Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 46

"A chicken burger?"

Lin Shu-ying: "A food that looks almost identical to what we eat. We'll restore it and give it to everyone as a treat."

Lin Qiaoqiao was both amused and exasperated; her boss was incredibly generous.

If they're happy, they'll give out bonuses and benefits.

so nice~

But as a senior executive, I have a slight worry: what if the boss goes bankrupt one day?

Sure enough, we need to find more large companies to cooperate with and try to accumulate patent fees to the point that the boss can't spend them all.

Sigh, having a generous boss can be a headache.

Lin Qiaoqiao couldn't help but mutter these words out loud. Lin Shuying said with a smile, "You know what? The ability to make money is directly proportional to the speed at which money flows out. Especially when you have more money in your hands, the more you can spend it, the more you can make money."

Lin Qiaoqiao didn't believe it. Everyone has a first-rate ability to spend money. If there were no restrictions, they could spend all the money in the world.

........

After Lin Shuying made some adjustments, Liang Ranran looked much better when she put it on.

However, the stitching and embroidery techniques cannot be changed in a short time, as they are largely dependent on whether one is skilled or not.

"Practice the sewing machine more often and embroider according to the drawn lines. Once you're more skilled, you can create your own embroidery patterns. You don't have to follow mine. Mine is my preference, and yours is your preference. What you like is always the best."

Lin Shuying believes that the ultimate goal for a tailor is to learn how to design clothes that reflect their own style and preferences.

"Okay, thank you, boss!"

Liang Ranran couldn't help but twirl around a few times, looking absolutely stunning.

"Oh my, being a tailor is so wonderful. You can make any clothes you want yourself."

Lin Qiaoqiao: "Ranran still needs to work hard to achieve this goal, hahaha."

He Mengqiu: "Ranran, do you want to put a gemstone on your belly button?"

"My goal, hehe. Can I have some gemstones applied?"

Lu Yunzhi: "Why not? I'll find it for you. What kind do you want?"

After attaching the gemstones, Liang Ranran also filmed a video. She remembered Lin Shuying's occasional comment that she looked lucky, and how cute the orange cat was, calling the orange cat "Big Orange Cat".

So she chose an orange cat for her head, which unexpectedly matched the color of her clothes...

Today, Wei Linwei arrived, dressed in the gray Tang suit from the game "Qingfengyi". With his artistic long hair and slightly slender figure, he had a strange air of a cultured young man.

Lin Shuying smiled and said, "Oh, finally someone has brought their own work clothes to our door."

Wei Linwei held the small box, his face somewhat cold.

It's the awkwardness and coldness of an interstellar person who is not good at socializing and is meeting a stranger for the first time.

Wang Congjun said, "This is the boss. I'll take you to the bedroom I've prepared for you."

If you bring your own clothes, you won't need to change. "The studio will take you to the warehouse to get the uniforms they provide."

Wei Linwei was a little excited, and his hands trembled slightly as he picked up his luggage. He was so happy that Qingfengyi really provided him with clothes for work!

After he finished getting ready and completed his onboarding process, Lin Shuying asked, "Do you need to rest?"

She's new here, so she can rest for a day and familiarize herself with her job. But she wants to get to work as soon as possible because the game needs an update next month, and this update has a lot of content that will take a long time to complete.

Wei Linwei: "Can I start working now? What do I need to do?"

It's a bit hard to imagine what kind of work Lin Shuying would assign to her—modeling, coloring, story planning, event planning?

Or is it a game stat adjustment?

He was so excited when we talked that he didn't ask about the specifics of the job.

It seems the boss isn't very familiar with the game system architecture?

Lin Shuying took out her previous proposal for a guild and trading system. "Qingfengyi Games plans to add a guild and make the trading system and shop transparent. I don't know how to design things that aren't connected to character modeling and gameplay. Take a look at what I wrote, what are your thoughts?"

Wei Linwei looked at it and said, "Very good, but...aren't the item pricing a bit outrageous? Boss, I've been thinking about this before, as a game designer, Qingfengyi's various item pricing is completely unreasonable. Free is also unreasonable. Currently, only the Seven Colors Dress-Up game is free, and the items in it are cheap. But this game is an advertising game, the purpose of which is to promote spray-clothes and retain customers. Qingfengyi's design is also inappropriate."

Lin Shuying asked with a smile, "How do you know it's not?"

Wei Linwei was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "Does Qingfeng intend to expand and strengthen its business through manufacturing?"

It's unlikely to succeed; the traditional handcrafted methods are simply too difficult to implement. He had researched some ancient materials, and it's said that many ancient handicrafts disappeared in ancient times, largely because they were time-consuming and labor-intensive, making mass production impossible. Furthermore, technological advancements, assembly line enterprises, and the emergence of better mass-produced handicrafts have led to the complete loss of many traditional methods.

In the interstellar era, let alone handicrafts, even fabrics and clothes have been turned into artifacts.

Lin Shu-ying: "I thought the gentle breeze was already big enough."

At least on Planet Aimer, there are Qingfengyi's partners in many places, and you can buy Qingfengyi's designs there.

"Okay, let's not talk about that. The price won't change."

Her initial motivation for making this game was indeed for money, and she was later shocked by the prospect of earning tens of millions a day. However, she is no longer short of money and should make good use of this convenient era and technology to do things that she wants to do, enjoys doing, and finds meaningful.

One of them is to spread the Chinese culture to the entire interstellar world!

This goal cannot be achieved through the production of clothing and jewelry in reality, because the price of materials and the limitations of craftsmanship severely restrict it, making it almost impossible to reach such an audience.

The Chinese style enjoyed only by the upper-class nouveau riche is not the Chinese style she wants to create.

But games are different; games can be played by everyone!

Regardless of gender, age or status.

They even manage to price it so that even homeless people without money can play, because Interstellar offers free holographic pods provided by the government. Isn't that amazing?

The two then continued their discussion on the design of the guild and trading system.

The second day began, and we officially entered the holographic chamber.

Lin Shuying gave Wei Linwei the status of an assistant. She emphasized, "If you need to make any changes to my design, please let me know. Also, please explain to me some parts that the AI ​​cannot recognize."

"Ok."

Lin Shuying glanced at the backstage area and saw that she could purchase 2500 square meters of design space and 10 design points to add another 100 meters to the existing height.

This area is so much larger than Wei Linwei's 300-square-meter design space!

"Now I finally understand why so many game design graduates are vying to become assistants to top designers. This space—which designer wouldn't love it? It's huge!"

Lin Shuying, however, was not entirely satisfied with what she saw from God's perspective.

She admires the atmosphere of ancient China, with its secluded paths, winding mountain platforms, and Zen temples hidden deep within the trees. Or perhaps the grand, lofty structures with flying corridors spanning rivers, evoking a sense of otherworldly elegance.

However, that space is completely insufficient for such a building; it's too small.

"I'll design the guild's core structure first, and you can design the trading system."

"Okay, boss, should you handle the image display for the e-commerce transaction system, or should I do it myself?"

"I'll do it, that way the style will be more consistent."

"Okay, I'll use boxes instead."

start.

The space is too small to fully showcase her ideas, so she plans to divide the guild into several parts. This time, she will update the main building and the towers of some small player groups first.

The main building is not the guild's main building, but rather the area for completing pre-quests.

Let's move the dungeon entrance from inside the elevator to the guild area. From now on, we can directly access the guild for dungeons. This way, we can subtly advertise Qingfengyi within the guild, showcasing Qingfengyi's partners and even announcing offline events for the Qingfengyi studio, such as sales events and collaborations with other companies...

Lin Shuying suddenly realized that many games in her previous life did the same thing, so why not learn from their fine traditions?

Not bad.

The main building is temporarily divided into four areas: the building service area, the announcement area, the shopping area, and the dungeon area.

The announcement section is for news and advertisements, while the in-game store features new items available for player trading. Standardizing player-to-player transactions and using in-game currency can avoid many problems, such as issues with real money transactions.

There are currently no new dungeons open in the instance area. The only existing dungeon is Zhilan Mountain. After the event ends, players can continue to stroll around there, enjoy the spring scenery, find flowers, and walk their birds.

The main building is designed in the style of a palace, and is very large. Huge red lanterns with the character "福" (fortune) hang from the top of the building, their golden hues swaying in the breeze. Below are more than a hundred steps. The building features carved beams and painted pillars, eaves with dragon and phoenix patterns, and is covered with glazed tiles. On the ridge eaves are lifelike mythical beasts: a yak-fish, a xiezhi, an immortal riding a phoenix, a beast-shaped ornament, a hanging beast, a lion, a celestial horse, a bull, and a xingshi (a mythical creature).

An explanation will be given when players approach.

Of course, it's unknown whether players will be able to access it.

The building is eight meters high, and the arched carving of two dragons playing with a pearl in the center of the roof shines brightly in the sunlight.

Huge golden bells hang from the eaves, ringing in the wind.

With the main building designed, we began designing the player towers.

An octagonal pagoda with upturned eaves and swaying bells.

There is a door every meter; opening it will take you to the pavilion created by the player.

The tower is 200 meters high and is scattered on the mountain.

However, the space wasn't that high, so Lin Shuying took a shortcut and blurred out the parts that couldn't be seen, using them as content for the next update.

The mountain behind the main building also appears to have been cut off, with part of it blocked by an invisible wall.

I'll add more later if there's space.

Currently, the space allows for the construction of 3 player towers and 10,000 player pavilions. Player pavilions are not divided into zones; regardless of which zone you enter from, you will only enter the same area.

Therefore, spots are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Other players can create their own groups during later updates or join groups created by others.

Each pavilion can accommodate 5000 players, ensuring ample space for gameplay.

The current game resources are what they are, so it's understandable that there will be congestion.

Who told the game platform to design a gameplay mechanic that uses design points to purchase space—it's just not fair...?

Once the buildings and the mountain were constructed, the interior details began to be built, including rocks, trees, paths, steps, and various decorative items.

In the large plaza in front of the main building, there is a giant cauldron with nine golden dragons climbing on the nine corners and looking into the cauldron. The cauldron is three meters high and five meters in diameter. It is made of pure gold and looks majestic and imposing.