This job is as tough as a sandwich filling, but Mingyan still followed his heart.
Perhaps, it was his dream as a game developer that was still burning with the last embers of his passion.
Before the project was even finished, the apocalypse arrived.
Four thousand years later, Mingyan reproduced it and then underwent a period of modification.
The old IP address was definitely unusable, so he had a sudden inspiration—
Now that League of Legends has established its brand, why not just use the League of Legends IP for this mobile game?
The following day, the official groundbreaking ceremony for the "Card Alliance" mini-project was held.
On the first day, Mingyan attended and gave some guidance to the newlyweds.
Given his current reputation, personally providing guidance is itself a sign of great importance.
Most newlyweds brought voice recorders and notebooks, not wanting to miss a single word.
Because what we're about to make is a gacha game, and it's a game type that Chaoyang Alliance has never seen before.
Mingyan first explained the principles.
He asked, "Does anyone know about the Skinner box gambling experiment?"
A newcomer raised his hand and quickly stood up to answer: "The Skinner box is a psychological experimental device. Mice that have been fasted for more than 24 hours are placed in it, and a lever is provided in the box. In one experiment, the mice get food every time they pull the lever; in another group, the food rolls out randomly after the mice pull the lever, and it doesn't always appear."
"Experiments have shown that the mice in the former group will enter a rest period after receiving food and will no longer pull the lever."
"But even if the latter mice get food, they will keep pulling the lever, sometimes hundreds or thousands of times unnecessarily."
“Very good. This is the ‘gambler’ behavior of mice.” Mingyan nodded. “And the gacha game you’re about to create is taking advantage of a similar aspect of human nature.”
He projected a table showing the rarity of the cards.
The newlyweds all looked up at the chart.
Mingyan said, "Human gambling behavior is basically based on the same principle. According to my initial experiments, there are two ways to obtain the same rare card: one is to give it as a gift after spending 600 yuan; the other is to give it as a lottery ticket after spending money. On average, you can get this rare card by spending 600 yuan worth of lottery tickets."
"The results were surprising. The former group was far less motivated to spend money on in-game purchases than the latter group, both in terms of their willingness and the amount of money they spent."
"For now, I'll call it the gambler's inherent weakness."
The comparison table of the experiment was projected.
The obvious difference in spending money elicited exclamations of "Wow!" from the newcomers.
Ming said, "During these two months, your task is to design a reasonable game card drawing mode based on this weakness of gamblers, and use reasonable mathematical methods to determine the corresponding values."
After the meeting that day, the new employees were finally able to sit at their workstations and begin developing the new project.
However, before that, there was a meal for everyone – a activity commonly known as "team building".
The cafeteria at Blue Star is provided by a restaurant on the second floor of this office building, and the quality is excellent.
Bluestar provided them with all the team-building funds for the past two months, enough for them to have several hot pot meals.
At the dinner table, a new designer exclaimed, "Blue Star is so generous! We've only been here a short time, and Chief Designer Ming is already personally teaching us such important design principles, and even giving us a brand new game genre to practice on..."
"This shows that the old man is really good and values us a lot!"
"By the way, did you all sign two-year contracts?"
"Yes, yes, two years is too short for me. I'd even feel like five years on Earth wouldn't be enough..."
"I also signed a non-compete agreement. Even if I leave Earth early, I can't disclose any information about the project."
After exchanging information, everyone couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.
Although Blue Star is a small studio, it is already very mature and has formed its own system in terms of achievements, business and systems.
It is in no way inferior to some of the large listed companies in China.
Most importantly, the chief designer's level of expertise is evident; he essentially represents the pinnacle of domestic game design.
You could tell from his speech on the first day, and from the design drafts he casually projected.
The most promising aspect of Blue Star is that it possesses genuine wisdom in game design.
Meanwhile, Mingyan on the other side was not as relaxed as the newlyweds.
After his secretary got him his meal, Mingyan ate it hastily, just to get by.
Next, he went through various procedures to lay the groundwork for the mini-game "Card Alliance".
Blue Star Studio and Dragon Slayer Studio are bound to separate.
This is the unfortunate reality: money, reputation, and cost cannot all be achieved simultaneously.
Previously, in preparation for the funding of "Blue Star Apocalypse" and the small other world, the Dragon Slayer Sword had already privately invested in Blue Star and obtained a certain amount of original shares in the latter.
To mitigate the impact of this event, Card League is key to the deal.
However, simply concealing the truth is clearly not a long-term solution.
On Blue Star's official website, a notice was posted openly and honestly.
Ming Yan proactively released a teaser message about the development of "Card Alliance," while also explaining that the investment in the Dragon Slayer Sword accounted for approximately 80% of the cost.