After finishing his al, Chen Mo looked through his laptop in a dissatisfied manner while sipping on his milk tea. His heart was racing, and his breath was heavy.
Chen Mo felt frustrated. He almost choked on a pearl from his milk tea as soon as he got angry.
Why was he angry? Because when Chen Mo turned on his laptop, he grew happier and happier after he confird the gas in this world.
VR gas dominated the scene.
PC gaming was pathetic, simply dismal, as the main purpose of PCs was for work.
The mobile gas market was filled with casual gas. Not a single one of them was targeted at hardcore gars. Moreover, most of them were made by C or D-grade designers as practice, resulting in few being profitable.
There werent any browser gas, nor console gas.
It was obvious that video ga companies had rushed towards developing VR gas. Nobody cared about the PC side of things, and there was a complete lack of people for consoles.
Thinking it was a great opportunity for him to show his abilities, Chen Mo was quite happy.
But when he saw his personal savings account, his happiness had turned into anger. At that mont, Chen Mo almost choked on the pearls in the milk tea.
Chen Mo realized that the ga engine he was currently using was called Illusion Ga Engine, an invention from mainland China. There was also another engine from outside China called Reality Ga Engine. They were mostly similar, although Reality had a slight edge in VR gas.
However, video ga designers in China usually preferred Illusion Ga Engine in order to access publicly available resources and upload their gas. The information of the designers was also stored here, therefore Chen Mo had also chosen to use Illusion.
Opening the editor had revealed a number of statistics to him.
Chen Mo: Video Ga Designer (Entry Level)
Creativity: 7
System: 8
Coding: 3
Level Design: 4
Story Design: 10
Concept Art: 7
3D Art: 1
Monthly Quota: 294MB/300MB
The numbers in his account mustve been the overall score the system had given Chen Mo for his previous gas.
Storyboarding was rated the highest, probably due to his major in literature.
As for the pathetic 3D arts, its because Chen Mo had never touched any gas related to 3D.
-Oh, right. All the statistics are rated out of 100-
What angered him werent the tragic statistics, but the Monthly Quota at the bottom.
This suggested that every designer could use the free resources online for their gas, but the quota would differ according to their levels.
For a video ga designer like Chen Mo who doesnt even have his foot in the door, 300MB could be considered quite a bit. But the real problem lay in the fact that he had used 294MB, with only 6MB left!
This was only the middle of the month. It wasnt realistic to wait until the next month, as the due date for the competitions final submission was in two days!
-Even the gods are tornting !-
After a big gulp of milk tea, Chen Mo opened his save file in the video ga engine. Theres nothing I can do other than take a look at this save file and see if its possible to salvage it
After one minute and forty-three seconds, Chen Mo silently pressed the X on the top right.
-Man, that was unsightly.-
It was a 2D martial arts ga. It had basic combat and so simple moves, along with dozens of lines of dialogue.
As to the resources used it was probably spent on the ten backgrounds and the seven or eight bosses
In Chen Mos opinion, this ga had no potential at all.
The chanics, combat, graphics, scenes, all of them were beyond saving.
But restarting?
What could he possibly make with 6MB of resources? Minesweeper?
Sure, he could. But even if sothing of decent quality was made with the 6MB, it would be impossible for it to win a prize in the competition!
-Pain in the ass!
-How could I get myself caught up in this sort of problem?- Chen Mo felt like he had swallowed a big chunk of ice. Not only did it feel terrible, but he also felt a cold spot in his heart.
He extended his hand and shut the lid of his laptop.
-Its hopeless!-
At that mont, Chen Mo noticed the bracelet he had on his wrist wasnt quite normal.
The bracelet was bought by the original Chen Mo. Its effects were similar to the fitness tracker of his previous world, heart rate tracking, sleep quality, etc. He hadnt noticed it before, but could now see that the bracelet was in fact extraordinary.
Chen Mo tapped the bracelet, invoking a virtual display.
What the what is this?
Chen Mo was shocked. Initially, he had thought that it was so sort of black technology[1] from this world. But after scouring through his mory from this world, he realized that bracelets werent supposed to have this feature.
Chen Mo examined the simple virtual display, only displaying 2 ssages. A string of numbers and a virtual wheel.
The string of numbers: 597,340.
Almost sixty thousand credits
The virtual wheel had three distinct areas. The green one had Designer Skill Book written on it, the blue had Rare Skill Book written on it, whereas the purple had Special Equipnt written on it.
The green area was the largest, and the purple the smallest.
The wheel also had a big Spin to Win button in the middle.
Underneath the text was a small row of text, 100,000/spin.
Seeing this string of numbers made Chen Mo enter deep into thought.
After giving it so thought, Chen Mo finally understood. As a transmigrator, this was probably his artifact from the previous world. It appeared that it was an artifact that he had gotten through lucky draws.
However what did the 597,340 an? Why was there a zero at the end?
Like performing an autopsy, Chen Mo dissected his mory for numbers, rembering all the way from when he was young to now, before he finally slapped his forehead and figured it out.
This number was the amount he had spent on video gas in his previous life, multiplied by ten. Approximately sixty-thousand RMB.
This included money spent on RPGs, original AAA titles, and a bunch of equipnt in so crappy Chinese ga. Thinking back, he had indeed spent no less than sixty-four thousand four hundred eighty RMB!
Damn, I shouldve spent more, had I known!
Chen Mo felt so regret. Had he known earlier, he wouldve dumped his hundreds of thousands of life savings into gas when in his previous world.
Although, it still hurt to look at the 100,000/spin.
Thats really expensive. This would be 10,000 RMB cash per spin!
However, since he couldnt cash it out, Chen Mo decided to just spin and see what happened.
Chen Mo pressed the button as he muttered. According to the usual plot logic, shouldnt I be receiving so unique item plus so resources in order to create a new ga?
Swish, swish, swish The wheel had started spinning.
Special equipnt! Special equipnt! Special equipnt! Chen Mo was hoping loudly to himself.
Although Chen Mo didnt know which prize was the best, it was obvious that it was purple. Its area was the smallest, it must an that it must be the rarest prize!
With a clacking, the wheel had finally stopped. The pointer landed on the green area: Designers Skill Book!
Its fine, it was unlikely to land on the purple first ti around. Its perfectly normal! Relax, relax
Chen Mo discovered that a book had appeared on the virtual display, with a notification saying: Designer Skill Book: Coding 1
Chen Mo tried tapping it with his finger. The book turned into sparkles, flowing into his fingertip!
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[1] As in illegal technology, banned by the governnt
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