He gestured excitedly as he introduced the place to the others: "Although my house is still quite simple now, it's enough for me to safely dig my mine tunnels. I plan to build a fish farm here, and then put an underwater hut underneath, made of glass."
"I want to put a super huge windmill on the mountain next to it! And cultivate a flower field. I've seen many kinds of flowers in this game."
"Oh right, when I get back I'm going to dig sand and make glass, to collect more pretty quartz ornaments. Oh my god, I can't wait to go home and keep playing!"
Mingyan smiled and said, "Thank you for your praise. This game is not my original idea. I just implemented the framework and made a VR design based on the original idea. So it is a Class B concrete implementation graduation project. There are only ten colors of dye in the game for now. It is slow for me to draw the textures by myself. I plan to add 32 colors in the future."
"So, my little house can be painted in all sorts of colors?" The young teacher clapped his hands and laughed. "Bravo! This is a brilliant idea! The pixel art style perfectly creates a fairytale feel and greatly reduces the requirements for the equipment. I can imagine that if we enter the era of online gaming, multiplayer teams could potentially build a castle, or even a city—that would be truly limitless possibilities!"
“Ahem, Professor Hearst,” a teacher couldn’t help but remind him, “this is a student’s thesis defense, and we hope you can offer some more realistic insights. In any case, it’s unlikely that a single student’s work would attract a large-scale team to join the project.”
Hearst sat down, still savoring the view, and looked at his house with affection, seemingly eager to implement his renovation plans immediately.
Then he clicked his tongue and said, "Yes, my evaluation just now was too emotional, I'm really sorry."
Several more senior teachers nodded in agreement.
Then Hearst picked up his pen and the form in front of him, excitedly saying, "Authenticity, 90 points! I can see the whole world in my eyes! Interactivity, 70 points, this is definitely not an architect's strong suit. Entertainment, 10,000 points!! A hundred billion points!! This form can't even contain all my praise!..."
Everyone: "..."
"Oh, by the way, have you named your game yet?" Hearst suddenly looked up at Mingyan. "It's going to be a great game, I have a feeling."
He stated explicitly, "It's called 'My World,' Minecraft."
Hearst smiled knowingly: "'Minecraft'...we all know it's going to be a popular world."
...
The graduation defense went by quickly; each person only had thirty minutes for the game presentation and the defense itself.
After Mingyan left the lecture hall, the students waiting outside came up to greet him politely.
The rich second-generation male classmate, Kerry, walked up and asked insincerely, "Oh, how did your thesis defense go? Did that weird block game scare the teacher?"
"Kerry, you'd better watch your words," said a student who was on good terms with Mingyan.
Kerry ignored him and instead said to Mingyan, "No matter how well you learn the theory, you still need to put it into practice. The game world architecture major is ultimately a field for the rich. A commoner like you, no matter how good your grades are, can't afford any other world. So your best way out is to work for me. What use are good grades after you leave school?"
"Kriri!" someone said, sounding a little angry.
But Mingyan wasn't angry. He calmly patted Kerry's chest and said, "You're right, money is the only truth. But I'll have money soon."
Kerry laughed, clutching his stomach, and said, "You? And your twisted game theory? A game without realism is just a lump of mud. Your crooked methods have no future! If you give up now, maybe I can get my dad to give you an offer to be one of my four secretaries."
Mingyan didn't answer, but instead packed up the materials he had brought and walked out.
After having dinner in the cafeteria, Mingyan went to the library and found a seat.
He silently turned on his computer and began updating Minecraft to version 1.32.
Aside from the initial concept, the entire system framework and art style of the game were designed by Mingyan himself.
Since he didn't have a photographic memory cheat, he simply did it all himself.
The creation of VR games is completely different from that of PC games.
Although the game is still called "Minecraft", it would probably take a while for a human to realize its connection to the PC version.
All of these systems will probably take another two or three days to develop.
After it got completely dark, Mingyan went straight home.
His adoptive parents were already getting ready for bed.
Mingyan said he didn't have a deep relationship with them. After all, he was already mentally mature before he was adopted and understood that the couple's adoption of him was mostly for their own benefit.
—It was revealed that it was unearthed by the research institute. Pulled from the frozen remnants of the blue planet, it looked like a fossil.
The Blue Star History and Species Research Institute not only arranged for this couple to foster him, but also allowed him to take the entrance exam for the Royal Academy.
Ming said he was grateful to them, but he still didn't really like the life of sometimes being called back to collect samples.
Mingyan now knows that the Chaoyang Alliance spans six major star clusters and is governed by the Alliance government. It is one of the most advanced civilizations in the galaxy and has long since developed the technology for interdimensional travel.
And here, in the Sixth Star Province—a large province that has just joined the Grand Alliance and whose various regions have not yet been fully integrated.
A few years ago, the Chaoyang government forcibly promoted some otherworldly games.
In those other worlds called "games," players claim to be playing, but in reality, they are waging war and killing to bring more world resources to their alliance.
It is conceivable that huge demand equals a huge market, and a huge market in turn gives rise to a large number of producers.
Nowadays, not to mention the major companies that develop otherworldly games, almost all the schools in the Chaoyang Alliance have established game-related majors.
Mingyan's current major is called "Otherworld Architecture," which is roughly equivalent to "game designer" in the game industry on Earth.
Recently, this year's undergraduate students are about to graduate, and they have all finished their graduation projects and are now defending them.
An entrance to another world is extremely expensive. Students from ordinary backgrounds who specialize in this field generally have no chance to modify a real other world, so their graduation projects are nothing more than theoretical discussions.
In other words, creating a VR game on a virtual terminal to showcase one's design blueprint for another world.
He openly admitted to playing those games. They were more like realistic battlefield simulators, offering no enjoyment whatsoever, and therefore couldn't really be considered "games."
Interstellar beings may know how to develop other worlds.
But he openly stated that he understands the game.