Offside game

In Su Yi's vision, this new game is different from "Evolution of History," but it also shares certain similarities. Compared to the evolution of the main character, the game's characters also represent another form of evolution. Su Yi envisions the player's character starting as something called a "Fire Seed," generated in a mechanical city, acquiring energy blocks by completing low-level tasks and hunting low-level mechanical monsters.

Once you have a certain number of energy blocks, you can use them to upgrade your character in the city's modification workshop, adding different functional blocks to expand your capabilities or enhance your abilities. Through continuous upgrades, you will eventually become a powerful robot similar to a Transformer.

The game unfolds through a series of interwoven missions, with increasing difficulty serving as the primary motivation for leveling up. Players also need to accumulate energy blocks to modify themselves based on the mission requirements. These energy blocks function as both a source of power and currency. With enough energy blocks, players can even purchase factories like modification workshops to reap substantial profits.

Like Evolution, this game offers a high degree of freedom, allowing players to develop freely within the game world and providing many possibilities.

Unlike current game companies, Su Yi doesn't need to handle the tedious work of finding resources and creating art, as these tasks can be handled by Kosei. His role is to architect the entire game system, create various quests, and write the programming. Among these, building the game world's systems, including the leveling and economic systems, is his biggest headache. This game isn't just about fulfilling contracts with Tiandi Software and Yubi International, nor is it simply about accumulating capital. He now has a grander vision gradually taking shape.

The priority clauses he had with Tiandi Software and Yubi International weren't very powerful, because they were only binding when Pangu Studio was preparing to distribute the game. Su Yi could sell it himself, but that wasn't what he wanted to do. After all, building a complete sales system wasn't something that could be done overnight.

Su Yi had originally planned to have dinner with An Jing that evening, but he received a call from Luo Juan. After learning that he had arrived in Yanjing, Luo Juan asked him to meet her that evening to update him on the game's sales.

When he arrived at the agreed-upon restaurant, Luo Juan was already waiting for him. Having made the beautiful woman wait twice, Su Yi felt a little embarrassed and apologized to Luo Juan for being late.

"It's alright, you arrived on time too. I was just nearby when I called you, so I came in early to sit for a while." Luo Juan took a sip of coffee and said with a smile, "Judging from the time, I felt you should have arrived in Yanjing by now, so I called to ask. Military training is coming up soon, right?"

"Yes, military training is about to start. I just arrived in Yanjing yesterday, and I plan to tell Sister Luo after I've settled in."

"Let's eat and talk, I'm getting a little hungry," Luo Juan said with a smile.

After they ordered, Luo Juan began, "As your partner, let me update you on the sales figures." Elegantly brushing a strand of hair from her forehead, Luo Juan said, "So far, sales have been unexpectedly good. In just three days, we've sold 30 copies of the game across Asia. This figure doesn't even include sales in Japan, which is a huge market. Perhaps the final results will surprise us."

"Sister Luo, you've worked hard," Su Yi said. "You've all put in a lot of effort to achieve what we have today."

"The key is the game's high quality," Luo Juan said with a smile. "The game's current popularity also shows that all players approve of it." Then she frowned slightly and said, "However, we've already discovered that pirated versions have appeared on the market. This is inevitable; the more popular a game is, the more rampant the piracy becomes. But this will definitely affect some sales."

Hearing this was within Su Yi's expectations. This was the current state of the domestic game industry, something one person couldn't change. While he could use technical means to prevent copying and installation, it wasn't convenient for him to do so since he wasn't selling the games himself. It was always better to keep his technology under wraps, and he already had another idea.

"Sister Luo, I have a way that might stop some players from using pirated games."

Upon hearing Su Yi's words, Luo Juan's eyes lit up, and she quickly said, "What method is it, Xiao Yi? Tell me."

Seeing Luo Juan's anxious expression, it seemed she had also been troubled by this problem. Su Yi smiled and said, "Have you heard of the Lechang gaming platform?"

"Lechang gaming platform? How could I not know about it? It's so popular now, I bet every gamer has heard of it. Why are you suddenly bringing this up?" Luo Juan looked at Su Yi with a puzzled expression. Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she widened her eyes and asked in extreme surprise, "Could it be related to your studio?"

Because the Lechang gaming platform didn't list Pangu Studio's name, Luo Juan only considered this possibility for the first time. However, considering that they were capable of creating a game like "Evolution of History," it made sense.

Su Yi had anticipated that she would eventually find out, so she didn't hide anything and said, "Yes, the Lechang gaming platform is a product of our Pangu Studio. We've been operating it all along. We're all people who love playing games. The idea for this gaming platform was brought up unintentionally, so we tried making it and putting it online. We didn't expect it to be so popular; it's a pleasant surprise." Su Yi's explanation was roughly correct, but just a tiny difference could mislead someone.

Luo Juan looked at Su Yi with bright, sparkling eyes and said, "I didn't expect your skills to be so amazing. I think this Lechang gaming platform has great potential, especially Lechang Chat, which I've been using. Would you like to consider partnering with us to commercialize this platform?"

Su Yi had anticipated Luo Juan's question. After all, given the immense popularity of the Lechang gaming platform, anyone could imagine its enormous potential and want a piece of the pie. However, Su Yi wasn't about to give up this opportunity. He said, "We don't have that idea yet. If we're looking for partners, we'll consider you first." He politely declined, adding, "But I have an idea that might allow us to collaborate in another way."

Luo Juan wasn't bothered by Su Yi's refusal. After all, she was already quite satisfied with the current collaboration. It was clear that the game "Historic Evolution" had already generated significant social impact and economic benefits for them. Moreover, the most attractive feature of the LeChang gaming platform was its popularity. As for profitability, there wasn't a mature profit model yet in China; all companies were still exploring it. However, she was very interested in Su Yi's idea: "What idea? Xiao Yi, don't keep me in suspense, tell your sister!"

Su Yi earnestly explained his plan to Luo Juan, who listened to it and pondered it.

His plan would be very helpful in attracting players to buy the official version of the game, but the extent of that help would depend on the plan's effectiveness. However, she still had a lot of confidence in Pangu Studio, the studio behind Su Yi, and therefore concluded, "I agree to your plan. We will provide you with the data you need. This plan will definitely be very helpful for game sales; I wholeheartedly support it. Do you have time tomorrow, Xiao Yi? Let's sign this agreement, and you can start implementing the plan as soon as possible. I'm really looking forward to its results."

This was the answer Su Yi wanted, but then Luo Juan said, "Xiao Yi, actually, I also have some minor opinions about the DiLeChang gaming platform. Would you like to hear them?"

"Of course, Sister Luo is much more experienced in business than us greenhorns. We hope that Sister Luo can give us a lot of guidance."

"Hehe, I'm not asking for advice, just exchanging ideas. Actually, you've already done a great job. I think the development of gaming platforms currently lacks a good way to generate revenue, and each company is still exploring. But in the online world, traffic is still the most important thing; ultimately, you have to convert traffic into profit, but without traffic, there's no profit." Taking a sip of water, Luo Juan continued, "Gaming platforms definitely have great potential. I think your gaming platform shouldn't be limited to just these competitive games. I feel that the games on gaming platforms are a bit monotonous now. You know, the number of players for these games is always limited, and currently..." Given the popularity of the Lechang platform, it has already attracted almost all these players, and future user growth is unlikely to accelerate. To increase the number of users, it's necessary to expand the user base. I don't know if you've played Lianzhong Game Hall, which is also an interactive game platform, but it mainly focuses on casual card and board games. I think your platform could also add some of these types of content. These games have a very broad audience. Your Lechang Chat is already popular and is trending towards catching up with Tencent QQ. Once you add these casual games, I believe the number of users on the Lechang platform will experience another surge.

Hearing Luo Juan's suggestion, Su Yi was greatly inspired and thanked her, saying, "These are things we hadn't thought of. We've always felt that the Lechang gaming platform seems to have reached a bottleneck, and it's even holding back Lechang Chat a bit, but we haven't thought of a good way to solve this problem. Sister Luo's words have suddenly enlightened me."

The two discussed this further, and Su Yi's plan for this matter gradually took shape.