Almighty Game Designer - Chapter 56

Chen Mo once more buried himself in the studio after seeing off Guo Feng.

Currently, Chen Mo still haven’t written a word of the design document. However, he wasn’t anxious, due to the rules of the card games being relatively simple, namely, the battle system and the configuration of the numerical value and level are just slightly troublesome.

Presently, Chen Mo need to do a fine job on the script and storyboard of the anime.

After the anime heat up the IP of 《I am MT》, its mobile game will then be able to earn a profit. Therefore, the release of the anime must be much earlier than the release of the game. After all, it will need some time for the anime to get popular.

The R&D period of the game is 4 months in total, and Chen Mo have more or less planned it in this way:

In the first week, he will give all the character designs, scene concept chart, script, storyboard and so on of the first season of 《I am MT》 anime, and arrange the production of the anime.

The production time for the anime is about one episode per week, and each episode will have a duration of 10 minutes.

Considering that the duration of each episode of the anime is relatively short, which is about twice as short as the new episode of common anime. Because Chen Mo is worried about the lack of heat during the early stage, so he considered releasing the first 3 episodes together. Due to this, it will be released in a month.

After that, it will only be 1 episode per week, and the whole first season will end exactly 3 months later. As for whether to continue the second season, it will depend on his development plan.

During the anime production, the game production will also be carried out at the same time. However, this time, he had a lot of leeway, and his main work is mostly in adjusting the various numerical values.

The concept art of the cards and various art resources, if there is no accident, can be solved smoothly.

Chen Mo’s goal is to try to finish the game within 3 months, leaving enough time for testing and adjustment.

All in all, the first step is to work out all the scripts and storyboard of the first season of 《I am MT》 within a week.

In the following days, Chen Mo directly incarnate himself as a concept artist, and at the same time, used the memory playback potion to search for the memories that he had forgotten, while also taking note of the script and storyboard.

In addition, Chen Mo has to draw the concept chart for the scene settings of each plot to use as a reference for the anime producers.

During this period, Chen Mo didn’t plan to use the super-accelerator again,  since the side effect when he last use it was a bit stronger and Chen Mo can still feel it until now.

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A week later.

Guo Feng once more came to the experience shop. Then, Chen Mo showed him the script, storyboard and the scenes that he had already completed.

Guo Feng skimmed through it once, and was surprised to find that Chen Mo’s script and storyboard were very complete, but also relatively consistent. And just by looking at the storyboard, he can roughly see the whole picture of the anime.

What’s more, the character design is also quite novel. and the main character is unexpectedly a cattle?

“Hm…”

Guo Feng stroked his chin. He originally thought that Chen Mo was the same as some local tyrant producers playing with their money by making anime for fun. As a result, today, the storyboard and script, though not perfect, has at least a good idea and a potential that can be excavated.

If this is their studio’s own project, then Guo Feng would also arrange the best resources to produce it.

In addition. Chen Mo’s script and storyboard are very detailed, and it even has comments about the intent of the designers on the dialogues and the matters that they need to pay attention when dubbing.

What Guo Feng didn’t know was that Chen Mo actually made some minor adjustment on the script of 《I am MT》, since there are some that are too hard to understand which made Chen Mo replaced them with a relatively easy to understand content for the audiences in this world.

After all, Chen Mo has now a full score in the first stage of his plot skill, which made it easy for him to change some of the content of the script.

“You can tell me if you have a more professional opinion about the script and storyboard, since it isn’t like I can’t modify it.” Said Chen Mo.

Guo Feng nodded. “Well, in case I have a better idea, then I will discuss it with you. But I’m really surprised with how well done your script is, at least in my opinion, this anime has the potential to have a small fire.”

Chen Mo laughed in his heart, a small fire? You belittle this anime too much.

However, this is also normal. In his previous world, although 《I am MT》 was also praised when it was first launched, but who could have thought that it would become too popular?

Even when Locojoy spent 3 million yuan to buy the copyright of 《I am MT》, there are still many people who thought that the master became crazy.

Currently, it seems that the vast majority of people underestimated the potention of this anime and game.

Guo Feng was slightly worried about Chen Mo’s script and storyboard being bad, but after seeing Chen Mo’s script today, his doubts disappeared.

Both parties had a very smooth negotaition, and finally decided to sign the contract at the beginning of next month, after which, the production will officially begin.

Zhao Zihao specially sent an employee from his own company’s legal department to check the contract for Chen Mo, and only after confirming that there is no problem, did Chen Mo officially signed the payment contract.

The second month revenue of 《Plants vs Zombies》 is more than 2.6 million yuan, of which 1.8 million yuan will be used for the production cost of the anime of 《I am MT》, and the rest will be used to purchase art resources such as concept arts, concept arts of the cards, and so on.

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The anime production was temporarily finished, Chen Mo is now waiting to see how far the finished product can achieve.

Next, Chen Mo will officially start planning the rules of the mobile game of 《I am MT》.

At the start of the release of 《I am MT》’s mobile game, its gameplay and various systems were relatively simple. However, after many updates, its functions began to become more and more bloated.

Chen Mo doesn’t intend to copy all the system functions. In fact, the new version of the mobile game and the addition of new gameplay is actually a must. Most of the time, they are forced to increase it by force in order to allow the players to experience new content and not lose the fun of the game, which will lead to loss of players.

At the initial stage of the game, Chen Mo still had to do some “thinning”, since he couldn’t toss too many gameplays to the players at once, which will make them not know what to do.

Only after roughly thinking the final form of the game did Chen began to write the large framework of the design documents.

These design documents includes the main interface layout, basic battle system, card development system, dungeon plan, special battle, account attributes (level, title, strength, etc.), mall and VIP functions, friends, guild, inventory, chat, email, daily activities, and other related contents.

With the help of the memory playback potion, the large framework of these design documents were quickly written since the system and gameplay are basically the standard configuration of the later domestic mobile games, and these his designs are already matured and have been verified numerous times, so there is no need for him to think it too much at all.

The main content of Chen Mo’s work are basically in 2 aspects, one is the card development and battle system, and the other is the balance of various levels and card values.

Chen Mo originally intended to hand over some of the functions of the design documents to Su Jinyu to write, but after thinking about it, these functions are complely strange to Su Jinyu. If she wrote them, Chen Mo would have to modify them again, which would be a waste of time.

What’s more, it’s hard to explain the design intent of the game to Su Jinyu, and it’s better to just let Su Jinyu do 2 more card concept art during this time.

It would be fine to just let Su Jinyu input them in the editor after he finished these design documents.

When the large framework was finalized, and after resting for 10 minutes, Chen Mo didn’t delay and  started writing the most important battle system documents.