The actress asked, "And who is this?"
She stated frankly, "My boyfriend is Xia Cheng."
Xia Cheng flashed a handsome smile and openly began exchanging glances with Ming Yan.
Actress: "..."
—Sigh, as expected, behind every handsome and wealthy man is another handsome and wealthy man…
Fifteen minutes later.
After finishing all the morning's tasks, Mingyan went downstairs with Xia Cheng to have lunch.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Xia Cheng casually asked, "How's the new game going?"
Mingyan sighed and said, "The proposal is almost finished."
Xia Cheng said, "It's rare to hear you sigh about games. Have you encountered any bottlenecks or troubles?"
Mingyan said, "Because I'm being pressured to update again..."
Xia Cheng was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm not urging you to update! I'm just asking about your work progress in a friendly and cordial way."
Mingyan covered his face and said, "It took me two months just to write the proposal. It covers two major systems and more than twenty subsystems. There are many things that I can't ask anyone for help with..."
After listening, Xia Cheng silently spread his arms and said, "Come on, let me let you sleep for a while."
Even Mingyan was amused.
Xia Cheng said, "It sounds like the new game is very large in scale?"
Mingyan nodded and said, "It might be the largest game in the history of Blue Star. The map area of more than nine million square kilometers is already quite large. We also have to consider the city buildings, NPCs and monsters, plot animations and special effects and other visual content... It may exceed 100 TB."
Xia Cheng asked with great interest, "The map is so big, there must be a lot of content to play. How long is the estimated game time?"
Mentioning this, Mingyan smiled and said, "It will take about two months for players to level up from level 1 to the maximum level; and at least a month and a half to upgrade their equipment after reaching the maximum level. In other words, we can wait half a year after the game is launched before considering updating the version."
MMORPGs are generally quite large in size and have much higher replayability than single-player games; at least you won't find yourself grinding for a month to finish one.
Or rather, this kind of online game can be played without ever being completed.
As long as the development team continues to update the game, players will always have new content to discover and new heights to climb.
In early July, Blue Star Studio's engine was finally started again.
From the planning team to the art team, to the programmers, and then to the testing and management teams, all lines of communication were open and unobstructed, and everyone began to enter a closed-door development mode.
The goal is to test and validate the gameplay of the alpha version.
The first map is the beginner village, Shiyin Village.
This is the map where players are level 1-10, containing the main quests for the first ten levels, combat tutorials, tutorials for related subsystems, and the first chapter of the main storyline!
During this period, Blue Star Studio also nominated several official game names, waiting for all members to vote.
The shortlisted names include: "The Chronicles of Dust", "The Record of Famous Swords of Mountains and Seas", "Drunken Journey in the Jianghu", "The Knight-Errant"... a total of more than ten names, most of which were provided by the consultants and each has its own source.
However, the vote count is quite close, and the official name has not yet been decided.
Even Mingyan was a little conflicted—he was different from the others; he felt that they were all pretty much the same.
In short, the official name may not be finalized until the alpha version is tested, and then initial promotion can begin.
To date, the "Xia" project is still just a code name on the Bluestar official website. There is not much content on the official homepage, except for some related speeches from the Bluestar Carnival.
The sub-forums are buzzing with activity, and savvy players have already started warming up... all in hopes of securing a spot in the first few rounds of testing.
Even if all else fails, having a beta test slot would be great!
This led to a very funny situation:
Even before the game had even reached its most basic alpha version, many staff members on Blue Star were bewildered as they were approached and asked when the closed beta would begin.
Of course, no one is as happy as Comrade Xia Cheng, because...
Xia Cheng wagged his tail: "Could you reserve one of my beta test slots?"
Without even looking up, Mingyan said, "OK, no problem."
Xia Cheng: 0w0
"Awesome" is the only word to describe it, hehehehehehehe!
Chapter 91 Early Testing
That afternoon, Xia Cheng also took the opportunity to check out the legendary alpha version.
The entire beginner village doesn't even have finished its art assets yet; it only exists to test a few important systems.
Xia Cheng was stunned when he put on the glasses. He found himself standing on a white square, with a smaller square in front of him bearing the crookedly written words: "[These are the houses in the beginner village]".
A little while later, Mingyan also came online.
Then, in Xia Cheng's eyes, he saw the protagonist of "The Soul of Mortals"—
Since there were no character resources available for the new game, the development team simply borrowed the initial default character from Mortal Souls.
Therefore, all players actually look exactly the same now.