The Boss Behind The Game

Chapter 11: NPC Settings
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
After studying about NPC settings extensively, Lu Wu finally completed the setting of his first NPC. He named him Lu Mo, literally Lu’s demon.

In the game’s lore, he is the King of Beiqi’s adopted son.

For the players, Lu Mo is like the chief of the beginner’s village in other games. His role is to enlighten the players on some basic knowledge regarding the Land of Beiqi. Other than that, once they reach Level 20, they can pay 50 soul coins to Lu Mo if they wished to form a guild.

Of course, since Lu Mo is an NPC with a real soul, he has his own independent consciousness. Other than the necessary settings of an NPC, he also has his own hobbies and thoughts.

This would create many uncertainties and thus, increase the playability of the game.

After being sent to the underworld, Lu Mo started wandering around the Mansion of the Dead. Whenever he turned to look at the ruins of the mansion, his face would reveal a sliver of sadness.

After finishing all these matters, Lu Wu opened his notebook filled with his ideas on the back stories.

For now, the gaming experience should be great. But there was a lot to improve on the game’s content, such as job skills and NPC development.

Lu Wu even planned that when the player count reached a certain amount, he would release some expansion packs, and several of them are battlefields that would make fighting more interesting.

But these were only ideas floating around in Lu Wu’s mind. He had yet to do any real planning.

……

At the same time, Wu Guoyi, who was having a meeting at Platform173’s headquarters, received the trailer sent by Lu Wu.

At first, Wu Guoyi wanted to wait until the meeting was over before he took a look. But when he saw that Lu Wu was the one who sent it, he paused the meeting, and played the video immediately.

stood tall and proud in the wind, and the final

“Excellent!”

a strange look. Wu Guoyi immediately sent the trailer to the computer in the meeting

your headsets and watch

up the VR headsets provided beside every

usually discussed about the platform, game development, and game testing. So they

he saw that everyone had their headsets on, Wu Guoyi put on his own, and told his assistant to

start, the title ‘Battle Online’

from the skies while leading countless monsters. It roared at

Yin soldiers appeared from the black fog following Lu Wu’s cry, they were all excited, looking forward to Lu Wu defeating the

battle scenes that followed were less of a CG short, and more of

a ball of fire and plunged toward

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and burned the entire land. All the soldiers bowed down their heads and kneeled on one knee, paying respect to the deceased King of Beiqi. As the image dimmed, the title ‘Battle Online’ emerged on the screen once

what the

room turned noisy. Everyone was asking what

the video was taken from actual gameplay footage because it was way too realistic. There wasn’t a single game with this level of quality in

better graphics on cutscenes or trailers was common practice in

trailer had conquered their

Guoyi smiled mysteriously, “You will know very soon. This game will be on our main page in a few days. You can try it

continued after that, but on and off they thought about the amazing

ended, Wu Guoyi lit up

had wanted some advice on what