Chapter 19: Sort out your thoughts, don’t be abstract!
Chapter 19: Sort out your thoughts, don’t be abstract!
The little Loli folded her hands and raised her eyebrows to stare at Xu Yichi's face. The latter felt a pain in his heart, as if someone had stabbed him in the chest with an arrow for no apparent reason.
——The real purpose is revealed.
She has completely revealed her true intentions!
Who is so smart? One second he was talking to people about how to establish a healthy and complete inheritance system for this culture, and the next second he suddenly asked such a fatal work question! !
Is this reasonable?
This is all! Not reasonable! Wow!!
Xu Yichi was screaming in his heart, but he had to pretend to be calm on the surface. He opened his eyes and lied to Yang Yanan: "Ah, this, this... This is probably a slightly unformed idea, senior."
"What's your idea?" Yang Yan'an responded with a quirk of his brows. "Don't be shy. Tell me what you think before I run away."
"Ah, this." Xu Yichi picked at his fingers and stammered, "Your Majesty, are we moving a little too fast...?"
——She wondered if they had only known each other for a few years.
"No, how can we delay making money?" Yang Yan'an remained calm and resolute, "Hurry up and tell me. I'll give you some advice. When your chief designer and chief planner who went out to play today come back, this case can be put on the agenda as soon as possible."
"Well... well, okay." Hearing the coercive tone in the little loli's words, Xu Yichi immediately wilted, lowered his head and admitted his mistake obediently, "Senior Yang, I actually don't have any big ideas right now."
"The main reason is that I personally don't know much about the series of legends related to 'The Generals of the Yang Family' and the three small branches you mentioned at that time. At best, I watched 'The Female Generals of the Yang Family' and 'Mu Guiying Takes Command' three or four times when I was a child sitting in front of the TV with my grandmother."
"For the time being, I really don't know how to perfectly adapt this legendary story world into the background of the game..."
——This matter is indeed due to her lack of literary background.
But she really couldn’t remember how many generals of the Yang family had gone to the battlefield!
Xu Yichi pinched her fingers in great sorrow. She felt as if she was the unforgivable villain who had betrayed the pure (?) old spirit's trust. She was almost about to cry.
"Tsk, you finally tell me the truth now. When I saw your dead look just now, I knew that you must have no idea at all." Yang Yanan curled his lips without any surprise. "But it's not a big problem. Although I really want you to come up with a feasible plan as soon as possible...but I don't force you to give a result now."
"You can take your time to figure this out - just don't rush into making anything yourself."
"Also, Xiao Xu..." The little girl raised her hand to smooth her hair and spoke slowly and long, "There's no need for us to be so rigid in our thinking."
"Just because I said that 'folk literature' is suitable to be changed into the background story of the game does not mean that you must really change it into the background - if you do that, your entire game will be forced to revolve around the intangible cultural heritage theme of 'Yang Family Generals', which is too troublesome and difficult."
"After all, the people at the cultural center haven't finished compiling the three million lines of lyrics for the Yang Family Generals, and it's hard to find relevant specific information online." "--Instead of spending a lot of time studying the history of the Song Dynasty and those novels from scratch, I think you might as well change direction and see how you can pull out the most well-known and popular parts of the Yang Family Generals legend, rearrange and interpret them, and insert them into the game, so that it will become the classic scene or out-of-the-box plot that people will think of the first time they mention your game in the future."
"Anyway, the top priority at this stage is to quickly increase the popularity of this thing, and there is no need to worry too much about the details. As the old saying goes, no matter whether it is character or spirit, these things already exist in the bodies of those people. As long as you don't make random changes, there will be no problem."
"Classic scenes or out-of-the-box plots..." Xu Yichi seemed to be thinking, "Senior, you mean that maybe we can come up with something similar to 'Resurrection, my...' Uh-huh!"
"Alright, you better shut up." Yang·Potato·Dian·Emperor·Feng, who suddenly covered the little girl's mouth, cursed and gritted his teeth at Xu Yichi. "That's probably what I meant, but can you learn something good from others and stop playing abstract things!"
"Well, I'm in my twenties now...it's a good age to deal with abstract things!" Xu Yichi looked guilty.
"There's no need to be so abstract." Yang Yan'an snorted, "Come on, since your little head is really stupid enough to make Ling sad, I'll help you sort out your planning ideas today."
"——Come on, Xiao Xu, let me ask you, when you mention 'The Generals of the Yang Family', what is the first thing that comes to your mind?"
"Uh..." Xu Yichi rubbed his paws and thought carefully, "Probably... it should be Mu Guiying who is in charge."
"One is that this part has been seriously adapted into many TV series, and the other is that when I was a kid I really thought about it for a long time, why there was a general named Mu in the Yang Family Generals."
"——Shouldn't all the generals of the Yang family have the surname 'Yang'? That's why I was particularly impressed by the plot of 'Mu Guiying takes command'."
"Wow! Your idea is really simple and honest... but it is indeed typical." Yang Yan'an shrugged, "I guess many people have thought about this when they were young and immature. It's normal for you to be impressed by it."
"——Then you can follow this line of thought and extract the section about 'Mu Guiying taking command' to create a unique chapter plot."
"If this part is taken out and made into a plot, let me think about it..." Xu Yichi bent his elbow, supported his chin and looked out the window.
The sun was setting, and the twilight broke through the clouds, as bright as a flag. After a moment, an idea suddenly flashed in her mind: "Then we can take Mu Guiying as the main subject and make this story the memory of Mu Guiying!"
"Mu Guiying, who holds a certain power in her hands, is still trapped in a small place after the story ends and the dynasty changes. She guards her memories and waits for the master - the player - to appear and take away the power that does not belong to her, and rescue her from endless imprisonment."
"During this process, she can tell the main controller her past stories - here we can insert puzzle solving or monster fighting elements, or introduce some backtracking concepts, similar to infinite flow, and let the main controller help Mu Guiying achieve certain wishes and resolve certain obsessions through repeated backtracking..."
"In this way, this story can be used as a small plot in the game, rather than the background of the entire game world. At the same time, we can also use the concept of 'time travel' to perfectly achieve the need to extend the story in all directions without changing the authenticity of the legend!"
"Senior Yang, what do you think of my idea?"
It’s time to get to work, Xiao Xu!
(End of this chapter)