Ning Yufeng listened to their discussion silently without saying a word.
He knew that the evaluation association actually had one last trick up its sleeve, which was what they had discussed before: to create a new "Most Popular Award," which would essentially split the "Best of the Year" award in two, so that Blue Star wouldn't dominate all the limelight for the year.
However, this matter cannot be done at the end of the year; it must be announced before the new game is released on Earth.
Otherwise, if everyone knew that the measures taken by the A-level alliance were aimed at Blue Star, then we would be close to losing face...
After the meeting, as the committee members left the conference room together, a colleague chatted with Ning Yufeng and said, "I heard you went on a business trip to the Sixth Star Province before?"
"Yes, the Legendary League was the first league I paid attention to back then, and I also recommended it to the higher-level association."
"As expected of you, you have excellent taste! I remember when Blue Star was probably only recently established, right? The chief architect had just graduated from school?"
"Hmm." Ning Yufeng seemed to recall something and smiled. "He's a very talented young man."
My colleague sighed, "Who would have thought that little studio from back then would become such a headache... If I had known sooner, there would have been only one thing I wanted to do—try to invest in Blue Star Studio!"
Ning Yufeng smiled and said, "Chief Engineer Ming is a very fastidious person. Even when he was at his lowest point, he probably wouldn't have accepted any investment."
"Yes, yes, even geniuses can be arrogant..."
...
The trip to the Central Star Province took Mingyan more than a week.
Fortunately, they were already quite adept at it.
This time, I brought almost half the studio's staff with me. They were all idling on the spaceship, continuing to work on the offline portion of "Dragon Hunter".
The art team is working hard to create original artwork and textures for the baby dragons and adult dragons.
According to the initial design, the dragon egg's growth would roughly go through the following stages:
The first stage is the dragon egg stage, which is when players find the egg directly. Players need to carry the egg and incubator for a certain number of steps to hatch it.
A player starts with three incubators, and unlocking more requires certain achievements, as well as purchasing an additional one from the store.
In the final state, players can have ten incubators at the same time, allowing them to hatch ten dragon eggs while walking.
Next comes the stage of newly hatched baby dragons.
At this time, the dragon's wings were very small and its body was very fragile, so it could not participate in the battle.
The way to continue raising the dragon is to take it out for walks. The baby dragon will no longer need an incubator and can stay by its owner's side at all times.
Alternatively, you can interact with other players. When other players interact with the baby dragon, the baby dragon's experience points will also increase.
The fledgling stage lasts at least three days, and if any of the above conditions are met, it can grow into the next stage—the juvenile stage.
The young dragon grew wings and could fly, and could also be taken out to fight!
Each dragon species has different combat skills and different combat attributes: divided into four attributes: claws, teeth, tail, and magic.
For example, a silver dragon will always have four basic white skills: [Claw Strike], [Pounce], [Tail Whip], and [Breath]. The silver dragon also has two unique breath attacks: [Breath - Frost] and [Breath - Weaken], which can be switched between at any time.
Silver dragons also have a chance to possess blue special skills, such as [Mist], [Confusion], and other combat skills.
Of course, the attributes and skills of each dragon species are generally balanced—unlike in reality, dragons are born equal, with only differences in rarity, not in inherent strength.
In the next stage, young dragons accumulate enough experience through combat, running, and socializing to become adult dragons.
Adult dragons not only gain a 20% increase in combat attributes, but also have a small chance of possessing a gold-level special skill, making them even more powerful in battle.
Most importantly, adult dragons can now mate and lay eggs!!
Of course, laying eggs requires a pair of male and female dragons. Although the parents do not have to belong to the same dragon species, the probability of laying eggs will decrease if they are of different species.
Of course, some dragon eggs only hatch through hybridization, such as the Daydream Dragon.
Baby dragons inherit the average attributes of both parents, and increase them slightly by 10-20% until they reach the maximum value of that dragon species. Therefore, continuously breeding "purebred" dragons using the same species may be the most efficient approach.
However, once dragons are paired, they cannot be easily separated, and incest is also forbidden.
Therefore, to cultivate a third-generation pureblood, you need four first-generation dragons; to cultivate a fourth-generation pureblood, you need eight...
Mingyan: We have high expectations for our players :)
Based on the above design, while on the spaceship, the people of Blue Star had already begun their own internal testing.
These past few days, everyone has been wearing an incubator.
From the outside, it looks like each person has a 3D projected dragon egg on their head.
The designers didn't need to compete for dragon eggs; they could simply have them distributed by the system, so everyone had a different egg above their head.
Mingyan picked out a small black dragon egg and walked around on his head with it on his head.
...and he still hadn't hatched by the time the League of Legends dinner ended.
Clearly stated: "..."
Xia Cheng: "Hahahaha, darling, you should go out more often."
Xia Cheng's little dragon has already hatched!
It was a chubby "balloon dragon". In its embryonic stage, it looked like a small red ball, swaying behind Xia Cheng and occasionally rolling around in place. It looked very light and bouncy.
This dragon egg incubator is practically a great tool for identifying otaku.