Otherworldly Architect

Ming Yan just carried a new round of dragon eggs on his head, and continued to walk back to the Blue Star Building with Xia Cheng.

Obviously he doesn't exercise very often, so he walked for more than 40 minutes in a short distance.

In the middle, they rested for a while in a dessert shop, and then Ming Yan continued to walk again.

——To be honest, if it weren’t for the fact that he could hatch eggs by the way, he would have already thought of “I should take a taxi back when I’m tired from walking”.

- but no! Testing new game prototypes is the responsibility of every designer!

Therefore, when Ming Yan finally walked to the gate of the Blue Star Building, he was so tired that he sweated on his back and drank a whole bottle of water.

He just wanted to hurry back to the Blue Star's lounge to take a shower and lie down, but at the door of the Blue Star Building, someone caught his attention.

There was already a large circle of people around this person. Many people took out their mobile phones and secretly photographed him, and some people whispered and laughed.

This man was wearing an ancient robe and his hair was messy. He looked like someone from the Middle Ages, sitting cross-legged under a tree at the entrance of Blue Star.

Obviously he did not have an invitation letter, so the security system of the Blue Star Building stopped him outside.

He had no choice but to sit on the side of the road outside, with a wooden board in front of him, with a few lines of words written crookedly with a marker--

[Seeking to meet the chief designer of Bluestar! I have a good idea of ​​turning stone into gold, which can guarantee at least ten billion profits. 】

Clearly: "..."

Xia Cheng: "..."

Xia Cheng euphemistically pointed to his temple, then shook his head with a "sorry" expression.

Ming Yan said: "This kind of thing... have you encountered it before?"

"I have encountered some self-consciousness... I mean, someone who doesn't know much about the rules of appointments stopped my car on the road," Xia Cheng said, "just ignore him."

Ming Yan pondered: "Maybe he really has some brilliant idea?"

Xia Cheng was silent for a while, and continued to say politely: "I think you have met a few lay designers who are very confident in their inspiration. Have many people sent their resumes to your mailbox? Or a design draft?"

"..." Ming Yan understood in seconds.

Since Ming Yan became famous, business cards and works like this have come in countless numbers.

It is a pity that there may be many confident people, but very few of them are truly talented.

Most of the works, after clearly reading the ideas, can only say an evaluation such as "the angle is clear and strange", but the actual execution significance is basically zero.

Laymen often have very novel ideas, but they are only novel, basically not good ideas - if they are good, 99% of them have already appeared in the history of games; if they are very good, 99% There is already a very successful good game Jewel in front.

However, there are still people who do not have self-knowledge and think that they are the only smart people in the world.

So about game design, people in the industry know two objective laws:

First, players don’t actually know what they really want;

Second, no matter what the design is, there is always a plan to be scolded.

Even if it's Bluestar's game, isn't there still sunspot active on the Internet?

This person sitting quietly at the entrance of the Blue Star Building may never know that Ming Yan himself passed in front of him - wearing a mask and sunglasses.

After entering the door, Ming Yan also smiled and said to the security guard, "Don't pay attention to that person. I'll see if he's still there for dinner later."

Security: "If it's still there?"

"In the spirit of humanitarianism, give him a bottle of water." Ming Yan said.

Security guard: "Boss, he has been sitting still for a day. What if he continues to come back tomorrow?"

Ming Yan thought about it and said, "Then give him a chance."

He just looked at Xia Cheng next to him, who seemed to already know what he was thinking, handed out an electronic business card to the security guard, and said, "This is the receptionist of Morningstar Game Incubation Park, let him search the Internet and find out. Understood."

After solving this little episode, Ming Yan can finally enter the lounge and take a good shower.

Xia Cheng also asked by the way, "Is there any arrangements for dinner?"

Ming Yan was thinking about which restaurant to go to when he suddenly received a communication from Dragon Sabre Studio.

After answering the call, Ming Yan had the word "囧" written all over his face, and hurriedly said, "I'm going to the Dragon Saber, and I don't think I'll be back at night."

Xia Cheng shrugged and said, "Okay, I'll work overtime by myself."

...

Speaking of which, Ming Yan hadn't been involved in the affairs of the Dragon Slayer Sword for a long time.

Since last year's "Yunxiang Clothes" was launched, Tulong Baodao has been cheating money all year... oh no, robbery... oh no, in the cycle of encouraging recharge.

A new set of looks will be released at the end of each month!

Each festival will have a festival chapter, telling the story of the protagonist Xiao Yunshang.

By the way, there is also a set of event card pools that will be changed every week. There will be an additional explosion rate in the card pool, attracting more local tyrants to regularly krypton gold.

Before "Yunxiang Clothes", few people thought of developing the female player market;

Even if they think about it, few people know that the ability of female local tyrants is no less than that of men!

In other words, women's spending power is even stronger than men's!

Although there are fewer players, the average recharge amount is about half more than that of male players!

Not only other people underestimated this, but even the employees inside Tulong Baodao didn't think of it.

Before the release of "Yunxiang Clothes", and even before the first event, they were still a little worried: "Will it fail if you try to transform directly into a new market?"

"Are female gamers really willing to pay for a new set of virtual jewelry?"

The result is now one year later:

"It's delicious!!!"

"Fucking female players are the real local tyrants gathered! I spent tens of thousands for a set of clothes and still can't get enough, the card pool has been emptied!"

"Stop talking nonsense, just lick it and you're done. It's like licking to the end!"

"Don't stop me, I have to serve the aunts in the next game - I promise to do my best and die!"

Of course, although the new love-oriented (selling men-oriented) works are already on the plan, and even the plot has been prepared in advance, it is not a very suitable time yet.

Of course, when doing business, you can't just consider your own product cycle, but more depends on the market.

At present, in the market of female-oriented games, the most popular game is of course "Clouds Thinking Clothes", which alone occupies almost half of the country.

Of course, Dragon Slayer can't launch a new game at this time, otherwise it will seize the market with itself - the art of mutual knowledge between left and right hands?

But being silent for a year and concentrating on licking female players also caused some local tyrants on the other side to be dissatisfied.

[The Dragon Slayer has not released a new version of the krypton gold game for two years. 】

[Money can’t be spent in my pocket, people are lying at home, and the trumpet account opened in “Anti-Tian Jue” is the first server again, what the **** do you want me to do to entertain! 】

【hurry up! Hurry up and change the skin of the placed hero, my store is all sold out. 】

[It's so boring, so boring, I have more than 30 five-star heroes saved and can't put it down. If there is no new card pool to draw, I will be bored to death...]

This time Mingyan was called by a phone call, because the local tyrants were really impatient, and they organized a donation event...

Well, local tyrants are still local tyrants, and the way they urge more is to use money to smash.

They set up a WeChat group, which is either the CEO or the rich second generation, and all of them are old players of the Dragon Slayer game.

The group owner is responsible for taking a look at the official website of Dragon Slayer Sword every day: [There is still no news of a new game today. 】

Then the brothers in the group started throwing money at the sponsorship page of Tulong Baodao!

[Oh, it's just a card draw for today's share. 】

[Smash it again, let Tu Long accept two more new employees, and the game will be faster! Hurry up! 】

Everyone in the Dragon Slayer Sword: "..."

Scared to pee.

The new demand was handed over to Ming Yan's case.

With an expression of "a little scared and a little wanting to laugh", the deputy chief of Tulong Baodao sat strangely opposite Ming Yan and said, "...The basic situation is like this. I think to appease this group of players, we have to meet their needs.”

Ming Yan also had a look of "囧" on his face, and looked at the marketing department's portrait of these local tyrant players.

——Successful people aged 20-40, with good education and excellent economic status, with an average investment of about 200,000 yuan per game; at least 10 hours of leisure time per day; most of the management team, with superb team management skills ; The main achievement point of the game is "face", that is, the sense of vanity in front of and behind.

In the small group of Tulong Baodao studio, someone once sighed: [The female player has not finished licking, there are still a group of bosses waiting to be licked...]

The deputy chief teacher asked tentatively, "How about we create a skin-changing game around shopping mall props, just like "Anti-Sky Technique"?"

Ming Yan supported his head with one hand and did not respond directly to this question.

To be honest, he is not short of money, and it is impossible for him to make some garbage games for money; but at the same time, he knows the demands of Tulong's employees, and the new game must have extremely high business operation ability...

In other words, the bonus is higher.

Thinking of this, Ming Yan said: "I have a concept in my mind now, but it's not perfect. Give me some time."

The deputy chief teacher immediately nodded and said, "Okay, I understand!" The leader must be ready to enter the small dark room, and then magically took out a magical design draft like some kind of feline robot!

In fact, Ming Yan really didn't enter the dark room.

That night he went straight to eat steak with Xia Cheng.

While eating, Ming Yan stared at Xia Cheng: "When you are 40 years old, you have a lot of people under your control, and you have money and spare time, what kind of games will you like?"

Xia Cheng: "??"