Chen Mo was quite satisfied. He was worried about the audio side of things of the ga, so the skill book was a godsend.
Chen Mo always hired people to do BGM and sound effects for his ga, as he did not have any musical bones in him.
For so of the classic gas, it will be impossible to recreate them perfectly just from dictation. Therefore it would be better if he took matters into his own hands.
Chen Mo tapped and activated it imdiately. The blue skill book turned into rays of light and entered his fingertips.
Chen Mo took out the keyboard from his office that had been provided by the competition officials. Thinking he wouldnt be able to use it, he had put it away, as it was just gathering dust.
After trying out a couple scales, he connected it to the computer and produced a simple ten second long BGM. Chen Mo felt that it sounded alright, and he was able to handle the audio part himself for simpler gas.
Not bad, off to a good start. Now all thats left is to see the results for the two ten spins.
Chen Mo took a deep breath and tapped the ten spins button.
Clack, clack, clack
The wheel spun up and slowed down constantly, finishing ten spins within thirty seconds. The ten draws showed on the screen in the order they were drawn.
Designer Skill Books: three Coding books, four Level Design books.
Special Skill Books: one 10 Original Art
Special Effects Book: one 10 Animation Skills
Special Equipnt: mory Playback Potion
This caught Chen Mos attention. Pretty good, ten draws did make a difference! It felt like the chances of drawing blue and purple rares were much higher than single draws!
Chen Mo hurriedly checked out the effects of the special equipnt.
mory Playback Potion: After consuming, freely rember any forgotten or murky mories, lasts for four hours.
That was pretty good! Chen Mo badly needed that item.
There were many gas that Chen Mo had played before that he could barely rember now. Although there was a faint impression, it wasnt enough to reproduce all the details.
With the mory Playback Potion, Chen Mo would be able to dive into his past mories. As long as he has played it or done a deep dive into it, hed be able to recall the experience.
Chen Mo consud the skill books without giving them much thought.
Coding skills 3, Level Design 4. Chen Mo estimated that his true coding ability was about 27, and his true Level Design ability was about 35. Combined with the mory Playback Potion, recreating so more complicated minigas wasnt a problem.
There were two other Special Skill Books: one for Original Art, another for Animation.
It was obvious that the drawing chanism was programd to separate skills, such as art and music, that werent related to video ga engineering, to be part of the Special Skill Books.
Original Art 10, Chen Mos Original Art skills had been raised to 19, and were now able to deal with gas with simpler art styles.
From barely anything to now sothing, Animation skills were now decent with the 10 skill book. Chen Mo could now do so simple 2D animations, which was key.
-Draw again!-
With another ten draws in him, Chen Mo tapped on the screen once again.
Clack, clack, clack
The wheel started spinning once again, and another ten items followed it.
Designer Skill Books: seven Storyboarding skill books, two Coding skill books.
Special Equipnt: Lucky Capsule.
Chen Mo almost fainted; the difference was way too big!
-You have to be kidding!-
Not only wasnt there a single blue skill book, the green skill books that were drawn were in the most unnecessary aspects, coding and storyboarding!
Chen Mo was hurting after that. Every ten draws cost a hundred thousand RMB!
However, Chen Mo felt better when he saw the special equipnt.
Lucky Capsule: After consumption substantially increases luck, lasts for ten minutes.
-What does this do? Am I gonna pick up five million bucks when I go outside?-
-Effect lasts for ten minutes obviously it was ant to be used alongside drawing ten! Next ti Ill find ten million credits and spin for ten ten tis!-
Whatever, Ill save it for next ti
Chen Mo was now in a sticky situation. With his credits depleted and a hundred thousand RMB in the bank, it would be too risky to dump the rest of it into credits. The safer bet would be to co back after earning so money by producing his first ga.
Chen Mo consud the Storyboarding and Coding books. Although these were Chen Mos strengths, they were still far from perfect, and in the end they were still useful.
Cehn Mo turned off the virtual display in an attempt to calm down.
Two hundred thousand RMB spent on top-ups, skill books were drawn, special equipnt was drawn, all thats left was for Chen Mo to make his first real ga.
Chen Mo was still hesitant on which ga to make.
From a pure money-making perspective, a Chinese pay-to-win mobile ga from his previous life would be the best choice.
These gas werent super high quality, purely attracting players using the coding side of things. You shouldnt make such a ga too much about monetization.
However, Chen Mo was worried about two things.
First was his coding abilities.
The reason Chinese pay-to-win gas are able to keep their players paying was by stimulating them using well made code. Just because you improve your strength in ga using money doesnt an the ga would be profitable.
Therefore software engineers within the Chinese video ga industry had very high statuses, only second to the producer as software engineers control the tempo of the ga.
Making the code well would an giving the ga a proper foundation. The ga can be saved even if the graphics looked bad or if the playstyle was repetitive. But if the coding werent done well, the ga would be dead on arrival with no breathing room.
As Chen Mo didnt even have thirty points in his coding abilities there were so risks to making a ga like this, even with the help of the mory Playback Potion.
The code for these gas were always semi-hidden including combat calculations, attribute growth, effectiveness relationship, economy algorithms etc. Every one of these have their own proprietary configurations, and maintained by professionals, essentially a trade secret where the average joe has no access to it.
Because the code is such a big part of these gas, as soon as the code is leaked, other companies will be able to use that as a frawork and produce a knockoff.
Chen Mo would have to write all the code by hand if he made a ga like this. However, he didnt have confidence manipulating the code based on his current abilities.
There was another problem: player acceptance!
The main thod of profit in this world still depended on sales per ga.
Top-up services, especially pay-to-win, were not mainstream. Furthermore, there hadnt been anyone fully committed to pay-to-win.
If he produced an average pay-to-win ga and the gars discovered it was pay-to-win, would they accept it?
Would they be strongly against it, negatively affecting him and the companys image? Maybe there would be so players who would just boycott his next gas?
It was hard to say. Just because there was a low chance of it happening didnt an it wouldnt happen. As this was Chen Mos first ga, he didnt want to take the risk.
The tastes of gars and the place for pay-to-win gas in this world were unknown, and the grounds needed to be tested, step by step. One misstep might be devastating.
Therefore, Chen Mo chose to make a safer choice, and make a stand-alone ga and an honest living out of it.
Stabilizing himself using this ga, at least putting the na of Thunderbolt Gaming out there, and then slowly testing the limits of the players was what Chen Mo had in mind!
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