When it came to "Hachiko's Story," it was even simpler. He used all the publicly available free or purchased general materials... Only the music was a simplified score of the chorus that he wrote himself, which he then casually gave to AI to expand.
In short, they were all quite rudimentary.
After all, everyone has their own expertise, and it's impossible for one person to do all the work.
The newly arrived Varian still needs some time to familiarize himself with the "Star and Moon" engine.
The temporary technical art team has already gone to help, and the high-spec machine that Mingyan customized has also been delivered to Varian.
According to the agreement, Varian will officially start work next Monday.
In addition, although work can be done remotely from home, Blue Star Studio should have its own space.
In the following days, Mingyan visited several venues and finally settled on an office building location.
Geographically, it's conveniently located near schools and bus stops; the price is also quite reasonable.
The boss was just about to immigrate to the Second Star Province, so Mingyan easily bought the eighth and ninth floors from him for about three million, totaling more than two thousand square meters.
In this interstellar era, apart from major commercial districts where land is extremely valuable, land is already very cheap.
Mingyan has commissioned a company to do the interior decoration and move several machines in as well.
These past few days, Mingyan has been running around very hard, and he still has to find time to refine the "League of Legends" project plan. He's practically at the point of collapsing into bed as soon as his head hits the pillow at night.
By the time he realized that his savings were almost gone, it was already the beginning of the following month.
The traditional Lunar New Year is just around the corner, but Minecraft is still vying for top spots on the leaderboards, and the head of IPP has repeatedly instructed that corresponding holiday activities be launched.
"Even if it's just a few more stickers, at least let your fans know you're still alive!"
"Do you know that your Minecraft account is almost breaking through the provincial mark?!"
"Is it so easy to get into the top 20 of the free charts? You've been out for two months and haven't released a single substantial update. How dare you push those platinum-level players off the charts?"
Three soul-searching questions.
Mingyan said with tears in her eyes, "I understand, I'll do it right away..."
Mingyan stuck out his tongue in exhaustion and tied his forehead to the back of the chair with a scarf, so that at least he wouldn't slide to the ground while programming, or fall asleep and hit his head on the keyboard.
After two consecutive days of working overtime and staying up all night, I've finally managed to get the basics done for the Minecraft Lunar New Year event.
If it weren't for the passive income generated in the backend, who would stay up all night coding during the holidays?!
To justify the more than 500 million yuan in revenue that was subsequently deposited into the studio's account, Mingyan revealed that he had updated a set of holiday skins, created a fireworks toy, and finally added a food recipe called spring rolls...
The three souls and seven spirits were about to spill out of their mouths!
He submitted the update to a part-time game tester to start bug detection, and then took a nice nap.
When he woke up at noon the next day, the world had once again undergone some changes that he was unaware of.
My phone exploded with text messages.
The mailbox exploded with emails.
"...Whatever."
With heavy dark circles under his eyes, Mingyan slowly strolled to the bathroom to brush his teeth like a sloth, and you could almost hear every bone in his body cracking.
While brushing his teeth, he casually opened one of the voice messages.
"Hello, is this Blue Star Studio?" the voice on the other end rattled off. "Are you interested in doing business with us regarding the music rights to 'Hachiko's Story'? We are—"
"Gurgle, gurgle, ptooey!"
After rinsing his mouth, Mingyan reached out and blocked the message, saying, "Butler, search for information related to 'Hachiko's Story Soundtrack'."
The smart assistant on the phone said, "Master, I found a total of 1089 real-time results."
Mingyan (Dead Fish Eyes): Why do all the big events happen at night on this planet? Is everyone in the local gaming industry, except me, a night owl?
☆, Hachiko's soundtrack
The original VR version of Minecraft is currently in its golden age of making money.
The monthly revenue exceeds one billion, and the operating and other costs are ridiculously low.
Although several companies have approached Mingyan about his willingness to relinquish the game's adaptation rights, he has not yet decided to transform Minecraft into an alternate world game.
Because the game's art style and rules are very unique, it's practically impossible to find a suitable alternate world to modify it.
The VR version's revenue was all the revenue. As usual, Mingyan froze 99% of the funds in Lanxing's account and withdrew the remaining three million or so that belonged to him.
With subsequent revenue, this amount of money is enough for League of Legends to officially begin development.
Meanwhile, the super mini-game "Hachiko's Story" hanging on Earth has become inexplicably popular.
Moreover, after the hype subsided slightly the following week, another trending topic emerged.
The story is quite simple: the reviewers from Jialian also played Hachiko in private! They even posted about it anonymously on the forum!
Because it wasn't an official review, he used a personal account, but it was still exposed by sharp-eyed netizens.
Besides being moved to tears, this reviewer also had a very special point of focus—
He thinks the soundtrack to "Hachiko's Story" is outstanding! It's absolutely, positively, and truly outstanding!