To ascend, I had no choice but to create games

Chapter 765: Chapter 429: Prove Your Worth (Part 1)_1 Chapter 765: Chapter 429: Prove Your Worth (Part 1)_1 The half-hour demo presentation finished, and Fang Cheng gave all his colleagues some time to think about what could be done with this game.

During the meeting, the performance of Huang Ping and the others satisfied him greatly.

As more games were developed, Fang Cheng felt his understanding of games deepened further.

Back in primitive societies, children played different games, assuming the roles of hunting dogs, prey, and hunters. They simulated hunting behaviors in this division of labor and learned hunting skills in the process, enhancing their survival rate and success rate in actual hunts.

And in this process, the learning efficiency brought about by fear was undoubtedly the highest.

The guidance of elders, repeated thousands of times, couldn’t compare to the lessons learned from a peer’s mistake and the resulting injuries. This process gave the newcomer children a concrete understanding of what things could be done and what couldn’t.

Moreover, if one could overcome fear, it would also greatly enhance a person’s mental strength and foster significant growth.

This sort of growth is exciting and delightful, with each advancement taking a person to new heights. And this was the emotion Fang Cheng hoped players would experience.

Confronting fear and then overcoming it was precisely the emotion Fang Cheng wanted players to feel in this game.

Although he already had his own ideas, Fang Cheng knew there were many critics, including a bunch within his own studio.

So, understanding their thoughts ahead of time, then absorbing and integrating them into the game-making process to make it more perfect, was the purpose behind Fang Cheng asking everyone to ponder this issue.

Drinking tea, Fang Cheng looked at his contemplative colleagues in front of him and revealed a satisfied smile.

Unlike Fang Cheng’s contentment, Huang Ping hadn’t snapped back to reality yet.

The monsters in the demo Fang Cheng presented were horrendously terrifying; the worst nightmares he had ever had couldn’t compare to a hundredth of those monsters’ frightfulness.

He had never seen the demons in hell, but after seeing those in the demo, he believed the real hell probably looked just like that.

Heaven only knows where the boss found the artist capable of depicting the real scenes of hell.

Half an hour later, feeling slightly better, Huang Ping turned on his computer to look for information.

However, he didn’t search for horror movies or games but opened Bilibili instead, jumped to the animal channel, and started watching videos of cats on Car Star.

The cute cats gradually eased his tense emotions, and looking at the others, he noticed they also started watching relaxation videos, proving he wasn’t the only one scared.

But Lin Nan across from him kept typing, seemingly unaffected by the earlier demo; instead, it inspired her, and she began working on the game proposal.

“Lin Nan, are you not afraid?” Huang Ping asked with curiosity.

“It’s, it’s okay,” Lin Nan said softly. “I was scared at first, because the monsters really are terrifying. But after watching for a while, I guess I got used to it.”

“… Genius.”

After having Lin Nan take screenshots of the game and send them to him, Huang Ping looked at the images for a while before returning to the cat videos, then went back to the demo when he felt better.

Through this desensitization therapy, he gradually became accustomed to the game’s visuals and then started thinking about what type of game this demo could evolve into.

To cater to a niche, it could be turned into a horror puzzle game, where players struggle to survive in a world full of monsters, seeking ways to escape bit by bit.

Turning it into a first-person horror shooter game could also work well, giving players a gun to roam freely in a world filled with demons and spirits could also be an exciting idea.

But somehow, it felt like that would be a waste of the graphics.

Good graphics are an indispensable part of a game, but if the gameplay or other settings don’t match the quality of the graphics, then it’s better to lower the graphical fidelity to force a match with the gameplay.

After all, gaming is an industry that most closely follows the theory of constraints; art, story, gameplay, mechanics, and sound all need to support each other, with shortfalls in any area requiring multiple times the effort in others to compensate.

Making choices is a part of game development.

But Huang Ping didn’t want to be the weak link in this game, as he believed it had the potential to become a benchmark in horror games—it shouldn’t be wasted on him.

So, what is the most suitable game genre, after all?

“The boss really threw us a tough one,” Huang Ping said with a wry smile.

“Yeah,” Monkey said with a pen in his mouth, “How about making a dove game? I’ve been feeling like playing dove games recently, and besides, it’s a popular trend. That’s a good direction.”

“The boss never cares about trends,” Xiao Douzi said earnestly. “The boss is the trend.”

“That’s true. Then how about something a bit more bizarre, making a more unique game?”

At the workstation, Xu Qingling raised her head with anticipation and said, “How about a love-simulation game?”

Monkey almost swallowed his pen.

Huang Ping also looked uncomfortable as he addressed Xu Qingling, “I mean, who would fall in love with these unrecognizable monsters?”

“Seeking a thrill, right? Maybe someone would like it,” she suggested.

“Even Ranma Saotome doesn’t have that ability!”

Glancing at the monster images on the screen, Huang Ping felt that if such a person existed, they would surely be a talent who could make history in the annals of human XP.