Chapter 331: One signature determines life and death, and a hundred years become like duckweed!
The conference room fell silent again.
Family? Management? Card drawing? These keywords combined together made it hard to react for a moment.
Moreover, Mr. Lu's idea,
Doesn't that mean the direction of the game has already been determined?
So how do we expand this?
They have absolutely no experience in this.
"This time, I've also thought of a name for the game!"
"It's tentatively called 'Song Pulse Thousand Lamps'."
Lu Ming turned on the laser pen on the table and pointed it at the projection screen.
On the first page of the PPT, four large characters slowly appeared:
【Songmai Thousand Lamps】
There is a line of small words at the bottom.
【Based on the family as the unit, card drawing as the core, and history as the structure.】
Everyone was shocked:
"Songmai? Does this mean Song Dynasty?"
"No way, there are still people doing Song Dynasty themes these days?"
"Not many people know about this era, and it's not as famous as the Three Kingdoms or Tang Dynasty!"
"How do you combine card drawing with family management? How does this logic work?"
"Next door is the Ming Dynasty, and here we are the Song Dynasty. Mr. Lu must have been reading a lot of history books recently!"
"Mr. Lu, this time... are you planning to try out a literary and artistic project?"
"Song? Are you trying to do something ancient? Didn't the Song Dynasty fall?"
“…”
"Song is dead! But we are resurrected!"
Facing everyone's doubts, Lu Ming directly pressed the next page.
This is a rich and colorful ink painting: the night view of the Bian River, thousands of lights, and the coming storm.
Lu Ming also officially began to tell the story.
"Listen to me, the story goes like this..."
"The setting is 1100 AD, the end of the Northern Song Dynasty."
"When the Bian River burst its banks, our ancestor, so-and-so, offered advice on flood control and was recommended for official appointment. Just as his career was beginning, he was caught up in a factional dispute, framed, and exiled to Lingnan."
“This is the opening plot of the game.”
"The origin of the player family."
"During his exile, he drew three fortune sticks in a dilapidated temple."
Lu Ming turned to the next page, and three notes appeared:
[The commercial veins connected to the sea can avoid the Jing Kang war]
[Wuxing is in the south, and there is still hope for Yashan]
[The spirit of the poem is immortal, and its echoes remain in history]
"Do you understand? These three are the three main directions!"
"Business is family business plus business exploration."
"Wu Xing means joining the army and entering the government plus fighting on the border."
"Ci Po is the combination of literary talent in the imperial examination and the success of a famous scholar."
"In other words, these three lots actually represent the three main themes of the entire game: business, military service, and the imperial examination."
"What kind of card you draw will affect which path your family takes."
"The fate of each generation will affect what the next generation can draw and what they can do."
"Moreover, the three meridians are not mutually exclusive and can be constructed simultaneously."
"So, our main gameplay is to manage the family, withstand the times, and find ways to survive the torrent of history."
"What you manage is the survival of an entire family, and what you smoke are fragments of the fate of generations."
As Lu Ming spoke, he pointed to a new page of PPT unfolding on the projector.
On the screen is a hand-painted family tree.
Starting from the ancestors, the branches extend to the next generation, the next generation, the tributaries, and the side branches, unfolding layer by layer.
"The initial card pool only had a few cards. Cards like the Poor Scholar, the Refugee Farmer, the River Foreman, and the Failed Scholar."
"Your family comes from humble beginnings, with a weak foundation and few resources."
"But you slowly build up your family's influence through management, accumulating resources, making choices, drawing cards, using cards, and drawing cards again."
"And every card you draw is not just a role, but also a direction."
"For example, if your family has a shop, you need cards that are good at business. If your family wants to join the army, you need to choose cards with high military power!"
Lu Ming continued to raise the laser pointer.
"Furthermore, your family has a high literary attribute. You have scholars who are good at poetry and painting, as well as grassroots officials who are good at administration. These people will lead you towards the imperial examination."
"Your resources will automatically be tilted towards the civil service system, and the events triggered will also tend to be towards examinations, policy questions, literary gatherings, and the like."
"And if you draw mostly capable fighters, such as young soldiers, northern officers, and border deserters, you're likely to follow the military and political development path."
"If you want harmonious development, it all depends on how you manage it! How you discard certain cards is also crucial! Cards also need to be coordinated with each other."
"But this is very difficult, after all, card drawing is random!"
"This is a dynamic tendency mechanism. Drawing cards will affect the probability of event triggering, and the event feedback will in turn affect the composition of your subsequent card pool drops."
Some people in the conference room began to nod, and some subconsciously picked up notebooks to write and draw.
"Next, let's start with card classification."
"The core of the character system is divided into five categories."
"The first category is the core family members. Their attributes determine the tone of your generation!"
"These cards are usually produced during main storyline events or inheritance. They carry strong plot points and cannot be drawn repeatedly. Moreover, these cards cannot be disassembled!"
"The second category is support from branch families! For example, your uncle, maternal uncle, married-in relatives, and visiting staff. Some of these people are there to assist, while others are just there to eat and wait for death."
"The third category is external aid resources, including staff, military advisors, and chamber of commerce leaders... These are non-family figures, and are often triggered after you meet certain conditions."
"The fourth category is limited plots. These are auxiliary characters drawn by players during missions and emergencies. They are only available during special missions, such as the Jin army's invasion, repeated natural disasters, the examination system reform, and Emperor Huizong's southern tour..."
"The fifth category is the real gold cards, rare cards, and legendary cards in our game."
"For example, the immortal poet, the drunkard, the trance priest, the itinerant doctor, the historical figure..."
"Basically, I've made the framework of our game very clear."
"To put it simply, it's just one sentence: once you sign, you decide life and death, and after a hundred years, you become nothing but floating duckweed!"
"After all, we're not making a card-drawing game."
"It turns each card into the fate of generations."
“That’s the biggest charm of this game.”
Lu Ming finished speaking.
The conference room fell silent again.
This time, it was not surprise, nor questioning, but the kind of silence that came from being completely moved.
The employees who were whispering just now now stared with wide eyes.
Completely immersed in the world of "a century of family history in cards" described by Lu Ming.
"Did Mr. Lu also graduate from the Chinese Department?"
"This is the first time I've seen a gameplay that truly integrates history, fate, and human emotions."
"This concept is really fresh. Can cards be played like this?"
"I thought it was just another skin-changing card game, but it turned out to be a Song Dynasty history simulator?"
Everyone started discussing with excitement and confusion.
When Zhou Bowen looked at Lu Ming, his eyes were no longer one of "being responsible for the project", but of the burning belief that "it must be done".
Today, Mr. Lu stood here and talked about the game he really wanted to make, word by word.
It is not a skin to make quick money, nor is it a shell to fool players.
It is to wrap the "gameplay" into the "story" and turn "card drawing" into "destiny".
It is to use cards to piece together the ups and downs of human life over the past century.
At that moment, Zhou Bowen's eyes felt a little hot.
It has to be you!
This is not just a project.
This is a battle that is enough to be engraved in the history of Whale Leap and even in the development of the gaming industry!
He took a long breath, suppressed his emotions, and asked:
"Mr. Lu..."
"Why is our game called 'Song Pulse Thousand Lamps'?"
"Is it related to the Lantern Festival in Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty? Or does it have some deeper meaning to family and bloodline?"
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