Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 43

Chen Mo explained, “I mean, your mindset is too limited. There are basically no innovations in these two designs and you just expanded the outline that I have written by a bit.”

“Uh…” Su Jinyu was a bit embarrassed.

When Chen Mo handed her the outline of the document, he did mention “Do more of your own design”, but Su Jinyu didn’t take it too seriously.

The game designer’s assistants, in most cases, do some repetitive work and many game designers are arbitrary, they do not like the assistants making changes to their own game design, even if it is to adjust it.

Therefore, Su Jinyu just honestly extended Chen Mo’s design documents according to the outline, without adding any ideas of her own.

On the contrary, Chen Mo wanted her to design it according to her own ideas.

Chen Mo said, “It doesn’t matter, I’ll give you three more days. Remember, I hope to see your own ideas.”

Su Jinyu nodded, “Well, alright!”

Back to the first floor, Su Jinyu continued to think hard.

After Su Jinyu left, Chen Mo read her design document twice.

Indeed, the basic skills are solid and logical thinking was good, but the biggest problem is the lack of creativity. Now Su Jinyu could only be a qualified executor, but she still had a long way to go if she wanted to be a qualified game designer.

Chen Mo’s current evaluation of Su Jinyu was that she is very persistent, willing to endure hardship and an all-round ability, but lack of creativity .

It may be due to her long-standing thinking habits or her personality.

Chen Mo can certainly use Su Jinyu as an assistant to make her fully undertake the work of an executor, but in that case, Su Jinyu can only achieve little growth.

Su Jinyu’s personality was more strict, but lack of creativity. Therefore, Chen Mo still wanted to properly give her some directions and train her brain into a more comprehensive designer at least within a few months, so that Chen Mo himself can also save more energy.

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Su Jinyu was racking her brains to revise the design every day.

The second draft has some improvements, but it is still unqualified.

The third draft has one or two bright spots.

The fourth draft, Chen Mo finally nodded.

“Well, although there are still some gaps with what I expected, but it is qualified.” Chen Mo’s face showed a slight smile.

Su Jinyu was overjoyed, “Is it? Great!”

Chen Mo nodded, “Well, you had work hard, take a break. I will modify it tonight, finalize it and send it to you tomorrow.”

“Okay, work hard Manager!” Su Jinyu went off work with great joy.

Su Jinyu wrote these four design documents for nearly two weeks, and finally made Chen Mo be roughly satisfied.

In fact, Chen Mo was mainly concerned with some highlights in the design, if the design didn’t have any highlights, then even if Chen Mo approved it, the players would not approve it.

Chen Mo could see the several ideas on the fourth draft had been worked out by Su Jinyu with all her creativeness, and she couldn’t think of a better design.

And it has also been delayed for a long time. Chen Mo had planned to complete the development in 2 weeks, but now time has run out. Further delay would affect the progress of the next game, and Chen Mo didn’t have so much time to wait.

Chen Mo turned on the computer and found the design documents he wrote.

In fact, while Su Jinyu changed the design documents over and over again, Chen Mo also wrote one by himself. However, Chen Mo did not want to let his thoughts affect Su Jinyu, so he did not tell her.

By comparing the two design documents, the final draft that was changed several times by Su Jinyu looked terrible, from the UI interface to the specific functions, her draft suffered a crushing defeat.

Chen Mo referred to Su Jinyu’s document, added part of the better design plan of his own  into her document, and made a note explaining his design intent.

For some things that can be changed, Chen Mo completely followed Su Jinyu’s design plan.

He finally finished it in the middle of the night. Chen Mo checked the finished version update document again, and there was no big problem.

Because this update was still in the game framework of 《Plants vs Zombies》, there was no need to generate a new project and he could just change the original project.

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Early in the next morning, the experience shop opened on time.

Chen Mo yawned and said to Su Jinyu, “I sent you the improved design document, you can update the content of 《Plants vs Zombies》 in the editor according to the relevant rules.”

“Well, okay.” Su Jinyu nodded.

Chen Mo was still a little sleepy and went straight back to the second floor and slept.

Su Jinyu turned on the computer and checked the design documents that Chen Mo improved.

“…so much has been changed!”

Su Jinyu was shocked, the design document sent by Chen Mo was more than twice as large as her previous design document. Looking carefully at the details of the design document, almost 70% of the content was changed.

However, Chen Mo did not delete Su Jinyu’s previous plan, but inserted his revised plan directly in the middle and commented on the revision.

“A-awesome…”

Su Jinyu was somewhat shocked, looking at one modification after another. The interface was basically all changed, and the function also got changed a lot.

As Su Jinyu looked at it while making it in the editor, she felt that she had written a fake design document before.

“The Manager is really amazing, he has changed so many things in one night? This kind of work efficiency is really terrible!”

Su Jinyu’s reverence for Chen Mo increased a bit more.

In fact, all of these were written by Chen Mo in advance…

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A week later, the new version of 《Plants vs Zombies》 was officially updated!

After the new version was made, Chen Mo first updated it to the computer of the experience shop, and played it with Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng for several days, and fixed a few minor problems.

When Chen Mo felt that there was basically no problem, he submitted it to the App Store.

Soon, the players of 《Plants vs Zombies》 found that the game had an update package of more than 40MB and downloaded it one after another.

“Hmm? Does 《Plants vs Zombies》 update with a new version?!”

“A stand-alone game also has version update? Nice!”

“Awesome, I don’t know what’s new this time? Is there a new plant or zombie?”

“Look at the update instructions, there are developer tools, and multiplayer battle modes!”

“What the hell, is this going against the heaven? I’ll go and see it!”

Players downloaded it for the first time, and the major player communities of 《Plants vs Zombies》 also became lively, they were all discussing this completely unexpected version update.

In general, this kind of stand-alone games were seldom updated, because they couldn’t charge the version update again, so most game designers were unwilling to do this kind of unrewarding thing.

Moreover, 《Plants vs Zombies》 had been released for less than two months, and it was still quite popular, although the earliest players are tired of playing, but there were still new players joining.

Updating the version now, was a little too aggressive!