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Chapter 153 Lilith’s Suggestion (Four updates for monthly pass!)

Chapter 153: Chapter 153 Lilith’s Suggestion (Four updates for monthly pass!)

Gu Fan said excitedly, "President Li, the true essence of this game lies in the dual player mode!

"I even think that the negative emotions generated by the dual player mode could be more than three times that of the single player mode!"

Lilith was somewhat surprised, "Are you saying that players can generate more negative emotion points in dual player mode? Why? If two people are fighting together, shouldn’t the difficulty of the game’s battles decrease?"

Gu Fan explained, "The attributes of the enemies in dual player mode will be adjusted, but that’s not the main point.

"The essence of the dual player mode is that the vision of the two players isn’t shared; they will each see only a fixed perspective.

"One can only see the Immortal Cultivation World, while the other can only see the science fiction world."

Lilith understood instantly, "Oh! So you mean, they’ll see each other doing some unimaginable actions, like reassembling the intestines of a dog’s corpse?

"Apart from that, their gaming objectives are completely opposite. So if one person kills monsters, it looks like they are killing NPCs to the other player, and while one person is doing tasks normally, it appears to be messing around to the other player...

"Playing this way is bound to ruin friendships, and naturally, negative emotions will be generated!"

Gu Fan nodded, "Yes, this is a top-notch effect that can only be seen in the game mechanics of ’Ascension’!

"Besides, such a game has not yet appeared on the market.

"A big reason for that is that it requires two sets of art resources, which would double the development cost of normal games just in terms of the art resources.

"But our art resources all come from Hell, so we don’t have such an issue."

Lilith asked with a frown, "It’s not good news that this type of game hasn’t appeared on the market, is it?

"Will it attract a lot of players?"

Gu Fan smiled slightly, "Isn’t that exactly the effect you want, President Li?

"The more people that play, the more negative emotion points will be produced!

"By then we can go crazy with the marketing, hype up the new engine and the mechanism of the two worlds, and combine it with the reputation we have built with our previous games, we’ll definitely be able to lure as many players as possible at the start!

"By then, President Li, you’ll have made a fortune!"

A smile emerged uncontrollably on Lilith’s face, clearly picturing the splendid sight of negative emotions being banked by the ton.

She reviewed the design proposal for ’Ascension’ from beginning to end once more.

It must be said, Gu Fan had indeed perfectly fulfilled her demands, meeting all three stringent conditions and adding new ideas; he truly delivered a perfect score.

"Do you have any suggestions, President Li? Please feel free to speak your mind," Gu Fan said very openly.

Lilith fell silent.

As a client, if she said "I have no suggestions" at this point, that would definitely be the behavior of an unqualified client.

But the proposal given by Gu Fan did seem to cover all bases, and even Lilith felt that she would have a hard time designing a game as wicked as this.

What kind of suggestions could she provide?

After pondering for a moment, Lilith suddenly had a spark of inspiration and thought of something.

"I do have a suggestion.

"That is... during the development of this game, could you also develop a special modification tool for me?

"One that would allow me to beat these monsters."

Gu Fan nodded, "That’s hardly a request; it was already planned.

"To facilitate better testing, we were going to make a simple modification program with features like health-lock and one-hit-kill as standard."

Lilith shook her head, "No, what I mean is, preferably not the kind of tool that directly locks health or allows one-hit kills, but one that somewhat lowers the difficulty of the game, yet not too much..."

Gu Fan understood in his heart why Lilith would make such a strange suggestion.

Clearly, it was the devil’s distrustful nature at play!

Up to this point, Lilith still hadn’t placed her full trust in Gu Fan, so even if this game seemed reliable and capable of collecting negative emotions, Lilith couldn’t be completely at ease.

After all, the game was designed by Gu Fan, so she definitely wanted to try it herself.

The reason she hadn’t asked for something similar before was because the previous games were designed by her, with every design detail clear in her mind, and the design documents couldn’t even be modified.

If there was any issue, it would have been easy to catch Gu Fan out.

But this time, the design document was written by Gu Fan.

The design proposal spanned several dozen pages, with various features described in considerable complexity.

Not to mention whether Lilith could watch it all, even if she did manage to go through everything, she might not be able to understand all the mechanics. What if something goes wrong then? Wouldn’t that be troublesome?

Even if Lilith came to Gu Fan to accuse him of negligence, Gu Fan could just say, "The design proposal was written long ago, you just didn’t understand it yourself."

So, after much consideration, Lilith felt that, just to be on the safe side, she also needed to experience the game herself and look for issues.

But if it was a generic modifier, something that simply set health to unlimited or enabled one-hit kills, it would hardly reveal anything. It’d be too easy to gloss over many details.

That’s why Lilith wanted a modifier that "could lower the difficulty but not by too much."

However, Gu Fan didn’t show this. He just continued to maintain a puzzled expression, as if he hadn’t thought it through in detail.

"Of course, it can be done.

"For programmers, there’s nothing in this world that can’t be coded; it just comes down to two things: firstly, how much time and resources you’re willing to give the programmers; and secondly, whether or not you mind if there are a lot of BUGs once it’s done.

"If you want it to be more sophisticated, this modifier might be a bit complex to operate and use, can you handle it?"

Lilith was silent, the answer was obviously that she couldn’t quite handle it.

"Can’t it just be integrated directly into the game program, for example, by adding a special item or special code that can be easily activated?

"And then remove this code before the game’s release."

Gu Fan’s lips twitched slightly: "Do you know how painful deleting codes is... Alright, since President Li you’ve requested it, I’ll try my best."

Lilith was pleased and continued, "Another suggestion is to add some hallucinations!

"Switching between two worlds only at specific times is a bit too lenient, I think it’s totally possible to intersperse hallucinations in between.

"For example, while players are in the Immortal Cultivation World, glimpses of the sci-fi world might flash across their vision from time to time; the reverse would be the same.

"Or perhaps they’ll experience auditory hallucinations, playing sound effects from the sci-fi world within the Immortal Cultivation World.

"In short, these hallucinations will severely disrupt the players’ train of thought and sense of immersion, further generating more negative emotions, and also make the most out of the settings of both worlds!"

Gu Fan couldn’t help but remark, "Indeed, when it comes to not being human, President Li, you’re somewhat more adept."

Lilith waved her hand dismissively, "Ah, President Gu, you’re not far behind."

The two looked at the game design in front of them and let out villainous laughs.

"Okay, then it’s settled. Let’s start developing!"

...

...

October 21, Monday.

Gu Fan slept for twelve hours straight to catch up on sleep and felt somewhat groggy when he woke up.

He went to the villa where the office was located, handed over the design proposal to Xiao Mingyu, and asked her to print it all out, then distribute it to everyone.

While others were looking at the proposal, Xiao Mingyu also began to report on the recruitment situation to Gu Fan.

"President Gu, we sent out a recruitment notice last week and have now received more than a hundred resumes. I’ve done a preliminary sift and picked out over forty that seem to meet the criteria.

"However, over the past few days, new resumes have been continuously coming in."

Gu Fan nodded, "Hmm, let me have a look."

He opened these resumes on his computer to review them.

At a glance, they were of average quality, with none standing out as particularly impressive talents.

This might be because Nitiandang’s income structure was still a secret to the outside world; people only knew that it was a company that had succeeded with several single-player games.

Otherwise, there would probably be at least several times more resumes submitted.

However, Gu Fan wasn’t in a hurry to publicize this aspect right now.

He quickly selected a few resumes, preparing to conduct interviews.

Just then, Xiao Mingyu came over again.

"One more thing, President Gu. We’ve also received some internally recommended resumes, which I’ve printed out separately.

"Interestingly, most of them come from Shengjing Group.

"For example, this producer, Wei Chengjie."

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