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.

tall and proud in the wind, and the final sacrifice of the king, he could not help slamming his hand

“Excellent!”

strange look. Wu Guoyi immediately sent

headsets and

still took up the VR headsets provided beside every

were often used in meetings since they usually discussed about the platform, game development, and game testing. So they needed the headsets to try out various games. But this was their first time

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

the start, the title ‘Battle Online’ was golden-lettered, emerging from the darkness

underworld. A gigantic black dragon came down from the skies while

black fog following Lu Wu’s cry, they were all excited, looking forward to Lu Wu

a CG short, and more of an epic war movie. The atmosphere was rendered into

and plunged toward the dragon, everyone was held in suspense, as if they themselves were part of

our

the finale, the world turned into a sea of fire. Sparks lit the Mansion of the Dead on fire and burned the entire land. All the soldiers bowed down their heads and

footage,” was what

meeting room turned noisy. Everyone was asking what kind of game was this, and how their

it was way too realistic.

or trailers was common practice in the

trailer had conquered their

Guoyi smiled mysteriously, “You will know very soon. This game will be on our main page

on and off they thought about the amazing CG

meeting ended, Wu Guoyi lit up a cigarette, and furrowed his

Wu had wanted some advice on