Strongest Game Architect Chapter 6
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Early the next morning, Ming Yan got up and made breakfast.
Very simple egg fried rice, with a little bit of ham in it. The eggs and rice are both fragrant, golden and crisp in color, exuding an enticing fragrance.
MingYan poured a little sauce on the side, and the freshness quickly penetrated, surrounding the lump of egg fried rice.
Soon, his foster parents went downstairs, and they were a little flattered but surprised to see the breakfast.
Ming Yan kept their distance with a slight nod, sat at one end of the dining table by himself, and ate silently.
The adoptive father was a bit hesitant to speak, and after a while, he asked, “Ming Yan, you are about to graduate and receive your certificate. Do you have any plans in the future?”
Ming Yan was prepared and said calmly, “I joined a small project, so I will think about it after the game is completed and went live.” <Minecraft> is his first game in this era, and all the income was decided to be donated to the Earth Research Institute.
Hopefully after the research institute receives sufficient funding it can dig up a few more fossils, so that it can make himself feel less lonely living in this era.
Also, he hopes that they will monitor his life less.
The remuneration Ming Yan gave himself was a salary planned for a freshman.
And after the project ends, 1% of the total profit will be used as a bonus.
The above is the income he left for himself— in this industry this bonus ratio is already considered very low.
Ming Yan is not a person who loves money, but he is already preparing for the next work.
The production cycle of a game is quite long, but may be slightly shortened in the interstellar era.
Ming Yan will look at this income to determine what genre and style to choose for the next game.
If he is really short of money, he will have to sacrifice the “Dragon Slaying Treasure Sword”…
After breakfast, there is still nothing to do today.
Ming Yan continued to look at the alumni circle, and then unexpectedly found that a video suddenly became popular!
Overnight, the number of broadcasts reached tens of thousands, and it seemed that everyone was reposting this video.
After clicking on it he realised that it is an edited video of a certain live broadcast featuring <Minecraft>. The streamer’s small face was placed in the lower right corner of the video, which looks very vivid.
The protagonist took a diamond sword and rushed out the door enthusiastically-
Just a small moment of not paying attention caused him to step on nothing and fell to death.
Zhou Liye: “Ahhhhh, I blame this cliff for sneak attacking me!”
The protagonist duplicated another diamond sword using the resources, rushed out the back door enthusiastically and-
Splat.
Zhou Liye: “Daddy, you are poisonous! Why did you build our house on the top of the mountain! This son of yours was brutally killed by you okay! Ah!!!”
The third time he went out, there’s only an iron sword left for him to make do with.
As soon as he left the house he saw a Dick monster in front of him.
Zhou Liye: “What the fuck isnt this shape a bit too much! I’m going to get ditched by my viewers if this thing appears in the live broadcast! Requesting editor to *PS it off!”
*photoshop
The editor typed in a comment: Lazy, just black screen it.
As soon as the screen went blank, before the audience even had time to see the Dick monster’s appearance, it went kaboom and… exploded.
Yep, this is a Dick-shaped self-propelled self-explosive monster, which not only deals a huge amount of damage, but also destroys the terrain.
This is the Creeper!
When you see it, it is either on the way to detonate itself, or on the way to rush to you first and then detonate itself!
The diamond sword was gone, and an explosion pit was in front of the house door.
The protagonist took out a diamond pickaxe with very low durability and decided to explore the mine first.
When he saw a different wall, he happily lifted the pickaxe and dug.
He dug a tunnel directly through the clinker, and fell down with a plop.
Looking from the left to the right, the surroundings are actually full of magma. Even if he think with his feet he knows that stepping on it will turn him into a golden crispy chicken.
“…”
There is no way towards the sky, and no door through the earth.
Pulling out the sword and looking around at a loss.
Although some people are still alive, he was actually dead already.
The diamond pick is gone, and all the precious diamond products in the house seem to have all been exploded just now.
Zhou Liye gave a crying face and said, “It’s over, I had lost all my family’s fortune. Before my dad finds out, I will move the bricks first and pay this debt…”
However, thinking about it, he does not dare to enter the mine anymore.
He reluctantly picked up a wooden pickaxe and prepared to go out to find an open-pit mine.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he opened the door, he met love around the corner—a fresh green face stared at him quietly, and made a sound which indicated that the fuse was about to detonate.
Zhou Liye: “Fuck me! Editor!! Censor this Di**[Beep——] monster!”
The screen went blank for a moment.
Boom.
The living room at home was blown flat.
Without noticing, he died like this until night.
Outside the hut, a few little monsters spawned.
Zhou Liye licked his lips: “Dear viewers gentlemen, I’m getting serious now! Did you see that skeleton? Tonight I will kill it to vent my feelings!”
He was filled with great aspiration, helplessly looked left and right, with no belongings on his body, and had nothing but bare walls in his house.
In the end, he had to hold up the small, white and tender rectangular hands, and get ready to go and fight the monsters.
However, when he took a closer look, besides the skeleton monster, there was also a familiar…
Yep, a black screen.
Zhou Liye: “owowowowow save me! Brave hero please be merciful! Ahhh noooooo — I beg you please don’t come here ahh -—!!”
Boom.
The will of destiny cruelly ran over this weak, poor and helpless little cube.
When the screen lights up again, the protagonist is already standing in a ruined wall, looking up at the moon with loneliness.
The small house had completely been flattened to the ground.
Zhou Liye said deeply: “Those that need to come, in the end will still come. This house it…should have such a disaster in its life.”
Just as he finished speaking, the camera in the lower right corner showed that, except for his small face, another old and black face mysteriously appeared behind him.
The two seconds of silence, was the gaze of a death god.
Zhou Liye: “…Dad, Daddy, I love you, I know I was wrong…”
Teacher Zhou: “Unfilial son! You get on my computer in the middle of the night! Played my games! All that I can forgive! But your old man me spent nine hours of diligent earnest tough resilient painstaking hard work to build this house! —ah! And my password box! You spendthrift, completely lost all of this old man’s life savings! I will take your surname if I can’t kill you today!”
After watching the video , Ming Yan curved the corner of his mouth and gave it a like.
He has to say that this little streamer is really unlucky to have met three Dick monsters in the short span of 20 minutes…
This popular video was circulated in the city circle overnight, in the comment area other than the crazy ” Hahahahahahahahahahahaha” laughter, there are two kinds of people:
The first one is those asking “What game is this?”, as most of them became interested in this seemingly cute and wholesome game.
Maybe some people will think that Zhou Liye is too noob, so they roll up their sleeves and prepare to prove themselves and display their skills.
The second type is those asking “what the hell is the censored monster”. Most of them are people who couldn’t get the download quota of <Minecraft>, but they accidentally saw the complaints.
The consequence of having a strong curiosity is they hate that they can’t hang themselves in the comments for others to see.
“I can’t breathe! I’m going to die! If you don’t tell me what the censored monster is, I will hang myself silently outside the door of the Royal Academy!”
“Damn you Juliet! Why did your black screen black everything completely!”
“I beg any of you generous big bosses, please kindly talk to me and tell me what the censored monster is… I promise to bring this secret into the grave. (Picture) (: Teary eyes)”
After a few days of fermentation, the popularity of <Minecraft> on the media has slowly reached 22,000 points, and it has been ranked in the top three in the local popularity list.
Thanks to Lady Juliet’s video live stream, it’s always easy for funny and relaxing entertainment content to conquer idle netizens.
Basically, every netizen will see the hashtag #MinecraftJuliet# after reading the hottest local news.
Traffic is still pouring in continuously.
Some people can’t sit still anymore.
As Ming Yan continued to read the comments, his communicator rang.
MingYan picked it up and said, “Hi, I am MingYan.”
“Hello, student Ming Yan. This is the marketing department of the IPP platform, and I am the manager Wiles.”
Ming Yan sat up slightly, what he waited for finally came. That big fish.
Ming Yan said: “I know you want to introduce <Minecraft>. I declare in advance that I will not accept the buyout plan, only the shares. In addition, the A House contacted me two days ago. You can now offer the price.”
There was silence on the other end of the phone, apparently they did not expect that a student would be so straightforwardly brazen.
Wiles was stunned for a while, and said, “Please wait a moment.”
He apparently discussed a few sentences with another person next to him, then reopened the communication and said: “We can give you the first position in the column for the ‘Newbie’s new Project’ of this year, in addition to the editor’s trial play recommendations and reviews. Signing the A-level contract, the simple profit ratio is 21%.”
His offer is also quite straightforward, but Ming Yan is not satisfied.
“Close to 20%, I will not accept this outrageous price.” Ming Yan said, “All of you still have not realized the value of this game.”
Wiles said, “Of course, we believe that this work can have excellent performance. The current player praise rate has explained a lot of questions. But I also hope you can realize that the current <Minecraft> results are based on the official school web foundation, and its players are all college students. From the art style of <Minecraft>, we are not optimistic about its attractiveness and market performance among players of other age groups.”
Ming Yan raised an eyebrow, “Since you made this assessment, there is nothing else for me to say.”
Wiles said, “Wait, you can give me your ideal price.”
Well, this shows that I House still wants to get <Minecraft >, and also accepts a certain degree of bargaining.
But…
“No, thank you. My ideal price is a 10% share.” Ming said.
When Wiles heard this, he blurted out, “That is impossible!”
What is the concept of a 10% share?
Even if hundreds of millions of copies are sold in a big explosion rate, the channel will make close to zero profit. After all, they still have to pay for the follow-up staff, maintenance, server traffic and other resources.
Then who is this price usually given to?
The top game manufacturers that has a high-end team led by a master-level architect, and has made a 3A masterpiece after several years of sharpening their sword.
At the same time, there must be a very high media rating, as well as tens of millions of players’ expectations.
This kind of work is no longer a buyer’s market, and there is no longer any need to contact the platform everywhere to go online, or tug-of-war in the conference room to negotiate a percentage.
But if the platform is not introduced, users will instead slap the table and scold the platform—it’s the IP masterpiece at that kind of level.
