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

Chapter 5 Give the world a little cute shock

"Cat... cat lady?"

Liu Mengyuan looked stunned and even forgot to drink his milk tea.

"Yes."

Lu Yu explained that the basic gameplay framework of the new game is still horizontal level-passing, but some changes need to be made.

First of all, the protagonist used to be a dull house mouse, but now it has been changed to a chubby and cute hamster.

He also named the hamster John.

The story is not set in a residential building, but in an amusement park called Cat Girl Paradise.

The hamster was brought to the park by its owner and then lost there. It could only find the exit of the park by itself.

A large group of cat girls blocked John's way home.

Players must successfully avoid the pursuit of all cat girls in order to pass the level.

"...How should I put it, it's a bit subtle."

Liu Mengyuan heard that, apart from the cat girl being a gimmick, this game is just a standard horizontal scrolling game, right?
"really."

Lu Yu remained silent.

Now, he doesn't care whether this game can sell well or not. On the contrary, if he works hard on development and loses leisure points due to fatigue and stress, it will not be worth it.

Anyway, not a penny of the company's profits will go into his pocket, so the best strategy is to earn as many leisure points as possible.

However, the system will be untied when the company goes bankrupt, so Lu Yu cannot just sit back and relax. He still needs to operate it a little to make enough money to break even.

In fact, in the past few days since he came here, he has often watched the news and done some market research.

This is a parallel world different from the original world, where the status of the player group and the development of the industry have deviated.

What impressed Lu Yu the most was that this world seemed to be much more inward-looking than his original world.

For example, in university libraries, students would fight over seats.

In the office, two office workers will start an unlimited fight for performance commission quota.

Even on the hotpot street, two bosses who opened shops opposite each other to compete for customers would explode if they looked at each other for just one more moment.

Everyone was rolling, rolling with all their might.

This inward-looking sentiment has also spread to the gaming field.

Various unlimited PK, arena, gang war, group war, and national war games are very popular and occupy an absolute dominant position in the market.

Every player is paying to win.

The user experience of zero-氪 players is that of paying players, and the paid experience of small R players is that of big R rich players.

In the snack street where Lu Yu was playing, he could even see from a distance the billboard slogan of the national war PK online game "Legend of Mir" operated by Shengju Games:

"Imperial City National War, 10,000 people PK, if you're a brother, come and kill me!"

In the era of 2012, cute games or two-dimensional games that are meant to heal people easily are not considered to be of high quality.

Not long ago, Liu Wei, president of Mileyou Company, shyly explained to the judges who were laughing downstairs at the College Students' Business Plan Competition what an otaku is and what the second dimension is.

Creatures like cat girls only exist in some unhealthy single-player games.

Based on his experience in his previous life, Lu Yu felt that cute games were a blue ocean waiting to be developed.

Therefore, he wanted to give this world, which is overrun with involution, a little cute shock!

After deciding on the type, Lu Yu officially started production and opened Youyi Workshop on his computer.

The so-called Youyi Workshop is a gaming platform similar to the steam platform in its previous life, and is also the largest gaming platform in China at present.

Game makers can publish games, and players can purchase games on this platform.

In the workshop's developer market, you can buy many mature components and development solutions, and game resources such as art and sound effects can also be found by various outsourced artists on this platform.

This platform even provides an open-source game engine, allowing many producers to break through technical barriers. In short, as long as you have money, you can find any talent on it.

In this way, producers can concentrate on game design, which is very convenient.

For the following week, Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan stayed at Maozhiming, developing the game.

As long as they keep their drinks refilled, they can sit in this cat cafe all day. Lu Yu designed "Cat Girl Paradise Adventure" to be completed in less than three hours. The game's obstacles are typical of side-scrolling games, including jump platforms, traps, turrets, and moving enemies.

But the turrets and enemies all turned into cat girls.

With the help of the Youyi Workshop platform, the basic framework of the game was easily built. Lu Yu was too lazy to develop the various subsystems of the game himself, so he directly purchased ready-made components on the platform and plugged them in.

In short, do whatever makes you feel comfortable, and the most important thing is comfort!
In this era, casual stand-alone games are gradually declining, so all related development components are sold at very low prices, almost giving them away for free.

On the other hand, Liu Mengyuan is responsible for the art design of the cat girl.

She only needs to draw one, and then copy and paste it in the game engine, and at most slightly change some small details, and she can mass-produce many different cat girls.

Originally, she wanted to draw the story stage of the park as well, but Lu Yu seriously stopped her.

“The background is not important, I will just outsource it.

Besides, I only offer you a monthly salary of 4000 yuan. You only need to do the workload that matches this salary. Don't find extra work for yourself. This is not a good workplace habit."

"That's what I said..."

Liu Mengyuan tilted her head and said, "But my workload is so limited, it's not saturated at all."

I finally got the chance to practice my skills, and you let me just draw it once and be done with it?
"The idea that workload is not saturated is a false proposition in itself."

Lu Yu was filled with emotion and began to teach earnestly.

"I have always believed in a theory that company managers are not stupid. When they arrange work, they must have calculated the labor costs.

You have to believe that many companies won't give their employees cheap wages for no reason. They will assign you work that is in line with your current salary. So, even if you finish it early, so what? Who can guarantee that you will finish it just in time for the end of the day and not be allowed to take a break?

Even if the leader is a fool and miscalculates costs, resulting in his subordinates being too idle, that is the leader's management responsibility. Employees do not need to feel guilty, let alone take the initiative to take on the work.

If you are really bored, you might as well do some interesting hobbies."

"Oh..." Liu Mengyuan nodded thoughtfully.

She had attended her mother's management training within the Liu Group. Compared with the group's, Lu Yu's philosophy could not be said to be exactly the same, but it could be said to be completely different.

Within the Liu Group, overtime culture and wolf culture are promoted, and many people are embarrassed to leave the office on time after get off work.

Anyone whose workload seems insufficient will be a thorn in the leader's side, and the workload will definitely be doubled at the next morning meeting.

Of course, every day you can always find someone who seems to be working the least, because "least" itself is a relative concept.

This results in everyone being super-doubled in turn, and leaving get off work later and later...

Looking at Liu Mengyuan's confused face, Lu Yu thought to himself, it's no wonder that she grew up with Liu Lan.

Liu Lan is a business woman who spends over 300 days a year on airplanes. She's been sending her daughter through various training programs since she was three years old. If she's not a "roll king," what's she?
However, in Taoyuan Township Company, any form of rolls are not allowed!
Correcting her values ​​is a long and arduous task.

Therefore, during this one-week development cycle, Lu Yu arranged to spend only half a day on development every day, and use the other half day to rest and relax.

Once, Liu Mengyuan was so engrossed in his painting that he yawned out of exhaustion. He pounded his stiff waist, and the system immediately popped up a prompt:

[Employee Liu Mengyuan is tired, leisure points -0.2]

Lu Yu felt like he was facing a formidable enemy!

Although 20 yuan is nothing, a thousand-mile dike is destroyed by an ant hole, so we must nip the problem in the bud!

He immediately stopped all of Liu Mengyuan's work and took her out to drink drinks and play with cats.

"Well, actually... I think I'm fine. I can still work for a while."

"I don't want you to feel it, I want me to feel it!"

After all, according to the system's rule of diminishing marginal returns, there are no points gained from various experiences at work, and there is no such thing as "pain and happiness", but the points deduction is quite severe!

If you are not relaxed and comfortable enough, the system will deduct my money.

What a fuss!

Lu Yu said earnestly:

"What may seem like mild fatigue symptoms are actually your body's warning to you. Do you think chronic diseases like cervical spondylosis and lumbar disc herniation can be contracted in one go?

All of these illnesses are the result of years of accumulated, neglected fatigue."

(End of this chapter)