Chapter 149: Chapter 117 I’m Here (Three More Updates)_1
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Plagiarism is a common occurrence in the ga industry.
Many gas have even plagiarized their way to classical status, becoming milestones in the history of gaming.
When it cos to plagiarism, as long as there’s no direct use of code, original artwork, or models, then copying gaplay is generally not legally recognized as plagiarism.
In the past year, there have been countless incidents of plagiarism, but only a very few have actually been judged as such by a court.
Tianyi has not been exempt from plagiarism; in fact, one could say they built their business on it.
They have many experienced planners, who can deduce a ga developer’s thought process and the remaining gaplay from the ga kernel exhibited by a beta version, through clues and traces.
Even with just a test version, or a few minutes of a demo, they can discern the core enjoynt of a ga and deduce additional gaplay from it.
Through a brainpower advantage brought by a large planning team, they could even make others’ core gaplay more interesting, and through capital promotion, expand its influence to absurd lengths, ultimately achieving the ridiculous feat of plagiarizing their way to the death of the original.
Afterwards, Tianyi would even use the others’ corpses as case studies, packaging the original clone as competition to cover up their past.
Besides that, they had another major advantage, which was their rich art and programming resources.
After all, Tianyi was a company with decades of history, and it had started laying out 3D a long ti ago, accumulating a vast amount of art resources and 3D technology.
Their massive art library contained a plethora of reusable resources— Eastern, Western, classical, and modern. These years of accumulation were the deep reserves of a massive ga company, significantly reducing their art costs.
In addition, Tianyi had a big killer application in experintation.
That is, AI programming modules.
Tianyi had specialized AI programrs internally, who continuously fed all sorts of codes to the AI program. The end result was that as long as the planning docunt was written according to certain specifications, the program could automatically fulfill more than eighty percent of the work.
Although it still couldn’t replace programrs outright, it could directly cut down programming workload by sixty percent, and bugs were virtually nonexistent afterward.
Thinking about the company’s existing resources and flipping through the materials provided by product operations, Zhang Ping’s brain worked at high speed.
Before long, he had estimated the approximate costs of plagiarizing “Dark Builder” and the prospects of such a ga, based on the available materials.
By collaborating to build different structures to resist the threat of darkness, each battle could be very short. Such a fast-paced ga fit the current market well.
The co-op mode would entail so light social elents; the ga could enable voice chat, but by default, voice communication would be turned off, avoiding the presence of stress inducers and satisfying the light social needs of players.
The gaplay was simple, but the market feedback was good. Through anonymous surveys, the product operations found the ga had a positive reputation, though so players criticized its pixel art style.
Therefore, by optimizing the art and grafting on so monetization elents and other features, it was very likely to achieve a ga with monthly revenues exceeding one hundred million.
Looking at Kongkong, Zhang Ping felt that he had co to his senses not too late.
He was a ga producer who could make money, not one who could create great gas.
Recently, several good gas from Tianyi’s headquarters had erged and received a good reception among players; they were both critically and comrcially successful.
In contrast, the much-anticipated Rong City branch had not been performing well.
Plus, the fact that a producer from Feixiang Studio announced retirent put him under considerable pressure. He urgently needed so successful gas to boost morale and show the higher-ups they were also striving hard.
So, although plagiarism was not exactly honorable, especially when the victim was an independent ga, if the plagiarism was successful enough to completely outdo the original, players would only rember the victor in the end. Losers do not deserve to be nad.
Patting Kongkong on the shoulder, Zhang Ping said, “Go ahead and do it with confidence, the company supports you.”
After a pause, Zhang Ping continued, “But if it fails, soone will have to take the fall. You understand what I an, right?”
Kongkong nodded.
As a producer who often made others take the fall, he knew all too well how big the ‘pot’ could be if he failed.
This was to be a high-stakes gamble with his past reputation on the line.
It was still not too late to back out now, but he had grown accustod to sitting on the throne, reigning like a local emperor in his own studio.
The taste of power was more exquisite than anything else, once tasted, it could never be forgotten.
Tianyi was quick to respond.
They decided to kick off the project in the morning, and by afternoon, Kongkong Studio was reorganized.
A group of battle-tested programrs and artists capable of ‘007’ work were transferred in to staff the studio.
Ga outsourcing was maxed out as Tianyi once again went all-in on a project, working at an almost insane pace to start production of the new ga non-stop.
The ga’s code was not complex. Although they couldn’t crack “Dark Builder’s” code through reverse engineering, “King’s Dungeon’s” code and art resources were readily available. By re-skinning the models and adjusting the cara angle, they could create a similar effect.
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