Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1269: Chapter 1145: Intelligent Teammate?

Stupid Teammate!

_1 Chapter 1269: Chapter 1145: Intelligent Teammate?

Stupid Teammate!

_1 Upon entering the Demo, players weren’t immediately given a body.

Instead, their consciousness floated in the air, and three options appeared in front of them—

[Double Cat Mode] (Easy Mode) (Not available)

[Lone Brave Cat Mode] (Single Player Mode) (Not available)

[Cats and Dogs Together Mode](Classic Mode) (Available)

“???”

The moment Victoria logged in, her desire to rant hit the roof:

“If the trial run only opens one mode, can’t we just get into the game?

Why bother showing two modes we can’t enter?

What’s the point?”

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After venting her frustration, Victoria paused for a second, “Alright, you succeeded.

I am indeed salivating.”

“But you aren’t getting any special commendation from me!”

Upon clicking [Cats and Dogs Together Mode], three new options sprung up:

[Invite Friend]

[Match Teammate]

[Intelligent Teammate]

In the live streaming room, a wave of comments immediately popped up saying, “pick me, pick me,” but Victoria was hesitant.

It’s not that she had other issues, mainly she was just a bit curious about the [Intelligent Teammate] option.

It was common knowledge that the realism of Cloud Dream’s NPCs was always astonishing.

But here it was different.

The intelligent teammate not only had to play the “teammate” role but also had to play “cats and dogs.” Balancing these two roles made her curious to see how well it would perform.

After explaining to her viewers, Victoria selected [Intelligent Teammate].

After completing this selection, was it possible to enter the game?

Of course not, new options popped up again—

[Use Pre-set Character]/[Customize Character]

“You can sculpt your own character?

I absolutely have to do that!”

Victoria was curious and clicked on [Customize Character] to see how much freedom she had in fashioning her avatar.

And she was immediately amazed by the attention to detail of the Homeward Journey development team—

After choosing ‘cat’ under ‘cat/dog’ options, a line of sub-options immediately popped up:

[Common Domestic Cat Breeds (20)]

[Major World Cat Breeds (60)]

[Upload Cat Image]

[Fuzzy identification]

[Custom Breed Hybrid]

Victoria instinctively clicked on the first option, and immediately, a series of cat graphics with different names popped up, neatly arranged in front of her.

She read out these names one by one:

“[Daxia Countryside Cat], [British Shorthair], [American Shorthair], [Ragdoll Cat], [Persian Cat], [Siamese Cat], [Scottish Fold], [Devon Rex], [Maine Coon], [Bombay Cat], [Egyptian Mau], [Russian Blue], [Abyssinian Cat]?

[Exotic Shorthair]…?”

Victoria paused for a moment, “Why are [British Shorthair], [American Shorthair], and [Exotic Shorthair] considered three different types of cats?”

When the Homeward Journey team designed these cat display graphics, their goal was to make each displayed cat as attractive as possible instead of uniform in color.

As a result, as a Cloud Breeder, Victoria found it hard to distinguish the nuances between different breeds.

“And these others as well: [Sphynx Cat], [Birman Cat], [Norwegian Forest Cat], [Turkish Angora], [Chinchilla]…”

“Are we certain these are ‘Common Domestic Cat Breeds’?

I feel like I haven’t heard of many of these before?”

Victoria was dumbfounded.

But this was just the beginning.

The 60 types of mainstream cat graphics in the subsequent list expanded her horizons even further.

What’s more outrageous was: she discovered that clicking on any cat graphic would open up extensive information!

The introduction of these 60 cat breeds could practically be used as a comprehensive Guide to Cats.

Functions like [Upload Cat Image] and [Fuzzy identification] were designed with more player interaction in mind.

One allowed players to upload the image of their own pet or some cat they found online to be used as the base for customization.

The other considered the player’s “knowledge spectrum,” allowing players to describe a cat they have “seen but can’t recognize,” to help identify the breed and customize the avatar.

It could be said that every possible convenience was considered.

But if the previous options could be explained as “meticulously designed by the development team” and “filled with love for cats and breeders”, the “choose your breed to crossbreed” option is really hard to explain…

This feature allows players to choose any two breeds from the 60 varieties of cats for crossbreeding, randomly obtaining some characteristics from the parents, and a slight chance of a “mutation” effect.

And then the breed that came out of this “crossbreeding” can continue to be crossbred, and then the next generation and the next generation…

There’s no limit, emphasizing randomness without bottom line.

“Is this… some kind of random character shaping system?” Victoria was uncertain.

She was also a bit surprised.

Looking at it, she initially thought the team behind “Homeward Journey” were hardcore cat lovers, but, judging from this, she started to see them as a group of mad scientists…

“Isn’t anyone keeping tabs on them?”

Victoria scoffed, wisely selected the Daxia countryside cat, and eagerly adjusted the coat color within her fascination, changing all four little cat paws into unblemished “white gloves”.

As for the exceedingly minute details—”stripes”, “whiskers”, “eye colors”, “nose colors”, “paw pads”…

and so on she was not so particular about them.

In her eyes, they were all equally adorable.

And these details dissolved Victoria’s skepticism about the crossbreeding system, and expressed again that the development team of “Homeward Journey” are indeed a group of vehement cat enthusiasts!

“Finally, it feels like I haven’t spent so much time on the ‘entering the game’ process in a long time.”

Victoria commented, and after confirming her character, crossing over the ‘build a dog for [Intelligent Teammate]” and finally logging in the game.

The introductory animation promptly sprung up.

The content was similar to the promotional flick.

If differentiating had to be done, the only variance was that the falling ones were not Ah Meow and Milkshake, but Victoria and a Golden Retriever.

After a satisfying view of the falling scene, a cat and a dog climbed up from a gigantic mushroom, they both peered up at the radiant fissure above, and then looked at each other.

Although this Golden Retriever was still not fully grown, it was several times larger compared to Victoria, who was now looking curiously at the small Victoria.

Victoria hesitated for a moment and then took the initiative to break the ice, “Hello?”

“Woof!” The Golden Retriever opened its mouth and uttered a ‘dog language’.

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“?” Victoria was taken aback, “you can’t talk?”

The Golden Retriever seemed very displeased: “Woof!

Woof woof woof!

Woof!”

Victoria had no idea why, but she felt as if it was saying: “You are the one who can’t talk!”

She was a bit dazed.

The Golden Retriever didn’t pay any heed to the baffled Victoria; after glancing at the surroundings, it saw a huge mushroom adjacent to them, hooted at Victoria a few times, “Woof!

Woof woof woof!”

Victoria could swear to the heavens; she really didn’t understand ‘dog language’.

But she felt like she understood!

It seemed that the Golden Retriever was saying: “Let’s go over there and check it out, shall we?”

Without waiting for Victoria to reply, the Golden Retriever started to run, looking magnificent.

—The two giant mushrooms were not closely packed, but were almost a meter apart.

A bit of a run-up was required to jump over.

Feeling helpless, Victoria had to temporarily put aside the language issue and start running with her Golden Retriever teammate.

The Golden Retriever ran, motivating Victoria, who was smaller than it: “Woof woof!

Woof woof!”

‘It must be saying, go for it.’ Victoria was getting used to her four legs while remonstrating herself in her head.

Soon, a cat and a dog rushed to the edge of the huge mushroom.

The Golden Retriever leaped forward without any hesitation!

Victoria had basically adjusted to the four-legged propulsion; she used all her strength in all four limbs, ready to jump out!

But——

“Oww~~~~~”

The brave Golden Retriever only barely brushed the edge of the mushroom on the other side with its front paws, before tumbling down, howling.

Victoria quickly hit the brakes with all fours, including her tail, barely stopping at the edge.

“???” Victoria, hearing the continual echo from the darkness, had her face crammed with question marks.

She peeked down into the bottomless darkness and couldn’t help voicing her doubts:

“This is considered as an Intelligent Teammate?”

“Are you sure it’s not a Mentally-challenged Teammate?!”