"Gloudy" tells the story of a girl named Gloudy's journey of redemption in search of self and belonging.
She was expelled because she was born with a different appearance from the residents of the Holy Kingdom. At first, she was alone and full of inferiority and confusion. She would always take the initiative to avoid living beings.
But the ostracized Gloudy still maintained a kind heart. After saving a wounded crow, she became friends with the crow.
Taking the crow as an opportunity, Gloudy met all kinds of people and made all kinds of friends. Through the introduction of one of his friends, Gloudy learned that there was a group of companions who looked similar to himself in the country above the white clouds. Gloudy then embarked on a journey to find the country above the clouds.
Along the way, Gloudy visited various places, solved various mysteries, gained friendships and grew up in the adventure, gradually found his own independent personality, and began to become confident and cheerful. But when Gloudy arrived at that distant country, he found that only ruins were left of that country.
If Gloudy has not gained the [Friendship] of all her companions in the previous stage (similar to the reward for important side quests), her journey will also reach the end in the ruins, and the friends who have made friends with her will appear in the last scene to accompany her.
And when Gloudy has gained all the [Friendships], everyone will not only accompany Gloudy, but also discover the hidden dream door with Gloudy. In this dream door, Gloudy will see the original appearance of her hometown, the residents of her hometown and her relatives.
In this extra-long hidden chapter, she will learn about the rise and fall of the Cloud Kingdom, and find out that she is the last citizen of the Cloud Kingdom. She will live happily with the wishes of her parents and relatives.
The core story of "Journey of the Clouds" is relatively simple and clear, and the theme is actually the growth story of an ugly duckling turning into a white swan.
It does not need to tell any profound philosophy. The essence of the game plot designed by Mei Fang is to make everyone feel a little warm and smile knowingly after reading it. More importantly, it creates the atmosphere of scene narrative through art scene interactive music, giving players a good interactive experience.
Judging from Yue Xinyi’s feedback, Mei Fang’s design is relatively successful.
Because he was beaten by Yue Xinyi, who had loved reading all kinds of novels and comics since childhood and had extremely rich experience.
She doesn't punch you in the chest like Xia Yuan does. She will really hit Mei Fang hard.
"You bastard Mei, you have no heart! I played Gloudy so hard, why couldn't I let Gloudy have a good ending in the end!"
"Gloudy is not pitiful at all... Ro, Yale and Wood were with her in the end, wasn't it? This is a very family-friendly ending, isn't it?"
After complaining about Mei Fang's script design, Yue Xinyi also felt a little emotional. "I originally thought that you guys only made some fun games to cheat people out of money, but it seems that you can still make some works of art. This "Cloud Journey" is like opening the door to a new world for me. I didn't expect that making games could be like this."
"Of course, given our Ah Fang's gaming experience..."
Xia Yuan talked enthusiastically about her childhood sweetheart to everyone, while Yue Xinyi, who was standing by, kept pulling Lin Youxi's arm.
"Youxi, you're just watching here?"
"What's wrong with just watching here?" Lin Youxi tilted his head.
Yue Xinyi looked disappointed and said to Lin Youxi in a low voice:
"I think Yuanyuan is just short of saying that she is Mei Gou's girlfriend. Don't wait until the matter is settled before you start to regret and cry."
"This..."
Lin Youxi did not respond directly, but smiled and perfunctorily said a few words to Yue Xinyi, "You are overthinking, this is the relationship between us childhood sweethearts."
“What the hell!”
Yue Xinyi was driven mad by Lin Youxi's "slowness" and "humility", and only Liu Xiaoyu, who knew everything, felt sorry for her.
She had previously claimed that she was Youxi's best friend in junior high school, but she had never even told Yue Xinyi about the kiss between her and Mei Fang.
However, this kind of thing is difficult to explain, and there is really no need to explain it—
Now the official package has been released, but the work of game distribution is not over yet.
First of all, Mei Fang needs to carry out some publicity and operation for the game. Although Steam was just a Dota 2 launcher in China in 2012, the "Greenlight" mechanism that symbolizes the spirit of independent games has been launched.
While Mei Fang was registering for a developer account to upload "Journey to the Cloud", he was also preparing relevant copy for Station C.
"Cloud Journey" is his first game work that he worked hard on. Although it started from an independent game "GRIS" in his previous life, the story was completely adapted based on Guo Yun's growth.
You can see shadows of "Celeste", "Monument Valley" and "Journey" in the story. The friendship setting is inspired by "Undertale", and the setting of the Dream Gate is borrowed from the later independent game masterpiece "Hollow Knight". The reference of these elements cannot be defined as plagiarism. These are the results of Mei Fang's accumulated experience, and the game is changed from generation to generation in this way.
Of course, Mei Fang also had many regrets in the process of making this game, but this feeling of regret would emerge every time he completed a project.
But the difference is that this time the project was completed entirely under the leadership of the boss Mei Fang, who used to always mock the bosses he worked for for not understanding games at all.
As for how well you know about games
Now both mules and horses have to be taken out for a walk.
While Mei Fang was sorting out the follow-up work for the game, everyone also relaxed for a while at the end of the summer vacation. They had a few good meals under the premise of Boss Mei's private entertainment, and went to various amusement parks. When everyone had already started discussing and preparing to go home, news came from Mei Yue -
The company's office space has been renovated and is ready for official start-up.
The core members of Mei Fang's company are all students under the age of 18, but leaving aside the Ximilu Studio, the actual operating team of Station C is a group of part-time members recruited by Mei Fang using his influence as the webmaster.
Under the guidance of Sister Yueyue, Mei Fang and Lin Youxi issued a formal salary contract letter of intent, commonly known as an offer, to each member of their part-time team.
Due to the growing influence of Station C, the part-time team members of those small factories quickly agreed to switch jobs and signed the offers.
Although the salary is not high, the experience of working at Station C is quite valuable.
The remaining small number of employees from large companies are also worried that Station C is not as stable as Station A at the moment, and that their salaries at large companies are much better than what Mei Fang offered, so they hesitated to take action and are still in a wait-and-see state.
"This time, I called everyone to Jiangcheng, not only to help catch up with the progress of "Cloud Journey", but also to convene everyone to hold a general staff meeting. Of course, the 'all employees' here refer to everyone in Linxi Technology and Ximilu Studio, including our previous outsourcing team - of course, now we all call them colleagues."
After hearing Mei Fang say this, everyone seemed a little nervous.
"We are all high school students. Those part-time employees have been working for several years, right? There might even be some middle-aged programmers with big bellies and Mediterranean hairstyles... Won't we minors be looked down upon if we enter?"
"It's okay to have such thoughts. Those who have officially signed the contract are the most trusted business backbones of Youxi and I at Station C. To the outside world, Sister Yueyue is the legal representative and actual leader of the company. We can't tell how old she is just by looking at her appearance, so we don't need to bring it up specifically..."
Mei Fang looked around at everyone as he spoke:
"However, after all, this is a company we founded together, and everyone can be more free here. If anyone is really socially anxious, you don't have to attend tomorrow's general meeting. I can introduce you online."
"What social phobia... All of us here have been with you till now, so it's impossible for any of us to have social phobia, right? If there is, then it's only the social KB elements—"
Yue Xinyi was complaining about Mei Gou, and when she saw Xia Yuan listening to Mei Fang talking while feeding Mei Fang all kinds of snacks, she immediately became furious.
Are childhood sweethearts nowadays so lawless
Update from the underworld, just for Sister Zi Che.
(End of this chapter)