Bluestar needs to fix these bugs as quickly as possible, apply hot-update patches to the new game, and ensure that it will eventually be a perfectly stable version.
At the same time, after intensive preliminary preparations, the overall schedule for the Blue Star Carnival was finally finalized.
Ming Yan has rented the city's No. 1 Stadium and has already negotiated suitable contractors and sponsors.
After all, this is the first time Blue Star Studio has held such a large-scale offline event. It's better to leave the work to professionals and not make wild guesses.
The first year's Blue Star Carnival event invited approximately 5,000 players to participate.
Most of these 5,000 slots were distributed through a lottery system on the Bluestar official website.
The remaining small portion were gifts from within Bluestar Studios—including seats specifically reserved for employees and their families, seats with "special thanks," and seats for important figures in the local gaming industry…
Overall, the carnival was still a feast for communication between players and the development team.
Logically, the entire Blue Star Studio should participate in the carnival activities.
However, there is one member in the current studio whose situation is very special.
He is a top-notch tech guy who joined the studio last year with a special offer; he's known as "Ling Lingqi," the programmer.
—Due to health reasons, he has never participated in any offline activities and has only appeared online, making him virtually elusive.
When Mingyan tried to contact him this time, she finally learned the truth behind it.
It turns out that Ling Lingqi suffers from a serious illness, and her life is being kept afloat by a life support device. She is unable to move even a meter.
His body was on the verge of collapse, but his consciousness was kept wandering on the network through special medical devices.
It was thanks to this technology of the interstellar era that he was able to live this much longer.
Ling Lingqi's special circumstances allowed him to live online 24 hours a day.
To pass the time, he taught himself a lot of technical skills and spent a lot of time working on the projects at Blue Star Studio.
This is why he was able to create so many Minecraft mods and even build his own redstone computer.
—He really spent a lot of time and effort, probably far more than all the other players.
But now, Ling Lingqi may not be able to hold on any longer.
"Boss, I'm especially grateful for the opportunity to join Blue Star." Ling Lingqi said with a wry smile, "The day before yesterday, my attending physician gave me a notice that my life expectancy is only 3 to 10 months. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on until the next project is completed. So I may have to say goodbye to you ahead of time..."
In fact, separation by life and death is something that Mingyan has already become accustomed to.
But with such advanced technology throughout the interstellar era, there are now very few incurable diseases left.
He was inevitably caught off guard.
Mingyan asked, "Isn't there any other way? If you have any difficulties, you can tell me."
Ling Lingqi said calmly, "Being able to find the game I love in the last few months of my life, and to be able to contribute to it in such a wonderful studio, I already feel very content. If I had to say what my wish is, I have two things I want to donate to Blue Star Studio..."
The first thing Ling Lingqi donated was an artificial intelligence program he personally wrote, named "Redstone No. 7".
You can tell from the name that he truly loves redstone circuits in Minecraft.
This artificial intelligence is fully equipped with advanced technology for the interstellar era. Its main functions include autonomously writing programs, fixing bugs, and organizing data.
It exists solely for the purpose of developing games.
The second item turned out to be a secondhand alternate world.
In the interstellar era, otherworldly games are typically created when a government or private individual discovers an entrance to another world and then sells it at a high price to a company qualified to develop otherworldly games.
The company will hire people to explore the other world, and then make preliminary preparations to open it up as a game for players to explore on their own.
Essentially, players are like a second wave of mercenaries, going out to cultivate virgin territory.
As the name suggests, a secondhand isekai is an isekai that has been developed into a game.
"The game we developed before was called 'Expedition,' and it wasn't very well-known, with only a few hundred thousand players. It was a project invested in by my father and some partners, but in the end, we lost everything..."
Ling Lingqi smiled helplessly.
"After operating for about two years, the funding chain completely broke down, and my father declared bankruptcy. The other world that had already been developed had no value for auction, so it was left to me, which can be considered a 'back garden' for me to play in during my childhood."
The main purpose of otherworld games is still to plunder resources, so once otherworlds have been developed, they naturally lose their original value.
In Mingyan's opinion, these conventional games developed by StarCraft are utterly devoid of fun.
Basically, it involves embedding a game system and issuing tasks to players, such as bringing back certain resources, suppressing local rebels, exploring a new continent, and so on.
After the game ceased operation, this secondhand otherworld naturally had nothing left.
In the best-case scenario, there might still be undiscovered rare mineral veins or other resources there.
However, generally speaking, there is no chance of finding a bargain.
All that remains inside is devastation and the indigenous people who have endured everything.
Even so, a secondhand isekai (another world) still has some value, depending on the circumstances, and can probably still fetch a seven-figure price.
Ling Lingqi said, "I have no attachments in this world, and I have already donated most of my inheritance. Blue Star is the most beautiful paradise I saw in my last days... I will give this other world to you. You can use it as a warehouse, as a reference, or do whatever you want with it. I will be happy if it can help Blue Star."
Things in this world are often unsatisfactory.
No matter how advanced the technology of an era, there will still be many regrets in the end.