The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 16 Game Company

All of them would cost him 4500 Moe Coins, even if he bought them all, he would still have some coins left. However, he was scared that after he bought them, it might require him to purchase other materials using Moe Coins as well. It was just like what happened to the farmer’s hut.

He still had a temporary comic studio, before it finished drawing 300 chapters, Zhou Yu didn’t plan to get one. In terms of the animation, he just wanted to turn the novels that he liked the most into animations. He didn’t want to release them on the internet, nor did he wanted to make money off it. He just wanted to satisfy his little petty craving. And in terms of games, he often hated the single player games didn’t get to translate in time or pay to win in online games, but if the game was made by himself, then he didn’t need to be annoyed by all of these.

After thinking it over, he decided to try the game company first.

After spending 2000 Moe coins at the vending machine, he got the blueprint of the game company. Then as he had expected, he was charged 500 construction fee by the beaver. Only one day later, did he formally have a game company.

Similar to the temple of the three pure ones, this was also a big landmark architecture. The main building was a very modern and artistic tall building.

The sculpture in the middle of the square below the building was also quite distinctive. The small buildings on both sides were the staff accommodation and the property management company.

Placing it next to the farmer’s hut, the distinction between the rich and poor was extremely obvious. However, different from the Taoist temple, its status was shown “closed”.

Upon close inspection, he learned that the building was lack of the employee. He needed to have a development team, a property management team, and an operation team. Those three teams could be recruited at the human resource department in the main building.

The development team was responsible for developing games, the property management team required electricians, janitors, security guards, and other building maintenance personnel. The operation team was responsible for any game related operations. Currently, it was just a basic game company, so every team was limited to two only.

Clicking the icon of the human resource department, a recruitment window appeared before him. Searching for the available teams would cost 100 Moe Coins, it would display three available teams each time. The quality of each team was different, but Zhou Yu could compare them and choose the one he liked the most. In addition to the teams with various qualities, there was also a chance to find candidates with special qualities, such as gold, silver or bronze.

Zhou Yu was too familiar with this type of recruitment settings. This was clearly the type of mechanism that almost all the browser games had. It was used by the game company to make as much money from players as possible. He didn’t expect that there was even this type of setting in the ACG world.

Luckily, he had only purchased one game company, otherwise, he would use up all his Moe Coins.

Selecting the recruitment options for the development team, and hitting the search button, what he got were: an ordinary team of obedient people, a sumptuous team of ladies, a lazy team of otakus.

Fuck!

The sumptuous team would increase 30% of the development budget, the lazy team would increase 30% of the developing time. Those were clearly the typical example of terrible teams. Comparing to them, the ordinary team of obedient people that didn’t have any special attribute, which was supposed to be the worst options, was now the best option.

As he had expected, all the games that involved in probability ratios were money-sucking games.

However, he didn’t want to give up. If the first search didn’t work out, how about the second search.

An undisciplined team of hooligans, a team of untalented students, a team of dispirited vagrant.

…

Goddammit! It was getting worse and worse!

Only after wasting 500 Moe Coins did he finally find a good team – a team of bellicose soldiers: Increasing the quality of wargame by 20%. Could equip two items. If there were teams with negative emotions existing in the company, there was a probability that a “war” would break out, and once they entered the war state, they would never stop, unless one of the parties were eliminated.

Although compared to other teams that he had found earlier, this team was much better, however, the conditions of using this team were quite harsh for new players. It meant that there was no way he would be able to use some random teams to fill the vacant departments. Otherwise, his company would be at constant war.

After selecting the recruit bottom, the team was now officially his. However, he still needed to prepare the team’s monthly salary, which was 100 Moe Coins in advance. Otherwise, if he could not pay them at the end of the month, he would be in deep trouble.

A group of tiny soldiers that dressed in the camouflage clothing soon appeared before Zhou Yu. Under the leader’s introduction, the group of tiny soldiers quickly formed a single file formation and then headed towards the staff accommodation while singing the military marching song. Looking at how they behaved, Zhou Yu was speechless. They didn’t look like a development team at all. They looked exactly like a group of soldiers that were going into the war soon.

Because of the harsh conditions of using the team of bellicose soldiers, Zhou Yu didn’t plan to hire two development teams at the moment. He still needed to recruit the property management team and the operation team. Otherwise, the game company would not be able to start running.

And with the previous five trial recruitment, it seemed like it would be very difficult for him to find three teams that had positive special effects.

However, what surprised him was that in total, he only spent 500 Moe Coins for the operation team and the property management team. He didn’t know whether it was his luck sudden increased or it was probably that the chance of finding good teams on those two departments was very high.

The optimistic and peaceful property management team: providing regular service and increasing the mood of all teams by 10 points.

The honorable penguin operation team: providing regular service and increasing the company’s fashion point by 30 points.

There were two important indicators of the game company, one was the mood indicator and the other one was the fashion indicator.

After the teams were recruited, the mood indicator of all the team would be always 100 points. Only after they started to work would the point started to reduce. Giving them some reasonable vaccination period or providing them some entertainment activities would restore the mood point. If the employees’ dissatisfaction or complaints were always ignored, then the mood point would be reduced to zero and trigger the teams to go on a strike. If that really happened, then it would be very difficult to deal with.

The higher the fashion indicator was the slower the mood point would be reduced. Some arrogant teams might even have specific requirements for the company’s fashion indicator. It the company’s fashion indicator didn’t meet their requirements, they would refuse to join the company.

Of course, he could also purchase some fashion items from some merchants to increase the company’s fashion points. However, he didn’t plan to buy them at the moment. Because none of those items were affordable for new players.

After hiring the three teams, the game company’s status was finally changed to “open”.

The members of the property management team were constantly moving in and out of the main building. They seemed very busy. However, the members of the other two teams just stayed in their accommodations, didn’t seem to want to come out to work.

Clicking the main building once again, apart from the Human resources department, he was able to see the development department and the operation department this time. After opening up the development department, he discovered another setting that made him speechless. The main requirement of developing a game was still Moe coins.

Zhou Yu did not know whether to laugh or cry. Originally, he thought that having 5000 Moe coins in his hands, he was finally able to raise from the lower class to the middle class. However, he did not expect that just one game company would make him nearly go bankrupt. In the end, he only hoped that this damn development budget would not be too expensive.

Tier one game, cost 100 Moe coins, The Programming Ape X 1, Gaming small beast card X 5, 10 mood points.

Tier two game, cost 300 Moe coins, The Programming Ape X 3, Gaming small beast card X 15, 30 mood points.

Tier three game, cost 500 Moe coins, The Programming Ape X 5, Gaming small beast card X 25, 50 mood points.

Because it was a basic game company, so at the most, it was able to make tier 3 games. If the company wanted to make a better game, the requirement could be considered quite harsh. At first, the company needed to have at least one Bronze game designer, the company’s fashion indicator must be more than 50 points and then would the company be able to up upgraded. Of course, it would also cost Zhou Yu 2500 Moe coins as well.

Hmmm…. Ain’t got money for that, at the moment.

The Programming Ape was also a rare card, although he kept catching the small beasts every day, he was only able to catch 4 at the moment. It was not enough to make a tier 3 game, besides he also did not have enough Moe coins. Although the tier 1 game seemed to be a bit worse than the tier 2 game, he would be able to see the qualities of the games that were produced in each tier.

Thus, the first ever single player game that was made by his “company” has begun its development process.