<strong>Chapter 59: Chapter 58: An Abnormal Design Document!</strong>
Tranted by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
What was interesting was that the less a yer wanted to spend on a game, the more they cared about the free resources the game gave!
-You can’t make any progress? Don’t worry, I’ll give you some diamonds. Just log in today, and I’ll give you a hundred diamonds. After you beat N number of levels, I’ll give you another five hundred, and when you get to level thirty, I’ll give...-
These yers would attempt to convert the resources into actual currency.
You wanna give up? That means you’re losing money every day!
At that point, arge portion of yers would continue ying just because of the potential money lost.
Many people would think that the yers would only do that if they were poor. If they were wealthy, they wouldn’t be enticed by small amounts of money like that.
That waspletely wrong!
The willingness of a yer to spend money only had to do with their personality, and arge amount of yers cared about their earnings in games.
Chen Mo had seen wealthy people like that first hand in his previous life. They could’ve spent hundreds of thousands in the game, but they still cared about the few hundred daily bonus diamonds.
When these yers were only ying the game because of the free resources the game provided, they had subconsciously epted that it was pay to win, and the rtionship between the in-game equipment, diamonds, and real currency.
After that, this batch of yers who didn’t want to spend any money might turn into spending yers when a promotional period came.
From the first top-up, to monthly membership, to lifetime membership, to the firstrge top-up, they would start to spend more and more money.
It wasn’t a problem if they didn’t convert immediately, and even if certain yers insisted on never spending money, at least they could y alongside paying yers, which would also be good for the game.
Thepany also weed those yers who don’t spend a single cent. If you can’t support financially, morally works too!
Of course, the third type of joy was built on the previous two. The yer must recognize the game and its contents before they were willing to be a ve to Ivan Pavlov’s methods and spend money on virtual cards and winning virtual battles.
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nning the foundation of the game took Chen Mo two days. Afterwards, he started working on the document for the rules. Including the refinements, the whole process took a week.
This was simr to the amount of time nts vs Zombies took. Although Chinese mobile card games might seem simple, they had a lot of minute details, which took a lot of time.
Of course, he had also been working on the original artwork for the cards at the same time. There were arge number of cards, but Chen Mo didn’t need to finish them all at once. He would just work alongside the artpany, so it wouldn’t take up too much of his time.
Other than that, Chen Mo had also spent some time checking on the progress for the art and animation production. Guo Feng would be sending the first episode of the series to Chen Mo by theing weekend.
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After finishing all the design documents, Chen Mo asked Su Jinyu to enter everything into the video game engine to produce the starting product for I Am MT.
Su Jinyu and Wen Lingwei had finished four drawings each. Chen Mo could tell that their artistic skills were quite good, as the details wereparable to the originals.
Of course, some details weren’t exactly the same with the ones from his previous life, but that didn’t matter, as minute details like that didn’t y a big part.
Su Jinyu downloaded the design document sent over by Chen Mo.
Chen Mo said, “All the design documents are there, all that’s left are the numbers and level design, as well as the attributes of cards and the overall construction. Enter the rules into the game engine for now; we can add the rest at ater time.”
Su Jinyu was shocked, “All the design documents? You finished it in a week?!”
Of course she was surprised, it took her two weeks to finish the two features Chen Mo assigned her for the update for nts vs Zombies, but he managed to write out the design document for a game in a week!
This work efficiency was superhuman!
Chen Mo continued ndly, “Take a look at the design document and ask me if there’s anything you don’t understand. I’ll be working on the numbers and level design.”
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After giving her another few pointers, Chen Mo retreated back to his office.
Su Jinyu was very curious as she opened Chen Mo’s design document. What type of game would he be using for such an important wager?
Chen Mo had previously ordered some cards to be drawn and had contacted an animationpany. What was he nning? What did an animationpany have to do with game production?
So far, Su Jinyu had no clue what Chen Mo was nning to do.
Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and the others gathered around to take a look.
Wen Lingwei leaned onto the bar table and said, “I’m actually quite curious as to what the manager has nned for his next game.”
Jia Peng said, “Ahem, senior, do you really understand what the design document is saying?”
Wen Lingwei gave him a cold nce, “So what if I don’t understand? Goldfish, exin it to me.”
Su Jinyu was speechless...
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They went through one design document after another.
UI.
Basicbat.
Daily quests....
Su Jinyu’s uncertainty didn’t decrease at all during this process. In reality, it actually went up.
After closing thest design document, Su Jinyu waspletely confused.
“That’s it? That’s all? Isn’t that a bit too simple? The contents of this game don’t evene close to nts vs Zombies!” Su Jinyu eximed.
Wen Lingwei scowled, “What’s wrong? Can you exin what the game looks like?”
Jia Peng wiped his sweat off his forehead, “Although I don’t really understand what’s going on, but... I feel that the design document doesn’t have much in it. Isn’t the content on the lower side?”
Su Jinyu opened the design document forbat and looked through thebat rules again.
On the vertical mobile screen, the yer and the enemy will take up six tiles each (might be slightly different on boss rounds), attacking in order...
Su Jinyu read over thebat rules again.
“Yeah, that’s it! Isn’t this too simple? This doesn’tpare to nts vs Zombies!”
Su Jinyu couldn’t believe her eyes, and found it hard to believe that Chen Mo would give her such acking design document.
nts vs Zombies was a real-time game, but the new game somehow devolved back into turn-based!
Furthermore,bat could be summarized as a bunch of cards fighting. Other than moving around the cards, the yer didn’t need to perform any other actions!
Such a simple game...
Su Jinyu couldn’t imagine what thebat would look like, but felt like she needed to unsee it. A bunch of cards brawling? Could the idea be any dumber?
Moreover, what is this VIP system?
V12 required five million runes?
The exchange rate was one RMB for ten runes, that meant that V12 required fifty thousand RMB?!
Five zero zero zero zero RMB!
Su Jinyu didn’t understand what the meaning of that was; who would spend fifty thousand RMB in a game?
How many nice meals could you afford with that amount of money?!
How many articles of clothing?!
How many movies?!
How many gadgets?!
How could there be anyone who would be willing to spend fifty thousand RMB on a game like this?!
Moreover, look at the VIP privileges!
Increase the limit of daily purchases, improve leadership, increase the number of times you can y in various game modes! There was even a VIP gift package!
And what was this top-up bonus, why would there be cards in the top-up bonus? Topping-up twenty thousand runes for an exclusive Elder Sister card!
Two thousand RMB, that was just robbery!
Su Jinyu only had one thought in her mind looking through the design documents: WTF?
“Manager, although you’re betting on ie, but... this ploy to make money is too obvious!
“No... I must ask him and find out what’s going on!”
Su Jinyu went upstairs.
Jia Peng looked at Wen Lingwei, and she looked back at him.
“What do we do, senior?” asked Jia Peng.
Wen Lingwei replied, “Who knows? Let’s just pretend nothing happened and go back to our own lives. Don’t meddle with something if you don’t know it’s full extent, let Goldfish do the arguing with the manager.”
Jia Peng was speechless.
How can you be so content with this?!