Chapter 335: Chapter 214: Ancestor Tree (2)
Chen Ba laughed and explained, "Never underestimate how obsessed these middle-aged n can get with gaming!"
"It’s still different though..."
Yang Dong explained, "The reason for their obsession is probably because the gains from ascending to the throne in this ga far outweigh the investnt!"
So far, the average recharge revenue of "Don’t Leave After School" has completely stabilized.
Take a popular server as an example.
If you can beco a ga partner on a popular server for a month, just from the revenue share, you get about 1.5 million in a month.
Isn’t that money coming in sweet enough?
Work for two months and it’s like hitting a first prize lottery jackpot, work for a year and you’re financially free, go wherever you want.
Such a stable business is naturally going to attract attention.
The dark side of the ga has also erged.
A player in server two, because they knew the holder of the Permission Bead in real life, had the idea of kidnapping his friend and forcing him to hand over the Permission Bead.
Luckily, his plan was seen through as soon as it started, avoiding worse consequences.
However, it also served as a warning for many Permission Bead holders, especially those ordinary people with no background or status in real life.
The authority and status granted by the Permission Bead only apply in the ga, there might still be soone hiding malicious intents in reality.
After this, everyone was more careful about privacy protection in the ga, not wanting any personal information leaked to other players, to avoid being targeted by bad guys.
This is not making a mountain out of a molehill.
With the importance and represented benefits of the Permission Bead in "Don’t Leave After School," it’s enough to make many people take extre risks.
After all, so cases that resulted in loss of life started over just thousands or tens of thousands of yuan.
How can Permission Beads be worth just tens of thousands?
...
Tree Planting Day, the outskirts of Jiangning.
To cheer up Dong, who was feeling down, Chen Ba simply called the whole studio team to go tree planting in the outskirts.
Tree planting was a ans, the aim was to lift Dong’s spirits a bit and do a bit of team building.
However, during the process of planting trees, a piece of foreign news told by Lu gave Chen Ba a new ga idea.
The news Lu told was actually about a cetery abroad that provided a special tree planting service, where a tree is planted after the deceased is buried.
The nutrients for the growth of this tree mostly co from the decaying body...
This sounded quite special.
Chen Ba had also heard this news a while ago, there were many netizens joking and playing with various gags online at the ti.
For example:
"Mom, why is this apple so sweet?"
"Silly child, your second uncle had diabetes, of course, this apple is sweet!"
At first, like ordinary netizens, he took it as just an amusing anecdote, listening casually without taking it seriously.
But now that Lu brought it up again, coupled with the fact he was planting trees, Chen Ba suddenly had a strange idea.
What if this was made into a ga?
"How would you do it?"
Although Lu was the one who inspired Ba, he only shared a foreign anecdote to liven up the atmosphere, how would he know what connections Ba made?
"Have you heard of ’Yu Gong Moves the Mountain’?"
"Generation after generation, endlessly struggling! With the efforts of generations, even towering mountains can be moved."
Chen Ba explained, "My idea is that the protagonist has a mission they must complete, a mission that might take a lifeti, or even a hundred lives to complete."
"So he will die, die in pursuit of his dreams, turning into a fruit-bearing tree full of rich fruits, waiting for followers to harvest."
An adventure ga!
The protagonist is not alone, to be precise, each ti he dies, his generational status decreases by one.
Similarly, every ti the protagonist dies, a tree grows at the location of death, each tree possessing so special tool or ability the protagonist had before dying.
"The levels are very long and nurous, but you can’t save midway... do you know what I an?"
"I roughly understand!"
Yang Dong thoughtfully added, "The trees left by ancestors, though not save points, are better than save points."
Because these ancestor-trees provide descendants with various tools, abilities, etc., they acquired in life, and even healing abilities.
So theoretically, a skilled player could complete the ga without dying.
But in reality, most people pass the ga by passing down from generation to generation, planting countless "ancestor trees" along the way."
Yes, truly winning by lying down!
What if a certain level is particularly difficult, nearly impossible to pass?
Well then, die!
Die several tis on this level, so when the map of this level is filled with your own "ancestors," passing the level would be a piece of cake, wouldn’t it?
So this ga, due to the inability to save, sounds as terrifying as ’Digging for Promotion’, where one wrong move will send you falling from the clouds back to the dream’s starting point.
But in reality, because the ga has the "18 generations of ancestors transform into trees" set-up, the further you play, the easier it gets.
The level maps are everywhere filled with trees sprouted from my ancestors’ deaths, I wonder how to lose, I can clear this level with my eyes closed!
If you still can’t pass?
No problem!
My son, Dad has also turned into a tree, so this level’s difficulty just lowered again, inherit my will, rember the glory of our ancestors, and stride forward!
"So in this ga, the ending of passing the level is a family sacrificing dozens of generations to achieve the dream, only for the last descendant to reach the end?"
"Dozens of generations?"
Chen Ba thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Maybe not! According to my concept, it would normally take several hundred generations of effort to reach the final goal."
Of course, skilled players are exceptions!
Skilled players are generally not taken into account, as they are not in the sa league as regular players.
Skilled players playing this kind of ga can basically clear it after figuring out the chanics and level points after dying two or three tis.
Ordinary players don’t have that kind of finesse or reflexes, so they need to die a few more tis and plant a few more ancestor trees...
In a word: Want to get rich, plant more trees!
Death is not the end, but a new beginning! The previous deaths were not in vain, but provided solid support and impetus for descendants to advance.
"The ga aims to convey that all happiness and beauty are hard-won, while enjoying the present, we must not forget the ancestors who paved the way and ultimately transford into ancestor trees."
When Chen Ba said this, he had just finished planting the last sapling, wiped his sweat, and asked, "What do you think?"
"It’s nice, but the difficulty of the levels is hard to balance..."
Lu expressed his opinion, "The ga’s the and gaplay have no major problems; it’s a very traditional adventure ga. But because of this ancestor tree chanism, the level difficulty is tough to manage!"
If the difficulty is too high, even with ancestor trees, excessive deaths may lead to a strong sense of frustration, causing so players to quit.
If the difficulty is too low, the existence of ancestor trees already lessens so difficulty, thus reaching the end and clearing the ga might not feel as rewarding.
Finding the difficulty balance is the most challenging part of this ga.
"Not only that."
Yang Dong also shared his thoughts: "You ntioned each ancestor tree has a different effect and is based on the tools and abilities carried during life; doesn’t that imply this ga has roguelike elents?"
"A little bit!"
Chen Ba explained, "It’s not heavily roguelike, it’s lightly roguelike, rging randomness in tools and abilities obtained each ti you challenge, while the map and monsters remain the sa."
"Then it might as well be entirely random!"
Lu sneered, "If tools and abilities are already random, then why not make maps, monsters, and traps random too. Only the placent and outco of ancestor trees remain unchanged."
Grandpa gives acceleration shoes, and nothing else, dad gives shield enhancent, and similarly, nothing else.
This level of randomness, in Lu’s view, is what a roguelike ga should have.
As for being lightly roguelike?
Rather than calling it roguelike, it’s more like a basic roulette lottery system...
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