide more than 10 hours of game time.

They are the face of the mod program, the official definition of what a mod is to be taken out later to tell other players.

On the first day of its launch, the two modules exceeded 100 million downloads.

This is because the Blue Star official website has just been updated, and a large number of players have not had time to get the news, and then rushed over to register their accounts.

However, this is the case. The number of background registrations of Bluestar accounts has quietly reached the nine-digit level.

This means that the traffic of Bluestar Studio is no less than that of most medium-sized game platforms.

It is no longer a small studio established on a remote planet in the Sixth Star Province.

It is a new force that cannot be ignored in the game industry.

As Mingyan grows step by step.

Every new game with a new theme is born, and every extraordinary concept is proposed, all of which are shaking the classic game industry of Chaoyang Alliance.

In the square where classic game themes are gathered, refreshing new works have appeared.

Some fans call Mingyan "the leader"!

Because they can feel the wind of innovation, which is bringing a completely different concept of game production.

In the past, they made games to allow more people to explore and develop unknown universes and hone their combat skills and strategies.

But now, Bluestar is also making games, but it is to make more people live happier!

...

With the big move of Bluestar Studio, Mingyan finally got a short vacation.

He went back to his bachelor apartment for a good night's sleep.

——This sleep is really dark and dark, as if to make up for the missing sleep time in the past at one time.

When Mingyan opened his eyes again, it turned out to be night.

He slept for a full twenty hours.

Greetings from Xia Cheng have filled the mailbox.

If it wasn't for Ming Yan who has been wearing a health monitoring device close to his body, he can ensure that there is no problem with his body... It is estimated that Xia Cheng is about to rush over and kick the door, putting him on the bed for artificial respiration.

But now Xia Cheng is also not well.

Ming Yan hurriedly made a video call to him.

Then, as expected, he was severely scolded.

"Next time, you can't play with your own body." Xia Cheng said, "If something happens to you, I...I...I smashed the Bluestar studio! First, clear the staff, and then leave nothing behind. That kind of shit!"

Ming Yan was full of black lines, and hurriedly promised to say: "Yes, yes, I will definitely remember. I'm really sorry for worrying you..."

The attitude of admitting mistakes is very good, and people can't get angry.

Xia Cheng was still sulking, the dimple was deeply sunken, attracting Ming Yan's eyes.

While staring at his dimples, Ming Yan unconsciously softened his voice and coaxed: "I will go out to exercise every day in the future, and I will go to the Wilderness Survival Club with you when I have time to play, okay?"

Xia Cheng was silent for a while, and said, "Don't think that I will forget your excessive behavior this time."

Ming Yan said again: "I will call you to report every night after dinner, is that ok?"

Xia Cheng pursed his lips, his brows furrowed into a river shape, and his eyes stared at him deeply: "This plan... I can barely approve it."

Then, the small dimple finally relaxed and turned into a shallow bend.

Ming Yan thought it was cute.

When he put down the communication, Ming Yan had almost finished drinking the nutritional supplements that were always kept beside the bed.

The burning sensation in his stomach quickly subsided, and he asked the intelligent housekeeper robot to cook a beef ramen for himself.

He pulled down his slippers and went to take a shower.

By the way, let the phone automatically start reading, he has missed any news in the 20 hours of sleep.

【Shock! The famous chief designer of Star Province actually made players want to die like this! 】

"puff--!!"

Ming Yan spit out a mouthful of saliva, almost choking to death by the mouthwash.

In this world, there is also a "shocked title party", right?

He wiped his phone and simply flipped through the projected new news.

[MC Forum Speed ​​Raiders Group: "Middle Ancient Technology"/"Apocalypse Era" module clearance strategy has been released! 】

MC Forum is the forum provided by the official website of Bluestar.

In just over 20 hours, the Raiders Team has already appeared, and the personnel are still very complete.

It's not that the efficiency of the players is really so high, but that many strategy groups have directly relocated to the official website from other forums.

Many of them have long been waiting for the official forum to open.

Of course, the forums are more of ordinary players asking for help and posting their thoughts.

[Newcomers ask for help, which floor has more tin mines? 】

[Ah, ah, high-speed digging machine is really very easy! Do you all use diamond drills or steel drills? 】

[I can't beat the Lich, the blood recovery mechanism is too perverted! May I ask which profession is better in the end of the law era? 】

[The designer came out to be beaten! What is the end-of-the-way lightning Dingding monster trying to make? Don't let us live! ! ! 】

[Just entering the era of quantum technology, I heard that I can play two technologies, happiness! 】

Two mods have just been released, and it seems that players have a high degree of acceptance for this mod.

On their respective pages, the downloads have exceeded 50 million.

Player ratings are an astonishing 9.7 and 9.8.

"End of the Law", a more difficult module, received a higher score, which surprised Ming Yan.

In fact, most ordinary players need at least 2 hours of preparation time and actual strategy time ranging from 10 minutes to 100 minutes each time they pass a boss in the "Apocalypse Era".

This may have been too difficult for Blue Star back then.

But here, Chaoyang League's games are known for their "authenticity".

Many players have long been accustomed to looking for "possible" in "impossible".

The pre-preparation before the Raiders is very common to them.

then……

[I decided to retire in the "era of the end of the law"! So many bosses! Enough to play for a year! 】

[The real name asks Blue Star to quickly create a different world in "Minecraft", I am willing to spend money to open up wasteland for you in the era of the end of the law...]

[Sure enough, it is a fairy designer. It turns out that the Mage Tower can also be used as a complete BOSS battle, and the transition process is too NB, which makes me wet. 】

[I haven't encountered such a challenging wasteland for a long time. Let a few people attack the Taikoo Red Dragon together. The event time is fixed for 3 hours on the night of 4, 5, 6, and 7 every week, which has already passed the Lich BOSS. 】

The fun of Minecraft is actually multiplied in multiplayer mode.

The feeling of striving towards the same goal with partners, as well as the final sense of accomplishment and joy, can be shared and spread.

It can even grow more emotionally!

For example, Teacher Zhou and Zhou Liye are a good example.

These joys significantly extend the life of the game, which is one of the secrets of Minecraft's longevity.

While other content-consuming games have exhausted their popularity in a few years, this game may continue to thrive as a family-friendly evergreen.

Several new designers of Blue Star also feel that they can worship Mingyan.

"How did Mr. Ming come up with these bosses and strategy mechanics?" someone asked, "It seems to be different from most otherworldly games, but..."

"But it's more fun! It's more challenging and fun, and it's even more entertaining. It's like magic on it."

Ming Yan thought for a while and said, "Do you still remember the critical strike rate problem in League of Legends?"

Everyone clearly remembered, and said in unison: "Remember!"

Critical strike has always been one of the basic settings of every game.

The basic setting of the interstellar era game is: normal attacks have a certain chance of crit, mainly referring to the attributes of the attacker. If the attack hits a specific weak spot, such as the heart, head, etc., the critical hit chance is doubled.

But their odds have always been strictly random numbers.

What does that mean?

It is a random probability for each attack.

If you are particularly unlucky, you may have an 80% crit rate, hit 20 times, but not a single crit.

There has really been a player who has encountered such a Waterloo in history.

However, the critical strike rate of "League of Legends" is completely different under Ming Yan's design.

For example, for a character with a crit rate of about half, the first attack has a 20% chance of a crit.

If not, the second attack will be adjusted to 50%.

Still not out, the third time was 80%.

If it still doesn't come out, then the fourth time is 100%, and it will come out.

From the overall probability, it is still about half the crit rate.

But the biggest difference is in the player's perception.

Throughout the ages, human intuitions about probability have been unreal, even far from "true random".

They will think: I have a full 50% crit rate, the first time I didn’t get it, and the second time I didn’t get it, so the third time I must get it, right?

Some people will even say: the first two times are considered as saving character.

But the "true randomness" is actually: the probability of the third time is still 50%, and there is still a half chance of not crit.

It has nothing to do with the previous attacks!

However, once there is no critical strike for many times in a row, the player is likely to begin to doubt life: isn't it? Is my character so bad?

The advantage of the "unreal randomness" designed by Mingyan is that it fully conforms to the directness and expectations of human beings.

——You have a 50% crit chance, if you don’t get a crit three times, then the fourth time you get a crit!

As soon as this crit hit, the player was immediately reassured: Oh, I bought the right equipment and it was worth it; this game is still under my control, and I can still fully understand my output value.

And don't worry about bad luck leading to "non-war crimes".

"Authenticity has always been the biggest feature of games in the league. It is the most ingrained concept in the hearts of many gamers, and it has indeed guided the development of the game to this day." Ming Yan said, "However, it has now become an obstacle for you! It allows design The teacher seems to be dancing in shackles, unable to give full play to his imagination and talents, and also makes many games lose the best gaming experience.

"Working at Bluestar, there is a very important point: we must learn to abandon stereotypes and smash those rules and dogmas. Remember one thing: our goal has never been to copy reality or create a second world. That's nonsense, It's a replica on the assembly line, not art.

"Our goal is to let players have an immersive experience that comes from life and is higher than life, and enjoy the joy and emotion that the entire universe cannot provide them in reality! That's video games, that's the ninth art."