Pei Qian nodded slightly.

He felt quite inspired after this brainstorming session.

To avoid repeating the mistakes of *Fortress at Sea*, the barrier to entry must not be lowered, but rather raised higher and higher, ensuring the game is difficult and niche.

But another problem must also be considered: try not to associate it with high-difficulty real-world competitions.

Things like Formula 1 or rally racing are best avoided.

Because racing is a very expensive sport, but it is also very popular worldwide. Players can't afford to race on the track, so naturally they will choose to experience it in the game.

It's best to choose content that ordinary people often experience.

What content is that?

Of course, it's driving in the city!

Currently, the most popular racing games are of two types. One is rally racing, which is hardcore but fully restores the experience of high-end events. The other is lowering the barrier to entry, turning off car damage, and letting players freely drive around the city and crash into things.

After all, most people are already annoyed by having to obey traffic rules when driving to and from work, constantly worrying about speeding, running red lights, and getting tickets. Even a small scratch might cost hundreds of yuan to repair the paint, so they are always trembling with fear.

When they get home from work and play games, of course they want to speed and crash as they please!

Going against traffic, rear-ending, running red lights – these are all commonplace.

Pei Qian pondered that if he could combine these two game types, taking the best of both worlds and combining the content that players least welcomed, wouldn't that do the trick?

Thinking of this, Pei Qian cleared his throat and said, "I have two directions here, you can refer to them."

Everyone temporarily stopped brainstorming and looked over, with very admiring expressions on their faces.

As expected, the gap between us and President Pei is still too big!

How long has this brainstorming session been going on? Everyone is just chattering and hasn't had any ideas yet, but President Pei has already chosen the direction for the new game?

Good ideas come easily – is this what a genius game producer is like?

Everyone listened carefully.

Pei Qian cleared his throat twice, sorted out his thoughts a little, and then said, "First of all, we want to make a completely realistic racing game, or rather, a driving simulator."

"We will invest heavily to create an extremely realistic physics engine for the game."

"Each car must be modeled separately. The chassis, A-pillars, body materials, etc. of different vehicles will have different data based on the real-world situation, ensuring that the results of each car's collision are different, and completely consistent with the collision results of the same car in reality."

"Other things such as the car's horsepower, driving feel, and tire grip must also be consistent with real-world data."

"When players use a steering wheel to experience the game, it should be infinitely close to real-world driving."

This is partly to spend more research funds, and partly to further dissuade players.

Breaking down the car into many different parts, and having each car's data be different, will be a huge amount of work, much more troublesome than having all cars share a single physics collision system.

And the different damage to the vehicle during different collisions can increase the player's losses.

For example, in many games, a vehicle can crash at a speed of over 100, and the front of the car is dented, but it can still continue driving.

But in the game Pei Qian envisions, a crash at this speed would completely wreck the car.

"Secondly, the game has a car damage system, and it cannot be turned off. Players who crash or have small scratches in the game must deal with them according to the real-world situation."

"Crashed cars must be repaired, scratches must be touched up, and if you hit someone else's car, you must determine responsibility and provide full compensation."

"Moreover, the driver in the car will also be injured after a crash, requiring hospitalization and medical expenses."

"Finally...we can consider developing a steering wheel specifically for this game and have Ouhua Technology do it."

After speaking, Pei Qian himself felt a little excessive.

What kind of racing game is this? It's completely a driving simulator!

And it's a driving simulator that simulates all the unpleasant content.

There are many inconveniences in the game, exactly the same as in reality, requiring careful and cautious driving.

But what about the fun of this game? It can't compare to driving in reality at all.

After all, driving in reality allows you to feel the vibration of the car, feel the G-force, and have a particularly wide field of vision. This experience is multi-dimensional.

But driving in this game only allows you to stare at the screen, and most players can only use the keyboard and gamepad to control it, making the sense of immersion far worse.

It's as troublesome as driving in reality, and the overall experience is worse. Who would play this?

Moreover, driving in reality is no longer a particularly high-threshold thing. Most families with slightly better economic conditions have a car.

Many office workers are already tired of driving to and from work every day, so why continue driving in the game after returning home and still have to obey traffic rules?

What kind of spirit is this? How addicted do you have to be to do such a thing?

To get a better gaming experience, you have to buy a steering wheel. But steering wheels aren't cheap either. A slightly playable entry-level steering wheel costs one or two thousand, a better one in the entry-level range costs more than three thousand, and some higher-end direct-drive steering wheels are even more expensive.

Adding pedals, handbrakes, H-shifters, brackets, and other accessories increases the cost even more.

What's more, steering wheels and brackets take up space and easily collect dust. The cost is not just a matter of money; most people have to think carefully before buying them.

In short, Pei Qian thinks this idea is very good.

It very accurately dissuades most players!

For ordinary players, this game costs money to repair even a slight collision, and they have to abide by traffic rules, making it not fun at all.

For most keyboard and gamepad players, it would be quite difficult to precisely control the vehicle to pass the driving test, so there's no fun in it.

For the big shots who have steering wheels and other high-end equipment, the game content is very boring, and there is no difference from the experience of driving in reality. There are many professional racing games that are much more fun than this.

The only people who might be interested in this game are those who don't like speeding but are particularly fond of normal driving, right?

If there really are such players, why don't they become ride-hailing drivers? While satisfying their hobbies, they can also earn money to support their families. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Pei Qian looked around at everyone: "What do you all think?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Obviously, most people's first reaction was: Not good!

These designs all sounded quite contrary to common sense.

But...

When President Pei said it, it made people feel particularly convincing, as if behind this counter-intuitive design, there was a wonderful idea that subverted the traditional game design concept.

Wang Xiaobin tentatively asked, "Then...President Pei, what should this game be called?"

"What should it be called?" Pei Qian thought for a while, "Let's call it *Safe and Civilized Driving*!"

Wang Xiaobin: "..."

What the hell is Safe and Civilized Driving!

Isn't that the name of the fourth part of the driver's license test? Is it really okay to use it as the name of a racing game?

Pei Qian was clearly very satisfied with this name.

It fits the content of the game very well!

This game is to encourage everyone to drive safely and civilly. It's best to abide by traffic rules, drive carefully, and not scratch or speed, to be a good law-abiding citizen in the game.

As for the gaming experience...

Heh, how players experience the game has always been the last thing Pei Qian considers, and he considers it in the direction of making it worse and worse.

Looking at everyone's expressions of superficial agreement, but actual confusion and bewilderment, Pei Qian knew that this brainstorming session was a great success!

The so-called brainstorming is nothing more than getting everyone together to give him a little inspiration for making money-losing games.

Pei Qian looked at his watch, then stood up and said, "Okay, then today's brainstorming session will end here."

"The results are quite significant."

"Everyone should digest the results of today's brainstorming session a little bit, and you can decide how to design it."

Pei Qian felt that the ultimate form of this game had been determined by himself, and there shouldn't be any deviations.

Although he superficially gave everyone full autonomy in design, Pei Qian was very sure that everyone would still do it seriously according to his requirements.

Anyway, as long as this game is successfully made according to his requirements, the final result should be about the same.

...

After President Pei left, the people in the conference room had not completely recovered from their bewildered state.

Their bewilderment was accompanied by a bit of admiration for President Pei.

Obviously, for President Pei, the brainstorming was already over, because President Pei had already figured out the final form of this game and gave everyone ample hints.

But for others, the brainstorming had only just begun!

It could only be said that President Pei was President Pei. The speed at which he designed games was simply amazing.

From 0 to 100, a game could be completely designed in just a few tens of minutes. Who else is this genius game producer?

But for the others at Shang Yang Games, they hadn't figured out several core issues of the game *Safe and Civilized Driving*.

Based on the conditions President Pei had given, they could only recreate a very incomplete game.

Obviously, there were many details that President Pei hadn't explicitly stated, which required everyone to pool their wisdom and work together to fill in these details.

But for the people at Shang Yang Games, this wasn't the first time they had done something like this, so everyone only marveled for a very short time before calming down and preparing to carefully analyze what the full picture of the game *Safe and Civilized Driving* looked like in President Pei's mind.

Ye Zhizhou said very familiarly, "Let's follow the previous procedure, first find out the doubts in President Pei's design, and then slowly analyze them."

"It just so happens that this is a rare opportunity, so let's have everyone jointly complete the link of finding the doubts."

"Xiao Yang, start from your side."