Chapter 290: Own Turn-Based Game

As Wei Yan's words fell, the conference room erupted in an uproar.

Wei Yan had long anticipated this reaction.

After all, they had been working on the plan for nearly a month, and now it was all being scrapped. Anyone would have thoughts about it.

However, to develop a better game, he had no choice but to do this.

After a while, the conference room gradually quieted down, and only then did Wei Yan continue speaking.

"This time, the idea is for a free turn-based game."

Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Wei Yan directly turned on the projector on the wall and played the animation Xu Yuan had seen.

After the combat scene ended, he continued, "The so-called free turn-based game means that we are no longer bound by traditional turn-based games; we are no longer limited to a 'you make a move, I make a move' model."

"We need to break this convention. In this game, I want to use skills whenever I want, and not use them if I don't want to. It must be flexible and varied."

"Just like the animation that was just played."

"Alright, these are the ideas I'm providing. Everyone can speak freely."

Wei Yan leaned back in his chair, quietly waiting for everyone to speak.

"Can we set it so that players can operate those cards themselves?"

An employee raised his hand and said.

Wei Yan nodded, simultaneously recording this point.

"Continue, you can say any ideas you have."

"We can increase the skills of the card characters, so players can choose which skill to release based on the current situation."

"But if the skills have different power levels, everyone will definitely choose the most powerful one."

"Then set the power levels to be the same."

"But if the skills have the same power, one is enough. If they're all the same, do you still need to choose?"

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The atmosphere in the conference room instantly became heated, seemingly because of what Wei Yan had said at the beginning. This time, the employees were more actively participating than ever before.

Wei Yan looked at this scene and nodded with satisfaction.

These employees usually worked very hard, but in the conference room, they were all like mutes, with few expressing opinions.

Now it was much better. This was how a discussion should be.

Time slowly passed.

The discussion in the conference room also gradually quieted down, and Wei Yan's notebook was filled with a full page of ideas.

"I'm thinking, what if we break away from the turn-based card game setting?"

Wei Yan looked in the direction of the voice; it was Xu Yuan speaking.

"Tell me your thoughts."

He was somewhat interested in Xu Yuan's idea of breaking away.

Xu Yuan thought for a moment and slowly began to speak.

"Instead of 2D card characters, we could make 3D characters. This way, the combat scenes would be even more exciting."

"If they are 3D characters, with a team of five card decks, meaning five characters, how would they be controlled? After all, we're discussing freedom, so how would one person freely control five characters?"

An employee in the conference room raised a question.

"Why does one person have to control them? Since we've already broken out of the previous framework, why can't five people control five characters?"

"Just like large-scale team battles in online games, we could have five people controlling characters of different professions, battling against five characters controlled by five opponents in a specific scenario."

Xu Yuan directly looked at the employee who raised the question and retorted.

"But if it's made into an online game, how would the character levels for battles work? In those large-scale team battles in online games, although the professions are different, each person's equipment and level are different, which greatly lacks fairness and also lacks some of the strategic depth of turn-based games!"

Another employee raised a question.

"If it lacks fairness, then we create fairness. For example, all players, upon entering the same battle scenario, would start at the same initial level. But we could set up some resources in this scenario, like wild monsters. Players could level up by farming these wild monsters."

"Those who farm wild monsters quickly level up faster. Those who farm slowly level up slower. Everyone starts at level 1, and the speed of leveling up depends entirely on the individual. That would be very fair."

As Xu Yuan's words fell, the conference room once again fell silent.

It seemed no one could think of a point to refute.

After a while, an employee suddenly spoke up.

"If that's the case, perhaps we could add that farming wild monsters can drop gold coins, and players can use these gold coins to buy equipment in a shop."

"Also, regarding the characters, different character professions will definitely have different initial abilities and combat power. For example, if you make a mage compete with a warrior in farming wild monsters, the mage will definitely lose."

"It would be better to set it so that these initial characters all have an equal way of gaining experience and gold coins."

Xu Yuan listened to the employee's words and nodded.

"Everything you've said makes sense, and there's also one more thing we need to pay attention to: how do we determine the victory of both sides? By kill count, or something else? I think that also needs to be considered."

Wei Yan listened to their discussion, quickly recording the content.

He then organized the recorded content and found that the final discussion revolved around two different viewpoints.

The first viewpoint was to not change the characteristics of turn-based card game characters, but to increase the game's freedom based on that.

The second viewpoint was Xu Yuan's recent idea: to break out of the turn-based game framework and create a new, highly free game.

He looked at these two viewpoints and finally made a decision.

"Alright, today's meeting will temporarily conclude here."

"I will assign tasks. From now on, we will divide into two discussion groups."

"One discussion group will be responsible for researching the first viewpoint. The other discussion group will be responsible for Xu Yuan's viewpoint."

"Both discussion groups will create a game proposal based on their respective viewpoints."

"Finally, each project group will send a representative to present their game proposal. We will then compare these two proposals and ultimately select a winning proposal."

Currently, it was difficult to determine which viewpoint was better based solely on the two ideas.

Therefore, they could only be divided into two groups to fully develop proposals for both viewpoints. This way, they could better evaluate the pros and cons of each proposal and make a correct choice.

"You can now form your groups. The numbers should be relatively even."

Wei Yan looked at the employees who were still not moving and said calmly.

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan quickly found the employee he had been discussing with earlier and pulled him into his group.

Many of the points this person made had inspired him.