Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 154 Arkwright Board Game Shop

When Ben followed his father to Drogo's Northland factory, they had completely different ideas.

As a senior yo-yo enthusiast, a fan of "Construct Warriors", an excellent reseller of Yu-Gi-Oh card packs, and a cloud player who likes all kinds of games but cannot play them due to strict family education and can only read guides every day.

For Ben, this was a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

What a beautiful factory. Oh, isn’t this Drogo? Let’s look at the snow-capped mountains in the distance, my friends.

Ben is curious about everything in the factory. Are those imaginative toys born from mechanical circuits connected like this?
He also saw his favorite yo-yo, Bingpo, on a conveyor belt.

On this conveyor belt alone, there are estimated to be hundreds of ice souls.

That’s amazing! I’m sure this machine can produce several yo-yos every minute.

That's why his Arkwright toy store was defeated in the competition. It's not just the difference in design, it's like a knight in armor fighting a peasant with a pitchfork.

He used to like reading knight novels, dreaming of making great achievements on the battlefield as a knight. In those novels, war didn't seem so dangerous.

Even if they lose, they will only be captured and used as bargaining chips in exchange for ransom.

Later I realized that a knight is a knight, and he was probably just a civilian child who was forcibly conscripted and whose name was not left until his death in the story.

Especially after firearms became more and more advanced, the wars in the news became more brutal, and even the survival rate of low-level professionals was greatly reduced.

I didn’t want the same thing to happen to Arkwright’s Toy Store, which was eliminated without even its name left.

Although he had many conflicts with his father, he still has deep feelings for this store. It is one of the few good memories of his childhood.

I hope my "Felin's Chronicles" can save my family's store.

But then again, since so many yo-yos can be produced every day, why do they cost dozens of copper coins each?
It must be because the materials used in yo-yos are very expensive, yes, that's it.

I think so.

Hakan, by contrast, was much more nervous.

He clearly remembered the time when he went to Drogo's toy store and did some close-fitting and mocking work.

Of course, he is the clown in the finale.

The good news is that he is still alive, but what if this meeting reminds Drogo of him again?

I heard that the boss of Drogo Group is very vengeful.

He was scared when he saw several people with shackles on their feet on the toy production line.

I hope I won’t end up like this.

He didn't know what those people had done to offend Drogo, and what puzzled him even more was that those people looked quite strange.

Although they were doing very hard work, they all had strange smiles on their faces.

And Hakan saw a man deliberately do his job wrong and then receive an electric shock from his shackles.

As he fell to the ground and twitched due to the electric shock, the smile on his face became even happier.

It’s so evil.

Mind control, this must be mind control.

Hakan was sweating profusely, hoping that "the father's status depends on the son's status" and that he could use Ben's influence to make himself look more valuable.

"Please wait here." A polite-looking drow led them into the reception room.

"Perform well, and I'll give you 10% of the referral bonus when I receive it."

Before closing the door, Tomahawk outside bared his teeth and gave them a thumbs-up.

"That'll be fine," Ben said confidently.

Even though Battle Axe looks fierce and is ruthless, he is still a very cute orc once you get familiar with him.

In the quiet reception room, the father and son opened the "Felin War Chronicles" which they had re-produced in the past few days.

With the help of Hakan's skilled painting skills and the manual skills he has developed over the years, the completion of this board game has been greatly improved.

At least the character card looks like a person.

Some equipment and skill cards, indicator cards representing health points, and identity cards are also drawn.

Now it only includes three identities: the open lord, the hidden retainer and the rebel.

The rules of the five-player field are that the player identities are 1:1:3, there are 3 rebels, and as a balance, the lord has extra health and skills.

This is a new way of playing that Ben decided upon after discussing with Hakan. After trying it out with his friends a few times, it received unanimous praise. In their opinion, except for the lack of giant monster illusions, the fun level is higher than that of Yu-Gi-Oh!

Because they gradually discovered that Yu-Gi-Oh was a bit "cruel".

In just one month, the composition of Yu-Gi-Oh decks has rapidly evolved towards utilitarianism.

Thanks to the existence of forums, once one person has developed a deck, it is very convenient to copy others' work, and everyone's way of playing has changed to not letting the opponent play Yu-Gi-Oh.

Plus, it's a one-on-one match, so losing would be a very frustrating experience.

So much so that many people have now become pure card collectors.

But Feilin War Chronicles is different. It has the greatest feature of multiplayer games, which is that you can pass on the blame if you lose.

As long as you firmly believe that your failure is caused by the stupidity of your teammates, you will feel much better.

"So you were the ones who designed the "Fellin Wars"?"

Drogo pushed the door open and entered.

Ben took a closer look at the legendary Drogo, and was surprised to find that the legend that the boss of the Drogo Group was the mascot at the door of the toy store was actually true.

He thought they were just two dragons that looked alike.

Love the unique boss.

"My son designed it mainly," Hakan replied. He was not the old man who would rip a kid's gold coins.

Drogo looked at Ben, who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old. He was so angry that he wondered how could such a young person design such a thing.

When he was fourteen, he was still writing three-year simulations for the five-year high school entrance exam.

"Let me first state the conclusion. The Legend of the Fallen can be launched as a formal board game," said Drogo.

"Really!" Ben jumped up happily.

"But there are some suggestions for revision," Drogo continued, "You only have two faction identities now, right?"

"Yes," Ben replied, "but in order to balance the strength, according to the difference in numbers, the lords were given more..."

"That's it. I suggest that the way to balance the numbers is to add a third faction."

"The third one?" I didn't quite understand. 5 divided by 3 shouldn't be a solution, right? Wouldn't it be even harder to balance the three camps?

"Yes, the third one is called a traitor. The traitor's victory condition is to kill the lord, but it must be killed after all the retainers and rebels have been killed." Drogo explained.

"Wouldn't that be very difficult to play?" Ben's first reaction was that it would be extremely difficult to be a traitor.

"But it's fun, isn't it? Higher risk, greater fun, and it makes the other two camps more balanced and more variable."

Drogo always felt that although balance was important, losing fun for the sake of balance was not worth it.

Whenever players come up with a new way to play, patches are released to restrict that way of playing, which is very boring.

“I will also provide some design ideas for character skills and the range of numerical expansion later.”

"Numerical inflation?" Another thing Ben didn't understand.

“In the future, character skills will become stronger and stronger, and the effects will become more and more complex. Otherwise, how can we attract people to buy new characters? Believe me, players will buy them while complaining.

"New characters are released one by one. If everyone is strong, then no one is strong. This maintains the dynamic balance of the environment. However, this is something that needs to be considered in the next few years."

It's amazing. Although Three Kingdoms Kill is "affectionately called" dog card by players, the planners are scolded every day, and the reviews are overwhelmingly negative, just don't play it.

However, the revenue situation is very good, and even rises from time to time, and the lifespan is extremely long. Perhaps this is also a kind of "two-way rush".

It would last at least twenty to thirty years, Drogo calculated.

"But now, your task is to polish the current version of Feilin War Chronicle. If all goes well, it will be released in three months."

By then, the first wave of popularity for Yu-Gi-Oh should have passed. Although these are two cards with completely different ways of playing, only by avoiding the release period can profits be maximized.

"Is there a problem?"

“No.” Ben and Hakan shook their heads dazedly.

"Very good, what did you say more than a year ago, 'If you are unemployed, you are welcome to work in my shop'."

Of course Drogo remembered who Hakan was.

"Then welcome Arkwright Toy Store to become the store of Drogo Group specializing in designing board games. There will be many more ideas that can be made into board games in the future."

(End of this chapter)