Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 906: Chapter 858: Chaos in Soldiers and Horses, Everyone Shows Their Divine Power_1 Chapter 906: Chapter 858: Chaos in Soldiers and Horses, Everyone Shows Their Divine Power_1 Since the game had reached a playable stage, the next step was naturally to find people to play it.

But the game was set to go live tomorrow, so it seemed a bit off to go through all the trouble of recruiting players at this point.

So Lincoln decided, “Let’s just get some familiar people to test it out.”

Camille Victoria had no objections.

Last night, Shuihua sent her a message saying, “Hooray!

A new casual game so soon!

Pillow talk really does wonders!”

Although this sounded somewhat embarrassing, she hadn’t given any “pillow talk,” but she had indeed complained a few times in front of Lincoln, and Lincoln had indeed developed “Animal Party” for her.

This made Princess feel the unavoidable urge to show off in front of her best friend.

“Can Xiaomeng also join?” Xiaomeng asked excitedly.

“Of course, Xiaomeng is the biggest contributor.” Lincoln praised without hesitation.

“Hooray!” Xiaomeng quickly sent out game invites.

Lincoln was quite curious about whom Xiaomeng would invite.

As for himself, he posted a testing invite in the [Lincoln’s Global Fans Group 1]—which is actually his university classmates group chat.

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As soon as his classmates saw Lincoln’s message, they were instantly excited and started joking around.

Those who had their game consoles handy eagerly accepted the invite.

On Camille’s side, she initially only invited Shuihua and Lance.

Of course, she knew Shuihua and Lance’s situation, so while she was enjoying her happiness, she also tried to create opportunities for this childhood sweetheart duo.

—This was definitely not about finding someone to accompany Shuihua so that she could free herself to be with Lincoln all the time.

Shuihua accepted the invite.

Once she arrived at the small arena, she excitedly shook Camille’s arm, “This is fantastic!

Thanks for your hard work!

I won’t forget your contribution!”

Then she leaned into Camille’s ear and whispered, “But be careful!”

“?” Princess was stupefied, then she understood and started to hit Shuihua’s arm!

Shuihua begged for mercy and eventually had to divert the subject by suggesting they invite a few middle-school friends they both knew, to reconnect and expand the testing sample.

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Only then did Camille stop hitting her and start inviting people again.

Finally, it was Xiaomeng’s turn to invite players.

Lincoln was somewhat surprised to see that Xiaomeng had invited five kids to play.

However, thinking about it, he felt it wasn’t too surprising.

Given Xiaomeng’s looks and personality, it was normal for her to have a few kids as online friends.

He didn’t intervene and as soon as most of the people arrived, he announced the start of the testing!

…

The greatest pleasure for the kids was to use various weapons to fight each other.

In real life, they all had to be good children in the eyes of their parents and teachers, hitting their peers like this was unthinkable.

Now having the opportunity to play in such a way was both thrilling and stress-relieving, they were having a blast.

Tasks like “finding undesirable parts of the game” or “identifying uncomfortable settings,” were instantly put aside.

Lance and Shuihua, one as a Shiba Inu and the other as an orange cat, were now joining forces to brawl against the university students.

In fact, Shuihua would normally start beating Lance before that.

But now her mood had subtly changed, she suddenly found it hard to make a move, and thus they teamed up for the fight.

Lincoln’s college friends did remember their tasks, they started off very seriously, thinking they should put in their best effort since Lincoln needed their help.

But they didn’t stay serious for long.

One after another, they loosened up and started messing around, tripping each other up and laughing uproariously.

Time flew quickly in this joyful atmosphere.

An hour and a half later, Lincoln announced the end of the testing, and then asked for their opinions on the game and whether they had any complaints.

The kids were a bit embarrassed: “Sorry, we were just playing and didn’t notice…”

Shuihua and the university students didn’t notice any issues, either.

Only Lance pointed out a few things, and true to his status as a professional player, his suggestions were largely related to the game’s balance, playability, and weapon features.

For instance, “The claw is very inconvenient, the weapon can’t be held steadily, and it is easy to swing it wrongly, its control is seriously insufficient, can this be changed?”

This could probably be considered as a form of occupational hazard.

Unfortunately for some, Lincoln had no plans to change the setting of “using an animal’s paw to grab weapons”.

He didn’t want to turn “Animal Party” into a game with a strong competitive element—doing so would not only raise the entry barrier for players, but also contradict the overall atmosphere of the game.

Then there were his college friends.

They had a lot of fun playing and even threatened each other: “Just wait and see, we’ll settle this score tomorrow!” “Oh, yeah?

Bring it on!”.

However, when Lincoln got down to asking about the problems, they managed to give some valuable suggestions after some thoughtful recollections.

Such as:

“Could you take care of the communication issue?

If you happen to meet someone with a particular nasty mouth, it could be really annoying”.

“The collars around their necks can be taken off and used as tools, that’s a bug, right?”

“Some jerk just ripped off a clump of fur from his body and threw it in my eyes, can you control that?”

…

Due to the limitations in the number of testers, Lincoln received a limited number of feedbacks.

But he didn’t mind because he received the most important feedback—players from three different age groups—primary school, middle school, and college students—were undoubtedly engrossed in the game, deriving the purest form of joy.

And this is the key to a game’s success.

After sending off these testers, Lincoln and Xiaomeng began to modify and adjust the game based on the feedback.

Camille rushed home in a hurry.

She had been missing since noon and it wouldn’t be good if she didn’t return home soon.

*

While Lincoln was busy developing the game, the streamers had no choice but to get busy as well.

Everyone knew that when “Animal Party” was launched, there would be a surge of traffic pouring in from every angle.

For both well-established game streamers and those newcomers or failing streamers looking for a foundation and trying to get a boost, this was an unmissable feast of traffic.

But the problem is: it’s Chinese New Year!

A lot of streamers who managed to complete the main storyline of the “Chang’an” game before the New Year are suddenly feeling the pain of realizing: they have to work overtime again!

“Lincoln really is trying to kill us with work!”

“Not enough that he’s working non-stop, he has to drag us into it too?”

“I tried to bribe my nephew today to borrow his console, but he turned me down because he wanted to play too!”

“Oh my god, I’m begging my older sister!”

“I don’t care anymore, I’ll just lay low, you guys carry on.”

…

Super Tomato couldn’t help but laugh a little seeing the messages in the group chat.

No matter how much these guys complained or laid low, in reality, they were either changing their flight tickets or buying Mirage consoles in their hometowns.

After all, not everyone would bring the bulky Mirage console home—it’s not just one headband equipment but a much bigger console which takes up a lot of space in the luggage.

Most people only bring the [Eight Sides] Helm and maybe squeeze in some time to catch some Spirit Beasts back in their hometowns.

With the sudden need of the console now, they had no choice but to resort to what seemed like extreme measures.

Things were fine with Super Tomato as his parents already had a Mirage console.

Now when he’s back home for the New Year, he just needs to borrow his parents’ equipment.

Things were less easy for Victoria and Yi: their hometown was sold out of Mirage consoles.

They searched the whole city and couldn’t find one.

Some streamers living in the provincial capitals opted to book at the Cloud Dream Experience Store in advance, hoping to borrow the equipment in the store for their live broadcasts.

…

In short—

On the day before “Animal Party” was launched, while Lincoln was busy making the game, the various streamers were scrambling for equipment.

Amidst the uproar with everyone trying to make things work, the day quickly passed.

With the rising of the morning sun, a new day finally arrived.

The launch of “Animal Party” was finally here!