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“Is the Northwest fun?”

Li Xiaomeng rolled over, turned her head away, and said angrily, "I'm tired."

"I'm not kidding you. Have you mentioned things like the Mount and Blade promotional video to An Yan?"

When talking about business, Li Xiaomeng became serious and said, "Yes, I mentioned it. Sister An was very angry when she saw the result of the rock."

Gu Qingshi thought to herself that something had gone wrong.

Fortunately, the problem was discovered early and should be able to be adjusted in time.

Gu Qingshi and Li Xiaomeng asked about An Yan and the others' work progress, then ended the video call and tapped lightly on the desk.

The development of Mount and Blade started off on a bad note, but fortunately An Yan and her team discovered the problem in time.

For some reason, she thought of the stupid little butter she played with some time ago. As a demon king, she had to let the goblins enjoy the female hero's amazing butter first.

Gu Qingshi clasped her hands together and prayed, hoping that the Mount and Blade developed by An Yan would not become such a heaven-defying thing that would be nailed to the pillar of shame by players.

An Yan did not disappoint Gu Qingshi's expectations. On the evening that Li Xiaomeng came back, Gu Qingshi received the planning proposal that An Yan had revised many times.

This plan is significantly larger than the previous one, and has undergone drastic rewrites in terms of market analysis, game design, sound design, and technical implementation.

The game plot has also been changed to some extent based on the suggestions of relevant experts and scholars.

Of course, it is impossible to completely restore history, and certain adaptations must be made for the sake of gameplay.

For example, Khotan, one of the four towns of Anxi, belonged to the Tang Dynasty in 800 AD, the initial year of the game. However, we can only verify that Khotan was under the control of the Tang Dynasty in 798 AD. As for who controlled Khotan in 800 AD, it is hard to say.

After all, after the general An Lushan launched a rebellion, the Western Regions gradually fell into chaos, and some documents are really hard to find.

By the way, Gu Qingshi decided to give the English name of "Mount & Blade: Serindia-30K" to this game.......

After Gu Qingshi finished reading the plan, she breathed a sigh of relief and went home.

As soon as she returned home, she was changing her shoes in the entrance hall when she heard her sister Gu Qingci talking on the phone in the living room.

"Still missing some? So what exactly is missing?"

A voice came from the phone.

"Boss Gu, you guys haven't made full use of Shirobako's strengths. There's no romance anymore. Why did it become a war of killings?"

Gu Qingci was speechless, "Didn't you guys pick the cyberpunk theme?"

"Then see if you can mix cyberpunk with love and justice and create something new..."

Snapped!

What a stupid thing.

Gu Qingci just pressed the hang-up button and threw the phone on the sofa.

Chapter 294 [October]

This was the first time Gu Qingshi saw her sister lose her temper.

Well...she would also be angry if it was her turn.

Gu Qingci was so angry that he picked up his phone and called his subordinates helplessly, saying, "Longyuan is not satisfied with our plan."

The girl on the phone was shocked, "Longyuan Light and Shadow is capable of this?"

"Ah Ci, what outrageous demands are they making again? You sounded a little out of breath."

Gu Qingci's face was covered with a layer of frost. "They want cyberpunk and love and justice."

The girl almost laughed out loud.

"Then I'll try to fix it. See you later."

Gu Qingci sat on the sofa, feeling that the whole world was against him.

Gu Qingshi came up behind her sister and rubbed her shoulders. "Did you meet an unscrupulous party A?"

Gu Qingshi showed some concern.

She has a good relationship with Long Yuan and can help Gu Qingci to mediate.

But Gu Qingci shook his head slightly, "It's okay."

"It's okay. Does your liver hurt?" Gu Qingshi rubbed her sister's belly with a smile.

Anger hurts the liver.

"They want a love story, so you mix it in."

Gu Qingci snorted angrily, "I can't draw."

Gu Qingshi smiled.

"No way, wasn't the magical girl part I saw pretty good?"

Gu Qingci's face froze and he stopped talking.

"Just listen to me. If they want love and justice, then mix it in. Motherly love must be there, what a classic element of character resonance. Love, that's also necessary, the love object can trigger some sexual tension, force the protagonist to grow and bring about changes in the story. Not to mention friendship, partners and allies form a small team..."

This is not bad. Animation is also a medium for telling stories, and any story cannot be without these.

Or maybe Gu Qingci has read too many cyberpunk-themed works recently, and subconsciously leaned towards them, but didn't notice some basic things, or didn't want to notice them.

Listening to his sister's words, Gu Qingci felt that Gu Qingshi had no heart. "This world is already tragic, and adding so many resonant elements to the protagonist..."

What Gu Qingci meant was that this thing was too tragic to be made.

But Gu Qingshi disagreed, "It's all tragedy, so they should just walk down the same path until they die. Hesitating and not pleasing either side. And don't you think this is not love and justice?"

Gu Qingci opened his mouth but didn't refute.

Bringing these things to the table is indeed a sign of love and justice, but if you take them out and smash them all, that’s a different story!

Gu Qingshi did not continue to persuade him.

It's just an animation, it won't cause Shirobako to go bankrupt.

Besides, it doesn’t matter if Shirobako goes bankrupt. If it goes bankrupt, she will just support Gu Qingci.

Fanxing has a big family and a great business!

............

In the blink of an eye, two or three months passed, spring was gone, summer was about to end, and autumn was halfway through, and it was October.

The plane trees lining the sidewalks of Beihai Villa have turned a burnt yellow. In another month or two, the leaves will cover the entire road surface.

The spherical exhibition hall on the northern edge of the lake in the villa has been almost completed and will be put into use soon.

Gu Qingshi calculated the time and urged the three developers to produce the promotional video of Mount and Blade in the West as soon as possible.

In the office of the director of Development Department 3, An Yan did not give her the promotional video first, but handed her a booklet.

"What's this?"

Gu Qingshi flipped the album over and over. There were several gold-plated words on the frosted cover:

Mount & Blade: Westward Path - Original Artbook

The following are the co-production units: The Third Development Department of Star Studio and Mount & Blade Development and Design Committee.

It's quite formal.

When you open it, the first page is a list of thanks, mainly thanking certain government agencies, social individuals, and enterprises for their help. Then you will see the table of contents.

It can be roughly divided into: Tang court, Uighur, Shatuo and Tubo.

The content includes illustrations and models of military units and buildings of various forces in the game, and next to them are corresponding cultural relic modeling or restoration drawings, which are quite sophisticated.

"It's well done, so I'll promote the video."

Gu Qingshi is a ruthless movie-seeking machine.

"It's done, it's done~" An Yan smiled and comforted her boss.

After that, An Yan turned on the computer and showed Gu Qingshi the promotional video she had just made.

The desert is full of dust, iron hooves and black armor, the city is in danger, and the Han people are a foreign race.

The walls were purple like grapes, and the iron armor shone coldly in the moonlight. Rows of ladders were placed on the walls, and the vanguards climbed up bravely. The Tang army on the walls were not afraid, and the drums beat and the fighting continued.

Gu Qingshi has a good memory. When she saw the city in the picture, she immediately thought of Beiting City in the original picture book. The promotional video is straightforward, directly reproducing the scene of Tubo attacking the city in the game.

Then the scene changed, with yellow sand flying, and thousands of cavalrymen rolling in the setting sun and stepping on the strong wind. Their iron hooves cracked the ground in the whistling wind, and a Hu boy controlled the horse's head and drew his bow and drew his arrow.

The camels carrying heavy bags on the road were frightened and scattered in all directions.

The key point is war.

War is the characteristic of Mount & Blade. Playing Mount & Blade without experiencing the battlefield is like playing Nintendo without watching CG.

Gu Qingshi didn't finish watching it, but only watched most of it, and confirmed: the whole process was a live demonstration of the post-production content, and there was very little post-production content

Only then did Gu Qingshi nod and let An Yan go.

"The promotional video is OK. As for the original art book, you can print more of them as gifts for the conference attendees."

Gu Qingshi ordered.

"Send the finished product to my office later. I'll go take care of the press conference for the Linlang Project."

After Gu Qingshi finished speaking, she left the office and went upstairs to find Tang Manyan.

Coincidentally, Tang Manyan came downstairs and the two met.

Gu Qingshi was not polite and asked directly after a brief greeting: "Have you finished the pre-launch promotional video for the press conference?"

The Linlang Project is naturally responsible for the promotional videos of each game, but Fanxing is responsible for urging them to do so.

"Everything is almost ready. Do you want to go to the screening room for a preview?"

Xiao Tang followed Gu Qingshi downstairs and glanced in the direction of the screening room while talking.

But Gu Qingshi was very confident in Tang Manyan and shook her head slightly.

"That's not necessary. Later, follow Pei E to the Black Star Pavilion to familiarize yourself with the environment so that nothing goes wrong."

Gu Qingshi felt more at ease letting Tang Manyan host the press conference.