You said you would make games by yourself, but how did you become the richest man by doing nothing?

Mo Xiaoxuan's thoughts flowed like a spring, and he typed out the proposal with great enthusiasm.

Afterwards, he gathered the company's management and R\u0026D team colleagues in the conference room.

Using the big screen for demonstration, he conveyed his ideas to Lu Yu and other company employees:

"President Lu, the game world I envision is a fictional city full of cyberpunk style.

In this fictional city, citizens can use verbal abuse as a weapon to fight and punish evil..."

The screen displayed the system introduction written by Mo Xiaoxuan:

This is an urban sandbox adventure game where players can freely explore the open city and encounter different characters and events.

The verbal combat system is the core gameplay system of the game.

Players need to collect various verbal combat entries through exploration, adventure, and social interaction, and form their own exclusive verbal scripts.

At the same time, they gradually cultivate the protagonist's various psychological attributes, such as "persona," "courage," and "confidence," by solving puzzles and completing tasks, and these attributes will affect the character's combat effectiveness.

In situations where combat (verbal sparring) is required, players can choose appropriate verbal lines from the skill set to use.

Different verbal attacks have different effects, such as encouraging words can increase the damage of our teammates, healing words can restore health, and words that kill and punish the heart can cause fatal damage to the enemy.

...

Shao Peng, the system planner of the project team, raised his hand to ask a question.

"I have a question, Brother Mo, is the actual visual representation of this verbal combat just two groups of people standing on either side, then putting their hands on their hips and cursing at each other..."

Mo Xiaoxuan shook his head:

"After all, it's a fantasy city. In the game world, the verbal attacks spoken by players will be materialized into 'word bullets,' meaning they will really be like cannonballs or laser beams, shooting towards the enemy with a 'biu' sound."

The conference room was immediately filled with discussions.

"Wow, that's kind of cool."

"Materializing lines into physical forms of attack, that's a good idea."

"Brother Mo has some ideas..."

Pan Hao, the level planner of the project team, suggested:

"With such a good form of expression, it would be a pity to make it into a turn-based game where you take a shot and I take a shot. I suggest making it into a TPS (Third-Person Shooter), where the word bullets have trajectories and the characters can dodge."

Sun Rou, the art girl, weakly said:

"But... I always feel that using verbal attacks to attack each other is a bit too magical. Is this reasonable? Why can the words people say turn into cannonballs?"

Hao Shuwen, the copywriter, smiled and waved his hand:

"This is not a problem for us copywriters at all. After all, it's a fictional fantasy work. We can just find an excuse to package it.

For example, there is something called 'word spirit particles' in the game world—

Word spirit particles are a mysterious and powerful substance whose existence and function far exceed human scientific understanding.

Word spirit particles affect human psychological energy and can enhance an individual's confidence, courage, and psychological defenses. When people say brave words under the influence of word spirit particles, their inner energy will also increase.

It is considered a bridge connecting language, emotion, and mind, capable of materializing human thoughts and emotions into visible energy forms, such as laser beams, cannonballs, and light spheres."

"As expected of a copywriter, you can easily explain it away," Sun Rou joked with a smile.

After this problem was solved, Mo Xiaoxuan continued to introduce the game's story stage—the fictional city [New Alphaca].

The PPT showed the proposal he wrote:

New Alphaca is a future city full of cyberpunk style and technology.

In this city, skyscrapers and neon lights complement each other, and the streets are full of various characteristic areas.

Players can experience the avant-garde fashion atmosphere in the Phantom Fashion Street, similar to Tokyo's Shibuya, and appreciate creative trends;

Interact with Teacher Ma in Chinatown to learn ancient traditional verbal combat skills;

Engage in creation and street graffiti in the Artist Theater, similar to Broadway, and participate in street hip-hop verbal art;

The game also has a game street similar to Akihabara, a technology company park similar to Silicon Valley, and a large number of urban village slums.

The game has a rich social network system. Players will encounter different characters and gangs in every corner of the city, and they all have their own spheres of influence.

By interacting with different urban communities and increasing their influence value, players can learn more rare verbal entries and obtain wealth and various combat equipment.

...

After reading Mo Xiaoxuan's project proposal PPT, the conference room fell into a brief silence.

Everyone looked at Lu Yu in unison.

How should I put it, Mo Xiaoxuan's ideas were too unconventional and subversive.

A third-person shooting game where you verbally attack each other, with a large number of growth-based RPG elements.

There is no such type of game in the Huaguo game industry yet.

No, even in the world game industry, there is no such precedent.

Their previous work experience had already formed a path dependence in their work methods:

First, disassemble and analyze the successful products that are already popular in the market, and then slightly improve and micro-innovate them, change the skin, and release them as their own products.

This kind of attempt to be the first to eat crabs, without any predecessors, would never be approved in many of their previous companies.

Because the risk is too great. If the game is successful, it's called a pioneer, and if the game fails, it becomes a martyr.

Looking at everyone's suspicious and complex expressions, Mo Xiaoxuan's eyes, which had finally lit up, began to gradually dim again.

Lu Yu took a look and thought, what the heck? Can't let this kid deduct points again, this guy's point deduction comes with critical hits!

"Ahem, I think this idea is good."

Lu Yu said to everyone with a smile:

"The project development principle of Taoyuan Township Company is to fully respect creative freedom."

"Free...dom?" Mo Xiaoxuan murmured.

"Yes, that's right. I said it before, when starting a project, there are no taboos. Since you are the producer, you can completely choose what you want to do, whatever is comfortable!"

Lu Yu's words were equivalent to publicly supporting the project's approval, and the others dispelled their doubts and said:

"Brother Mo, tell us what to do, and we will fully cooperate next."

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

In fact, what he cares about most now is whether Mo Xiaoxuan can live up to his expectations in this settlement cycle and hit 50 positive effect critical hits, so that he can successfully get a permanent BUFF with a 20% return rate.

And the leisure level of all employees of the company.

As for the game itself, he is now emphasizing naturalness and inaction.

It would be a success to be able to make a mediocre work to complete the system's basic tasks.

Shao Peng, the system planner, looked at the densely packed things he had written on paper and frowned:

"If we do it according to Brother Mo's ideas, the size of this sandbox game will not be small. Are we going to work overtime a little?"

When Lu Yu heard this, he was as if facing a formidable enemy and said sternly:

"No! Although you have the freedom to create, the only thing that is absolutely not allowed is overtime.

Not only can you not work overtime, but your workload should not be saturated during the normal attendance period!

Those who should go to the gym should continue to go, and those who should eat, drink, and go to hot springs should continue to go.

Remember, the 543 working system and reduced efficiency and increased costs are the foundation of the company, and no one can overstep it!

In short, the comfort level of your own lives here is even more important than the game itself."

Lu Yu's words were sonorous!

Seeing Lu Yu so serious, the people in the room nodded in confusion.

Lu Yu thought for a while and felt that he could no longer stay in this room.

These guys might mistakenly think that he was "supervising" them, so they were eager to express their willingness to work overtime.