Chapter 185 The collapsed map designer(1/2)
The latest time for major clubs to submit scene cards for review stipulated by the Professional League is March 20, and Nirvana Club happens to be submitted at the "latest time".
The map department had already reviewed the scene cards of other clubs before the 20th, and sent them to the program department to import them into the game to find bugs. If there is no problem, you can import them into the league game map library.
Everyone still thinks that Nirvana will not be able to make maps until so late, right? After all, it is a newly established club, and it is said that there is not even a special scene design department! You may just hand in a few pictures to make up the numbers, and just review it simply.
As a result, on the last day, Nirvana Club threw dozens of g compressed packets to the map part!
Dozens of g! Did they make a game directly?
It was already six o'clock when we got off work. Everyone packed up their things and was about to get off work. The boss kept it, "Everyone worked overtime for me."
A group of people came over to look at the big screen with doubts. Director Zhao of the map department said with a serious face: "Look at the map submitted by Nirvana. I thought they posted the wrong one, but after opening it, I found that it was me who was wrong! I underestimated this fat uncle's wonderful ideas. Nirvana made the map with the most in the entire league, and the highlight was indeed at the end!"
Some time ago, the card review department next door worked overtime at all times. He heard several girls complaining that the fat uncle often made cards in the middle of the night, which made them have irregular schedules for video conferences. He was gloating at that time, but now it was his turn.
Zhao Yi, the director of the map department, pressed his temple with a headache and said, "We may not be able to finish the review. Thank you for your hard work tonight. First, divide the work of these maps into three groups. Each group will pick a few pictures, and start the full review tomorrow!"
Hearing this, everyone immediately formed a team with their familiar friends to start picking pictures.
"How many scenes are there? I'll go! They are classified by series!" The senior scene designer in Group 1 sighed while watching. Then he leaned over to the newcomer he brought and whispered, "What kind of Journey to the West series has the smallest capacity, let's choose this one."
"The team leader is wise!" No one has any objection. The smallest capacity is definitely the simplest map and the fastest review.
"That's what it's decided. We must be the fastest one among the three groups." The team leader felt that he was so smart.
The first group started too fast, and the other two groups had not reacted yet, so the leader of the second group said decisively: "I choose the Three Kingdoms series, all of which are small scenarios, and the review should not be difficult."
The leader of Group 3 had no choice but to pick the rest: "Then leave the Red Building series to me."
Director Zhao said: "Okay, everyone will review it as soon as possible tomorrow. If you encounter trouble, discuss it together. Go home and have a good night's sleep first and nourish your spirits!" He believed that tomorrow will be a tough battle.
On the morning of March 21, when the people from the map department came to work, Director Zhou Jiayao from the card data department next door was pouring coffee in the lounge. When they saw them passing by, they pushed their glasses and said, "Director Zhao, has Nirvana submitted the scene card, right?"
Director Zhao said with a slight smile: "Yes, there are quite a lot, we are about to hurry up and review it."
Zhou Jiayao smiled meaningfully and said lightly: "Come on."
Lao Zhao's back suddenly chilled. This data sister is a famous iceberg beauty, but now she smiles at him... she smiles? This is definitely not a good sign! When the Data Department was working overtime, he once laughed at them for being inefficient and could not handle a card and even hold a meeting in the middle of the night. Why do you have a very bad premonition now?
Lao Zhao coughed and ignored the anxiety in his heart, poured a cup of coffee and walked into the office. As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he saw the employees' faces as dark as the bottom of the pot. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Who messed with you early in the morning?"
The employee of Group 1 said with a bitter face: "Director Zhao, what the hell is card pregnancy? Should this strange setting be passed the review?"
The employees of Group 2 said seriously: "Director, the card was arrested and locked up in prison, ambushed and assassinated, and forced to be divided into three camps. Will these really affect the balance?"
The 3 teams were the most devastating. The team leader came over and said with a dark face: "They actually spliced the Grand View Garden together and made a large scene map of 10 g. Such a large map is almost turned into a tourist destination! And there are some 'dynamic events'. A NPC named Liu Laolao visits the Grand View Garden. All the cards have to accompany her to go shopping, and listen to her telling jokes!"
Director Zhao: “…………”
He suddenly realized the sadness of the card data department - the cards designed by Uncle Fat must be very weird, so he kept working overtime!
Taking a deep breath to stabilize his emotions, Director Zhao smiled dryly, "Everyone will choose simple scene review first. As for these complicated ones, let's keep them and discuss them slowly... If we can't confirm, we will come to the program department and data department to help."
It is better to work overtime alone than to work overtime together. You can’t let the fat uncle only harm their map department!
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Some of the scene pictures submitted by Nirvana are indeed relatively normal. For example, the Peach Banquet, although the setting of grabbing peaches is very fun, it is essentially a gain effect map and does not affect balance.
Frequent displacement of Flame Mountain will be complicated to operate, but this is something that players should consider. From the perspective of the map, this picture is easy to implement, and is fair to both parties, and it complies with the criteria for map review. The water curtain cave is a water curtain landing every once in a while, and the vision of both parties is affected, and a forced ceasefire is also in line with the map rules.
The scene cards of the Grand View Garden series, such as the full map reduction of "Xiaoxiang Pavilion", the full map critical hit improvement of the night banquet stage of "Yihong Garden", the illusion of the flower sea of "Hengwu Garden", the Miaoyu offering tea and blood in "Yangcui Temple", etc., are all very simple single event/effect scenes, and it is easy to implement. Most of the scenes in the Three Kingdoms series also meet the regulations, and there is nothing to be controversial.
What shocked the staff of the map department was that the scene map submitted by Nirvana Club was not only very rich in settings, but also the scene was drawn very finely - no wonder there were dozens of g, and the details such as flowers, plants, trees, light effects, shadows, and lake surfaces in the scene were all handled perfectly.
The designer who has seen many simple maps can't help but praise: "The person who creates the scenes should be professionals, art departments!" "At this level, it's not bad to be a professional map designer in our official office!" "It seems that Nirvana is really full of talents!"
It is true that the map is beautiful, but it is true that the settings of some maps are too weird.
In the end, the map that was stuck in the review stage could not be passed, including the Kingdom of Women, the Marriage Tree, the search for the Grand View Garden, and Liu Laolao entered the Grand View Garden, and the three-point world pictures. Director Zhao himself could not decide, so he shamelessly called the programmer director and the data department director to come for a meeting.
The programmer brother was very unhappy and complained in his heart: "I have to mobilize so many people when reviewing a map!"
However, Director Zhou of the Data Department looked calm: "It was probably because he encountered a difficult design." They have reviewed so many strange cards made by fat uncles, and they have already reviewed the experience.
When we arrived at the meeting, we saw the map settings released by Director Zhao. The programmer sprayed the table with a mouthful of coffee: "Card is pregnant?"
Director Zhao looked embarrassed: "This is true. In essence, it is actually a copy of the card generation. Can this be implemented in the program? Will the data affect the balance? Our map department only reviews whether there are any bugs in the scene map. For other issues, we have to ask two people to check."
The strange map of Nirvana Club was reviewed for three consecutive days. The people in the map department worked overtime until late at night every day, and each of them had thick dark circles of eyes, which looked like they had been ravaged and trampled, and they were listless.
The programmer was shocked: "Zhou, what did Director Zhou say?"
Zhou Jiayao calmly held her glasses: "I have seen the card pregnancy, and I have also seen it. Uncle Fat has made a card called 'Send a child Guanyin', which means giving a fetus to the designated card, so that the card pregnancy will give birth to a copy."
Everyone: "…………”
My chin fell all over the floor in the conference room.
Director Zhao was stunned for a moment, finally found his chin, looked at her with a complicated expression and said, "What did you do in the end?"
Zhou Jiayao said: "The copy card generated by Guanyin for Sending Zi is reduced by half, and only one skill is allowed to be copied, so as not to copy the card of the 3 skill during a single fight that affects the balance. This is the conclusion that our data department has concluded after discussing overnight." She calmly took a sip of coffee and said, "If this setting is placed on the scene map, because both parties can copy two cards, I think it can be imitated with the setting of Guanyin for Sending Zi is restricted."
The director of the program department also found his voice and said dryly: "This is not difficult to achieve from the program. The card data and volume are all scaled by half. Uh... What is more troublesome are some cards in the Dark Night Capital, Ye Zhu's butterflies, and Pei Jingshan's insects are already small in size. What should I do if the baby is too small to see?"
Everyone: "..."
Ye Zhu's love for butterflies is true love from the heart. He will be angry to death if his butterflies give birth to babies!
Zhou Jiayao said: "Tele cards are treated with special treatment. Those babies with sizes less than 10 cm can be kept in their original appearance and don't shrink them anymore. Like Lao Zheng's elephant, giving birth to a baby is quite cute, right?"
Everyone: "..."
It seems that after being "poisoned" by Fat Uncle for a long time, the card data department can easily accept various strange settings.
Director Zhao coughed and said, "Then... this scene picture of the Marriage Tree, forced card to fall in love, what do you think?"
What else can I think? Can I catch the fat uncle and beat him up?
Everyone in the map department was heartbroken, but on the surface they had to remain calm, saying: "It is not difficult to achieve the map. Each time, two wishing talismans are dropped, so that the cards hit by the wishing talisman can enter a state of love... The key is the program department, is the code easy to write?"
People in the program department are about to vomit blood, and they can't write it out, wouldn't it be a joke? However, writing such code makes cards fall in love, it feels very uncomfortable no matter how you think about it! Their programmers are also shameless! This is a card competition game, not a blind date and love game!
Director Zhou said coldly: "Oh, this scene is a bit similar to Yue Lao's setting. He made a card called Yue Lao, and he also used a red line to connect the two cards and force the two cards to fall in love."
Everyone: "..."
What exactly has Director Zhou from the Card Department experienced in the past few months!
Director Zhao's smile became more and more stiff. He then took out the next map and said, "Three points of the world, the map is easy to do. According to their design, divide a scene into three areas: blue Wei Kingdom, green Wu Kingdom and red Shu Kingdom. The key lies in how to set the card camp division. Because it is random division and it is completely lucky, it is difficult to do it to be fair, so I would like to ask Mr. Liu of the Program Department."
Mr. Liu, the program manager, took a deep breath and said reluctantly: "We can use a fixed algorithm. Since we are dividing the camps, we will set a balance value. One of the three camps must have the same number of cards, and the other two camps, one camp has more square cards than square b, and the other has less square cards than square b. In the event of large-scale team battles, the algorithm of this map will be very complicated, and we have to go back and discuss and study it."
Director Zhao gave the other party a look of "Thank you for your hard work" and continued: "Checking the Grand View Garden and Liu Laolao's entry into the Grand View Garden are all dynamic events, just like a movie scene. Cards have to participate in dynamic events and NPC operations, which should be more complicated, right?"
Several participants from the program department collectively had headaches and relieved their foreheads: "It is difficult to avoid bugs in such a map!" "The dynamic map is much more difficult than the static map, especially if the cards have to follow Liu Laolao 30 meters, they will be kicked out of the arena if they are beyond the range. A lot of calculations are required in the program, which is almost the same as a large 30-person team mattress!" "And during team battles, if there are 40 cards present at the same time, not only will the distance between the card and Liu Laolao, but also the various skills of the card need to be calculated in real time!"
Director Zhou said calmly: "I believe that the strength of the Map Department and the Program Department sounds quite difficult, but your skills are so superb that you can definitely handle these problems perfectly."
Everyone: "..."
Sister Zhou, don’t put a high hat on everyone! Don’t be abused once before, can you just gloat in watching the show?
The tripartite talks lasted for an afternoon.
Finally, the supervisors of the three departments jointly finalized the production plan and data fine-tuning plan for some maps.
Then it will be handed over to the program department to implement it.
Not only did the map department work overtime, but the program department was also dragged down to write codes overtime. Director Zhou originally watched the show with peace of mind, but the other two departments did not want to let her go, so he gave her a bunch of cards and asked her to take it to the new map for testing.
As a result, three departments worked overtime together!
That night, the official headquarters of Xingka was brightly lit, and programmers, map designers, and card data analysts stayed up all night. Even the boss of Xingka headquarters was alarmed and came to inspect in person, and brought everyone a delicious late-night snack.
Everyone was working while having midnight snacks. From time to time, staff complained from time to time: "This damn fat uncle!" "Where did Xie Mingzhe, this bastard, have so many strange designs!" "I'm so fucked! I'm a good card game, and he's tossed into a love and childbirth game!" "Oh, if I work overtime like this, I feel like I'm going to die suddenly!"
At this time, the culprit Xie Mingzhe was chatting with Tang Muzhou happily: "The map of our club is submitted at the latest, and it is estimated that the official will have to review it for several days before the result will be given."
Tang Muzhou sent a plant emoticon pack of "I don't want to hang" and said: "Is there a map for forced hanging cards?"
Xie Mingzhe smiled dryly: "Our scene pictures are quite normal, and we won't let the card hang [sincere smiley face]"
Of course, Tang Muzhou didn't believe it: "It would be strange if you can be normal."
Xie Mingzhe touched his nose and said curiously: "In the eyes of senior brother, am I a very strange person?"
Tang Muzhou's voice was gentle: "You are quite strange, but..."
He suddenly stopped when he said this, and Xie Mingzhe followed and asked, "But what? I also have many advantages, right?"
You are cute, unique and cute.
Tang Muzhou smiled slightly, hid this comment in his heart, and changed the topic: "On April 1, the pre-match preparation meeting for the new season, at 11:00 in the morning, all professional players will be present, remember not to be late."
Xie Mingzhe said: "I know, Yingying told us about this. She arranged the car and the four of us will go there together."
Tang Muzhou asked: "Master still doesn't plan to show up?"
Xie Mingzhe said with a headache: "Master doesn't like dealing with reporters. He doesn't want to show up at this press conference. Let's talk about it when it comes to the official competition. As soon as he appears, our relationship will probably not be hidden."
Tang Muzhou sighed lightly: "It's okay, I can't hide it sooner or later. I'm ready. Go to bed early, see you on the 1st."
"Well, good night, senior brother."
To be continued...