Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1218: Chapter 1107: Providing “Education of Love” for the Employees!_1 Chapter 1218: Chapter 1107: Providing “Education of Love” for the Employees!_1 “Cyber Chang’an 2077″ needs no more attention?”

Upon hearing Randall and Fred’s idea, Lincoln was taken aback.

They both hastily shook their heads.

“Of course not, our main focus is still on “Chang’an”.

”

“Yes, we won’t let it affect the development of “Chang’an”.”

A puzzled expression appeared on Lincoln’s face, “Is the workload for Cyber Chang’an…

that light?”

“Ah?” Randall was bewildered.

“No, it’s not…” Fred quickly waved his hands, denying it.

“Haha”, Lincoln laughed a few times at their hurried denial, then stopped teasing them.

“You’re handling”Cyber Chang’an”and starting a new project at the same time?”

“Your wife doesn’t have a problem with it?” Lincoln looked at Randall.

“Your girlfriend doesn’t have a problem with it?” Lincoln then looked at Fred.

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Randall shook his head and joked, “She works harder than me.”

Then he said more seriously, “Working one chapter at a time on “Chang’an”, the team has grown considerably.

Since reorganizing with the Sci-fi Game Department, we not only have enough manpower, but we actually have a surplus.”

“We’re fully capable of putting together another project team without affecting the current projects.”

“What do you guys want to do?” Lincoln asked curiously.

Randall and Fred looked at each other and answered in unison:

“Flames 4!”

Lincoln blinked, suddenly realizing that the two people in front of him were the genuine creators of one of the most successful series of the VR game era —— “The Blaze” series.

Especially Randall, he is the undeniable “Father of Blaze”.

And the rights to the “Blaze” series fell into Lincoln’s hands at a low price after NetDragon went into bankruptcy liquidation and was assisted by Lorin.

However, Cloud Dream has always been developing its own games, and this IP has been stored in the IP library.

Now that they want to develop a new “Blaze” series to wash away the stain of “Blaze 3”, it makes perfect sense.

The core developers of the original “Blaze Group” are actually all at Cloud Dream and are even the backbone of Cloud Dream’s early days.

The Father of Blaze, Blaze IP, plus the original Blaze crew!

If this game is developed, its lineage will be as pure as it gets!

This really validates what the players were snarking about back when NetDragon and Cloud Dream were opponents, that the “Blaze Orthodoxy lies in Cloud Dream”.

Who knows what kind of reaction Richard, stuck in jail working a sewing machine, would have when he sees this news.

Thinking about it, it’s kind of fun.

And Lincoln, being the fun-loving person that he is, obviously wouldn’t miss such a fun opportunity.

He immediately agreed to it.

But with one condition: “It can’t affect the development of Cyber Chang’an.”

“No problem.” Randall instantly agreed.

Fred gave an even stronger assurance, “We’ll first put together a small team to handle the preliminary work, we’ll just guide the direction and creativity.

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After “2077” officially launches, we’ll really join the team.”

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After receiving the “surprise” from Randall and Fred, the three of them went to the development world of “Cyber Chang’an” to do what Lincoln had initially planned to do ——

Inspect the progress of “Cyber Chang’an 2077.”

Compared to the previous city entirely constructed by the [Science Fiction Game Department], this city’s appearance has undergone significant changes.

The previous city was a very standard “cyberpunk” city.

Filled with cold grey-black buildings, flashy neon lights and holographic projections, armed robots patrolling the streets everywhere, and at night the entire city was shrouded in mist from an unknown source, there was filthy stagnant water on the ground, reflecting the equally filthy cables and a sky full of light pollution.

But now, the addition of the “Chang’an” team has noticeably changed the entire city.

Between the cold high-rise buildings, entire floors are now hollowed out, dotted with elegant and exquisite gardens, the highest floor tend to be buildings styled like grand halls, with magnificent and grand structures of multi-eaved rooftops.

Among the high-rise buildings, there are temples and Daoist temples, golden tile roofed buildings, robot monks in yellow monk robes, and wisps of blue smoke rising from censers…

Off the main road, there are rows of traditional Tang dynasty architecture with flying eaves and dougong brackets, adorned with red lanterns.

Neon light tubes full of liveliness hang from the signboards, with cats and dogs darting through the crowd…

The “Chang’an” team has greatly enriched the architectural types of this future city, transforming it from a typical “sci-fi future city” into the brand new “Chinese punk fantasy”.

As a result of previous research in ancient architecture, the “Chang’an” team has accumulated considerable aesthetic and technical prowess.

The cityscape has become more layered, and its style more outstanding and continuous.

Of course, for the players, the city seems to have shifted from feeling “claustrophobic” to being “bustling”.

The negative vibe of the “cyber future” has inevitably been somewhat weakened.

But this seemed unavoidable.

In Daxia’s traditional culture, “crowds” have always been associated with “liveliness”, “celebration”, and the presence of “vibrant life”.

To counteract the discord between the architectural implications and the plot content, the development team first strengthened the influence of the “weather” system.

During the dark parts of the storyline, the weather remains perpetually gloomy with dim lighting, damp climate, frequent rain, and even the NPCs exhibit poor moods.

When the storyline leads to a more auspicious situation, the weather clears up and the details throughout the city also shift towards positivity.

Furthermore, they introduced a new branch theme –

The conflict between [the traditional] and [the modern], or [the traditional] versus [the future].

This openly allowed them to build some completely “un-Chinese” urban areas for the advancement of the plot.

This turned out to be a great concept for both urban planning and gameplay design.

The only people who seemed somewhat disappointed were the plot planners…

Because it required them to design more sophisticated branching narratives, causing them to stress over losing their hair.

“Very good,” Lincoln nodded approvingly, fully recognizing the team’s work on urban development, “What about the combat system?”

He knew that “Cyber Chang’an” used a dual enhancement route in its combat system but was unclear about its progress.

“Follow me.”

This time it was Fred leading the way.

He led Lincoln to a basement the size of a football field to showcase the path of player enhancement in the new game.

The first thing introduced was the “Body Modification” gameplay.

This game model was initially tested in the [Forgotten Cemetery] of the “Pacific Rim” and collected a significant number of players’ opinions.

Now, they have substantially expanded and strengthened this game model, not only providing more specific prosthetic levels and attributes but also designing a variety of plug-in types, offering players various auxiliary abilities.

Most of the equipment in the basement is made up of various prosthetics, some mimicking humans, while others blatantly imitate the alien prosthetics of various wild animals.

After some time showcasing these prosthetics, Fred then showed Lincoln a series of colour-coded syringes.

“This is another enhancement path we have developed along with the martial arts gameplay of the ‘Chang’an’ series: [Genetic Enhancement Drugs].”

“It can enhance the player’s physical conditions while endowing them with some [Biological Traits] special abilities, such as [Eagle Eye], [Frog Legs], [Chameleon], [Regeneration] and so on…”

“These genetic drugs also have levels, higher levels provide stronger effects, and higher body endurance requirements for players.”

“[Gene Ability Slots] will also unlock as the player’s level increases.”

“Plus, both routes can freely use technological weapons.”

Lincoln swiftly grasped the key point, “One strength and one agility, two enhancement routes, correct?”

Fred opened his mouth, intending to refute, but after a few attempts to speak, he could only nod reluctantly and say, “Although there are many customizable ways to play, essentially, yes, it’s like that…”

Lincoln could completely understand.

Although his summary was a bit casual, these two enhancement routes indeed offer a wide variety of gameplay.

Whether it is changing prosthetics and auxiliary plugins or choosing different genetic enhancement drugs, players can customize their character’s abilities, construct their unique Build, and experience vastly different combat fun through this.

“Strength” can extend into “tank”, “heavy artillery”, “assault”, “burst”, and even special gameplay such as “health exchange” and “self-explode”.

“Agility” can also extend into “assassination,” “sniping,” “kiting,” “bleed,” etc., even constructing “peculiarity type” gameplay based on special abilities is completely possible.

Together with the use of hot weapons, the depth of gameplay can entirely support a game.

But Lincoln was still not quite satisfied.

These two types of gameplay, whether it’s a major upgrade to the prosthetic gameplay or the “superpower” innovation in the martial arts gameplay, are good as they are, just lacking a bit of “orthodoxy”.

It lacks that “very futuristic,” “very technological” impact that at the same time makes someone feel “very powerful,” “very fierce”.

Also, for the conservative “pure blood human” believers among players, it’s not very friendly.

So –

After much thought, he decided to provide his cherished employees with some “education of love”!