Otherworldly Architect

"Master, have you ever considered falling in love with fans?! Super sweet, super sweet kind!"

Ming Yan has not responded yet.

The fans in the audience gave out good-hearted laughter.

Others coaxed: "Promise him!"

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

In the auditorium, Zhou Liye was stunned and made a sound of "holding the grass?"

A lion-shaped orc with a blown tail.

A snake-shaped orc dropped his pen and crumpled the page of notes he was holding.

But to everyone's surprise, Ming Yan rejected him calmly.

"'The Huns haven't been destroyed, so what's your family?'" Ming Yan said, "This sentence means that my inspiration for making games has not been exhausted, so I don't think about falling in love for the time being."

The host was delighted and said, "Does Master Ming mean that you can't have both playing games and falling in love?"

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

The lion orc sat back silently, looking up at the ceiling wordlessly.

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

Talk to him about anything else and you'll end up back in "games"...

Fortunately, the following players' question-and-answer sessions are quite satisfactory.

A player asked: "Chief Master Ming, I just finished the Blue Star Doomsday game, and found that the final ending is that Russell and Louis are still on the road of self-help. So I am very curious, what is their ending?"

Ming Yan: "..." I don't know either.

Well, here comes a question.

Sometimes, players think that the designer always thinks about the whole story (including the ending) before starting to write and then make 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 also draw inspiration from the player's reaction to determine how the plot of the next/next chapter/next series will go.

This leads to an interesting phenomenon:

When the player thinks the ending of the story has already been set, just waiting for the designer to present it to himself.

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

Some designers only know the ending of the story a few months before the player;

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

Well, this is all normal.

Of course, there are some unusual 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 good, he immediately decided to modify the plot on the spot.

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

("Eating books" refers to the behavior of the designer who drastically modified the original plot and pretended that the settings he made before did not exist.)

It is more likely that through the follow-up plot, it will smooth out the flaws in the plot or the like.

At this time, Ming Yan, although he himself did not know what the final outcome of Russell was.

But that doesn't stop him from fooling... oh no, flickering... oh no, it's a serious response to the player.

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

After the answer is over, the players who asked the question still have some vague understanding.

Some people have already reacted.

Zhou Liye's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help muttering: "Wow, could it be said that Blue Star Doomsday will release the second part..."

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

"Fuck you are talented! You have already guessed this! It sounds like it's really predictable. If Blue Star Doomsday comes out with a second part, I'll invite you to drink!"

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

The grand occasion of the release of Blue Star Doom is still vivid in my mind, and all the data are currently prosperous. 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 aroused the expectations of countless diehard fans early on!

Of course, follow-up questions about Blue Star Doomsday will be returned to Kevin, the corresponding designer in charge of the game.

Kevin: "…"

He has just been planning to do the first expansion 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 Ming Yan’s side, he still has to deal with questions about the latest game.

"I want to ask the leader, why is the new game codenamed 'Soul'? Does it have any special meaning?"

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

"Will the new game be scary?"

Clearly said: "I'm afraid it's not scary, it should be different from person to person. This game doesn't particularly emphasize scary pictures, but it may appear darker from the story. But in the final analysis, the main point is that the protagonist must defeat those monsters. We especially encourage players to try 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.

After about 25 minutes in the end, the host had to tactfully terminate the conversation between Ming Yan and the players.

There are still 45 minutes left, which are all handed over to the rest of Blue Star.

Ming Yan, in the applause of the players, Shi Shiran walked off the stage.

Among the people left on the big stage, in addition to the current managers of each game, there are also several familiar "big men" from Blue Star.

The leader of the art team, Varian Wrynn, is also a veteran of Bluestar Studios, and participated in the production of "League of Legends" throughout the process.

The small internet celebrity "Vivian" of the music group, whose real name is Ling Xiaoman, participated in the production of the soundtrack of "Blue Star Doomsday" because of Ming Yan's optimism, and became popular overnight.

There is also Schrödinger, the leader of the programming team, wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and holding his two-dimensional wife in his arms, which is quite unconventional.

The cheers he received were almost second only to Ming Yan.

Because the player knows that the technical team he leads has been fighting against the plug-ins.

And Blue Star's attitude towards plug-ins is really likable!

In addition, players regard the program team leader as a kind of "executor of justice", or a kind of cool and arrogant, and it is not good to love him.

And Ling Lingqi followed Schrödinger to the stage.

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

Because he first made a mod in the "Minecraft" forum, and later entered Blue Star directly because of Mingyan's interview invitation, he is also a "legendary" among players, and his popularity is quite high.

However, he himself is actually quite shy and does not dare to take the stage directly.

He still told him clearly, "As an employee of Bluestar Studio, it is an honor and a duty to take the stage"—well, I lied to this sincere young man.

Compared with other talents who entered the Blue Star Studio through school recruitment, social recruitment, headhunting, etc., Ling Lingqi's application method is really strange.

The players' favorability toward him is as curious as the "princess from the folk".

Someone asked him and said, "Excuse me, do you have any special feelings in Bluestar Studio?"

Ling Lingqi smiled and said, "The greatest feeling is freedom.

"Take myself as an example, I work about 6 hours a day, five days a week, but I work flexibly, and I only need to control the clock time myself. I don't know how other people arrange their schedules, because I am a Working from home... I clock in online at 9 o'clock every day, go to lunch at 11 o'clock, and end my lunch break at 1:30, and then start work at any time.

"I often look at it on weekends and find that I don't know when I am overworked again. The boss—the chief designer of Ming, sometimes sends emails to 'question' why I work overtime again—"

Speaking of this, there was an unbelievable exclamation from the audience.

Ling Lingqi touched her nose embarrassedly and said, "The boss really cares about each of us. He remembers the working hours every week, and he will give it to those who work too much overtime—such as Mr. Varian—for him. Additional annual leave. By the way, when working in Bluestar, the annual leave must be completed on time every year, otherwise it will be 'public execution'."

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

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

The audience laughed again.

It seems everyone has the same stage phobia.

And when it was Varian's turn, the direction he said was a little different.

"I'm probably a foodie. One of the happiest things I do in Blue Star is to see what's delicious in the lounge every day." Varian said with a wry smile, "The boss is really 'excessive', he There will be at least three tea stations in each work area, coffee, juice and other beverages are self-fetched, and there is a large supply 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 stand in Blue Star.

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

...everything, piled up an entire table.

There was a cry of admiration from the audience.

Zhou Liye's saliva was dripping from the look, his own snack cabinet was not so rich!

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

Varian sighed and squeezed the fat on his stomach—his avatar was an exaggerated little fat man.

"Up to now, I have been employed for 32 months. Even though I keep working out, I still gain 10 pounds, an average of 0.3 pounds per month..." Varian said, "My wife has a lot of opinions on Master Ming. , said he raised me to be too fat."

"..." the host said, "Mr. Varian, you're going to get beaten up if you get the idea of ​​being cheap and good-looking!"

The players also cooperated with each other and made a "shh-!!" sound.

The microphone was quickly handed to designer Kevin again.

Unlike the previous program and art boss, he is closer to Ming Yan in terms of work content.

After thinking about it, Kevin said: "I joined Blue Star for about a year and a half, and I was among the first batch of people involved in the production of League of Legends."

Just after saying this, there was unexpected applause from the audience.

Players really like League of Legends, and every time they talk with these four words, they start to applaud unprincipally.

Kevin waited for the applause to subside a little, and then said: "When I was working, I often felt that the boss, the chief teacher of Ming, and the leader of Ming University 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 was in a meeting of the design team, after I mentioned related problems, the boss quickly solved the problem lightly.

"For example, a 'vehicle problem' that all our members were very impressed with, at that time, the programming team and the design team were helpless. I didn't expect that just one night passed, the boss gave a practical solution - and, this is his A problem that takes a long time.

"In most cases, Chief Master Ming has Zhizhu in his hand, and he can answer any of our questions quickly with just a little thought. So I have always believed that the boss is omnipotent in the field of game design..."

"Wow!" The audience exclaimed one after another.

The host smiled 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 so trustworthy, it seems that there is no him. For problems that cannot be solved, he will never have a day when his inspiration is depleted. Just thinking about the project he is leading makes us feel very reliable and hopeful. So if I want to talk about the feeling of working in Bluestar, then It’s just that every day is full of hope, and when I think of going to work and playing games today, I can’t help but want to laugh.”

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 at Bluestar Studios really loves games.

The difference is that they like all kinds of different types of games, and the game level is different.

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

Players are of course 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 revealed by Varian were shocking.

- Varian teased: "The boss was ranked in the second rank of silver in the positioning competition, and he has not climbed up since then."

The people next to him were also overjoyed, adding: "The boss usually doesn't have time to play his own account, so he usually stays there wherever he is ranked. And our ranking competition mechanism is determined. The first ranking is It will not exceed the fifth rank of gold."

Master Ming, who made the game, turned out to be only silver two!

It was unexpected, but within reason.

Players with good things posted the news on the official forum for the first time.

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

【Hahahahahaha 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... I can't make it up anymore, so I'll laugh at it first.]

[It seems that we can see the future of the greatly revised positioning mechanism in the third season...]

Because Ming Yan is usually too low-key, and never discloses any information about his personal life.

Therefore, it is rare to have such an official channel to learn about the other side of Ming's workaholic, and players are very interested.

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

-what? I heard that Bluestar also has a Minecraft server, and all employees have a small house of their own in it?

Players also discovered for the first time that Bluestar Studios is really interesting.

When they're not working, they're also a really fun bunch - maybe only the creative and talented people who make such a good game.

It's finally time for the designers to reveal each other's shortcomings!

What does it mean that the chief designer of Ming is the second rank of Baiyin?

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

When Vivienne was writing a song, she was so excited about a melody that she could not extricate herself from the melody, and she fell directly on the floor of the office and rolled around.

Ling Lingqi once worked overtime late at night and made a mistake in his brain circuit. He made a sand sculpture module that allows players to throw poops at each other.

When Kevin was working on the Blue Star Doomsday plot, he once thought of a side story about Coster, but when he realized that his grief was coming from it, he couldn't help crying while holding the big golden retriever, Xixi, and his eyes were swollen.

Schrödinger also once accidentally pasted his favorite **** website URL into the code, and was surrounded by everyone in the program team...

…

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

They suddenly realized that Blue Star's employees are ordinary people who are very close to life - well, no, geniuses who are close to life.

It turns out that genius also has two sides, and they can be so funny and humorous.

The happy time is still so short, the meeting between Bluestar and the player has been extended to an hour and a half, but everyone still feels unsatisfied.

At the end of the meeting, Vivian picked up her electronic keyboard and sang a segment to the players as their farewell.

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

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

"We love you!!"

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

Ming Yan gave them the same vacation, went to offline venues, let them play whatever they wanted at the carnival, and whether they wanted to reveal their identities.

Like designer Kevin, who enjoys playing with players, he went straight to the League of Legends version 3.3 experience hall. I heard that he played 5v5 with players...

He played all afternoon, and these games were all made into videos and posted on the Internet, and he even became a little popular.

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

He ended up standing in the Players Gallery for an afternoon.

This hall is full of electronic big screens, displaying screenshots, comments and other pictures uploaded by each player, and scrolling according to the number of likes.

Ming Yan saw that players organized many popular tags by themselves.

For example, there is a tag of #MinecraftThree Years Archive#, that is, 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. He built two bases from scratch by himself, and the main base has a very tall wall and a moat.

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

The other archives are also, maybe not as beautiful as those videos dedicated to architecture, but they are very warm, making people easily reminiscent of the small home they built.

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

Seeing that other people's homes are just as messy as my own, and I don't know how to arrange the furniture, and the savings that I have saved over the years of adventures are placed in the box... It's really emotional.

In the stadium, there are still many people posting their own five kills in the League of Legends, as well as the speed-through video of the Blue Star Doomsday... everything.

When Mingyan sat on a bench and watched it happily.

A person sat next to him and said proudly, "Look, I built the thirteenth house."

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

— Well, the one who was hit by Tintin’s house because of the live broadcast?

Zhou Liye spent a whole morning at the Blue Star Carnival, sitting a little tired on the bench.

He also doesn't recognize who the people around him are, but he is in a high mood now and has just been squeezed out of the crowd of enthusiastic players.

He waved a Tintin monster and said with a smile: "Although Chief Master Ming is a devil, the devil is one foot tall and the road is ten feet tall! I finally conquered all the Tintin monsters, hahahahahahaha! The new game may be difficult, I have nothing to fear!"

"…"

After listening, Ming Yan narrowed his eyes and showed a kind smile.