Chapter 230 - First Version (1/2)

Chen Mo planned some huge changes, but it’d probably only be realised in the second or third stages of the release.

A part of it was to implement a more complete tech tree to allow players to place down blocks to build more advanced items such as cars or trains, and potentially recreate modern cities.

Of course many have done this in his previous life, but a lot of it was stationary and non-interactive. Chen Mo wanted to add these technologies as a core part of the game.

However, these were problems to be dealt with in the future.

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It didn’t take long for Minecraft’s PC Demo to be completed.

However, everyone outside of Chen Mo thought that it was horrible to look at.

Chen Mo didn’t mind as he tried out the demo of Minecraft on his laptop.

Everyone else were nervously watching behind Chen Mo as they feared Chen Mo wouldn’t be satisfied with that.

The starting menu was incredibly simple with only two buttons present, ‘Start game’, and ‘Quit’. Chen Mo hit ‘Start game’, and the world started generating.

Soon, the game started.

The game was in first person with no other UIs such as health, hunger, or inventory. There was a simplistic hand on the right of the screen to represent the player’s hand.

The player could fly freely in the demo. Chen Mo flew around in the world to check out the terrain and other generated resources.

Ocean, mountains, rivers, grasslands, trees, animals…

The land was in order without any major problems. The graphics weren’t great as they were placeholders Zhou Hanyu added in a short amount of time, more or less identical to the quality of graphics in his previous life.

It would look alright on mobile, but it’d be horrible on VR.

Chen Mo flattened the top of a mountain in game and started building using cobblestone.

Soon, a small cobblestone formed on top of the mountain.

Chen Mo ran around the house for a better look before he entered the building, seemingly quite satisfied.

“Yep, that’s great. This feels right, just keep going in this direction. Just focus on hitting the first goal and I’ll prepare the rest,” said Chen Mo.

Everyone got back to their seats and continued working.

Zhou Hanyu said, “Manager, I’d like to discuss some things in terms of the graphics.”

Chen Mo nodded, “Okay, I’ve been wanting to chat with you anyways. Let’s talk in the meeting room.”

The two of them headed to the meeting room. Zhou Hanyu then pulled out a few printed images.

“These are the ideas I have in mind, but I haven’t decided on which one.”

Zhou Hanyu handed CHen Mo different pictures as he explained.

“There aren’t major differences with the art styles, just some differences in the small details. It’s hard to have more detail in pixel graphics anyways.”