Otherworldly Architect (The Strongest Game Architect)

v3 Chapter 219: The power of design

When Mingyan and Xia Cheng finished fighting the Volcano Dragon, the internal test of the studio was basically over.

Xia Cheng already felt that the game experience was complete, so he couldn't help asking, "Is there anything else I haven't done? I seem to be ready for sale."

"It's still a long way off." Ming Yan filled out the test form without raising his head, "Now there are only two things 'monsters' and the environment."

Xia Cheng asked, "What's more?"

Ming Yan smiled and said: "We still need to customize the hunter, including appearance, body, clothing and other appearances; we still need to randomize the hunter camp, the relationship between NPCs, walk around and daily plots, and the randomization of ordinary side quests; and the wild environment. The random map generation of each monster, the relationship and ecological chain of each monster population, the battle AI and daily plot of each monster..."

Xia Cheng said with a stern look on his face: "The designer is awesome."

Take the volcano dragon as an example. Now it just stays in the volcano, waiting for hunters to fight it.

But what the designers are still working on is what the Volcano Dragon can do while waiting for a hunter, and what additional things can be done while fighting a hunter.

In Ming Yan's design draft, the Volcano Dragon is huge, the smallest weight is 20 tons, and the largest is more than 50 tons. It is the most difficult monster for the four-star hunter to challenge.

Despite its large size and ferocious appearance, the Volcano Dragon is actually an omnivorous creature. It does not like to eat meat or vegetarian very much. It prefers to crunch metal mines with its forelegs.

Most volcanic dragons have different personalities and have their own hobbies like humans, but the common point is that they attach great importance to their territory and are tired of being invaded by hunters, so they may spend a certain amount of time in pursuit.

In addition, volcanic dragons like to itch on volcanic rocks, which may cause some of the mountains to vibrate, causing a large number of small animals on the volcanic map to flee in panic.

The Volcano Dragon will cooperate with the Rock Snake. The former does not eat the Rock Snake, while the latter will clean the Volcano Dragon from the volcanic ash deposited in the dragon scales, and sometimes brush its teeth part-time...

Some of the more rare phenomena may not have been discovered by hunters at first.

But as players explore further, sooner or later they will be immersed in this incomparably real world bit by bit.

At that time, they may sigh with emotion:

[What a magical phenomenon of biological cooperation, we need a group of biologists to settle in Hunter World! 】

[The ecological chain is too complete... I almost doubt that the designer has lived here. 】

All of this content is the work of the designers.

The Blue Star Building is brightly lit day and night. The employees enjoy the best treatment and honor in the Sixth Star Province, and of course they are working hard to output the best content.

Different from other companies' goals, what Bluestar wants now is not profit or fame, but to set a benchmark.

Today they have made a game, whether it is the hardware conditions such as graphics, design ideas, or the realization of a certain cutting-edge technology, it has become a top-notch production that the industry cannot surpass, and can be used for all subsequent open world hunting games. Make a ceiling model.

It's like if other companies want to make a doomsday survival game now.

It's almost like people bring their own rating scale --

[This abandoned city is not real enough, there are no piles of abandoned cars and corpses on the evacuation road, bad review! 】

[It's already the end of the day, are you still in the mood to make fried rice everyday? Can't you handle it like the end of the blue star, the feelings tempered on the edge of life and death are precious... 】

[The plot is not so shocking, there is a sense of doomsday, and there is no sense of mission, so give it five points. 】

If there is no "Blue Star Doomsday" series of pearls in front, players can't imagine what a perfect doomsday survival game should look like.

Perhaps, the entire doomsday survival field will gradually become unattended and become a forgotten section in the game circle.

Blue Star's status is now the emperor of the industry, and it can't be improved further. What they are doing is a grand blueprint that no one in the industry has ever realized before.

For example, Blue Star Paradise, the experience hall that was born out of the Blue Star Carnival, has now completely renovated the first phase of the project.

The park is divided into three zones, namely: Age of Legends, Arena and After Doomsday.

In the first "Legendary Era" park, Bluestar's works of the Middle Ages mainly include "Knight's Xing", "Assassin's Way" series, "INSIDE", "Minecraft" and so on.

The second “arena” park is better understood, which is the player-to-player projects such as “League of Legends” and “Dragon Hunter”.

The last "After the Doomsday" park includes games with interstellar backgrounds such as "Galaxy", "Hunter World", and "Soul of Mortal" series.

On the main roads of each park, various facilities are naturally distributed, including surrounding souvenir shops, canteens and canteens.

In other places, there will also be a small game experience hall of Chief Master Ming. There are games such as "Hachiko's Story", "Wormhole Wave", "Jump and Jump" and "Flying and Flying".

Now Blue Star is waiting for the progress of various projects, and at the same time ushering in the tenth season of "League of Legends".

At the beginning of the season, Mingyan has received an invitation letter from the League One Association again.

——"Galaxy" scored 10.0 points, and was nominated for this year's Best Game of the Year along with "Assassin's Way 2"!

It has to be said that the response speed of the League A Association has always been slow like a turtle.

The game has been out for half a year, and the association finally gave out a rating and an invitation letter.

Everyone at Blue Star expressed their exhaustion: "We don't expect the result anymore, please end this process early so that we can finish the project settlement report..."

Now that the score is finally long overdue, the report of "Xinghe" has been filled with the one prepared earlier: a masterpiece.

The amazing thing is that "Xinghe" seems to have hit the hobby point of the judges of the League A Association, and they did not hesitate to praise "Xinghe" with a lot of pen and ink.

A reviewer even used more exaggerated words than the reviewers, saying: [This is an epoch-making 4X strategy game that truly combines exploration (eXplore), expansion (eXpand), development (eXploit), and conquest (eXterminate) The four directions have achieved the ultimate and perfect, "Xinghe" will become a model for all strategy games, this is the best strategy game since the birth of this century! 】

Not to mention the evaluation report.

It is said that the reviewers of "Xinghe" are still clicking the "next round" button...

Academic people can appreciate the beauty of the principles behind game design better than players, so they can better understand what makes a fun game great.

[Finally, it is more than just an innovation in the plot! Master Ming once again unleashed the infinite talent bestowed on him by God, redefining everything a strategy game can do. "Galaxy" is the game with the best gameplay, it is the embodiment of gameplay! Even if the graphics and music are removed, even if it is restored to the most simple PC game from centuries ago, even if only words and pictures of today are left, it will still drive players crazy. 】

[Design, this is the power of design. "Galaxy" is the most simple lesson taught by the **** of design - the game itself is a series of meaningful choices. 】

The last sentence is written on the title page of the design book of "Xinghe".

After Jialian's enthusiastic rainbow fart, the phrase "a game is a series of meaningful choices" was immediately praised by the industry and became a golden rule.

This report also quickly made waves among the player community.

【My friends are all stunned! Blowing up the rainbow fart, the academic school is really citing the classics, and I have to obey! 】

[Me: Jialian Dad!

League A: Blue Star Dad!

So the question is, should I be called Blue Star... Grandpa? 】

[The leader of the woc is awesome, tears came down when I looked at me, why? ? My idol is about to conquer the world! ! 】

Obviously, at this moment, Blue Star had to go to another celebration party.

The party was set in that villa area, so that people from Tulong Baodao Studio could also come and have a meal.

When everyone got drunk, Ming Yan sneaked out to the balcony again.

Unexpectedly, Zhuo Yu was already standing on the balcony, and he was smoking again.

This year's League A's winners list was announced, and the other team's "Passenger" was also on the list.

Zhuo Yu and Ming Yan said at the same time, "Congratulations."

Then the two froze for a moment and laughed at the same time.

Ming Yan asked: "Are you going to go back? The other team should invite you back to win a trophy."

Zhuo Yu put out the cigarette and sighed: "Will you be laughed at when you go back? No, I'm already working for you."

Ming Yan smiled and said, "It can't be said that it is part-time work, but I still hope that you will come and lead a new project."

Zhuo Yu scratched the tip of his nose: "Well, is what you said before still valid? About the new project and funding of "The Assassin's Way"..."

Ming Yan nodded: "Are you finally interested?"

Zhuo Yu: "Cough, so what. I read the evaluation report of the League A. This year, the rainbow fart blows quite loudly, and I am very happy... In short, what is it, I suddenly have a little interest in game design again. ."

Ming Yan was delighted, and slapped Zhuo Yu on the shoulder: "The burden of the assassin's rumor will be handed over to you!"

——No, this brother Zhuo Yu is so real! !

——I was already disheartened, but after listening to the rainbow fart from others, I rekindled my confidence again, right! ! !

The two chief designers, so they chatted on the rooftop.

Regarding the rainbow fart of A League, these two really have a lot in common.

Before the two of them noticed, in fact, in the party below, the designers of Tu Long and Blue Star had already crossed their shoulders, drinking to the point of calling each other brothers.

The programmers who originally planned to go back to work overtime to work on "Hunter World" fell unconscious on the sofa one after another.

The next day, when I woke up with a hangover, I grabbed their files in a daze, and went home to lie down in the dormant warehouse.

A few days later, when Chief Master Ming pulled Chief Zhuo, he had already boarded the spacecraft and went to the award party of the League A.

Coincidence finally happened...