Chapter 29 (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Coldtaco

Edited by Aelryinth

“Huh?” Jia Peng was shocked. “This game is on two platforms?”

Another fellow asked, “You can play it on your phone too? What about the save file? Does it carry over?”

Chen Mo replied, “The saves do carry over, yes. You can play on your phone using the save file from your computer.”

“What? How come you didn’t mention this earlier?” Jia Peng hurriedly took out his phone and connected it to the computer and installed Plants vs Zombies onto his phone.

As the resources package wasn’t big, the installation finished in a few moments. Jia Peng launched the app on his phone and logged in using his Thunderbolt Gaming game pass. Indeed, his progress on the computer was transferred over to his phone!

“It really is cross-platformed!” said Jia Peng.

Chang Xiuya took a look at his phone, “Huh, it really is. It feels like the textures look better than on a PC.”

Jia Peng said, “No, it’s the same. It’s just that the phone screen is smaller, so it looks more detailed. However, the controls do manage to suit both mobile and PC, even the UI is the same. I thought that the buttons on the PC version were a bit big, it turns out it was to make them suitable for mobile, too.”

The others took out their phones and installed Plants vs Zombies, one after another.

Chen Mo hadn’t released the game onto the market yet, so these people were performing the roles of lab rats. He planned to release it when it felt that his game was ready after gathering some information.

“Alright, since we are done playing, let’s leave,” Wen Lingwei said with a hint of sourness. She wasn’t prepared to leave the game behind, but she led the others out of the store.

“Sir, we’ll be leaving now,” Wen Lingwei said, waving at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo nodded in response, “If you have any problems with the game, do let me know. I will take your opinions into consideration.

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Wen Lingwei and the others had now left the experience store.

“Are you guys coming tomorrow?”

“We have it on our phones now. Isn’t it the same?”

“But I feel that the atmosphere is better playing in the experience store on the computer.”

The bunch left while discussing things.

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Chen Mo ordered dinner then launched his backend management system to check out the statistics of the players.

During the designing phase, Chen Mo had included some data points that the game would log in order to harvest some player-related statistics.

For example, which levels were players stuck at for the longest, and had the most failures? How long did it take each player to go through each level? The usage rate of each plant? What kind of zombies would breach the defenses of the players? Which zombies dealt the most damage to plants?

The players wouldn’t bat an eye at statistics like this, but they were quite important to Chen Mo.

The emotions of the players would often be delayed, or they’d feel that something wasn’t quite right, but didn’t know where that feeling came from.

But from the point of view of the designer, being able to find the source of frustration for players and adjusting things accordingly was essential. With everything that the players felt as a table, it was easier to adjust the game to its highest potential.

When dealing with some out-of-place statistics, Chen Mo would make slight changes to the attributes of plants or zombies, or make changes to the level, slightly reducing its difficulty. Similarly, after a few easy levels, he’d introduce a more difficult level to introduce some setbacks.

1After making the changes, Chen Mo could push the changes onto the new installer. Changes like this would be a common occurance until Chen Mo felt that things were perfect.