Strongest Game Architect Chapter 5
Becoming Famous from one war
The next day, the school announced the outstanding works of this year’s graduation design on the official website.
A total of five games were displayed, lined up in a line, and the cover that the reader sees will immediately expand as well as start moving at the same time.
Ming Yan’s work seems to be the most special one at first glance.
Other people’s families are all handsome men and beautiful women, no matter how bad they are, it is also a beautiful scene.
Only the middle <Minecraft> turned out to be a square-faced figure made up of squares, followed by a square puppy, and the background was a small house drawn out of squares and a piece of farmland.
The whole world is square! A square that is more square than a building block!
There is also a one-sentence introduction to the work. The works on both sides are all well-regulated “excellent classic plot experience works”. This <Minecraft> was the only one with a cheeky tone.
Its one-sentence brief is: Expert evaluation by the Ministry of Education, 99 points.
A few words overshadow a thousand words, and almost everyone’s eyes were protruding when they saw this.
——Really, when are the old scholars of the Ministry of Education that willing to give points? !
——Can the taste of the expert be consistent with that of the player? Is this game really fun?
The large array of noodles given by the official website, as well as curiosity are the driving force behind the huge influx of traffic.
As the champion work of this year, the school server also opened up a little more download volume for it.
There are 2,000 visits per day, although it is still not many, but it is already somewhat impressive. In addition, an additional 1,000 downloads will be given on the first day.
This download channel is the same as the homepage traffic. It will be listed for a total of seven days, after which it will be recalled.
In other words, in theory, this game can be downloaded 15,000 times, which is equivalent to the number of people in a closed beta of a commercial game.
This is also the result of discussing with Ming Yan.
But this is still a drop in the bucket for one of the most popular games, especially a game with such a low threshold and such a small volume.
Three hours before the work was displayed, the download channel was crowded.
A large number of players have no way to enter. They can only watch the ranting chats on the bottom of the page, and secretly guess what kind of immortal content the game is, gaining such high scores from people and making them so addicted.
[ Cute art style ]
[ Please tell me where have alot of diamond mines? ]
[ Ah ah ah ah ah my house was bombed ah ah ah]
[ There’s a monster that looks like (*censored) lmao ]
*the actual word they used is mosaic, which is the way they censor stuff.
The official website server is smart to censor the term .
In fact, it is also a special monster in <Minecraft>, its scientific name is “bitterstrengthafraid” (creeper), but everyone calls it “Dick monster”.
(T/N: I translated the chinese characters literally but when you read it it’s pronounced as ‘ku li pa’ so it’s creeper. :’D)
…How do I put it, because it looks too much like a penis.
Furthermore it’s even green in colour, upturned, with the two things at the bottom that are actually short legs, and they also sway strangely when they walk…
Ming Yan smiled knowingly when he saw those messages.
Although it is clear that he knows what is that monster, people who have not been able to play the game will not know.
The game has just released a large number of downloads, and the first three thousand people who got in have played it happily. Of course, they did not think about coming out to repo seriously.
Those who are late can only watch these complaints eagerly, and make comments on their own.
[Strawberry Pudding: Beg to ask, what exactly is the censored monster? ]
Unexpectedly after that, many people reposted this in the alumni circle, and somehow made this question a hot topic.
#Whatexactlyisthecensoredmonster#
Has become an unsolved mystery about <Minecraft>, and also attracted people to play it immediately..
[ Fulia: My roommate has a terminal illness and is about to die. Before dying they entrusted me to ask, what is the censored monster? ]
[ The empire is dead but my heart is not dead: Don’t ask, don’t say. Everyone who participated in that world war knows what kind of monster the censored monster is. (Picture: Take a cigarette out of the vicissitudes of life) ]
After that Ming Yan’s school account (@Tiny work) was dug out somehow.
Many people who have played the game, as well as those who haven’t have rushed to take a look.
In just a short day, Ming Yan increased the number of his fans by 4000, most of whom were his schoolmates.
It is clear that the past four years have been almost simple, and all the time except for studying has been handed over to the production of <Minecraft>. He was making this 200G-sized game alone, so obviously he doesn’t have much time to play around with those social media sites.
Therefore, Ming Yan’s profile homepage is completely empty, with only one post.
[ Tiny work: 🙂 ]
That’s right, there is only a very classic smile emoticon text.
That’s what he posted as a try out when he was still new to the social media site.
At this moment, his profile wall is very lively, and most people are joking with him: [ Excuse me, what is the censored monster? ]
Ming Yan smiled slightly and flicked his fingers.
[ Tiny work: The censored monster is a dangerous creature. Once it appears in your field of vision, both your life and property will be in danger. Therefore, preventing you from seeing it is also a kind of protection for you. ]
The comments below are all question marks, and everyone doesn’t quite understand the meaning of Ming Yan’s words.
But they were very happy to see the creator of the game that won first place, so everyone posted a wave of comments.
Ming Yan showed a cold attitude and he did not reply to anyone.
Very soon, these young and innocent players will understand what he means.
Ming Yan showed a kind smile.
In reality, as soon as the recommended position on the official website came out, a lot of letters of intent were sent to Ming Yan’s express mailbox.
There are also game publishing platforms on this planet. The Sixth Star Province has a lot of trans-provincial large companies. Within the Sunrise Alliance, there are many platforms that can publish such low-threshold VR games, just like a *school of silver carp moving down the stream.
*basically means that there’s a lot of them.
But there is a “Pyramid Law” in this world.
The two large platforms at the upper level of the pyramid account for 90% of users;
the 20% middle platform at the middle level occupies 80% of the remaining 10% users; and the last 80% of the small platforms at the bottom layer pitifully divide up only the remaining 2% of players.
The two platforms at the top of the pyramid are A House and I House.
A House, Atlas, has a large number of users and a large number of games, occupying 49% of the market. Their house’s review of games is relatively tolerant, and even allows 25-banned games to be sold publicly, only limiting the age of purchasers.
I House, IPP, mainly take the high class route. Their company has also released its own 3A masterpieces, and the players have very good opinions about them. Although they do not have as many users as A, they have high loyalty and a very good pay rate.
As of now there is still no news from these two houses.
But about more than a dozen remaining small platforms already contacted him.
Ming Yan took a look, saw that their traffic was not very good, so he did not reply.
There is also a middle-level platform called “Fei Yang Game” which called Ming Yan directly.
It’s probably not easy for them to get Ming Yan’s personal communication number in such a short amount of time.
And the bid was very sincere, he could tell that they truly wanted to obtain the game.
Ming Yan did not reply immediately, since he was still waiting for the last big fish.
…
At night, in the family apartment building outside the school.
Teacher Zhou closed the official website, sighed softly, rubbed the corners of his eyes, got up and went back to his bedroom.
But the door of his basement opened quietly, and a young man with a green hedgehog hairstyle crept out.
There is a tracking camera floating in front of his face, and on top of it are all the *bullet screen comments.
*it’s a video streaming feature mainly in china (also jp i think) that allows viewers to type in comment and have it float/shoot across the screen like a bullet.
The young man whispered: “I’m really going to do it ok! Really doing it! If i were to be beaten to death by my dad after this, you guys remember to tell him that my will is placed in the second pair of used socks at the corner of the bed.” The bullet screen comments floated past: “Hahahahahaha, go peacefully Juliet!”
(T/N: Hahahaha his viewers are practically telling him rest in peace poor guy :’D)
The young man’s face went dark.
His name is Zhou Liye, the only son of Teacher Zhou’s family, and he is 22 years old this year. A small well-known streamer, nicknamed “Lady Juliet” by netizens.
Today he was urged by his fans to come.
His dad’s little apprentice always talked about a game called <Minecraft>, but regretted that he didn’t manage to snag the download quota.
Zhou Liye was also curious, which is why he accidentally mentioned it during the live broadcast today, and the audience in the live broadcast room all urged him to play.
They don’t know Zhou Liye’s identity, but they always feel that he was from a good family, because he can always play some ingenious independent works that are rarely seen on the market ——bingo, those are the students’ graduation design.
Zhou Liye tiptoed and turned on the computer.
The webpage that was closed before popped up, which is the download page of <Minecraft> on the school’s official website.
Teacher Zhou sat in front of the computer for half an hour today, and secretly gave a good review without any comments.
Zhou Liye closed the webpage and found <Minecraft> on the desktop.
So he looked around the basement sneakily, and after he was sure of his safety, he booted the game.
After entering he took a look at the archive-
[ New World 1, play time 9.2 hours. ]
Zhou Liye was stunned.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhou, who looks so serious, would play the game secretly, and become addicted to it! There is no class in school today, so he was spending the whole afternoon on this game?
At this time, the bullet screen was already arguing: “Hurry up and play!”
“We want to know what the censored monster is!”
Zhou Liye couldn’t help but click on his father’s save file.
The scene loads quickly.
Zhou Liye found himself in a small house made of wooden cubes at first glance.
And why is the structure of this small house so familiar?
Zhou Liye stretched out his hands and feet, and saw that his hands had turned into a rectangular pillar, and couldn’t help but say, “The art style of this game is so fairytale-esque…Is it really fun?”
He strolled around the house built by Teacher Zhou. Two laps, and then suddenly slapped on the back of his head in realization—aiyah! Isn’t this the structure of our home?
It seems that Teacher Zhou has no talent for design, except for a small coffin-like house, so he can only “reproduce” one according to his own layout!
It still looks pretty good.
Zhou Liye’s interest immediately soared, rushed to the “home” storage room, and saw two large boxes placed inside-filled with various minerals, food, and tools that his father had obtained during the 9 hours of games.
“Go go go! Lets go and kill the monsters!” Zhou Liye picked up a sparkling diamond sword and said excitedly, “Seeing that this game has a powerful sword, it means that there is a powerful monster!”
