This game is awesome

A young female teacher pushed the door open with documents in her arms, and saw the bald dean with his eyes wide open.

Looking at the female teacher who pushed the door open, the dean was silent for a while and asked, "Teacher Xia, is there any difficulty at home for Gu Qingshi, your classmate?"

"what?"

..........

Gu Qingshi was just thinking about how to revive the game in this broken studio, what with the dean of studies inducing the dean, and the opening ceremony.

If she can't revive this game, she will have to go to Hailongchang to gain enlightenment.

If adult content was not prohibited in the country, Gu Qingshi would have been eager to start making porn videos right away, using her rich practical experience and cutting-edge knowledge to explore the blue ocean market.

But unfortunately, it can’t be done.

In the absence of the ability to develop new games, the most important thing is how to revitalize the existing "Industry: 1800".

With the previous experience of tasting the industry's defense, Gu Qingshi's expectations for his own "Industry: 1800" have been lowered again and again, and he opened the game program with the lowest expectations.

The loading page shows Victorian streets and factories, with a fairly standard style.

Gu Qingshi couldn't hold it any longer when she saw the progress bar was stuck at 99%.

As an artist, her computer configuration is not top-notch, but it is also mainstream. She can still get stuck on the loading page...

Gu Qingshi sat in front of the computer for three hours.

Three hours!

"Do you know what I went through in these three hours?"

As a game, Gu Qingshi didn’t even understand how to play it after three hours!

If she were to describe it, the game would be like a national socio-economic simulator with a long list of war missions.

The tasks in this game are freely chosen. Gu Qingshi spent half an hour developing and took on the first task: foreign colonization.

But at the beginning of the mission, a colonial conflict with Britain occurred. Then Gu Qingshi had the same experience as Chairman Chiang: arranging strategic orders, micro-manipulating machine guns in positions, and receiving true and false information.

That’s right, the battle reports in this game might even be fake... The higher the loyalty of the generals, the more authentic the battle reports you receive...

This means that you not only need to know strategy and tactics, but also need to play a love simulation with your generals.

The result was that the powerful AI British Army easily crushed her. With heavy casualties in the army, the country immediately turned against the war, workers went on strike, and the social economy collapsed instantly.

After trying over and over again for three hours, Gu Qingshi stared at the computer screen in a trance.

Obviously, the mission design of this game is very unreasonable, lacking effective guidance for novices, the gameplay is too bloated, and the intelligence system is anti-human...

The shortcomings are numerous.

The fact that this thing has sold 487 units has shocked Gu Qingshi for the entire year.

I can only say that the players in this world have been baptized by the industry's shit for more than a decade, and their poison resistance is really high.

The economic system needs to be redone and simplified, the war gameplay that doesn't meet market requirements needs to be cut off, a complete novice guide must be built, the task system can be made into a tree diagram for the convenience of players, and the stupid intelligence system must be completely deleted... No, it should be made into an easter egg, I can't be the only one to be insulted.

Gu Qingshi's basic idea was to make some deletions and modifications to the existing framework of "Industry: 1800" and to develop the game content based on "Victoria", a classic work by the Swedish company Paradox, which previously monopolized the market for historical grand strategy games.

Even among Paradox games, which is famous for its hardcore and complex historical grand strategy games, Victoria is a rare high-difficulty and high-threshold game. Its second generation was once called a "macroeconomic simulator."

Although it may sound exaggerated, it also indirectly reflects the threshold and depth of this game.

Even if it is a simplified version of the third generation, it would be a dimensionality reduction attack if it were placed in the game market of this world - no exaggeration. The deformed market of this world is full of shitty games, and any normal game can be beaten up.

As a game planner, Gu Qingshi has played many Paradox games. Her favorite is Stellaris, but if she had to say which one she appreciates the most, it would probably be Victoria 2.

Victoria 2, a game that simulates the macro-control of a country's tangible hand, is famous for its unique POP (social group) economic system. It may be the deepest and most challenging game among Paradox's grand strategy games, and therefore has discouraged many players.

The next three generations made a lot of simplifications and adjustments, which greatly lowered the threshold and fun of playing. Although the game ultimately received poor reviews, Gu Qingshi believes that this step was very successful in commercialization.

Although actively lowering the threshold for commercialization is often considered a "rebellious act" by veteran players, it is difficult to say whether it is right or not. After all, it can indeed revive a game or even a type of game.

For example, Baldur's Gate saved DND, and Mortal Kombat 2011 saved Mortal Kombat.

Therefore, Gu Qingshi’s focus is more on Victoria 3.

But as for specific changes to the game content...that's something that needs to be done by professionals.

...........

Gu Qingshi did not go to school in the afternoon, but made a phone call to make an appointment with the studio programmer.

All employees of Fanxing Studio work from home, so Gu Qingshi can only hire people at her own expense.

Gu Qingshi reluctantly paid two hundred yuan and reserved two seats at the nearest barbecue buffet.

It wasn’t long before the program arrived at the store.

The programmer of Fanxing Studio is called Li Xiaomeng. He is currently studying macroeconomics and develops game programs purely out of personal interest.

Li Xiaomeng is a very short girl, even shorter than Gu Qingshi. She wears two ponytails and looks like a junior high school girl who is still in school.

"Hi boss."

Li Xiaomeng was still very reserved. It was obvious that if Gu Qingshi had not joined the company, this child would have definitely been the target of the previous black-hearted boss.

"Sit down first. I'll light the oven."

Gu Qingshi tried her best to light the stove, handed Li Xiaomeng a bottle of yogurt, and asked, "What do you think of our studio?"

"Can you tell me anything?" Li Xiaomeng blinked and smiled embarrassedly.

"Then stop talking... I have a new idea for the studio's game."

“Then the salary…”

Don't bring up things that are not related to the topic!

But in this critical situation, the first person who must not show weakness is Gu Qingshi.

Gu Qingshi pretended to be pretentious and said, "After this project is completed, the previous salary and bonus will be paid together."

The studio currently doesn’t know that the black-hearted boss has absconded with the money. They just think that the boss sold the studio to Gu Qingshi because he thought it was not making money.

It's quite common for the second generation of rich people to have fun.

Li Xiaomeng suddenly smiled so that her face became crescent-shaped.

"I'll listen to you, boss!"

Gu Qingshi had a stern face, but her Sanwu look was also very cute.

"Don't interrupt, let's get down to business. Can you remove the more intuitive war content in the original game, redo the economy, and add some political struggle content?"

Li Xiaomeng thought for a moment, "It's not difficult to dismantle the war part, but if we redo the economy and politics... Boss~ I can't design the content and draw the UI myself..."

"I'm discussing this with the chief planner and will be able to come up with a complete plan tomorrow. I've already arranged for the artists over at the art resources department, so don't worry."

Gu Qingshi drank a cup of tea and promised solemnly: "Once this project is completed, I will give you double the bonus at the end of the month."

"Boss, you can say whatever you want. I'll listen to you! I'll do whatever you say."

Chapter 3 [Imperial Meeting]

Le'an City, a bar.

Unlike most bars with neon lights and loud music, this bar hidden in the alley is quiet and peaceful, like a beer hall or a coffee shop.

The chief planner, copywriter and numerical manager of Fanxing Studio are all sitting here.

Ever since the first month's sales figures came out last week, everyone has lost hope in the studio's future and are looking for new jobs.

Coincidentally, the financial company "Longyuan Management" was transforming and getting involved in the Internet, so it opened a gaming subsidiary and extended an olive branch to Fanxing Studio.

Although the failure of this game was obvious to all, the technical level was still online. In addition to the chief planner and Gu Qingshi, Longyuan sent invitations to everyone in the studio. So Gu Qingshi was still kept in the dark and had no idea that she was being poached.

The guy who worked on the numbers was named Bai, and he was wearing a nice suit. Bai Chengming raised his glass and clinked it with the chief planner.

As they are both wanderers in the world, they can be said to sympathize with each other.

One used to work as a plasterer at a construction site, and the other used to dig at an archaeological site, so if you round it off, they are in the same industry!

"Sister An, this drink is on me."

The chief planner, Sister An, whose full name is An Yan, is an archaeological technician who looks like an older sister.

An Yan was not pretentious. She clinked her glasses with Bai Chengming's, drank most of the glass, and asked:

"Old White, have you found a new employer?"

"It's settled. Longyuan Entertainment has a project that they need a lead planner for."

Bai Chengming was shocked and finally got to the point - the purpose of his coming here was to poach people for Longyuan Entertainment, but the targets were not the chief planner An Yan, but the copywriter Bao Long and the programmer Li Xiaomeng.

The fact that the game "Industrial: 1800" is so bloated that it is amazing that it can actually run normally has demonstrated Li Xiaomeng's amazing skills. This level is rare even for large companies.

Bao Long, the copywriter, is even more amazing. All the thousands of events in the game were written by Bao Long, and the events of small characters are linked together.

It's just such a pity. If optimization and copywriting can add 1800 points to "Industry: 20", then various shortcomings can deduct 100 points from this game.

An Yan nodded. "Wow, the chief planner of a big company, awesome!"

"Where's Brother Bao? Why doesn't Brother Bao say anything?"

The Brother Bao that Bai Chengming mentioned is Bao Long, the studio’s copywriter and a man with a master’s degree in philosophy.

"Let's see what An Zhuce decides. I followed her here. If she leaves, I will go with her." Bao Long drank a glass of wine silently.

He was recommended to Fanxing Studio by An Yan, so he respects An Yan's opinion very much.

An Yan smiled and said, "I haven't decided yet."

"Then I'll wait."

"Brother Bao, what are you waiting for? How long can this crappy studio last? I haven't even received my salary this month, and I'm working for nothing. I know your copywriting skills, and they are really good. I have some connections with Longyuan, so why don't you come with me to work on their new project..."

Bao Long was really moved this time, but still hesitant.

He is different from the two people around him. If they can't find a new job, the worst that can happen is that they go back to the construction site to do hard labor. But if he quits, he might really be unemployed.