Chapter 42 (1/2)

Chapter 42: Happy yet Uneasy

Everyone left the meeting room one after another.

Huang Sibo held Bao Xu back.

“Brother Bao, I’ll have to trouble you to hurry with the concept then. We’ll need at least 5 days to come up with the design draft. It’ll be best if you have a rough idea by tomorrow so that we can communicate as early as possible.”

Huang Sibo was extremely polite.

That was because he did not know Bao Xu’s background and his opinion of the latter was merely based on a few things.

First, he seemed old with a receding hairline.

Second, he was an elite gamer and he had special overtime privileges as well as Boss Pei’s trust.

Third, he was always silent as though he was in deep thoughts.

Through those observations, Huang Sibo gathered that Huang Sibo must be a senior.

Bao Xu nodded his head. “Alright, Brother Huang.”

Bao Xu did not know of Huang Sibo’s background as well. However, as a year one undergraduate, he garnered that Huang Sibo must be a senior since the latter had been in the field since graduation.

Both parties thought that the other was using ‘brother’ as a form of pleasantry and neither thought too much into it.

Who would have thought that the other was actually truly sincere?

Huang Sibo returned to his work desk, feeling both happy and uneasy.

He was happy because he had discovered this place where the boss and colleagues were so friendly and polite. Compared to the strict, oppressive environment of his previous company, this was entirely different.

He was uneasy because he was afraid he might be a burden due to his lack of capabilities.

Immediately, he looked through all the different design drafts he had collected previously to make a last minute attempt at revision.

That way, he would be able to do up the design draft once Bao Xu has a concept.

As for Bao Xu, he had already swiftly entered the conceptualization phase.

All his memories of various FPS games gushed into his mind, providing inspiration.

Making the game easy for newbies? That wasn’t difficult and could be managed with some simple adjustments.

For example, he could adjust the character hitboxes – particularly at the head area – so that new gamers would have a higher headshot rate.

Or perhaps, he could hasten the zoom and firing speed of sniper rifles. That way, newbies would be able to master sniping in the fastest possible time.

Even though Bao Xu wasn’t so well versed in FPS games that he could be considered a professional gamer, he was definitely an expert amongst the laymen.

Based on his own hand sensitivity, he could provide the necessary adjustments with ease.

As for the paywall weapons, there wasn’t any big issue about it as well – all they had to do was to set the price higher.

The only difficulty for Bao Xu lies in Pei Qian’s first demand for the story mode!

He fell into deep thoughts.

To be frank, that was something that he could not understand at all.

That was because most of the trending domestic FPS games did not have any story mode at all. Counter Strike did not have it as well – all they had to do was to fight one another.

Although it was true that some massive overseas standalone FPS games had a story mode, they were large companies compared to Tengda!

With a 30 men team, trying to produce a story mode in the same way as massive overseas FPS games could be considered to be overestimating their own strength.

Even though Bao Xu had just entered the games industry, he was quite clear about these things.

He had no choice but to think about it the other way round.

For a company with only 30 employees, it was clear that they would not be able to create a story mode in the same way as massive overseas FPS games.

‘If a layman such as himself knew about it, would their brilliant Boss Pei not?’

‘He must know about it as well!’

‘Since he knows, why would he set such a strict requirement then?’

‘This is a test and a hint as well!’

‘Boss Pei’s testing our capabilities and hinting to us at the same time that we must not do it in the same way as those massive overseas FPS games!’