Chapter 493 GOG’s Creative Community
April 20th, Wednesday...
At Tengda Gas...
Hu Xianbin was at his desk, sipping on his coffee and racking his brains for a plot for Struggle.
Struggle’s research and developnt were happening at the sa ti. For now, Ruan Guangjian’s Halo Workspace was still working on the concept art for the characters.
After Hu Xianbin approved them, they would be outsourced to an art resource team for careful modeling. After that, the actors would go to a motion-capturing workspace to have their motions captured.
At the sa ti, Hu Xianbin had to think of a storyline for the ga as soon as possible.
It didn’t look like an excessively complicated task. After all, Boss Pei had already given him a clear outline of the story. However, when Hu Xianbin sat down to get it done, he realized that it was more difficult than he had imagined
It was true that he could draw materials from regular life events like going to school, taking examinations, being hired, getting married, having children, and the like. However, it was precisely because he was surrounded by such events that it was so difficult to choose the most appropriate content.
There were billions of people in the world who were living completely different lives. The poor were miserable in various ways while the rich were prosperous in various ways. Which case study should Hu Xianbin choose to represent the poor and the rich?
Social strata were complicated. So poor people were living in the sewers and in slum housing in the city. So did not have clothes to wear or food to eat while others were in financial straits but could fill their stomachs.
There were many different kinds of poor people and rich people. Two people could both be referred to as ‘poor’, but one could find it extrely difficult to understand the other.
Thus, it was exceptionally challenging for the designer to represent an entire class of society with one individual in the ga. If he went out of line, people might say that ‘that’s not how poor people live at all’. Then, the entire foundation of the story would collapse.
How could he keep the story realistic and yet cause the case study to be so general that it could resonate with an entire class of people...?
Hu Xianbin felt like he was facing an unprecedented challenge. Li Yada was no longer there to pave the way for him. He had to depend on himself now, and he was under imnse pressure.
Just as he was racking his brains, Min Jingchao walked to his side and knocked gently on his work desk.
“The plan for GOG’s event is out. Do you want to take a look?”
Hu Xianbin shook his head. “I can’t handle that. You can take care of it. Anyway...”
He subconsciously glanced at Li Yada’s desk and said, “As long as Big Sister Li and Brother Bao are alright with it, there shouldn’t be a problem.”
Min Jingchao nodded. “Yes, I already sent the plan into the group. They didn’t say anything.”
Hu Xianbin, “There shouldn’t be a problem, then.”
Min Jingchao felt more relaxed as well, and so she returned to her own desk. Her computer screen displayed a proposal: GOG’s Creative Community.
GOG’s official website contained an official forum at first. It was mainly ant for gars to raise suggestions and feedback on problems. At the sa ti, it ford a part of TPDb as well.
Now, Min Jingchao planned to start a new board in the forum and na it ‘Creative Community’. It would be exclusively used to collect gars’ ideas for new heroes.
Of course, Min Jingchao kept Boss Pei’s guidance in mind when designing this board.
“For most people, creativity could either be a treasure chest or shackles.”
While the gars’ creativity had to be respected, Min Jingchao also had to be cautious about the ‘shackles’ effect. She had to avoid turning the ga into an odd patchwork, which was neither fish nor fowl.
As the system designer, Min Jingchao had to exercise control over the ga’s system balance. At the sa ti, Zhang Nan had to exercise control over the ga’s artistic style. On top of that, with so many ideas being contributed, filtering and analyzing would be very troubleso. Thus, the designer had to foresee those problems and co up with a chanism to deal with them.
Min Jingchao divided the Creative Community into several simple sections and designed a chanism to sieve gars who ‘liked’ similar items. This would minimize the amount of low-level work that the designers would have to do in the future.
In Min Jingchao’s mind, there were generally three types of heroes in GOG:
First, heroes whose IPs had been bought over. They had been modeled after their original concept art, and their skills had been designed based on the background story of the original character.
Second, heroes that had been designed and modeled based on internal employees or people who had made special contributions to the ga. Modest was one example of such heroes.
Third, heroes designed by the gars themselves.
Further, gars could design two types of heroes: the type that emphasized on chanism and gaplay and the type that emphasized on outward appearance.
There were specializations in the art industry. Most gars would not think about a hero’s background story, appearance, and skills chanism, much less the balance in the system.
Thus, Min Jingchao had to separate all of those items.
Therefore, the Creative Community was split into four sections: the IP Heroes Idea Pool, the Special Contributions Idea Pool, the Original Works (chanisms) Idea Pool, and the Original Works (Appearance) Idea Pool.
The officials would regularly post stickies on the IP Heroes Idea Pool to notify everyone of the newest character IPs that GOG had bought over. After that, gars could raise ideas on skills design based on the existing images and background stories.
Outstanding employees, business partners, and gars would be singled out in the Special Contributions Idea Pool. After that, gars could start designing new heroes based on those people’s unique characteristics.
In the Original Works (chanisms) Idea Pool, gars could brainstorm hero designs and plans that could benefit the ga’s chanism. For example, the ga was lacking a roaming support hero at the mont. Thus, gars could use this section to suggest skills that new heroes could possess. Other people or the officials could then fill in the gaps in the heroes’ concept art and background stories.
The Original Works (Appearance) Idea Pool would be the exact opposite. Gars would only have to contribute concept art or background stories that they had created for new heroes, and other people or the officials could co up with the heroes’ skills.
All of the sections would have rich filtering and sorting functions.
For example, players would be able to sort the various suggestions based on different figures such as popularity, date and ti, and the number of likes. They would also be able to interact with others’ designs by liking them, recomnding them, laughing at them, or trampling all over them.
That way, gars would get to do the initial filtration. New heroes would then be created in descending order of popularity among gars.
Since they were going to crowdsource anyway and the gars were going to be put in charge of the designing work, Min Jingchao decided to take it a step further and allow them to shortlist the works as well.
Of course, a company with high principles, like Tengda, would not freeload off the gars’ creativity. To ignite gars’ passion, Min Jingchao also designed a generous reward chanism.
For all gars:
After the heroes that gars designed were released, they would get ninety percent off their first skin, fifty percent off their second skin, and twenty percent off their third skin. All gars would be able to enjoy this promotion for up to a month (starting from the day that the skins were put up for sale). For gars who were active on the forum (judging from their log in frequency, number of likes and comnts, and other data on the forum):
After the heroes that gars designed were released, gars who were active on the forum would enjoy the aforentioned promotions with no ti limit.
Even if one was not an active gar at the mont-as long as they logged in and interacted on the forum, their ‘active gar’ status would be reinstated. They would then be allowed to enjoy the sa benefits.
As for outstanding contributors of content (people who contributed a lot of feedback and creative ideas, regardless of whether they were taken into consideration or not):
Whether the ideas were taken into consideration or not, such contributors would be allowed to enjoy seventy percent off all the skins (they would not be allowed to consolidate both promotions; the bigger discount would apply).
Those whose feedback and ideas were considered would get a five percent share of the profit earned from the sale of that hero’s skins. In addition, their nas and in-ga nas would forever be credited on the hero’s details page, as the source of the hero ideas. Gars would also be able to choose a title once they entered a match such as ‘Designer of Modest’.
Of course, gars had to enter into agreents before they would be allowed to upload any ideas. That would prevent any copyright or intellectual property disputes.
Otherwise, Tengda could be made to compensate for a huge sum of money after selecting a few designs from the forum. That would be an awkward situation.
On the whole, the compensation would be more than adequate.
This was especially true for those whose ideas were considered; they would get a five-percent share of the profits from the sale of all skins for the hero. The more popular their hero beca and the more skins GOG would sell, the more profits the contributors would earn. Ideally, gars would only have to design one hero that was fun and popular. Then, they could depend on their five-percent share of profits to survive for the rest of their lives.
Of course, that was an ideal scenario.
A few years down the road—when over a hundred heroes had been created, there might still only be tens of lucky people who would fall under that category.
Still, the generous rewards would encourage talented gars to rack their brains and take part in the designing of heroes.
The five-percent share of profits would get GOG a hero that was widely loved by gars and the active participation of all gars. That would not be considered a loss.
Now, Min Jingchao only had one thing to say to Finger Gas: “Co on, you have a strong team, but the gars have infinite wisdom!”
After confirming the plan once more, Min Jingchao sent the plan to Ma Yiqun.
At the mont, the sa team was in charge of Zhongdian Chinese Network, TPDb, the gas’ official websites, and the forum. All of them were websites after all, and all of them would ultimately be gathered onto TPDb’s website. Thus, it was best if they were created using the sa template.
Once the forum was ready and revised, news of it would spread like wildfire in all of the gaming groups! Boss Pei would probably be comforted by this proposal that we have co up with, right?
At that mont...
Pei Qian was sitting in his office, worrying. He had not made any headway on the special mission for this cycle, which involved limitless learning.
At most, he could invest eight percent of twenty million yuan in himself. That was just 1.6 million yuan. If he acquired so knowledge and the System decided that he had accomplished sothing by the end of the cycle, he would be allowed to deduct or add 12.8 million yuan to the System Funds.
However, that was provided that he managed to spend 1.6 million yuan. The less he spent, the less he would get to deduct in the end.
Pei Qian had been sitting on this decision for three whole weeks for those two reasons.
What kind of course would allow him to spend 1.6 million yuan in a few months?
Even if such a course existed, would he be able to upgrade his skills? Would the System recognize his achievents?
If the System concluded that he had learned nothing, then he would only have spent 1.6 million yuan by the end of the cycle. He would not be able to deduct any additional funds from the System Funds. Then, the entire mission would have been aningless.
Pei Qian had thought of a lot of options such as managent, economics, a foreign language... arts...
Yet, every option seed inappropriate.
First of all, he was extrely busy now. He had the ti for classes, but he might not have the ti to learn those things well.
Second, even if he did have ti, his brain might not be good enough.
Third, even if he had the ti and he could learn, it would be very difficult for him to spend 1.6 million yuan. Courses that required 1.6 million yuan did not necessarily teach useful content either.
On top of all that, the System was extrely stingy. It would not allow Pei Qian to play with semantics and say that he had ‘spent 1.6 million yuan to buy himself a lesson’.
He was in a fix.
He had been watching the days go by. Finally, he decided that he could not delay things any longer. The more he postponed it, the less ti he would have to acquire new knowledge.
Since he could not think of a solution on his own, he had to ask for help. Yet, who should he
ask?
After so thought, Pei Qian decided to ask Little Tang
Among all of his employees, Little Tang was the least indoctrinated. At the sa ti, her lips were tightly sealed. Pei Qian could trust that she would not breathe a single word to anyone when she was not supposed to. Thus, she was a good candidate.At that thought, Pei Qian sent Tang Yishu a ssage, inviting her into his office.
Soon, he heard knocking on his door. Tang Yishu entered his office and said, “Senior, I haven’t found all... all the Managent Trainees-“
Pei Qian waved his hand. “The deadline is Saturday. Don’t worry. I wanted to ask you about sothing else; help
think of ideas.
“If I wanted to learn sothing, what would you say is the most important thing to learn?”
Tang Yishu was stunned. She blinked slowly and then said, “I... I don’t know.”
Pei Qian was very hurt. He was slightly disappointed in this response.
Am I that perfect in everyone’s eyes? Does everyone see no room for improvent at all?
Ai, one can truly misunderstand another to a terrifying extent! After so consideration, Tang Yishu said, “Senior, I don’t know what’s the most important thing for you to learn, but I know what you absolutely don’t need to learn...” Pei Qian, “Oh? What is that?” Tang Yishu, “Ga... ga design.”
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