BUILDING A GAMING EMPIRE FROM SCRATCH

Chapter 1104: Chapter 1014 Now is: Kitty Meeting Time!_1 Chapter 1104: Chapter 1014 Now is: Kitty Meeting Time!_1 Building a city from scratch, with little to reference from, is undoubtedly difficult.

Adding to this the concept of “high technology, low life”, and subtly incorporating the spirit of Daxia’s traditional culture, the difficulty level is multiplied.

Which is why the construction time for this city has far surpassed the average time Cloud Dream previously required to “build a city”.

Even so, [Cyber Chang’an] remains a half-finished product, even virtual characters aren’t added yet, and only various robots patrol the streets.

The good news is: there’s no rush for this project.

This is the final chapter Lincoln has planned for the “Chang’an” series and the concluding work of this phase.

Therefore, the Sci-fi Game Department can strive for perfection.

Not only will Lincoln refrain from rushing them, but he also takes time every now and then to check the progress and help solve problems.

Sometimes, he would run into Cheryl here.

Like this time –

“Boss?

You’re here!”

“Hmm, why are you here again?

Seeking help?”

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“Still having trouble with level design?” Lincoln asked.

“Yes…” Upon mentioning that, Cheryl felt distressed.

This wasn’t her first time facing this dilemma.

She transitioned careers midway, to her film production and promotion were easy tasks.

In the past half a year, with the professional pursuit of “love the work you do”, she has accumulated rich theoretical and practical experience in taking care of cats and dogs.

However, game development…

this thing is really hard to master quickly.

Even after working with the top development team of “Chang’an” for several months and learning a lot, it’s indeed challenging to lead a team to develop games independently at this stage.

Although Cloud Dream’s development tools are powerful, having technology alone is not enough to create a fun game.

Especially when Cheryl was designing, she couldn’t help comparing with the games Cloud Dream had previously developed…

After all, she knew that no matter how she claimed to have developed this game independently, players couldn’t ignore its strong Cloud Dream lineage.

She wouldn’t dare to ruin Cloud Dream’s golden signboard.

These factors caused her to have extremely high expectations for herself.

Any slight dissatisfaction would cause her to stop and polish the game, even redoing work from scratch.

This greatly impacted the progress of game development.

But it also made her abilities in various aspects of game production grow rapidly.

Although she couldn’t reach the top at any one point, she had become a rare versatile player, with well-rounded abilities.

Lincoln was very optimistic about her future.

Cheryl didn’t realise that her image in Lincoln’s heart, had transitioned from being a “mascot” or “cat captain” to a “worker” with “great prospects” and “unlimited potential”.

She earnestly explained the difficulties she was encountering:

“Having the assistance of the experts in the Sci-fi Game Department, most problems aren’t hard to solve, but when it comes to the difficulty level of the stages, I find it hard to strike a balance.”

“If it’s too difficult, it won’t work.

It will frustrate the casual players, who are the main target audience of this game along with cat lovers.”

“But if it’s too easy, in addition to feeling foolish, the gameplay would be too weak, easily turning into a walking simulator, and fun and sense of accomplishment would also be greatly reduced.”

“High-difficulty technologies like [Dynamic Difficulty], are naturally difficult to apply to level puzzles – not to mention dynamic difficulty, even setting [Ordinary] and [Difficult], I’m having trouble handling…”

Cheryl was distressed, banging her head in frustration.

Lincoln thought for a while, having nothing else to do, he suggested to Cheryl: “Why don’t you show us?”

“Alright!” Cheryl’s eyes immediately lit up.

——In the eyes of most Cloud Dream employees, their boss, Lincoln, is like a wish-granting machine.

Without reservation, Cheryl took Lincoln to the [Cat World]——the game’s name was not yet set.

This was the name of the development world.

This cat game’s development framework originally completely relied on “Chang’an”.

Cheryl planned to let the cats run wild in Chang’an City, interacting with humans from an animal perspective, uncovering big human secrets, then conveniently solving puzzles and going on adventures, eventually becoming a “Cat Hero”.

But later, she found that these restrictions were just too great.

Chang’an City had been filled with too many characters and branches by the development team.

Adding more would cause too much concern and be very troublesome.

The stage design was also very affected and it was difficult to create freely.

In the end, at Lincoln’s suggestion, she left the “present Chang’an” and came to the “future Chang’an”.

In this land with fewer restrictions and more possibilities, she developed her own game.

So the current [Cat World] has a futuristic style.

The design of the stages is also more free and three-dimensional.

——Aren’t several dozen-story-high buildings three-dimensional?!

Cheryl led the way, Lincoln, Mavis, and Camille Victoria, who were also interested, all turned into cats, wandering, jumping, and experiencing the puzzle stages in this empty future city.

Some places were not yet designed, and Cheryl had to describe them verbally for them.

After experiencing several stages in a row, [Black Cat · Lincoln] stopped and asked Cheryl: “The core gameplay of the stages you designed is [puzzle-solving] + [parkour], right?”

“Yes!” [Three Flowers · Cheryl] nodded repeatedly.

“The difficulty of [parkour] is easy to adjust, so your main concern should be [puzzle-solving].” [Black Cat · Lincoln] said, while pushing away [Fat Orange · Mavis] who was squeezing over.

——Mavis rarely has the experience of being larger than Lincoln, she always wanted to get close and tease him.

The [Ragdoll Cat · Camille Victoria] next to them was struggling to hold back [Fat Orange · Mavis], to prevent her from disturbing Lincoln.

[Black Cat · Lincoln] looked at the environment of this stage again and suddenly asked: “Would you be interested in adding a dog to the game?”

“Huh?” [Three Flowers · Cheryl] paused for a moment, “A dog?

Will it affect the difficulty?”

“Yes, adding two modes.”

Lincoln detailed his ideas to Cheryl:

“[Two Cats Together], cooperation between two agile cats that can walk on walls, should significantly lower the difficulty, acting as the [Easy Mode].”

“[Single Cat Mode], is your currently designed [Classic Mode], where you can freely exercise creativity, and players who can’t pass can ask others for help, so they won’t be stuck at a check point.”

“[Cats and Dogs Together], one player plays the cat, and the other plays the dog——or the system can play the dog, to prevent social-phobic and lone-wolf players from being unable to find friends.

Cats can walk on walls, but dogs can’t, they would need the cat to help them pass, which would significantly increase the difficulty for the cat players, this would obviously be the [Hard Mode].”

“Of course, you can also make more daring changes, for example, adding unique abilities for the dog, like [Tracking], [Carrying], [Destruction], and more, turning this mode into a [Duo Game], where two players work together to overcome difficulties.”

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Lincoln fluently proposed one idea after another to Cheryl.

While Cheryl was listening to Lincoln’s description, the more she listened, the more excited she became.

She was trapped in the original framework, thinking hard and unable to find that complex balance, but Lincoln just strolled a few laps, directly jumped out of the frame, and provided a solution that was wide open, yet very interesting, and would greatly enhance the game!

Of course, this also raises higher demands for the game design.

But Cheryl is not afraid of challenges!

“Boss, you’re awesome!”

An excited Three Flowers pounced and jumped towards the Black Cat.

But she was intercepted and muffled by a surprisingly large Fat Orange on the table, ferociously rubbing away!

And the Ragdoll Cat who had just scratched Fat Orange’s paw, came over at a leisurely pace, gently rubbing her head against the neck of the Black Cat.

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