Strongest Game Architect Chapter 3
Kingly Work
After the game experience came to an end, the old professor fell into deep silence.
The few people looked at him, waiting for him to make the final evaluation.
After pondering for a long time, the old professor put down the scoring form in his hand, looked towards Ming Yan and asked, “I saw you’ve written in your graduation thesis that in the future, this game will incorporate a type of exploding monster and more adventuring contents, is it?”
Ming Yan answered “Actually, it has already been implemented, if you open the testing content through the settings window the exploding monster will have the chance to appear out of the player’s surroundings.”
This point was written in his thesis, the old professor nodded his head.
Subsequently, he closed both eyes and pondered deeply for a moment, before vehemently opened his eyes and said ” This is a down to earth,
With the words spoken, that means the final evaluation was given!
——Game of the King’s path!
“For this game, even though it does not have a specific map, all of the cubes can be manipulated. Even though it does not have a fixed character and storyline, every one of the scenarios can be created by the player. Even when there is not a word of rule or demand, all the achievement objectives have been discovered within the process of the game. Character and the whole world, they are all developed step by step according to the will of the player- this brings forth unquestionable sense of belonging and achievement.”
The old professor continued,
“A thousand players have a thousand different play styles, and the end can never be reached forever. The thing that can limit the gaming experience of <Minecraft> is not the game itself, but the imagination and tenacity of the players. The images aren’t real, but the core essence has won against games with realistic images ; volume looks to be very small, but it has provided unlimited possibilities, and unlimited playability.”
Teacher Zhou’s expression changed and said “An evaluation this high, isn’t it a little over the top for the work of a mere student?”
Old professor replied ” Teacher Zhou, you have also worked many years in this profession, accumulating an abundance of experience. However at the same time, your eyesight has also been limited by your own experience.”
Teacher Zhou’s face turned pale.
“A good teacher might not be able to accurately differentiate if students’ ideas are genius or lunacy, but at least they shouldn’t look down on every single youth that has their own thinking and action.” The old professor looked towards Ming Yan, “This is a sprouting genius, your previous evaluation is wrong.”
Teacher Zhou agitatedly stood up, feeling a little bit tongue tied, “You… no matter what, this game is still not worthy of such high praise!”
“No, it’s worth it.” Teacher Hurst said it very bluntly “This is a masterpiece! Do you know what is the meaning of a masterpiece? You just need to improve the degree of completion, and the full version of <Minecraft> has the potential to pull off this year’s 3A masterpieces! Did you not feel it when you were playing? I can see your focus, your dedication to your goals, your nervousness when you encounter an accident, the fruits of your labor and even when you’re only making a small house, the satisfaction it brings by being proud of the product of your efforts! Have you forgotten this simple happiness?”
Teacher Zhou’s mouth twitched a little, he smacked the table and said “Of course i’m happy! But games are not something used solely for happiness!”
“What kind of thing are games, we are still not qualified enough to determine it arrogantly, we can only say that we’ve always been trying to feel it.” The old professor gave a sigh. “Teacher Zhou, you have only experienced a few minutes of the work, it’s very hard to grasp the essence of it. You shouldn’t arbitrarily conclude it, that is a form of arrogance.”
He clicked twice on his terminal and the big screen quickly showed <Minecraft> ‘s data at the time of the first game testing in school.
Number of downloads: 1,000 people. The download channel was crowded as early as two o’clock in the morning.
Average online time of players: 4 hours.
In just a short 36 hours, these people unexpectedly were able to play for so long, which shows that even people who are exposed to this game for the first time can easily indulge in it.
This is even on a working day. Which means that these people spend almost all of their available free time in it!
There are also many people who forget to sleep and eat in order to play all night long. The game was uploaded for a total of 36 hours, and they played a total of 35 hours.
There is still one last decisive statistic, which is the player’s word of mouth:
Positive reviews: 98%！
Even if you don’t look at those flattering words on the screen, and specifically pick out the few bad reviews, you can see what is written on it-
[ Anonymous user: Keep thinking about how i can play it after a night, will close the game after i found the small grain seed, will close the game after digging a mountain cave to make a house… when i lift my head, the sky is already bright！There’s definitely poison ahhh ]
[ Anonymous user: Why don’t you release more downloads! Why! My dad and my little brother snatched my computer and played for the whole night! On what authority i wasn’t allowed to play? Isn’t it too cruel! ]
[ Anonymous user: Bad review! Why can I only make coffin boxes, while Sisiphus have already made a Heavenly City? This is obviously the world of other people’s homes! ]
No actual negative comments were found.
Even after flipping through everything.
On the contrary, those dazzling praises flashed across the screen constantly like flowing water.
“Probably the gods are making games”,
“It’s so fun i cried sob sob”,
“Play till my mental flow came out”,
“I want to live in that world”,
“I beg you to release the download”,
“Gave a kneel”,
…
Facts as hard as iron have been placed in front, no one can refute these real and vivid players’ reviews. Teacher Zhou took a step back and dejectedly sat on a chair.
He was wrong, he was too arrogant and proud, it was really a good game.
Lastly, the professor gave Ming Yan some encouraging words, saying, “Don’t be sad because of a momentary setback. Student, the future of this game is very broad, you have to keep working hard.”
Ming Yan smiled slightly and said, “Actually I still have a lot to learn, i am still far behind in a lot of areas. For example, the design ideation was only borrowed from the experience of the predecessors…”
The faces of the remaining grading teachers suddenly became weird.
——Your design ideation is still far behind??
Ming Yan said, “This work is already considered bad, I feel that it is reasonable for Teacher Zhou to give me 40 points…”
All the grading teachers: Ei! That’s overly excessive!
Ming Yan continued, “If I were to grade myself, it would be more or less 60 points, at the barely passing level. To be honest, I think I can do better, sigh.”
He gave a sigh with limitless regret, the sound lingered in the air.
All the grading teachers’ faces became green.
——This kind of work was considered just passing! Then what about the remaining students? Every one of them failed, submit it back for review and then cancel this subject? Huhh?!
The old professor patted Ming Yan’s shoulder and said cheerfully, “Well, humility is a good thing. Young man, keep it up!”
Mingyan nodded humbly and said, “Yes, I will definitely learn from all my teachers and classmates. “
Teacher Zhou’s face was blue and white, realizing that they can’t endure the shame, they hurriedly buried their lowered head in the file, pretending that they didn’t hear anything.
Ming Yan left the conference room as the old professor inside still had to write the final review report.
At this time, Ming Yan took out the silent terminal mobile phone, only to realize that he had received a lot of messages.
It turned out that it was getting close to dinner now, and everyone in the class was calling everyone to eat at a five-star restaurant. Cleary as expected was really rich. He booked an entire lobby and more than 40 classmates were basically all there.
Ming Yan might be the last one to arrive. He rented a small shared electric wheel on the side of the street and drifted slowly over.
He arrived just in time, when the food had just been served, the young students also started to cheer and have a good time.
Cleary pretended to be close with Ming Yan and placed his arm on his shoulders while saying with a smile, “Come on, mate, drink a glass! Doesn’t matter if you’re able to graduate and get your certificate this year without a hitch or not, we have at least known each other for four years! If you can’t find a job in the future, come and find me. I have four secretarial positions beside me, will definitely save one for you!”
The crowd gave an excited roar, and an enigmatic follower said “Aiyah, such good luck. For someone who flunk their graduation project to still be able to join a big corporation such as Vayela. Cleary, aren’t you a little too kind!”
Cleary said, “Hahaha, what can i do, it makes me uncomfortable seeing a classmate being so downhearted!”
Ming Yan shocked his head and said, “Then you are quite generous.”
But Cleary who saw his reaction was taken aback instead.
Somehow, being stared at by Ming Yan quietly, he suddenly turned his head uncomfortably.
“Cleary! Cleary!” All of a sudden a student lifted their handphone up and called, “Quickly look at the alumni circle, Teacher Hurst posted something in it to praise you, hehe!”
Everyone on the dining table lowered their heads to check in an orderly manner, and Ming Yan also conveniently took a look.
[ Hurst Lee doesn’t want to go to class: This year there are a lot of talented students from the architecture major, and the graduation design works are simply amazing. There is already no need to fight for the first place for the graduation design. Just fight for second place okay, I pity all of you. (funny emoji) ]
(T/N: Lmao this teacher’s username is an absolute mood)
“They haven’t even announced the results, yet Cleary has already won first place in graduation design,” the follower said “Ahh im so jealous!”
A smug smile can’t help but crept onto Cleary’s face, he looked at Ming Yan again and said, “Speaking of scores, Ming Yan still doesn’t know his own score isn’t it. I have a bit of connection with the teacher in charge of the grading system. Should I help you to ask?”
Ming Yan smiled and said, “It’s not necessary, I’m afraid the result may not be as expected.”
Cleary said, “Don’t be scared! You have to find out sooner or later anyway, might as well ask now, have some preparation in your heart. Even if it’s bad it won’t be that bad right?”
“Lets not do it after all.” said Ming Yan, “I don’t think my scores will be all that high anyways.”
The more he said that, the more other people pestered Cleary to ask.
Cleary faked a reluctant look, but he had taken out his terminal and dialed the teacher’s contact number. He picked it up and said gloatingly, “Hello? Teacher Shen, yep, it’s me… I want to ask about the graduation work scores of Ming Yan from our class…. what’s against the rules about it? You can just turn on the computer and take a quick peek…. Un un, yep, Ming Yan’s.”
While the teacher was probably still looking for Ming Yan’s name other students chimed, “Put it on speaker! Let us listen to it too!”
Cleary put his handphone on the table and turned on the speaker.
After a while, everyone heard the teacher on the other end say: “Huh? Is this Ming Yan from your class?”
