In fact, Chen Hua's suggestion saved his own life.
If he is blindly confident in himself, or unable to refuse Little Ma, he might start copying maps again as before.
Mond, he might just stay up all night and grit his teeth and copy it.
Li Yue, he might be bald, and he could still plagiarize even if he coughed up blood.
But when they reached Mount Sumeru...
Then the despicable act of painting will probably turn into the despicable act of sudden death.
Fortunately, Xiao Ma agreed with Chen Hua's suggestion. After all, he had also played Genshin Impact, and indeed, the workload of imitating it was quite large.
"Mr. Wu, your game department should quickly set up a project team to develop a new game based on the gameplay of Genshin Impact, and give me a design proposal within a week."
"Okay, Mr. Ma."
After Little Ma left, the others in the conference room did not leave.
Wu Manni was worried. She knew Tencent's strength. Their technology was unquestionable, and they had enough talent. But what they were good at was copying. Asking them to develop a new game from scratch was as difficult as asking a liberal arts student to write code.
However, she still spoke up.
"Everyone, you all heard what Mr. Ma just said. This project is very important. If we complete it, our game department will definitely receive a lot of bonuses this year. If we fail, a large number of people will probably be fired."
After she finished speaking, she looked around.
"Let me state my position here first: anyone who participates in this project will have their year-end bonus doubled as long as the project is completed within the stipulated time. If the project achieves results that satisfy Mr. Ma, the bonus will be doubled."
Sure enough, as soon as Wu Manni finished speaking, many people immediately expressed their desire to participate.
Wu Manni nodded in satisfaction.
"How about this, everyone go back and brainstorm with your respective groups, and come up with a proposal for me within three days. I will select the three best ones and submit them to Mr. Ma for approval. Whichever team Mr. Ma chooses, we will use that team as the core, and then select outstanding members from other groups to form a project team together. What do you all think?"
Those present nodded in agreement, indicating that these were wise and insightful words for governing the country.
Otherwise, if you work hard to prepare the plan and start development, only to have it rejected by Mr. Ma in the end, wouldn't all your efforts be wasted?
Moreover, this is relatively safer, since it's a plan that Mr. Ma himself approved. If it doesn't produce results in the end, the game department won't have to bear all the blame.
So, the meeting adjourned, and the group leaders went back to their respective groups to begin preparing their proposals.
Meanwhile, Genshin Impact's popularity continues to rise online.
"Brothers, this game is so addictive! The storyline is so rich, it feels like I'm playing a single-player game."
"Yes, and the animated storylines here could be pieced together to form a complete animated film."
Finally, a week later, some players made their way from Mondstadt to Liyue!
The latest gacha banner for Genshin Impact has also been updated.
This episode's character is Lord Rock - Zhongli!
It also included a special PV for Zhongli, titled "The Storyteller"!
"As mentioned in the previous chapter, at that time, Liyue was plagued by a great demon in the sea and a vicious dragon dwelling in the mountains. The Rock King summoned all the immortals to restore a bright and clear world to the land..."
This PV immediately propelled Zhong Li's name to the top of Weibo's trending topics!
Many people who don't play games are confused: Who is Zhongli?
Then I clicked on it and saw this PV.
And the most classic one of them is...
"I only wish to cleanse the four directions and protect a corner of this floating world."
"Holy crap, guys, I'm getting goosebumps! The Rock King Emperor is just too handsome!"
"It's just 648, Lin Gou, I'll top it up, okay?"
"My goodness! I can't believe this is a story PV made for a mobile game! The story, the animation, the character development, it's simply amazing!"
After Zhongli had been trending on Weibo for almost an hour, I thought she would finally drop off the trending list.
Surprisingly, a state media outlet reposted this PV.
The caption reads: "A shining example of Chinese-made games!"
This is a very high evaluation.
Although this official media outlet is not a major official account like Xinhua News Agency or Renmin University, it is still verified on Weibo, and its posts have a certain degree of credibility.
When Pony Ma saw that the PV for Genshin Impact had been reposted by official media, he was extremely anxious.
While the storyline is indeed well done, it's not enough to be considered a shining example of domestic games. After all, Genshin Impact's revenue from in-game purchases can't even compare to that of Happy Landlords.
Despite his complaints, he still picked up the phone on the table and called Wu Manni.
"Mr. Wu, it's been a week, why haven't I received the design proposal for the new game yet?!"
"Mr. Ma, I'll go and urge them again right away!"
"Hmph! If you don't see the project proposal before you leave work today, you can just leave."
Yes, yes, yes.
After hanging up the phone, Wu Manni went to urge them again.
It was agreed that the proposals would be submitted to her in three days, and indeed, several groups submitted their proposals to her for review.
But those are the worst of the worst!
There's even a proposal that says they'll modify the Calabash Brothers' rescue of their grandfather game to follow the gameplay of Genshin Impact.
Wu Manni: ? ? ?
Seriously, what's wrong with your brains? Would anyone play a game about the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather? Do the seven Calabash Brothers correspond to the seven gods in Genshin Impact?
Look at the Genshin Impact PV, it's so cool, with all sorts of amazing scenes! Just hearing about it gives me goosebumps.
Are you going to take out the Calabash Brothers and play them all over again for the players to see?
Enraged, she threw the proposal out and dragged all the team leaders over to give them a good scolding, telling them to go back and write it properly as soon as possible.
As a result, a week passed, and even though Mr. Ma called to urge her, she still hadn't received a complete proposal.
So she started asking each group about their progress, to see if any group was doing well enough to submit their work.
After wandering around, she was so angry that her liver hurt, her stomach hurt, and she felt pain all over. She only regretted that she did not have her blood pressure medication with her.
Finally, while passing by Chen Hua's team, I saw a decent project proposal.
Chen Hua was also a core member of the previous "Honor of Kings" project, but he was responsible for the drawing aspect, so he is very familiar with the story background and hero characters of "Honor of Kings".
This time, his project was based on the story of "Honor of Kings" and used the heroes from the game to create a new story.
With that, we have the background and the characters; the only thing missing is the map.
After all, Genshin Impact is called an open-world adventure game.
In an open world, you have to create at least one world, right? You can't just have one city, Chang'an, can you?
The current map of Genshin Impact is already large enough; it would probably take an hour to walk there, and according to the official description, that's only one-seventh of the total area.
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