Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 983: Chapter 913 “Stop!

People will die!”_1 Chapter 983: Chapter 913 “Stop!

People will die!”_1 “Gravity” had been in the continuous process of creation ever since Lincoln returned to Earth.

At first, it was just him, Mavis and Camille Victoria working on the project.

But Lincoln quickly realized that three people were not enough.

It wasn’t a matter of work efficiency – Lincoln didn’t care about work efficiency.

His original idea was to take it slow, anticipating its completion and launch after “Pacific Rim”.

But as they worked on it, they realized that the level of aerospace understanding needed for this game exceeded their knowledge base – much of the knowledge couldn’t be acquired on the public Internet.

Of course, Lincoln could create a basic shell, restricting players to only prescribed operations, leading them down a predetermined path.

— For linear plot-oriented games, this approach wouldn’t necessarily be problematic.

But Lincoln didn’t want it that way.

Even for linear games set in space, where players don’t have many choices, he didn’t want to hastily address options outside the given storyline.

He wants the fundamental features of the spacecraft to be as realistic as possible, even if players make wrong choices – such as opting not to escape, but trying to fix the malfunctioning spacecraft, they could still progress a bit further until they encounter an insurmountable problem, confirming that the path is invalid.

And this requires a considerable level of aerospace expertise.

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It’s not that they can’t learn – they are all quick learners.

But they also have full-time work to do during the day, developing “Pacific Rim”, and it would be too much if they had to spend a lot of energy on this leisure interest.

So Lincoln finally decided – he would recruit more people!

A few from the Sci-fi Game Department, a few more from the Aerospace Academy, and they easily formed a small but robust team to solve these professional problems.

“Gravity”, after all, is set in space.

Each segment of the game had relatively simple scenarios.

Once the professional issues were resolved, the development speed suddenly took off.

In addition, the game didn’t have a whole lot of upgrade systems or skill systems, and there were only a handful of new achievements.

When players successfully return to Earth from space, the story directly ends, and there isn’t much gameplay after the conclusion, so the volume is not really that large.

Progressing smoothly along the process, it was hard to slow down.

Then the problem arose –

The development of it was faster than “Pacific Rim”, and it looked like it was about to be completed!

What to do?

Launch this first?

No way!

Global gamers are eagerly waiting to operate the mechs, and to operate the mechs, they are even forcing themselves to learn Chinese.

At this point, if Yun Dream suddenly releases a new game that has nothing to do with mechs…

Only a very unusual person would do this.

“So…

we will have to hold off, the next game must be “Pacific Rim”.”

“Or, should we refine it a bit more?”

Lincoln started to ponder which aspect of the game to optimize, and had a discussion with the small team.

The final decision was:

Add Easter eggs!

By the way…

they could also do a bit of subtle foreshadowing.

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On the first day of March, Victoria didn’t rush out of bed after waking up, instead, she took out her phone on the bed to check last month’s Honorary Player list, to see if she missed anything interesting.

In the past, players mostly viewed the Honorary Player list with the mentality of “look which lucky guys are on there” or “do these guys deserve to be on there?”

If anyone had bad records before, they were exposed mercilessly.

But such incidents were rare – there were a few earlier cases of players being stripped of their titles, but there have been none in the last couple of listings.

This was a process of Lincoln’s thinking gradually changing.

In the early days, his mentality was essentially that of a “player”, not a “developer”.

His pursuit at the time was very straightforward: [to give players maximum freedom].

This concept outweighed most rules.

Thus, in the game itself, in the broader public world, or even in company-organized public events, Lincoln has hardly ever restricted the players, with leniency to the extreme.

But this leniency also led to early chaos in the virtual world to a certain extent.

Latter, as his thinking slowly changed – due to the exponential increase of users, which inevitably made him more cautious.

Yun Dream began to guide the behavior of players in both the virtual world as well as in the game body.

The introduction of [Moral Points] was an iconic event.

However, Lincoln has not given up on giving players freedom, only that “freedom” now comes with some price.

Even though under normal circumstances, this price is not heavy and can be remedied, but the “existence of cost” itself is a form of guidance.

This is Lincoln’s current model: providing positive guidance to players, while also respecting their right to make choices.

Nowadays, what players care about when checking the [Honorary Player] list, apart from seeing if they are on it, is to see what the ones who did are doing, and if they’ve missed out on any fun activities or helpful strategy guides.

Victoria paid special attention to “Chang’an”.

Mainly, she was keen to see whether the doer of “nuclear explosion” managed to make the list or not.

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If so, she was concerned whether someone would detonate a “nuclear bomb” in the metropolis…

After carefully reading through the hundred-name list and confirming that the two people weren’t on it, Victoria breathed a long sigh of relief.

“Does Yun Dream fear it too?” she muttered a sentence, then put down the phone to feed her spirit beasts.

However, as soon as she put down the phone, it buzzed again.

She picked up the phone again and found a message from the Yun Dream APP.

So she opened it.

The screen then automatically switched over to the [‘Traveling Connor’] section.

Victoria wasn’t surprised at this.

Even in the virtual world, it’s not uncommon for her to often lose Connor.

It seemed that Connor had made a lot of friends and often traveled around on her own.

Fortunately, the little girl was well-behaved; no matter where she went, she would send pictures and letters to Victoria.

In Victoria’s phone album, there were photos of Connor standing on Dongming Mountain watching a car race, taking pictures with dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island, riding a hippopotamus in the wilderness, taking a selfie in front of the Berlin Cathedral in virtual Berlin, and a selfie with Block Cow in “My World”— even she herself had become a square character.

Not long ago, after “Pacific Rim” was made public, Victoria also received a photo of Connor trying on a mini combat suit in the [Hunter Base]…

Going wherever she pleases.

“Let’s see where did you go today.” Victoria amusedly opened the mail and found the new photo sent by Connor…

In the photo, Connor, wearing the cute skirt that Victoria gave her, was in a small space filled with various instruments, curiously chasing a pen.

“?” A question mark immediately popped up over Victoria’s head.

‘Why are Connor and that pen floating in mid-air?’

Not only were Connor and the pen, but also her hair, her thrown-off shoe, the familiar pink mouthwash cup Victoria knew…

They were all floating in midair!

It took a good while before Victoria finally realized, “Has Connor also gone to space!?”

“There’s space in the virtual world now!??”

Almost at the same time, Shuihua was also stunned as she looked at her phone.

In her app, this section was called [Travel Cat].

In it was the cat girl she got after collecting all the cats in Chang’an.

Now this cute cat girl, who had turned back into a cat form, was thoroughly entangled in a ball of yarn in the spaceship.

Lincoln’s No.1 follower, Thomas, was also holding his phone and looking at the [Travel Puppet] section.

The Organizational Skills Girl was taking apart a sealed door of a spacecraft with a full set of tools.

The metal parts that had been removed from her skirt were slowly floating away.

“?!!” Thomas was taken aback, “Stop right now!!!

It could kill someone!!!”