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.

monsters from the skies, the Beiqi flag that stood tall and proud in the wind, and the final sacrifice of the king, he could

“Excellent!”

Wu Guoyi immediately sent the trailer to the

headsets and watch this

confused, but they still took up the VR headsets

about the platform, game development, and game testing. So they needed the headsets to try out various games. But this was their first time watching a trailer using the

had their headsets on, Wu Guoyi put on his own, and told his

title ‘Battle Online’ was golden-lettered,

the skies while leading countless monsters. It roared at the armored man to show its authority in the

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

followed were less of a CG short, and more of an epic war movie. The atmosphere was

of Beiqi turned into a ball of fire and plunged toward the dragon, everyone

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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

gameplay footage,” was what the trailer ended

asking what kind of game was this, and how their

because it was way too realistic. There wasn’t a single game with this level of

cutscenes or trailers

trailer had conquered their

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

lit up a cigarette, and furrowed

advice on what to improve