Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1105: Chapter 1015: April 1, Release Date Has Arrived!

_1 Chapter 1105: Chapter 1015: April 1, Release Date Has Arrived!

_1 “Ah, no!!”

“Spare me!

Please have mercy, Mavis!!”

Three Flowers was crying out for mercy as Fatty Orange was relentlessly pestering her.

Lincoln watched with great interest as Cheryl was tormented by Mavis for quite a while before he finally pulled Mavis away and the two left [Cat World] together.

Cheryl, on the other hand, was quite elated to turn back into human form, returning to the virtual office to make sweeping changes to her original development plan.

She was even thinking about asking Lincoln for manpower as she was altering her plans.

——She could hardly wait to refine this game and present it to the players.

Unlike her previous uncertainties, now, she can almost visualize how this game would look upon completion.

So she can’t wait to turn her vision into reality!

She even plans to turn all of the staff from the Pet Department into in-game character skins!

Cheryl was fully awakened to her worker spirit and began to work laboriously by her own initiative.

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Meanwhile, Little Princess Victoria had also turned back into a human form and was discussing with Lincoln:

“Can I join Cheryl’s project team?”

“Huh?” Lincoln was slightly surprised, but then realized it quickly——Victoria had always been a fanatic lover of cute style games.

She had lent a hand to Cheryl’s team before, but as Cheryl hadn’t been fully committed, the development plan kept changing.

Victoria couldn’t keep up with a shifting development plan as she couldn’t commit to a stable work schedule.

But now that Cheryl seems to be setting a clear development schedule and the game is attracting Victoria more after Lincoln’s advice, her desire to join has increased.

“Sure, Cheryl is your fan, isn’t she?

She would definitely welcome you to join.

But…”

After thinking for a moment, Lincoln suddenly asked her, “Have you ever thought about being a game producer and developing a game by yourself?”

“Me?” Victoria was surprised, “Can I?”

“Why not?” Lincoln retorted.

Victoria blinked, “But I feel like…

I still have a lot to learn…”

“It’s alright.” Lincoln patted her head, “Just tossing the idea out there.

It’s good that you’re open to the idea.

You can start doing it whenever you’re ready.”

“Sure.” Little princess nodded, sparkling with anticipation in her eyes.

In the middle of the conversation, Lincoln had logged into [Cyber Chang’an] again.

He wanted to see what changes had taken place since his last visit.

And also, with the booming popularity of the mobile ball game, the surge in the number of visitors to the [Forgotten Cemetery], he wondered if they had any new gains from this “experimental field”.

——The [Human Modification] gameplay in [Forgotten Cemetery] was actually a technology developed by the [Cyber Chang’an] project team.

Lincoln likes to add Easter eggs, but he doesn’t have the energy to design so many complex body modification features, especially allowing players to undergo body modifications requires considering countless details.

A small mistake could potentially cause players serious psychological trauma or produce tendencies towards disability fetishism, or self-identity issues, which would all become huge problems.

so this part of [Body Modification], the [Sci-fi Game Department] has been continuously developing and testing the technology, and has achieved quite impressive results.

These results are what Lincoln added into [Forgotten Cemetery] as an Easter egg——the [Body Modification] gameplay.

This is also a larger scale player survey.

In half a month, they will send out survey questionnaires to all the players who have experienced the [Body Modification] gameplay, and then based on the survey results, they will update and maintain this gameplay accordingly.

Finally, the experience gained from here will become one of the core gameplay mechanics of [Cyber Chang’an].

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On the other hand, Stanley, who had smuggled into this city, just took one look at the city engulfed in dense fog, was shot in the head by an electromagnetic gun on an armed drone, and got sent back to the mech base.

——As always, those unfinished games are merely for the players’ entertainment, and the mechanisms do not allow players to survive and explore at their leisure.

Reaching the main street and getting a glimpse of the scenery was already a feat accomplished with his imaginative play of “human bombs.”

The countless armed robots and drones behind him…

probably need a mech to deal with.

However, Stanley wasn’t discouraged, he was just a bit unsure: what place did he actually go to?

The only valuable clue was the four words: [Chang’an Heavy Industries].

Upon seeing this, his first thought was of “Chang’an”, but he quickly shook his head, dismissing the notion.

The characters “Chang’an” were quite commonplace, with many businesses named [Chang’an] in reality, it was not surprising at all to see them in a futuristic game.

“I need to explore further…” Stanley mumbled to himself.

So, he began preparing more explosives!

Also, he called over Vincent, wondering if they could make use of the supplies at the hunter base to manufacture some Electromagnetic Pulse Grenades.

Electromagnetic pulse weapons should be devastating against robots and drones!

He also recalled the “Electromagnetic Pulse Monster” that had appeared in the main storyline of the game, but the organ of the monster that produced the pulse attack was too big, likely unable to fit into a miniaturized monster body.

Simply miniaturizing monsters already required a huge amount of evolution points, fabricating a miniaturized electromagnetic pulse organ was next to impossible!

Moreover…

Not many people were interested in this evolutionary path.

The monster players nowadays were not satisfied with just miniaturizing monsters; they wanted refinement.

After all, the humanoid monster form created using the original monster templates was a type of creature with a monstrous body and head, yet having a humanoid form with an explosive figure.

Stanley wasn’t sure why, but all the humanoid monsters made by players had remarkably large breasts.

Even if their faces were still hideously monstrous, the players would prioritize “evolving” large breasts first.

Expending enormous amounts of evolution points for this was baffling to Stanley.

Even more baffling was the fact that the main issue these people were addressing was how to expand the relatively smooth and soft skin of the monster fruits to replace the other parts of the body that had hard, crocodile-like skin.

The priority of this step was even higher than giving the [humanoid monster] a proper head!

It was bizarre!

Absolutely bizarre!

Stanley couldn’t help but shake his head at the thought.

Not just him, but Jason and co.

also kept a close watch on the eccentric behaviors of these players as they were developing “A Quiet Place”, ready to intervene at any moment.

Fortunately, the route of “miniaturizing monsters” was not a gameplay encouraged by the game, so every step required a massive amount of evolution points.

Let alone “refining” monster’s [fingers], [ankles], [archs], [face] and other details.

The players had to constantly go through the [Multidimensional Time-space Tunnel] to grind for evolution points in other worlds, and it took a long time to accumulate enough points for a significant modification.

So Jason and the others weren’t in a rush to intervene.

They calmly observed the actions of these players, all the while being curious about the eventual outcome.

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Players had a hard time learning about the goings-on inside Cloud Dreams.

Only Cheryl couldn’t help sharing a video of “Cloud Dreams Scottish Culture Day”, giving a boost to Randall and Fred’s publicity, and giving Netizens something to talk about.

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Given the imminent release of “Dark Soul”, this move was seen by many game media outlets as a way to promote the game.

Some players even suspected that there might be Scottish elements in “Dark Soul”, which left Randall and Fred both amused and baffled.

Apart from that, Cloud Dreams didn’t release any significant news.

The player community had been captivated by the vigorous [World Mobile Ball Championships] and the impending release of “Dark Soul”.

Time passed day by day.

And then, April 1 arrived.