Pei Qian outwardly disparaged text-based adventure games as old-fashioned, but he knew very well that "old-fashioned" was another word for "stable!"

Text-based adventure games were a rather ancient but also quite reliable game genre, one that could be described as enduring.

Pei Qian had the memories of his past life; he knew that *Chinese Parents*, as an indie game, had adopted a production method similar to that of a text-based adventure game and had still achieved great success!

And Pei Qian wouldn't allow such a thing to happen.

Therefore, he had to completely abandon the text-based adventure game model!

Pei Qian cleared his throat and continued, "My idea is to create a three-dimensional flowchart."

"That's right, a complex structure chart like a spider web."

"Each square on the flowchart is a room; and each line on the flowchart is a corridor."

"Players walk through the corridors, which is the process of choosing a flowchart branch; and different rooms are the results of that choice!"

"In each room, there are doors leading to corridors, representing the different choices players can make."

"Do you understand what I mean?"

Everyone nodded, then shook their heads in unison.

They understood, and yet they didn't!

With Pei Qian's description, most people could imagine the game's form.

Flowcharts drawn with software like Visio were very common in games and many other industries.

They were mainly used to represent certain logical relationships and program flows.

For example, a program triggered from an initial condition, undergoing a series of judgments, and finally outputting a result.

From an external point of view, a flowchart was composed of countless squares and rhombuses with text written on them, connected by many arrows.

Replace all the squares with three-dimensional rooms of varying sizes, and replace all the arrows with corridors, and the entire flowchart becomes a huge maze.

And the protagonist walks through this huge maze, each door representing a choice, and finally reaching a room at the end, which is one of the game's endings.

What the others didn't understand was, what kind of game was this?

They had never seen it before!

Not to mention in China, they had never heard of such a game abroad!

Could it work?

Spend so much effort on elaborate 3D models, create such large scenes, and in the end, create a game where you can only keep walking and walking?

It felt like... something was wrong!

However, no one would question Pei Qian.

Didn't understand?

That was right!

How could ordinary people guess President Pei's thoughts?

Only Huang Sibo and Bao Xu, these two big shots, could barely guess President Pei's design intentions; the others were far behind!

Lu Mingliang knew this well, so he frantically recorded in his notebook.

Fortunately, President Pei was very detailed this time, so there was no need to guess.

As long as he did exactly as President Pei said, he couldn't go wrong!

Lin Wan raised her hand and said, "President Pei, I think this is a very novel design! However, will it be a little boring if players are just walking around in it?"

Boring?

Boring was good!

That was the effect he wanted!

But Lin Wan's question made Pei Qian think of another hidden danger.

Would doing this... still not be radical enough?

If it was just boring, it might not be able to deter players absolutely...

What if they liked this feeling of making choices, endured the boredom, and actually became engrossed in it?

Pei Qian lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought.

"I've got it."

Pei Qian suddenly thought of a good idea: "Let's add a narrator to the game!"

"Narrator?" Lin Wan blinked, not quite understanding.

Adding a narrator to a game wasn't uncommon. But that was mainly in the opening CG.

Adding a narrator during the game would greatly affect the sense of immersion.

Pei Qian chuckled.

Why add a narrator?

To affect the player's sense of immersion and make them unable to continue playing!

Not only that, but he also wanted to add his own selfish motives to the narration, ruthlessly mocking the players, making them angry, making them burst into curses!

Make them feel that their personality had been insulted, so they would give the game a bad review and not recommend it, the game's reputation would collapse, and it wouldn't be far from being cold, would it?

Imagine, every time a player made a choice, the system's narrator would ridicule the player...

A game that insulted players!

How satisfying!

Any player with a bit of backbone should slam the mouse, right?

Pei Qian coughed lightly and explained, "The narrator is a way for us to interact with the players."

"It's true that players are just running around in it, which is very boring because they are like an outsider, an observer, and it's easy to lose interest."

"We use the narrator to communicate with him. For example, if he chooses a wrong option, it will trigger Narrator A, and if he chooses the correct option, it will trigger Narrator B."

"In this way, players will get feedback every time they make a choice, so they won't feel lonely and bored!"

Lin Wan suddenly understood and nodded vigorously.

As expected of President Pei, he could even think of such a good idea!

What is a genius designer?

This is it!

Lin Wan couldn't help but recall her experience at Tianhuo Studio.

At Tianhuo Studio, they would also often hold such discussion meetings, using brainstorming to determine how some of the game's details should be made.

But the atmosphere was completely different!

Because Zhou Muyan would always ask, "Are there any other games with similar approaches?"

If the answer was yes, then Zhou Muyan would analyze whether this game's approach was successful. If it was successful, then it would be adopted.

If the answer was no, or if a game had done this but failed, then the idea would be cut off without hesitation.

This was not an isolated case. Most game companies in China did this!

For the sake of stability, most designers didn't dare to try and make mistakes, but tended to learn from past cases.

Therefore, many games became the same, as if they were carved out of the same mold.

And President Pei's approach made Lin Wan unable to help but feel admiration.

He didn't care at all whether there was a successful precedent, and dared to be the first to eat a crab!

This pattern was several levels higher than that of Tianhuo Studio and Zhou Muyan!

Lin Wan was even more convinced that Pei Qian was a genius designer, no doubt!

As for Lu Mingliang, he could only desperately record in his notebook.

He just felt that it was very profound, and didn't understand why Pei Qian wanted to do this.

But he knew exactly how much he weighed, and would never raise any objections to this. He just had to do everything according to what President Pei said!

Having successfully persuaded everyone, Pei Qian felt refreshed.

This feeling was so good!

This project was completely under his control!

"Three days to produce a design draft, one week to produce the entire process, and two weeks to produce all the art resources, no problem, right?" Pei Qian looked at Lu Mingliang.

Lu Mingliang immediately nodded: "Don't worry, President Pei, I guarantee to complete the task!"

After saying that, he added a little nervously, "President Pei, if I can't finish it, can I apply for overtime?"

Overtime was a special privilege that only excellent employees could enjoy, and he wasn't sure if he was considered an excellent employee in President Pei's mind.

Pei Qian thought for a while and nodded: "Yes, but at most, it can't exceed 9 pm. Although you are all still young, you must pay attention to your health."

"Yes!" Lu Mingliang was simply moved.

Where else could you find this kind of humanistic care other than at Tengda?

Wouldn't he be less than human if he didn't give his all for President Pei!