Chapter 100 - You Want to Learn? I’ll Teach You (1/2)

Chen Mo was now back in the experience store.

“Manager, welcome back,” greeted Su Jinyu.

Chen Mo nodded, “Yeah, I just went to the internet cafe to do some research and gather some inspiration.”

Su Jinyu was happily surprised, “Wow, you’re planning another game already? Manager, you’re birthing games like a sow to piglets.”

“… Couldn’t you have picked a better metaphor?” replied Chen Mo.

Chen Mo grabbed a can of drink, “Goldfish, how has the mobile game market been lately, have you been keeping an eye on it?”

Su Jinyu replied, “Oh, Lifeline has been doing quite well.”

Chen Mo was speechless, “I didn’t ask you that! Stop watching your own game, I’m asking about the other games on the market.”

“Uhh, other games? There’s more and more games that are copying I Am MT… Moreover, more and more tabletop games are copying Thunderbolt Tabletop as well..” replied Su Jinyu.

The usually quiet Zheng Hongxi added as well, “Basically half of the mobile game industry are copying you.”

“Oh, that’s great,” replied Chen Mo.

Su Jinyu was speechless, “Huh? How is it great when so many people are copying you?”

“What do you know, if they copy us, that means they’ve lost their ability to create new things. That also means that whatever they make will never be better than mine,” replied Chen Mo.

Su Jinyu said, “Wow, manager, I think you’re too… optimistic. Demon Slayers are edging ever so close to the revenue I Am MT is making.”

“It’s only getting close, it hasn’t exceeded right? What’s the big deal? By the way, how much do you guys know about RTS games?” asked Chen Mo.

Su Jinyu replied, “Uhh… not much. I’m just an intern.”

Zheng Hongxi said, “I’m just a writer.”

Chen Mo was speechless, “Wow, you guys are setting the bar too low. You guys will be your own video game designer one day alright? I’ll give both of you three days to understand the RTS market and hand it a research report afterwards.”

Su Jinyu was shocked, “Huh? But I’ve never been able to play those kinds of games…”

Chen Mo replied, “I’m not asking you to become a pro player, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t play. I’m just asking you to understand the market. Regardless, I want to see a research report in three days. You guys better submit different reports, I’d hate to see two similar ones.”

Chen Mo retreated upstairs after assigning them work.

Su Jinyu facepalmed, my goodness, what’s a research report, I’ve never written one!

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Back on the second floor, Chen Mo started brainstorming his next game.

Chen Mo could make a PC game next, but he felt that he needed a bit more help.

Zheng Hongxi was able to save Chen Mo a lot of trouble in terms of writing, and Su Jinyu could handle some features or concept arts, but he was still lacking in the numbers and level design department.

Chen Mo had been searching for this person for a long time, but never managed to find one.

“Numbers, level design. Right, I’ll check the forums.”

Chen Mo checked out the forums for I Am MT in search of someone who was good at analyzing the numbers/ balancing for I Am MT.

The numbers were quite complicated for card games like these. If someone was able to analyse the numbers of I Am MT with some integrity to it, they basically had all the foundations for the role.

Chen Mo looked through a few hot threads.

Garbage game, refund me my money!

Analysis of the Draw Ten mechanism

Tips for grinding purples

Perfect strategy to control the battlefield!

How much should you spend? V12 player tells you how to get the bang for your buck.

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After looking through the posts, Chen Mo couldn’t help but press CTRL+W.

These were horrible!