Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 44

The experience shop.

Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya were fighting against Jia Peng and another boy.

“Sister, help me make a Wall-nut here!” Chang Xiuya said.

“How many zombies you’ve got in total? Come, let me put it here, and attack the Cob Cannon of Xiuya first.” Jia Peng said to another boy.

Chang Xiuya got panic, “Hey, Jia Peng, you can’t do that!”

Wen Lingwei was expressionless: “It’s fine, I have two Cob Cannon waiting.”

Chang Xiuya screamed, “Ah!! Jia Peng, why don’t you play according to the rules! Didn’t you say you gonna attack my Cob Cannon, how come you went to eat my Sunflower!”

The experience shop was very lively, Wen Lingwei and the others were playing the latest multiplayer pvp mode, and trying to tear each other apart.

Su Jinyu was using the developer tools to design new plants and zombies, of course, it was mainly on the appearance. Her hand drawing level was much higher than that of Chen Mo, and she had drawn 3 new plants.

These three plants were full of Chinese style, namely Wheat Machine Gun, Sweat Potato Bomb and Bamboo Wall.

The community features within the 《Plants vs Zombies》 game had also begun to gather more and more players.

Nearly two months since its release, there were more than 800,000 players of 《Plants vs Zombies》 and more than half of the players were still active, these people had established thousands of large and small communities, and many real friends and classmates have joined, when you joined the community, you could see the latest updates from the others every day.

Some of the hardcore fans of 《Plants vs Zombies》 love the developer tools, especially those who are interested in game designing and are trying to make new mods.

At present, there are more than a dozen mods, but these mods are basically just changing the numerical values, such as infinite sunlight, faster plant firing rate, etc. although there are quite a lot of people playing, it obviously won’t last long.

However, Chen Mo is not worried. Since there are more mods, naturally, there will be excellent mods, so that players can filter them spontaneously.

As for the multiplayer mode, there is indeed a craze in the player group. In the community of 《Plants vs Zombies》, many players are posting, discussing the small strategy for the pvp mode. There is even a 3-member team that has completed 20 game winning streak, posting it in the community to show off and causing a crowd of viewers.

In the major forums, the players have praised this version of 《Plants vs Zombies》 and even triggered a wave of downloads.

“I have studied the developer tools today, I feel that this tool is too powerful, and everything can be changed, it can completely let us develop it ourselves! I’m waiting for a master to make a mod that can match the original!”

“I thought I had already figured out this game, now apparently I am still too immature… If the game is constantly updated, it will probably last for a lifetime…”

“I have to bend my knees to the game designer, a stand-alone casual game can achieve it to this extent!”

“However, the opening of the developer tools means that everyone can freely study the data of 《Plants vs Zombies》, the designer is really bold!”

“That is unlike the other companies, in where the game data are all hidden and encrypted for fear of plagiarism.”

“Yea, for the game designer to open up the developer tools, now I become one of his fans!”

Chen Mo was reading the player’s comments and was basically relieved.

For him, the new version can reach this level, it is enough. This version update will greatly extend the life value of 《Plants vs Zombies》. It is foreseeable that in the next few months, 《Plants vs Zombies》 should continue to dominate the puzzle casual game ranking.

Suddenly, Su Jinyu panicked, “Manager, something bad happened!”

“Hmmm?” Chen Mo looked up. “What happened?”

Su Jinyu came to Chen Mo with her mobile phone, “Look, This game…plagiarize us! “

Chen Mo took the phone from Su Jinyu.

On the screen of the mobile phone is a game in the app store, as can be seen from the game introduction screen, the gameplay is very similar to 《Plants vs Zombies》, with five lanes on the left and enemies on the right.

However, the game’s art material is completely different from 《Plants vs Zombies》, the game name is 《Battle for the Moon Protection》, the main content is that the players put various high-tech weapons on the moon to defend against alien Zerg attacks.

Although these high-tech weapons do not have any similarities with plants in appearance, they are inextricably linked with the various plants in 《Plants vs Zombies》.

For example, the Peashooter was changed to a machine turret, the spike weed was changed to a magnetic energy trap, the Sunflower was changed to a supply base station, and the Cob Cannon was changed to a nuclear bomb launcher.

The appearance of the zombies has also been changed into various alien creatures and they are all ugly zergs, there are big and small zergs. And their attack methods are different, but you can see the shadow of the zombies on most of the attack methods of the zergs.

“What happened?” Jia Peng also came over.

Su Jinyu said, “Look, this game called 《Battle for the Moon Protection》 plagiarized us!”

“What? So shameful!”

The crowd turned on their phones and found the game in the app store.

Indeed, everyone can easily see that this game is a copy of 《Plants vs Zombies》, basically it is just changing the entire art resources, music sound effects, the UI has also been changed, but its gameplay is exactly the same as 《Plants vs Zombies》.

“Can we bear with this? I will give it a bad review!” Jia Peng said it with indignation.

“Yes, bad review! I want to let the people in our community to give it bad review!” The crowd responded.

Chen Mo did not speak, firstly, he carefully looked at the data of the game.

The release time was the day before yesterday, and it was completely free to download. The score was very low, only 2.3 points, most of the player reviews were one-star bad reviews.

Obviously, these players have played 《Plants vs Zombies》, they are very disdainful of such plagiarism.

The game’s charging method is an in-app ads, and there is a simple advertisement banner on each level clear screen.

Moreover, there are some value-added services inside, players can pay for energy supplements (the sun in 《Plants vs Zombies》), and they can pay for three resurrections after dying.

The developer is Fei Xian Interactive Entertainment, and the game designer is a C-class game designer whom he had never heard of.

Fei Xian Interactive Entertainment is barely regarded as a second-class game company and is located in Shanghai. Before then, they also have several very common PC and mobile games, but none of them are sold well.

The company’s online evaluation is very poor, but because it is too unknown, so most people do not know its stains.

Chen Mo also got a general understanding of the company’s style after seeing several of the games that the company had released.