Chapter 12 BE Ending

As expected, Xiao Lu was really impressed by the amazing results achieved by the simulator after studying hard for so long.

It will be easy from now on.

Now that he knew the studio had money, although not a lot, but definitely enough to make a new game, Xiao Lu quickly got into work mode and made a suggestion as a game planner.

"Self-esteem?"

Several people looked at each other.

"Yes, self-esteem!"

Seeing that everyone was somewhat puzzled, Xiao Lu quickly added: "Brother Chen has already built the general framework for our new game."

"The player needs to play the role of a high school student who has to live with his relatives because he is studying in another city. So I think... how to maintain his self-esteem as much as possible in the house of sarcastic relatives is the core gameplay of this game."

"Great!" Chen Ba praised.

Xiao Lu was indeed quite capable, and this taught him a lesson.

yes!

Since it's a new game, why are you still holding on to those damn "physical strength" and "learning motivation"?

The idea of ​​quantifying "self-esteem" and using it to reflect the core gameplay of the game is simply amazing!

"Self-esteem can be understood as the character's health or satiety. Only by maintaining it at a certain high level can you successfully complete the game."

Xiao Lu continued to explain: "It can be extended a little bit. When a character's self-esteem is too low, it may trigger various BE endings, such as depression, autism, or even..."

Xiao Lu did not say the last sentence, but instead used the gesture of hanging himself.

"This...isn't this too depressing?" Yang Dong was a little surprised.

Although Chen Ba has played to the extreme in the Study Simulator, and many of the Be endings are cruel and heartbreaking, but compared to the Be ending proposed by Xiao Lu, it can only be said that Chen Ba is still too conservative.

In the game "Study Simulator", the worst possible ending is that the protagonist falls ill and is randomly diagnosed with a terminal illness with an extremely low probability.

Secondly, he tried hard, but ultimately failed to change his fate. He stayed with the old ox forever, living a life of facing the earth and back to the sky day after day like his parents.

When playing the Study Simulator before, Yang Dong already felt that some of the endings were too cruel and made him feel upset.

But now, after listening to Xiao Lu's thoughts, he suddenly felt that the Be ending of "Study Simulator" didn't seem so depressing.

The result of his self-esteem being completely shattered was so devastating that he felt uncomfortable just thinking about it.

Not to mention, the game plan also mentioned that "the protagonist's parents love the protagonist very much", but they chose to leave their hometown just to earn money for his college tuition.

As a result, I got the tuition money, but my son was gone!

Damn, I can’t think about it anymore…

Feeling that he would be miserable for the whole day if he continued to think about it, Yang Dong shook his head, threw these thoughts out of his mind, and asked, "But this value alone cannot support the core gameplay of a game, right?"

“That’s right!”

This time, before Xiao Lu opened his mouth, Chen Ba took the initiative to answer, "One value alone may not be enough, so I made another value: pocket money!"

"Because you are living under someone else's roof, you need to seek permission from your temporary guardian for everything you want, the food you want to eat, and the things you want to do."

"I didn't think about it before, but now I think this pocket money can be linked with self-esteem."

If you ask for pocket money but are rejected, your self-esteem will drop. If you want to get a new pair of sneakers or want to eat dragon fruit but are rejected, your self-esteem will also drop...

All kinds of events emerged in Chen Ba's mind, and at this moment, he made a decision.

"The relatives of the protagonist's boarding house can't all be mean and sarcastic, otherwise it's hard to explain why they would accept the protagonist as a boarder."

“That’s right!”

Everyone nodded.

This doesn't make sense logically. After all, the whole family is sarcastic and mean, so they would not have accepted the protagonist as their boarding house. There must be a very real relative among them.

"Then set it up as boarding at the aunt's house. The aunt is very kind to the protagonist, but she rarely stays at home because of work."

"My uncle, his parents, my cousin and others all expressed disapproval of the arrival of this poor relative of the protagonist. They think he is a burden!"

After Xiao Lu added this setting, he smiled and said, "Although it sounds abstract, it's hard to drive people away directly because of my aunt's face, so I can only express my dislike in a roundabout way. This should be reasonable, right?"

"Reasonable!"

Zhang Xiaojuan, who had been listening to everyone's speeches but never spoke, nodded wildly and said, "Some relatives are like this, mocking and degrading in all kinds of roundabout ways, and their words are so irritating."

Oh! Is there a story?

Chen Ba and the other two all looked at Zhang Xiaojuan.

"Why are you all looking at me? Don't you have such weird relatives in your family?" Zhang Xiaojuan asked back.

"Uh... yes!"

Chen Ba and the other two thought about it and felt that what he said was true, as everyone should have one or two such weird relatives.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

It’s just that we seldom interact with each other in normal times, so I didn’t think about it for a while.

"Okay, let's not go off topic."

Chen Ba coughed and quickly stopped talking: "Let's talk about the game itself. Zhang Xiaojuan is in charge of the art, which is mainly completed by the outsourced team. The programming and plot will be handled by the three of us. Is there any problem?"

"no problem!"

Everyone shook their heads.

As the boss of the studio, Chen Ba has already arranged the specific matters. How could others object?

Besides, this division of labor is reasonable.

Apart from music and testing, Chen Ba did not arrange any specific personnel, and the rest were basically handled by dedicated people.

As a small team of only four people including the boss, why do we need such detailed division of labor?

If we really want to break it down, then game planning alone would be divided into numerical planning, combat planning, level planning, plot planning... Tianba Game Studio only has these four people, and it wouldn't be enough to cram them all in!

Don't ask too much of a small team.

Those subdivided businesses and division of responsibilities are basically only found in large teams or even large companies. For a small studio like this with less than 10 people, it is enough to meet the three major needs of art, planning and programming.

Oh yeah…

In terms of game art, any studio with less than 30 people basically doesn't need to have any expectations, as most of them outsource.

This isn't big news.

On the contrary, it is big news that a makeshift team of only three or four people like Tianba Game Studio does not rely on outsourcing for programming and does everything in-house.

"Can you handle it?"

Yang Dong was a little skeptical. Among the three of them, only Chen Ba was a programming expert, and the rest were half-baked. Could such a combination really complete the program of a game? "Don't worry, I'm here!"

I can’t say anything else, but at least in terms of programming, Chen Ba dares to challenge an entire team alone.

Even if all the client developers, server developers, engine developers, and tool developers were called in, he would not panic at all.

Don’t ask, if you ask I’m cheating!

I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

(End of this chapter)