Otherworldly Architect

As it turns out, "Nightmare Man-Machine" will be late, but never absent.

At the small meeting the next day, Mingyan smiled kindly and said to the person in charge of the League of Legends: "Recently, our players seem to be a little 'dissatisfied'. Why don't we use the 'nightmare machine' as a The special rotating game mode will be launched next week."

Person in charge: "Okay, boss, I'll take a look at the arrangement now."

Then he silently lowered his head and drew a cross for the players.

——What do you say you are provoking the devil!

The so-called "nightmare man-machine" is a very difficult man-machine battle mode.

Under normal circumstances, the human-machine battles provided by the League of Legends are only of simple and normal difficulty, for players to quickly familiarize themselves with the game or practice heroes.

The computer AI in the battle is actually quite stupid.

Therefore, only novices and players with special hobbies will always play the man-machine mode.

This is also a very simple "novice tutorial" by default among players.

There is also a stalk on the forum, which says: "This fight is like a man-machine." - This means that the situation is too one-sided, and the victory is extremely easy.

but!

Here is another key piece of information that players don't know: In fact, when computer AI was first born, it was super powerful!

It's not as stupid as people think, it needs designers to "teach" it to play games little by little.

no.

In fact, the vast majority of game AI, as long as they "know" how to play games, they are born to be masters of the game.

As long as the skills that can theoretically be avoided, the AI ​​can dodge 100%; the skills that can theoretically hit, the AI ​​can achieve a hit rate of 99.99%.

And how terrifying the computing power of AI is, it can budget tens of thousands of endings of a battle every second, and then choose the most suitable strategy for you to easily get the ending you want the most.

For example, when players see AI residual blood, they may use their feelings to judge whether their own set of skills can kill the opponent in seconds.

But AI is not based on feeling, it is based on calculation.

Data such as the attack, defense, distance, and even skill accuracy and reaction speed of human players can be calculated in an instant.

If the player can't drop it in seconds, the AI ​​will go directly to it, which seems to be extremely anti-killing the player, but in fact it is as stable as an old dog;

A set of seconds is dropped, and it does not appear in the player's field of vision at all.

This is still the case of MOBA games. If you change it to FPS, that is, a shooting game.

As long as an AI is not weakened, almost no human player in the world can beat it.

——99.99% firearm hit rate, understand?

——Seamless movement, one focus and one hundred uses without pressure, understand?

- 0.001 seconds to open the mirror, press the gun, and turn around in an instant, understand?

——The footsteps of 1 decibel can be heard and defended, and the grenade can predict the entire flight trajectory in the air, understand?

With the complete computer AI in this game, it is not a dream to beat a hundred human players.

The AI ​​of MOBA games is not so exaggerated, but it must also be weakened to a certain extent.

For example, let the AI ​​deliberately not move, or even let it meet the player's skills with its face according to a certain rule.

Programmers are also very tired-

It may only take two hundred lines of code to let AI dodge skills;

However, in order to take care of the player not to be hanged, an extra 2,000 lines of code are used to let the AI ​​learn to act, and the acting must be realistic and realistic.

The acting is in place, and the acting is really like a weak chicken rookie, being beaten by the players...

Then this group of players are still talking about "the dishes are like human machines"?

Ah.

Innocent.

Even the "nightmare man-machine" designed by Ming Yan would not dare to release a complete computer AI.

In order to take care of the self-esteem of this group of simple players, the computer AI still has to move to pick up skills, so that players can't feel the gap between them - but the probability of picking up skills is reduced a little.

As for the difficulty of the game itself, it has to be compensated by additional mechanics.

For example, let the player know that the mana consumption of the AI ​​is only the player's, and the AI ​​has a "full-map plug-in"... and other "additional enhancements".

In this way, even if the player loses, he won't feel that he is really too much better than the computer, but the computer is down!

After all, it's just a messed up AI in their impression.

So, it was exactly as Bluestar Studio expected.

In the first week of the launch of the "Nightmare Man-Machine" mode, players were grieved and scolded the AI ​​everywhere.

[Wow ah ah ah ah who provoked the leader again! Let's crowdfund and kill him, okay? 】

[Sure enough, it was a nightmare, I dreamed of being tortured and killed by the computer in my dreams at night]

[Who will say that man-machine is simple in the future? Who am I worried about! ! 】

[The devil finally proved his own nature... @TTTX, you came out and beat me! ! ! 】

High-end players rushed to tell each other, and collectively formed a wasteland team to try to achieve the first pass of their own server.

——They took the first clearance of "Nightmare Man-Machine" as an important milestone to overcome!

Even professional clubs are eager to let their players try to clear the mode after training, preferably during the live broadcast.

And the reason why players are so keen on the first pass achievement is also very simple.

It's already the third season, and it's easy for the top players in the League of Legends to become popular overnight, which is something everyone knows.

And now the honor of this "world's first person" is in front of them!

E-sports is all about strength. Whoever gets this achievement first will be the undisputed strong player.

What kind of traffic, what honor, it is all within reach.

How can people not be hot?

Although this "nightmare man-machine" mode is difficult, it is not so difficult that it is impossible to get through.

It can be regarded as a kind of test for game masters by Bluestar Studio. According to the statement, the difficulty is almost the level of "Platinum players can get through".

Of course, according to the translation of the person in charge, the clear meaning is: "Platinum and below players will all suffer" difficulty.

On the fourth day of logging in to the new mode, a team from the Sixth Star Province announced the world's first pass.

This team is a divisional team led by a professional player. After several rounds of running-in, they have almost figured out the AI's fighting rules and how many plug-ins have been opened.

After that, it was a matter of course, and the "Nightmare Human Machine" was opened up according to the pre-booked strategy.

After the video of the first pass was posted on the Internet, it became popular overnight, as expected by everyone!

By the second day, the number of views reached tens of millions.

Even a passerby king player in the team was favored by the club and invited him to participate in the youth training.

After the first pass, other players began to clear the new mode one after another because of the experience of the pioneers.

Soon, this difficulty will really meet the designer's expectations, and low-segment players can also go up and have a good time.

——Of course, everyone will suffer when they are not used to it for the first time!

——Dare to say that man-machine is very simple? Hehe, feel the fear of being dominated by nightmares!

At the new Blue Star small meeting, Ming Yan was very happy and said that he was very satisfied with the new model.

principal:"……"

He felt that he suddenly understood how to make the boss happy.

And when Ming Yan is happy, he can continue to burst his liver happily.

He silently brought out the initial planning of "Soul", and handed over the design of several subsystems to the designers below.

As the game gets bigger and bigger, one person's design alone can set the tone and theme, but it's impossible to cover everything.

In the new game, Ming Yan decided to do the most important battle and level design himself, and distribute other content appropriately.

At the same time, through the studio's internal voting mechanism, the new game finally has an official name.

- "Soul of Mortal".

The name is given because everyone has read the outline and outline of the story given by the plot planner.

Bluestar Studio currently has a total of five plot planners, and at the beginning of the new project, four people participated in the compilation of the world view and the main plot.

These people also went with Ming Yan to walk around the different world provided by Ling Ling Qi.

In the different world that has been conquered once, although the players have all withdrawn, there are still a large number of aborigines.

That planet was originally the land of polar night, and none of the aborigines had ever seen light.

Therefore, Ling Lingqi's father directly named it "Dark Planet".

The former developer brought light to the planet, but also brought down many undead players who leveled up step by step by completing tasks issued by the system, killing dangerous creatures in the dark, and plundering the natives. resource.

The diminutive aborigines are still in the undiscovered medieval stage, they regard the players as gods, and even extend the sects that worship these gods.

At first, everything was fine.

But soon, with the rapid decline of the game, players began to withdraw.

The game bases on the planet are also abandoned one by one. The things left by the players are regarded as "relics", and the bodies left behind are called "Holy Body", which are enshrined in the temple by the aborigines.

The last main base of the game also gradually lost its light due to the lack of energy.

The whole otherworld will soon be plunged into darkness again.

But having seen the "Age of the Gods" full of light, the aborigines are full of fear for the coming darkness...

Through the only remaining probe robots and communication stations in the main base of the game, Blue Star's staff first learned about the basic situation of the second-hand alien world at hand.

Then Ming Yan took several major designers to open the communication, and controlled a drone, overlooking this dark land from a high altitude.

The tall mountains loomed up and down in the dark night, and the invisible terror was ready to come. The strangely shaped monsters greedily stared at the flesh and blood, while the short aborigines shivered and snuggled up to the few remaining firelights...

Looking at such a scene, designers have a lot of inspiration.

After seeing Mingyan's plan, several plot planners immediately expressed their inspiration.

The birth and polishing of a script also takes time. For literary creators, inspiration is fleeting and needs to be grasped in time.

So they applied for the little black house on their own, and they never went out without finishing the first draft of the script.

This decision is simply a clear demeanor.

At this time, it was the end of June, and Ming Yan received a unique invitation from the IPP family.

——It was sent by Xia Cheng himself.

The two had a big meal outside by the way.

Xia Cheng said: "This plan was submitted by me at the beginning of this year, and it is only now that it has been completed."

Ming Yan smiled and said, "Then I will definitely join in. The planning you made yourself will definitely not be bad."

While chatting, Ming Yan casually flipped through the invitation letter to get a general understanding of the situation.

The IPP family held a new online event this year called "Game Star Show Contest".

The theme of the event is to let a group of game production enthusiasts, regardless of age, education, or industry, form a team of 2-5 people to make a small game on the mobile phone within three days.

Teams can be formed in advance, or they can be made by the officials after signing up on the spot.

There are no requirements for game production, no subject matter or volume, as long as it can be played on a mobile phone.

In addition to the pre-preparation, post-trial play and awards, the competition lasted for a week.

Corresponding funds, sponsors and contractors have already been contacted, and the publicity campaign has been going on for a while.

After statistics, it has been confirmed that more than 200 teams and thousands of fans have signed up for the first "Star Show Competition".

Although most of the participants are amateurs, the channels and prestige of the IPP are there, and many professional workers will also come to participate.

The three games that Gein finally won in this game can be promoted on the IPP's platform!

For ordinary gamers, this is a very rare opportunity.

Ming Yan just finished the general introduction of the competition, and would like to see the rules of the competition in detail.

The opposite Xia Cheng smiled and said: "You don't have to read the rules. I didn't come to invite you to participate - if you participate, all the remaining contestants will not have to compete for the championship, which has become a competition with only the runner-up and the runner-up. The runner-up game."

Ming Yan blinked: "That's it?"

"Judge."

Xia Cheng said briefly, and turned the document in front of Mingyan to a certain page.

At the final stage of the "Star Show Contest", it is obvious that the three best works must be decided.

As is customary for this type of activity, the final game score is a combination of two pieces of data.

One is in the trial session, the data of the player when playing, as well as the votes and scores given by the player;

The other is the judge's score, which will remove a highest score and a lowest score, and then take the average.

The former accounted for 70%, the latter accounted for 30%.

In the planning case, several judges to be invited have been determined.

Among them, three people have already accepted the invitation, all of them are bigwigs in the game industry of the Sixth Star Province; the remaining few are still negotiating.

And Ming Yan is estimated to be the youngest among the judges, and he couldn't help but say: "If I come to be a judge, will my qualifications be almost..."

Xia Cheng shook his head and said, "Do you know how many full marks the Sixth Star Province has produced?"

Ming Yan said honestly: "I don't know, I guess there are thirty or forty?"

Xia Cheng smiled and said: "Thirty or forty is the treatment of the Central Star Province. In the Sixth Star Province, there are a total of 21 works, including your "Blue Star Doomsday"."

Ming Yan made a low "ah" sound, a little surprised.

Xia Cheng counted his hands and said: "Among the judges we invited, only one is the chief designer who has done a full-point work like you. The rest are either designers who have participated or who have done Classic games with a 9.5 rating...but none of them have presided over the design and development of three 9.5+ games like you."

Ming Yan blinked, not knowing what to say.

Xia Cheng smiled and said: "If it weren't for your relatively secluded appearance, the various activities, associations, and company organizations that want to hook up with you and invite you... have long been lined up outside the star system. You should really come out and see more. ."

Ming Yan said, "I still have to make a new game, and I don't have time to go out to play."

Xia Cheng said: "...This is really an unsurprising answer."

In fact, Xia Cheng was right.

As early as more than a year ago, when Bluestar Studio gradually became famous, Mingyan received many invitations in his mailbox.

There are many game design-related associations and organizations in Sixth Star Province, all of which have tried to invite Mingyan to join; for the selection of many awards, Mingyan has also been notified to receive awards and bonuses in the past.

Some even directly want to grant him some "Honorary Vice-President" or something like that...

But Ming Yan refused because he was too troublesome.

He is, after all, a workaholic who is reluctant to even the most basic of social interactions.

Like the invitation from the IPP family this time, if Xia Cheng hadn't personally sent the invitation letter, it was basically impossible to open the letter and take a look at it.

As for those organizations that want to invite Mingyan to join, or want to take a stake in Bluestar Studio, there are even more.

With Bluestar's business capabilities at the time, supercapital predators like cruise lines saw its potential and wanted to get a share of the pie, not to mention other venture capital firms.

But until this year, none of them would have imagined that Blue Star's ability to attract money was even several times more terrifying than the cruise ship's estimate.

If I had known that "Blue Star Doomsday" could be so successful, the cruise line would not have easily given up on the line of expressing words!

IPP Home is now the only designated business partner of Blue Star Studio.

There are many people in it who are secretly grateful that it was really good to be able to turn around and sign "Minecraft" back then...

It is great that Manager Xia Cheng can discern the pearl with a discerning eye and resolutely befriend the chief designer of Bluestar...

Bluestar Studio is now a well-known local blue-chip stock, and cooperation with it is a guarantee of performance and a bright future.

The holding of the "Star Show Contest" this time is also an olive branch thrown by the IPP family to Ming Yan.

They can have other cooperation in areas other than game publishing, which is a manifestation of closeness and friendship.

In other words, if he clearly accepts the invitation, it means that he has a high degree of favorability towards the IPP family.

Xia Cheng's heart: Yes, he is willing to sacrifice his working time to accept my invitation, which shows that he has a high degree of goodwill towards me.

Ming Yan's heart was really struggling.

But considering that the design of "Soul of Mortal" has come to an end temporarily, he still has a little time to enter the stage of developing the ALPHA version of the little black house, and there is really no intense work recently...

Then he looked at Xia Cheng's expectant expression in front of him.

Xia Cheng continued his efforts: "I promise it won't delay you for a long time. It's just the last day of grading work. You need to try out a total of eight works. We have also prepared a huge amount of appearance fee."

Hmm... It's also a kind of work to do activities with business partners.

Of course, the most important thing is to look at Xia Cheng's face.

Ming Yan finally nodded.

Xia Cheng laughed, then like magic, he took out a small gift box.

Ming Yan wanted to refuse, but he thought that this might be the tradition of the IPP family.

When he went to the IPP branch for the first time, he was given a pen, and the big company was very considerate to the partner.

So, he took the box and opened it, and it turned out to be a set of wine chocolates.

——Each piece is made into a very beautiful shape, some are white shells, some are cyan pebbles.

Xia Cheng smiled and said, "I saw that you brought the CW's wine chocolate with you before. I just heard that their family has released this new one, so I will bring it for you to try."

Ming Yan blinked his eyes and said, "Well..."

Actually, he doesn't like chocolate.

It's just that the calorie of the boozy chocolate is high enough to allow him to quickly replenish energy after staying up all night to burst his liver, without the occurrence of hypoglycemia.

So he will carry it with him.

But Mingyan looked at Xia Cheng's expression, and still took a piece of it and put it in his mouth.

The chocolate of the shell melts in the mouth quickly, and the red wine wrapped in it gives a special stimulation to the taste buds.

Two sweet tastes with different tastes are perfectly intertwined.

delicious.

Mingyan looked down at this set of chocolates, and saw that there was a pink heart in the middle.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

When Xia Cheng saw his expression, his heart thumped.

as expected--

Ming Yan said happily: "By the way, the League of Legends has not released a candy-themed skin series. You can add elements of wine chocolate to it, um..."

He was lost in thought.

Xia Cheng: "..."

Sure enough, the chief designer of Ming is still the chief designer of Ming.

There will never be any strange ideas because of seeing elements such as love, chocolate, etc.

Seeing that Mingyan gradually fell into design thoughts, Xia Cheng said decisively: "Do you have any other plans tonight?"

Ming Yan raised his head blankly: "Go back to work overtime?"

Xia Cheng held his forehead and said, "It's rare to come out to play with me once, why don't you do me a favor and choose two suitable ties."

Ming Yan said: "Okay. But I have to go back before ten o'clock."

Xia Cheng said, "How persistent are you about working overtime!"

Ming Yan shrank his neck and protested in a low voice: "You seem to be very persistent about going out to play! Everyone has their own living habits, what's the matter..."

Xia Cheng was speechless for a while!

How to refute Mingyan's seamless, black-and-white logic?

In any case, Xia Cheng managed to pry out the fossil of the chief designer of Ming.

The two walked around the mall.

Xia Cheng took more than ten ties and compared them in front of his chest, as if he really had a phobia of choice.

So Mingyan had no choice but to help him make a decision, and finally bought a blue and white striped one, and a solid color one.

Xia Cheng raised his chin: "I don't know how to tie my own tie, can you help me?"

Ming Yan teased: "Okay, young master, please sit down."

Ming Yan didn't even tie someone else's tie, and it took him a long time to tie it.

In the end, all the waiters came to check out, and Xia Cheng was still playing with the tie in front of the mirror, looking like he couldn't put it down.

Ming Yanxin said: Now that I know I like it, why was it so hard to choose before?