Chapter 149: Chapter 117 I’m Here (Three More Updates)_1


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    giarism is amon urrence in the game industry.


    Many games have even giarized their way to ssical status, bing milestones in the history of gaming.


    When ites to giarism, as long as there’s no direct use of code, original artwork, or models, then copying gamey is generally not legally recognized as giarism.


    In the past year, there have been countless incidents of giarism, but only a very few have actually been judged as such by a court.


    Tianyi has not been exempt from giarism; in fact, one could say they built their business on it.


    They have many experienced nners, who can deduce a game developer’s thought process and the remaining gamey from the game kernel exhibited by a beta version, through clues and traces.


    Even with just a test version, or a few minutes of a demo, they can discern the core enjoyment of a game and deduce additional gamey from it.


    Through a brainpower advantage brought by arge nning team, they could even make others’ core gamey more interesting, and through capital promotion, expand its influence to absurd lengths, ultimately achieving the ridiculous feat of giarizing their way to the death of the original.


    Afterwards, Tianyi would even use the others’ corpses as case studies, packaging the original clone aspetition to cover up their past.<div>


    Besides that, they had another major advantage, which was their rich art and programming resources.


    After all, Tianyi was apany with decades of history, and it had startedying out 3D a long time ago, umting a vast amount of art resources and 3D technology.


    Their massive art library contained a plethora of reusable resources— Eastern, Western, ssical, and modern. These years of umtion were the deep reserves of a massive gamepany, significantly reducing their art costs.


    In addition, Tianyi had a big killer application in experimentation.


    That is, AI programming modules.


    Tianyi had specialized AI programmers internally, who continuously fed all sorts of codes to the AI program. The end result was that as long as the nning document was written ording to certain specifications, the program could automatically fulfill more than eighty percent of the work.


    Although it still couldn’t rece programmers outright, it could directly cut down programming workload by sixty percent, and bugs were virtually nonexistent afterward.


    Thinking about thepany’s existing resources and flipping through the materials provided by product operations, Zhang Ping’s brain worked at high speed.


    Before long, he had estimated the approximate costs of giarizing “Dark Builder” and the prospects of such a game, based on the avable materials.


    By coborating to build different structures to resist the threat of darkness, each battle could be very short. Such a fast-paced game fit the current market well.


    The co-op mode would entail some light social elements; the game could enable voice chat, but by default, voicemunication would be turned off, avoiding the presence of stress inducers and satisfying the light social needs of yers.


    The gamey was simple, but the market feedback was good. Through anonymous surveys, the product operations found the game had a positive reputation, though some yers criticized its pixel art style.


    Therefore, by optimizing the art and grafting on some mization elements and other features, it was very likely to achieve a game with monthly revenues exceeding one hundred million.


    Looking at Kongkong, Zhang Ping felt that he hade to his senses not toote.


    He was a game producer who could make money, not one who could create great games.


    Recently, several good games from Tianyi’s headquarters had emerged and received a good reception among yers; they were both critically andmercially sessful.


    In contrast, the much-anticipated Rong City branch had not been performing well.


    Plus, the fact that a producer from Feixiang Studio announced retirement put him under considerable pressure. He urgently needed some sessful games to boost morale and show the higher-ups they were also striving hard.


    So, although giarism was not exactly honorable, especially when the victim was an independent game, if the giarism was sessful enough topletely outdo the original, yers would only remember the victor in the end. Losers do not deserve to be named.<div>


    Patting Kongkong on the shoulder, Zhang Ping said, “Go ahead and do it with confidence, thepany supports you.”


    After a pause, Zhang Ping continued, “But if it fails, someone will have to take the fall. You understand what I mean, right?”


    Kongkong nodded.


    As a producer who often made others take the fall, he knew all too well how big the ‘pot’ could be if he failed.<div>


    This was to be a high-stakes gamble with his past reputation on the line.


    It was still not toote to back out now, but he had grown ustomed to sitting on the throne, reigning like a local emperor in his own studio.


    The taste of power was more exquisite than anything else, once tasted, it could never be forgotten.


    Tianyi was quick to respond.


    They decided to kick off the project in the morning, and by afternoon, Kongkong Studio was reorganized.


    A group of battle-tested programmers and artists capable of ‘007’ work were transferred in to staff the studio.


    Game outsourcing was maxed out as Tianyi once again went all-in on a project, working at an almost insane pace to start production of the new game non-stop.


    The game’s code was notplex. Although they couldn’t crack “Dark Builder’s” code through reverse engineering, “King’s Dungeon’s” code and art resources were readily avable. By re-skinning the models and adjusting the camera angle, they could create a simr effect.


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