To ascend, I had no choice but to create games-Chapter 852 - 470: It’s Really Easy to Make Money in the Two-Dimensional World

Strolling through this brand-new game world, Huang Ping saw countless magnificent sights.

Behind him, Fang Cheng, who rarely gave commentary, began to explain as he pointed at the scenery in the game, "Your description of the game’s scenes isn’t particularly clear, but I’m quite interested in that concept where ’different areas have different styles’ you mentioned. So, I’ve crafted different styles for different scenes. Personally, I prefer natural landscapes, where players can admire the view and then play cards with animals..."

"Play cards with animals?" Huang Ping asked in surprise, "Can that be justified within the world’s lore? After all, if the narrative isn’t clear for such a vast game, it could be problematic."

"Don’t you have an explanation?" Fang Cheng asked in confusion, "In your plot, this is a world where all things possess spirits, and the Heavenly God who rules this world is a guy who’s crazy about card and board games. Due to his influence, the inhabitants of this world all enjoy playing card games and take pride in being adept at them."

Hearing the world-building they’d come up with, Huang Ping felt like a teenager whose cringe-worthy diary had been discovered—the whole scenario just made him feel uneasy.

It wasn’t just him, the Monkey also couldn’t help but cover his face, saying to Fang Cheng, "Boss, stop the public execution, I’m thin-skinned; I can’t listen to this."

"What were we thinking back then?" Xiao Douzi let out a wail, "Why did we think such bizarre plots were cool?"

"I think it’s fine," Fang Cheng said, frowning, "And the setting also explains why all the card games here are in a 2D style, so I feel like we can still use this setup. Because of your setting, I’ve sought out many Heaven-Opening Blocks and finally found one that’s quite suitable."

"What are Heaven-Opening Blocks? Something you made in your own game materials library?"

"You could say that; it includes a vast expanse of miniature worlds and is the greatest legacy of the Immortal Assembly. Anyway, the world you hope for coincides perfectly with that place, so I did some work for them, and then they allowed me to infuse some of the Laws, which gave form to the game world you wanted."

Huang Ping looked at Fang Cheng in a daze, feeling like the boss was still the same—spouting things that he couldn’t understand a word of.

But from Fang Cheng’s words, it seemed that bringing their quirky ideas to life was no simple task.

Feeling guilty, Huang Ping said, "Boss, making all this stuff must have been quite a hassle, right?"

"It’s okay," Fang Cheng replied calmly, "It was just like dealing with a dozen or so Demon Lords. The rest was directly taken care of for me; it wasn’t too difficult."

Huang Ping looked at Fang Cheng, figuring he could think of the Demon Lords as the biggest bugs or challenges in the game development process.

Realizing that the boss had to do so much just to create this game world made Huang Ping and the others feel even more guilty. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Transforming this guilt into motivation, they began to work doubly hard, striving to perfect this game that had cost the boss so much effort.

Determined not to let down their boss’s reputation, they decided they would spend a year, if necessary, to refine this game and turn it into a masterpiece.

But once they actually started playing the game, Huang Ping and the rest were surprised to find that it was actually quite good.

Their planning might have been subpar, but the issue lay in execution—because fully realizing their ideas would result in too high a cost, too lengthy a production cycle, and too many technical challenges to overcome, essentially making this an impossible game.

After all, when they were drawing up the plan, the four of them were practically drunk, throwing out game settings that they wanted to try but didn’t dare to implement, resulting in such a game at the end.

Even after playing for a while, Huang Ping even began to think that such a large framework was an overkill for just card games.

"Damn it, why did we think of card games when making this? If it were something else, the game definitely would have been more fun."

"Hard to say. The atmosphere of the game actually suits card games well, and the 2D style of the card games is quite interesting. There aren’t many 2D-style card games out there, and none have the scale of ours."

"It feels like a Dimensionality Reduction Strike against other card platforms."

"Isn’t it, though? With this technical prowess, why bother competing in the card game industry?"

"Watch what you’re saying; we’re not a card game, we’re a collectible card game, it’s just that there are no in-app purchases, it’s a pay-once game."

"Right, right, a pay-once collectible card game."

The planners started playing the game with great enthusiasm, oblivious to the fact that the game they’d created while drunk actually turned out this well.

While the happy planners were different, the operation manager Wang Xiaoying fell into a dilemma.

She was troubled about how to market this game.

If it’s marketed like a card game, then they would need to do ground promotions, traveling from one internet café to another, attracting whatever users they could.

But now card platforms can’t be promoted, and with the game wearing a distinct 2D anime style, it was completely baffling how to handle it.

Unable to come up with a good strategy, Wang Xiaoying simply stopped thinking.

After all, there weren’t many combinations of card games and anime, and the few that existed were rather niche—it was up to see whether "Mahjong City" could carry the banner of card games.