High Life felt that the horror game produced by Night Light would definitely be a hit, because it wouldn't take long for players to realise that what they were playing wasn't a game, but a strategy that could save their lives.
"If we're really unsure, we can take out Xuan Wen's line alone, modify it and make a test version to see how the players rate it."Gao Life projected the latest design on the big screen, "I've always believed that we're the best team, but the client doesn't seem to think so.If we casually change it according to the client's requirements, it will instead destroy the uniqueness of our game and change a one hundred point game into a sixty point game, so I suggest letting the market test it."
"If we redo it now, we really won't have enough time, so why don't we just try it according to High Life's idea?"Wei Dayou removed his headphones and touched Xia Yang with his shoulder, "Old Xia, what do you think?"
"Customers make games to earn money, we just need to prove to customers that our game can earn money."Xia Yang looked at the big screen, he knew the design style of High Life, but he still sucked in a breath of cool air after seeing it.Compared to the previous horror game design, Gao Life added very many details this time, it felt as if he had really experienced a paranormal event, "How did you come up with these designs?"
"Ate cake with my parents for three days and came to a realisation."
Seeing the employees rubbing their fists, ready to do a big job, Manager Gou wanted to say something.
As an old man in the industry, he could see the wonderful designs of Gao Life and Xuan Wen, and he also knew that Night Light was best at thriller games, but over there, he promised the client that he was going to go for a love game to cater for the market.
"Mr Gou, trust me, this time it will be fine."Gou stood at the front, Wei Dayou and Xuan Wen slightly back, "old old new" three game designers at the same time state: "beta only Xuan Wen line, the response is not good, we immediately delete, return to normal love games.
Under constant persuasion, Manager Gou compromised.
Night Light Studio seemed like a sophisticated machine running at high speed, but Manager Gou was not happy at all watching all this, the old news about the murder design was printed in a dozen copies by High Life, and the photos of the murder scene were plastered all over the studio, almost covering the promotional slogan of the love game.
The staff were also discussing the case, substituting the perspective of the victim and striving for the most realistic restoration.
"Compared to other romance games, our advantage is that the female lead is more special."Gao Ming sent the new persona he made to the others, "Next I'll do some fine-tuning to make sure the female lead is closer to a stern ghost!Let the player have the feeling of actually encountering a ghost!"
"Listen to yourself speaking in human language?"Manager Gou spoke helplessly.
"This is our speciality!"
No one could remain calm after a real encounter with a paranormal event, and Gou Life also seemed to be stimulated with a spurt of inspiration as he incorporated his own personal experience into the game's male protagonist.
"Come up the protagonist chooses to run away and kill directly, if you can't say anything, get dead, resistance is not possible, what kryptonite props do you need?One minute can't make a choice and die!Difficulty upwards!"
"The look of the ghost is not right, her face is not bleak and white, but bloody, the dead person is most likely to be hanging when dying.I need that sense of visual impact!Waking up in the middle of the night to see a gruesome dead face next to your bed, she's just thirty centimetres away from you, blood is dripping into your eyes!"
Everyone is rejuvenated with passion, Gou always thinks for a long time, silently took out his mobile phone and made a call to the investor.
"Mr Zhao ah, don't be anxious, the game is going well, it's just that we are ready to add a little change after rigorous market analysis and research ... Well, it's just a little innovation."
Closing the office door, Manager Gou tried to let the customer to understand what was about to happen.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the preliminary completion of the relationship game made with the background of the male lead's battle royale was completed, and with the support of Gou Life's experience exchanged through practice, the game, not to mention the players, was creepy even to the studio's colleagues.
"The beta version is basically done, since we want word of mouth to ferment, why don't we first find a group of familiar players to issue the beta qualification, test it within a controlled range, and stop it immediately once the wind is not in the right direction, so we can also give an explanation to our customers at that time."After Team Leader Xia finished speaking, Manager Gou hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"You guys are too unconfident."Gou Life stood next to the computer and pressed his hands against the desk, "Don't hoist your own petard!Don't set any thresholds for players, use all the publicity resources to promote it, so that anyone interested in this game can play it!If necessary, we can even give players money, we'll kryptonite it to let them play!"
Compared to Manager Gou, Gao Life seemed to be more of a leader, his performance couldn't even be described as treating the company as his home, it felt like he was treating the company as his own life, and if the company collapsed, he would have to hang up.
"There is only one chance, make sure you give it your all!"Gao Life raised the promotional copy in his hand, he slightly modified the name provided by the client, To the Love We Will Eventually Die, and the first page of the paper read the new name of the game - To the Love We Will Eventually Die.
Night Light Studio bypassed the client and began player testing, as a studio at the bottom of the Magic Map Technology rankings, they were actually able to pry up very few resources, so the game's quality had to be superb in order for it to work.
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At 4:30pm, Mr Zhao had chatted a lot with Manager Gou before, they were friends for many years, but pro-brothers still had to settle accounts, he was a bit uneasy about this investment, he hoped that Manager Gou could bring the game and come over in person.
"Night Light Studio hasn't produced a breakout game in a long time, but Gou Youzhi and I are old classmates, he won't be so bad as to screw me over, right?"
Hanging up the phone, Zhao logged into the industry's largest communication platform, he wanted to search for the latest news from Night Light Studio, and ended up seeing a few popular posts in the thriller and horror section.
"They didn't have many people in the studio in the first place, and they still dare to make two games at the same time?"
"The comments are extremely polarised, it's a bit interesting."Zhao downloaded the game and looked at the name of the game in deep thought.
"To Our Eventually Dying Love?How is this still copying my idea?"
Launching the game, the gentle, low-key, kind-hearted otaku protagonist appeared, living alone in a cosy, healing and sweet murderous mansion.
"A very ordinary protagonist persona, it seems like there's nothing special about it."
As the sun sank into the horizon, the girlish rented house completely changed its appearance, and before Mr Zhao could react, the protagonist he was controlling had already died tragically.
Sitting in front of the screen, General Zhao looked at the body of the male protagonist that had been dragged away and subconsciously started the game again.
Sitting on the sofa will be strangled by something from behind; hiding in the bathroom will be broken into by the murderer; the safety cabinet in other horror games has directly turned into a man-eating mouth in this game; if you want to hide underneath the bed, you will be right in the eye of the murderer once you lift up the sheet; even if you stay still, you will still receive all kinds of death email threats and will gradually be driven mad.
No one in this game can be trusted, all the NPCs including mum and dad are tricky impersonators, and the whole world seems to want to get the protagonist killed.
"I'm trampling!"
Zhao unknowingly had already played for twenty minutes, this game had a special kind of magic that could fully mobilise the player's emotions, it was tempting to punch through the screen.
The test publicity continued, and players were leaving comments.
"I can't believe I died seventeen times in a cohabitation romance game!Seventeen times!"
"It's so realistic!This game has used almost all of its funds to create a dead heroine!I don't know which unjust investor, invested in this project."
"Is there any great god who survived to the seventh day?This is an unnatural death simulator, right?"
The game fever was fermenting, this love game started from the horror and thriller board, and gradually entered the eyes of some niche game UP owners, and more and more people noticed it.
At 5:40pm, General Manager Zhao, who had died for an unknown number of times, finally played the game for the eleventh night, and as he tightly frowned and contemplated who the murderer really was, Manager Gou entered the office with an awkward smile.
"Old Zhao, I got you two tins of tea, both of which you like."Manager Gou deliberately wanted to avoid the topic of the game, but when he placed the tea on his desk, his afterglow swept over General Zhao's computer screen, and the familiar game screen made the fat on Manager Gou's face freeze.
"Out of my trust in you, and with the idea of pulling you up by your bootstraps, I was assured that I would leave the game to you, but it's been a few weeks now, so you've got to tell me where that money has been spent, right?How's the progress of that love game of mine?"Mr Zhao didn't look up, concentrating on manipulating the game hero to hide from the severe ghosts.
Manager Gou recalled all about the art of language and finally whispered, "Isn't that what you're playing?"
The sound of keyboard tapping stopped, and Mr Zhao tilted his head, his finger pointing at the game screen before slowly moving back to himself, "Hmm?"