Chapter 21 (1/2)

The next afternoon, Ruan Guangjian crawled out of bed having a slight hangover.

Thankfully, they had only drank beer and his head was mostly cleared after sleeping.

“Oh, right! The game!”

Ruan Guangjian suddenly recalled – the game should have passed through the vetting process by now!

He took out his phone impatiently and searched for Ghost General on the official platform.

The original art was something that he and his dormitory mates had rushed out after giving it burning tons of midnight oil and he cherished it like it was his own son. As such, he naturally hoped that the game would become popular.

By then, he could use the term concept designer on himself legitimately.

Thereafter, be it whether he was looking for jobs or seeking investments, things would definitely be easier for him once he tosses these original arts under his portfolio.

That was why even though he was just an artist outsourced with the job, he was even more concerned about it than Pei Qian was!

“Ah, the game’s passed the vetting process! Hurry and download it! Just search for Ghost General!”

Ruan Guangjian yelled out and his friends that had woken up scurried to download it on their phones.

After looking at the game’s information interface, Ruan Guangjian frowned.

Why was it so simple?

It was especially the case for the summary! Claiming that this guy was just barely doing his job was an understatement – it was clear he gave no f*cks at all!

Summary: This is a normal card game with nothing new

?!?!

Did the creator bear some grudge against his own game or something?!

Besides, most other games would place some promotional pictures or beautiful posters on this page to improve the impression of the game.

In any case, they would dump all the best art resources the game had to offer on the information page so that gamers would be tricked in.

As for whether the actual graphics matched the promotional pictures… that didn’t matter anymore; they would be able to retain part of the gamers that were tricked in.

But yet, Ghost General had no pictures at all!

That was the reason why the total downloads was still zero by the time Ruan Guangjian searched for it – even Pei Qian had not downloaded it yet.

“He must not have had the time to promote it since the game’s just gotten through the vetting process… yes, that must be it.”

Ruan Guangjian consoled himself while downloading and entering the game.

He naturally did not care about the 10 yuan cost of the game.

It was an extremely rudimentary card game with a gameplay that resembled Qute Three Kingdoms six months ago.

However, that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing either.

Mobile games had never required overly complex systems or gameplays. In this age, the trend still leaned towards mobile games that were more relaxing.

Most of the gamers could only afford around three hours of daily gameplay spread through the entire day.

Therefore, most of the mobile card games around that period revolved around automated gameplays such as clearing stages and sweeps1 using energy and limited number of entries to control the amount of time gamers had to spend on the games.

Introducing too many flowery gameplays wasn’t something that would benefit them.

However, for a game such as Qute Three Kingdoms that has already been operating for a year, there exists a paradox.

While new gameplays were more effort than they were worth and could bloat the game such that gamers would find it too tedious, these same gamers would feel bored of the game if it remained the same all the time without any new elements.

As such, Qute Three Kingdoms would go through an update every three months or so to introduce new skills and cards. While that caused their game to turn bloated, they had no other choice.

However, that problem wouldn’t exist for a new game such as Ghost General.

While it made use of Qute Three Kingdoms’ older gameplay, it was a classic gameplay that had already gone through the market’s approval and gamers would be more accepting towards it.

All it took was a change of overall appearance to please the gamers.

Besides, since the game contained some of the more rudimentary playstyles, card gamers would be able to pick up on it quickly without finding it tedious or tiring.