<h4>Chapter 157: Chapter 156: Early Bird Gets the Worm?</h4>
It didn’t take long before many other card gamepanies found out about the news.
Chen Mo didn’t try to keep it a secret at all. It was difficult to keep it a secret anyways as there was no way from preventing the artpany from leaking the news.
Once the news gets out, it wouldn’t take long for the entire mobile gamemunity to hear about it. It wasn’t a good news to any mobile card game designer that Chen Mo was back making mobile games.
And during Chen Mo’s hiatus from mobile games, the other card game designers were having the time of their lives.
The best time of their life even.
At this point, the industry was happy to have everyone make money from mobile card games as opposed to going at each other’s neck.
This was opposed to genres like RPG as the yerbase was incredibly limited, and everypany was trying to get as much of it as possible.
But it was different for card games. Since the huge mobile card game industry was still in its early stages and there wasn’t a monopoly, there was a silent agreement that they should all work together in peace.
Because card games were all so simr and no designer dared to make any big changes, which was why thepanies relied on big IPs to get a slice of the yer base.
You’ll make an anime one, I’ll make one based on a novel. They could all work on the same thing yet have separate yerbases.
It was fine even if they shared the same target audience as they just had to space out the release dates.
Who wouldn’t have the time of their life when they could make money by doing nothing?
This was almost an unspoken rule. It wasn’t that thesepanies didn’t want to monopolise the industry, it was because they couldn’t, and a game that could do that didn’t exist.
If they wanted to achieve that, they must ensure that the game was better than all the other games on the market and had an IP that covered a huge yer base.
Demon yers might be the only one that slightly matches thest point. There wasn’t a game that truly covered both points.
But Chen Mo’s move made everything unclear.
Many video game designers were discussing this matter privately.
“Have you heard that Chen Mo is making a card game?”
“What? Is he making a sequel to I Am MT? It can’t be, the animation isn’t all that popr anymore. Are there that many die hard fans of the series?”
“No, I heard it’s a Japanese Shikigami theme. I don’t know much about it.”
“What is it, does it have an IP?”
“No!”
“Then why is he doing it?”
“Who knows! Who knows what Chen Mo is nning?”
“I feel like something is about to go down.”
“Who said it wasn’t, Chen Mo had been doing so well in the PC market, but decided to pivot back into the mobile game industry. Clearly, he’s messing with us!”
“What should we do?”
“Watch! What else can we do? Anyways, the ones at the top should be most affected, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment’s Demon yers 2 will cop most of the blow.”
“We’ll see what Emperor Dynasty Entertainment does.”
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Qiu Bin forwarded the news of Chen Mo making a card game to Lin Chaoxu.
It didn’t take long for Lin Chaoxu toe to a decision.
Promote Demon yers 2 now! Release it as fast as possible!
Lin Chaoxu wasn’t as cautious and indecisive as Qiu Bin as he knew what this meant.
This meant that once Chen Mo’s preparations were done, it could be another hugely popr game. This was horrible news to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment!
The early bird gets the worm, release Demon yers 2 early and get a bunch of yers. Promote the game everywhere in order to get as many yers as possible, and make as much money as they could before Chen Mo releases his game.
Even when Chen Mo’s game was really sessful, its impact on Demon yers 2 will be greatly reduced.
Once Lin Chaoxu gave the green light, the progress of Demon yers immediately got fast tracked.
Promoting the game, getting testers, feedback, improving... Qiu Bin was working as hard as he could to get Demon yers 2 to a state where it could be released.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment’s promotions started appearing everywhere. It was on various streaming sites, gaming sites, forums, ad spots...
Various videogame media were also releasing their articles.
Demon yers’ sequel, Demon yers 2 released soon!
Popr web novel turned mobile game taking the world by storm!
National Phenomena, sessor of Demon yers
Can Demon yers 2 reach a new record for mobile games monthly ie?
First mobile card game sequel about to be released!
With enough money, the media was sure to hype it up. Because of how sessful Demon yers was, it wasn’t too over the top to sing the song of praises for its sequel.
The yers watching for the side had all sorts of reactions, but they all looked forward to it because of its sess and its yerbase.
Everyone in the videogame industry knew that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment nned to make as much money as possible before Chen Mo releases his new game to reduce the effects of Chen Mo’s new game on them.
Everyone felt bad, only Chen Mo had the power to put Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in this state!
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On Chen Mo’s side of things, Onmyoji was proceeding as usual.
Shikigami’s sketches, models, and scenes were being moved along nicely, the cinematomatics were being worked on, thebat system, numbers and ystyle were all being nned meticulously.
There wasn’t a whole lot of work for Onmyoji. In this previous life, Onmyoji’s starting team only consisted of nine people, including programmers.
Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun were quitefortable with this as they were familiar with mobile card games, and they could direct any questions to Chen Mo.
Su Jinyu had to deal with the difficult parts of the game. As this was a game that focused on artwork, her hands were full from controlling the artstyle for the game to make sure they match.
Chen Mo was also busy as he oversaw all of this. Shikigami sketches, story of the game, the bncing of the game... he probably couldn’t manage without the Super elerator.
Chen Mo was already quite tired when he was working on Warcraft as it was more work. But since he had a lot of passion and motivation, Chen Mo didn’t feel tired working on a game that could go down in history.
But Chen Mo felt much more tired working on Onmyoji because hecked passion as it was fairly simr to I Am MT.
“I’m going to hire a lot more people after this, I can’t keep doing this.”
Chen Mo wanted to maintain a small group as the efficiency would go down when the number of people increased. But from the looks of it, he needed to hire more as he couldn’t do everything himself.
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As he was working, Zheng Hongxi saw an ad about Demon yers 2.
Aside from the advertising Demon yers 2, they even stepped on I Am MT.
Qian Kun angrilyined to Chen Mo, “Do you see what the media are saying? Demon yers is the number one mobile card game in China? How can they say that?”
Zheng Hongxi agreed, “Yeah, isn’t that just a game that copied I Am MT? Seems that you can do anything with enough promotion!”
“Right? There’s nothing good toe from following manager’s footsteps!” added Su Jinyu.
Chen Mo was speechless, “What do the yers think on I Am MT’s forum?”
“What can they think?” said Qian Kun, “Anyone staying in I Am MT are all diehard fans. They aren’t changing their minds. There are many more Demon yers fans anyways.”
“Don’t worry, let them be,” said Chen Mo, “Onmyoji is going alone pretty well anyways, just work on the things you need to work on. We’ll release the game one and a half months after their release, they can bask in the sun while they still can.”
Qian Kun was hesitant, “But manager, Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform has so many yers, are you sure we won’t suffer by giving them a head start?”
Chen Moughed, “Why are you worried? You guys know how good the game is. Put it this way, no matter Demon yers 2 or any other card game, they will eventually be consumed by Onmyoji. We won’t suffer from anything.”