Otherworldly Architect

That night, the Blue Star studio was brightly lit.

In the lounge dedicated to overtime work, a few people were casually lying on the sofa.

When Mingyan came out of his small dark room, he saw this situation and called the intelligent robot a little helplessly.

Soon, the robot found a few camp beds from a nearby locker and filled the lounge.

During this period, Ming Yan saw a table hanging on the wall.

——It is the work schedule of the programming team. At first glance, it was just changed today, and there are still traces of smearing.

Schrödinger wants to have all of Mortal Soul's major systems complete by March.

The background of this schedule is an original art drawing of the NPC "Adam" in the game.

They also need to be a little faster...

It would be nice if it could be faster.

...

In late January, "Soul of Mortal" released two promotional films in a row.

The first promo, called "Heroes," tells the third-person perspective of a brave team that travels to an abandoned temple to steal a little spark.

This weak light can only illuminate an area of ​​more than ten square meters, but it has saved the entire village.

A little girl knelt down on the ground, with tears streaked, and prayed with her hands folded: "Gods in the sky, please bring the light down again..."

In the first promotional video, the fighting skills used by these warriors are partially shown.

Some use spears to clear the way in front, others use crossbows to sweep monsters in the back.

Some people carry a lot of props, and they use precious poison to kill them in a crisis.

There are also people covered in armor, waiting for death to delay the monster, creating an opportunity for teammates to steal fire...

The second promotional film is called "Mortals", which takes the priest Sisyphus as the first-person perspective and tells the story that the fire in his temple is about to go out, and a large number of human beings will die in the darkness, or degenerate into monsters.

Sisyphus swallowed the fire and let it burn his soul, thus continuing.

However, the scene changed.

Decades have passed, and Sisyphus' soul has been exhausted, leaving only a husk left in the desolate church, turned into a downright depraved monster.

After watching the two promotional films, the melon eaters began to speculate on the plot.

[Sisyphus must have become a boss]

[Haven't the names of the two promotional films been reversed? I really think Sisyphus can be called a hero too...]

[Does this setting mean that the soul can be consumed as fuel? The protagonist can be resurrected indefinitely but will lose san points, in fact, he is constantly consuming his soul...]

The last guess is very accurate.

After the protagonist of the mortal soul runs out of san points, he will become an empty shell (that is, a monster) wandering in random wilderness.

During this time, time flies by.

But until mid-February, there was no major action at Bluestar Studio, not even news.

Players also found that several employees-even the personal account of the chief designer Mingyan did not speak for a long time.

It's like a disappearance from the world!

Players are still a little puzzled: Isn't Blue Star always not working overtime? Then these people shouldn't be very busy, right? Where are they going these days?

Mingyan "disappeared", and even the automatic reply of the communicator became: "Hello, I'm not here now, please leave a message if you have anything."

Xia Cheng probably knew the situation and didn't bother him.

Just silently sent the personal doctor to Mingyan again.

Varian was also missing, and he didn't even show Xixi's video, which made netizens miss him.

Schrödinger just lived in the company dormitory and didn't go home for a month, turning from a technical otaku to a sloppy little prince.

If you take off your clothes and leave them on the ground for a week, you can wear them again; if you haven't bathed for a few days, you can spray perfume to deal with it.

Even Ling Xiaoman voluntarily disappeared, and she went to study at the music school next door.

But she was still a student after all, and her parents looked for her very worriedly.

Then they found out that Ling Xiaoman was sitting obediently in the classroom, listening to classical music with headphones and eyes closed.

- Classical music!

Ling Xiaoman, a self-proclaimed rock genius, didn't he have this muscle since he was a child?

If she could appreciate it, she wouldn't have made such a fuss with her family back then.

But she never expected that Ling Xiaoman would burst into tears at this moment.

After listening to a piece of music describing hopeless love, she seemed to be enlightened all of a sudden, and she was moved to the ground.

In the end, she stomped her feet and said, "I try my best, but I still can't do anything... I hate it so much!!"

Then, she dropped her headphones and hid in the small room where she was creating.

In the first ten days of March, Bluestar released the third trailer of the new game, called "Inheritance".

In this promotional film, the protagonist "undead" finally appeared.

I saw the protagonist climb over a pitch-black mountain and enter the ruins alone.

He passed a large withered tree, the rugged branches were covered with the outlines of many shriveled corpses, and many bat monsters were born from it to attack the protagonist.

At this time, the angle of view turned closer, and it became a screen similar to the actual game, but there was no game interface.

The protagonist used a machete, a long stick, and a corrosive prop to solve the pile of mobs.

Soon, a figure appeared from the darkness, and it looked like a little girl who had prayed to the gods.

There was a **** hole in her chest. In that hole, it was the fire that had lasted the village for many years, and it still retained a faint residual temperature.

But the souls of all the remaining people have been consumed by it, and they have all become corpses hanging from trees, now torn apart by the protagonist.

The girl took a step forward and said, "Let the light... pass on..."

Just the next second as the camera zooms in, that last bit of orange afterglow disappears.

Everything returned to darkness, and the little girl raised her head while crying.

From both sides of her cheeks, blood-vessel-like structures spread up, quickly invading her pure eyes and eating them up. Behind her, many rotten bat wings grew, and many pairs of weeping eyes appeared on her limbs.

She was corrupted by darkness.

And the protagonist pulled out his machete and solemnly promised: "I will."

The machete finally flashed through the darkness and turned into a headline—

Mortal Soul, April 10, waiting for a new light.

Will you pass it on for them?

As soon as this propaganda film came out, there was a public uproar on forums, on the Internet, and even on news media sites.

【Why did you reschedule to April 10? what happened? 】

[I have never heard of games that bounce tickets to the next month or even the next year, and I have never heard that a bounced ticket can still jump forward! I am convinced by this operation of Blue Star, Zhao Ritian! ! 】

[Recently, the leader has disappeared, so he was working overtime to play games? 】

[I just said why there were two promotional films at once last month, Blue Star has always been in a hurry! It turns out that the new game is going to be released early? I saw that the official website is ready to open a reservation! 】

The official pre-sale channel of "Soul of Mortal" has been opened after the announcement.

The final price of this game is 328 yuan, which is a very affordable number for Interstellar's 3A masterpiece, and many Interstellar people still think it is cheap.

Pre-ordering "Soul of Mortal" can get a set of special skins and a specific expression in the game, which is also very conscientious.

Within 6 hours after the pre-sale was opened, the traffic on the official website fluctuated significantly.

At the same time, the number of online users increased by more than 160% year-on-year, and a large number of players came straight to the pre-sale of "Soul of Mortal".

At the same time, hot topics related to #mortal soul pre-sale# appeared on major websites, and they climbed up the hot news everywhere at a super fast speed.

Even the editors of some portal websites directly took the title of "Bluestar's new game for pre-sale!" There is a piece of news in the water - not to mention, the reading volume is really good.

Because there are still many fans who have blocked relevant news, they are afraid that they will repeat the lessons learned from the past, and wait for "Soul of Mortal" like "Blue Star Doomsday"...

At this time, they saw some news and blogs saying "The Soul of Mortals is pre-sold in advance!", like a big goose who was suddenly awakened, craned his neck to check the situation.

This news affects more than just players.

There are also some companies and studios in the industry that are just preparing to release games around the same time.

This afternoon, I don't know how many teams have started a meeting urgently, and the content of the discussion is similar.

"Quickly assess whether our game will be affected by "Soul of Mortals" after it goes online... Forget it, I'm afraid it's 100% of the matter, so let's directly estimate how much the impact will be."

"We can directly discuss the game rescheduling."

"Or do you like Blue Star to bounce tickets ahead of schedule? If it is delayed, firstly, players will be dissatisfied, and secondly, no one knows when the sales impact of "Soul of Mortal" will end."

"According to Blue Star's usual standards, at least for half a month after the release of Mortal Soul, we had better not take any action."

As a result, after the New Year's Day this year, there was chaos everywhere.

March is called "Miracle Month" by players, because there are more than 80 games released this month! This is the number of games in the past two months or so.

All of them are crowded together, but it will affect the list and recommendation position, but everyone is like a duck that has been caught up on the shelves, and hastily launched works.

This can be said to be a drag on the whole body. Blue Star just released a promotional film, no one expected that it would have such a wide and far-reaching impact.