His notebook was filled with all sorts of inspirations like these.
You'll get used to it.
Xia Cheng sighed and silently sat down to meditate.
Yes, under Mingyan's recent instruction and guidance, Young Master Xia has finally learned the cool skill of "meditation"!
Spaceships often need to replenish oxygen and fuel on planets with similar high-oxygen atmospheres.
When the ship docked, Mingyan would occasionally go down with the crew to take a look.
More often than not, spaceships travel through the vast universe, following a vague route.
At this time, Mingyan would stay in his room and work on his games—sometimes designing things, sometimes turning on his game console and using the built-in engine to create an alpha version of a small game.
Xia Cheng watched from the side and often discussed things with him.
This is Xia Cheng's first time participating in the design of Mingyan.
I thought the "little black room" would be a boring and tedious overtime work experience... but I didn't expect the design process to be so interesting.
Ming said that he didn't need anything else, just a piece of paper and a pen, to make a whole day interesting and fulfilling for the two of them.
A single line can be the pupil of a dragon observing humans from within the clouds, it can be a distorted and shifting world line, or it can be...
With Mingyan by his side, Xia Cheng experienced the most fun tabletop role-playing game of his life... He could immediately sense how fun the game would be just by listening to Mingyan talk about it and seeing how he drew it on paper.
It's not surprising at all that Mingyan is one of the best game architects in the Chaoyang Alliance.
Half a month later, the ship's onboard telescope could already see the border of the Chaoyang Alliance, and Mingyan even created a new game on the spaceship.
He hasn't written code himself in a long time, but the new game is also very small, only about 300 GB.
It's based on the idea I had conceived on the spaceship: a rogue-like space adventure game.
An alpha version of the mini-game was created, and Mingyan sent a copy to everyone on the spaceship so they could play it when they were bored and give some feedback.
Then, during the next two weeks of sailing towards the Chaoyang Alliance, the captain suddenly noticed that the atmosphere on the ship was different!
In the past, before the advent of faster-than-light travel, most people were bored out of their minds, since even though the spaceships were large, they had long since grown tired of them.
But having Chief Designer Ming on board makes all the difference.
Everyone has developed a peculiar catchphrase.
"I suddenly had a brilliant idea!"
Chapter 97 The Cult Leader Returns
At the end of November, the crashed spaceship on Blue Star returned to port.
The entire official forum was instantly in an uproar, with players just wanting to celebrate joyfully everywhere... until they discovered that Mingyan had not returned with the team.
[What do you mean two spaceships! What do you mean two spaceships! What do you mean Chief Engineer Ming is on another one! I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it, this is impossible!]
[The cult leader hasn't come back, waaaaaah!!!]
[I'm offering my prayers online: I'm willing to shorten my lifespan by three years in exchange for the leader's safe return!]
[Praying for blessings 1, thinking about the new game that should be released next year makes my heart ache...]
[Chief Designer Ming is such a good person. I heard he's donated hundreds of millions to the Blue Star Research Institute alone. How could something like this happen to him? I believe good people are blessed. A good person like him deserves a happy life!]
[If I want the leader back, I'll buy every single one of his games ten times over.]
[If I want the leader to come back, I'm willing to quit smoking and drinking, go to bed early and get up early, and exercise every day, just so I can play the new game on Earth one more time...]
December 30th.
As the Sixth Star Province begins preparations for the Lunar New Year's Eve, the provincial competition of the First Division is also coming to a close.
Online, the hashtag #BlueStarFlightCrash# has garnered hundreds of millions of views.
The topic did not fade with time; instead, it intensified, even reaching the neighboring Suzaku Empire—a great gamer had been stranded due to wormhole fluctuations.
Even the Chaoyang government's space observatory responded to its fans on its official WeChat account.
[Chaoyang Alliance Cosmic Observatory: We will also be paying attention. @MilkCandyIsSoSweet: Please help us find Chief Engineer Ming of Blue Star! @Chaoyang Alliance Cosmic Observatory, @AstronomicalObservatory, @SixthStarProvinceCosmicResearchDepartment]
By December 31, the wrecked spaceship "Duke" had actually sent a signal to the border of the Sixth Star Province.
Due to insufficient resources on the spacecraft, the signal lasted only half a minute, just enough time to send a video distress signal to the border.
All that's left is to head to the nearest faster-than-light portal entrance and wait for the Alliance's corresponding port to pick you up.
On January 1st, Mingyan, Xia Cheng, and others spent this year's Lunar New Year's Eve on the spaceship.
They had also heard that last year's Game of the Year ultimately went to Bluestar Studios' Mortal Souls.
Even the captain, who doesn't usually play games, felt great regret: "If this hadn't happened, Chief Engineer Ming would have been standing on that podium last month! We really missed something very important!"
Mingyan was very open-minded, saying, "It's okay, if we miss one time, there will be another chance."
They acted as if it were a matter of course, already pre-selecting next year's Game of the Year!
This is the biggest award in the entire Chaoyang Alliance, the highest honor that tens of millions of outstanding game developers compete for...
Saying that is like saying on Earth, "It's okay, the Nobel Prize in XX will still be mine next year."