Varian from the art team: "Arrange everything! What 'round and square hats'! What 'colorful black'! What 'white with red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple'!"
A colleague from the UI team, who was snacking, quickly added, "And 'make the logo bigger while shrinking it a bit'! Have them make that legendary 'larger overall but smaller in area' dialog box!"
Everyone burst into laughter, and the office was instantly filled with a joyful atmosphere.
The two senior programmers replied with indifference: "Remember to include the bugs as well."
"Daily update list: 12 bugs removed, but 21 new bugs added."
"After fixing bug number one, bug numbers two and three appeared. Clicking on bug number three brought up bug numbers four and five. To fix bug number five, I selected a new framework, and then bug numbers one and two reappeared..."
"Let them laugh at our servers every day? Let them try building a distributed server, and Hadoop, themselves!"
"We also need to assign them a hacker team to try and hack into the server every day to steal equipment and lock down company data for blackmail—oh, and don't forget, there are also people who are always looking for data packet vulnerabilities to make cheats!"
"Heh heh, let them be kept awake at night!"
This was a design extravaganza that involved the entire staff of both studios.
Mingyan listened with a look of utter despair, finally understanding why so many players called their designers a bunch of devils...
These guys aren't just trying to hurt each other; they're practically aiming for mutual destruction!
In short, the new project for the Dragon Slayer Sword has already been given a name: "Game Creators".
Moreover, this project has garnered a lot of attention on both sides. The designers from Blue Star have completely embraced their role as part of the group and spend all their time running to the villa on the Dragon Slayer's side...
Mingyan often saw Kevin with a sinister smile on his face, like a villainous boss, muttering to himself:
"Hehehe, another design document to grind today... Let's include overtime in 'Game Creators'!! Add a '12-hour temporary overtime' policy!"
Mingyan: Stop it! There's never been a 12-hour workday on Earth!! You're being incredibly inhumane…
It seems fine?
Anyway, it's just the NPCs in the game who are working overtime.
Hmm... and maybe the chief designers who are also "working overtime"—the players.
Thinking of this, Mingyan couldn't help but smile knowingly. :)
It feels like everyone has found new ways to vent their grievances.
She even made it clear that she was having dinner with Xia Cheng.
Xia Xiaocheng also began his design: "Remember to arrange a romance route for the game's chief designer. It's the kind of route where they only appear once every ten days or half a month, and their presence might not even be as strong as that of a certain big streamer. Once they have to work overtime, their dates will be canceled, and their love life will be like that of a high school student with a curfew."
Mingyan said in a low voice, "...It shouldn't be that exaggerated."
Xia Cheng said resentfully, "It was this bad from the very beginning..."
Mingyan: "And then?"
Xia Cheng: "Later, we tested the game together, right? After testing it so many times, I found that the game was really fun..."
Mingyan: "Then now?"
"Don't ask," Xia Cheng said. "The answer is that it smells amazing."
Both of them smiled at the same time. Xia Cheng said, "How are your preparations for the spin-off of 'The Way of the Assassins' coming along? I heard that you can set up your own guild. I've even prepared the 'start-up capital'."
Remembering Xia Cheng's "two hundred thousand and four million," Mingyan was both amused and exasperated, and quickly said, "No, it's not the 'Iron Horse and Ice River' type, it's not pay-to-win."
Xia Cheng understood: "That means it's very demanding."
"..." Mingyan had no way to refute him.
The spin-off of The Way of the Assassin has now been handed over to Zhuo Yu.
Well, while saying, "I'm already disheartened, and agreeing to make a new game is just a casual thing to do," Chief Engineer Zhuo was rubbing his hands together and eagerly assembling his new team.
Blue Star transferred several key technical personnel and senior designers to him.
At the same time, through his experience of working as a "hidden master" at Morningstar Incubator over the past few months, he has discovered many promising talents.
The newcomers were already prepared to start over, following the renowned Chief Designer Zhuo—all out of trust in the genius designer.
For example, with Mingyan's current reputation, even if he no longer has the Blue Star and Dragon Slayer Sword studios, as long as he stands on the street, even if he is penniless, as long as he says "I have a new project," countless investments will immediately be rushed to his face, and one or two of them will even have to smile and be afraid that he will not accept the condescending funds.
Take Xia Xiaocheng's joke as an example: if we went back ten years, when Mingyan was penniless and didn't want to start a business—
If IPP, a multinational corporation, could win over Chief Engineer Ming, they would be willing to unconditionally invest one billion in his "new project" and would absolutely not establish any supervisory positions with a higher rank than him.
In addition to his annual salary, he also receives hundreds of millions of yuan in "free allocation funds" every year. "Free" means that Chief Engineer Ming can use it to develop games, buy himself a car and a house, buy dogs and cats for the office... as long as he's happy!
Later, when the newcomers first heard that this mysterious new project was actually a "side story of the Assassin's Way," many of them were so shocked that they almost fell off their chairs.
Not to mention, Mingyan personally attended the project's opening report meeting.
Although Mingyan was still dressed casually, even wearing slippers, he was chatting and laughing with Zhuo Yu while drinking afternoon tea...
The nervous newlyweds were at a loss and didn't dare to approach the two big shots to talk. Some even threw their tea bags into their coffee.
Seeing the newcomers' clear words didn't make them more nervous; they were simply given a few words of encouragement.
He always saw himself in the figures of these young men when he first started his business.
Varian, Ling Xiaoman, Schrödinger, Horace, Kevin... Didn't so many people start out looking so green and inexperienced?