Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 281: 279: Willful Development Plan!

Not only did he set up a special subsidy, giving out extra rewards to those who participated in the “Ancient City Construction” project, but he also motivated more people to join in.

I addition, he provided strong technical assistance by designing a more feature-rich and user-friendly “City Building System,” and personally took time to teach them how to use it.

With these efforts, the previously slow project began to accelerate rapidly.

The original simple “transporting previously visited ancient buildings into the virtual world” project officially transformed into the “Ancient City Construction” project.

As a result, ancient buildings were reproduced in the virtual world and placed in aesthetically pleasing and rational positions as much as possible.

The map can be said to change every day.

By now, when Lincoln brought the female staff of the Casual Game Department here, the map had undergone earth-shaking changes!

The scattered distribution of ancient buildings and the lack of aesthetic appeal had long been a thing of the past.

What appeared before everyone’s eyes was a genuine ancient city – or at least a part of it…

Building an ancient city from scratch in a month, working on it after busy daytime research, was hardly possible…

Moreover, many of the buildings were not from the same dynasty; outsiders could ignore this fact and stuff them together, but these insiders could not bear it.

So, the ancient buildings were divided into different areas according to the different dynasties.

This led to empty spaces or temporary placeholder houses in each area, so as not to appear too discordant.

—However, these issues would only be visible from high or far away places.

If one were immersed in it, like Lincoln and the employees now, the carefully arranged ancient city scenery, with barely any flaws, would be visible.

Moreover, surrounded by various delicate and magnificent or solemn and simple buildings, one felt as if they had traveled through time and space.

“Boss…” a female employee asked with an almost moaning tone, “Did you secretly build an ancient city while making a game by yourself?”

Was he still human?

Fortunately, Lincoln immediately denied it: “Of course not; this is not my work but an extra surprise from an ancient architecture project I invested in.” Hearing this, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief: “That’s great.”

—It was great that the boss was still human!

Lincoln led them to visit the ancient city while explaining where it came from.

After learning that all the buildings had real counterparts in reality, they were amazed, admiring the architecture with different meanings in their eyes.

They knew that Lincoln had brought them here for the next game.

They were just not sure yet how these buildings related to the game.

“I hope that what you create is a gameplay that simplifies this process to the extreme.”

Lincoln led them to a relatively open area, where there was only a six-story stone tower.

Unlike many famous ancient towers, it didn’t have a delicate octagonal spire structure.

—This stone tower looked very simple and even a little bald.

However, this tower, in reality, has stood through the wind and rain for more than 700 years and is not of little value!

Lincoln pointed to the tower and asked, “Can you imagine how many structures are needed to build this tower with just the exterior appearance and without pursuing 100% similarity?

“Twelve?”

“If we completely eliminate the internal structure and only want the appearance, maybe eight?”

“At least six, right?”

Everyone looked up at the tower’s shape and discussed while thinking. Lincoln shook his head: “Still too many. How about just one?”

“Is that possible?”

Everyone’s initial reaction was disbelief.

Without wasting any more time, Lincoln simply replied, “Do you think this would work?”

After saying so, he waved his hand, and the stone tower seemed to have been subjected to a terrible attack. It shattered from the inside out, collapsed backward, and broke into pieces on the ground.

The girls were startled at first, but they quickly realized that the stones on the floor were all small cubes, around the size of a palm.

After a brief moment of confusion, they began to understand: “Building with blocks?”

“Yes!” Lincoln nodded his head, waving his hand again, and countless small cubes on the ground flew up on their own, quickly combining, stacking from the base to the top of the tower. Within just seven or eight seconds, an identical stone tower appeared in the original spot.

No, wait!

It can’t be said to be exactly the same.

The “accuracy” of this stone tower is clearly lower than the original one.

Although it looks similar at a glance, it’s easy to see its “roughness” when you get closer.

The surface is not smooth at all, and the edges are formed by the edges of small blocks. Although they are regular, they are obviously not aesthetically pleasing.

“This works??” Instead of having their questions answered, they felt that it was unbelievable.

Of course, they had to admit that using this method, it looked decent, and it was much simpler, not requiring too many professional skills to build this stone tower.

— Not just stone towers; there’s no limit to the number of buildings that can be built using this method!

One might even exaggerate that any building can be built this way!

Little Chun quickly accepted this setting and asked, “Is this the core gameplay of the new game?”

“Yes,” Lincoln nodded, but then shook his head again, “It’s one of the core gameplay.”

In comparison, other survival gameplay, adventure gameplay, parkour gameplay, farming gameplay, battle royale gameplay, and so on, although each has its loyal players, they can be considered as branches extending from the “building with blocks” as the most robust main trunk.

However, there’s a catch.

If you simply make a virtual reality replica of a 3D game on PC, Lincoln felt that it wasn’t enough.

After all, the core gameplay of “My World” can be fully satisfied on the computer, so why bother with a virtual reality version?

Although the virtual reality version can be more intuitive, immersive, and greatly improve the experience of many peripheral gameplay aspects,

Ironically, the core building block gameplay might even become more tiring and inconvenient…

So, more core gameplay must be added!

And[Battle]and[Exploration]are readily available sources of fun.

It’s just that in the original “My World, ” this part is indeed weak.

So, for the virtual reality version, Lincoln has made up his mind: battles and exploration must be strengthened!

And as soon as he thought about how to strengthen them, he immediately thought of two other games:

One is a game born from the very beginning, which has been playfully referred to as the 2D version of “My World.”

The other is even more outrageous, a “simple” pixel game that, with just one magic wand, can have players smell the graphics card’s aroma.

Lincoln’s initial idea was to take the most fun exploration and battles of these three games, extract them, and then throw them onto at Fusion]!

Perfect!

But within two minutes, he denied the idea himself.

The reason is simple: “My World” is the core of the new game, targeting all age groups, and can even be a puzzle game to develop children’s creativity and intelligence.

However, neither Terraria’s hair-raising monsters nor the witch’s creepy underground creatures are suitable for being reproduced in virtual reality.

Players can accept these ghostly things when presented in pixel style.

But with a real sense of immersion, facing these horrifying monsters can drive people insane!

By that time, not to mention an all-age rating, it’s not even clear if it could get away with an adult-only rating!

A new[Psychos Only]rating might need to be created.

Lincoln isn’t really about taking revenge on society…

So in the end, as much as possible, the core gameplay remains unchanged, and the environment, monsters, and BOSSes all undergo major modifications.

This means a lot of work.

It may even require multiple major modifications during production.

But Lincoln thinks it’s worth a try, and at worst, he can return to the pure “My World” and abandon these ideas!

It’s not like he can’t afford the loss.

With Lincoln’s current wealth, he can afford to be whimsical!