Strongest Game Architect Chapter 4
Close to full marks
NOTE: From this chapter onwards, Cleary’s name will be changed to Kerry. Also in previous chapters Blue star is another term for Earth in CN. Only realized it after I read a couple more chapters in the raw. ;;
Everyone was able to hear the sound playing out.
Kerry said, “What’s wrong, is Ming Yan’s result really very bad?”
As soon as the voice fell, there was a strange silence on the other end of the phone.
That teacher quickly said in an excited tone, “What very bad, his results are the best in recent years-no, no, from when I started teaching until now, I have never seen a graduation design work that close to full marks before.”
“It’s normal for it to be bad…” Kerry said halfway through, before what was told registered in his mind and uttered with an off tone voice, “What did you say?!”
“Ming Yan! Minecraft! The result of the first oral defense was too controversial, so it was submitted for review, and the review result came out-—99 points! I’m sure I didn’t see wrongly since it’s highlighted in red, 99 points! One point short of the full score! We have never seen such a high evaluation since the establishment of our school.”
Wow, all the noisy voices in the audience suddenly disappeared.
The whole magnificent lobby of the hotel is so quiet that you can even hear if an embroidery needle dropped on the floor, everyone was wide-eyed and speechless.
A loud laughter can still be heard from the other end of the phone. The teacher thought that Ming Yan was a good friend of Kerry, and praised him vigorously, “That’s too awesome, Kerry, this classmate of yours has a very promising future. Those old antiques from the Ministry of Education are always super stingy with the scores. Usually with them, forget wishing for merit, better luck wishing not to be criticized. It is said that they will never give full marks even if you kill them. This 99 points means that they have been completely conquered! There is nothing else to say! Willingly crowned this work as the champion position of this year! No, not just this year—”
Pak!
Kerry suddenly dropped the phone off the table, and the voice from the other side finally got cut off.
Everyone is still silent.
Kerry’s followers suddenly caught their tails between their legs, and were afraid to speak at this moment.
Kerry’s expression has changed several times, before finally becoming stern and green saying, “The news may not be true! Find me someone else to ask! How about Hurst? Didn’t that teacher Hurst still praise me in the alumni circle?”
(T/N: wow calling your teacher by their given name? ROOD.)
He pushed away the two people in front of him, grabbed a mobile phone and turned it over.
Everyone hesitated to speak and stopped, hiding and watching him go crazy from a distance.
The thing that’s even more frightening is that not long after Kerry robbed the phone, everyone turned to Hurst’s latest update.
[ Hurst Lee doesn’t want to go to class: Hahahaha, many people have guessed which game I was talking about before. It seems that the game which is the most fun is the fastest response from the player community! (Picture 1: The third-person perspective of <Minecraft>, the character is holding a puppy) (Picture 2: The screenshot of <Minecraft>, the house, windmill and flower field built by Hurst after returning home)]
Taking another look at Kerry, the originally elegant face was flushed and said: “That game…can get 99 points? Isn’t that a joke?”
“That’s right.” A voice sounded.
Everyone turned their heads, wanting to see who had replied to Kerry at this time—aren’t they afraid of being slapped in the face? Still wanted to stubbornly flap their gums?
But when they looked clearly, everyone was shocked.
Surprisingly it turned out to be Ming Yan!
Ming Yan still sat there calmly, and said: “Well, I also felt that I didn’t do well. I didn’t expect the teachers were still this forgiving. A semi-finished game like this is actually not as good as they said. All that ‘King’s way’,and ‘champion’… It’s all too polite, it’s just calling a tall one from the dwarf.”
Kerry’s face finally turned completely purple.
Everyone couldn’t speak, and only felt that a breath was suffocating in their chests, feeling like they were about to choke to death.
——Saying a tall one among the dwarfs means that they are all dwarfs!
—— If <Minecraft> that almost got full marks was considered only a semi-finished product, then isn’t their graduation design all trash fodder?
Ming Yan sighed again and said, “Ah, if I had known earlier the effect I made was so unsatisfactory. I should have thrown away the design draft, at least that way I can fertilize the bonsai.”
“Sob sob…”
Suddenly, a crying sound was heard from the corner.
“I only scored 72 points,” a girl cried, “my graduation design is probably not even good enough to be fertilizer!”
Everyone around looking like they had all lost their parents, could only comfort her in a low voice.
There were some of them who didn’t even score 70 points… Now they just feel their faces heating up with shame.
At this time, Kerry was even more somber-faced, with even his fingertips trembling with anger, and he said bitterly, “Begin the meal! All of you eat first!”
After finishing speaking, he didn’t look at Ming Yan and just rushed out of the big lobby without looking back.
The remaining lackeys left behind looked around, before quickly running off to follow him.
At this time, Ming Yan became the only protagonist on the remaining dinner table.
Kerry took a taxi back to his father’s company.
Vayela, it is a well-known game development company on this planet. In fact, there are about 600 employees in total, and they are developing two different otherworlds at the same time.
The games it produced are not ranked on the world level, but they are already quite good for this planet, capable of flowing over tens of millions during their peak period. It can be regarded as a company with strong revenue.
Cleary’s father is the founder of this company and the current holder of power.
On his desk, he has already listed the details of communicating with the A House platform.
As a local boss snake, Vayela and A House have a certain degree of cooperation.
——As long as Kerry wins the graduation design championship for this year, he will be able to pass the review and go online immediately. After getting the game version number, they will follow-up immediately with enjoying the treatment and recommendation of signing an A-level contract at A House platform.
Many of these recommended places are drained by Vayela itself, just to promote the works of young master Kerry.
They think that as long as the response is good enough, they may be able to attract foreign capital to buy an otherworld for this game.
But now, everything is ruined.
Kerry looked at the projection that was played repeatedly on the glass screen “Strongly recommended! The Royal Academy’s graduation design final champion!” looking at the advertisement lines, he bit his lip uncomfortably.
——Even this kind of advertisement was designed and drawn at a cost of 20,000 yuan!
“Dad, what should I do?” he asked.
His father frowned while reading the two graduation design scoring forms, and then said, “You good for nothing! Six people counseling you, you’re still able to lose to a civilian student, and now you still have the face to ask me what to do?”
Kerry was crying.and said, “My A-level contract, as well as recommended resources…”
“It can only be given to the champion now.” His father said, “The contract is already signed. If we don’t make this money, that will really incur losses. Your dad’s money does not fall from the sky! Go back, and I will arrange for someone to prepare another set of resources for you.”
On the other side, after the banquet ended.
After staying in this class for four years, Ming Yan finally got to add everyone as friends.
Everyone also enthusiastically toasted Ming Yan, and reminded him not to forget the group party and the farewell meal a month later.
After everyone dispersed, Ming Yan took out his phone and shifted all his classmate’s contacts into a group.
He knows very well that this group will basically not reappear in the future.
The sky was dark outside, and the lighting behind MingYan clearly defined his face, exuding a calm yet indifferent atmosphere.
Someone secretly stared and blushed, walked up to him and asked, “Ming Yan, that…I can’t get a taxi, can i trouble you to send me home?”
Ming Yan lowered his head to look, she is an ordinary girl in the class which he has no particular impression of.
He was thinking of agreeing, but the phone rang suddenly at that moment.
When Ming Yan answered the phone, the polite and formulistic voice from the other side soon was heard.
“Hello, are you student Ming Yan? This is Atlas’ marketing department.”
Atlas is the platform referred to as A House, a game platform that truly spans the entire Sunrise Alliance, and it is also one of the comprehensive digital publishing platforms with the largest number of users in the alliance.
A large number of players are buying and downloading VR games on this platform, as well as using accounts to enter otherworld games.
Ming Yan raised his eyebrows, and said in a deep voice : “I am Ming Yan.”
“Hello, student Ming Yan.” The other party said, “Our company recently has a Rising Star Project’ which is very suitable for this year’s graduates to participate. Your graduation design work <Minecraft> has passed our initial selection and has the opportunity to become our promotion work. At that time we will launch a special game topic, recruiting those with potential—”
“Sorry.” Ming Yan interrupted him, “I don’t remember signing up for this “Rising Star Project”.” The other party paused a while before saying patiently: “This Rising Star Project is specifically for the maiden works of fresh graduates. We will provide corresponding recommended positions, inviting our experienced manager to announce your work. If the market responds well, you will have the opportunity to be favored by foreign venture capital firms and formally design it to be an otherworld game. Of course, this is based on the premise of signing a contract with us first.”
However, as a matter of fact, Ming Yan does not think that <Minecraft> is a good theme that is suitable to be made into an otherworld game.
First of all, its art style is a very big limitation.
It is only a work expressly used to complete the initial accumulation of funds for Ming Yan, so it is impossible to price hastily.
After listening to everything quietly, he said: “Do you want my game to be online on the Atlas platform?”
“Yes.”
Ming Yan asked “What about the price?”
The other party became excited and said: “I can offer you four hundred thousand by myself.”
Ho, four hundred thousand, what a big number.
MingYan pouted and asked: “I won’t sell it to you. I’m asking for the profit margin model, how much will the platform fee take?”
The other party was obviously caught off guard, but still said: “25%. But- —”
Ming Yan interrupted him again: “Thank you, there is no need now.”
This time, the speed of speaking over there was significantly accelerated, “Student Ming Yan, please think about it. 400,000 yuan is a rare opportunity for an undergraduate project. Yes. And you may not know the sales model of VR games. Generally, it is quite fair to take 25% of the fees from the general channel…”
Before he was able to finish speaking, Ming Yan had already hung up the phone.
The other party apparently hasn’t given up yet, and called him again.
He smiled before turning off the phone first.
Atlas was probably treating him like a leek to be cut, and knows nothing about the value of his work. They thought that if a large inter-stellar company were to propose a collaboration, he will immediately be too happy to the point of not knowing which way is North?
Still smugly proposed taking a 25% share?
Indeed, this is a fair number. Because other black-hearted platforms even take 30%, but that is the price for the lowest level game makers.
Really high-quality games can’t be sold that casually.
Ming Yan was prepared to donate the income of <Minecraft> completely but if the amount is too small, it will be a disrespect to the creative provider.
If you know that the original PC version of Minecraft is a small miracle with 2.2 billion dollars in revenue, then this interstellar VR version can not be too bad.
Otherwise, what is the difference with those who reborned people who sold one million custom-made songs for 20,000 yuan to the online platform?
To cast pearls before swine, might as well don’t cast.
What’s more…
Tomorrow, the final results will be announced throughout the school, and the title of this year’s graduation design champion is not small anymore.
The other party was in a hurry and even had to call at this point in time after work, just because he was afraid that after he was announced as the winner tomorrow…his fame will surely rise, and at that time it cannot be bought at the price of a cabbage anymore.
Ming Yan put the phone back in his pocket, looked back at the girl, smiling slightly, “Let’s go, I will take you home.”
