Chapter 14 (1/2)
Pei Qian had already thought it through that since he wanted to clash with Qute Three Kingdoms, he could only go with the three kingdoms theme.
However, the three kingdoms theme in itself was a mix of different IPs and it wasn’t something that was too great or bad.
If he wanted gamers to hate the three kingdoms characters, the best way to do it would be through modification; to completely destroy their traditional images!
That way, gamers who like the three kingdoms would definitely complain about the horrendous changes, steering clear of the game while lowering the reputation of the game.
That important task of modification would be handed over to Ma Yang.
Pei Qian was completely confident given Ma Yang’s capabilities – as long as Ma Yang were to work on it earnestly, he would definitely be able to screw it up!
When he saw the names of the characters, Ma Yang frowned.
He looked down from the upper bunk and whispered, “Brother Qian, I… I’ve only watched the television series for the three kingdoms. There’s a lot of people here whom I don’t even know…”
Pei Qian skipped with joy internally – wasn’t that for the best?
If you knew the characters of the three kingdoms with the back of your palms, I would be worried to hand this task to you instead!
“Don’t worry, I believe in you. The main point’s to overhaul tradition anyways. Feel free to let your creative juices flow. The bigger the changes, the greater!”
“Also, don’t worry about how the images are going to come out. That will have to depend on the artist’s design as well. You’re just providing the direction.”
“Just feel free to open up the design since it was never fixed to begin with. No one is going to pick on mistakes made from general knowledge.”
Pei Qian continued persuading him.
He did not wish for Ma Yang to back down from the difficulty and end up returning the task to him.
Ma Yang finally nodded. “Alright then, I’ll try my best.”
Still worried, Pei Qian added, “Remember, it must be a complete overhaul! The more ridiculous, the better!”
Ma Yang sat on his bed and started scratching his ears and cheeks.
After enduring for 10 minutes, there was still no progress.
Finally, he couldn’t take it anymore as he popped his head out. “Brother Qian, should I go and buy Romance of the Three Kingdoms first…”
Pei Qian stopped him right away. “No! Absolutely not! Your creative spirit is what I was looking for, get it? Right now, you’re completely unaffected by the influence of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and that’s exactly why you can overhaul the design entirely!”
“Don’t start worrying about how the original image should be like! Just use your imagination as best as you can and modify as much as you can!”
“Alright,” Ma Yang replied in a resigned tone before shirking his head back and continuing to ponder over it.
After a moment, he extended his head and asked once more, “Brother Qian, can I design Guan Yu as a dragon? Will that do?”
Pei Qian nodded his head. “Sure!”
Awhile later.
“Brother Qian, I’ll make Ma Chao a centaur. Will that do?”
“Sure!”
Yet another while later.
“Brother Qian, I’ll set Zhou Cang as a dragon lady and Zhuge Liang as an inventor! Huang Yueying will be a robot puppet while Xu Chu’s a tiger! Cao Pi will be a tentacle monster and Lu Meng will be a dragon slaying lolita! Will that do?”
Pei Qian slapped his thighs. “Yes! Of course! Old Ma, you’re a genius, you know that? Just continue along those lines!”
Ma Yang was initially skeptical of his own work. However, Pei Qian’s affirmation had ignited his confidence.
Looking at how seriously Ma Yang was taking his work, flowers blossomed in Pei Qian’s heart.
He hadn’t found the wrong person!
Setting Zhou Cang as a dragon lady and Lu Meng as a dragon slaying lolita?
Look at the sort of talented drivel this was!
That was something that Pei Qian definitely would not have been able to come up with himself!
Once he finds a cheaper artist to screw up the designs of a proposal that’s completely unreliable from the get go, there’s no way the game’s original art could be bearable to watch!
Imagine when gamers draw Cao Pi only to find out that he’s a tentacle monster…
Drawing Ma Chao to find out that he’s a centaur…
Drawing Lu Meng to find out that this great general had turned into a dragon slaying lolita…
Wasn’t this something that fans who loved the three kingdoms series would flame?
Some famous international star had once claimed, “Making and adapting films from history isn’t to destroy the source recklessly.”
But this was precisely to destroy it recklessly! Once this game comes out, the masses are going to spurn it and the three kingdom fans would be weeping endlessly!