Game Designer

Chapter 1 – World Technology Tree

Chapter 1 – World Technology Tree

Imperial City

Chen Mo wakes up

“I felt like I’m dying…”

“No, I need to go to bed and sleep early tomorrow…”

Chen Mo sat up from his bed with a sharp headache.

“I have stayed up all night and end up with hallucinations. I daydream in the day, how can I still dream at night? Will it affect my sleep quality?”

Chen Mo complained about his sleep quality last night, but in the next moment, he froze, and he didn’t return to his senses for a long time.

“s**t, where am I? Did I time-travel?”

Chen Mo looked around.

At this time he is in a strange room, which looks like a standard hotel room. However, at first glance this room isn’t a very high-end. Apart from reluctantly saying that it’s clean and tidy, there is basically nothing to praise.

In the room, there is a large suitcase next to the table. The one on the table is a special laptop, its thickness is comparable to a brick, the screen is also big and it looks heavy, but it has an exquisite workmanship.

Chen Mo has never seen such a laptop in his previous life, but he can imagine it is a bit more expensive.

When he went to the bathroom and washed his face, and looked in the mirror, Chen Mo found that his appearance didn’t change apart from looking younger as if he just graduated from university four or five years ago.

Chen Mo slowly started getting memories of the parallel world.

Basically this world is similar to the world that Chen Mo is familiar with, apart from the game industry that is quite different.

The root of all this lies in the difference in technology levels.

In this world, he doesn’t know why a series of technical boom have occurred, maybe the aliens are doing it behind the scene, maybe it’s a traverser like Chen Mo that made it happen.

The speed of computer technology development is simply incredible and fast-paced. It’s faster than sitting on a rocket.

Before the personal computers were popularized, top researchers have managed to develop supercomputers capable of computing tens of millions of times per second;

When computer technology innovations is developing halfway, VR technology has made major breakthroughs. The dream of entering the virtual world through personal game compartment became a reality.

Chen Mo did not finish half the journey in the past seventy or eighty years in his previous life. He ended in a short span of 3 to 5 years in this world.

The technical boom is of course good, but it also directly leads to the game industry in this world being interrupted.

When the PC games were not yet developed, they already entered the VR era, and those game makers began to study VR games.

This has caused a consequence, without the accumulated experience of PC games, although these game makers have the technical level of VR games but the game design concept is still in the Stone Age.

But one thing is good, that is, this world attaches great importance to the game industry.

The game isn’t regarded as a savage beast or an electronic opium like in the previous world. Instead, it is regarded as the ninth art and even the country strongly supports it.

The game designer is no longer a former IT laborer, and needs strong professional skills like doctors, lawyers and even literary and art workers. Game Designer has become a highly respected career.

As for Chen Mo, he is an ordinary student who has just graduated less than a year and is ready to join the game industry.

Strangely, this world’s “To join the gaming industry” method is also very different from Chen Mo’s past life.

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Chen Mo took the towel and dried the water stains on his face. He came to the window and opened the curtains.

During the day, the sun is shining.

The august of Imperial City was really hot. The air conditioner blew at Chen Mo as he looked out of the window. He could feel the sun is going to melt the pedestrians due to hotness even though he just took a look at the outside of the window.

Chen Mo has a feeling that these pedestrians will turn into a melted sugar men while walking, and then slowly evaporate.

Chen Mo came to the table.

The thick, brick-like laptop on the table is a high-end PC in this world.

At least 20,000 yuan.

Chen Mo, a poor student who just graduated, wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Why should he save money for half a year and buy such a high-end computer?

It is because he wanted to use this computer to design games.

That’s right, this is another difference in the world. In this world, game designers design a game that doesn’t require a programmer to implement it.

So who is going to write the code?

The answer is: There is no need to write the code. Because there is the most perfect game editor in the world, designers can create their own games by simply sorting out the game design and using the game editor according to certain rules.

Down to tens of megabytes of casual games, up to tens of terabytes of large VR games, the super editor can be used to complete it. Of course, the cost of resources and time must be different.

Different from the former production line workers, this world’s game designers are extremely charismatic, their status is almost equal to an artist.

These designers’ work isn’t divided according to game values, plots, systems, levels, etc., as it was in the past. Now game designers must be all-powerful. A designer who only understands the system and does not understand the plot will be despised by others.

Even some game designers are first-class novelists and first-class painters. Just like Michelangelo, the versatile genius, he is also a sculptor, a painter, an architect, and a poet.

Of course, for some super-large VR games, the chief designer will also find some assistants, but he still has absolute authority, which determines any details of the game. These assistants are not like colleagues, but more like apprentices.

As mentioned earlier, Chen Mo is a young man who wants to join the game industry.

However, the way to join the game industry isn’t to go to the game company to apply for a position, but through another way.

The game editor of this world is completely open, but depending on the identity of the designer, the degree of openness and permissions are different. To enter the game industry, you must design a complete game through the editor and pass the review of the professional judges.

In the past, Chen Mo has already qualified as an intro game designer. As long as he designs a basic casual game, he can automatically become a D-Class game designer.

As for why Chen Mo will live in a hotel? Because he signed up for a game design competition in Imperial City, these two days he needs a quiet environment to complete his own design.

Unfortunately, it is maybe due to the pressure being too high or too much staying up late, he experienced a sudden death.

Chen Mo couldn’t help but be speechless. “Stayed up late for 2 nights and ended up dying young? My body sure is weak”

It isn’t surprising that Chen Mo has a lot of pressure, since even in this world, the road of being a game designer isn’t easy.

Chen Mo has graduated for almost a year, yet he hasn’t gotten the opportunity. The games he had made didn’t passed the assessment. Although his abilities is in the entry level but he always failed to become a D-class game designer.

If he continues doing this on his road to game industry, he won’t have any money at all. There are only three roads, either to drink the northwest wind （ live by breathing the air, means no money), or go home and get old, or to change careers.

Therefore, Chen Mo also worked hard to get a good ranking in this game design competition, but he died before he finished his work.

After three seconds and half of mourning for another Chen Mo, Chen Mo quickly recovered his emotions.

It is just game designing, isn’t it? This is what I’m familiar with, in terms of game design concept of this era, if I don’t slap the whole game industry ， I will be baptized in vain by the domestic free games.

Chen Mo opened the laptop.

But before that, he decided to order a takeaway.

He was very hungry. In order not to be the first traverser who starved to death after dying, Chen Mo took his mobile phone on the table.

Sure enough, some life apps are very similar with small differences. Chen Mo noticed that the parallel world’s mobile phones are similar to his previous life’s mobile phones, but the configuration is higher.

After ordering rice served with meat and vegetables on top and milk tea on a takeaway platform called “What to Eat”, Chen Mo calmed down and opened the game editor on the laptop.