Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 53

Chen Mo considered whether the players in the parallel world will be able to understand and accept the world view of 《I am MT》, and was hoping for the best.

According to the experience in his previous world, the popularity of 《I am MT》 started with 《 World of Warcraft 》 players, but it soon spread to young people who did not play 《 World of Warcraft 》.

《I am MT》’s humorous style, chibi art style and relatively rich and compact content made it possible to break away from the big IP of Warcraft, and became a completely independent story.

In his previous world, many players who did not play 《 World of Warcraft 》 at all, liked 《I am MT》, and even due to 《I am MT》 that they got attracted into playing 《 World of Warcraft 》.

Of course, Chen Mo won’t release 《I am MT》 without any change, he will certainly make some minor adjustment to 《I am MT》, and subtly instill the game world settings of 《I am MT》 to the players of this world.

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After completing the sketch draft of MT, Chen Mo continued drawing the sketch drafts of Shaman, Hunter, Rogue and others.

Chen Mo still has a relatively deep impression for these classic images, and he can draw them almost through feeling. However, those particular supporting characters, Chen Mo has a difficult time drawing the original.

“The speed is a bit slow, right, I should take some medicine.”

Chen Mo first took out a super-accelerator in the bracelet and used it. This item can improve his efficiency a lot, and is very suitable for working with a lot of energy.

Afterwards, Chen Mo used a memory playback potion to search his memory for the characters related to 《I am MT》.

Chen Mo has drawn lots of items this time, so he won’t feel pained when using them. Now he has to work out the sketch drafts of each characters as soon as possible, so as to not affect the progress later.

His past memory became clearer and clearer. Chen Mo did not recall the content of the anime of 《I am MT》, but instead choose to recall the mobile game’s illustration of 《I am MT》.

In his previous world, the mobile game of 《I am MT》 has many version updates after N years, the total amount of cards in the gallery reached an astonishing 1,000, of which 425 battle character cards are available to players, and the rest are monster cards.

Of course, there are many duplicates, such as 5-star and 5-star+ character cards, with just the frame being changed, while the concept art of the characters didn’t.

The main character cards such as, MT, has as many as 11 illustrations, 4-star, 4-star+, 5-star, 5-star+, 5-star+3, 6-star(3 forms), 7-star(3 forms).

For now, Chen Mo doesn’t need so many stars. In his plan, the first version will have until 5-star + 3(limit), followed by 6 or more stars.

In this way, each main character card only needs 3 concept art, namely 4-star (Blue Quality), 5-star (Purple Quality), 5-star+ 3limits(Purple Quality).

The number of levels and the number of monsters can be appropriately reduced, so that Chen Mo only need to draw less than 1,000 cards.

What Chen Mo needs to draw by hand is the classic form of these character cards, the characters are as follow.

Horde: MT, Shaman, Rogue, Hunter, Druid, Mage, Priest, Warlock, Beauty, Female Thief, Barrel Bull, Blood Elf Mage.

Alliance: Lady, Tyran, Brick, Chichūkai, President, Female Virtue, Elder Sister, Gun Sister, National Football Club “Sacred Holy Light Order” 5-man Squad, Five Fireball Theological 5-man Squad, Sinking Fish, Falling Geese, Closed Moon, Shy Flower.

In addition, there are also characters such as Yě Dé Xīnzhīzhù(野德新之助), Winter and other anime characters that appeared later. (T/N: Not sure with the name)

In the first version, there are a total of 36 main characters available for players.

In the case of wild monsters, he will also need more than 200, but he isn’t in a hurry for the wild monsters, and he can slowly complete them.

36 × 3 + 200, roughly 308 concept art cards, this is the number of concept arts that he would need after Chen Mo tried his best to compress it.

After using the super-accelerator, the drawing efficiency of Chen Mo has improved like a demonic beast. Before, he needs half an hour for 1 illustration, but now that his work efficiency has increase by 3x, he only needs 10 minutes for 1 illustration. The time he spent drawing on the classic image sketch draft of the 36 main characters has been reduced to 6 hrs.

Of course, Chen Mo couldn’t really draw them for 6 hours without rest, it would exhaust him to death. Therefore, he also rested periodically during this period. Finally, he finished all 36 classic characters image draft near 6 pm.

Naturally, these are just the sketch drafts, and will need to be detailed, colored, edited and there are still many follow-up process, but Chen Mo doesn’t intend to do it by himself. If he did it all by himself, then he would just exhaust himself to death.

Chen Mo stretched and sent the 36 sketch drafts to Su Jinyu, then went downstairs.

“Ehm? Why are you all here?”

Chen Mo found that there are a lot of people in the first floor, Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, Chang Xiuya, these regular visitors have all came.

Su Jinyu stood up and said, “Manager, you finally came down.”

Wen Lingwei said, “I thought that after you had impulsively bet against someone, you then realize that you couldn’t win, and was now afraid to go downstairs.”

Chen Mo became speechless, “Am I that kind of person!”

Chang Xiuya worriedly asked, “Manager, that, how is the planning of your new game, if you lose…”

Wen Lingwei said, “If you want to run, I know some friends…”

Chen Mo rolled his eyes, “Stop! Besides, you don’t have to worry, I have plans for the new game. Goldfish, open the compress file that I had sent you.”

Su Jinyu protested, “Jinyu is not a goldfish! These two words means a fine piece of jade!” (note: Su Jinyu’s name is 苏瑾瑜, while Chen Mo use another Jin(金)-Gold, Yu(鱼)-Fish)

Wen Lingwei said intentionally, “Hey, that’s a good name, I will call you goldfish from now on.”

Su Jinyu, “…”

Opening the compressed file, everyone was surprised to find that there are more than 30 character sketches. Although these sketches are not colored, but the outlines had left them a deep impression.

Su Jinyu asked, “Manager, these are the concept art of the characters of the new game? Are we gonna make a chibi version game?”

Chen Mo said, “Well, the specific game plan should be done within this week. The first step is to first get the concept arts of these characters.”

Su Jinyu began to look at the concept arts one by one, and the others were also looking at it together.

“This is a…cattle? It even has a nose ring. It’s quite cute. But why is the first picture a cattle? Humanoid cattle? Tauren?”

“MT? What name is this?”

“The second one is also, um…it’s still a cattle. It’s called Shaman, it looks a little dumb.”

“This green-skinned square-headed monster…looks strange, this should not be a human race. It’s called Rogue…well, it looks a bit stupid, but can a rogue be a rogue if it’s stupid?”

“…all of them are weird characters, and are ugly. But, is it really okay having such weird characters?”

“Oh, finally there is a normal human, Lady. Well, she looks like the protagonist, why is it below?”

“Elder Sister? President? Uhm…there’s a huge wave of human coming from below.”

“What kind of human are these people.”

“What does Alliance and Horde means? Why are the Alliance below and the Hordes above? Is it a camp?”

Everyone turned over these card sketch drafts and discussed about it.