Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 226

The employees, seeing their boss embroidering, all came over to watch. They noticed that the embroidery techniques and threads used this time were different from before. Liang Ranran asked, "Boss, why aren't you using a sewing machine to embroider?"

The machine is so fast! It can embroider a large area in no time. The boss can make a set of clothes in two or three days, which is much faster than theirs.

Lin Shuying arranged the sorted threads by color. Although the main colors of the dress were only light blue, dark blue, orange, and pink, sixteen or seventeen different colors of silk thread were needed for color mixing; otherwise, the color transitions in the embroidery wouldn't be perfect. A perfect embroidery pattern can easily have over a hundred colors, with color differences comparable to those of a master artist mixing colors in a painting.

Since arriving in the interstellar world, Lin Shuying has yet to create any works of art-level quality. While her other works are quite good, they don't qualify as art-level for her. True works require time to accumulate; without time to build up experience, it's impossible to create anything of fine quality.

When Liang Ranran and the others saw that Lin Shuying had prepared more than a dozen colors of silk thread, they assumed that her designs would be colorful and vibrant. However, after the plain fabric was made, they found that it was a very plain garment, not much different from many of her previous designs.

She couldn't help but ask, "Boss, wouldn't it look bad if the light blue fabric had overly colorful embroidery?"

Lin Shuying said, "It depends on how you use it. If you use it well, it can be a real eye-opener."

Everyone was eagerly waiting for Lin Shuying to finish making the clothes, since it wouldn't take long anyway. But after waiting and waiting, it took half a month to see the finished product.

This jacket features black and white cat's eye stones for the frog buttons, with black silk thread as the base and some gold thread interspersed in the middle to increase the brightness, design and high-end feel of the frog buttons.

After the plain garment was finished, the embroidery began. Given Lin Shuying's skill level, there was no need to draw embroidery patterns on the fabric; she could simply embroider directly. However, for the purpose of teaching, she still drew embroidery patterns. Xia Chunqi would film the entire process and create a teaching video called "Qingfengyi." When the video was released on the StarNet, the culture of Chinese embroidery would also be promoted.

This time, she used Suzhou embroidery, which originated in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang region of China. From its origins in the Spring and Autumn Period, through its flourishing in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and continuing to the present day, it remains one of China's intangible cultural heritages. This demonstrates the profound depth and exquisite skill of this craft, which has endured for thousands of years, with countless women and embroiderers making a living from it during its heyday.

Liang Ranran and the others also embroidered, but they only embroidered one picture and did not make clothes.

They had only finished embroidering one fan by the time Lin Shuying finished embroidering the entire dress.

The time has come for the next event update, but this time Lin Shuying didn't create any event content; she simply had Zhang Zhongxia issue a notification:

"The designer is currently on vacation; the 'Gentle Breeze' event will resume in two months."

The player was completely bewildered when he saw the notification.

"What do you mean? The designer is taking a vacation?"

"This is the first time I've heard of game designers needing to take a vacation."

"I think it's great. I just happened to have a wedding booked, and I was worried that I wouldn't have time to attend the new event."

"People getting married added me. If the event were to proceed as normal, I'd be right in the middle of it, which would be really tough. I didn't expect the designer to be so considerate. I definitely love Qingfengyi the most!"

.......

After releasing the information, Zhang Zhongxia's PR team sat up straight, waiting for player backlash and negative reviews, even though there was nothing they could do about it. Surprisingly, not a single player came to leave a negative review or any comments, good or bad. Curious, they checked the game and discovered that everyone was busy getting married. The interruption of the Qingfengyi event was actually to their liking, allowing them to keep their schedules running smoothly without conflicting with the event.

A new employee on the team exclaimed with sparkling eyes, "The boss is truly amazing! He even thought of reserving time for players to get married. Judging by the speed at which weddings are held in the game and the number of reservations, it'll probably be a huge hit for about two months. After everyone gets married, we can have a lively or romantic honeymoon trip..."

Thinking of this, the employee became even more excited, and his admiration for Lin Shuying rose to another level.

"The boss is amazing!"

Zhang Zhongxia listened attentively. After the employee finished speaking, he said, "Write your ideas into a project proposal, and I'll submit it to the boss later."

"what?"

The employee was a little confused. Why did he have to write the plan when the boss already had one in mind?

Zhang Zhongxia laughed and said, "The boss may not have thought of all this. Since we have thought of it, let's write it down. Whether the boss needs it or not, as long as the plan is good enough, the boss will give you a raise."

The new employee had just arrived and wasn't very familiar with Qingfengyi's management processes. He never expected that he could write some simple ideas into a plan for the boss to see.

In other words, he has direct contact with the boss!

"Minister, can I hand it over to the boss myself?"

Zhang Zhongxia smiled and said, "Okay."

Qingfengyi encourages all employees to actively communicate with their superiors during their free time and submit their opinions.

Lin Shuying almost didn't recognize the new employee, because Qingfengyi now has a lot of employees, having expanded to 398 people, with 20 on assignment and 200 still undergoing training. The expansion has been so rapid that Lin Shuying can't even remember who works for her anymore.

The new employee greatly admired Lin Shuying. Upon seeing her, his face flushed with excitement, and his hand trembled slightly as he handed over the proposal.

"Boss, I admire you so much, could I have your autograph?"

Lin Shuying smiled and said, "I'll sign one for you in a bit."

As she spoke, she quickly scanned the project proposal in her hand. It wasn't very thick, only a page or two. There wasn't even a table of contents; it was very hastily done, clearly the work of someone who rarely created proposals. However, considering the situation of the interstellar people, this was understandable. Nowadays, interstellar people write proposals in a holographic world, where holographic intelligence links to their brains, extracting ideas and autonomously forming proposals based on those ideas and needs.

However, the process of creating a Qingfengyi project plan differs from that of an interstellar project plan. Here, the plan is first written on paper, then reviewed and approved by superiors before being entered into the quantum computer to form a document. Therefore, employees need to input and brainstorm on their own. Lin Shuying did not force everyone to do this, but most people accepted it as the rule after seeing her do it this way.

Lin Shu-ying mentioned twice that no one had made any changes because she had the design department use paper designs with her. Manual design allows for a buffer period, during which the design can be continuously refined and modified. It's important to understand that a design draft doesn't appear in an instant; it's the result of continuous revisions and improvements. What appears in an instant is only inspiration, from which a concrete design is continuously developed.

The brain's thoughts are ever-changing and unpredictable, yet they also possess a deeper logic. The brain's interconnected systems acquire information instantaneously, without subsequent refinement or detailed modifications. The design itself lacks intelligent correction, which is why designs often appear fantastical. This is one reason why interstellar people have such strange aesthetics, much like the disgusting and ugly memes of Lin Shuying's era that poisoned the online world.

Although the plan is simple, it is quite valuable.

The above predicts the players' situation during the two months of free time in Qingfengyi, and also provides the main theme of subsequent activities. What players need most after getting married is a honeymoon destination to have a good time and strengthen the bond between husband and wife or family members.

Lin Shuying's eyes lit up, and she praised the new employee, "The proposal is excellent; I really didn't think of that. I'll give you a raise."

The employee, surprised to actually receive praise from the boss, jumped up and down excitedly, his Tang suit swaying in the breeze. Lin Shuying signed her name at the bottom of the proposal, then picked up a blank sheet of paper, wrote her signature on it, and handed the two sheets of paper to the employee.

"Here you go. Take this and make a backup copy. You can keep the original afterward."

The employee carefully took the documents, thanked the boss, and left. Only after walking quite a distance did they realize they hadn't asked for the boss's signature!

But I'd feel a little embarrassed to go back now...

Remembering what the minister said about writing down plans to show the boss, he decided to ask the boss for them next time.

When backing up the data, a colleague in the database pulled out a signed sheet and said, "Shouldn't we need to back this up?"

The new employee took the paper and saw Lin Shuying's elegant signature and a sentence: Keep up the good work, looking forward to your next proposal.

He was so excited!

"Ahhh, the boss actually signed my autograph!"

The staff member in the database said with a smile, "What we want are gifts made by the boss himself, what's so great about an autograph?"

The new employee excitedly said, "You don't understand. I came to Qingfengyi for the boss, and I even gave up a whole day of playing games."

While the two were chatting away, Lin Shuying also had an idea for the next event based on the plan provided by the employee. Why not do an event in a simple ethnic village?

Her maternal and paternal families both live in villages near the ethnic minority village and frequently participate in minority activities, which are quite interesting. Later, when tourism resources were developed, these minority activities and customs became a key focus. Events like the Water Splashing Festival, the Third Day of the Third Lunar Month Festival, and the Torch Festival have become well-known throughout the country, enjoying considerable popularity during their peak seasons.

Since it's a honeymoon trip, visiting a minority village would be perfect.

Leaving aside ethnic minority villages, places with unique customs are also great, such as local activities like inviting gods, parading gods, and sacrificial ceremonies, which are all very interesting.

Thinking about this, Lin Shuying suddenly had a picture of pea-shaped rice in her mind, and she felt a little hungry...

She loves this. Even though it doesn't contain any spices, just some plant-based coloring, it still tastes delicious.

She is very familiar with rice, as well as making rice cakes, mugwort rice cakes, and so on.

What Lin Shuying described was different from the exaggerated propaganda on the internet in her previous life. These were genuine things she made herself in the countryside, with a lively environment and process. There were no frills or embellishments online; they were simple, but full of ritual and down-to-earth charm.