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What surprised An Yan the most was the part that Gu Qingshi deliberately highlighted in red: the complex technology tree and social group system.

Anyan could barely understand the technology tree, but this so-called "social group system" made her very confused.

"POP, what is this?" An Yan looked at Gu Qingshi's annotations on the social group system with great doubt.

The so-called social group system is to continuously classify social groups using several labels such as region, culture, wealth, and work until they can no longer be divided.

In the game, POPs generally include nobles, churches, intellectuals, capitalists, farmers, trade unions, etc., and different regions have different groups mentioned above.

These social groups are of different classes, with different market demands, jobs and political demands. They provide players with support for taxation, labor, products, markets and political reforms.

When players want to develop and make changes to the economy or politics, they will receive support or resistance from different social groups.

An Yan roughly understood this so-called POP system and was immediately horrified - Gu Qingshi was creating a new type of game.

This complex, self-consistent and unique system shocked An Yan greatly. She had never thought that the economic system could be played in this way!

You have to know that the grand strategy games or business simulation games on the market have completely simplified the game's economic system to make it easier for players to play, and there is no depth at all.

As for "Industry: 1800", no, it should be said "Gu Qingshi's Industry: 1800". With An Yan's experience, she is no longer able to judge its potential.

So she decided to find a professional to judge.

The call was quickly connected, and a lazy mosquito sound came from the other end.

"Sister An~"

"Xiao Meng, you graduated in economics, right?"

"correct."

Li Xiaomeng held her cell phone with sleepy eyes.

"Help me see how this new way of playing the game works!"

Chapter 6 [-year-old girl drops out of high school to play games]

Li Xiaomeng held the mobile phone and received the file.

When Li Xiaomeng opened the file, he was stunned and dumbfounded.

What the hell, a planning proposal, shouldn’t this be decided by the main planner? Can she, a mere programmer, get involved?

"Senior, is this something I can see?"

"You must be a professional."

Anyan swore solemnly.

Li Xiaomeng opened her mouth and whispered, "Senior, I only know how to play games. Can I understand the planning proposal?"

An Yan comforted her: "It will be fine. At least you can play games, which is better than most planners."

She couldn't refuse, so she scratched her head and swiped the screen.

It was a long, hard-to-understand text, but the diagrams and notes were complete, so she only had a little trouble reading it.

What kind of mission system is reset, different mission trees are set for different countries, and the missions of several major countries are set first, and then DLC is used to complete them later...

What kind of complete beginner guide should be provided so that even a monkey can understand the game...

After all, these are common concepts and she can understand them.

But... change the core gameplay and use the underlying design of the "social group system" to create a huge and self-consistent world economic market.

What is this ghost?

Huh? Economy, market?

When Li Xiaomeng saw the large piece of text surrounding the “social group system”, her brain suddenly short-circuited.

Then, she saw Gu Qingshi's comment on the side: The huge POP system supports the economic, political and cultural ecology within the game.

Below were some charts posted by Gu Qingshi, with a large area of ​​professional terms next to them, which made Li Xiaomeng blush.

For the first time, Li Xiaomeng felt ashamed of his lack of knowledge.

She is obviously an economics major, why can't she understand it!!!

Although she couldn't understand it, it didn't stop Li Xiaomeng from sensing the power of this plan. She asked An Yan carefully:

"Senior, this proposal seems to be very impressive, but I'm not sure. How about I ask the professor at the college tomorrow?"

An Yan was shocked and thought for a moment, "It's a learning exchange."

.........

The next morning, Li Xiaomeng sent a message to her tutor with three parts of uneasiness, four parts of nervousness, and five parts of expectation.

Her undergraduate tutor is a very funny old man. But when chatting with him, you should pay attention to the stock market situation. If it is a bear market, it is best not to chat with him.

It's a bull market now and the old professor is very talkative.

"Teacher, I got something good, come and have a look."

Soon, the old professor sent a message.

"A Meng, have you dealt with your Hongjing paper?"

Li Xiaomeng's fingers lingered on the screen.

Intermediate Macroeconomics final paper? I laughed so hard. I didn’t even start writing.

"Stop asking questions!"

"Wow, you failed the final exam. Tell me how your writing went, my favorite student."

Li Xiaomeng created a new docx file with a guilty conscience and took a screenshot of the shortcut keys for the old professor. "Almost there, almost there."

"Ms. Almost. No one comes to see you for no reason. Are you having trouble?"

"I don't understand, it's so profound."

Li Xiaomeng sent the edited plan to the old professor.

A ding-dong sound.

In the study, the old professor received the document and read it word by word with his glasses. In order to make it easier for the elderly to read, Li Xiaomeng specially enlarged the font.

"Game planning proposal, something for young people." The old professor took a look at the title and roughly understood what it was.

But what does this have to do with economics?

The old professor raised his eyebrows. This girl only knows how to play all day long. The homework she has to do next semester will be doubled.

The old professor is old, and he felt sleepy after reading half a page. Most of the content on this half page is related to the game's political gameplay and mission tree. The old professor can't see the beauty of this design, but thinks it's quite interesting for young people to play now.

However, some of it was related to colonial wars, which made the old professor frown slightly.

It’s not that we can’t have these, but these contents are a bit sensitive to the elderly.

"It's the new generation. Let's go with the young people."

The old professor yawned and closed the file before he even looked at the economic system of POP. He also decided to give Li Xiaomeng a double homework gift package.

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

Soon, five days passed.

Although Li Xiaomeng contacted the old professor early on, the professor was busy with many things and has not received a reply except for the homework gift package.

Regardless of the worried Li Xiaomeng, there was not much progress on Gu Qingshi's side. Although college students were stupid on average, no one wanted to apply for the numerical planning position with a monthly salary of 800 yuan.

Now that the demo of the new version of the game has not been released yet, Gu Qingshi can only make Li Xiaomeng suffer.

Just do fine-tuning while developing, and when the artist is done, you can call him over to help.

Stand-alone games do not focus on balance like online games, so as long as the numbers don’t collapse, they are fine.

If it doesn't work, patch it later.

This was the only way Gu Qingshi could comfort herself.

However, after five days, the artist had already completed the promotional video that Gu Qingshi wanted.

As the client, Gu Qingshi was very kind and accepted the design after the first version, without asking the artist to continue to work on it.

The final trailer does not have any real gameplay footage, just a 40-second CG clip, 10 seconds of which is the game's cover image...

Unlike FPS or RPG, which have flashy promotional videos, the promotional styles of these games are pretty much the same, with just a dozen distinctive high-definition pictures, coupled with grand and soaring music and rich vocals.

For example, the classic trailer for "Sid Meier's Civilization VI" starts with an old world map, followed by wonders of different eras, showing players a historical scroll.

Gu Qingshi’s promotional video is even simpler, with a total of seven or eight pictures of the Victorian era.

Steam engine, steamship, airship, workers' movement, colonial independence, equal rights movement, World Expo...

Very routine, but very useful.

After getting the promotional video, the publicity and promotion must also keep up.

But the question is: where does the money come from?

The ways of publicity and promotion are nothing more than those few, relying on hard advertising on large-traffic platforms, finding video hosts or anchors to try out the game, using celebrities to endorse and promote, and going through recommendations on game platforms.

There are also some that go astray, such as giving away limited tickets to a celebrity's concert by playing games, giving away houses by participating in a lottery by playing games, hiring internet trolls to create confrontation, deliberately trying to infringe on friendly businesses... In short, in one word: gimmick.

Targeting hot topics to create gimmicks, thereby generating traffic for your game, whether it is popular or not, at least the traffic is in place. With traffic comes exposure, and with exposure comes sales.

There are always curious cats coming to play.

Competitors in this world are still at the primary stage of promotion and marketing. Apart from gaming platforms, it is rare to see game manufacturers promoting their products elsewhere.

Gu Qingshi planned to teach them a lesson.

Gu Qingshi found a editing software, randomly searched for a black background, and then pasted it into the text box.

18-year-old high school student, taking a one-week leave of absence (in bold and red) (size font)

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