Chapter 14 The Mastermind's World

Huang Sibo hadn't felt it initially, but after hearing Bao Xu's words, he began to share a similar feeling.

Because so far, everything seemed to fit perfectly, as if Pei Qian had arranged it all intentionally!

Pei Qian had forcibly demanded that the game include a story mode, and under the current circumstances, the solution proposed by Bao Xu was the best one.

And this solution was actually quite good!

Was this merely a coincidence?

No, President Pei had already created two successful games in a row, and he had proposed three requirements before this game even started development. Clearly, this was the direction he had decided upon from the very beginning!

As expected, President Pei was truly unfathomable, with everything under his control…

Huang Sibo couldn't help but shudder at the thought. Was this the world of true design masters?

"Wait, there's another problem." Huang Sibo suddenly thought, "How do you interpret President Pei's other two requirements, and what are your plans to address them? One is to lower the game's difficulty to better cater to new players, and the other is to sell epic weapons with permanent usage rights for 888 yuan."

Bao Xu was confident: "I've considered these two points as well."

"Lowering the game's difficulty and catering to new players mainly involves some feel-related issues. We just need to increase the size of the player's collision box, adjust the bullet trajectory, and adjust the speed of switching weapons and aiming. There's no rush; we can adjust these slowly over time."

"As for why we need to do this, I haven't yet fully grasped President Pei's intent, but since President Pei has requested it, it can't be wrong, so we'll just do it."

"And selling epic weapons is President Pei's foresight!"

"At first, I didn't fully grasp this point and thought it was just about selling a very expensive weapon."

"But then I thought, how could President Pei make such a simple request? There must be a deeper meaning behind it waiting for us to discover!"

"I thought about it for a long time before I understood."

"Epic weapons, permanent usage rights for 888. So, what's the price for non-permanent usage rights?"

"If there are epic weapons, shouldn't there also be ordinary weapons, elite weapons, and hero weapons?"

"How should players acquire these different weapons? By also selling permanent usage rights? No, absolutely not!"

"President Pei only mentioned the price of 888 for permanent usage rights for epic weapons, which means that other weapons are not for sale!"

"In other words, President Pei is hinting to us that the weapons in the game must be tiered, divided into different levels such as ordinary, elite, hero, and epic. And all of these weapons are divided into two types: one with permanent usage and one with limited-time usage."

"Apart from the epic weapons with permanent usage rights sold for 888, we can allow players to obtain the others in various ways."

"For example, we can give one to players who complete a certain level in the story mode;"

"We can give one to players who accumulate a certain number of matches in the versus mode;"

"We can give another one to players who log in for a certain number of days!"

"I think that's what President Pei meant to imply!"

Huang Sibo suddenly realized: "So that's it! I was wondering why President Pei would make such a nonsensical request; it turns out there's a deeper meaning!"

Bao Xu continued, "Moreover, in the process of conceiving the story mode, I also discovered some scraps from the story mode that can be used as special mode gameplay!"

"For example, in my original consideration, there are many mutated zombies in the game, so we can make a zombie mode!"

"Or, for example, some mercenaries in the game are transformed into translucent ghost people by evil multinational corporations, so we can make a ghost mode!"

"In addition to the brawl mode, team deathmatch mode, bomb defusal mode, etc., that we originally planned to make, the gameplay of this game will be very rich!"

"Moreover, these gameplay modes won't require too many art resources; it's mainly the cost of program customization, and the development progress won't be delayed too much, so we can definitely make it in time!"

Huang Sibo rapidly typed on the keyboard, quickly recording all the ideas that came out of this brainstorming session.

Perfect, too perfect!

When he first took over this game from President Pei, Huang Sibo was completely clueless and didn't know what to do.

Especially President Pei's three requirements, which gave Huang Sibo a headache.

But after listening to Bao Xu's analysis, everything suddenly became clear!

It turned out that President Pei wasn't deliberately making things difficult but was giving hints in this way!

Huang Sibo was suddenly very moved.

President Pei clearly knew that Huang Sibo and Bao Xu had limited abilities and couldn't independently plan a game, so it was easy for them to go in the wrong direction.

Once a game goes in the wrong direction, it means it's been sentenced to death, and investing more will only lead further down the wrong path.

Therefore, President Pei used these three requirements to firmly nail down the direction of this game!

"So that's how it is… President Pei is taking care of our feelings…"

"He doesn't want to take on everything himself, as that wouldn't allow us to grow."

"In this ingenious way, President Pei gave us hints while also letting us use our own brains to design an excellent game…"

"President Pei… is truly doing this with the best of intentions…"

Huang Sibo's eyes welled up with tears.

He decided that he must write the design document well and perfectly create this game, and he must not fail President Pei's expectations!

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November 14th, Wednesday morning.

Pei Qian had classes these past two days and didn't go to the company.

Mainly because the main task at the company was waiting for the design team to produce a design proposal, and before the design proposal came out, there was nothing to do.

Pei Qian had nothing to do at the company, and he might even affect everyone's slacking, so he decided not to go.

Today's class was with that male teacher who said, "I'm not going to call the roll; I just want to get to know everyone." Pei Qian clearly remembered that he had been tricked once before because he trusted him too much.

So, he definitely couldn't make the same mistake again this time!

But then again, this class was really boring…

Pei Qian yawned and took out his phone to see how much longer until the class ended.

As a result, he found that Huang Sibo was @ing him in the company group, and there was also a file.

"President Pei, the initial draft of the overall design is almost finished. Please take a look at it first to confirm the general direction?"

He also sent a document.

"Two days. Is that fast or slow? It should be fast, right? Well, I'll take a look first."

Pei Qian himself had no concept of "how fast a design draft should be written," he only knew that at this speed, it shouldn't be a problem to have all the design drafts out this week.

After all, they were new employees who were still full of enthusiasm for their work and hadn't slacked off much.

Well, I hope you guys discover that it's okay to slack off soon…

Pei Qian opened the document.

"…Dizzying."

Pei Qian had never written a design draft, nor had he seen one; this was his first time.

His first impression was, dizzy!

Because there was too much content!

A large design draft could easily be dozens of pages long, with tens of thousands of words, and the content inside was all in the form of individual points.

Every small sentence might be very important, and not a single word could be missed!

Moreover, Huang Sibo's document was a first draft, which meant it hadn't been revised yet.

Some places were written too verbosely, and some places were written too briefly, and these would need to be repeatedly revised later.

Huang Sibo's consideration was to first give this document to Pei Qian to see if the general direction was okay, and then revise and refine it later.

Otherwise, if he finished revising it and then found that the general direction was wrong, he would have to start over from scratch, which would be a waste of effort, wouldn't it?

As a result, Pei Qian was embarrassed.

There was already a lot of content, it was written somewhat chaotically, and he was looking at it on a small phone screen…

Pei Qian felt like he wanted to die.

He had no choice but to quickly flip through the pages, skimming through it.

He wanted to see if Huang Sibo had seriously done what he had asked for!

Huang Sibo seemed to be very clear about what Pei Qian wanted to see and had specially added annotations to those content, making them easy to find.

First point, story mode. Yes, there was one, and it was planned for three or four hours, which was already very long.

Second point, reduce difficulty. Yes, there was that too.

Third point, epic weapons. It was also faithfully priced according to Pei Qian's requirements, with permanent usage rights costing 888 RMB.

"Very good! Everything was completed according to my requirements!"

Pei Qian was very happy.

He immediately replied, "Good, continue to push forward in this direction."