Chapter 157 - Early Bird Gets the Worm?
It didn’t take long before many other card game companies found out about the news.
Chen Mo didn’t try to keep it a secret at all. It was difficult to keep it a secret anyways as there was no way from preventing the art company from leaking the news.
Once the news gets out, it wouldn’t take long for the entire mobile game community to hear about it. It wasn’t a good news to any mobile card game designer that Chen Mo was back making mobile games.
And during Chen Mo’s hiatus from mobile games, the other card game designers were having the time of their lives.
The best time of their life even.
At this point, the industry was happy to have everyone make money from mobile card games as opposed to going at each other’s neck.
This was opposed to genres like RPG as the playerbase was incredibly limited, and every company was trying to get as much of it as possible.
Everyone felt bad, only Chen Mo had the power to put Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in this state!
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On Chen Mo’s side of things, Onmyoji was proceeding as usual.
Shikigami’s sketches, models, and scenes were being moved along nicely, the cinematomatics were being worked on, the combat system, numbers and playstyle were all being planned meticulously.
There wasn’t a whole lot of work for Onmyoji. In this previous life, Onmyoji’s starting team only consisted of nine people, including programmers.
Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun were quite comfortable with this as they were familiar with mobile card games, and they could direct any questions to Chen Mo.
Su Jinyu had to deal with the difficult parts of the game. As this was a game that focused on artwork, her hands were full from controlling the artstyle for the game to make sure they match.
Chen Mo was also busy as he oversaw all of this. Shikigami sketches, story of the game, the balancing of the game… he probably couldn’t manage without the Super Accelerator.
Chen Mo was already quite tired when he was working on Warcraft as it was more work. But since he had a lot of passion and motivation, Chen Mo didn’t feel tired working on a game that could go down in history.
But Chen Mo felt much more tired working on Onmyoji because he lacked passion as it was fairly similar to I Am MT.
“I’m going to hire a lot more people after this, I can’t keep doing this.”
Chen Mo wanted to maintain a small group as the efficiency would go down when the number of people increased. But from the looks of it, he needed to hire more as he couldn’t do everything himself.
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As he was working, Zheng Hongxi saw an ad about Demon Slayers 2.
Aside from the advertising Demon Slayers 2, they even stepped on I Am MT.
Qian Kun angrily complained to Chen Mo, “Do you see what the media are saying? Demon Slayers is the number one mobile card game in China? How can they say that?”
Zheng Hongxi agreed, “Yeah, isn’t that just a game that copied I Am MT? Seems that you can do anything with enough promotion!”
“Right? There’s nothing good to come from following manager’s footsteps!” added Su Jinyu.
Chen Mo was speechless, “What do the players think on I Am MT’s forum?”
“What can they think?” said Qian Kun, “Anyone staying in I Am MT are all diehard fans. They aren’t changing their minds. There are many more Demon Slayers fans anyways.”
“Don’t worry, let them be,” said Chen Mo, “Onmyoji is going alone pretty well anyways, just work on the things you need to work on. We’ll release the game one and a half months after their release, they can bask in the sun while they still can.”
Qian Kun was hesitant, “But manager, Emperor Dynasty Gaming Platform has so many players, are you sure we won’t suffer by giving them a head start?”
Chen Mo laughed, “Why are you worried? You guys know how good the game is. Put it this way, no matter Demon Slayers 2 or any other card game, they will eventually be consumed by Onmyoji. We won’t suffer from anything.