Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 185 The Collapsed Map Designer

The latest time for major clubs to submit scene cards for review as stipulated by the professional league is March 3th, and the Nirvana Club happened to be stuck at the "latest time" to submit.

The map department has 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 in actual combat. If there is no problem, they can be imported into the league game map library.

Everyone still thinks that Nirvana has been delayed so late, so you probably don’t know how to make maps, right?After all, it is a newly established club, and it is said that it does not even have a dedicated scene design department!You may hand in a few casually to make up the number, and after a simple review, you're done.

As a result, on the last day, the Nirvana Club threw dozens of gigabytes of compression packages to the map department!

Dozens of G!Did they just make a game out of it?

At that time, it was already six o'clock off work time, and everyone was packing up their things and preparing to leave work, but the boss insisted on staying behind when he said "everyone work overtime for me".

A group of people came to look at the big screen with doubts. Director Zhao of the map department said seriously: "Look at the map submitted by Nirvana. I thought they sent it by mistake, but after I opened it, I found out that it was me who made the mistake. ! I underestimated the whimsy of this fat uncle, Nirvana has made the most maps in the league, and the highlight is really left at the end!"

Some time ago, the card review department next door was always working overtime. He heard a few girls complaining that the fat uncle often made cards in the middle of the night, which made them always hold video conferences and their work and rest were irregular. At that time, he was still gloating. , As a result, it is my turn now.

Zhao Yi, the director of the map department, pressed his temple with a headache, and said: "There are five days left, and we may not be able to complete the review. Tonight, everyone will work hard. First, divide these maps into three groups. Each group will choose A few pictures, and we will start reviewing them with all our strength tomorrow!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately teamed up with their familiar friends and started picking pictures.

"How many scenes are there? I'll go! It's also classified by series!" The senior scene designer of Group 1 sighed while watching, then he leaned into the ear of the newcomer he brought and whispered, "What is this Journey to the West series?" , the capacity is the smallest, let’s pick this one.”

"The team leader is wise!" Everyone agrees. The smallest capacity must be the simplest map and the fastest review.

"That's the decision. We must be the fastest to complete the project among the three teams." The team leader felt that he was too witty.

Group 1 started too quickly, and the other two groups hadn't reacted yet, so the team leader of Group 2 said decisively: "I chose the Three Kingdoms series, all of which are small scenes, and the review should not be difficult."

The team leader of Group 3 had no choice but to choose the rest: "Leave the Red Chamber series to me."

Director Zhao said: "Okay, everyone will review as soon as possible starting tomorrow, and discuss together if you encounter troubles, and go home first and get a good night's sleep to recharge your spirits!" He believes that tomorrow will be a tough battle.

On the morning of March 3, when people from the map department came to work, director Zhou Jiayao from the card data department next door was pouring coffee in the lounge. Seeing them pass by, she pushed her glasses and said, "Director Zhao, Nirvana submitted Is it a scene card?"

Director Zhao said with a smirk: "Yes, there are quite a few, and we are hurrying to review."

Zhou Jiayao smiled meaningfully, and said lightly, "Come on."

Old Zhao's back suddenly went cold. This sister of the data scientist is a famous iceberg beauty, but now she is smiling at him... Laughing?This is certainly not a good sign!When the data department was working overtime, he once laughed at their inefficiency. They couldn't deal with a single card and had a meeting in the middle of the night. Why do they have a bad feeling now?

Old Zhao coughed, ignoring the uneasiness in his heart, and poured a cup of coffee into the office——as soon as he entered, he saw the faces of all the employees as black as the bottom of a pot, and he hurriedly asked: "What's the matter? Offended you?"

The staff in Group 1 said with a bitter face: "Director Zhao, what the hell is card pregnancy? Should this strange setting pass the review?"

The employees in group 2 said with a serious face: "Director, the cards were caught in a cell, locked up, ambushed and assassinated, and forced to be divided into three camps. Will these really not affect the balance?"

Group 3 was the most collapsed, and the group leader walked over directly, and said with a dark face: "They actually stitched together the Grand View Garden and made a large scene map of 10 G. Such a large map is almost becoming a tourist attraction! And what's the 'dynamic event', an NPC named Grandma Liu is visiting the Grand View Garden, all the cards have to go shopping with her, and listen to her jokes!"

Director Zhao: "..."

He suddenly felt the sadness of the card data department - the cards designed by the fat uncle must be very weird, so that the next door has been working overtime!

Taking a deep breath to stabilize his mood, Director Zhao said with a dry smile: "Everyone choose simple scene reviews first, as for these complicated ones, let's discuss them slowly... If we can't be sure, then we can find the people from the program department and data department. Come and help me."

Working overtime alone is worse than working overtime together, but the fat uncle can't just harm their map department!

***

In the scene diagram submitted by Nirvana, some of them are quite normal.For example, the Peach Contest, although the setting of grabbing peaches is very fun, it is essentially a buff map and does not affect the balance.

The frequent displacement of the Flaming Mountain will be complicated to operate, but this is something players should consider. From the perspective of the map, this map is easy to implement, and it is also fair to both parties, which meets the guidelines for map review.In the water curtain cave, the water curtain lands every once in a while, and the vision of both sides is affected, forcing a truce, which also conforms to the map rules.

Grand View Garden series scene cards, such as "Xiaoxiang Pavilion" full map drop defense, "Yihongyuan" full map crit boost during the night banquet stage, "Hengwuyuan" illusion of flowers sea, "Qicui Temple" Miaoyu presents tea plus Blood, etc., are simple single event/effect scenes that are easy to implement.Most of the scenes in the Three Kingdoms series also comply with the regulations, and there is nothing to dispute.

What shocked the staff of the map department was that the scene map submitted by the Nirvana Club not only has extremely rich settings, but also the scene is drawn very finely—no wonder there are dozens of G, the flowers and trees, light effects, shadows, Details such as the ripples on the lake surface are all handled perfectly.

Designers who have seen too many simple maps couldn’t help but praise: “The ones who make the scenes should be professionals, maybe from the art department!” What a lot of talent!"

It is true that the maps are beautifully made, but it is also true that the settings of some maps are too weird.

In the end, the maps that were stuck in the review stage and failed to pass, including Daughter's Country, Marriage Tree, Inspection of Grand View Garden, Grandma Liu's Entry into Grand View Garden, and Three Points of the World.Director Zhao couldn't decide by himself, so he had the cheek to call the director of programmers and the director of the data department over for a meeting.

The programmer brother was very unhappy, and complained in his heart: "To review a map, you have to mobilize people like this!"

On the contrary, Director Zhou of the data department looked calm: "Probably encountered a difficult design." They have reviewed so many strange cards made by the fat uncle, and they have already learned from the review.

Arriving at the meeting site, seeing the map settings released by Director Zhao, the programmer sprayed the table with a sip of coffee: "The card is pregnant?"

Director Zhao looked embarrassed: "That's the description, it's actually a copy of the generated card, can this be realized in the program? Will it affect the balance in the data? Our map department is only reviewing the scene map for bugs, For other issues, I have to ask the two to check."

After reviewing the strange map of the Nirvana Club for three consecutive days, the people in the map department worked overtime every day until late at night, and all of them had thick dark circles under their eyes.

The programmer looked shocked: "What did Director Zhou say?"

Zhou Jiayao adjusted her glasses calmly: "The card is pregnant, I've seen it too, Fat Uncle made a card called 'Songzi Guanyin', which is to send a fetus to the designated card, so that the card will be pregnant and give birth to a copy. "

Everyone: "..."

Jaws dropped all over the conference room.

Director Zhao was stunned for a moment, and finally recovered his chin, looked at her with a complicated expression and said, "How did you deal with it in the end?"

Zhou Jiayao said: "The basic stats of the copy cards generated by Sending Guanyin are halved, and only one skill is allowed to be copied, so as not to affect the balance by copying cards with 3 skills during duels. This is the conclusion that our data department came to after discussing all night." She took a sip of coffee calmly and said, "If this setting is placed on the scene map, because both parties can copy two cards, I think some restrictions can be imitated in the setting of Sending Avalokitesvara."

The director of the program department also recovered his voice, and said with a dry smile: "This is not difficult to achieve from a program point of view. The card data and volume are all scaled in half. Uh... the more troublesome ones are some cards in the Dark Night City. Bamboo butterflies and Pei Jingshan’s worms are small in size, so what if the baby is too small to see?”

Everyone: "..."

Ye Zhu's love for Butterfly is true love from the bottom of his heart, he would be so mad at letting his Butterfly have a baby!

Zhou Jiayao said: "Special cards are treated specially. Those whose size is less than 10 centimeters, you can keep the baby as it is, and don't shrink any more. Like Lao Zheng's elephant, it's cute to give birth to a baby elephant, isn't it? "

Everyone: "..."

It seems that after being "poisoned" by the fat uncle for a long time, the card data department can easily accept all kinds of weird settings.

Director Zhao coughed, and said, "Then... the scene map of the Marriage Tree, where cards are forced to fall in love, what do you think?"

What else can I see?Can you grab the fat uncle and beat him up?

The hearts of the people in the map department were broken, but they kept calm on the surface, saying: "The map is not difficult to achieve. Each time you drop two wishing charms, the card hit by the wishing charm will enter a state of love... The key is to Program department, is the code good to write?"

The people in the program department are about to vomit blood, saying that they can't write it, isn't it a joke?However, writing this kind of code and letting the cards fall in love, no matter how I think about it, I feel uncomfortable!Their programmers also have to face!This is a card game, not a dating game!

Director Zhou said coldly: "Oh, this scene is a bit similar to Yuelao's setting. He made a card called Yuelao. He also connected the two cards with a red thread to force the two cards to fall in love. .”

Everyone: "..."

What exactly has Director Zhou of the card department experienced in the past few months!

The smile on Director Zhao's face became more and more stiff, and he immediately took out the next map, saying: "Three parts of the world, the map is very easy to make, according to their design, a scene is divided into blue Wei Guo, The three areas of green Wu country and red Shu country are good. The key is how to set the division of card camps. Because it is divided randomly, it is completely luck. It is difficult to be fair, so I would like to ask the program department Mr. Liu."

Mr. Liu, the program director, took a deep breath and said reluctantly: "We can use a fixed algorithm. Since we are dividing camps, we should set a balance value. One of the three camps must have the same number of cards on both sides, and the other two Factions, one camp A has more cards than B, and the other A has fewer cards than B. In the event of a large-scale team battle, the algorithm of this map will be very complicated, and we have to go back to discuss and study it.”

Director Zhao gave the other party a look of "Thanks for your hard work brother", and continued: "Searching the Grand View Garden and Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden are all dynamic events, just like movie cutscenes. Cards must participate in dynamic events and act with NPCs. It should be more complicated, right?"

Several participants in the program department collectively had a headache: "It is very difficult to avoid bugs on such a map!" The setting of being kicked out of the arena if it exceeds the range requires a lot of calculations in the program, which is almost the same as a large-scale 30-person team copy!" "And in a team battle, if there are 30 cards on the field at the same time, not only will the The distance between the card and Grandma Liu, and the various skills of the card must be calculated in real time!"

Director Zhou calmly said: "I believe in the strength of the map department and the program department. It sounds difficult, but you are so skilled that you can definitely handle these problems perfectly."

Everyone: "..."

Sister Zhou, don't give everyone a high hat!Don't you just gloat and watch the show just because the card department was abused once before?

The three-party talks lasted one afternoon.

In the end, the heads of the three departments worked together to finalize the production plan and data fine-tuning plan for some maps.

Then it will be handed over to the program department to realize it.

Not only the map department worked overtime, but the program department was also dragged into the water to write codes. Director Zhou originally watched the show with peace of mind, but the other two departments didn't want to let her go, so they gave her a lot of cards and asked her to take the new map on the test -

As a result, the three departments worked overtime together!

That night, the star card official headquarters was brightly lit. Programmers, map designers, and card data analysts stayed up all night together. Delicious supper.

Everyone was eating supper while working hard, and in some corners, staff members complained from time to time: "This damn fat uncle!" "Where did this bastard Xie Mingzhe come up with so many weird designs!" Yes! It's a good card battle game, but he turned it into a love and childbirth game!" "Oh, I feel like I'm going to die suddenly if I work overtime like this!"

At this moment, classmate Xie Mingzhe, the culprit, was happily chatting with Tang Muzhou via voice chat: "Our club's map was submitted at the latest, and it may take several days for the official review to give the result."

Tang Muzhou sent a "I don't want to hang myself" plant emoji, and said, "Is there a map that forces cards to hang themselves?"

Xie Mingzhe laughed dryly: "Our scene diagrams are quite normal, and it won't hang the cards [sincere smiley face]"

Of course Tang Muzhou didn't believe it: "It's no wonder you're normal."

Xie Mingzhe touched his nose and asked curiously, "In the eyes of senior brother, am I a particularly strange person?"

Tang Muzhou's voice was gentle: "You are quite strange, but..."

When he said this, he stopped suddenly, and Xie Mingzhe immediately asked: "But what? I also have many advantages, don't I?"

You are cute, unique kind of cute.

Tang Muzhou smiled slightly, kept this comment in his heart, and changed the subject: "April 4st, the pre-match preparation meeting for the new season, at eleven o'clock in the morning, all professional players must be present, remember not to be late."

Xie Mingzhe said: "I know, Yingying told us about this matter, 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 very much. He doesn't want to show up at this press conference. Let's talk about it after the official game. Once he shows up, we probably won't be able to hide our relationship."

Tang Muzhou sighed softly: "It's okay, anyway, sooner or later I can't hide it, I'm already ready. Go to bed early, see you on the 1st."

"Well, good night, brother."

Xie Mingzhe fell asleep with peace of mind. The strange thing was that in his dream, he was chased and killed by a group of people with knives. He didn't know those people at all, but they said in unison: "It's you who made us work overtime, it's all your fault!" "You want to pay us overtime!" "The knife is ready, you choose a way to die!"

Xie Mingzhe woke up in a cold sweat the next day.

Thinking of the dream last night, probably the staff reviewing the map had too much resentment?

He didn't expect that the large number of maps they submitted this time - actually caused the three departments to work overtime at the same time.

The official headquarters is now "disgusted when talking about Nirvana", and the heads of the three departments are gnashing their teeth when they talk about Fat Uncle!

***

The map review, which was supposed to end on the 25th, was delayed until March 3st.

The dreams of the employees in the map department to have an early vacation were shattered, and the program department and the card data department were also busy until the 31st. Everyone finally reviewed all the scene maps of Nirvana within the official deadline.

The official and alliance docking, the map submitted by Nirvana is imported into the alliance game gallery.

The personnel in charge of the event arrangement on the alliance side saw the last batch of submitted maps, and their eyes fell out of shock again.

Card pregnant?Cards fall in love?

It seems that the private life of the cards will be completely chaotic in the future!

The league event department told Chairman Zhou about this.

After all, the chairman is someone who has seen big winds and waves. Hearing this, his smile froze slightly, and then he smiled and said: "Hey, we encourage interesting ideas. In the No.11 season, with the addition of Nirvana, the league will definitely become ...Ahem, more fun!"