Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

y understand how animations worked either.
There would be no difference even if he got to review Lu Mingliang’s decision.

 “Yes, Boss Pei!”

Walking out of Pei Qian’s office, Lu Mingliang felt inexplicably moved.

 Boss Pei seeks perfection in terms of art resources, and he is trusting a subordinate like me to accomplish it! 

That’s so moving!

 I must do a good job of the task Boss Pei has left me! 

…

 Art resources were very important for games.
A beautiful skin could leave players with a good first impression.
It would also help with increasing the income for the game.

 Pei Qian knew this very well.

 Why was he spending so much money on art resources then? Wasn’t this contradictory to his desire to incur losses on the game?

However, the main problem was there was no other way!

The System had restrictions.
He could not intentionally buy bad-quality goods and services.
Everything that he bought had to be value for money.
He could buy things that were on the higher end of the price range, but they could not be unreasonable.

 If Pei Qian went to buy ordinary art resources, he would never be able to finish spending the funds! One only had to do a bit of calculation to know where the most money would be spent when creating a game.
The most money would be spent on art resources!

 If Pei Qian did not spend as much as he could on this, where else would he be able to spend the money?

Thus, Pei Qian decided that if he wanted to increase the amount of money spent on the game, he would have to increase the amount of money spent on art resources.

 Furthermore, would his safety be guaranteed just because he bought cheap art resources? The lesson he learned from Ghost General was still burning in the front of his mind.

 If he tried to spend less money looking for an artist again—what if he ran into another veteran pretending to be a rookie like Ruan Guangjian? Wouldn’t he be finished, then?

Not only would he have failed to spend money, but the quality of his game would also not deteriorate.

He would be making a real loss indeed!

Thus, after considering all the different factors, he decided that his best bet would be to spend a huge amount of money on art resources.
What’s more, a game like Game Designer would not require too much animation.

To incur losses, he would mainly depend on meaningless gameplay and narrations.
To Pei Qian—as long as the gameplay and narrations could anger the players, the game would be considered a success.

So what if the animations were good?

…

When he returned to his own seat, Lu Mingliang entered the website for resources and began to look for suitable animation and concept designers.
To Lu Mingliang, the concept design of a game like Game Designer was the most important.
This was because most of the contents of the game would play out according to its abstract concept.

 Take when players have to choose between ‘high paywall’ and ‘low paywall’, for example.
Each of these corresponds to different areas in the room and different elements displayed in those areas.

 ‘High paywall’ was an abstract concept.
When developed into concrete contents, it would be represented by things like silhouettes throwing money around, the ground covered in-game currencies.
The huge contrast between flashing golden players who have paid for the game and undressed players who have not.

The artist has to go through an entire process of creation again when progressing from the abstract concepts to the concrete contents.

 In other words, if this process is completed at an average standard, it would just be a job done.

 However, if it is completed outstandingly, then the game would truly become a work of art.
Thus, Lu Mingliang did not want to be too careless.
He carefully searched through the most expensive and most reputable animation and concept designers on the website for resources, looking for the portfolios that stood out the most.

 “This one… doesn’t seem right.
It looks good, but his style is quite bland.”

“This… is too realistic.
He’s not very suitable.”

“En? This looks not bad.”

Lu Mingliang quickly scanned through the artists, when a portfolio suddenly caught his eye.
“Why do I feel like… it looks so familiar?”

Lu Mingliang felt like these animations and style looked familiar.
The portfolio looked epic, and the style was outstanding.
Everything looked very memorable.

He then turned to look at the introduction.

 The artist’s name was Ruan Guangjian, and his representative work was Ghost General! He was ranked as the most expensive, elite concept designer on the website for resources!

“Isn’t he the artist for Ghost General?! He worked with Boss Pei before, and he’s good at various styles.
He’s perfect for the job!”