You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 77 Project Development Meeting

Mo Xiaoxuan's ideas flowed like a flood, and he typed out the plan in an eloquent manner.

Afterwards, he called the company's management and R&D team to the conference room for a meeting.
He conveyed his ideas to Lu Yu and other company employees through a large-screen demonstration:
"Mr. Lu, the game world I envisioned is a fictional city full of cyberpunk style.

In this imaginary city, citizens can use their foul-mouthed "mouth cannons" as weapons to fight each other, punishing evil and promoting good..."

The big screen displayed the system introduction written by Mo Xiaoxuan:

This is an urban sandbox adventure game where players can freely explore the open city and encounter different characters and events.

The mouth cannon combat system is the core combat gameplay system of the game.

Players need to collect various mouth cannon combat entries through exploration, adventure, social interaction, etc., and compose their own exclusive mouth cannon lines.

At the same time, by solving puzzles and completing tasks, the protagonist's various psychological attributes, such as "personality mask", "courage" and "confidence", will gradually be cultivated, and these attributes will affect the character's combat effectiveness.

When fighting (confrontation) is required, players can choose appropriate verbal attacks from the skill set.

Different words of mouth have different effects. For example, words of encouragement can increase the damage of our teammates, words of healing can restore blood, and words of murderous intent can cause fatal damage to the enemy.

……

Shao Peng, the system planner of the project team, raised his hand to ask a question.

"I have a question, Brother Mo. Doesn't the actual visual depiction of this verbal battle just show two groups of people standing on opposite sides, holding their hips and cursing at each other?"

Mo Xiaoxuan shook his head:
"After all, this is a fantasy city. In the game world, the player's words will be materialized into "verbal bullets." In other words, they will actually be launched at the enemy like cannonballs and laser beams."

The conference room was suddenly filled with discussions.

"Oh my god, that's quite touching."

"It's a good idea to turn the lines into a physical attack."

"Brother Mo has some ideas..."

Project team level planner Pan Hao proposed:
"It would be a shame to make such a good presentation a turn-based game where you shoot and I shoot. I suggest making it a TPS (third-person shooter) where the bullets have trajectories and the characters can dodge them."

The art girl Sun Rou said weakly:
"But... I always feel that using verbal attacks to attack each other is a bit too magical. Is this reasonable? How can the words people say become cannonballs?"

Copywriter Hao Shuwen smiled and waved his hand:
"This isn't a problem for our copywriters at all. After all, it's a fantasy work, so we just need to find a pretext to package it.

For example, in the game world, there is something called "Word Spirit Particles" -

Word Spirit Particles are a mysterious and powerful substance whose existence and functions far exceed human scientific understanding.

Word particles affect human psychological energy, enhancing an individual's self-confidence, courage, and psychological defenses. When people speak brave words under the influence of word particles, their inner energy is also enhanced.

It is considered a bridge connecting language, emotion and mind, capable of materializing human thoughts and emotions into visible energy forms such as laser beams, cannonballs and balls of light.

"As expected of a copywriter, he can easily make up for it." Sun Rou complained with a smile.

After this problem was solved, Mo Xiaoxuan continued to introduce the game's story stage - the fictional city [New Alfaka].

The PPT shows the plan he wrote:
New Afaka is a futuristic city full of cyberpunk style and technology.

In this city, skyscrapers and neon lights complement each other, and the streets and alleys are filled with various distinctive areas.

Players can experience the avant-garde fashion atmosphere and appreciate creative trends in the Phantom Fashion Street similar to Tokyo's Shibuya;
Interact with Mr. Ma in Chinatown and learn the ancient traditional mouth cannon kung fu;

Engage in creation and street graffiti in an artist theater similar to Broadway, and participate in street hip-hop and verbal art;
The game also has a game street similar to Akihabara, a technology company park similar to Silicon Valley, and a large number of urban village slums.

The game has a rich social network system. Players will encounter different characters and gangs in every corner of the city, and they all have their own sphere of influence.

By interacting with different city communities and increasing their influence, players can learn more rare verbal attacks, gain wealth and various combat equipment.

……

After reading Mo Xiaoxuan's project PPT, the conference room fell into a brief silence.

Everyone turned their gazes towards Lu Yu. Mo Xiaoxuan's idea was too unconventional and unconventional.

A third-person shooter game where players verbally abuse each other, and a large number of growth-oriented RPG elements.

There are no games of this type in China's gaming industry right now.

No, no, there is no such precedent even in the global gaming industry.

Their previous work experience has already formed a path dependence in their working methods:
First, disassemble and analyze the successful products that are already popular in the market, then make slight improvements and innovations, change the skin, and release your own product.

This kind of attempt, which had no pioneers, would never have been possible in many of their previous companies.

Because the risk is too great, if the game is successful, you are called a pioneer, and if the game fails, you become a martyr.

Looking at everyone's suspicious and complicated expressions, Mo Xiaoxuan's eyes, which had finally brightened up, began to dim again.

Lu Yu took a look and thought, "What the hell? I can't let this guy deduct points anymore. This guy's deductions also come with a critical hit!

"Well, I think this is a good idea."

Lu Yu smiled and said to everyone:

"Taoyuanxiang Company's project development principle is to fully respect creative freedom."

"Freedom?" Mo Xiaoxuan murmured.

"Yeah, that's right. I told you, when setting up a project, there are no taboos. Since you're the producer, you can choose whatever you want to do and do whatever makes you feel comfortable!"

Lu Yu's words were equivalent to publicly supporting the establishment of this project. The others also dispelled their doubts and spoke up:

"Brother Mo, you decide what to do, and we will fully cooperate with you from now on."

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, what he cares about most now is whether Mo Xiaoxuan can live up to his expectations and hit 50 positive critical hits during this round of settlement cycle, so that he can successfully get the permanent BUFF with a rebate rate of 20%.

And, the leisure level of all employees in the company.

As for the game itself, what he highlighted this time was a natural flow and a non-interventionist approach.

If you can produce a mediocre work and complete the basic system tasks, it will be considered a success.

System planner Shao Peng looked at the densely packed notes on the paper and frowned:

"If we follow Brother Mo's ideas, this sandbox game will be quite large. Should we work overtime a little?"

When Lu Yu heard this, he felt as if he was facing a great enemy, and immediately said seriously:

"No! Although you have the freedom to create, working overtime is absolutely not allowed.

Not only can you not work overtime, but your workload should not be saturated during normal working hours!

Those who need to go to the gym should continue to go, those who need to eat, drink and soak in hot springs should continue to do so.

Remember, the 543 work system and reducing efficiency and increasing costs are the cornerstones of the company, and no one can transcend them!

In short, your comfort level here is even more important than the game itself."

Lu Yu’s words were powerful!

Seeing Lu Yu so serious, everyone in the room nodded in confusion.

Lu Yu thought about it and felt that he could no longer stay in this room.

These guys may mistakenly think that they are "supervising" and that is why they are so eager to express their desire to work overtime.

(End of this chapter)