Chapter 153 - No Budget Limit
The foundations of Onmyoji were very clear cut. Even though its playstyle was vastly different from I Am MT after generations of card games, the core was still identical, it was still getting cards, training them, and arranging a team.
The more difficult parts of the development process would be the quality of the artwork as well as making models. Onmyoji’s models were exceedingly high quality, much higher than those in Warcraft and Wulin Legend.
There was a lot of work that needed to be done outside of the models such as background music, dubs, and character artworks. These were relatively to solve as long as he had money.
In Chen Mo’s plan, Onmyoji was split into six different categories, Shikigami and Onmyoji system, quests, combat, socials (hunts, mail, chatting, etc.), Souls and shop related things, and other systems(summoning, codex, etc.).
The most important ones were Shikigami, Onmyoji, Souls, and everything related to the combat system, followed by the story. Everything else should fall in place when these two are done.
Chinese card games were incredibly easy to play, and the difficulty comes from developing a play style based on the stats of the cards, which was how Chen Mo managed to finish the draft pretty quickly.
Chen Mo sent the concept draft and the sketch for Abe No Seimei to Su Jinyu before going downstairs.
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Qian Kun was a bit hesitant, “Managear, if you really aren’t looking at the price tag, the development cost could cost tens of millions…”
Chen Mo nodded, “Yeah, so what? Is tens of millions a lot? I spent thirty-odd million on the cinematics in Warcraft.”
Jia Peng scratched his head, “You can’t compare it to Warcraft, it’s a mobile game after all…”
“Don’t worry,” assured Chen Mo, “It won’t lose to Warcraft in terms of profitability. Let’s put it this way, there is no limit for the development budget, especially things that related to the quality of the game like artwork and music. I want the best, don’t worry about the cost.”
Wen Lingwei jested, “Geez, I didn’t know the stingy manager was this generous! I’m not used to this!”