<h4>Chapter 184: An RPG Map</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Exodus Tales <strong>Editor: </strong>Exodus Tales


    It was the sixth day of the Chinese calendar, and Chen Mo was back in the experience store in Beijing.


    The Imperial Capital was weing huge waves of people as they wereing back from their hometown to resume work.


    The hustle and bustle before the new year hade to an end. Many people on the streets seemed dibobted as their bodies were still in holiday mode.


    Chen Mo opened the experience store door and went inside.


    Everything was as usual since a week ago when he left. Chen Mo moved theputer chairs to where they belonged before wiping down everything with a cloth, arranging the phones and tablets to where they should be.


    There were usually professionals cleaning the experience store, but dust had gathered as the experience store was closed for the past few days.


    Chen Mo was taking the cleaning quite seriously. This was his first experience store afterall, it had been with him since the start, and it wasn’t surprising that he developed an attachment.


    “Manager? You’re back?”


    Chen Mo turned around to find Zou Zhuo at the door with a shocked look on his face.


    “Yep, just got back. Happy Chinese New Year. You want a drink?” Chen Mo tossed a can of coke to Zou Zhuo.


    Zou Zhuo caught the can, “Thanks manager, you too. Happy Chinese New Year.”


    Zou Zhuo was a local, he was going on a walk after having his meal and just happened to walk in on Chen Mo opening the experience store.


    Zou Zhuo was quite excited as he wanted to y a few matches of Warcraft against Chen Mo to learn from it, but it never happened as he was usually so busy. Luckily, the experience store was quite empty as it was just after Chinese New Year.


    Zou Zhuo turned on aputer, “Manager, you want to y a few rounds and give me some pointers?”


    Chen Moughed, “Sure, I’ve got nothing to do anyways.”


    They started ying a few private matches.


    An hourter, Zou Zhuo called GG three times.


    The fatty scratched his head in confusion, “Alright, I’m done. The gap is still too big, there’s no game to be had.”


    Zou Zhuo’s Undead was destroyed by Chen Mo’s Night Elves, Undead, and Orcs during that hour.


    Chen MO said, “It’s alright, you’ve improved quite a bit.”


    “The gap is still too big, I’ll have to watch these reys when I get back,” said Zou Zhuo.


    “I think your Frost Armor Crypt Fiend is quite alright, but you messed up some on the details. I’d rmend you y some other races so understand your opponents better. You might even catch your opponents trying new things, you’ll learn a lot that way.”


    Chen Mo gave Zou Zhuo more tips onbat and some details as Zou Zhuo nodded along as he felt that he had a lot to gain from this.


    “What are we going to y next?”


    Chen Mo looked at the games on theputers in the experience store.


    They were already kind of tired with Warcraft which had the most depth. Other games like nts vs Zombies, Wulin Legend, and Onmyoji no longer appealed to CHen MO.


    “How about we y some RPG maps in Warcraft? There’s a map that has been quite popr recently. I’ve tried it out and it was quite fun,” suggested Zou Zhuo.


    Chen Mo nodded, “Sure.”


    Zou Zhuo found the map and created a lobby.


    Soon after Chen Mo entered the lobby, it was filled with other randoms.


    It was an RPG map called Holy Land. The story was based on a novel by the same name. The yers could choose to y as Holy Knight, Witch, Rouge, and Archer. They would explore the map before finally defeating the final boss to save the world.


    “Manager, since you’re better mechanically, you should pick the witch. I’ll pick the holy knight and heal you,” said Zou Zhuo.


    Chen Mo picked the witch and started exploring the map with the other two yers.


    All in all, the map was excellent. It was one of the most popr maps on the Warcraft as it had a lot of yers, and many guides following its poprity.


    The level design was alright, thebat was rich, and the bncing was well done. Most importantly, the game was ced in a western fantasy world which allowed it to fit in well with the resources of Warcraft. Theplete product could almost pass as aplete game.


    There were human viges, elven cities on isted inds, and the spookynd of the dead. The multitudes of adventures allowed the yers to feel incredibly immersed.


    Chen Mo couldn’t help but praise it, “This game is great, the author must have good knowledge with western fantasy.”


    Zou Zhuo nodded, “Yeah, but most importantly he used the story from Holy Land so it’s not as shocking as the other western fantasy games in China. But unfortunately the author doesn’t have the rights to the work, so we can only treat it as a fan project and they can’t actually profit from it.”


    “Has Holy Land not been turned into a game outside of China? Is there no Chinese version?” asked Chen Mo.


    “There is, but it’s a small VR game. I think thepany had some funding issues when they bought the rights. They were insistent on making a VR game, but they couldn’t make arge world to explore. So the game is doing alright overseas, but not so well in China.


    “Moreover, the game is different from this RPG map. I think most MMORPG games aren’t all that satisfying to y, just like Warcraft. Killing monsters of the same level takes a lot of effort, sure it’s bnced and realistic, but it’s not really satisfying.


    “I think that’s one of the reasons why this map is so popr. It’s really satisfying to be able to kill so many monsters in one sh.”


    Chen Mo nodded.


    Many designers in this world were quite stubborn with VR games, thinking that they may as well makerge VR games if they were going to make VR games anyways. When designers of this world think ofrge games, they default to VR games.


    But there was a lot of risk with making VR games. It would cost ten times more to develop the same world in a PC game in VR, and with the same money, it would mean a VR world a tenth of the size.


    Therefore most video game developers choose to make a PC game before migrating it to VR after it’s proven to be sessful.


    Chen Mo and Zou Zhuo both yed well, andbined with Zou Zhuo’s map knowledge, they finally beat it after an hour.


    Chen Mo said to Zou Zhuo, “You go ahead, I’ll do some research for my next game.”


    This caught Zou Zhuo’s attention, “Huh? New game? Have you figured out what game you’re going to make?”


    Chen Mo nodded, “Yeah, I’m almost there.”