1: Ancient style game production competition!

Parallel world, year 2025.

Blue Star.

Huaxia Federation.

17th floor of the office building, Illusion Dream Game Studio.

Jiang Feng opened his eyes, suddenly shivering.

"What’s going on?"

He found himself standing by the window; one step forward and he would fall.

The whistling cold wind from the high-rise made him tremble.

He quickly jumped back a step.

At this moment, a pang of pain shot through his head, and memories flooded in.

He had Transmigrated!

A moment ago, he was a struggling web novelist.

Now, he was the boss of Illusion Dream Game Studio, whose employees had collectively defected, whose game design had been plagiarized, and who was being forced to jump from a building.

"This world..."

Jiang Feng sat down in the boss’s chair, pressing his temples, absorbing the memories.

This world was somewhat different from his previous life.

The development of primitive humans was no different, but during the feudal Dynasties, a great plague occurred, killing almost ninety percent of the global population.

Human civilization nearly stalled until two hundred years ago, when the Huaxia Federation experienced a technological boom, its population soared, and humanity entered an unprecedented golden age.

However, in recent decades, technology had once again stagnated; the entire world seemed to have come to a halt, with no new technological breakthroughs for a long time.

Consequently, the entertainment Domain developed significantly, countless people began to enjoy entertainment, and technologies from various industries were poured into the entertainment Domain.

Games alone had a lead of several decades compared to his previous life.

The immersive experience of vr games, upon its debut, eliminated traditional games and swept across the entire Huaxia Federation.

According to incomplete statistics, at least two billion people spend at least one hour a day in the VR world.

At the same time, the rapid development of AI also made game production extremely simple.

As long as money was invested in computing power, everything from graphics, music, to various optimization details could be maxed out.

Even gameplay values, various actions, and indeed everything about the entire game could be handed over to AI for calculation, merely requiring an investment of money.

Thus, various types of games emerged endlessly, and the appeal of vr games to the public grew stronger and stronger.

Concurrently, more and more people yearned for the ancient world before the great plague.

They regarded the ancient world as a utopian society, believing it to be a world full of Opportunities.

Aristocrats enjoying everything, wealthy families served by servants and maids, gentry who profited without labor... all captivated countless people.

Some even took to the streets to protest, raising banners, hoping to abolish the federal system and restore the feudal imperial system.

The Huaxia Federation was overwhelmed and, thirty years ago, began to host the “Ancient Style Game Development Competition.”

Its purpose was to expose the darkness of ancient times through games, showcase the superiority of modern society, and dissuade the public from thoughts of returning to antiquity.

In this world of stagnant development, the game industry was valued more than ever before.

Winning the competition would grant a traffic package from the Huaxia Federation, as well as one year of continuous official publicity and official resource support.

This support was enough to elevate an unknown small studio to an industry giant!

Currently, all major game companies in the Huaxia Federation have participated in the competition and achieved rankings.

The Illusion Dream Game Studio, where the original owner worked, was also a participant in the competition.

The original owner poured his heart and soul into creating the competition game with dozens of his subordinates.

It was a Wuxia-themed action game titled “heroes in troubled times.”

Players would start practicing martial arts at a small town martial arts academy, venture into the Jianghu, and ultimately bring an end to the feudal Dynasty. It had extremely high action elements and a well-polished story, embodying the original owner’s lifelong dedication and everything he had invested.

However, just yesterday, the original owner’s friend actually took dozens of subordinates and directly defected, handing over all design plans to a rival studio.

Antarctic Studio!

That was a studio backed by Penguin Games, specifically responsible for competition game development. Every year, it invested a large amount of resources, with the highest-spec AI computing power continuously poured into it.

After they got the original owner’s design plans, they immediately had more exquisite art, superior music, more complete level designs, and more... in short, a super-upgraded PLUS version that completely crushed the original.

Everyone who was plagiarized by a major company experienced this, left in tears.

In despair, the original owner stood before the 17th-floor window, wishing to end his sorrows with a leap.

"Young people really do act impulsively..."

Jiang Feng sighed after absorbing the memories.

Being plagiarized by a major company, and with only 7 days left until the official start of the competition, there seemed to be no hope of turning the situation around.

However, Jiang Feng remained calm. He opened his computer and carefully reviewed past competition entries.

After finishing, Jiang Feng’s heart also felt a chill.

The level of games in this world was indeed very high.

Not only VR, but the quality of the games themselves was also astonishing.

For example, the champion of the competition two terms ago created a palace intrigue game where players had to rise from a palace maid to an empress, experiencing all the hardships of the imperial harem.

Every character in it was connected to AI, and no matter what actions the player took, the characters could react accordingly.

This was almost like a real world, making countless female players exclaim with delight.

Even more impressive, it was said that male players accounted for eighty percent of this game, demonstrating its excellent production and widespread popularity.

The champion of the previous competition, on the other hand, chose Wuxia.

Players received empowerment from various Schools, starting invincible, using Supreme martial arts to contend against the increasingly prevalent firearms.

Initially, they would face matchlock guns, then flintlock guns, followed by volley fire... Ultimately, a generation’s great hero would perish amidst the roar of cannons, symbolizing the collapse of ancient society in the face of modern technology.

The action elements of martial arts, combined with the novelty of fighting firearms, made this game a huge hit last year, sparking a trend.

The original owner’s planned “heroes in troubled times” was also Wuxia-themed; players would start as martial arts academy apprentices, gradually rising to become a Martial Forest Supreme, also incorporating a bit of firearm content to follow the trend.

The core selling point was hand-to-hand combat; every move and stance was personally designed by the original owner, then polished by AI, maximizing the action when actually played.

But now, the entire design has been taken by Antarctic Studio. Others have hired experts in ancient martial arts to study AI commands, making it as retro as possible. How could he compete?

"How can I compete?"

Jiang Feng felt a chill deep in his heart.

In his previous life, he wasn't a game developer; he knew absolutely nothing about game production.

Even with the original owner’s memories and the ability to use AI, coming up with a new idea and completing it within seven days was simply impossible.

After all, he was just a novelist... Wait a minute!

Jiang Feng’s eyes suddenly lit up.

"Damn it, I write Xuanhuan!"

He carefully checked the competitions of the past thirty years; not a single game involved Xuanhuan.

Not only games, but novels, comics, animations, or TV dramas in this world also never mentioned Xuanhuan.

The imagination limit of the Huaxia Federation was Wuxia stories, while that of Western countries was knight stories.

"If I introduce Xuanhuan..."

The more Jiang Feng thought about it, the more he felt it had potential.

He definitely couldn’t compete with those major companies in terms of gameplay, graphics, music, or story.

But what if he introduced an unprecedented worldview?

What kind of wave would this worldview stir up in the Huaxia Federation, a society that had stagnated for decades?