Strongest Game Architect Chapter 2
My World
Star Age’s VR games were quite designer friendly and even offered programming alternatives with a fully graphical interface.
Ming Yan could develop his own game using a free, low-grade game engine that implemented some uncomplicated features, without explicitly learning a new programming language.
In fact, the game <Minecraft> does not have the need for overly complex features – it was just a combination of survival, construction and adventure in one open world game.
The volume of the current v1.23 version is only about 200G, which was simply a little brother for this era of VR.
But its gameplay was endless.
The reason why MingYan chose it was because it was the second best selling game in the history of Blue Star Games in that year.
That’s right, apart from <Tetris> this alien, <Minecraft> had sold over five million copies in history and was the game that sold the most copies in the 21st century.
Its cumulative money draw reached $2.2 billion, which was a miracle after condensation compared to the volume of only 200M on PC back then. The original producers were paid tens of thousands of dollars for every line of code they pounded down and every 16×16 pixel map they drew.
In terms of single game sales, even the dominant players like <Super Mario>, <Final Fantasy> and <Pokémon> have not been able to compete with this exquisitely small yet magnificent square world.
From the moment he started school,during the time Ming Yan had just learned how to make an intergalactic VR game, he was already making this game at the same time while learning .
Every day started at eight o’clock which was his production time, and it lasted until exactly twelve o’clock at night before he would go to bed.
Ming Yan finished today’s task, so he looked at the progress, assigned tomorrow’s task, and went to sleep with his head covered.
The next morning, Ming Yan was woken up by the sound of the alarm clock, and he touched the head of the bed [E/N: The clock was at the head of the bed] for half a day without success and the artificial intelligence butler automatically stopped it for him.
…… as a fossil contestant, he really was more accustomed to the alarm clock.
Ming Yan got up early, washed up and looked at his terminal as he went downstairs to eat breakfast.
Today’s egg sandwich was a bit burnt, and Ming Yan frowned as he opened his social networking page to browse the real-time updates in his alumni circle.
[Pippi Wei wants to get up early: tomorrow everyone’s BiS results are coming out, tell me loudly: are you nervous!
[It’s thirty not thirteen ah: the house made by Teacher Zhou is so characteristic, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (picture: the square hut built by Teacher Zhou)]
[Kiriel: Oh my God, how did this arch get made? I can’t find the right square to do it, God teach me! (Kneeling down) //@Sisyphus: #Minecraft #This game is too much fun, I just have a gazebo design, 1:5 do it to see the effect (Figure: huge gazebo)]
[Sisyphus: (facepalm) Everyone stop DMing me! Again, the game is called <Minecraft>! It came out from this year’s otherworldly architecture major’s graduation design work, don’t ask me which senior’s it is, I don’t know, anyway, is the Immortal senior!
[I want to adopt a cat’s noodle: I woke up and my circle of friends all became #minecraft #what’s going on? I don’t understand]
[Rainy day theology here: the time has come to identify Europe and Africa! Didn’t expect it right! I dug up enough diamonds in one night, look at my shimmering shiny diamond suit! (Photo: character wearing a diamond armor set)]
Ming Yan flipped back and looked at the real-time popularity of the keyword <Minecraft> and found that starting from the time after class yesterday, it has been climbing up in the game otherworldly faculty, with about 4000 plus popularity now.
People from other faculties were dumbfounded and came over in groups to visit.
[Love eating shrimp: Every year the game major is the most fucking lively, it seems that this year’s graduation design champion will be appearing soon.]
[Little Transparent Fishy: Hiya, begging to be unbanned, begging to be online, begging to let me play. Little transparent love playing this kind of small game the most, when will they be able to cancel the rule of only letting insiders play!!]
Ming Yan’s finger stopped, suddenly thinking of this particular rule.
The graduation design work was allowed to be uploaded and spread on the internet, but the school platform has a clear limit, which only provides downloads 500 times a day, as any more than that will close the channel.
The school server had a limited load after all, not the kind of big platform that specialized in releasing games.
After eating, Ming Yan said hello to his foster parents and went back to school.
The project has been done and the specialized classes were no longer needed. The students went back mainly to wait for the results of the graduation defense to be released.
Although the official results will not be issued until tomorrow, in fact, each grading teacher’s form has been submitted and the class teacher has also looked at them one by one.
Chattering students filled the classroom, and were divided into small groups like when classes are still on, talking about where to go after graduation. Naturally, the wealthy clique was in a class of its own.
The arrival of the class teacher immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
The teacher, who showed signs of balding before he reached middle age, walked into the classroom with a smile on his face, looked at Cory first, and said, “Congratulations, Cleary, your B.A. average is exceptionally good, it should reach the A+ level of 85 points.”
Cleary showed a smug smile and said, “I hired four advisors and two tutors to tutor me. There’s no need to be so surprised by a mere Bishop. After winning this year’s finalist, I am ready to launch the game on the A platform! The contract is already on my dad’s desk!”
The students that surrounded him then made envious noises and shouted at Cory to treat them to dinner tonight.
With a wave of his hand, Cleary decided that he would book a five-star restaurant and treat the whole class to dinner.
The atmosphere was instantly heated up and the rest of the students flocked over.
The class teacher also talked to them one by one, taking a notebook full of information and reporting their graduation designs’ results.
At this time, Cleary suddenly noticed Ming Yan, who sat inside the corner, still buried in programming.
”What, counting your final grade?” Cleary walked towards him, looking down at him from a higher angle and said “Don’t be so shy, you should also ask about your grad project result. After all, you’re still the theory class super top student that scored almost full marks!”
Ming Yan raised his eyebrows.
The class teacher followed Cleary and came over, the pen tip scratched along the notebook for half a day and finally found Ming Yan. Then his face became a little ugly and said, “Ming Yan, your graduation design score is not out yet.”
There were whispers from the back.
”I heard that it needs to be reviewed.” The class teacher said dryly, “Work hard.”
Cleary showed a gloating smile and his voice became even louder, “Teacher, are you mistaken? Ming Yan is the top student in our class, how can the graduation project be reviewed? The graduation design will be sent up for review only if it is failed. Although Ming Yan’s graduation project is not playing out well, it is certainly not to the point of being a failure!”
The class teacher hesitated for a moment and said, “Actually ……”
”There is another possibility,” said Ming Yan calmly, “there is a dispute between the six grading teachers due to the difference in scores being too great, and must be handed in for review.”
Cleary frowned and said, “Ha, never heard of that before! Top student, you’d better accept reality, otherwise when the difference is too big, don’t cry into a puppy tomorrow okay.”
After saying that, he also raised both hands with a smile and learned, “Woof! Ming Yan, woof woof!”
The followers cheekily came over, flanked Cleary, and walked out of the classroom like a crowd of stars.
The rest of the students weren’t quite ready to fall on their faces, but they didn’t know how to comfort Ming Yan either, and just looked at him with pitying eyes from afar.
They whispered, careful not to let Ming Yan hear.
Ming Yan shook his head and continued his work.
At that moment, however, a head poked in at the classroom door, looked around, and said, “Excuse me, is senior Ming Yan here? Teacher Hurst called him to come over for his oral defense.”
”Here.” Ming Yan was a little surprised, and after he saved his work, he closed the terminal computer.
Someone asked, “Could it be a mistake? Didn’t he already defend yesterday?”
The student who passed on the message said, “There is no mistake, today is the review. An old professor from the Ministry of Education came to see Senior Ming Yan’s final work, and the teachers were about to argue, so Teacher Hurst said to let Ming Yan go over there.”
The people looked at each other, and Ming Yan blandly got up and said, “Please lead the way.”
In the corridor, Ming Yan also saw Cleary’s group who had not gone far, and both sides brushed past each other.
When Cleary saw MingYan’s calm expression, his smile stalled a bit.
I don’t know why, but when he first saw Ming Yan at school, he was a little bit shocked.
Ming Yan was very different from all his peers, his eyes were deep, as if there were many stories in them, and as if he was a beast in a lazy slumber, never paying attention to the provocations of the weak.
Cleary felt ashamed after his reaction, looked back at Ming Yan once more, and suddenly felt that everything irritated him.
At this moment, in one of the conference rooms, it actually has not reached the point of quarreling yet.
However, after the new expert from the Ministry of Education finished reading Ming Yan’s paper, he also frowned, and his face was full of strictness.
”Teacher, senior Ming Yan has arrived.”
Ming Yan walked in and saw all six of yesterday’s grading teachers on both sides of the long table, and was looking at the old professor in the center who was playing <Minecraft>.
The old professor arranged the squares, as if a bird was building a nest, building up a shuttle-shaped “house” bit by bit, with two pointed ends and a spacious middle.
Professor Zhou was chattering: “Look, the authenticity of this game is simply not ……”
Professor Hurst also said next to the fingertips: “No, no, no, this half-brick is not transparent after you put it on! To build a house there’s a need to consider the lighting…… with iron and quartz blocks to build the pillar, how beautiful will it be!”
The old professor still frowned and turned a deaf ear to the chatter.
In fact, from the creases at the corners of his eyes, to the fingers that operate faster and faster, showed his concentration.
Excitement and high spirits practically spilled out of his every pore.
”Please be quiet,” said Ming Yan, “he is simply enjoying the game.”
The room fell silent for a moment as the crowd watched in unison as the screen finished hitching things up.
Suddenly, two flushes of excitement appeared on the old professor’s cheeks, and he pulled the camera away and deliberately showed the crowd what he had done – and it was also turned in a full three hundred and sixty degrees!
Then he licked his lips and said rather proudly, “This is the yacht my son bought for me last year, hehehe.”
Everyone: “……” It did not look like a yacht at all okay!!!
