Chapter 3 (1/2)

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Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Coldtaco

Edited by Aelryinth

After finishing his meal, Chen Mo looked through his laptop in a dissatisfied manner while sipping on his milk tea. His heart was racing, and his breath was heavy.

Chen Mo felt frustrated. He almost choked on a pearl from his milk tea as soon as he got angry.

Why was he angry? Because when Chen Mo turned on his laptop, he grew happier and happier after he confirmed the games in this world.

VR games dominated the scene.

PC gaming was pathetic, simply dismal, as the main purpose of PC’s was for work.

The mobile games market was filled with casual games. Not a single one of them was targeted at hardcore gamers. Moreover, most of them were made by C or D-grade designers as practice, resulting in few being profitable.

There weren’t any browser games, nor console games.

4It was obvious that video game companies had rushed towards developing VR games. Nobody cared about the PC side of things, and there was a complete lack of people for consoles.

Thinking it was a great opportunity for him to show his abilities, Chen Mo was quite happy.

But when he saw his personal savings account, his happiness had turned into anger. At that moment, Chen Mo almost choked on the pearls in the milk tea.

Chen Mo realized that the game engine he was currently using was called “Illusion Game Engine”, an invention from mainland China. There was also another engine from outside China called “Reality Game Engine”. They were mostly similar, although Reality had a slight edge in VR games.

3However, video game designers in China usually preferred Illusion Game Engine in order to access publicly available resources and upload their games. The information of the designers was also stored here, therefore Chen Mo had also chosen to use Illusion.

Opening the editor had revealed a number of statistics to him.

Chen Mo: Video Game Designer (Entry Level)

Creativity: 7

System: 8

Coding: 3

3Level Design: 4

Story Design: 10

Concept Art: 7

3D Art: 1

Monthly Quota: 294MB/300MB

The numbers in his account must’ve been the overall score the system had given Chen Mo for his previous games.

1Storyboarding was rated the highest, probably due to his major in literature.

As for the pathetic 3D arts, it’s because Chen Mo had never touched any games related to 3D.

-Oh, right. All the statistics are rated out of 100…-

8What angered him weren’t the tragic statistics, but the “Monthly Quota” at the bottom.

This suggested that every designer could use the free resources online for their games, but the quota would differ according to their levels.

For a video game designer like Chen Mo who doesn’t even have his foot in the door, 300MB could be considered quite a bit. But the real problem lay in the fact that he had used 294MB, with only 6MB left!

3This was only the middle of the month. It wasn’t realistic to wait until the next month, as the due date for the competition’s final submission was in two days!

-Even the gods are tormenting me!-

After a big gulp of milk tea, Chen Mo opened his save file in the video game engine. “There’s nothing I can do other than take a look at this save file and see if it’s possible to salvage it…”

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After one minute and forty-three seconds, Chen Mo silently pressed the ‘X’ on the top right.

-Man, that was unsightly.-

It was a 2D martial arts game. It had basic combat and some simple moves, along with dozens of lines of dialogue.

1As to the resources used… it was probably spent on the ten backgrounds and the seven or eight bosses…

In Chen Mo’s opinion, this game had no potential at all.