To be honest, Harry's wave of "leak-type announcements" can be said to be textbook-level.

It is the secret that everyone knows, which will make people feel excited and look forward to it while watching it, and will make people eager to share it with friends.

Such an announcement has inspired many people in the advertising industry.

Even, some game companies have imitated the phenomenon, they boldly use such copywriting:

【Shock! A 3A-level masterpiece that has been developed for more than ten years has been ruthlessly leaked! Click to download the original game? ! 】

Then there are really stupid players who are fooled and download the game with the mentality of wanting to take advantage.

Finally, when I entered the game, I found out that I still have to register an account and pay for the game qualification...

But if you do something wrong, you have to be punished.

Ming Yan would not choose to appease juvenile criminals just because the results were good.

He and Xia Cheng's attitude towards the bear child is surprisingly consistent.

Ming Yan: "Back then, if any child dared to be naughty, he would be eaten by bears."

Well, that's not a rhetorical trick. The mutant bears in the apocalypse were really scary...

Xia Cheng: "Xia's children dare to be so skinny, their legs have already been discounted."

After he finished speaking, Ming Yan looked at Xia Cheng's long legs.

Xia Cheng: "Cough, I was very good when I was young! I really never stopped!"

Before the New Year's Day, the two had to be busy with their respective work for a while.

At the end of January, I finally got free again and started a happy New Year's holiday.

Of course, Ming Yan will still occasionally pay attention to the announcement of the Tulong Baodao studio, because "Cloud Thinking of Clothes" is scheduled for February 14th.

During the holidays, the Internet was also active, and everyone suddenly became very free.

This annual opportunity has allowed Mingjiao to seize and hold an event.

This year, they held several offline parties, and by the way, they also held a folk poker competition online——

The first Knight Card Competition has begun!

There has always been a built-in chess and card game in "Xia Ke Xing". Players can play cards with NPCs to promote feelings, or they can be used purely for entertainment.

The rules of this chess and card game itself are very simple, that is, who has higher points, but there are quite a few strategies for accumulating points.

Some people play "matching flow", which is to collect couples' decks, and play one-on-one. Even if they can't win, they will be mad at the other side.

Some people play "special effects", using all kinds of cards with their own skills, and stealing a card from the enemy from time to time.

Up to now, the deck of knight cards has been very extensive. According to statistics, a total of more than 400 cards have been discovered.

All the cards in the knight card have corresponding NPCs.

For example, a certain scholar, his card is a blue excellent card, the natural score is 6 points, and he has his own special skill "Guo Shi Wushuang", which can draw three more cards immediately after he is discarded.

It should be said here that before the game begins, the opponent can only see the opponent's card, but cannot see the special skills of each card.

This kind of game will also test the knowledge of the players on both sides - to see how well they understand the world of Xia Ke Xing and the rules of Xia Ke Xing, he will have guesses and warnings about every possible card.

In this way, those players who are addicted to playing poker have also started a journey of visiting the forums.

The "Guo Shi Wushuang" card is a magical skill among them. Many decks are built around this card. Many players have won more than ten consecutive victories with it, and it is very famous on the forum.

In order to collect a lot of rare decks like this, many players will travel thousands of miles to the location of the NPC and search for NPCs that can play cards everywhere.

Only fellow NPCs can sell the excess cards in their hands.

Or bet directly, and the winner can pick any card from the opponent's deck - this is the way players prefer.

Some players, who originally entered the game of Xia Ke Xing, were very disciplined to fight monsters and level up to learn martial arts.

But I don't know what happened. Maybe I was bewitched by an NPC in the middle of the mountain. After playing a game of knight cards, I suddenly got out of control...

"What is martial arts? How can it be fun to play cards!"

"Where are the fellows? Where are the NPCs who sell knight cards? I still have one core in my deck, really one ahhhhhhh!"

"What? Your wife was kidnapped by gangsters. I don't know if you're alive or dead? Put this aside beforehand, do you know how to play knights?"

Forgetting to eat and sleep, completely forgetting that he still has martial arts.

The Xia Ke card will become so popular, even outside the game circle of Xia Ke Xing, which makes the designers of Blue Star Studio feel quite surprised.

Because such chess and card games with simple rules, easy to learn and difficult to master, in fact, in the interstellar era, there have been many crucian carp crossing the river.

When making chess and card games, many people in the industry know that the most important thing is to attract traffic - whoever can spread the advertisement bigger and attract more people to see it, whoever can make money.

Many chess and card games are "monthly throw-away" games. They use a lot of advertisements to make a lot of players, and from the players they collect a wave of members' wool, and the production team is directly withdrawn, and there is no need to update anything.

This kind of game does not consider the problems in the later stage, and there are only two customer service personnel left to perfunctory players - in fact, even they can't contact the production team at all, they just seem to have a good attitude in "ummmmm".

And the popularity of the knight's card suddenly made people see from the side how much traffic "Knight's Xing" has now.

Because this game didn't promote the knight card at all, it was just a built-in little easter egg, but because there were enough gamers in it, the knight card was abruptly held up.

Just like the activity of buying a computer to give a mouse, just because the computer sold too much, the mouse suddenly became very well-known and inexplicably became a big brand in the mouse industry.

Now, players have also spontaneously organized private competitions!

During the New Year's Day, many people really watched the folk chivalrous card game.

The activities held by Mingjiao are very authentic, the process is properly arranged, and the whole game is also broadcast live - this live broadcast room, which is quite popular on the live broadcast platform, is directly classified as "Game- in the "Knight's Walk" category.

And the Xia Ke Xing card still has a certain ornamental value, especially if you know something about the world of Xia Ke Xing.

You can often see people revelling in the barrage.

When a card is played—

[My God, it’s Elder Xiao! Eight generations of disciples of the Beggar Gang meet with Elder Xiao! 】

[Elder Xiao is going well! 】

[The great hero is for the country and the people! 】

The full screen of the barrage immediately swiped up, and the grand occasion was that the players were sharing their feelings.

When the knight card game reached the finals and the championship was about to be decided, this small live broadcast room even rushed to the top three positions in the popularity list.

Ming Yan and Xia Cheng also came over in advance to check the situation.

During the waiting period, the two of them can also visit the forum of Xia Kexing by the way - the New Year's Day, the world of Xia Kexing is also lively, the forum is also lively, the live broadcast room is also lively, and it is crowded with people everywhere.

Now the hot spots on the Xia Ke Xing forum, in addition to the folk Xia Ke card contest, there are also posts about Lang Huan Wonderland.

——Lang Huan Wonderland was the Easter egg that Bluestar Studio put in it at that time. Everyone had a cameo in it, even Comrade Xia Cheng.

A lucky player accidentally fell off a cliff. He had already closed his eyes and waited to die. He never thought that he did not die, but fell into a cave on the cliff.

There is a cave in the cave, and a plaque on it reads "Lang Huan Wonderland".

Walking further inside, he found many magical NPCs.

The witty player immediately understood: Ah! It's my adventure!

So he decisively turned on the recording function and recorded everything he saw and heard into a video.

This video was posted on the forum and immediately became a popular post, ushering in the carnival of many Blue Star fans.

[Hahahahahahaha what is going on with this fire stick! Is it sticking to my leader? 】

[The leader has a lot of lines, such as "I still need to work", "I am not as leisurely as you", "Someone is still urging me to work", and "My work is not finished yet"... This is too real Bar! 】

[This game is so funny, the whole studio is still making cameos in it 23333]

[No, I'm not convinced, why is there no such easter egg in my League of Legends? 】

[This kitten has C.C's name on its head? Isn't it, I'm a **** rocker? This contrast is cute awsl]

[Cissy at close range! My idol is even in the Xia Ke Xing game! No, I'm going to go online immediately to find the cliff jumping and find Lang Huan Wonderland. It is my lifelong dream to be able to reach Xixi! 】

Many Blue Star fans are familiar with Blue Star Studio.

They belonged to play Blue Star's game and read it carefully and carefully when they saw the list of producers.

Because of most of the names in it, they really know each other!

I won’t mention it clearly, like the leaders of other groups, such as the boss of the art group, Varian Wrynn, who is a household name among fans.

He even has his own player hot post, where players collect all his design works together.

The original painting of Russell of Blue Star Doomsday, the original painting of the big BOSS shell of the soul of mortal nature, the original concept painting of the big map of Xia Ke Xing... fans are all treasured in an album.

As far as Ming Yan knows, Lao Wa is happy and often goes to this post to watch the flattery that players give him.

And sometimes he himself finds things, he will find it convenient, directly from this album.

In addition to these two points, there is another hot topic on Bluestar's forum.

How popular is it?

It is said that someone was far away in the second star province but heard about this controversy, and flew over during the Chinese New Year holiday, just to participate in the real-time discussion.

And once this topic appears on the blog, it is equivalent to "initiating war", netizens will automatically divide their camps and start the war clearly.

In reality, as long as a keyword appears, two friends who are chatting may suddenly start a heated debate.

This topic is called-

sweet! salty! party! fight!

[Sweet dumplings are destined to return, and the salty party is rebellious! 】

[The bean paste stuffing is a cult, and the bacon dumplings are the most authentic dumplings]

【It must be salty, sweet can't be eaten at all】

【Sweet Zongzi can't lose! Candied Dates and Bean Paste Chocolate...Sweet Party Red Duck! ! ! 】

[Learn about Yingtian's special double-spell zongzi, I just learned it from my master! 】

Yep, that's the debate.

Anyway, it is impossible to tell right from wrong, everyone can speak freely and shout out their favorite zongzi.

Having said that, the thing of "Zongzi" is still passed down from "Xia Ke Xing". It is said to be a kind of food that was once popular on Blue Star.

The chefs of the interstellar era have successfully reproduced the production process of zongzi, and the filling recipe is the same, and many new recipes developed by themselves have been added.

Soon, Zongzi suddenly became the new favorite of the interstellar people.

Although, everyone first regarded it as a "delicious, convenient and beautiful bento" to eat...

For example, in the school break, some students took out a sandwich, some students took out a bento box, and some students took out a big zongzi.

Well, the students will be very curious, because Zongzi is a very fashionable fashion.

Later, the time in "The Journey of the Knight" came to the Dragon Boat Festival, which made people realize the real meaning of zongzi.

Regarding the adventure missions of the Dragon Boat Festival, live broadcasts have also been opened on the forum, so that more people can learn about the ancient customs of Blue Star.

On this day, it can be said that hundreds of millions of players have eaten rice dumplings.

In the world of Xia Ke Xing, the northern part of the world eats sweet zongzi and the southern part eats salty zongzi. NPCs have their own tastes, which is no problem.

But when everyone returned to the Internet to sum up, an argument immediately occurred.

The debate was protracted and lasted until the Lunar New Year of the Sixth Star Province in reality, and even related debate competitions were held on the forum.

Some people also made a very cute image of sweet and salty rice dumplings, as well as the corresponding four-frame comics, which became an alternative peripheral of "Xia Ke Xing".

It is said that at the end of the year someone made objective statistics on the forum.

It was finally announced that the Salty Zongzi Party won by a narrow margin (about 0.3%)!

The sweet party expressed very dissatisfaction: [It's all my fault that you all think that practicing swordsmanship is handsome. Of course, Yujian Mountain Villa in the south eats salty zongzi, and so many disciples who do it also eat salty zongzi! 】

In order to express their dissatisfaction, they recently established a player's guild in the Xia Ke Xing called "Sweetness is Justice".

And the salty party on the opposite side is definitely not far behind. The guild they set up is called "salty is king".

Of course, the former sweet party guild basically unified the north, while the latter's salty party guild reigned supreme in the south.

The channels of these two guilds are very lively every day.

During the vacation, Ming Yan and Xia Cheng were just watching the hot posts of the players while experiencing last year's new game.

Last year, it won the best game of the year "War Armor" together with "Xia Ke Xing", which is really very fun.

Moreover, it is a style that is not very familiar. The background is set in the "future of the future" that is more developed than interstellar, and it is a very hard-core sci-fi.

Mingyan learned a lot of new concepts from this game, and they were all recorded in his notebook.

If he has time, he would like to have a chat with the producer of "Battle Armor", feeling that both parties will gain something.

Therefore, on behalf of Blue Star, he also issued a small blue stamp invitation letter, inviting the other party to visit the Blue Star Building.

At the same time, Ming Yan also received a thank you letter in his mailbox.

The letters of ordinary players have already received countless letters in Ming Yan's public personal mailboxes. Many people are like this:

No matter what, 3721, first take some rainbow farts, then express your desire to test qualifications/interview qualifications, and finally end with the standard ending - urging more.

A reminder is procedural justice among players!

But this e-mail is special, especially in that it was addressed to a tester from League A.

The tester sincerely thanked Mingyan for making "The Xing Xing". He actually learned a lot from an NPC in "The Xing Xing", which made him realize the true meaning of life.

After reading his email, Mingyan felt a little emotional, and also sent him an invitation letter with a small blue stamp.

Of course, what Ming Yan did not expect was that the tester named Maynard came all the way to the Blue Star studio to visit after the Chinese New Year.

He saw the two big programmers who were talking about it.

Horace was dressed in a Tang suit, holding Xixi dignifiedly and stroking; while Schrödinger was dressed as a scholar, and also equipped with a feather fan scarf.

The two were drinking tea, and they talked eloquently about the types of oolong tea.

When the tester saw Schrödinger, he was suddenly moved, and expressed emotion on his personal blog: "Bluestar Studio is really making games with all their hearts, and only by fully immersing themselves in the ancient cultural atmosphere can they do that. Brilliant plot!"

Later, the tester actually handed out a letter of resignation to League A again, and came to participate in the social recruitment of Blue Star Studio.

So in the new year, Bluestar Studio welcomed a new member——

A full-time tester from League One, Maynard.

He is very qualified and has a very rich resume. When he came in, he was directly placed in the position of the middle-level leader.

However, when others showed admiration, Maynard said humbly: "It's not really a skill to jump from job to job like me, it's just to gain experience and get qualifications. The real power is Ming Dynasty. The chief teacher, he only needs to say that he is the chief designer of Blue Star, and he does not need any other experience to add brilliance, he is the biggest brand in this industry."