Its fine, its just a one or two months right, that doesnt guarantee first place. said Chen Mo after so thought.
Lin Mao nodded, Thats true, the Ga Committee mbers do have specific tastes. But youd probably have a hard ti getting first place if your ga wasnt super innovative.
Chen Mo did so more thinking.
Im thinking of making a Xianxia mobile ga, what about you?
Chen Mo said after a thought, Im thinking Wuxia.
Lin Mao was shocked, Wuxia? Wuxia is pretty difficult!
Chen Mo nodded, I know, thats why I picked it.
Thats true, if you make it well, theres a high chance of it getting first place. But it is extrely difficult to make the the special. Zen Entertainnt have been playing with it for a long ti and never got any results.
I know, thats why Im still thinking about it, said Chen Mo.
Lin Mao nodded, Alright! You can do it! I believe in you! You made an RTS ga like Warcraft when it is commonly accepted to be difficult! If you plan it out and do this the justice, you have a good chance of getting first place.
Chen Mo nodded, Good luck, lets get so good results!
After his al, Chen Mo returned to the experience store and started thinking hard about the ga.
There werent many types of gas that were Chinese thed. The popular ones were Wuxia and Xianxia.
In the parallel world, the first response of video ga designers and players when they think about Chinese gas would be Xianxia gas. The currently popular VR ga Legend of the Sword was a type of Xianxia ga.
The reason Xianxia gas were popular was because they could use the combat system of an RPG ga, making its playstyle easy to pick up and familiar to players.
Just as Western Fantasy RPG gas have warriors, casters, archers, lee or ranged, flying with Gryphons These could all be reskinned with a Xianxia the.
In Xianxia gas, players could fly on their swords, attack others with spells, they could explore areas like caves or mountains, all very fitting with Western RPG gas.
The combat of Wuxia gas could easily be reskinned using the combat system from Western RPG gas, and the players wouldnt feel that it was out of place.
Therefore most popular Wuxia gas were basically reskinned Western RPG gas. And because they had gas to base it off of, there werent any risks involved as it was sothing players were used to.
So why couldnt they do the sa with Wuxia?
The biggest problem was the combat system.
Xianxia are placed in worlds where magic is common, as opposed to Wuxia where magic is rare.
You could fly on your sword, kill demons, and summon thousands of swords in Wuxia worlds, making it rich and fitting of this spellcasting based combat system.
In Wuxia combat systems you take damage and other effects when I cast spells, which can be reflected in skills and debuffs.
Wuxia was completely different. Traditionally it would be throwing punches and countering them. The Wuxia skills are usually pretty basic. For example, it would be a stretch to treat Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms as eighteen different skills, but it might be too simple if it was just one move. It was also difficult to convey its aning and uniqueness if it only dealt damage.
Moreover, Wuxia worlds lacked monsters, making it more difficult to tell a story as there wouldnt be huge bosses, with humanoids in its place.
Converting Xianxia to Wuxia would require taking out a lot of content, moreover, it was also difficult to convey the cultural aspect of Wuxia through a ga.
Which was why designers would father do Xianxia over Wuxia.
There were quite a few Wuxia gas in his previous life, but the problem was that these Wuxia gas were just a reskin and bore the sa core as Xianxia and Western RPG gas.
The large portion of the gas that were based on successful novels by Jin Yong and Gu Long depended on the IP, the gas themselves made no new innovations.
For example, making Six ridian Swords[1] a ranged attack, and making Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms and lee attacks, energy drain would be a mana drain, and quick steps would increase evasion
These still had strong ties to the combat system of Western RPG gas. Setting aside the sentintal value to the original works, these chanics were a bit of the stretch, and players would probably not buy it.
Although there wasnt Jin Yong and Gu Long in this world, there were similar Wuxia novels, with the concept of energy, move sets, and different types of Wugong. The Wugong in this world were pretty similar to the previous world too, stuff like Yijin Jing, Tai Chi, and Baguazhang were also popular in this world.
It was impossible for Chen Mo to secure one of these IPs or to remake one of Jin Yongs novels were impossible as he only had three months to do it.
The Wuxia IPs in this world were quite expensive and doesnt co close to how popular Jin Yongs novels were. Even when setting aside the price, buying it wouldnt have a huge effect anyways, otherwise Zen and Emperor Dynasty wouldve bought it.
Zen Entertainnt insisted on making high quality gas with a Chinese the. It wasnt that they didnt want to explore Wuxias potentials, but the outcos of those gas were diocre at best, which was why they went back to Xianxia thes.
Forcing a Wuxia thed ga without making innovations to the core of the ga was obviously a no go.
The judges werent dense either and would easily be able to tell terrible works like these. Whats the point of making a Wuxia ga with barely any Wuxia content?
Chen Mo wanted to make a Wuxia ga to show off Wuxia content, one that makes innovations on the play style, and not one that just has Wuxia in the title.
Chen Mo had made quite a few gas since he entered the industry, including two incredibly successful gas such as Plants vs Zombies, and Warcraft, scummy gas like I Am MT, and a visual novel like Lifeline.
But they were mostly classic overseas gas, there wasnt one that was actually a full fledged Chinese thed ga.
You couldnt bla Chen Mo for favouring the west. This was what happened in his previous world, good gas from China were few and far between, and most of them were scummy gas.
But that wasnt what Chen Mo wanted. He hopes that Chinese gas could be shared all across the world, and Chinese players would appreciate the traditional cultural aspects Chinese gas.
Therefore, Chen Mo wanted to use this opportunity to make a standalone Wuxia ga to allow players to fully experience China.
TL note: Its like this finger gun attack syoutu.be/OVz6fi1KMkg?t=134
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