Agreed to make bad games, What the Hell is Titan Fall 24
by admin## Chapter 24: Shen Miao Miao’s Roguelike
“No fixed attributes?”
Gu Sheng furrowed his brow slightly.
This seemed to be the first time he’d frowned since the meeting began.
Shen Miao Miao was overjoyed!
Finally, she had found a suggestion that even Gu Sheng found tricky!
“Yes,”
Shen Miao Miao nodded:
“I’ve noticed that most games on the market today have fixed equipment acquisition.”
“At a fixed time, at a fixed location, obtaining fixed equipment.”
“I think this is not flexible enough, and there’s no surprise.”
“So, I was thinking, can’t we make the equipment in our game randomly generated?”
Randomly generated equipment?!
Lu Bian, standing beside her, couldn’t believe his ears!
What the hell was this top-tier absurdity!
Oh, you mean players toil for ages grinding equipment, only to end up with a broken twig?
Isn’t that just plain annoying?!
Before he could finish his words, Lu Bian couldn’t help himself and blurted out a rebuttal to Shen Miao Miao’s outrageous suggestion:
“Shen, this condition is too…”
However!
Before he could finish!
Gu Sheng raised a hand and cut him off!
Then, his eyes turned to the young Nezha (a popular Chinese mythical figure, often depicted as a mischievous child warrior), filled with a look of astonishment:
“What Shen is suggesting is…Roguelike?”
Roguelike games!
A type of game characterized by “random generation,” “unidirectional progress,” “simple graphics,” and “complex systems.”
Its ancestor was a game called “Rogue” in Gu Sheng’s previous life.
This genre, with its incredibly high randomness and satisfying gameplay after it takes shape, gained countless fans in Gu Sheng’s previous life.
Gu Sheng was one of them.
However!
In this world with its lack of game creativity, there had never been a “Rogue”!
Nor any so-called Roguelike games!
So!
Gu Sheng looked at Shen Miao Miao with some shock.
How did she manage to describe the Roguelike genre so specifically through a series of suggestions?!
Could it be that she was also a time traveler?!
“Uh… what pigeon?”
The next second, Shen Miao Miao answered Gu Sheng with her actions—
She was anything but a time traveler, she was just a simple, good-for-nothing game-ruining troublemaker:
“Pigeon? What pigeon? How did you bring up lunch?”
Gu Sheng: …
Okay, I was overthinking it.
“It’s nothing…”
Gu Sheng shook his head, dismissing the thought:
“I mean, are there any other requirements or suggestions?”
“None… I think.”
Shen Miao Miao actually wanted to say more.
But the almost frozen atmosphere in the room made her wisely choose to shut up.
That’s it then.
Extremes meet.
Shen Miao Miao thought to herself.
After all, as things stood, any of these nonsensical conditions, plucked out at random, would be enough to ruin a game.
“Okay,”
Gu Sheng nodded, his face returning to its confident composure, even more assured than before:
“Shen’s suggestion is insightful and very inspiring.”
Shen Miao Miao shivered inside.
Don’t give me that dangerous look!!!
It feels like you’re confident you can recoup your investment in an hour!!!
However, before Shen Miao Miao could think further, she heard Gu Sheng continue:
“Next, we need to discuss the investment for this game.”
“Shen,”
As he spoke, Gu Sheng turned to Shen Miao Miao:
“Since there’s less than a month left until the development festival,”
“This is a tight schedule for a mature game,”
“So, we can only rely on the game factory’s outsourcing team for some of the game resources.”
“We may need a little more financial support.”
That’s no problem!!!
Shen Miao Miao was happy!
If you were to talk about other aspects, she might not be able to help, even might hinder things.
But if you’re talking about money—
Invest! Invest heavily!
“No problem,” Shen Miao Miao’s rich-girl aura radiated:
“How much do we need? Five million enough?”
Pfft—
Gu Sheng was about to take a sip of water and nearly choked.
You’re thinking too highly of a Roguelike game.
For a game like this, no grand scenes, no promotion.
Five million given to him and he wouldn’t know how to spend it.
“That’s too much,”
Gu Sheng quickly waved his hands:
“A little more than “Who’s the Dad” will do, thirteen thousand.”
“Ah—”
Shen Miao Miao pouted:
“That’s too little, thirty thousand.”
“It won’t be enough,” Gu Sheng shook his head: “Fifteen thousand.”
“Twenty thousand, it won’t be enough but we’ll make it work.”
In the end, Shen Miao Miao made the final decision.
Da Jiang and Lu Bian beside her were stunned!
Reverse bidding?!
What kind of operation was this?!
They had only ever seen the boss cut the budget, they had never seen the boss increase it so forcefully!
“Alright,”
Gu Sheng wasn’t surprised, having experienced it before, he smiled helplessly:
“Twenty thousand, we’ll try to find some good resources.”
“Deal!”
Shen Miao Miao grinned, revealing a row of pearly white teeth, and nodded with great satisfaction:
“Then, I’ll leave it to Director Gu and the two of you!”
“Of course.”
Gu Sheng smiled and closed his meeting book.
Cut, pretending to be so serious.
Shen Miao Miao fixed her gaze on Gu Sheng’s meeting book and laughed inwardly.
I bet he’s drawn a bunch of turtles on there!
The meeting ended, and the project was launched.
As for Gu Sheng’s meeting book, which he was always drawing and scribbling in, Shen Miao Miao didn’t pay much attention to it.
Little did she know, if she had taken another look before Gu Sheng closed the meeting book, she wouldn’t have been so carefree.
Because, on Gu Sheng’s meeting book, not a single turtle was drawn.
On the contrary, it was filled with Shen Miao Miao’s suggestions, along with his own supplementary ideas.
And these notes, like rushing rivers, intertwined, ultimately merging and condensing into the six words between the quotation marks…
…
The meeting adjourned!
Shen Miao Miao felt refreshed and happy!
Just thinking about the two million yuan in return next month made her ecstatic!
A twenty-thousand investment, two million in return!
The key point was, this two million would all go into her own pocket!
Yes.
The reason why Shen Miao Miao was so insistent on losing money, to put it bluntly, was to expand her own small treasury.
After all, Golden Wind belonged to her father’s “Shen Capital”.
She was only the CEO, responsible for coordinating and managing operations here.
Therefore, most of the company’s profits had nothing to do with her small treasury.
As the company’s reserve operating capital, profits were in the company’s account and subject to group supervision.
As for Shen Miao Miao, as CEO, according to regulations, she could only receive a portion of cash dividends.
According to the group’s regulations, for unlisted companies like Golden Wind, which were in the “growth phase” and had “major capital expenditure arrangements,” the cash dividend ratio could not exceed 10% of total profits.
In other words!
Let’s say a game cost 200,000 to invest!
If Shen Miao Miao lost it all, the system would immediately compensate her with 2 million, and release it to her personal account in a reasonable way.
But if Shen Miao Miao didn’t lose money, she would need sales to reach a terrifying 22 million to theoretically get 2 million in reasonable dividends.
Shen Miao Miao knew with just a little thought that this would never happen!
Thinking about it, Shen Miao Miao lifted her two long, straight legs and propped them up on the office desk, finding a comfortable position and leaning back:
“So I’m going to…”
“Just be a lazy bum,”
“Losing money is much easier than making money…”
(End of Chapter)
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