deltrittennovels #366 - Card TCG continues to be designed against the sky: Men are boys until they die (2 in 1)
#366 - Card TCG continues to be designed against the sky: Men are boys until they die (2 in 1)
Two days later.
Lu Yu was at his workstation in the office, researching the locations of various film studios and bases in China.
Now that the movie project was approved, the filming location was on the agenda.
As the top executive of the company, he naturally had to oversee the selection of the studio.
According to Liu Mengyuan, the movie "Terminal Defense Line" would primarily film scenes in Tokyo and domestically in China.
Specifically, many of the dialogue-heavy scenes inside the train required the construction of a realistic train set.
Lu Yu, of course, was thinking that he could take the opportunity of the movie shoot to take his employees out for fun!
Hengdian? Zhongshan? Xiangshan?
While he was deep in thought, Li Hongmei approached him to report:
"President Lu, we've received an invitation from the Tokyo Game Show organizing committee. The invitation email has been in your inbox for several days. Do you want to take a look at it?"
"Oh? Is that so?"
Lu Yu had been so overwhelmed by these overachieving employees these past few days that he almost forgot about it.
He opened the email and glanced at the invitation, casually asking:
"Sister Li, do you think our company should accept the invitation?"
He asked Li Hongmei because she had worked at Youyi for over ten years and had organized many similar international public events. Her advice would definitely be valuable.
Li Hongmei said, "Of course, participating in such an international exhibition would definitely be valuable for further promoting our games, but..."
"But what?"
Li Hongmei had to analyze the situation from her professional perspective:
"The Tokyo Game Show is usually in the fall, and I'm worried we won't have enough time to prepare.
First of all, there's the issue of market adaptability. Many of our previous game products have had strong characteristics of Chinese local culture or internet memes. Whether they can meet the tastes of overseas players is unknown. Therefore, we need a lot of time for localization.
Moreover, our visibility on the international stage is not high. If we decide to participate, we need to spend more effort to increase brand exposure.
In addition, at the Tokyo Game Show, the company will face strong competitors from all over the world, such as Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, Activision Blizzard, Rockstar Games, etc...
If we are not well prepared, we may fall behind in the fierce competition, damaging our image and negatively impacting our original achievements.
In that case, participating in the exhibition would be a completely negative return, likely hindering our original development pace."
As Lu Yu listened, his brow gradually unfurrowed.
No wonder she's a veteran employee from a large company like Youyi!
He was initially worried that rashly participating in the Tokyo Game Show might lead to some unexpected problems, but after hearing Li Hongmei's analysis, he was delighted.
We absolutely have to go!
If there weren't these problems, I wouldn't even consider it!
Moreover, the Amazing Task for this cycle required him to collect points from participating players.
He had already decided that he would continue to rack his brains to lead his employees to slack off, ensuring that the company wouldn't have time to prepare for the exhibition.
In this way, after his extreme micromanagement these past few days, the card game, movie, and game show could all be guaranteed to be complete failures!
As for the participating players' Leisure Points, he could earn them by giving players benefits.
Lu Yu felt great inside.
In this cycle, he had really maxed out all sorts of operations. He simply didn't believe that even with all this, those overachieving employees could make a comeback against the odds.
Impossible!
...
In the evening, after dinner, Lu Yu continued to open card packs of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon in his study.
Liu Mengyuan stood beside him with her arms crossed, watching.
She recalled that when she left work in the afternoon, she had received a help request email.
The sender was the Moe Girl Studio group. They listed many concerns about the "Peach Blossom Spring TCG" product because everyone simply couldn't understand President Lu's motives, so they hoped Liu Mengyuan could help sound him out.
Liu Mengyuan was also troubled by this email. As a girl, she didn't understand these things very well.
After all, the Liu family's upbringing when she was young didn't allow her to come into contact with these seemingly "distracting" things.
She saw Lu Yu skillfully pick up a row of new packs and stack them together, then vigorously shake the packs before cutting open the seal with scissors, able to pour out a row of new cards at once.
"Before opening the card packs, you must shake them like this. This is the essence of the operation," Lu Yu explained with a smile.
"Is opening card packs so addictive?" Liu Mengyuan asked curiously.
"Of course it's addictive! I really like collecting cute girl cards. Pulling a rare Sky Striker Ace or Lillie would be a great win."
Liu Mengyuan casually picked up an ordinary Yu-Gi-Oh! card from the table and asked curiously:
"What is a 'Fusion Summon'?"
"Simply put, it's using two low-level monsters as materials to fuse and summon an advanced monster."
Fearing that Liu Mengyuan wouldn't understand, Lu Yu continued to explain:
"Actually, you can compare it to an example in life.
For example, if a newly married couple fuses, a new life will be born."
Liu Mengyuan immediately blushed and said, "You shrimp-headed man, what are you talking about?"
Of course, although she verbally retorted, Liu Mengyuan secretly thought in her heart: Young man, I will launch a Fusion Summon on you sooner or later!
Seemingly having opened the floodgates, Lu Yu continued to lament while opening cards:
"Actually, men are boys until they die.
After all, liking to collect and exchange is human nature.
I remember when I was a kid, the school store sold Little Raccoon instant noodles for one yuan a pack, and you could open Water Margin cards inside. Whoever collected all 108 heroes could walk sideways in the class!
Whoever collected all 6 villain cards could almost walk sideways in the school!"
Liu Mengyuan pointed to the Yu-Gi-Oh! card box: "Did you guys play this?"
"The stores near our elementary school didn't sell genuine Yu-Gi-Oh! cards at all. The kids were all playing modified pirated cards from 'ZZ Boy Hall'.
Back then, everyone basically stuffed 5 'Dark Magician' cards into their deck. Whoever collected all 5 Dark Magician components first could directly declare victory."
Speaking, Lu Yu continued:
"It's a pity that now that I'm older, I have the money to open boxes of cards, but I can never find the feeling of going to the store back then.
The most important thing about playing games is companionship,
But, that's life,
I'll just commemorate the childhood that can't be returned."
Lu Yu's words made Liu Mengyuan suddenly jolt!
Here it comes, a golden sentence containing "life"!
Without a doubt, these words that Lu Yu said to her today were probably his hints for the development of the new game!
After carefully pondering Lu Yu's words for a moment, Liu Mengyuan's eyes gradually lit up,
So that's how it is, I understand, I understand everything!
...
The next day, Liu Mengyuan pulled all the employees of the Moe Girl Studio group into the conference room for a meeting.
Liu Mengyuan: "Everyone, I have obtained new development ideas from President Lu. There is a deep consideration behind why he issued these development instructions to you!"
"So that's how it is, we knew it!"
The employees were excited, waiting for Liu Mengyuan to reveal the answer.
Liu Mengyuan cleared her throat:
"The first keyword I want to say is 'Fusion'!
Although President Lu's idea is a bit of a hodgepodge of original IPs, I think there are many benefits to a hodgepodge!
First of all, there is differentiated competition. In the fiercely competitive card market, using our own IP hodgepodge can make our story stand out.
Moreover, integrating various IPs into one product allows the promotion resources between different IPs to be shared, overall improving the visibility of each IP and expanding the audience.
We can also do fusion in the story. We can completely fabricate a fictional worldview and stuff all kinds of IPs into it!"
After listening to Liu Mengyuan's words, the members of the project team were slightly moved:
"So that's how President Lu is thinking!"
"If viewed from the perspective of fusion, President Lu's ideas are not incomprehensible."
Liu Mengyuan continued to explain:
"I believe that this 'fusion' method also applies to the problem of inconsistent art styles.
First of all, we can invite the original artists from various project teams to jointly participate in the concept design of the new game,
Then, we can use image processing algorithms to perform uniform art style processing, so that they present a consistent style!
Simply put, it is to use AI algorithms to assist in abstracting the design drafts of each character, removing unnecessary details, and making the boundaries blurred.
This can create a new art style that integrates the characteristics of each game!"
After listening to the project team employees, they nodded in admiration. As expected of the company's art director!
Below the stage, programmer Du Biao asked: "President Liu, this idea of yours probably requires very powerful AI technology. Can Peach Blossom Spring's current reserves handle it?"
Liu Mengyuan said decisively: "Hehe, there will definitely be no problem."
The reason why she was so sure was because the company's technical director, Chu Xiong, was also carrying the God-level talent she bought from the system store:
[Mutated Hacker: Born with a coding talent, it is easier to make technological breakthroughs in the fields of computer graphics and artificial intelligence, but the direction of technological breakthroughs is uncontrollable, and it is easy to mutate strange technologies, so be careful.]
Although she couldn't guarantee what kind of ghost this talent would mutate into, but... it should be fine, right?
Probably?
Influenced by Liu Mengyuan's ideas, Wan Xiaotong also began to actively supplement, and Xu Qin quickly translated:
"Sister Xiaotong said that we can also add an art style switching function to the game. Players can switch between the 'original art style' and the 'card art style' at any time,
Even some hand-painted works in the original style can be used as rare foil cards!"
Everyone nodded in agreement with Wan Xiaotong's idea.
Liu Mengyuan continued to patiently guide:
"In addition, regarding the duel disk plan, I would like to quote President Lu's new words: 'Men are boys until they die!'
President Lu actually wants to tell everyone——
Many settings that seem chuunibyou are a bit childish for children, but just right for adults!
To put it bluntly, the duel disk can provide a more immersive gaming experience, allowing players to feel like they are the protagonist in the game and fulfill a duel dream!
In addition, we can also expand the gameplay of the duel disk,
For example, we can add a [cooperative mode] to allow players to team up to fight BOSS,
In order to support this mode, a Bluetooth chip can be installed in the duel disk. Different duel disks can be linked and shared to crusade regional BOSSes and world BOSSes, and obtain rare cards and card sleeves as loot!
All of these loot are officially shipped as physical objects!
We can also design a [Large Arena Mode],
In this mode, the duel disks can be spliced end to end to form a complete round table shape, forming a tabletop arena that can accommodate up to eight people to fight at the same time!"
Liu Mengyuan's brain holes undoubtedly opened the door to a new world for the employees.
Following Liu Mengyuan's ideas, Wan Xiaotong also thought of some ideas, and Xu Qin quickly translated:
"We can also expand the hardware ecosystem for the duel disk,
For example, we can design a 'dazzling light strip' as an expansion accessory,
If the player selects this accessory,
Then, when the player activates the effect of the card, a large number of marquee effects will appear on the field, which is more dazzling than the opponent's duel disk!
In addition, we can cooperate with Harman Kardon to launch a speaker expansion that can be installed on the duel disk,
When the player shouts "My turn, draw!", the speaker will play the draw BGM, which will be more imposing than the opponent!
In addition to this, you can also design a miniature fan, and when the player draws a card, the hairstyle and clothes will move automatically without wind!
With this fan, combined with the marquee and large speakers, the forcing will be directly maxed out!"
Wan Xiaotong opened this head, and everyone's ideas were further opened,
Meng Yue: "If this is the case, let's just do it once and for all, and the shell of the duel disk can be replaced with colors and patterns!"
More and more girls joined the discussion, chattering, and the other employees in the conference room were completely dumbfounded.
Good boy, President Lu's concept of proposing a duel disk is already rebellious enough, President Liu, are you going to take us all the way on the road of chuunibyou!
After that, Liu Mengyuan continued to add:
"Actually, President Lu also said a sentence——
"The most important thing about playing games is partners\
,"And the duel disk can increase players' sense of identity with the game! They will quickly identify the same kind and form a game community.
For example, if you meet a player on the street wearing a duel disk on his arm, then you are likely to immediately get on the same wavelength!
You will say in unison: "So, you also play Peach Blossom Spring TCG?"
These words made many new project team members slightly moved:
"Hiss... let President Liu say this, it's really, quite, quite sensational?"
"So that's what President Lu conveyed to us before."
"We are still far behind, we have not fully understood President Lu's intention!"
Although some rational people still feel faintly in their hearts, President Lu and President Liu have completely let themselves go on the road of chuunibyou, is it really okay?
But, whatever the boss says is what they have to do, they can only continue to advance the project according to these ideas.
...
Longteng Group Jianghai City Building.
Pei Shengnan looked at the Tokyo Game Show invitation on the computer screen and fell into deep thought.
He actually understood very well that Longteng's self-developed business had recently fallen into a public opinion storm. Under such circumstances, the organizing committee was still willing to invite Longteng, which was entirely due to their greater emphasis on Chinese game teams. He was benefiting from Peach Blossom Spring!
Pei Shengnan's current competitive strategy is to concentrate his efforts on besieging the Liu Corporation, first kicking Youyile Garden out of the top three domestic VR companies!
But this doesn't mean that he will easily allow Lu Yu's Peach Blossom Spring to stand out at the Tokyo Game Show, or even become the leader of the Chinese game industry!
Whether it's in terms of enterprise scale or market value, you, Peach Blossom Spring, are not qualified to be the leader!
The games exhibited at the Tokyo Game Show are mainly single-player games, while Longteng Group's main business is online games.
However, he can support single-player game developers and fight a 'proxy war'!
Pei Shengnan decided to sign a cooperation agreement with a domestic single-player game developer, provide them with technical and financial support, and send them to the Tokyo Game Show.
At that time, he can also use the group's resources to continue to do something at the Tokyo Game Show, striving for a two-pronged approach and a single blow to defeat the enemy!
After making up his mind, Pei Shengnan opened the list of manufacturers sent by his secretary and began to eliminate them one by one.
After searching around, he quickly took a fancy to Nanshanju's 'Sword Hero Romance: The Legend of Xie Yunliu'.