The model of Kunlun was fairly simple, so as soon as Ren He explained it, the programmers understood. What they found novel was that in the parallel world's uninspired online gaming industry of 2006, Ren He had proposed the concept of a turn-based game.
This surprised them, as they wondered if online games could really be this simplistically interactive? It even seemed quite interesting!
It was precisely this kind of start that convinced them that the other party wasn't joking with them, so they seriously listened to the rest of it.
Ren He spent nearly 4 hours explaining Dota's game mechanics to all the programmers. However, verbal explanations were a bit more challenging, and Ren He almost wished he could play a few rounds with them to let them experience it first-hand, but that was impossible.
Hence, in the early stages, they could only construct the game engine first, and then wait for him to return from the Capital to continue with the details.
