vrcanaries Chapter 23, let's do it!
Chapter 23, let's do it!
Good morning, boss lady.
Tang She arrived at the company with dark circles under his eyes. The new employees greeted him politely.
Well, that might not be very polite either.
Because she also has to pretend to be Ren Wei's boyfriend at the company, Tang She is now the recognized boss's wife.
However, he no longer has the mind to care about those things.
Once inside his office and on his work computer, he immediately received an email from Ren Wei.
I'm at the partner's site today. The technical department is continuing to fix bugs, while Wu Yu is leading the art department to work on some technical stuff.
Tang She was unemployed.
Tang She was of course unemployed. Before he awakened the system, he had been slacking off at the company and occasionally taking on side jobs to supplement his family income.
However, Tang She had his own things to do today.
He took out the ridiculously thick business plan from his bag and started flipping through it again.
He spent all night looking at it, but in the end he still couldn't decide whether or not to make this game.
The first sentence on the first page is really scary.
Pokémon is the world's number one IP.
In Tang She's world, there is no so-called number one IP, but a few competitive IPs can generate explosive buzz just by letting out a few vague rumors.
If it really is an official announcement, they'll likely release some information about a sequel.
That popularity is at least approaching 100 million.
So he was genuinely afraid, afraid that it would elevate Tangren Media to the highest level.
However, this also indirectly illustrates how low the game's quality is.
Logically, this kind of game should guarantee at least an 8 out of 10 points.
Last year, Sky Eagle collaborated with a superhero comic book to release a game that inexplicably went unplayed and was met with a barrage of criticism online.
Tang She also tried it out, but after watching the 40-50 minute opening animation, he couldn't play for more than 20 minutes.
Fortunately, the game was purchased by the company, otherwise Tang She would have been so angry that he would have been hospitalized.
You bought this piece of junk for just over 400 yuan?
After all, in this world, you can't get a refund if you play the game for more than an hour.
Even so, the game still maintained a high score of 8.5.
Countless comments are criticizing the players as a bunch of idiots who don't understand their art at all.
That's truly an art form—the art of deception.
Returning to Pokémon Bright Pearl, it's very likely that this game will follow the same pattern.
The production quality is poor, there are too many hidden problems, the price is high, there are many bugs, and so on...
The issues raised in the project proposal are exactly the same as those in the comments section of that previous fraudulent game.
Moreover, this game doesn't offer any nostalgia factor in this world.
It's done!
Tang She made some modifications to the key parts, and then printed out a completely new proposal using a printer.
Holding the still-warm A4 paper, Tang She bound it together and then dialed his senior's number.
The call was answered instantly as usual, but this time the senior student didn't speak first.
"Senior, where are you? I have something to show you."
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Tang She, who usually only takes the subway, took a taxi for the first time. He walked into the Catshark Technology building and pressed the button for the 23rd floor elevator.
The elevator went up and soon arrived at the floor where CatShark Live was located. He stepped out of the elevator, asked the receptionist for the exact location, and then jogged forward.
Just then, a woman who looked to be about twenty-one or twenty-two years old walked out from the opposite direction, and the two bumped into each other.
The documents in Tang She's hands were scattered all over the floor. The receptionist saw this and quickly went out to ask:
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, how about you?"
The woman who had been staring at Tang She paused slightly upon hearing this, then her gaze involuntarily shifted a little, her voice tinged with embarrassment.
"Oh, it's nothing, I'm fine."
"That's good."
Then, the three of them began to pick up the documents that had just fallen. Fortunately, Tang She had stapled each category of the proposal together before he came, so even though they were scattered all over the place, they weren't too messy and would take a long time to pick up.
Just then, Lin Wan, who had been stunned by Tang She's good looks, saw a little penguin in a 2D anime style.
It has dark blue fur all over its body, a yellow beak, white skin around its eyes, and a light blue crown-shaped pattern in the center of its eyes.
She froze on the spot again; the little thing was so cute, it completely melted her heart.
Just then, a hand waved in front of her, and that soothing voice came again.
"Can I have my documents back?"
Feeling embarrassed all the time, Lin Wan's face turned bright red instantly. She then closed the file and handed over the stack of A4 papers with both hands.
"Sorry, sorry, this penguin is so cute! What's its name? I'll go home and look for it."
Tang She took the document, placed it in its proper place, and replied:
"Thank you, its name is Bogarman."
Then he continued forward, leaving Lin Wan, who still had a bellyful of questions to ask, behind him.
Ren Wei had just finished a meeting and was sitting in a temporary office, opposite Blue Frog, a well-known mod creator in the gaming industry.
Because the promotional period for the event was too short, and the game wasn't very popular, Ren Wei actually invited several well-known mod creators in the industry.
Blue frogs are one of them.
"Ms. Lin, your approach is very interesting. The idea of leaving players only four spaces and letting them complete the level using ash plants is intriguing, but it limits the solution. After all, this is a competition, so..."
At that moment, Tang She appeared at the door, and walked in without knocking.
Blue Frog looked at Tang She with some confusion and took the initiative to ask.
"Who is this?"
"This is Tang She, the planner of Plants vs. Zombies. Tang She, this is Ms. Lin Chen, the very famous mod creator on the internet, Blue Frog."
Ren Wei guessed what it was when she saw the large stack of documents he was carrying. She hadn't expected her junior to be so quick, giving her another new task just a few days into the National Day holiday.
Out of consideration for confidentiality, Ren Wei, with a hint of apology on her face, said to Lin Chen:
"I'm sorry, Ms. Lin, I have some urgent business to attend to..."
Lin Chen, being sensible, prepared to avoid the situation.
But Tang She, who was shaking hands with Lin Chen, was no longer sleepy after hearing Ren Wei's words.
What secrets! Show them to me! It would be best if you could make a game that's similar to ours before we do.
"It's alright, Mr. Blue Frog, come and take a look. You can give us some pointers."
"This...isn't that a bit inappropriate?"
Blue Frog was indeed very interested in the game, because he was actually a veteran Plants vs. Zombies player, and had already tried to create quite a few maps using Tangren Games' level generator before receiving their invitation.
He accepted the invitation because he was interested in Plants vs. Zombies; otherwise, given his personality, he would never have come.
"There's nothing wrong with it, I've always been your fan!"
Ren Wei looked at her junior, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.
He wasn't like this before.